‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ is free on Epic Games Store this week

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will finally make an appearance during this week’s Gamescom.Geoff Keighley recently revealed in a new Twitter post that the heavily delayed LEGO Star Wars title will finally show up during Gamescom Opening Night Live, almost one year after first gameplay was revealed.Keighley, who will be hosting the Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase on August 25, said: “Wednesday! Don’t miss a world premiere new look at LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.”LEGO Star Wars:

Automachef is the next free game on the Epic Games store, and it will replace the two that are currently up for grabs. The title will take the place of current free games Yooka-Laylee and Void Bastards, which are free to download until August 26. Automachef is described as “a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life!”Itwill be free on the store between August 26 and September 2, and you can see a trailer for the game

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Epic Games is opening a beta to allow publishers and developers to submit their own items to the store.Epic Games Store’s latest feature is entering closed beta. The new system will allow developers or publishers to publish their own content to the Epic Games Store.

Famitsu, the entire Top 30 of their weekly Japanese games chart was claimed by Nintendo Switch titles over the week of August 2 – 8.

Epic Games Store has confirmed its next free games, Yooka-Laylee and Void Bastards.3D platformer and strategy roguelike shooter Void Bastards will be available to download for free from the Epic Games Store starting on August 19, replacing space sim adventure Rebel Galaxy, unusually just the one free game available this week.First released in 2017, Yooka-Laylee was a 3D platformer funded through Kickstarter and developed by Playtonic Games, a studio formed of ex-Rare developers.

Rebel Galaxy, the swashbuckling space sim from Double Damage Games, is free for one week on the Epic Games Store.Epic Games is giving away yet another great game for free – this time, making sci-fi sim Rebel Galaxy available free to download from today, August 12.Make sure you grab your free download of Rebel Galaxy while you still can.Although Epic Games usually offers two free games each week, it’s down to just one title this time around – the 2015 western-inspired space trading and combat

Epic has revealed the next game that will be available to claim for free on the Epic Games Store from Thursday.Usually, two games are made free for users of the store, however this week the company will be giving away just one: the space western space trading and combat simulation adventure, Rebel Galaxy.Originally launched on Microsoft Windows in October 2015, the game eventually came to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2016.

Fortnite has been removed by Epic Games, seemingly because of a glitch that shows players doing something not quite in line with a T for Teen rating.The emote is only supposed to be a wholesome and friendly interaction between players, and whilst Epic Games hasn’t specified why its gone from the store, it’s likely due to the fact it isn’t working entirely right.As shown in the below video, the interaction can glitch out players and have one of them crouching when doing the joint emote, and the

IO Interactive has added Dartmoor Garden Show to Hitman 3, a free event where players must kill randomly assigned targets to earn rewards.Dartmoor Garden Show is available for Hitman 3 fans between August 5 and August 17, and is set in four different gardens as a gardening competition takes place across the grounds of Dartmoor Mansion.

RICO is coming on September 2 to Xbox platforms, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch. RICO London is all about procedurally generated levels that task players, either solo or in two player co-op, with breaching and clearing rooms whilst working together to defuse bombs and tackle hostage situations.Developed by Ground Shatter and published by Numskull Games, a trailer for the game can be seen below.The press release calls it “an ode to retro arcade games with cartoon-style bullets and explosions, this

Anime purveyor Crunchyroll has surpassed 5 million streaming subscribers and has also teamed with Zoe Saldana on Dark Star Squadron, a project it describes as an “epic animated space opera.”

Julianne Moore revealed she changed nationality in order to honour her Scottish mum. The Hunger Games star, 60, took up British citizenship in 2011 to embrace her Celtic roots and pay tribute to her Greenock-born mother after her death.

Epic has unveiled its latest batch of free games available to download and keep on the Epic Games Store coming on Thursday.First up we have A Plague Tale: Innocence from Asobo Studio. First launched in May 2019, the action-adventure survival horror that also features stealth gameplay tells the story of Amica and her younger brother, Hugo, who must flee the Inquisition soldiers and a swarm of never-ending rats.

In the past few months, the monthly free Games with Gold list has been a little bit of a let-down, mostly because every time the team at Xbox announces the list of four games, just afterwards a new list of Game Pass titles comes along and blows it away. But August is looking pretty good, with some excellent titles and something for everyone.

Epic Games Store has made Mothergunship and Train Sim World 2 free to download from today as part of its ongoing offerings to incentivise players over to the platform.Launched in July 2018, Mothergunship is a rogue-like first-person shooter from Grip Digital, with gameplay focused on randomly generated levels.Train Sim World 2, on the other hand, was released in August 2020 from Dovetail Games and builds off the train simulation series that has been going on for over a decade now.Check out a

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Deck Nine Games has detailed the design and effects of Alex’s power of empathy, and how emotions are represented visually within Life Is Strange: True Colors.Jonathan Zimmerman, narrative director at Deck Nine Games, has spoken on PlayStation.blog about the powers players will get to use when they step into Alex’s shoes.