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Bethesda exec says he’s “sorry” for lack of PS5 Starfield

Bethesda Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications Pete Hines talks to GameSpot about Starfield. This week, Microsoft and Bethesda confirmed that Starfield will be coming exclusively to Xbox Series X/S and PC next year. And while that kind of exclusivity deal had been hinted at and heavily suspected by many since Microsoft’s $7.5 billion […]

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Forget trailers: The best upcoming games we played at this year’s E3

Enlarge / In another year, these weird games wouldn’t necessarily rise to the top of our “best of E3” list. But when the biggest gaming companies focus almost exclusively on non-playable trailers, our picks have to go to the games we can personally test. (credit: Chris Klimowski / Gamious / rose-engine) As the dust begins […]

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Everything Nintendo announced in its E3 2021 “Direct” presentation

Samus Aran is back in a 2D adventure. [credit: Nintendo ] Nintendo rolled out dozens of game and feature announcements over the course of a nearly 40-minute Direct presentation today. If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the entire video, we’ve gathered all of the relevant news in a convenient quick-access format […]

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New trailer shows first gameplay footage for Breath of the Wild sequel

Watch that last step—it’s a doozy! Nintendo has revealed the first gameplay footage from the highly anticipated sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild today, two years after the game was first revealed in a story-teasing trailer at E3 2019. Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma said that “development has been steadily progressing” on the game, […]

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Metroid Dread brings Nintendo’s classic back as a 2D sequel on October 8

Samus Aran is back in a 2D adventure. [credit: Nintendo ] This year, Nintendo’s long-running Metroid series is getting an entirely new sequel—and not the previously announced Metroid Prime 4 first-person shooter. Instead, we’re getting Metroid Dread, apparently dubbed Metroid 5 in its debut trailer, launching October 8 exclusively for Nintendo Switch. The funky game […]

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Todd Howard is finally ready to share some Starfield details

“Into the Starfield” promo video. Over the weekend, Bethesda revealed the first prerendered trailer for Starfield, giving us a glimpse of a game that has existed publicly as nothing more than a title since 2018. While that atmospheric trailer effectively establishes mood and hints at the wider universe of Starfield, it offers little in the […]

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Halo Infinite multiplayer news: Bots, split-screen, free-to-play clarified

Halo Infinite. [credit: Xbox Game Studios ] After getting a sizzle-reel reveal this weekend, Halo Infinite‘s upcoming multiplayer mode received a deeper-dive video on Monday meant to clarify what we should expect from the series’ first cross-platform, free-to-play shooter later this year. The best news echoes a 2017 Microsoft pronouncement: split-screen gameplay is back. Microsoft […]

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16 games to keep an eye on from Sunday’s E3 2021 trailer showcases

A Super Dodgeball RPG? We are there for Dodgeball Academia Between the more-than-three-hour combined running time of the PC Gaming Show and the Future Games Show Sunday evening, over 80 games were featured in the form of trailers, interviews, or just new feature announcements. We know because we sat through them all and counted as […]