Dead Island 2 was initially announced in 2014 as the sequel to the 2011 action role-playing, open world game Dead Island. However, many fans had given up on ever playing it, as it has languished in development hell since. Over the past eight years, Dead Island 2 has gone through a chaotic development cycle with several developers working on and dropping the project. However, Nottingham-based Dambuster Studios, an internal Deep Silver studio, seems to have gotten things on track with the game now set for an early 2023 release....

Read on and get all the breaking news and details on Diablo 2 Resurrected that Xfire has gathered so far! Diablo 2 Announcement and Trailer After the Blizzard convention press kit leak, Blizzconline 2021 was buzzing with anticipation for a confirmation the details. Included in the leak were details about World of Warcraft, however it was only minimal information on other games in the Blizzard stable of Diablo franchise, such as Diablo 4, Diablo Eternal, and Diablo Resurrected....

Amidst an ongoing controversy between Wizards of the Coast and its fans and third party creators due to the changes with the Open Gaming License (OGL), the D&D brand is apparently expanding its mainstream projects. Red Notice filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote the script and will direct the first episode of the Dungeons & Dragons TV series. It will be a co-production between eOne and Paramount Pictures. Deadline reported that eOne will oversee the project which was shopped in Hollywood in November, 2022....

Ed Sheeran first announced his collaboration with Nintendo on September 22. The video, which was released on September 29, has since garnered over 3.5 million views. It features several classic Pokémon characters, like Pikachu, Charizard, Charmander, Slowpoke, and Snorlax. The artist added that the song will be in the soon-to-be-released games. At the moment, neither Sheeran nor the team at Nintendo has indicated how the song will be used. However, we suspect it will appear during the credits after the main storyline has finished....

In particular, Warner Bros. has released a pair of movies as part of the Fantastic Beasts series, which centers around the adventures of Newt Scamander, Luna Lovegood’s grandfather-in-law. However, the “mild” success of 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - the film made $654.9 million in the box office against a $200 million budget, which is the lowest box office take in the franchise - made audiences worry if the supposedly five-film series would continue....

So far, everything we’ve seen about Far Cry 6 looks like it will be more like Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 than Far Cry 5. Unfortunately, because it was delayed from its initial February 2021 release date, we’ll have to wait a while to see if Far Cry 6 is a good game or not. If it’s any consolation, Ubisoft has started revealing more about Far Cry 6 since the delay earlier this year....

Who could forget this monologue from Vaas Montenegro, the secondary antagonist of 2012’s Far Cry 3 and arguably the best villain in the entire Far Cry series of games? Because of Vaas, the first-person shooter franchise has become synonymous with memorable villains. The mainline titles, in particular, are well-known for this. Far Cry 4 gave fans Pagan Min, the complicated villain that sometimes acted like a father figure to the game’s protagonist, Ajay....

After Taylor called out PlatinumGames and asked players to boycott Bayonetta for what she claims is an “insulting” offer that she received to come back, multiple reports then refuted her original accusations. Now, Taylor is backtracking on some of the things she said while also defending herself from the allegations. Taylor calls reports of her asking for a “six-figure sum as well as residuals” an “absolute lie.” She describes this as part of PlatinumGames’ attempt to “save their ass and the game....

However, GameStop might have just leaked the new system by accident, using the name, New Nintendo Switch, in one of its recent ads. GameStop Accidently Drops Switch-Sized Bomb Waiting for Nintendo to confirm the New Nintendo Switch Pro has made for quite the confusing waiting game. Fans have long speculated that Nintendo was going to reveal the console before E3 2021. After all, Nintendo Mexico had already leaked the upgraded version of the Nintendo Switch console weeks earlier, so why wait, right?...

According to the latest updates as per WCCF Tech, Undead Labs is getting help from Gears of War developers, The Coalition. Xbox Games Studio Head, Matt Booty, joined Xbox’s Major Nelson in a recent podcast to provide an update for State of Decay 3. In the episode, Booty talks about Xbox Game Studios’ different developers and what they’re working on. As the topic of Undead Labs comes up, Booty shared that the two studios are already working together and “using some of the technology around Unreal Engine 5 and some of the stuff that’s been in Gears of War before to bring that into State of Decay....

With that said, Crunchyroll thought that it was a good idea to partner up with Microsoft to help give PC gamers the best of both worlds. As part of a limited-time offer, each Crunchyroll Premium membership will come with a 3-month Xbox Game Pass subscription for PC. Although this isn’t as robust as the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service, beggars can’t exactly be choosers, so we can at least just be thankful that, as a PC gamer, you’ll be able to watch and play basically as much anime and video games that you can handle for the next couple of weeks, all for the price of one subscription....

What we know is: when the bat’s away, the villains will play. Now it’s up to the Dark Knight’s sidekicks to become mainkicks and turn Gotham into a crime-free city once and for all… HAHAHAHA as if! Who are the Gotham Knights? In this game, they are four crimefighters from the Bat Family. Barbara Gordon as the Batgirl. With incredible hacking skills, she goes to the dark streets of Gotham wielding her tonfa, and martial arts such as kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, and capoeira....

However, based on the store listing from GAME ROOM, a Lithuanian video game retailer, Expanded and Enhanced will eschew the usual AAA MSRP in the other direction, and more drastically. The listing is still up, surprisingly, and has the price for the game shown as €40. Based on how the industry doesn’t really price-match across currencies (aside of GOG), that would mean Expanded and Enhanced will be sold for $40....

Players of Rockstar’s immensely profitable online sandbox game banded together to host a funeral for the “Motorsport” and “Stir Fry” musician. The participating GTA Online players wore all-white for the church service before they all changed to their all-black “house party” attire once the service ended. Players even went as far as to ask everyone to cooperate, saying “Follow the street law. No crashing. Step out with your best car....

The Best-selling US games of 2022 American market research company, The NPD Group, which has been tracking the video game industry since 1995, revealed the ten best-selling games of 2022 in the US. Game Freak will be thrilled to see that their two RPG titles for 2022 are featured in the list, with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet coming in sixth place and Pokemon Legends: Arceus coming in eighth place. Winning over 149 GOTY awards this year, Elden Ring deservedly took the second spot on the list, while its biggest competitor, God of War: Ragnarok, came in fourth place....

Check out the Gamescom 2022 trailer for Hogwarts Legacy below to see what we mean: The Dark Arts is considered taboo and practically illegal in the Harry Potter universe. These harmful and malicious spells are commonly associated with the Death Eaters, the group of powerful and influential wizards who followed if not worshiped Lord Voldemort. In the latest Hogwarts Legacy trailer, we’re treated to a very familiar spell, Crucio, otherwise known as the Cruciatus Curse....

Kojima’s most notable work includes the MGS franchise and his most recent game, Death Stranding. Kojima played a major role in the video game industry and is considered one of the best. He is sometimes regarded as the Stan Lee of the video game industry. Surprisingly enough, Kojima has a sneaky little cameo in Cyberpunk 2077. It’s also completely missable during your main playthrough if you do not actively look for him....

With its July 15 premiere date coming up, the announced cast for American Horror Stories is generating a ton of hype for the Hulu TV show. Who are the cast members of American Horror Stories? The six-time Emmy Awards winner’s new TV show won’t be airing on FX. Instead, it will be exclusive on the streaming platform, Hulu. In a teaser trailer aimed to promote American Horror Stories, Murphy offered horror fans around the globe a glimpse of the A-list cast of the series....

Having said that, anticipation for Infinity’s next Call of Duty game is high. Modern Warfare 2 is expected to come out in October and, if we believe the recent leaks, the open beta will be scheduled a month before then. RalphsValve, via WhatIfGaming, claims that the MW2 beta dates are as follows: PlayStation Exclusive Weekend Early Access: September 15-16 Open Beta: September 17-19 Cross-Play Weekend Early Access: September 22-23 Open Beta: September 24-26...

IO Interactive has announced in a blog post that Hitman 3 will be renamed Hitman: World of Assassination. It will be the only modern Hitman title available for purchase as the first two games have been removed from storefronts. World of Assassination will cost $70 which seems a bit steep. However, the repackaged game will also include the previous two titles. Hitman 1 Game of the Year Access Pass and Hitman 2 Standard Access Pass will be part of the World of Assassination base game....