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When I got my first gaming laptop nearly a decade ago, Witcher 3 was one of the first games I tried out. I could finally play the game in high graphics settings and immerse myself in the fantasy setting. After spending an ungodly amount of time with that game, I closed the chapter with its main story and DLCs. Now, 11 years later, I can’t believe I’ll be going back. At Gamescom Opening Night Live, the studio revealed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered, a sweeping free upgrade launching September 29. The crowd was already cheering, and then it…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a game from 2015, somehow ended up being the most exciting thing at Gamescom’s 2026 Opening Night Live showcase. That’s partly due to the reveal of a new, free remaster of the game coming just next month, but it’s also because Wild Hunt is getting new content for the first time in years. Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3’s latest expansion, was announced a few months ago, and today, we finally got to see gameplay. Check out the trailer below. In the footage, we see women dancing in flower crowns in a Midsommar-style festival (which is…
Staring at a pile of unedited clips is often the exact moment we give up on posting entirely. Instagram just tackled that problem head-on, by rolling out First Draft, a new one-tap tool that assembles your raw footage into a finished Reel in a few seconds. For now, First Draft is rolling out exclusively on iOS, with no word yet on when Android users might get access. How does First Draft create Reels for you on Instagram? The process starts just like making any other Reel. You select clips from your camera roll, but instead of manually trimming everything yourself,…
It’s uncontroversial to call The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt one of the most beloved games of all time, but since it came out over 11 years ago, it’s beginning to look a little dated, even with a next-gen update dropping in 2022. With a new DLC expansion on the way, many gamers are likely to jump back into the base game to refresh their memories ahead of the new content, and today, CD Projekt Red surprised us with an announcement. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered is a free, massive upgrade coming out next month. Check out the reveal trailer,…
Neon Giant, the studio behind The Ascent, has finally given us our first proper look at NO LAW gameplay, and I’m already intrigued. The first-person cyber-noir shooter is set in the lawless port city of Port Desire, where you play veteran Grey Harker and can apparently approach problems with stealth, shooting, hacking and a healthy disregard for other people’s property. The game is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It’s giving Cyberpunk, Thief and Deus Ex — and I’m not complaining The new footage makes the game’s influences pretty obvious. Cyberpunk 2077 is the most immediate comparison, from…
We got a good new look at Ontos in today’s Opening Night Live presentation. The new game from Frictional, the makers of Amnesia and Soma, seems to follow in suit with some of the disturbing psychological horror that helped define its earlier projects. Actor Stellan Skarsgård helps lead the voice cast in the game, which sees an engineer exploring an abandoned hotel on the moon. The game focuses on puzzles and moral narrative choices that shape the game’s outcome.In the newly revealed gameplay sequence, players encounter a horrifying experiment in which a human’s mind has been uploaded onto a server made…
Fantasy games have given us plenty of medieval Europe, Norse mythology, and Japanese-inspired worlds. 1001 Threads of Mizan is taking a rather different route. MBC Game Studio’s debut action game draws heavily from Arabic folklore and One Thousand and One Nights, wrapping that inspiration around a gorgeous-looking fantasy world. And honestly, after seeing what the game is going for, I’m quite happy to see someone finally explore this side of fantasy at this scale. This is Arabic folklore with a serious visual upgrade The game’s world is packed with deserts, fantastical architecture, mythical creatures and enormous bosses, but it’s the…
Exodus, the debut game from Archetype Entertainment, is officially dropping on April 7, 2027, according to a new trailer. This new information comes courtesy of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live stream, one of the year’s three Geoff Keighley-hosted showcases of new trailers and reveals from the video game industry. Exodus was first revealed at The Game Awards in 2023, so it’s fitting that Keighley would reveal the game’s release date a few years later. You can check the trailer out for yourself right here. The new trailer mostly focuses on Salt, one of Exodus’ crew of companions. She’s an awakened octopus (meaning…
After what feels like an eternity of trailers, teases, and people trying to figure out exactly what Ananta will be, we finally have a date. The open-world urban action RPG now has an official January 15, 2027, global release date, and developer Naked Rain dropped a new story trailer that gives us another look at its ambitious world. Two cities, one very busy protagonist The new trailer expands Ananta’s world beyond Nova City, introducing Chongxiao’s Lingyun City as the game’s second major location. While Nova City is the sprawling urban playground we’ve seen before, Chongxiao offers a distinctly different setting…
The Pikmin-inspired platformer Tinykin was my favorite surprise of 2022, and I’ve eagerly awaited the next project from its developer, Splashteam. My wait came to an end in April when I attended an event hosted by publisher Dotemu in Paris, France, where I not only learned what Splashteam is cooking up next, but also played what is decidedly not Tinykin 2.Acornia: Mirror Worlds shares the same visual aesthetic as Tinykin; it places beautiful, personality-filled 2D characters in a fully 3D world. The game also retains the “little person, big world” design, as it is set inside a snowglobe sitting in…