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State of Decay 3 was announced back in 2020 with an eye-catching debut trailer that showed a zombie deer eating the remains of a wolf. It got fans of the survival series excited that they would not only have to context with your typical zombie menace when the game eventually came out, but zombie animals, too. Unfortunately, State of Decay 3 will launch without zombie animals of any kind, and that trailer was little more than a “concept” built at a time when there was essentially no game to speak of. Six years after State of Decay 3’s announcement, developer Undead Labs is readying the game for an alpha test. It is finally ready, then, for the public to give it a shot, having come a long way since that trailer helped get Xbox fans for the upcoming Xbox Series X and S. So what happened to those zombie animals, then? In an interview with Sunny Games , Head of Undead Labs, Philip Holt, said that as the developers got to work making State of Decay 3 a reality, they realized some thing...

Overwatch has unveiled an updated look for one of its newest heroes, Anran, following criticism of how her face previously looked in-game. The redesign has happened following an initial backlash from the community and the voice actor who portrays the fire fan-wielding damage dealer, Fareeha, who claimed that “this was a hill worth dying on” after it was suggested that Anran was yet another victim of Overwatch’s “Same Face Syndrome”. This syndrome is the suggestion that many of the female heroes in Overwatch suffer from the fact that they all have basically the exact same facial features, whether that be the Swedish Brigitte, British Tracer, Japanese Kiriko, Martian Juno, or, up until now, Chinese Anran. Back in February, Blizzard revealed that plans were underway for a rethink when it came to Anran’s appearance, stating that “we agree that she can be even better”. Well, now we’ve finally got a look at the result of those tweaks. In a video posted on Overwatch’s social media, g...

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and River City (Kuno-kun) franchises, has died at the age of 64. This was confirmed by his son, Ryūbō Kishimoto, on multiple social media channels. "This is the son of Yoshihisa Kishimoto," he wrote on Facebook . "I am sorry to inform you that my father has passed to rest on 04/02/2026... I hope you will continue to enjoy my father's works, including Kuno-kun. Thank you." In a follow-up post on Twitter/X, he continued, "I'm sorry for not being able to reply, but thank you very much for the many heartfelt memory messages. I'm truly delighted to learn that there are people around the world who have played the Kunio-kun series extensively and understand my father even more deeply than I do. Please continue to enjoy my father's works with a smile in the future." Kishimoto is an industry luminary, beginning his career at Data East working on laserdisc games, and eventually joining sever...

The just-announced Bloodmoored is a first-person psychological horror game for PC due out next year where you try to escape an abandoned industrial complex – your father's old factory. Oh, and spoiler alert: you're not alone. But the ghosts you encounter aren't necessarily antagonistic...though you'll need to figure out which ones are and which ones aren't. Bloodmoored isn't all about spooky ghosts, though. There are also plenty of puzzles to solve, courtesy of the dilapidated machinery strewn about the industrial complex your character navigates. Some puzzles are physical, some are logistical, and others are spatial. But as for those ghosts, solo developer Stormdrill elaborates: "The ghosts of the past, trapped between life and death, are lost in their memories — shifting between rage and desperation. One moment they hunt you; the next, they may become the key to your survival.Each ghost has its own story and unique behavior. Who they were in life wil...

Crimson Desert has a huge map and lengthy story that will take most players over 100 hours to work their way through, but now Pearl Abyss’ action adventure has been out for a few weeks, some are starting to complain that the open world has become too peaceful — because they’ve killed everyone. One of the interesting things about Crimson Desert’s design is that for the most part enemies do not respawn, and camps, which you can overtake, do not become repopulated with enemies once you’ve cleared them out. Missions are not repeatable, and there is no Skyrim-style Radiant quest system to generate random encounters for eternity. Of course, there are things to do in Crimson Desert once you reach the endgame. You can wrap up any hangover quests, visit any unexplored areas, solve any leftover puzzles, and take on any bosses left standing. But what happens if you’ve killed all the enemies in the game? That’s something players are now running up against, and, despite getting hundreds of h...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: very few games have stuck with me as long after completion like the original Life is Strange did way back in 2015. While we’ve had some great spinoffs and an excellent follow up to that original story with 2024’s Life Is Strange: Double Exposure , it still felt like the series was missing something. Sure, the point-and-click adventure gameplay has definitely evolved since Max’s adventure in Blackwell Academy, and Double Exposure took the series to new heights with a more refined writing style and mature approach to some heavy topics, but it always seemed to be missing that one core aspect that made the original resonate so much with so many people over a decade ago. Thankfully, with the return of series co-protagonist Chloe, Life is Strange: Reunion finally feels like all the necessary pieces are in play to not only deliver another chapter to its ever expanding world, but it also acts as a shining example of how to end a long lastin...