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Assassin's Creed creator's forgotten fantasy game 1666: Amsterdam will finally release this year, over a decade after Ubisoft ripped it from his fingers
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Assassin's Creed creator's forgotten fantasy game 1666: Amsterdam will finally release this year, over a decade after Ubisoft ripped it from his fingers

Original Assassin's Creed creative director Patrice Désilets and his team at Panache Digital Games have announced a new version of 1666: Amsterdam, the supernatural history game Désilets once worked on a lifetime ago at THQ Montreal. What's more, the game now has a 30 minute prologue on Steam and the Epic Games Store, with an early access release coming later this year. Read more

"Overwhelming power": Fumito Ueda's giant robot game gets an official title and, wait a minute, is that a gun?
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"Overwhelming power": Fumito Ueda's giant robot game gets an official title and, wait a minute, is that a gun?

Friends, it is almost time to be very, very sad because a massive metal man fell over and died. Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda has dropped the first proper footage of his forthcoming mech game project, announced back in 2024 with the codename Project Robot. The official title is Gen Atlas. Ueda and development studio genDESIGN have also shared details of the game's plot and setting. It's described as "a single-player, open-world action-adventure game", and takes place on

Tupac Shakur joins Snoop Dogg in Stranger Than Heaven, which also has a release date once you've finished getting over the whole dead rapper cameo business
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Tupac Shakur joins Snoop Dogg in Stranger Than Heaven, which also has a release date once you've finished getting over the whole dead rapper cameo business

Right. So. Stranger Than Heaven, the Like A Dragon/Yakuza devs' hop through different decades of 20th century Japanese history? You're probably already aware that Snoop Dogg's in it. Well, a digitally resurrected version of fellow rapper Tupac Shakur's also in it. For reasons. Reasons that I'm sure will be readily apparent when Stranger Than Heaven comes out in January 2027. Read more

"A new hunting ground for the ultimate apex predator" - Alien: Isolation 2 gets its first proper trailer
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"A new hunting ground for the ultimate apex predator" - Alien: Isolation 2 gets its first proper trailer

Creative Assembly and Sega have screened the first proper trailer for Alien: Isolation 2, confirming in the process that the new xenomorph horror game is set on a planet. A planet of windy trees, thick fog, and much wreckage. There is a cage with the bars cracked and bent outward. I'm pretty sure they weren't keeping spare fuel cells in there. Read more

MIA action-adventure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin resurfaces in the hands of noted katana enthusiasts Platinum Games
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MIA action-adventure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin resurfaces in the hands of noted katana enthusiasts Platinum Games

Platinum Games, the game development studio that evidently are to edged weapon action games what Marks & Spencer are to inoffensive socks, are making a TMNT game. It’s called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, it’s being published by Paramount Games Studio, and it’s just been announced as part of Summer Game Fest 2026. Keener fans of pizza-gnawing reptiles will remember that there was already a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game in development at Dest