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Hi, I’m Chandler Wood. I’m a Slytherin and the Community Manager here at Avalanche Software. It’s been a while since we first revealed Hogwarts Legacy. Back then I still hadn’t even joined the studio. Now I’m part of this incredible team that has put a ton of effort into making sure our gameplay reveal would be worth the wait. We couldn’t be more excited that it’s finally here.

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We’ve all dreamt of receiving our letters, attending Hogwarts, and forging a legacy of our own. As Wizarding World fans, we’ve wondered what it would be like for our stories to be found between the pages of a book, because that magic-filled world has always felt close to our own. Hogwarts Legacy is your story, rooted firmly in wizarding world lore, and it starts with creating the witch or wizard you want to be.

An Authentic Wizarding World

I joined Avalanche in late 2021, but the team had already been hard at work for many years. I’m still reeling that I get to...

How do you start a game? That is such a difficult question. There are so many things a game needs to do for a player at the start; introduce them to the world, teach them how to play and most importantly, hook them in. We spent a lot of time and effort on the beginning of Paradise Killer to try to get it right. I haven’t done the maths on this but I know that the start of the game is the most commonly shared video clip from Paradise Killer on social media so I guess something worked!

In Paradise Killer you play Lady Love Dies (LD), an investigator brought out of exile to investigate the crime to end all crimes on the bizarre Paradise Island. We knew that the start of the game would depict LD arriving on the island and introducing the player to the world. As we were making an open world game, we wanted to start by showing the player the whole world at the start. The island is quite big and you can explore the whole thing, but you don’t usually get to see the scale of what you are...

Hello, Travelers! Today we’re pleased to share with you the latest information about Genshin Impact’s Version 2.6 “Zephyr of the Violet Garden” arriving on March 30! With an all-new area added, we can soon head to the westernmost of Liyue, delve deep into this unfathomable area, and continue a new chapter in the story of the Traveler Twins together with Dainsleif.


On the other side of the sea, life in Inazuma has taken on a new look after the Sakoku Decree was abolished. The Magnificent Irodori Festival will invite many in and outside of Inazuma to celebrate a time of arts and culture. At the same time, Kamisato Ayato, the young master leading one of Inazuma’s most powerful clans into a new era, will make his debut as a playable five-star with an exciting Story Quest.

Down Into The Chasm

For a long time, The Chasm has been Liyue’s primary source of ores, especially for...

Hey everyone- My name is Darren Bridges, and I’m the lead co-op designer for Ghost of Tsushima: Legends. To celebrate Legends’ inclusion as a bonus game in this month’s PlayStation Plus lineup, I wanted to give you all a window into our development philosophy and process.

For me, the journey started in 2016, when Nate Fox showed me the original pitch for Ghost of Tsushima and asked if I’d lead the design on the cooperative mode. I was excited… and intimidated! I knew it would be a challenge.


Concept art of our playable heroes

I happily agreed to work on it, and my first goal was to make sure we had the flexibility to make decisions that would enable a great co-op experience. A lot of the choices that work in single-player don’t translate well to multiplayer content (and vice versa). After several pitch attempts, we came up with one that really resonated: co-op would be set in a world of...

Last time, we asked you to get behind the wheel of Gran Turismo 7 and share your best shots from the track using #PSshare #PSblog. Here are this week’s highlights:



TheFourthFocus shares the moment they inched past another car across the finish line.



JonPSindies shares driving off into the desert sunset.



Xenolith3D shares...

Motorbikes are always cool, the feeling of driving it is something truly special and everyone who ever driven one of it knows it. The adrenaline of the Supercross discipline is all about those crazy vibes of driving fast and getting the flow of the track done and right, without crashing and trying to arrive first. Everything we continue to see in the official races is what we want to put in Monster Energy Supercross 5: The Official Videogame we believe that’s what our game is about: feelings. Everything we knows about motorbikes is due to the experience of the Milestone team and our passion for the discipline and sometimes that passion goes even out of our office.

Our new game is the fifth of this great series and we can’t wait to show to the world what we’ve working on for the past year. We can’t wait to see you dealing with our new great features,...

In the world of video games, especially massively multiplayer online games, lasting a decade is unheard of. Star Trek Online has explored the final frontier for twelve years. During that time, the game has told the story of the future of Star Trek’s prime timeline, carrying the torch of making new multimedia Trek stories in the time between the end of “Enterprise” and the beginning of the new Trek era with “Discovery.” We’re so proud of the contributions we’ve made, and today is the perfect time to jump into this massive universe of over 40 Star Trek actors voicing their original roles, 600 starships to take command of, and more episodes than almost any Trek series.

And speaking of today, we’re marking our anniversary with a drop of brand-new content, starting with one of the most exciting guest stars we’ve ever had. Kate Mulgrew returns to the role she defined, Katherine Janeway, the...

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for more details (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!

Kraken Academy – March 22 – Game Pass

Make friends, free spirits, and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as “technically a school.” Join forces with a magical kraken to manipulate a time loop and save the world. Available on Cloud, Console, and PC.

Tainted Grail: Conquest – March 22 – Game Pass...

The best horror games are those that mixes impossible things, to defy and entertain the audience, with slightly possible scenarios capable of triggering our deepest fears. Dolmen is one of these games. It’s a souls-like action RPG, considered challenging even to experienced players, but with a sci-fi story based in the premise that humans will modify themselves, both genetically and with augments, to become more apt to colonize space. Zoan Corp, one of the companies who explores space, hired the modified humans called Drillers to colonize Revion Prime. Things got wrong, as always happens in a good horror game, and Zoan Corp arouse the player to protect the company’s interests and investment, never showing any remorse for what happened to the deceased employees.

As the story unfolds, the player becomes aware of the greedy details that took place in Revion Prime evolving the Dolmen crystals and its...

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