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• Immortal: Unchained is a Souls-like shooter-RPG hybrid

  Immortal: Unchained may have one of the most strange pitches in a while, but that’s also what makes it interesting.

• 4v1 shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet is giving away its prologue mission for free

  Raiders of the Broken Planet, the next game from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and the upcoming Metroid: Samus Returns, releases in September.

• Cyberpunk shooter Ruiner gets September release date

  The top-down cyberpunk shooter, Ruiner, finally has a release date.

• See the new tessellation tech in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

  Ground and terrain textures are about to look a whole lot better in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds thanks to tessellation.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator teases a UI refresh

  The front-end of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds needs a lot of work, so much so that players are starting to come up with their own mock-ups.

• Fe, the indie platformer from EA Originals, gets a lovely new gamescom trailer, Switch version confirmed

  Fe, the EA Originals title the publisher unveiled at E3 last year, has resurfaced once again at this year’s gamescom.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets Nvidia HBAO+ and ShadowPlay Highlights support

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is about to look a bit nicer with the implementation of one of the most impressive methods of Ambient Occlusion.

• ARK: Survival Evolved doesn't support cross-play between PS4 and Xbox One because Sony won't allow it

  According to the developers of ARK: Survival Evolved, the game has the capability of pairing PS4 and Xbox One players together, but it won’t happen because Sony is saying no.

• State of Decay 2 dev explains how co-op is going to work

  One of the biggest new additions in State of Decay 2 is the ability to play the game in co-op.

• Those playing the Dauntless alpha may want to give these weapon tutorials a watch

  If you’re planning to jump into the Dauntless founder’s alpha this weekend now that it’s live, these weapon tutorials will probably come in handy.

• Hellblade gets its first patch on PC and PS4, here's what it does

  Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice has received its first post-launch patch to address a number of bugs and progression-blocking problems.

• Absolver lets you start your own fighting school and mentor others online

  The online feature set for Absolver is pretty extensive, but there are a couple that are completely unique to it.

• First-person is a great way to play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, but the game just isn't built for it

  First-person-only servers have been available for long enough now in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds that I managed to play Solo, Duos, and the recently added Squads.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets new patch

  There’s a pretty small, new PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds patch out now.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 7 million copies sold, over 600,000 concurrent players

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now sold over seven million copies on PC.

• We Happy Few is coming to retail and PS4 next spring with Gearbox as publisher

  Gearbox Publishing announced today it’s bringing Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few to retail. But, you’ll have to wait until next year to play it.

• Reboot of point-and-click horror title Black Mirror coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One in November

  A couple of weeks ago, THQ Nordic was teasing the revival of a previously released horror IP, and it was revealed today as Black Mirror.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds patch schedule changes, monthly and weekly updates no longer guaranteed

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole has announced a big change to the release cadence of patches.

• PUBG creator will tell the story of how he made one of the most popular games on Steam in a Gamescom panel

  Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene will talk about his story, and how he turned from a small modder into a worldwide phenomenon at Gamescom.