Riot Games has just debuted a new music group under its Riot Games Music label–this time taking the form of a boy band. Called Heartsteel, the group is made up of League of Legends characters Ezreal, Kayn, Aphelios, Yone, K’Sante, and Sett, and its first single Paranoia released today. The …

The sequel to 2020’s dystopian cyberpunk parkour platformer Ghostrunner is almost here, and critics have started to reveal their thoughts on Ghostrunner 2. Reviews for the sequel look generally positive, with fans of the original game saying Ghostrunner 2 expands on and improves everything that made the original great, including …

Creative Assembly’s upcoming PVPVE shooter Hyenas was abruptly cancelled by Sega last week as part of a company-wide restructuring. Now, insider reports have stated some other elements that apparentlycontributed to the shooter’s downfall. Hyenas was Sega’s attempt to break into the sometimes lucrative, but already saturated live-service game market. Total …

Madden NFL 24‘s third major patch has arrived, along with new content for Season 2. The Madden NFL team says it’s been monitoring the game’s online community for player feedback to prioritise fixes, with one of the major issues addressed in Patch 3 being Draft Classes in Franchise mode. The …

Xbox has already had an update this September, which allowed players to stream directly to Discord among other new features, it’s getting a bonus update with a number of quality-of-life updates. The major one relates to storing and managing game captures, with other updates including a hub for in-game events, …

Stardew Valley is getting another major update sometime soon, with a preview of version 1.6 promising a new major festival, two mini festivals, eight-player co-op on PC, and over 100 new lines of dialogue, among other additions. The preview was posted to Twitter by Stardew developer ConcernedApe, who noted that …

Fortnite is raising the price of its premium currency, V-Bucks, in multiple regions as of October 27. The price increase will effect the United States, Japan, and a number of European countries. The price increase was reported by Fortnite news account HYPEX on Twitter, which posted a table of the …

Bethesda head Todd Howard has gone in depth on Starfield in a recent appearance on The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast, sharing his thoughts and experiences on what went into the massive space sim. One interesting point he mentioned was that enemy ships had to have their AI majorly nerfed …

While the Writer’s Guild strike finally appears close to a resolution, film and TV actors are still on strike–and video game voice actors and mo-cap performance artists seem poised to join them. In the latest on potential strike action in the games industry, SAG-AFTRA members who work on video games …

High-tech body modifications are common in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, from vision-upgrading ocular implants to body armor that’s seamlessly implanted under the skin. In a new episode of The Real History Of, Dave Klein looks at advancements in real medical science, to see if it might be possible to …