Today,Game Rant’s weekly recaptakes a look at some of the most notable headlines from the past week: Game Informer announces its abrupt and involuntary closure, marking a sad day in games media;Avowedsets a release date but appends it with a delay pushing it to 2025; andLittle Nightmares’ Tarsier teases an eerie new game to be announced at Gamescom later this month. All that and more in this week’s roundup ofgames industry news.
Game Informer Gets Shut Down Permanently and Suddenly
Tragically,Game Informer is no more. All employees’ work has been swept away and it’s truly the end of an era for games media now that the publication has been taken down.
Tarsier Teases New Game Reveal for Gamescom
Tarsier Studios recently handed its seminalLittle Nightmaresfranchise over to Supermassive Games to develop its third entry. Meanwhile,Tarsier has been busy with an unannounced gamethat will be revealed at Gamescom on August 20.
Avowed Announces Release Date Pushing It Back to 2025
Avowedhas been one of several games on the precipice of 2024 whose release windows were always in jeopardy. Now, that has proven especially true for Obsidian’s latest asAvowedhas been delayed with a release date of Jul 09, 2025.
Helldivers 2 Announces New Premium Warbond to Follow Big Escalation of Freedom Content Update
Helldivers 2has been doling out Premium Warbonds on a semi-regular basis since launch. Now,a sizable content update is arriving in the form ofHelldivers 2: Escalation of Freedom, which will also be accompanied by another Premium Warbond a couple of days into it.
The Dark Pictures Anthology’s Directive 8020 Slated for Gamescom
The Dark Pictures Anthology’sDirective 8020is also hyping itself up for Gamescomwith some sort of announcement or reveal. The science-fiction-oriented entry pioneers the second season ofThe Dark Pictures Anthology, pitting its characters against the horrors of outer space.
Features
Just as controversy surroundingSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s impact on the Arkhamverse had died down, Rocksteady has resurfaced with even more in its post-launch content. The Flash was unceremoniously brought back without a scratch, insinuating that every other League affiliate is also fine and simply held in captivity, which busts the door down that the base game had boarded up.
Movies & TV
Proving once again that like fictional superheroes themselves can rise from a grave at any moment, so too can their actors return. Indeed,Iron Man’s indomitable Robert Downey Jr. will be returning to the MCU, but this time somehow as Dr. Doom.
Guides
Like most FromSoftware games, many players will likely go their entire playthrough without finding most weapons, let alone using them. Some weapons are also far more difficult to find than others, including Ansbach’s Longbow fromElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
Game Rant Exclusives
Star Wars Outlawslaunches at the end of this month. In the meantime, there’s a lot to dive into about its heist story and a particular “battle-weary” droid companion players will learn about.
Little Nightmares
WHERE TO PLAY
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