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New games 2025 and beyond: The biggest video game release dates for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, Switch, and more
By Josh West, Emma-Jane Betts last updated
Upcoming Here's a💟ll the new games and release dates of 2025 to help you catch up or plan ahead f💖or June and beyond, from Death Stranding 2 to Borderlands 4

If Assassin's Creed isn't going to bring back the multiplayer we all loved, there's another stealthy murder game that can do it even better: Hitman
By Joel Franey published
Opinion Opinion | I love Hitman, but its upcoming co-op mode is just a stepp🌼ing stone towards w🐬hat it really needs: direct competitive assassination

Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
By Josh West published
Feature Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and ꦗhow it changed the studio's approach to Gr💮ounded 2

With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
By Josh West published
Feature Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG t🦂hat's re𒐪active to your decisions

Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
By Josh West published
Feature Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak ♋to Obsidian to learn ꦛmore

Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
By Josh West published
Feature Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond♕ the backyard

After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
By Josh West published
Summer Preview | Th🐼e Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi advent🧸ure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special

Fresh from the Xbox Showcase, There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is the supernatural powerwashing musical I didn't know I needed
By Barry Levitt published
Opinion Opinion | My standout game from Summer Game Fest is a very unexp🃏ected one
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