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Valorant game director, Joe Ziegler, is leaving to head up a new project at Riot Games. In a statement (opens in new tab) posted to the official website, Ziegler confirmed he was leaving the game after eight years and passing the reins over to fellow Rioter, Andy Ho.  “After eight …

Naoki Yoshida – producer and director of Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker – is offering seven free days of game time as an apology to fans who have spent the weekend sitting in long queues, trying to join a Final Fantasy 14 server. Thanking players for their “understanding and cooperation thus …

It’s happened again: Steam has set another new concurrent user record, this time clocking up a staggering 27,182,165 players earlier today. According to SteamDB (opens in new tab), of those 27.1 million users, 7.8 million were actively in-game and playing something – which is also a brand new record for …

Jump to the best Black Friday LG TV deals (Image credit: LG) Jump straight to Black Friday OLED TV deals: US deals UK deals The Black Friday LG TV deals are still going strong. Yes, the Big Day is over, but we’re still seeing bumper discounts on some of our …

Rumor has it Mass Effect Legendary Edition may be making its way to Xbox Game Pass. Though not officially confirmed by either Xbox or EA – which means we can only report this with the usual bucketload of cynical salt for now – a Polish site, XGP (opens in new …

Joe Dante’s satirical werewolf horror The Howling marks its 40th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion there’s a new 4K restoration of the film.  Loosely based on Gary Brandner’s 1977 novel, with a screenplay by John Sayles, it follows TV news reporter Karen West (ET’s Dee Wallace), who after …

Dying Light 2 (opens in new tab) will be playable on Nintendo Switch. The survival horror game will be playable on Nintendo’s handheld system thanks to the magic of the cloud. Despite the game’s next-gen capacity and size, it will be available on Switch through cloud streaming, just like other …

Players will be getting “hacked” in Knockout City (opens in new tab)‘s upcoming third season, which releases on October 5, 2021. In an update on the official EA website (opens in new tab), developer Velan Studios detailed what was coming up in October’s update, including details of a new map …

Riot Games is taking on players that intentionally quit games early or go AFK by updating penalties for League of Legends’ most “disruptive behaviors”. In a blog (opens in new tab) post that outlines changes to AFK and leaver punishments, Riot’s competitive team design lead Jordan Checkman and behavioral systems …

Alan Wake Remastered has popped up on a Taiwanese website with a release date of October 5, 2021. Without definitive proof, all we can do right now is chalk this up as another Wake-flavored rumor, but industry insider Wario64 (thanks, WindowsCentral (opens in new tab)) spotted that a remaster of …