Explore tombs with your friends when co-op puzzler Run From Mummies launches this Fall - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

Co-op archaeological adventure Run From Mummies announced a Fall 2024 release date in a new trailer debut at the Future Games Show. When it arrives you'll be able to explore tombs with up to three friends, exploring seven different regions as you avoid traps, battle enemies and, you know, move fast away from anyone a bit... pharaoh-y. And, if that has your interest, then check out a free demo you can play right now.
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Hit anime series Spy x Family renewed for season 3

The team behind hit anime series Spy x Family team has confirmed a third season is in the works. To announce the news, they released a special key visual from the show that puts pink-haired psychic Anya Forger front and center.In the snap, the character can be seen snoozing as she leans against the Forger's pet dog Bond, in a darkened, messy room littered with all sorts of things, from cushions, books, and pens to an afternoon tea set. In the hall, you can see Anya's adoptive parents Yor and Loi

Ian McKellen has 'heard' Gandalf will appear in the next Lord of the Rings film, but isn't sure if he's playing him

A new Lord of the Rings movie, The Hunt for Gollum, is on the way. While one familiar face is back – Andy Serkis is reprising his role as Gollum, as well as being on directing duties – it's not yet been confirmed whether other iconic characters will show up once more in Middle-earth.Speaking to The Times, Sir Ian McKellen says he has 'heard' that Gandalf will appear in The Hunt for Gollum but, as of yet, "there is no script, there is no offer, there is no plan." On whether he'd be up

Survival game meets colony sim as Zelda, Palworld and Valheim collide in this Ghibli-inspired world

In some ways, Fera: The Sundered Tribes might be just another survival game. I gather berries to eat, I chop down trees for construction materials. But then I open a portal to the island floating above my head, and my villagers step through, gather up my resources, and return to the sky island above.Not wanting to take the easy route, however, I don't follow them through that portal. Instead, I throw out my glowing blue tetherhook, flinging myself skyward via a handily-placed grappling point bef

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Marvel fans think they have spotted X-Men’s Juggernaut in new Deadpool 3 footage after star Vinnie Jones said he would never reprise the role

Another Deadpool 3 trailer has been released with a few more Marvel cameos and Easter eggs, including a possible sighting of Vinnie Jones’ X-Men character Juggernaut.The new one-minute-long video posted by star Ryan Reynolds in honor of Best Friends Day includes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it look at a tall and muscular man dressed in armor strikingly similar to Jones’ Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand. Although the character is standing in the background in a rather blurry

Phil Spencer hints that an Xbox portable could be in the works after all - “I think we should have a handheld too”

The rumored Xbox handheld might be coming after all, as Phil Spencer has all but confirmed a portable system is inbound. The device might have been a no-show during the console giant’s Games Showcase, but the CEO says the “future for us in hardware is pretty awesome.”Rumors of a portable Xbox have circled for a while, and fans are itching for a mini Series S to enter the best gaming handheld ring. Following new whispers that a device could pop up during the Summer Showcase, I s

Latest Deadpool 3 footage teases Lady Deadpool – and fans are already theorizing over who it could be in the suit

There have been plenty of cameos teased in Deadpool 3's trailers so far, from X-Men's Pyro and a Wrexham FC star to... a dead Ant-Man? But turns out Marvel wasn't done there, as the threequel's latest clip hints at an appearance from Lady Deadpool – and fans think they've worked out who's playing her.In the footage, which you can watch below, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) delights in teaming up with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, who's not so thrilled about having to don his iconic suit and act the

Gears of War: E-Day's gorgeous trailer wasn't just CG, it used assets "that players will see in the final game"

Gears of War: E-Day debuted at last night's Xbox Game Showcase with a gorgeous (and very shadowy) trailer that showed perennial beefcake Marcus Fenix beating down Locust in a prequel setting. But despite looking like a snazzy CG advert, the trailer supposedly uses assets ripped straight from the game.The Gears of War: E-Day trailer was created by Blur Studio, the animation house that previously produced amazing CGI cutscenes for multiple Halo games, which led to many comments online claimi

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20 years later, an obscure Doctor was just made canon in Doctor Who

No, you’re not seeing things. Doctor Who just pulled one of its most unlikely Time Lords into canon for the first time during its latest episode.The Bridgerton-style 'Rogue' saw Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor collide with Jonathan Groff’s mysterious bounty hunter.After a mix-up that almost saw the Doctor mistaken for the villainous Chuldur, Fifteen reveals his long, storied history – as a stream of floating Doctor heads revolves around him.All fifteen canon doctors are presen

Forget Shadow of the Erdtree or Black Myth: Wukong - the dark-horse soulslike of the summer is this Italian-inspired RPG that's dripping with Catholic guilt

Enotria: The Last Song is having quite the moment. Having very publicly bumped its release date back by several months in order to dodge Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, it's now quietly gathering some decent buzz. That's thanks in no small part to an eight-hour demo that's proving popular on Steam, but in an hour-long demo at Summer Game Fest 2024, I found that it's also due to a smart, accessible, versatile soulslike that's continuing the genre's push into new types of narrative.During the d

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's "texture streaming" requires "a continuous internet connection," even in the campaign

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will require a constant internet connection, even when playing on your lonesome in the single-player campaign.An Activision blog dedicated to the game's different editions reveals that the always-online requirement comes from "texture streaming" technology that's used throughout every game mode, including the campaign. Activision explains the texture streaming tech works to "deliver the highest quality visuals while also reducing the game's overall storage space o

House of the Dragon star explains why they haven’t watched Game of Thrones

One of House of the Dragon’s most terrifying characters, Aemond Targaryen, is a chip off the block of some of Game of Thrones’ most chilling villains. However, it turns out that the actor behind him has never seen the original fantasy juggernaut.Speaking to ComicBook.com, Ewan Mitchell explained his reasoning behind the choice. "I haven't seen the original Game of Thrones," he said. "I have a confession to make. I've never seen it and I didn't want to watch it going into this role. I

My favorite Assassin's Creed Shadows feature has to be the unpredictable snowstorms which mask hidden blade assassinations

Assassin's Creed Shadows is delivering on a long-standing request from the community: action unfurling across Feudal Japan. It's an exciting prospect, but I think what really caught my attention is the prospect of the world state allowing for more reactive stealth than we've ever seen in the series before."Everything we have done since the first Assassin's Creed, when we created what was probably one of the first open-world games, and everything that we've done since, has been to try and i

Phil Spencer comments on all the studios Xbox just closed: "I have to run a sustainable business" and make "decisions that somebody needs to go make"

Xbox chief Phil Spencer says that the recent closure of several studios was a result of his need "to run a sustainable business."Speaking at IGN Live, Spencer said that "the closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the [Xbox] team." Spencer has drawn criticism since the closure of studios including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks for his relative absence from the public sphere. In apparent response to that, he said that "I haven't been talking publicly about this

Xbox owns the Doom: The Dark Ages studio, but Phil Spencer says the FPS is coming to PS5 because Doom is "a franchise that everyone deserves to play"

Despite Microsoft's recent spate of high-profile Xbox exclusives, including Starfield, Xbox chief Phil Spencer says that Doom: The Dark Ages is coming to PS5 because "it's a franchise that everyone deserves to play."Speaking at IGN Live, Spencer was asked why Doom: The Dark Ages, a slightly medieval twist on the iconic FPS franchise that was announced earlier today during the Xbox Games Showcase would be coming to PS5. That multi-console release is a distinct departure from Xbox's recent strateg

"Hallucinogens, fax machines, parapsychology, and TV guides": One of the decade's best detective games is getting a sequel - and the demo is already here

The Case of the Golden Idol was one of 2022's best games, a creepy, cultish detective story set among the British nobility of the 1800s. Now there's a sequel on the way, entitled The Rise of the Golden Idol - and with a playable demo that you can try out right now.I was lucky enough to get to try out the demo prior to release, and good news: it's basically more of the game that earned the oh-so-rare "Overwhelmingly Positive" review score on Steam the first time around, with some improvements and

Finally confirming reports, Deus Ex studio and RPG veterans are helping the Fable 4 team "craft an unforgettable adventure"

It's been officially confirmed that Eidos-Montréal, the studio behind much of the Deus Ex series, as well as Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and more, is helping Forza studio Playground Games on its upcoming RPG, Fable 4.Eidos-Montréal's involvement with Fable was first reported on over a year ago by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, when it was also claimed that a new Deus Ex game was in the very early stages of development. Since then, it's been re

Metaphor: ReFantazio is the first JRPG I've played that actually feels more stylish than Persona 5, so of course it was made by a crack team of Persona veterans

Atlus has made it very clear that Persona veterans like director and producer Katsura Hashino, character designer and art director Shigenori Soejima, and composer Shoji Meguro have been leading production on Metaphor: ReFantazio. Frankly, the publisher didn't have to say anything. Their fingerprints are all over this game; nobody else could have made it. Now that I've spent an hour with Metaphor at Summer Game Fest, this couldn't be clearer. This is the most Persona thing since Persona. But in m

Mixtape is a nostalgic Life is Strange-like adventure where music grants "cosmic talents" to its skateboarding hero, and it's coming in 2025

If you love games like Life is Strange, sweet 80s tunes, and the idyllic (false?) memories of skateboarding through your tiny mid-west town as a disillusioned teen at the turn of the decade, 2025 has the perfect game for you.One of the most interesting new games announced during the Xbox Games Showcase 2024 is Mixtape, a narrative-driven adventure that asks us to "experience the freedom of the teenage wasteland" through the transportive power of music. Through our heroine's "strange, almost cosm

This cozy upcoming survival game reminds me a lot of Don't Starve - except it's about a little mouse hoping to restore their childhood woodland burrow

Winter Burrow, one of the most adorable titles shown during this year's Summer Game Fest yet, debuted today - and it's a wholesome survival experience in which you play as a little mouse.Noodlecake Studios and Pine Creek Games revealed their upcoming survival game, Winter Burrow, during today's Xbox Games Showcase - an emotional adventure that places you in the paws of a small mouse hoping to rebuild their childhood burrow and survive the harsh wintery winds. When the brave rodent journeys back

Gears of War: E-Day is rewinding the clocks, but The Coalition hints it still has eyes on Gears 6: "We're not retreating from that storyline in any way"

Fans of oversized soldiers and chainsaw-guns might be surprised to hear that Gears of War: E-Day, the iconic series' next outing, isn't continuing the story leftover from the previous two games. But don't worry, developer The Coalition has no plans to simply abandon Kait Diaz and Co.Rather than serving as a Gears of War 6, Gears of War: E-Day is throwing it back to Emergence Day - the day when the subterranean Locust army popped out of the ground and invaded Sera 14 years before the events of 20

Live Like A Mouse With Reveal of Winter Burrow

In a press release for the newly announced Winter Burrow, the game is described as a “cozy woodland survival game,” though we have some doubts about the cozy part, given that the tail end of the trailer features the protagonist’s friend being taken away to be eatern by a hungry owl.With that said, much of the rest of the game does seem to match an expectation of crafting, baking, resource gathering, and many of the other features you’d expect out of a survival game, albei

Ubisoft Forward 2024 stream - when it starts and how to watch it on YouTube, Twitch, and more

It's nearly time for the Ubisoft Forward stream to begin, which may just be the highlight of the Summer Game Fest 2024 schedule if you're keen on more Star Wars Outlaws or Assassin's Creed Shadows updates.Ubisoft says we're kicking things off early with a pre-show that focuses on updates to live games before we roll into the main show itself, which features a "deeper look" at games yet to come from the developer. Think "Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, XDefiant, and more.

New Stalker 2 trailer shows the monsters and mayhem of its open world, and the weapons you'll have to defend yourself

Stalker 2 has a brand new trailer showing off its open world, including different landscapes and monstrosities opposing us.As part of Summer Game Fest 2024, GSC Game World dropped a brand new trailer for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl during the Xbox Games Showcase, which you can see in full just below. Voiced entirely in Ukrainian, the trailer shows life in the zone for our titular Stalker, Skif, and the landscapes they can explore in the sequel, as well as the human and mutated enemies facing t

Cover Reveal – Dragon Age: The Veilguard

This month, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (you read that right – Dreadwolf is no more) graces the cover ofGame Informer. After years developing Baldur's Gate and its sequel early in its history, BioWare struck out to create its own fantasy RPG. That series began with Dragon Age: Origins in 2009. It was followed up with Dragon Age II in 2011, and then Dragon Age: Inquisition in 2014. While the Dragon Age series' history has its ups and downs, fans have been patiently waiting for BioWare t

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the biggest CoD game ever at launch with over 300GB of space needed on Xbox Series X/S

Prepare your consoles, because Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is going to take up over 300GB of storage space on day one.As per the Xbox Store, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is going to weight in at 309.85GB on Xbox Series X/S consoles at launch later this year. That's the biggest Call of Duty game to date - at launch, at least, before this game inevitably balloons to another hundred GBs later on.By now, we're pretty used to games taking up over 100GB of storage space at launch. I'd argue that Call of Du

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Naoe recalls the series' stealthier, RPG-less roots with a hidden blade, hood, and an awesome grapple

Assassin's Creed Shadows just debuted its first gameplay look at Naoe, one of the upcoming game's two protagonists.Assassin's Creed Shadows splits its runtime between Japanese history's first recorded Black Samurai, Yasuke, and a more traditionally sneaky assassin in the form of Naoe. The latest Xbox Games Showcase trailer shows both of our protagonists in action as they show off some wildly different movesets.Yasuke looks to be a bulkier, heavier, tankier fighter capable of taking on larg

Gears of War: E-Day is a prequel set 14 years before the original action game, and yes, Dom is back

At long last, we've been given our first look at the next Gears of War game. Officially titled Gears of War: E-Day, the next title in The Coalition's beloved third-person shooter series is actually a prequel, set 14 years before the events of the first game.As you might have gathered from the name, the next installment is set during Emergence Day, and will star younger versions of both Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago. This time, they'll be facing the Locust Horde, which, in a post on the Xbo

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Highlights Character Differences

The new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Shadows was shown off today at the Xbox Showcase, in which we got a much more comprehensive look and understanding of the gameplay we can expect later this year.The video's opening shows off the ninja stealth action players will explore when playing as the shinobi named Naoe, with plenty of rooftop antics and nighttime assaults. The subsequent sequences showcase the samurai Yasuke, a bruiser who can hold his own in a big fight.Check out the trailer to s

Xbox reveals three new consoles out later this year, says it's "hard at work on the next generation"

Xbox has unveiled all-new digital hardware set to arrive later this year in 2024, but says it's also working on its next generation of consoles.Earlier today at the Xbox Games Showcase, Xbox's Sarah Bond appeared on stage for a pretty special annoucement. Xbox has the Xbox Series X Digital releasing later this year, an exclusively digital take on its more expensive and more powerful current-gen console, which comes in either 1TB or 2TB variants.Additionally, there's a brand new model of the Xbox