With less than a month to go until park management sim Planet Zoo whacks on a paper hat and toots out a party blower fwooooop to celebrate its fifth anniversary, developer Frontier has announced it’s be marking the occasion with more paid DLC and a free leopard for PC players.

Starting with the DLC, it’s called the Zookeepers Animal Pack and will introduce a further seven creatures for zoo builders to exhibit when it arrives on 15th October. There’s the Pallas cat, the Hamadryas baboon, the Markhor, Spectacled bear, African spurred tortoise, Coquerel’s sifaka, and finally, Kirk’s dik-dik – and, yes, I did let out a juvenile giggle at the last one.

All that’s joined by 95 new celebration-themed scenery pieces – including bunting, marquee tents, lanterns,…

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered PC players will be required to sign up via their PSN accounts to play the single-player adventure on Steam.
As noted on Valve’s PC storefront and spotted by IGN, just like other notable PlayStation-flavoured Steam releases such as Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, and God of War Ragnarök, players will not be able to play Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered on PC without a PSN account.

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343 Industries, developer of the Halo series, has confirmed it is working on multiple new games for the franchise under a new name: Halo Studios.

In a surprise announcement last night, the freshly-rebranded Halo Studios debuted a first look at Project Foundry – its experimental look at how the Xbox flagship franchise will look developed in Unreal Engine 5.

All Halo games from here on out will use UE5, Halo Studios confirmed, ditching its own proprietary Slipspace Engine it toiled on for years.

A New Dawn | Halo Studios

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Can you believe Alien: Isolation is now 10?! Doesn’t time fly when you are cowering for your life underneath a table, as a hulking great big Xenomorph stalks you around a space station. Ahh, good times.
And, if you too are feeling a tad misty-eyed remembering all the terror and resulting screams, wishing you could have another slice of Alien goodness to add to your video game plate, well, I have something to tell you that will be right up your street.
Today, Alien: Isolation director Al Hope teased some exciting news with the game’s community, as part of its 10th anniversary. That news? An Alien: Isolation sequel is in the works, and Hope will be back at the helm for the upcoming release. They are going to Ripley a new one, if you will.

Let’s Play Alien: Isolat…

The Day Before developer Fntastic has come out of the woodwork to announce its return.
The Day Before launched in December 2023, after a rocky road to release which included delays, the developer being forced to state its game wasn’t a scam, and criticism for its use of unpaid volunteers. It even got tied up in a bizarre trademark dispute with a calendar app also called The Day Before.
In the end, The Day Before didn’t last long. Its debut was a mess, and the studio shut down a mere matter of days after the game’s release, with players’ receiving refunds for the product. And to be honest, I thought that was that. But, I was wrong, because the studio is now back… and it wants your money again.

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Fender has teamed up with Capcom to create a Telecaster inspired by Monster Hunter: the Monster Hunter Rathalos Telecaster.
The guitar’s already listed in the UK store for £1850, which makes it one of Fender’s pricier iterations. There’s no option to pre-order just yet, although Fender says the instrument will be available from March 2025.

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A new clip of the curious live-action Minecraft movie is here.
Courtesy of Minecraft Live, the clip is less than a minute long but expands on the very first peek at the live-action movie we had earlier this month.
As yet, the clip hasn’t been formally uploaded to YouTube, but you can see it at 34:30 in the Minecraft Live video embedded below, or the X/Twitter post just below that.

Minecraft Live 2024

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UPDATE 25/9/24, 10.35pm: Nexus Mods has confirmed iArtorias removed their mod, which let players bypass PSN for God of War Ragnarök on PC, in order to “avoid any future action from Sony”.
In a conversation between Nexus Mods and iArtorias, the creator said the mod had “got too much attention” following its release, and they ultimately thought it would be “better to remove it from public” use.
iArtorias added even though their mod did not alter “anything in memory related to Sony products”, they felt it was “better [to] be safe than sorry” in this case, adding it was their decision to remove the mod from Nexus.

We’ve had a chat with the mod author about this and can confirm that the mod was removed due to a personal decision after it received significant tr…

Square Enix is continuing its multiplatform strategy with the release of two Mana games and the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on Xbox.
As announced today by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show, Trials of Mana, Legend of Mana and the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters are all available today across Xbox Series X/S and PC.
“Our partnership with Square Enix is stronger than ever,” boasted Sarah Bond, president of Xbox.

Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster | TGS Xbox Announcement

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A week after Saber Interactive promised a whole bunch of player-requested features and fixes for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, the first of these are now here – with the sci-fi shooter’s latest patch introducing “more helpful and effective” bots, private lobbies, and more.

Saber Interactive spent a fair bit of time discussing bots last week, acknowledging player complaints that the general ineffectiveness of teammate bots mades solo games “significantly harder”. And thus Patch 3.0, which lifts various “inhibiting restrictions” during the campaign to make bots more “helpful and effective, while still not beating the game for the player”.

Previous restrictions preventing bots from finishing off enemies have now been “heavily eased”, for instance, and bots can …