Styx is back after nearly a decade away, armed with new powers, bigger maps, and the same fondness for stabbing people in dark corners. Blades of Greed delivers solid stealth and welcome verticality, but leans heavily on repetitive structure and undercooked storytelling. A fun return — just not the bold one it could have been.

This would all be kind of amusing if it wasn't for the facts that more game developers are losing their jobs.

In a wide-ranging update on Assassin's Creed from the franchise's new head of content, Ubisoft confirmed Wednesday that the long-rumored Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake is real. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced is coming, Ubisoft confirmed, but did not go into details about what the project will entail.

Control Resonant also features a better map than the original game, thankfully

Fans have been waiting a long time to get their mitts on Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game from South Korea-based developer Pearl Abyss. The developer first announced the project all the way back in 2019, and it was initially intended to be a prequel to the company's blockbuster MMORPG Black Desert Online, but eventually morphed into a stand-alone, single-player game. The long-simmering Crimson Desert hype grew to a fever pitch back in January, when Pearl Abyss released a 15-minute overview video of the game that drew comparisons to open-world blockbusters like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Witcher 3, and Skyrim. Crimson Desert will finally launch on March 19 for Mac, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X, and the developers admitted in a recent interview with IGN that the studio jumped the gun on announcing the game as early as it did.

An in-game screenshot of World of Warcraft: Midnight's Murder Row dungeon. An undead NPC wearing a purple hood named Cravitz Lorent stands next to several framed paintings.