Ava Montgomery

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has got off to a strong start on Steam. In fact, it has become the most played Warhammer game in terms of peak concurrent player numbers on Valve’s platform.
At the time of writing, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has an all-time Steam peak of 225,690 players. In comparison, Total War: Warhammer 3 has an all-time peak of 166,754.
Total War: Warhammer 3, which was released back in 2022, once held the record for all-time peak player numbers for a Warhammer game. It now sits in second place. 2016’s Total War: Warhammer, meanwhile, has a concurrent player peak of 113,019.

Let’s Play Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – ABSOLUTE CHAOS!

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Dead Island 2 is getting a free update next month, which will include a new co-op horde mode known as Neighborhood Watch and New Game Plus.
“Taking place over the span of five fictional days, Neighborhood Watch sees a group of college kids – the Bobcats – defend their frat house from an approaching zombie horde,” reads Neighborhood Watch’s description. “Initially, you and your friends complete a variety of missions, setting traps, and stockpiling weapons as you prepare your defences.
“Then, on the fifth and final day, the zombie onslaught begins! If your defences, skills, and teamwork are up to the task, you might just live to tell the tale.” You can check out a trailer for Neighborhood Watch below.

Dead Island 2 – Neighborhood Watch – Reveal Trailer

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A recently leaked image purportedly showing Sony’s heavily discussed but still officially under-wraps PlayStation 5 Pro appears to have received corroboration from an unexpected source. A near-identical design has now been spotted in the background of Sony’s newly unveiled official PlayStation 30th anniversary artwork.

Last week, prolific leaker bilbil-kun shared details of Sony’s still unannounced PS5 Pro, alongside an illustration of its outer shell. While it mostly retained the PS5’s familiar open-shirt design, it included one notable change: in place of the single diagonal stripe found on the body of the PlayStation Slim, the leaked PS5 Pro design featured three diagonal ridged lines.

Keep that in mind as we now hurtle forward in time to the present, and …

Sonic Team will work to keep its games on last-gen systems for as long as possible.
That’s according to producer Takashi Iizuka, who said in an interview with IGN that he wants “as many people as possible to play” Sonic games, even though later, more advanced systems enable “newer Sonic games [to] express the speed of Sonic”.

Sonic x Shadow Generations is pure 2000s nostalgia

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The PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary collection went on sale earlier today, and within seconds the throwback bundle sold out.
And, as is unfortunately the way of things these days, while the bundle was sold for £960 on PlayStation’s own site, scalpers are already looking to make a huge profit from their newly-gained wares.

Introducing the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection

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After five years of early access and 6m copies already sold, Satisfactory has finally launched its full 1.0 version on PC.
From Coffee Stain Studios, Satisfactory is a first-person game in which players construct huge factories in an open, alien world.
This release includes a “full narrative overhaul complete with mysteries for players to uncover”, along with Tier 9 content that allows players to use advanced alien tech in their builds.

Satisfactory 1.0 Launch Trailer

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