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Xbox owners can preload starting right now.

Those of you on the Xbox Series X|S can preload Assassin's Creed Shadows right now. This should give you a ton of time to get the game downloaded ahead of the March 20, 2025 release date.

Those of you on other platforms will have to wait a bit longer before preloads kick off. PC players can begin preloading the game on March 17th at 11AM ET. PlayStation 5 owners will have to wait until March 18th at 12AM local time before you...

Download now to be ready for October 25.

Activision announced that the preload for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 should be live right now for all platforms. This preload is available for everyone that has pre-ordered the game and for those on Game Pass. The download options include the campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies. Those that pre-ordered Black Ops 6 that already have Call of Duty (HQ) installed should get a Black Ops 6 preload available as an automatic update to their existing install....

Why yes, that's tomorrow!

Bethesda and Microsoft have confirmed to the world that Starfield has gone gold! Before digital downloads became prevalent, going gold indicated that a game was ready to be sent off for mass production of physical copies. These days? It mostly just means that the game is done, typically free of major bugs, and can be played from start to finish.

Starfield will reportedly have a physical disc release, so the antiquated form of gone gold still actually...

Start downloading now ahead of Warzone 2.0's launch on Wednesday.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is currently available for preload, at least through Steam and Battle.net on PC. However, the console preload process might be a bit cumbersome at the moment.

See, if you want to download Warzone 2.0 on PlayStation 5, you will first need to go to the page for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, hit the Options button to get to the Warzone 2.0 page, and go from there. For Xbox, it should...

Goodness, this launch of Metro Exodus has been a bit wild. The other day we saw from Deep Silver's technical support that there wouldn't be any preload of the game through Steam. The email response from Deep Silver literally said that they expect to see the most traffic going to the Epic Games Store version of the game.

So, we assumed that meant there would instead be a preload period on the Epic Games Store, right? Well, no. We were wrong. To be fair, that response from Deep...

Look, I cannot recall if I already posted this trailer or not. Chances are, I probably missed this last week when it actually came out. However, we're in the here and now and I can't just go and alter history, so I'm posting it for you today. This here is a new trailer for Metro Exodus. If you already watched it, then it's obviously not new, but do spare me the semantics.

4A Games and Deep Silver call this one "Artyom's Nightmare" and it is a CGI animated short. It...

If you're on PC and wanting to play the beta for Star Wars Battlefront (which begins tomorrow, October 8) you can now pre-load the content onto your machine....

To put it mildly, the PC release of Mortal Kombat X seems to be a bit of a clusterfuck. I "preloaded" the game last night and was surprised to see that it was only a bit over 3GB in size. "Huh, that's weird," I thought. I shrugged it off and instead proceeded to play the PC release of Grand Theft Auto V instead. Now, despite there being a few minor issues (unless you had certain 9xx series Nvidia cards), the PC launch of GTAV went really, really smoothly. This is especially in comparison ...

In case you were wondering, Rockstar has confirmed today that the pre-load for Grand Theft Auto V on PC will begin on April 7. This includes both the...

PlayStation owners on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 can now begin preloading Destiny to get ready for Tuesday's release. This preload is available through the PlayStation Store in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

This only applies to those who digitally pre-ordered the game. If you leave your system in standby, the download should start automatically this weekend at some point.
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PlayStation owners on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 can now begin preloading Destiny to get ready for Tuesday's release. This preload is...

PlayStation 4 users won't be the only ones who will be able to preload the Destiny content prior to release. It was known previously that PlayStation 4 users would be able to preload the game but the Xbox One was up in the air.

Microsoft confirmed today that they too will allow their users to download early in order to play the game right at release from the comfort of their own home.
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PlayStation 4 users won't be the only ones who will be able to preload the Destiny content prior to release. It was known previously that PlayStation...