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It looks like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is on its way to Xbox Game Pass next month.

That’s according to leaker eXtas1stv, who previously correctly leaked that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 would arrive on Game Pass on 24th July, which was officially confirmed yesterday.

The leaker suggests the Crash trilogy will be available from 8th August, claiming it’s “100 percent confirmed”.

Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy Gameplay – New PS4 Gameplay

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Heihachi Mishima, antagonist of the Tekken series, is set to make a return to the series in Tekken 8 this autumn.

Heihachi’s reveal was announced at this year’s Evo fighting game esports event in a new trailer, along with a new story mode chapter called The Dark Awakens.

He’ll be the third DLC character added to the game since its release earlier this year, following Eddy Gordo and Lidia Sobieska.

TEKKEN 8 – Heihachi Mishima Trailer

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Rockstar’s GTA+ subscription service could soon expand to include access to Switch versions of the company’s games if a now-reverted recent update to its website is anything to go by.

GTA+, which is currently only available through Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, offers subscribers access to various GTA Online items and a “rotating assortment” of Rockstar Games – including Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy, Red Dead Redemption, and LA Noire – for £6.99/€7.99/$7.99 USD a month.

A full list of games available to GTA+ members can be found on the Rockstar’s website, with subscribers currently able to access titles across a range of platforms, including Xbox, PlayStation, the iOS App Store, and Google Play.

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Cataclismo is the next game from Moonlighter developer Digital Sun and it’s out now in early access.

The game was previously shown at 2023’s Humble Games showcase, as well as the Triple-i showcase back in April to generate plenty of interest. It’s also published by Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse.

Cataclismo is a twist on real-time strategy and tower defence, where players are tasked with building a fortress and defending it from endless hordes of demonic enemies, all with a unique moonlit art style.

Cataclismo – Launch Trailer

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Pleasingly bizarre four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive has officially sold 600K copies, and its developer Ironwood Studios has announced it’s celebrating that milestone with a series of content updates throughout the rest of this year. And the first of those updates is now live, offering a bunch of free additions, as well as a bit of daft cosmetic DLC.

Pacific Drive’s first free update lets players document their travels across the anomaly riddled forests of the Olympic Exclusion Zone using a new photo mode. It’s available right from the pause menu and gives player access to various camera settings – including depth of field, focus control, and exposure – as well as numerous aesethetic filters. It’s also possible to change weather conditions and time of da…

Sega has revealed it’s taken legal action against a social media user for harassing one of its employees, warning that it will continue to pursue legal remedies or criminal proceedings should similar occurrences happen in the future.

The company – which published a Consumer Harassment Policy last year – reiterated its stance on social media harassment in a post on its Japanese website. Providing context, it explained it has been dealing with an individual who has made “excessive slanderous and insulting comments on social media against one of our employees” for a “long time”.

After the individual failed to improve their behaviour, Sega continued, the company was granted access to the person’s information through the court. Since then, it’s reached a settlemen…

Tickets are now on sale for The Genshin Concert Tour, coming to the UK for one night only at Wembley Arena.

The concert will see music from Genshin Impact performed by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg (conducted by Gast Waltzing), alongside visuals from the game.

Alongside the Wembley show on 29th October, the tour will also arrive in Berlin and Paris in December. Tickets are available to purchase online.

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With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s October launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC inching ever-closer, Activision Blizzard has announced a fresh set of dates for players’ diaries, confirming it’ll be hosting a multiplayer open beta this September, with those eligible for early access (which includes Game Pass subcribers) able to hop in one week prior.

Black Ops 6’s multiplayer open beta – that is, the actually open beta, accessible to all players on all platforms – starts 6pm BST/10am PT, 6th September to 9th September. It’ll let participants check out the game’s Omnimovement system (which basically lets you run in any direction, not just forward), a variety of brand-new Treyarch-built maps across a number of squad-enabled modes, a non-specific selection of weapons,…

As an old person who’s still not over the novelty of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being allowed to be called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK without anyone getting funny about the word “ninja”, it’d be fair to say I’m a little behind on the franchise. So the news there’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game out this October based on a movie I didn’t know existed using an art style I’m totally unfamiliar with has brought a whole succession of revelations.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, as the game is known, was actually announced earlier this year, but developer A Heartful of Games and publisher Outright Games have now released a first trailer, which you can see below. Mutants Unleashed – a “story-driven 3D brawler/platformer” – i…

Vampire Survivors, the minimalist survival RPG from developer Poncle, is joining Apple Arcade in August, along with Temple: Run Legends and Vision Pro update for Castle Crumble.

Vampire Survivors has, of course, been available on iOS as a free-to-play release for some time, but its Apple Arcade version (Apple Arcade being Apple’s £6.99/month game subscription service for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV) will be ad-free and include some paid DLC.

Specifically, Vampire Survivors+ (the ‘+’ being Apple’s way of denoting a game has previously been available on its App Store, usually with in-app purchases) will bundle in its Legacy of the Moonspell and Tides of the Foscari paid expansions. Whether the game’s Emergency Meeting and Operation Guns DLC, both cur…