And he’s doing it for Microsoft Rumours spread this past week that Hideo Kojima’s nextwould be called Overdose, and a return to the horror genre. Well, Kojima appeared during tonight’s Microsoft conference and confirmed: yes, he is making a game of some kind. And that’s it. “Yes, there is a game I have always wanted to make,” Kojima said near the end of the stream. “It’s a completely new game, one that no one has ever experienced or seen before....

A new trailer but still no release date The much-anticipated metroidvaniaHollow Knight: Silksongfinally gave another peek at the beautiful and awful things awaiting us in a new kingdom of insects. Microsoft’s NotE3 showcase brought a new trailer, which didn’t help with the info bugheads really crave—a release date—but did announce the exciting news that Silksong will be on Game Pass at launch. Here, come watch, check out some of the beautiful and awful things waiting to murder you....

Checking in with cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer for their annual trailer extravaganza What better way to spend a Sunday evening than by settling down to watch this year’s PC Gaming Show, brought to you courtesy of cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer as part of this year’s Not-E3 festivities? It’s a guides team takeover tonight as Hayden and Rebecca, RPS’s duo of in-house Guides Writers, wrestle control of the liveblog away from our more chat-fatigued colleagues to bring you our highly unique blend of weird perspectives and in-jokes once it all kicks off at 8:30pm BST / 3:30pm EDT / 12:30pm PDT....

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Choppers, gliders, and the Wright Flyer free in November’s update The Flight Simulator series turns 40 this year, which is somehow a distressing thought making me realise how fast time is passing, so Microsoft are preparing to celebrate. Come the 40th anniversary in November, they plan to release a bigMicrosoft Flight Simulatorupdate with helicopters, gliders, iconic historical aircraft including the Wright Flyer, and more. But that’s the future. Right now, the game has received a taste of far future with the release ofHalo Infinite’s Pelican aircraft as a real plane you can really fly in Flight Sim....

A collaboration with the makers of Homeworld 3 The few actual snippets of game there make me think ofDragon QuestHeroes? I’m a bit hazy on how it will all work so I’ll turn you over to Mojang’s blurb to make this vagueness official. “Minecraft Legends is a unique action strategy game,” theannouncementexplains. “It has strategy elements at its core, but its mechanics are inspired by the immersion of action games. You get to explore the familiar yet in-many-ways-new Overworld in a third-person perspective....

The RPG masters make a calligraphic diversion this November Pentiment releases in November and it’s coming toSteamfor £16/$20/€20, as well as the Microsoft Store and Xbox consoles. It’s a day one release on Game Pass for PC too.

Plus a new hero reveal After many delays,Overwatch 2has a release date. Blizzard’s sequel will launch on October 4th - and it’ll have a new free-to-play model when it does. Here’s a trailer announcing the release date: Overwatch 2 was initially meant to ship with a singleplayer component, but that was delayed last year and separated from the multiplayer experience that formed the core of the first game. NowBlizzard’s announcement postdescribes Overwatch 2 as an “always-evolving live service” with a “new, free-to-play model....

Persona 5 will arrive this October Persona 5 RoyalandPersona 3 Portableare coming to PC via Xbox Game Pass, with Persona 5 Royal due to arrive this October.Persona 4 Golden, which is already available on PC via Steam, is also coming to Game Pass. This is exceptionally good news for fans of stylish, urban fantasy JRPGs about hanging with friends, going to school and getting sucked into supernatural adventures. Here’s the trailer announcing the news as shown during tonight’s Microsoft conference:...

There’s a white rabbit, guardsmen decked out with playing cards, and what looks like a robot version of Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee each wielding a giant hammer. Most intimidatingly though, what appears to be a version of the Queen of Hearts has become some kind of many-armed, snake-tongued giant beast whose face has split open like a Demogorgon fromStranger Things. You play as Ravenlok. Guess she’s the bad-ass cousin of Goldilocks? After falling through a magical mirror, Ravenlok finds she’s been prophesised to battle the dodgy Caterpillar Queen so she can save the kingdom, pack up and go home....

What big teeth you have It was on the cards, and tonight at theXBox & Bethesda Showcasewe indeed got a look at some vampire slaying inRedfall. Arkane’s spooky co-op FPS has been on my most anticipated list for a while, especially because I was hoping the studio would put their signature weird twist on things. Judging by the big guns and big abilities you have at your disposal, they have - and the vampires should be watching their be-caped backs....

A gross new release date trailer If you stick your hand in the bone trunk, you deserve what you get. That’s my new motto, after watching the latest trailer for the first-person Giger-esque horror gameScorn. This trailer has the same world of bone and flesh as all those before it, but with the added twist of a release date: this October. Honestly, don’t act surprised when your hand gets trapped in the flesh tube nightmare....

Take a trip to Limbo next spring Gothicpuzzle platformerThe Last Case Of Benedict Foxwas announced at today’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, but it’s bringing a demon along for the ride. Set in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925, The Last Case Of Benedict Fox follows, you guessed it, self-appointed detective Benedict Fox as he searches through a dodgy mansion. Watch the suitably moody trailer below. It’s not just Benedict who’s rummaging around inside somebody else’s house though – there’s a demon doing the same inside him that he’ll have to contend with....