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Black Myth: Wukong launched just a few weeks ago, August 19, but it’s already due to get an expansion, a report confirms.Black Myth: Wukong sold quickly and became the second-most concurrently played game of all time on Steam with 2.2 million players. It sold 18 million copies since its launch, making it one of the fastest-selling games ever.Forbes reports that developer Game Science will be capitalising on the game’s success by releasing an expansion, although there is currently no indication what this expansion will entail, when it will come out, or how much it will cost.Black Myth: Wukong is based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West, and has done exceptionally well in China, which accounts for around 85 to 90 per cent of its total players.These huge sales records have come despite the game only launching on PlayStation 5 and PC.

Concord, a PlayStation and PC live-service hero-shooter, is going to be taken offline tomorrow and everyone who purchased it digitally will be eligible for a refund.PlayStation announced that Concord would be taken offline effective September 6, and anyone who bought the game via PlayStation Store or OlayStation Direct would be getting a full and automatic refund.For PC players, Steam and the Epic Games Store will also both refund players, but if you bought a physical copy you’ll have to check with your retailer about what their policies are.An important update on Concord from Firewalk Studios: https://t.co/MxZ1Sxpayu pic.twitter.com/3OcPFDqmDX— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 3, 2024Concord was launched barely two weeks ago, August 23. It was claimed by developer Firewalk Studios that the game was in development for eight years.

Red Dead Redemption 2 won many game of the year awards, and got actor Roger Clark a best performance win at The Game Awards, but he still has one big regret from his time with Rockstar.Speaking on the Gamology YouTube channel, as spotted by GameRant, Clark said, “the only thing I regret is saying Colm O’Driscoll incorrectly. Rockstar made me say it wrong.

Baldur’s Gate 3 update is due out this week, according to Larian CEO Swen Vincke.As reported by IGN, Vincke said at video game expo PAX West: “Patch 7 is coming out next week.” That means it’s due between now and Sunday, September 8. Although Larian has scrapped the planned DLC for Baldur’s Gate 3, this next update is a big one.According to Larian’s blog post on Steam, this update will include a dynamic split-screen feature.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has a multiplayer beta and players are already getting up to no good.A new feature in Black Ops 6 allows players to take opponents hostage and use them as human shields. As reported by VG247, this feature has been combined with the live mic activation and proximity from Warzone to allow players to talk to their enemies once they’ve grabbed them.Some players have opted to sing to their human shields, but others have opted to pretend to have sex with their captives and whisper in their ear as they walk them around the map.

Jagex has confirmed the latest Runescape remix album, with eleven Old School tracks given a drum ‘n’ bass reworking. Check out the first two songs below, exclusively on NME.‘Runescape: Old School Runebreaks’ is hitting streaming services tomorrow (September 3) and will feature eleven Runescape anthems that have been lovingly remixed by London-based producer Pizza Hotline.

Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford has compared himself to The Beatles following the release of the flop Borderlands film.Gearbox has had a rough few weeks. The long-awaited Borderlands film has only made a reported $31million (£23.6million) in box office sales, compared to a budget of $110million (83.7million) and is coming to streaming services to try and recoup some of those losses.To make things worse, the first Risk Of Rain 2 DLC to be released since Gearbox purchased the IP in 2022 from Hopoo has had a disastrous launch, with fans complaining that Seekers Of The Storm is more expensive than previous expansions and is full of bugs, which is affecting every version of the game.

Call of Duty: Warzone is bringing back the map that started it all: Verdansk.In 2025, the original Warzone map, Verdansk, is coming back to the game, and fans are excited. “I just fell to my knees in the GameStop parking lot,” writes JaredFPS.

Alien: Romulus has been a hit with fans, generating over £170million since its release on a budget of about £60million. The popularity of the film has drawn fans back to a game that director Fede Álvarez says inspired him: Alien: Isolation.Speaking to GamesRadar, Álvarez says “Alien: Isolation was kind of what made me see that Alien could truly [still] be terrifying and done well.” He continues, “I played a few years after it came out.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt came out, and The Witcher 4 may be closer than we thought.Speaking during an earnings call for CD Projekt, the company behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said: “The Polaris team is maintaining the right scale to enter the production stage very soon”, as transcribed by IGN.Polaris is the codename for The Witcher 4, and it has 410 out of the company’s 639 employees working on it. The fact that the game hasn’t entered full production yet does mean it’s unlikely we’ll see it in 2024 or 2025, but we’ll learn more as development progresses.As of November, 2023, the game had over 300 developers working on it.

Star Wars Outlaws only jsut came out, but it’s already gotten a new patch. Here’s everything it changes.Star Wars Outlaws launched with some technicaly difficulties, as reported in many of the game’s mixed reviews.

Xbox has confirmed details of a super saver sale for Game Pass subscribers, with a number of titles exclusively discounted.The new super saver sale features 46 different titles for Xbox Game Pass subscribers to buy and keep. The first chapter of Life Is Strange 2 is available as a free download, while Lara Croft And The Temple Of Osiris is available for £2.24.To access the sale, Game Pass subscribers will just need to access the “Deals” section of the Microsoft Store via PC or console.Get EvenAven ColonyEverspaceSTEEPGuns, Gore and CannoliJust Cause 3OvercookedBattle Chasers: NightwarHungry Shark WorldAgatha Christie – The ABC MurdersArcade Game Series 3-in-1 packDig DugGalagaMs. Pac-ManPac-ManBlack The FallClouds & Sheep 2Deadbeat HeroesDeus Ex: Mankind DividerDynamite FishingFear Effect SednaFlying Tiger: Shadows Over ChinaFuriGuns, Gore and Cannoli 2Impact WinterJust Cause 3: XXL EditionLara Croft And The Temple Of OsirisLife Is Strange: Complete SeasonLife Is Strange: Before The StormMonopolyMurdered: Soul SuspectNecropolisOctahedronOh My GodheadsPlague RoadRayman LegendsSleeping DogsThe EscapistsThe: The AwakeningThiefTomb Raider: Definitive EditionUNOWorms Battlegrounda great day with more exciting news: more games are coming to the game pass core library! pic.twitter.com/uUXD9ZZEki— Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) August 20, 2024Xbox has yet to confirm a finish time for the super saver deals, but since the company releases a new batch of savings every Tuesday, it might be worth grabbing your wishlist sooner rather than later.The super saver deal isn’t the only one happening on the Xbox store at the moment either, with a number of indie developers involved in the ID@Xbox Sale while fighting fans have a sale

Call of Duty series have already seen both story and Zombies trailers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, but now, the thing they’ve all been waiting for is here: a new multiplayer trailer.The trailers for Black Ops 6‘s story and its fan-loved Zombies mode have both been revealed already, but most players spend the majority of their time with Call of Duty games competing against each other in the multiplayer modes. Now, we finally have a trailer for te upcoming game’s online offerings.At the time of writing, it has already gotten over 11million views on YouTube.

Black Myth: Wukong has had one of the biggest launches ever. It’s inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West, which also inspired legendary anime Dragon Ball.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is due to come out in the latter half of 2025 for console gamers, but there’s no news yet of a PC launch date.For two of Rockstar‘s recent games, Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, PC versions of the games came out in April 2015 and November 2019, respectively. That’s a year-and-a-half and a year-long wait.

Amazon Games’ Lord Of The Rings game will be released any time soon, but it is still in the works.Amazon Games have been trying to get a Lord Of The Rings MMO made for a number of years now. One free-to-play project was scrapped in 2021 after co-developer Leyou was acquired by Tencent.

Roblox users can finally have a ‘Brat’ summer, with a new Charli XCX-inspired update launching over the weekend.The newest update for the Dress To Impress Roblox game features a number of new ‘Brat’-inspired outfits, as well as poses, hairstyles and makeup allowing users to have the most ‘Brat’ summer possible.The update has also redecorated the lobby and dressing room to match the aesthetic of Charli XCX’s newest album. Six new poses have also been added, with the likes of ‘Reference Baby’, ‘So Julia’, ‘Von Dutch’, Bumpn’ That’ and ‘Apple Dance’ all inspired by XCX’s ‘Brat’.

Activision reportedly filed a cease and desist letter against a fan-made Call Of Duty mod because they were worried it would impact Black Ops 6 sales.The H2M mod reworked the beloved multiplayer mode from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and required players to own a copy of the remastered Modern Warfare to use it.Excitement around the project was so high, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered found itself back in the Steam charts as players bought the game in anticipation of the mod, but just before the project was launched, developers revealed Activision had forced them to shut the project down.“Today, our team members received a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the H2M-Mod project. We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations immediately and permanently,” they wrote on social media, and updated their X bio to read “SHUTDOWN”.Today, our team members received a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the H2M-Mod project.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 fans have been getting a lot of information about the Zombies mode recently, but their first look at a main story campaign play through will be during Gamescom Opening Night Live, next week.Geoff Keighley, host of The Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and Opening Night Live, tweeted out that the Black Ops 6 campaign play through would happen Tuesday August 20 during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live ceremony.So far, we’ve already seen one hectic but cryptic campaign trailer, set to The Prodigy‘s ‘Firestarter’, so this should be an actual segment of uncut gameplay. Call Of Duty and plenty of other games have done this in the past, and it should reveal what the game actually feels like when you get it into your own hands later this year.Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to @gamescom Opening Night Live on Tuesday, August 20.Tune in for the first campaign play through reveal live from Germany.11a PT / 2p ET / 8p CEST at https://t.co/AFycLZG9XF@CallofDuty #CallofDuty #BlackOps6 pic.twitter.com/1xF7HFTOvM— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 9, 2024NME did a hands-off preview of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 in June and called it “a scrappy Gulf War shooter.” Set in the ’90s, the first-person game’s story revolves around returning character Frank Woods and he and his “band of war criminals” attempt to stop a shadowy group known as The Pantheon.Developer Treyarch suggested that the game would have more stealh-focused moments, although the trailer we saw before looked anything but covert.Treyarch has also called the upcoming Zombies mode the “most-rewarding ever”, and the story for that follows Cold War‘s Requiem as they’re broken out of a prison in the Philippine Sea.

Grand Theft Auto 5 actors Ned Luke and Steven Ogg, who played Michael and Trevor respectively, are teasing something with ASUS, and more should be revealed tomorrow.Over on Luke’s Twitter page, he shared a video of himself and Ogg, with Luke in a white tank top and Ogg shirtless, and tagged both Ogg and tech brand ASUS. It certainly looks like the set up to the kind of situation Michael and Trevor would find themselves in.

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 is right around the corner, and a new trailer has shown off the upcoming slate of Marvel characters, from Dr Doom, to the Avengers, and the X-Men.The latest Season in the live-service battle-royale game is titled Absolute Doom and will feature the villainous Doom himself as well as many other Marvel characters. The Season comes with a new Absolute Doom battle pass that contains outfits for Gwenpool, War Machine, Peelverine, Emma Frost, Captain Jonesy, Mysterio and Shuri.There are also new items to take on Dr Doom with. You can get Dual Micro SMGs, Captain America’s Shield, or War Machine’s Arsenal.