Chinese developer BINGOBELL has announced the open-world action-adventure fantasy game KAKU: Ancient Seal for the PC, PS4 and PS5 in 2023. KAKU Ancient Seal lets players navigate their own path through a mysterious continent full of strange creatures, ancient ruins, and unique tribes. KAKU Ancient Seal puts players

During Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, a brand-new studio from 15-year Bethesda Game Studios veteran Jeff Gardiner, Something Wicked Games, was revealed. With initial seed funding of US$13.2mm from NetEase, Something Wicked Games is a new, globally dispersed AAA games studio with creative and leadership talent from T

During Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, Funcom announced Dune Awakening, a new open-world survival MMO. In Dune Awakening, you'll have to survive the most dangerous planet in the universe, as well as build shelters against sandstorms, maintain your stillsuit, and master the old ways to walk even the deepest deserts

Publisher Level Infinite and developer Hotta Studio have announced that the open-world RPG Tower Of Fantasy will open preload on 9 August 2022 and launch globally on PC and mobile on 10 August 2022 (PDT). To date, over three million players and counting have signed up for the game at the official Tower Of Fantasy websi

Electronic Arts, the company that made fun of single-player games earlier this month, might be creating a single-player open-world game in the Marvel universe. The company is reportedly making a Black Panther game according to journalist Jeff Grub on a Giant Bomb podcast. The game is "very likely" being made by a ne

During Nacon Connect 2022, Nacon and Nacon Milan announced that the Terminator Survival Project (not the official title) is in development. Nacon Milan is developing the first survival game set in the Terminator universe with an original story building on the events from the films. Players will have to fight to surv

Level Infinite and Hotta Studio have announced that the upcoming open-world action RPG, Tower Of Fantasy - set for global release in Q3 of 2022 for PC and Mobile platforms and supporting eight languages (English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Indonesian) - is now open for pre-registration. Fa

Not sick of making more open-world games, Techland is taking a break from zombies and is now tackling fantasy. The Polish developer and publisher have announced that it's working on a new open-world fantasy action RPG and are hiring new people to work on the triple-A game. The company has 70 positions open for this,

A recent Galaxy Interactive venture capital investor document (via Roberto Serrano) has revealed information on a new upcoming open-world game called Everywhere, which is being made by ex-Grand Theft Auto producer and Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies. Leslie is running a company called Build a Rocket Boy, and

Platform(s): Xbox Series (version reviewed), Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC Genre: First-Person Action-Adventure Parkour Combat Title Set In Zombie Apocalypse You have to hand it to a company like Techland, the Polish game developer known for sticking around the industry for a good amount of time since 1999. The company go

OnceLost Games has unveiled a brief new trailer for The Wayward Realms. The developer is helmed by Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay, who were former lead developers of the team behind the original The Elder Scrolls, Arena and Daggerfall. The Wayward Realms is set on a group of over one hundred, realistically scaled, is

If a devastating disaster struck a modern city, how would mankind manage to survive? ACE Studio, a new studio focusing on shooting games of global games developer and operator NetEase Games, released an open-world survival mobile game with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) and the theme of wasteland city - Fading City, along with

505 Games has announced Open Country, an arcade-style hunting game delivering an easily accessible and enjoyable open-world outdoor adventure. Developed by Funlabs, Open Country is slated to release on the Epic Games Store and Steam for PC on 19 May 2021 for RM32. Players can already add the game to their Wishlis

Ubisoft, a company known for its recent transgressions in the workplace, will be announcing the release date of its upcoming action-adventure game Immortals: Fenyx Rising, previously known as Gods & Monsters. Turns out that reveal has been leaked somewhat. According to Twitter user Wario64, the game's release da

While Diablo 4 is still a ways off (with no confirmed release date or window), Blizzard Entertainment is providing quarterly updates on the game's development from time to time. While February's update went over the UI design and controls, the June update for Diablo 4 is focused on the storytelling elements, open-world

Remember Bionicle? If you were a 90s kid or grew up in the early 2000s, these were LEGO with their own extensive lore and narrative, similar to Hasbro's Transformers. There were even several movies and games, the most popular of which was 2003's Bionicle: Mask Of Light and it's tie-in game, Bionicle (which I played on

In recent years, Ubisoft titles have been getting bigger and bigger in terms of content and sheer game size, employing an open-world model to many of its popular franchises. The most apparent example of this is 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which has been receiving updates and expansions up until July 2019 with the

The (arguably) most shocking announcement of E3 2019 so far has been that a The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild sequel is currently in development over at Nintendo. Details are scarce for now but now we know what recent open-world game is serving as the inspiration for the team working on the game. In an interview

Remember that 2017 Star Wars game that was in development at EA's Vancouver office that was announced around the same time Dead Space devs Visceral Games got the sack? Yeah, that's apparently cancelled according to sources close to Kotaku. The game was apparently an open-world title that was in production since Octobe

Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: Open-World Sandbox, Action-Adventure Remember the good old days of sandbox games, where the narrative and plot were there only as an excuse for the player to explore the open-world and blow stuff up? Games like Volition's Red Faction: Guerilla (now-defunct), Pandemic Studios' Merce