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Midnight Ghost Hunt is a multiplayer 4v4 first-person shooter where one team are the ghosts and the other team are the ghost hunters. It's also the free PC game this week at the Epic Games Store.

Epic Games and Remedy Entertainment have kicked off pre-orders for Alan Wake 2, but they are using the previous generation's pricing formula. This is apparently thanks to a digital-only launch.

After 13 years, the story of Alan Wake continues. The horror sequel will release this October, and it will introduce a brand-new protagonist that players will take control of alongside Wake.

The voice of Alan Wake himself may have spilled the beans regarding the highly-anticipated sequel's launch window. The survival horror game might be releasing this October on current-gen platforms.

Although we haven't received any new Windows 11 builds this week, the last 7 days brought plenty of news. It is time to recap the most interesting and noteworthy stories from the world of Microsoft.

Epic has just kicked off the annual Epic Games Store Mega Sale, offering discounts on its library of PC games. Another unlimited coupon has landed too, which cuts an extra 25% off the cart price.

The new Epic Rewards program is free to sign up, and will give PC gamers 5 percent back on any purchase they make, which can be used for future purchases, even with discounted games.

The PC version of the acclaimed third-person action game from Kojima Productions will be free to download and keep for the next week from the Epic Games Store.

This week, the Epic Games Store is giving away three DLC packs for Electronic Arts' hit simulation game The Sims 4 in one bundle: Jungle Adventure, Luxury Party Stuff, and Fashion Street Kit.

Fortnite is launching on Amazon's cloud gaming service, Amazon Luna. The service is for Prime and Luna+ users but non-Prime members can get it if they sign up for a free 7-day trial subscription.

Fall Guys Season 4: Creative Construction update is bringing a fully-featured level editor to the battle royale platformer, letting the community take a crack at creating whacky worlds.

The upcoming horror game will be one of the first titles released to use Epic's Unreal Engine 5, and a new trailer showcase how it will use its advanced graphics and lighting features.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier court ruling that Apple did not violate anti-trust laws by banning third-party app stores on its iOS devices, but Epic did win one count.

Epic Games has bought the game developer AQUIRIS and has renamed it as Epic Games Brazil. It will work to make new content and social experiences for Epic's free-to-play game Fortnite.

Dying Light: Enhanced Edition has the full zombie action game and its expansion pack plus all the Season One additions. Shapez is an indie 2D game about building factories that create shapes.

Tunche is an anime-inspired side-scrolling action game, while The Silent Age is a point-and-click adventure game. Both will be free to grab from the Epic Games Store for the next week.

The latest freebie drop from the Epic Games Store brings a copy of the high-fidelity chess entry Chess Ultra by Ripstone, as well as a handy starter pack for the free-to-play game World of Warships.

The Unreal Editor for Fortnite will allow people to create new games and experiences within Epic Games' hit battle royale title leveraging powerful tools used in Epic's Unreal Engine 5.

The Epic Games Store's latest free game offer is a copy of the strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War. This 4X game has no diplomacy, with all efforts going towards war.

Cliff Bleszinski, the designer of the first three Gears of War games, recently said Epic Games thought about making the fourth game as a first person shooter before Microsoft bought the franchise.

It is freebie time on the Epic Games Store again, and the latest offer is a copy of Call of the Sea, a puzzle adventure game with otherworldly elements. It is free to claim for the next seven days.

The Epic Games Store said it had 230 million users in 2022, up from 194 million users in 2021. It has plans to add a number of new features in 2023 including support for subscription services.

The new self-publishing tools will allow far more indie games to be included in the Epic Games Store, and will offer them better financial incentives compared to publishing on Steam.

New reports from dataminers claim that Epic's battle royale game Fornite might introduce a long-awaited first-person mode into the game, and it could be included as soon as this coming week.

The Epic Games Store's latest freebie for PC gamers this week is a copy of Warpips, a strategy game with a tug of war style winning condition that promises no micro-intensive tasks.

Recipe For Disaster puts you in charge of a high-end restaurant, both in the kitchen and out in the dining room. It's the latest free game from the Epic Games Store you can grab right now.

The Epic Games Store's first giveaway of February is another entry in the Dishonored universe from Arkane as well as an indie tycoon game where you build a criminal empire across a city.

Rumbleverse's servers are going offline, just six months after launch. The free-to-play melee-focused battle royale built by Iron Galaxy and Epic Games is also offering refunds to existing players.

The Epic Games Store's weekly giveaway slot has refreshed again. Available this time are the PVPVE top-down extraction game Hell is Others and the narrative thriller experience Adios that are free.

There is a new Epic Games Store freebie in town, and it's all about typing your way to victory. Epistory - Typing Chronicles is now available for you to claim for the next seven days.

Epic Games Store's weekly free games promotion has brought a triple giveaway this time. Copies of Divine Knockout, First Class Trouble, and Gamedec - Definitive Edition are now available to claim.

Epic Games Store's first giveaway of 2023 is a big one, with it carrying copies of Kerbal Space Program and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun's standalone expansion - Aiko's Choice.

The beginning of the Dishonored franchise is free to claim on the Epic Games Store this week, marking the 2022 freebie finale. The game is an immersive sim experience by Arkane Studios.

The Epic Games Store's latest giveaway is for soulslike fans, with Cold Symmetry's Mortal Shell from 2020 now being free. Following this, only one more game remains in Epic's 2022 freebie plans.

The bullet time, parkour stunts, and destructible environments riddled stylish first-person shooter Severed Steel is what's on offer today on the Epic Games Store as its latest freebie.

The Epic Games Store's twelfth giveaway from its daily promotion turned out to be a copy of F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch today. It is an indie Metroidvania experience by TiGames.

The Epic Games Store's tenth giveaway from the holiday daily freebie promotion is offering a copy of Metro: Last Light Redux. You have 24 hours to claim this post-apocalyptic shooter.

The Epic Games Store's nineth giveaway from its ongoing daily promotion has been revealed to be a copy of Encased, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi role-playing game set in an alternate 1970s landscape.

Classic Fallout games are what's on offer today on the Epic Games Store, giving all PC gamers copies of the three original games that kicked off the massively popular RPG franchise.