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Warner reportedly axes Hogwarts Legacy expansion Entertainment giant Warner Bros has apparently cancelled an expansion for Hogwarts Legacy.  Bloomberg reports that the in-development expansion was set to release alongside a planned Definitive Edition of the Harry Potter action RPG. This was set to feature new storylines, apparently.  Warner Bros apparently cancelled the project as the amount of content was not enough to justify the pr…

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Baby Steps was first revealed to the world in June 2023, and upon first viewing it, I didn’t know what to think. Surprises are few and far between when you have been gaming for over 30 years, but the reveal trailer left me with perplexing emotions. I was in a mental tug-of-war between, ‘I’ve never […]

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Image: Sony Interactive EntertainmentIn a new interview with the Japanese publication AV Watch, the former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida revealed that Sucker Punch’s 2020 action-adventure Ghost of Tsushima marked a sizeable achievement for Sony’s Japanese localization team. Remarkably, according to Yoshida, it marked the first foreign first-party PlayStation game to sell over 1,000,000 copies in 22 years, with only the PS1 title Crash Bandicoot 3 having previously hit the incredible milestone when it was first released in 1998 in the country (h/t: @Genki_JPN). Yoshida revealed the titbit in a section of the interview where he opened up about the Japanese…

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[embedded content]Subscribe to Time Extension on YouTube2.5k It seems like not a week goes by anymore without us encountering a new indie title that immediately shoots to the top of our most anticipated titles, with the latest example of this being Nick Oztok’s Sonic & Mario-inspired platformer Aurascope, which is currently in development Steam. Described by Oztok as “basically a 2D SM64 styled collectathon”, the game recently came to our attention thanks to a cool new trend on Twitter/X, which sees indie developers sharing a video of their game alongside a breakdown of the “hard facts” about the game. And,…

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Image: SegaGiven that the value of human-created art is being fiercely debated online at the moment, it seems like a good time to shine a light on an artist who isn’t as famous as some within the games industry—in fact, Toyonaka Ozaki’s real name isn’t even known. Also known as Zahiro, Mahiro Sasaka, and Hiroshi Maezawa, Ozaki sadly passed away last year, and VGDensetsu has done an absolutely wonderful job of pulling together all of the available information on the one-time Sega artist and a broad selection of her work. A graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Ozaki joined…

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Netflix mocked up an ’80s branch of WH Smith for its Black Mirror ‘Bandersnatch’ episode — Image: NetflixUpdate [Fri 28th Mar 2025, 12:30pm]: WH Smith’s high street business has been purchased by Modella Capital, which has announced that it will rebrand stores as TGJones (thanks, BBC News). As previously mentioned, this will not impact WH Smith’s shops at airports and railway stations, or its outlets in hospitals—so it’s not vanishing forever. It will, however, disappear from the UK’s high streets, where it has been a staple since the Victorian era.Original Story: Tue 28th Jan 2025 If you live in the…

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Picture yourself stranded alone on an alien planet. With no-one around to help, and no-one coming to the rescue, your only salvation lies in the endless darkness of a sprawling cave system. Would you dare face the dangers that lurk in the dark? Welcome to the world of Into Black, a VR action/exploration game about […]

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Image: desertcuccoUpdate [Fri 28th March, 2025 11:30 GMT]: Isle of Reveries Kickstarter went live earlier this month and looks to have exceeded its target, raising a remarkable $30,783 against an initial goal of $25,000. However, time is now running out, if you still want to back the project and haven’t done so yet, with the campaign set to end in three days on March 31, 2025. According to the information Kickstarter, the version being crowdfunded is still only the version for Steam (despite the game also being announced for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch), with the company offering various tiers ranging…

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