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• Exodus Looks To Fill The Space-Opera RPG Void Left By Mass Effect

  12-12-2025 02:53
  
  After debuting at The Game Awards last year, Exodus--the space-opera RPG developed by Archetype Entertainment and published by Wizards of the Coast--returned to the awards show with a new gameplay trailer.The trailer follows the hero, Jun, from humble beginnings and “salvaging scrap to survive” to becoming the fabled “Child of Orion.” We also see a few glimpses of Exodus’s third-person-shooter gameplay, as well as a few of the hulking brutes Jun will be facing off a
  
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• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined character trailer Aishe

  12-12-2025 06:27 via n4g.com
  Square Enix has released the fifth character trailer for Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, introducing Aishe, a young Roamer determined to restore the Almighty.
  
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• Borderlands 4: Bloomreaper Update

  12-12-2025 06:27 via n4g.com
  The new Borderlands 4 update is here.
  
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• The Game Awards 2025 winners announced

  12-12-2025 06:26 via n4g.com
  The Game Awards 2025 has ended and here's the list of every winner for each category, including Game of the Year.
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 Full System Case Is On Sale For The First Time At Amazon

  12-12-2025 05:26
  
  RDS Game Traveler Deluxe Switch 2 Full System Case$35 (was $40) | Deal ends Dec. 12 at 5 PM PT See at Amazon Mario Kart World Game Traveler Deluxe Travel Case$20 (was $25) | Deal ends Dec. 12 at 5 PM PT See at Amazon Nintendo Switch 2 owners can save on the most popular full system travel case for the first time at Amazon. Officially licensed by Nintendo, the RDS Industries Game Traveler Deluxe Full System Case is discounted to $35 (was $40). For a more compact travel case, the Mario Kart World
  
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• Former Titanfall Devs Trade In Mechs For Horses In New Fantasy Raid Shooter Highguard

  12-12-2025 05:18
  
  As The Game Awards 2025 came to a close, we got one more surprise: Wildlight--a team of devs led by folks who previously worked on Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends--announced its new game: Highguard. Not only that, the game will be playable in a few weeks.A gameplay trailer showcased that Highguard leans into Apex Legends' hero shooter formula but takes it in a different direction, opting for an objective-based raid shooter as opposed to a kill-or-be-killed battle royale. The narrative direction of
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Devs Thank Game-Maker YouTubers For GOTY Award

  12-12-2025 05:11
  
  To probably no one's surprise, Sandfall Interactive's turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year at this year's The Game Awards (as well as GameSpot's Game of the Year accolade), and the team delivered a heartfelt thank you to "the unsung heroes of this industry," YouTubers. Hold on, let me explain.Game director Guillaume Broche took to the stage at the end of The Game Awards to accept the GOTY trophy on behalf of the team at Sandfall Interactive. While commenting that the o
  
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• Mega Man Returns With New Game In 2027

  12-12-2025 05:04
  
  Mega Man is one of the few icons of the NES era that's still beloved four decades after his peak, but Capcom's hero is finally making his comeback. At The Game Awards, the first look at Mega Man's next game was revealed. It's called Mega Man Dual Override, and its retains the side-scrolling action of the original games with updated visuals that pop off the screen.Mega Man Dual Override will arrive in 2027, which dovetails with the 40th anniversary of the original Mega Man that debuted in 1987. T
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Just Made The Game Awards History

  12-12-2025 05:03
  
  After breaking The Game Awards' record for the most nominated game of all time, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has shattered yet another record, officially becoming the most award-winning game in the award show's 12-year history. After securing 13 nominations, the debut title from Sandfall Interactive took home nine awards, including Game of the Year. Expedition 33 also received awards for Best Narrative, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Independent Game, Best Deb
  
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• Highguard | Official Reveal Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:59 via n4g.com
  From the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall, comes Highguard: a PvP raid shooter where players will ride, fight, and raid as Wardens, arcane gunslingers sent to battle for control of a mythical continent.There they'll clash against rival Warden crews for possession of the Shieldbreaker, then break into and destroy the enemy base to secure territory in this all-new breed of shooter.Play FREE when Highguard launches on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation5 January 26, 2026
  
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• Arknights: Endfield Gets A Release Date With Music-Video Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:57
  
  Upcoming gacha-RPG game Arknights: Endfield will release on January 22, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, and mobile, as revealed in a music-video trailer at The Game Awards 2025. The Arknights spin-off features action-RPG gameplay in a semi-open world, mixed with elements of factory simulation like Satisfactory--and, of course, plenty of anime girls for its gacha system.The release date was dropped at the end of a trailer, which also doubled as a music video, revealing Endfield's title track Give Me
  
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• Chinese Martial-Arts RPG Phantom Blade Zero Gets September 2026 Release Date

  12-12-2025 04:54
  
  At The Game Awards, developer S-Game has released a new trailer for its upcoming action game, Phantom Blade Zero, confirming a release date of September 9, 2026 on PC and PlayStation 5.The trailer was pretty epic, starting with some CGI of a martial artist crossing swords with some thugs while carrying a baby in some Death Stranding kind of way. We then cut to some actual gameplay of our protagonist, the elite assassin Soul, as he travels around various environments, enters various cutscenes, an
  
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• NO LAW - Reveal Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:47 via n4g.com
  In Port Desire, there are no lawsonly consequences. NO LAW is a highly anticipated AAA open-world FPS RPG built entirely around player agency and freedom. Explore, infiltrate, and assassinate; every choice leaves a mark on this brutal cyberpunk world. Developed by Neon Giant and published by KRAFTON, NO LAW is coming soon to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
  
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• Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Official Reveal Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:38 via n4g.com
  Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a runs-based, high-stakes reinvention of racing born in the lawless Outer Rim of the Star Wars galaxy. Coming in 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox X|S, and PC.With the Empire gone and the galaxy rebuilding, The Galactic League is formed: an underground, unsanctioned circuit where syndicates bankroll chaos and champions are forged.No Force. No prophecy. Just skill, strategy, and the will to rise.
  
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• Star Wars: Galactic Racer Announced At The Game Awards

  12-12-2025 04:38
  
  At The Game Awards, Disney and Lucasfilm announced a new Star Wars game, Star Wars: Galactic Racer. It is one of many upcoming Star Wars games in the works, but this one is all about speeding past Star Wars environments at several hundred kilometers per hour.Galactic Racer certainly seems to pay homage to Episode 1: Racer, but that game was all about podracers, while Galactic Racer's trailer focused more on more types of vehicles, like speeders and speederbikes. The brief trailer showed lots of
  
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• Warframe Turns To A Very Unexpected Person To Explain Its Lore: Werner Herzog

  12-12-2025 04:26
  
  Warframe has been hanging around in perpetual beta for well over a decade now. Even the developers joked about it at The Game Awards this year. The game may not be finished, but it still holds a whole world of mythology to dive into. And who better to reintroduce players to Warframe than documentarian and occasional actor, Werner Herzog. Although Herzog didn't appear in person, he left quite an impression in the trailer below.In terms of backstory and mythology, Warframe is a little convoluted.
  
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• New Look At Saros Pushes Back The Darkness, As Well As Its Release Date

  12-12-2025 04:20
  
  A short but sweet new preorder trailer for Housemarque's highly anticipated third-person shooter Saros appeared during The Game Awards on December 11.The trailer didn't tell us much we haven't learned from the previous trailer: there's still an eclipse, actor Rahul Kohli being handsome and angsty, and a whole lot of projectiles and tentacles. What's definitely new, however, is where it ended: on a new release date of April 30, 2026, pushed back from the original date of March 20.At first glance,
  
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• WARLOCK - Teaser Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:19 via n4g.com
  WARLOCK is an original, third-person, single-player action-adventure game. It takes place in a dark fantasy open world inspired by DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Developed by Invoke Studios, the game places players in the role of Kaatri, a veteran warrior who makes a pact to wield otherworldly magic against dark powers. WARLOCK is currently in development for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.
  
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• Gang of Dragon World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2025

  12-12-2025 04:19 via n4g.com
  Watch the Gang of Dragon World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2025. Live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 11th 2025. Celebrate the best and see what's next in video games at The Game Awards 2025.
  
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• EXODUS The Rise of Jun Aslan | Official Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:18 via n4g.com
  You are Jun Aslan. Once a lowly salvager, now humanitys last hope against the Celestials.You were never meant to live and die scraping through wreckage. The gift inside you makes you the only one who can rise to face whats coming. Step forward, seize your destiny, and lead an interstellar crew across a vast galaxy alive with wonder and danger. To save your homeworld, you must confront the Celestialshumanitys evolution 40,000 years in the futureand steal their technology that could give your worl
  
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• ONTOS Reveal Trailer

  12-12-2025 04:17 via n4g.com
  From the creators of SOMA comes its spiritual successor, ONTOS. A sci-fi thriller taking you to the edge of existence.Featuring award-winning actor, Stellan Skarsgård.What begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into something far stranger.As you delve deeper, guided by fragments of your father's past, you must confront disturbing revelations about the nature of reality- and your place in it.Your beliefs will be questioned, and you will be pushed far out of your comfort zone.
  
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• No Law Is a First-Person Adventure Steeped In Vigilante Justice

  12-12-2025 04:10
  
  Neon Giant’s debut project, The Ascent, dropped players into an isometric action game hosted by a neon world of crime and conspiracy. Today at The Game Awards, the Sweden-based studio announced its next adventure, No Law, a gritty first-person shooter that centers on one man’s quest for vengeance.No Law follows Grey Harker, a retired military veteran living in another neon-soaked metropolis called Port Desire. He leaves active service for a life of peace, but one day he is attacked i
  
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• New Region Trailer The Game Awards ESCAPE FROM DUCKOV

  12-12-2025 04:08 via n4g.com
  Escape From Duckov returns with a brand-new TGA trailerwatch our brave duckling venture into the new desert region teeming with eerie threats. The new region will arrive in 2026.
  
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• Ben Starr's Face At The Game Awards Suits 2025 Perfectly

  12-12-2025 04:05
  
  Sometimes you get caught on camera at something like a baseball game, and your face is forever immortalized with whatever cheese or grimace you made. Ben Starr understood that as, when the camera cut to him during a The Game Awards segment, the prolific voice actor gave a wry smile and two thumbs up. And honestly, it might just be the perfect meme to encapsulate this whole year.Digital Extremes' community director Megan Everett and creative director Rebecca Ford took to the stage to talk about t
  
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• Forest 3 Takes Sons Of The Forest To Space

  12-12-2025 03:53
  
  In a surprise announcement at The Game Awards, indie horror studio Endnight Games has revealed Forest 3, a follow up to The Forest and Sons of the Forest. In a major departure from the series' usual mutant-infested islands, Forest 3 seems to be taking the protagonist to another planet, with its trailer showing a malfunctioning spaceship crash-landing on an unknown (but still mutant-infested) world.Now for a completely unexpected world premiere. Here’s Forest 3! #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.c
  
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• The Villain In 007 First Light Is Played By Someone Totally Unexpected

  12-12-2025 03:51
  
  Following a leak for 007: First Light, it's now been confirmed that the game's villain, Bawma, will be played by Lenny Kravitz. This was confirmed tonight at The Game Awards.Kravitz is best known for his success in music, but he does have acting experience as well, appearing in The Hunger Games movies as Cinna. He also acts in his many music videos.Lenny Kravitz will star in the new James Bond game.Actor Patrick Gibson plays a young James Bond in First Light, which tells a new, original story of
  
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• You Can Play Diablo 4's New Paladin Class Right Now

  12-12-2025 03:48
  
  Diablo 4 players don't have to wait until next year's Lord of Hatred expansion to play one of its new classes, as the fan-favorite Paladin is playable right now.As announced at The Game Awards, Diablo 4's second expansion, Lord of Hatred, will release on April 28, 2026, but the Paladin will be playable immediately for those who preorder Lord of Hatred. Those who preorder will also instantly unlock an additional stash tab, two more character slots, and three World of Warcraft housing decor items.
  
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• Blizzard Announces Next Diablo 4 Expansion, Two New Classes

  12-12-2025 03:48
  
  The end of Diablo 4's Age of Hatred saga is nigh. Blizzard has officially announced the game's second expansion, Lord of Hatred, is coming April 28, 2026. The expansion marks the end of Diablo 4's ongoing story, culminating in an epic battle against the MMO-ARPG's biggest antagonist: Mephisto.Revealed as part of 2025's The Game Awards, Lord of Hatred sees players team up with an unlikely ally in an attempt to put an end to the Lord of Hatred's uprising. The expansion takes players to the fabled
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst Revealed Alongside Original Tomb Raider Remake

  12-12-2025 03:46
  
  The Tomb Raider franchise is one of the most prolific and longest-running in all of gaming, and we got a tease of what's next for Lara Croft during The Game Awards on December 11. Surprisingly, there isn't just one game in production, but two. The new entry in the franchise is Tomb Raider: Catalyst, coming in 2027, while a total remake of the first title in the series arrives next year with Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.Lara Croft's "Survivor" trilogy wrapped up in 2018 with Shadow of the Tomb
  
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• Solasta II - Early Access Date & Cast Reveal

  12-12-2025 03:45 via n4g.com
  This new look at Solasta II highlights the journey ahead for the Colwall siblings, whose lives are upended as they are pulled into an ancient conflict tied to the secrets their mother carried to her grave. Deorcas and Rickard, her biological children, find their fates entwined with the adopted siblings they grew up alongside, as forgotten powers awaken across the land of Neokos.
  
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