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PlayStation Network (PSN) has been having issues with experiencing a multi-hour outage that started Friday (February 7) evening.

Avowed have shared three tracks from its gorgeous soundtrack – check them out exclusively on NME below.Avowed is an epic, fantasy role-playing game from Obsidian. A spin-off from their Pillars Of Eternity franchise, the action takes place in the Living Lands, “a mysterious island filled with adventure and danger”.“As an envoy of Aedyr, you are sent to investigate rumors of a spreading plague with a secret that threatens to destroy everything,” teases the game’s synopsis.

There are very few games these days that are solely designed around a completely co-op experience, but there's one game studio that's doing just that. You might know Hazelight Studios from its work on It Takes Two and A Way Out, and it's set to release its latest adventure - Split Fiction - in just a month's time on March 6.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter A live-action film adaptation of the video game “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33” is in the works before the game even launches. Variety has learned exclusively that game developer Sandfall Interactive is teaming with Story Kitchen to develop a film version of the game, which will be published by Kepler Interactive. The game is due to be released on April 24 on Xbox, Playstation, PC, Steam, and Epic.

Hollow Knight: Silksong developers have been forced to reassure fans that the game is real after the latest release rumour was debunked.Hollow Knight: Silksong is the long-awaited sequel to 2017’s Hollow Knight. Originally developers Team Cherry started working on an expansion for the game but in 2019, they confirmed it had grown into a standalone sequel.Silksong was due for release in the first half of 2023 but never arrived and the game still doesn’t have a release date.However, last week some fans began speculating that Hollow Knight: Silksong could be tied into the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 after co-creator William Pellen changed their Discord profile picture to that of a chocolate cake.After some quick Googling, fans discovered that the recipe the image was taken from was originally published on April 2, the date of Nintendo’s big upcoming Switch 2 Direct presentation.>Team Cherry member changes tag and pfp to cake with op before switch 2 reveal>cake pfp redirects to a recipe when searched>recipe was made April 2nd>Nintendo direct for switch 2 is April 2nd>Nintendo is consistently involved with hollow knightSTAY WITH ME NOW.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Nintendo has unveiled the long-awaited successor to its popular Switch video game console: the Nintendo Switch 2. First-look images at the console design and a teaser trailer were revealed by Nintendo Thursday, but the Japan-based video game company has held back the price tag for the Switch 2 as well as the official release date.

If you play your games on an Xbox Series X, Series S, or PC, then you probably know what Xbox Game Pass is. Colloquially known as the ‘Netflix of gaming’, it gives you access to a library of over 100 video games, while also covering the cost of playing your Xbox games online with other players.

Elden Ring player has vowed to take on one of Shadow Of The Erdtree’s toughest bosses every day until spin-off Nightreign is released.Elden Ring’s multiplayer spin-off Nightreign was announced last month, and will challenge teams of three players to work together to survive a long weekend in the frosty land of Limgrave as well as defeat different bosses from a number of FromSoftware titles. The game is set to launch at some point in 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.One Elden Ring fan is already getting impatient though.

Hi-Fi Rush have shared a “positive” update around a potential sequel.Hit music game Hi-Fi Rush was released at the start of 2023 and went on to win a number of awards. One Xbox marketing executive described it as “a breakout hit for us and our players in all key measurements and expectations,” but earlier this year, Microsoft closed down developers Tango Gameworks alongside a few other studios. The studio was then purchased by Krafton alongside the Hi-Fi Rush IP.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Game developer Hazelight Studios has revealed its next co-op title for publisher Electronic Arts (EA) following the smash-hit success of 2021’s “It Takes Two“: “Split Fiction,” an action-adventure title, split-screen game where players will jump between sci-fi and fantasy worlds. Per EA and Hazelight Studios, “In ‘Split Fiction,’ players will discover a variety of sci-fi and fantasy mechanics and abilities.

The 2024 Game Awards are airing tonight!

Indiana Jones owners LucasFilm have said it would be “super interesting” to create more games after the success of The Great Circle.The Great Circle launched on Monday (December 9) and has been praised by fans and critics alike. The “god-tier” game currently has a Metacritic score of 87 per cent, has racked up thousands of players on Steam and many more on Xbox and PC, via Game Pass.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer For lots of avid gamers this holiday season, there will be Indiana Jones — and then everybody else. Microsoft’s gaming division, after spending billions on developers and publishers over the last three years, is seeing its big bets pay off. In the fourth quarter of 2024, when consumers largely look to buy and gift AAA titles, there’s no new generation of consoles — usually the driving force behind game purchases — on the market.

Get your music fix with some top-notch earbuds this Black Friday and bag yourself a £50 saving. Debenhams is slashing prices, and you can snag a pair of their earphones for less than £40, down from the usual £79.95. Make your choice from four stylish colours – but be warned, stocks are dwindling fast in this epic sale, so speed is of the essence.

The 2024 Game Awards nominees have been revealed!

Vengeful spirits, grief-stricken souls and a massively ravenous gator lie in wait for saving in Compulsion Games’ upcoming mythical adventure game South of Midnight. Originally announced in a teaser trailer in 2023 during the Xbox Games Showcase, and with a full gameplay trailer follow-up earlier this past summer, the scope of what the game has in store for players has been relatively under wraps. However, we do know so far that South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure inspired by folktales of the Southern Gothic. The story follows a young woman named Hazel (voiced by Adriyan Rae, who also shared motion capture duties with Nona Parker), reeling after a hurricane devastates her hometown as she journeys to find her mother, who went missing during the flood. Somehow, pulled into a magical realist reality where folklore creatures emerge, Hazel embraces her powers as a Weaver—a magical mender of broken spirits—to confront formidable creatures known as Haints as she untangles the past of her family and those around her. 

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Funko‘s new video game “Funko Fusion” is expanding its roster of characters to include the employees of Dunder Mifflin. Later this year, the newly released title from 10:10 Games will launch “The Office“-centric downloadable content, one of several planned updates coming to “Funko Fusion” following its Sept. 13 release across PlayStation 5, PC and Xbox Series X/S.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Xbox Games Studios head Alan Hartman is stepping down from his post after more than three decades working at parent company Microsoft. Following Hartman’s retirement, Craig Duncan, chief of Xbox’s studio Rare, will take over the position.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Less than a year-and-a-half after its release in June 2023, the very popular online role-playing game “Diablo IV” is getting a new expansion pack that introduces new characters, locations and narratives to the lore of Sanctuary. With a starting price of $39.99, “Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred” is available for download for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, as well as PC — beginning on Tuesday, Oct.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Gaming consoles are dead. Long live gaming consoles! For more than two decades, it’s been a regular topic of conversation: When might gaming consoles, the dedicated hardware that has been the core of the gaming biz, become obsolete — and be replaced by general-purpose platforms like PCs and smartphones? The debate has been stoked by the rise of cloud computing and mobile gaming, alongside dips in sales of the latest generations of Microsoft, Sony PlayStation and Nintendo devices. Questions about the longevity of the console model are back.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor Carmen Sandiego will headline a new video game produced by “Disney Dreamlight Valley” maker Gameloft and HarperCollins Production that will first launch as a Netflix exclusive gaming title in early 2025 before later rolling out across Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and Steam. The original 1985 game, “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” introduced her as the main antagonist, leading a global syndicate of criminals known as VILE.