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A group of industry veterans who worked on classics such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4 have announced a new survival game called Among the Trolls. There's no shortage of survival games out there at the moment thanks to titles like Rust, DayZ, Ark, The Long Dark, and many others, but the genre keeps growing. It was also recently confirmed that Conan Exiles developer Funcom is working on a new survival game set in the Dune universe, so it's rapidly expanding and will likely continue to as many developers find more and more success within it.

A new Call of Duty leak is making the rounds. The leak doesn't come the way of official channels, but has been validated by several prominent Call of Duty leakers and insiders. That said, right now, it's not clear what exactly the footage is of. More specifically, it's not clear if it's pulled from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode or the rumored DMZ mode or if it's pulled from Call of Duty: Warzone 2. Of course, Call of Duty: Warzone 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be very similar in terms of look and feel, so a leak for one is more or less a leak of the other, but they are technically separate products and right now there's no word of which the footage is of.

A new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake update has Star Wars fans looking forward to the PC and PS5 game excited. For one, it's confirmed that more news about the remake is coming in the next few months. Meanwhile, it has also confirmed that developer Aspyr Media is well aware of the gravity of the remake, which should put to bed any concerns the remake will be nothing more than a quick cash grab.

A critically acclaimed PS4 game is just $4, courtesy of GameStop. Some of the greatest games of the last generation were PS4 exclusives or PS4 consoles exclusives. This list of games includes the likes of Bloodborne, Persona 5, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The Last of Us Part II, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Marvel's Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, and Death Stranding. Some of the best and most popular games on the console were exclusive to the Sony console. And this list doesn't include VR games. If you expand the parameters to VR, then you have to throw in Astro Bot Rescue Mission as well, one of the best VR games to date. And it's this game that's currently $4 on GameStop, the cheapest we've ever seen it. What's the catch? It's for a pre-owned copy of the game.

According to a prominent Rockstar Games journalist, both a next-gen port of Red Dead Redemption 2 and a remake/remaster of Red Dead Redemption for current platforms are in the works at Rockstar. With Red Dead Redemption 3 likely very far away and Red Dead Online slowly dying, Red Dead Redemption fans don't currently have much to look forward to, unless the aforementioned and persistent rumors are true, and according to Rockstar Mag's Chris' Klippel, they are.

Dragon Ball Super fans love a good fight, so their biggest wish became clear when Ultra Ego Vegeta hit the series. The epic power boost left netizens salivating, and they wanted nothing more than to see Vegeta fight alongside Ultra Instinct Goku with the godly form. And now, well – the manga is delivering on the big wish!

Marvel's Avengers has a special Captain America: Civil War surprise for fans of the Google Stadia, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X game. Since releasing Marvel's Avengers, developer Crystal Dynamics has completely reversed its tune about distancing the game from the MCU. In development and in marketing, Crystal Dynamics was adamant that it was not making an MCU game. Fast-forward, and now the only content regularly being released for the game are MCU suits for the its various different characters. The latest MCU suit is for Iron Man fans, and it involves Captain America: Civil War.

Marvel's Wolverine has gained a new narrative director in the form of Walt Williams. Insomniac Games has quickly built up a reputation for its as some of the best storytellers in gaming. The team really showed its potential with games like Resistance, but found major critical and commercial acclaim with its Spider-Man games. Although Insomniac is deep into development on Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Insomniac also confirmed that it is working on Marvel's Wolverine. This will be the first AAA Wolverine game since Activision's beloved X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so the bar has been set for the character.

Gearbox has not just one or two but nine AAA games in the works right now, the company's owner, Embracer Group, indicated recently. The parent company said as much during an earnings presentation wherein it talked about the recent successes of Gearbox Entertainment and Gearbox Publishing and hinted at the studio's future by referencing the nine games. No specifics were mentioned in the report to hint at what those games might look like, but based on past announcements, we already have an idea of some things Gearbox is working on.

Electronic Arts and DICE have released a new update for Battlefield 2042, bringing the game up to version 4.1. This is the final update ahead of the release of Season One next month, so it features some fairly small changes. However, that's not to say that players won't see anything of note! Players can expect a nerf to Boris's SG-36 Sentry Gun, improved base recoil from stock weapons, changes to Angel's Supply Bag, audio improvements, and more. Full patch notes from the game's official website can be found below:

Sony has been relatively quiet about its PlayStation VR2 as of late, but it looks like there's a chance that'll change in the next few weeks. Jeff Grubb on the latest installment of GrubbSnax suggested as much by offering a potential release window for the new virtual reality hardware as well as a suggestion as to when Sony might show off more of the headset and its peripherals. Unsurprisingly, the speculation about the latter is connected to the summer gaming events set to get underway in June.

Goodman Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund publication of a three volume boxed set that brings the classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure Dark Tower to life, both in its original formatted and updated for Fifth Edition rules. Each volume presents a different way of using Dark Tower. The first volume is a high quality reprint of the original adventure, the second volume updates the adventure for 5th Edition D&D rules, and the final volume expands on the campaign setting of Dark Tower, which allows for an entire mini-campaign based around exploring Dark Tower.

On December 9, 2019, 2K Games announced a new studio called Cloud Chamber and announced a new BioShock game, tentatively dubbed BioShock 4. At the time of reveal, we saw nothing of the game and got zero official details about the game. Three years later and this hasn't changed, but according to a new rumor, it may finally change later this year. While Cloud Chamber and 2K Games still aren't talking about the project, and while there's been no suggestion this will change anytime soon, a new rumor claims the game will likely be revealed this year, which isn't too surprising considering several rumors suggested the game was ready to be revealed as early as last year.

A new Tiny Tina's Wonderlands update was released today alongside patch notes that revealed everything Gearbox did to the game, or at least everything it did to the game that was notable. And the update, while fairly large, isn't actually brimming with consequential changes or improvements. That said, it did apparently add a bug that is wiping story progress. Naturally, this was not mentioned in the patch notes.

Pokemon Go's latest Community Day is here, with a focus on the Rock/Electric-type Pokemon Alolan Geodude. As with last month's event, today's Community Day is only a 3 hour event instead of a 6 hour event, in part to get more players out into their community and playing together. Unfortunately, Alolan Geodude and its evolutions aren't going to be major mover and shakers in PvP play and have been in the game for years, so there's not a lot of incentive to spend a lengthy amount of time grinding for the perfect Pokmon.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 will reportedly feature maps from 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The 2009 shooter helped cement the series as a permanent entertainment gold mine for Activision. After the success of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, its sequel went on to sell gangbusters and become a staple of the Xbox 360 era thanks to its snappy gameplay, iconic maps, rich campaign, and much more. It is still extremely beloved and has had many begging for a remake for quite some time, but fans will instead be treated to a sequel to the Modern Warfare reboot this coming fall. A few weeks ago, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and is expected to officially unveil the game sometime in the coming weeks. Activision also confirmed a sequel to Call of Duty: Warzone earlier this year, something rather unusual for a free-to-play battle royale game.

A new Battlefield 2042 update is releasing tomorrow via PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X, and it comes with a fairly major change that seemingly tells you everything you need to know about the current state of Battlefield 2042. The latest Battlefield game flopped out the gate due to several performance issues, missing content, and a metric ton of bugs, and it's never recovered. Thanks to Steam, we know many aren't playing the 2021 first-person shooter on PC, but it's less clear if anyone on console is playing the game. And of course, there are plenty playing the game, but clearly not enough. Matchmaking takes a long time and lobbies are full of bots, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that the 128-player Breakthrough mode is being removed from the game. Going forward, the player count will be 64.

A popular PS1 game is getting a new feature over 23 years later, courtesy of PlayStation Plus. PS Plus is expanding next month with PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium, the latter of which gives subscribers access to a library of backward compatible games across PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP. One of the games that's going to be included in this library is 1999's Syphon Filter, one of 1999's highest-rated games and one of the most popular PS1 games across the entire generation. At release, the game garnered a 90 on Metacritic and spawned a series that consists of several games spanning PS1, PS2, and PSP. We haven't seen anything from the series since 2007, but it's going to be included in PS Plus Premium.

Nintendo Switch Online recently expanded with the addition of GameCube and Sega Genesis games. According to a plethora of rumors, the next console the subscription service will expand courtesy of will be the Game Boy. As you would expect, Nintendo isn't commenting on these rumors, but it did recently tease further expansion of the subscription service coming later this year, which in turn has ignited speculation that Game Boy expansion will happen at some point this year.

Sony has revealed when people can expect new games for the new tiered PlayStation Plus subscriptions. After months of rumors of a revision coming to PlayStation Plus, Sony finally confirmed it was implementing a tiered system to its PlayStation Plus, resulting in more benefits for a bit more money should players choose to. The new model will offer players the ability to access a library of PS4 and PS5 games, trials for games, and even access to games from classic PlayStation consoles, depending on your tier. The new version of the service opens a lot of doors and evolves the way players interact with PlayStation as a platform, which has naturally sparked some questions.