Newly-revealed RPG Threads of Time will compete with Sea of Stars as Chrono Trigger spiritual successor

Starfield fans believe a trademark for “Starborn” registered by Bethesda parent company Zenimax earlier this month points to the game’s currently unrevealed second expansion, likely due in 2025.
Bethesda’s space RPG released last year, and is set to launch its first expansion Shattered Space in the coming months. In conversation with YouTuber MrMattyPlays back in June, Bethesda’s Todd Howard confirmed there would be at least one more expansion to come after Shattered Space, stating the studio was already “planning for the one after this”.
It now appears that this ‘planning’ has made further progress, thanks to that aforementioned trademark. As spotted by Timur222 on social media platform X, Bethesda has filed a trademark for something known as Starborn. What is a …

This summer, Epic Games finally gets its wish when, thanks to new EU regulations, it’s launching its own digital store on iOS and Android. And ahead of its arrival, the company has announced it’s removing Fortnite and other Epic games from what it calls “rent collector” competing stores, “even if those stores offer us a special deal for our own games.”

In its announcement post, Epic first confirms developers selling games on its on its new mobile store will be subject to the same 12 percent fee seen on its PC digital storefront (zero percent if a developer uses a third-party payment system). It then reveals plans to pull its own games from some competing stores. More specifically, it says it’ll be “ending distribution partnerships with mobile stores that serve …

Nintendo has formally revoked the Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024 winning team’s title after racist messages sent by several of its members surfaced online.

This year’s Splatoon 3 World Championship was held in April, with six teams competing for the crown. North American team Jackpot was eventually named the winner, but the four-person group became embroiled in controversy this June, after Discord and social media chats showing some of its members engaging in racist behaviour began circulating on social media.

And now, roughly six weeks later, Nintendo has officially rescinded Jackpot’s winning title, albeit without explicitly specifying the reason behind its decision.

Splatoon 3 – Grand Festival (Nintendo Switch)

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Sony has detailed its a fresh wave of PlayStation 5 features set to be tested as part of its next system software beta update.

This will include “adaptive charging”, designed to save power if you have plugged in controllers to charge while your console is in rest mode.

The feature can monitor charge levels in any plugged-in pads and adjust the power supplied to their connected USB ports appropriately.

Newscast: Does the loss of day one launches make Xbox Game Pass pointless?

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Netflix has just dropped a new teaser for Arcane: League of Legends’ second – and final – season.
Whilst it’s barely a minute long, the trailer offers a peek at a “stealth mission” and shows how “Zaun’s finest […] makes sneaking back into your lab look good”.
You can check it out in the video embedded below:

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Xbox has revealed a whole flock of games arriving on Game Pass this month on day one of release.

That includes Capcom’s Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Dungeons of Hinterberg, as well as todays’ release of Flock.

These join the likes of Journey to the Savage Planet, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Neon White that arrived earlier this month.

The full list of Xbox Game Pass additions still to come in July are:

Magical Delicacy (Cloud, Console, and PC) – out today
Flock (Cloud, Console, and PC) – out today
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X S) – 18th July
Dungeons of Hinterberg (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X S) – 18th July
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Cloud, Console, and PC) – 19th July

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As players continue to struggle with the final boss of Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, one savvy Twitch streamer has destroyed the boss in just one hit.

To be honest, this was only a matter of time. While reactions to the DLC initially focused on its high difficulty – particularly the final boss – players have slowly found various methods of getting through the encounter. And this might be the most impressive (and convoluted) yet.

Spoilers follow.

How To Find 11 Shadow of the Erdtree Secret Optional Locations – O MOTHER GESTURE, WHERE ART THOU?

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Things are about to get lively on the Sea of Thieves! After spending far too long as giant, trash-talking disembodied head, the nefarious Captain Flameheart finally makes a proper return to Rare’s multiplayer pirate adventure next Thursday, 25th July – and he’ll be terrorising players with his formidable fire-belching warship as Season 13 gets underway.

As Rare explained earlier this year, that warship, The Burning Blade, serves as a new roving world event out on the waves, giving players the opportunity to go head-to-head against its awesome firepower if they so choose. The Burning Blade is officially the most powerful ship in Sea of Thieves, sporting ten cannons, the ability launch Ashen Roar balls of fire from its flaming bow, and a sizeable crew of obsidian…

The development team behind EA Sports FC 25 – which launches this year on 27th September and hosts England star Jude Bellingham on its cover – isn’t worried about a potential revival of the FIFA brand at another developer.

FIFA itself has not been shy about wanting to rope in a new company to make a fresh football game with its branding, following the collapse of its long-running partnership with EA Sports back in 2022.

Rumours have persisted that the FIFA licence has now been picked up by another developer with plans to launch a fresh FIFA product in time for the next World Cup. Who could it be? Well, 2K, publisher of the NBA 2K, PGA Tour 2K and WWE 2K sports series, has reportedly been in the frame.

So, are EA’s FC team worried about a new rival? In sho…

To celebrate today’s launch of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Capcom has released a video performance of a traditional Japanese theatre show detailing its story.

It’s performed by the National Bunraku Theatre, an Osaka-based company celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Bunraku theatre combines narrative recitation, puppetry, and music, dating back to the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

The performance is a tribute to the new game, which is steeped in Japanese folklore.

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess – Demo Trailer

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