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This weekend's PC game deals include another packed eight-game Choice bundle as part of the June refresh, a freebie for co-op heisting fans from Epic, and plenty of showcase discounts.

A report from a reliable leaker has revealed Xbox and Bethesda's upcoming RPG Starfield will have three versions of the game for purchase, and one of them will be a €300 physical-only edition.

The Tekken 8 closed network test will help Bandai Namco check out its online infrastructure for the upcoming fighting game. The test will include 16 characters from the full game and five stages.

Godot 4.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. It brings gradual improvements over Godot 4 with a focus on the user experience. The project said the final release will arrive sometime next month.

Two new Persona games are coming to PC and Xbox platforms as well as Xbox Game Pass on day one. The announcements were revealed by the series' Instagram page earlier than intended.

The Diablo IV servers were not working for many players of the hit action-RPG game. Developer Blizzard Entertainment has now fixed the server problems so that players can sign in again.

The 2023 edition of Summer Game Fest included new game reveals, new trailers, and even a couple of clips from video game-based TV shows. There was also an appearance from Nicholas Cage.

Square Enix will release Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth as an all-new story with the main characters of its classic fantasy RPG. It will be an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation 5 console.

Sony and Insomniac Games have announced the launch date of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as October 20. Pre-orders are slated to go live next week, and there are multiple special editions coming.

The new game from Saber and Focus Entertainment with some collaboration with horror movie director legend John Carpenter, will have players fighting a ton of zombies sometime in 2024.

The Astronauts' upcoming dark fantasy themed first-person shooter Witchfire now has an early access release date of September 20, and it will be released exclusively on the Epic Games Store

The free trial will let Xbox and PC gamers play over 60 Ubisoft games, including recent titles like Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. You can cancel the free trial at any point before it ends.

The CEO of Nightdive Studios is currently thinking about the developer's options for the System Shock series after the successful launch of its remake of the original game last week.

The Remedy Entertainment-developed action game Control has been revealed as the latest Xbox Free Play Days drop. Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate members can try the title over the weekend.

Payday 2 is Starbreeze Studios' popular crime and theft-themed shooter. It's available now for free to download and keep from the Epic Games Store for the next week, until Thursday, June 15.

Geoff Keighley is back with another edition of Summer Game Fest, and the kick-off showcase event is later today. Here are all the details on how to catch the show and what we may see.

The first update for Valve's upcoming multiplayer shooter sequel also adds Workshop Tools for mod makers, adds GPU accelerated raytracing for previewing new maps in the level editor, and more.

The big Trails and Tales update for the popular sandbox game has a new biome, new creepers, and more. Minecraft is also available natively for Chromebooks running on Google's ChromeOS.

Paradox Interactive is planning a grand re-reveal of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 later this year. The RPG's new developer is slated to be announced during this reveal event too.

BioWare is reportedly going to concentrate on its work on its upcoming Dragon Age and Mass Effect games for EA, so it will transfer the development of the Star Wars MMO to Broadsword Online Games.

The latest Steam Client Beta update fixes a crash on Linux that was being caused by Nvidia GPUs when hardware acceleration was switched on. There were also a bunch of other non-related fixes.

Netflix has announced five games that will be coming to its gaming platform. Games are included as part of your Netflix subscription but you'll need a smartphone or tablet to play any of them.

The 2013 PC horror game Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is available for free until June 9 on GoG.com to help celebrate the launch of the newest game in the series, Amnesia: The Bunker,

With the action-RPG sequel now officially on sale, Blizzard Entertainment says that Diablo IV early access gamers have already played a total of 93 million hours in the game so far.

The special Starfield Xbox controller, which has, among other things, a rainbow streak surrounding its main Xbox button, is reportedly not supposed to go on sale until Monday, June 12.

In this week's Deals with Gold you'll find discounts on games such as NBA 2K23, PGA 2K23, World War Z: Aftermath, Bioshock Infinite, and more. The savings range anywhere between 10% and 90%.

We have updated this upcoming game streaming event list to include the just-announced Capcom Showcase, which will happen on Monday, June 12 starting at 3 pm Pacific (6 pm Eastern).

World of Warcraft players that use the Battle.net Authenticator will earn four extra bag slots and the Core Hound Pup in-game pet. If you want to turn on the authenticator, read on for instructions.

The FTC says Microsoft violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by illegally collecting personal info from children on its Xbox service without their parent's permission.

The remastered version of the classic 1990s FPS will be released on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch platforms, with the original Rise Of The Triad, all its expansions, a new episode and more.

Blizzard has released a second PC-only patch for Diablo IV, along with some server-based hotfixes. Players of the game can look forward to at least two expansions of the action RPG.

The highly-anticipated 2023 Xbox Games Showcase will present actual in-game gameplay or in-engine footage for upcoming first-party Xbox titles. No "full CG trailers" will be present this time.

Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says that right now, the "technical difficulties are high" for cloud gaming, even as the CMA rejected Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard over cloud gaming concerns.

The first major patch for Blizzard's action-RPG sequel is now out for all platforms, and it contains so many balance changes to Diablo IV's classes that the developer felt the need to explain them.

The 8Bitdo Arcade Stick is the first such wireless controller approved for Microsoft's Xbox consoles and Windows 10 and above PCs with 30 hours of play on a single charge. It's available for preorder.

There's an issue currently with some PlayStation Diablo IV players who cannot sign into the game. Some gamers have found a workaround, but the bad news is that it costs them money.

According to the latest report from Valve, Windows 11 continues to get more popular among gamers. Although it is nowhere near Windows 10, in May 2023, the OS reached its all-time high of 34%.