Listen now to Hans Zimmer's Dragon Age: The Veilguard main theme

Oscar and Grammy award-winning composer Hans Zimmer has released his main theme for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which you can listen to right now just below.

Zimmer, best known for his work on The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Dark Knight, has composed only a handful of video games throughout his prolific career.

The Veilguard’s score is co-composed by Lorne Balfe, a frequent collaborator of Zimmer’s and the brain behind scores for a slew of films, as well as video games such as Assassin’s Creed 3 and Skylanders series.

A decade on from the launch of Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare’s long-awaited follow-up finally arrives on 31st October. To get yourself in the mood, here’s that main theme to listen to now:

Dragon Age: The Veil…

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Alan Wake and Control film and television rights acquired by Annapurna

Remedy Entertainment has announced a new partnership that’ll see Annapurna Pictures financing half of Control 2 in exchange for the film and TV rights to Control and Alan Wake.

Control 2 – the sequel to Remedy’s acclaimed 2019 paranormal shooter – was officially announced back in 2022. Earlier this month, the studio revealed the project had now entered full production, and that the Control 2 team was currently “working towards developing the game to an early functional state from beginning to end.”

Remedy announced its new partnership in a statement shared on its website, confirming Annapurna will finance 50 percent of Control 2’s development budget and gain the rights to “expand the award-winning Control and Alan Wake franchises into film and television”.

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Star Wars Outlaws' "punishing" stealth sequences will soon be easier

Star Wars Outlaws director Julian Gerighty has confirmed a patch is coming “maybe in 10 days” to address the game’s “unfair” and “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sequences.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gerighty admitted that whilst the team had intentionally designed the sequence to build “tension”, it “just [didn’t] want it to feel unfair. And today, I think it feels unfair”.
“This is more of something that crept in in the last week or so and that we’re correcting already for a patch that’s coming out maybe in 10 days,” he added.

Star Wars Outlaws Makes You Feel Like A SCUMBAG – And I Love It.

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