Come with us now on a journey to our childhoods, as we on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast talk about the games that make us feel the most nostalgic. The games we played as kids, or spent all-nighters on as teens. It's a surprisingly diverse list, and Matthew has one anecdote in particular involving the music of Danny Elfman that I think makes this a genuine must-listen episode. Do you have the same nostalgia games? Which ones instantly transport you to the past?

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It’s Thursday, which means that is it time for more GTA Online updates! This week, it’s all about Casino Work, high-end discounts, and plenty of additional money to be earned as a reward for completing specific missions.

Take a sneak peek at the exact rewards, bonuses, and discounts you can expect in GTA Online this week right down below:

It’s almost that time of the year when speculations and talks about a new NBA 2K are at an all-time high. Many fans have been wondering what the release date for NBA 2K23 is, and the hype surrounding the next game is starting to build. Here is everything you need to know about when it comes out.

What Is The Release Date For NBA 2K23?

NBA 2K23 is due to release on Sept. 9, 2022 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.

All Editions of NBA 2K23

NBA 2K23 will have five different editions for players to choose from, granting different in-game items and bonuses. These are as follows:

Today Sabotage Studio reached out with a press release to announce that Sea of Stars is going to land on PlayStation.

The charming and highly-anticipated RPG inspired by JRPGs is coming to both PS5 and PS4 in 2023 on top of the previously-announced PC and Nintendo Switch version.

Sabotage had promised that new platforms would be announced, and they kept that promise.

The game was supposed to be released this year during the Holiday season, but will instead launch in 2023 following a recent delay. At the moment, a firm release date has not been announced.

Halo veteran and former Bungie director Paul Bertone has joined 343 Industries as studio technical design director.

Bertone worked on Bungie's five Halo games before leaving the studio ahead of its work on Destiny, but will now return to the series.

The news was shared on Twitter by Joseph Staten, head of creative for Halo Infinite.

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While just this year we did get The Quarry, Supermassive Games isn’t done yet. The Devil in Me serves as the season one finale to The Dark Pictures Anthology after three other games. The Dark Pictures Anthology games have done, spooky ship, spooky boat, and spooky cave. Now it’s time to venture into spooky hotel.

This time around a documentary crew receive a call from a mysterious and reclusive rich guy to invite them to a replica of hotel H.H. Holmes built and supposedly used to kill his victims. Everything seems to be going well until the hotel is revealed to be a series of traps, isolating the documentary crew and subjecting them to what seems to be Saw-like contraptions.

You can see the trailer for yourself below:

For the first time, it seems the Dark Pictures Anthology will be dipping into a level of reality. H.H. Holmes was an actual serial killer in the early 1890’s in Chicago, and did construct a building that the papers referred to as the “Murder Castle.”

Elden Ring took the world by storm earlier this year, but of the millions of players, one rose above the rest: Klein Tsuboi, AKA “Let Me Solo Her.” Weidling nothing but dual katanas and a pot on his head, he helped other players kill one of the game’s toughest bosses thousands of times. Now publisher Bandai Namco has…

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The ESA has announced today that E3 will return in the second week of June 2023, and will partner with PAX organizer, ReedPop, to produce the show.

The news comes following three years of an in-person version of E3 having not taken place. Instead, in past years, developers and publishers have ran their own livestreams to showcase announcements of upcoming games, and industry veteran Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest has also helped fill the early June void left by the tradeshow.

Commenting on E3’s return in 2023, President of ReedPop Lance Fensterman said, “It is a tremendous honor and privilege to ReedPop to take on the responsibility of bringing E3 back in 2023.”

“With the support and endorsement of the ESA, we’re going to build a world class event to serve the global gaming industry in new and broader ways than we already do at ReedPop through our portfolio of world leading events and websites.”

ReedPop is the organizer of PAX, New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration, and will lead the in-person return of E3 2023.

It was also announced that a secure and streamlined media registration process will open later this year, which in the past has led to data leaks of attendees’ private and confidential information.

When Is E3 2023?

Currently, the ESA and ReedPop have announced that E3 will take place in “the second week of June 2023.” This means it is likely the first showcases from publishers will take place on the weekend of the June 10-11, with the show floor being open from Monday June 12, through until Wednesday June 14, as the show traditionally runs for three days.

Concrete dates for showcases haven’t been confirmed at the time of writing, though.

Roguelikes are one of the most popular and in-demand style of games in the industry over the past few years, with titles like Hades and Dead Cells setting the bar high when it comes to quality gameplay and replayability. As such, any new game that tries to break into the genre really needs to try and do something interesting to succeed; that is exactly what the team over at Magic Design Studios is hoping to accomplish with Have a Nice Death.

Released into early access on Mar. 8, 2022, Have a Nice Death is a 2D Action Roguelike where you play as Death, CEO of Death Incorporated, who currently finds himself teetering on the edge of burnout. In order to restore order, you must take control of the Grim Reaper and help him show his employees who is boss using none other than his trusty scythe.

Since its release, Magic Design Studios has been hard at work adding new updates for the game, tweaking quality of life stuff, and adding in items here and there to improve the game step by step. Today, Have a Nice Death looks to take an even bigger leap forward, as it releases its Fast Food update.

Magic Design Studios Creative Director and Animation Director Nicolas Léger joined me to talk a bit about the update, the game’s inspirations, and much more down below.

Twinfinite Features Editor Andrew McMahon: What is your favorite guilty pleasure fast food?

Supermassive Games has released a new story trailer for The Devil In Me, the next game in The Dark Pictures Anthology. 

The Devil In Me was revealed last October, and it will be the finale to Season One of The Dark Pictures Anthology. It stars Jessie Buckley, who you can see in today's new trailer, and seems to feature many horror elements that lean on the Saw franchise. There are fatal booby traps, maze-like halls, shifting walls, and more. Whatever this house in The Devil In Me is, one thing is for sure: it's a house of horrors inspired by the infamous hotel of serial killer H.H. Holmes. 

Check out the new story trailer for The Devil In Me below:

What do you think of this new trailer? Let us know in the comments below!

Today, 2K has officially unveiled the cover athlete for the next iteration of its hit NBA 2K basketball series. The news came by way of an official press release, which revealed there will actually be three different athletes gracing the cover, all depending on which version of the game you get.

Who Is the NBA 2K23 Cover Athelete?

This time around, it was revealed that Phoenix Suns’ shooting guard, three-time NBA All-Star, and 2022 NBA All-NBA 1st Team member, Devin Booker, will be featured on this year’s Standard Edition and cross-gen Digital Deluxe Edition.

Alongside Booker, the iconic Michael Jordan – a six-time NBA Champion and five-time Kia NBA Most Valuable Player and known as one of the greatest basketball players of all time – will also be appearing on the NBA 2K23 Michael Jordan Edition and the brand-new NBA 2K23 Championship Editions of the game.

Stardew Valley is a country life RPG where you’ll be farming, harvesting, fishing, and generally doing a lot of nature stuff. Within the game, there are many resources that you can use for crafting various items. Some are just aesthetic, others actually can help you to grow your farm in certain ways with tools. Clay is one such resource that you’ll often need, so here’s how to get clay in Stardew Valley.

It’s not easily found within the world, however.

How to Get Clay in Stardew Valley

In order to easily get clay, you’ll need to till the ground with a hoe. You can till anywhere from your farm to the beach (and it’s advised that you do this at the beach a lot because it’s found most while tilling there).

Lego and Nintendo have collaborated for years, from sets for the famous plumber’s brother Luigi to this excellent Super Mario 64 set. Now, the two have teamed up once more to give Lego fans the largest Super Mario build yet, and it’s the most infamous villain in the entire Mushroom Kingdom: Bowser. 

Revealed today, this is the biggest Lego Bowser to date, according to Lego, clocking in at 2807 pieces. Dubbed Lego Super Mario: The Mighty Bowser, this build is a “highly detailed recreation of the King of the Koopas, complete with controllable movements and the ability to launch a fireball, reflective of Bowser’s huge and powerful features.” 

Following a Covid-enforced absence, E3 is looking to make a proper in-person comeback at the Los Angeles Convention Center in the second week of June 2023, and ReedPop is going to be helping with its return, bringing expertise from running the likes of PAX, EGX, New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration for its first public outing since 2019.

Of course, ReedPop is Eurogamer's parent company, so it’s worth quickly noting what it means for us and the event - and to reassure you that nothing much is changing. Like Star Wars Celebration this is an event in partnership with another party - in this instance with the ESA, which has run E3 since the mid-90s - and even with the likes of ReedPop's wholly-owned shows like PAX and EGX we maintain editorial independence and will be explicit about the link in any coverage you see on the site.

I'll admit to being cautiously excited about the return of E3 proper - though I would say that, wouldn't I? There was something forlorn about strolling through Downtown LA last month while visiting for Summer Games Fest and seeing the LACC standing empty, and after what'll be a four year absence it's going to be something seeing those halls occupied by the games industry once again.

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As we reported last month, E3 will be back as a digital and in-person event for 2023 - and today we can announce that it will be produced by our corporate dad ReedPop, in partnership with the Entertainment Software Association. Let the tidal wave of disclosures commence.

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The Portal games are genuine classics - brilliant, inventive first-person puzzle games that combine an inventive gameplay mechanic, mind-bending designs and witty storytelling to create a truly special experience. However, the fact is that these games have essentially been absent from the console space since their original releases in 2007 and 2011 respectively. Aside from enhanced backwards compatibility support on Xbox, we've seen nothing new from either game since the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era. The good news is that this changed spectacularly last week with the release of Portal: The Companion Collection.

This new double-pack from Valve and Nvidia Lightspeed Studios combines Portal 1 and Portal 2 along with bonus gameplay content at an attractive £13.49/$19.99. Both games run on the landmark Source engine, most famous for powering 2004's Half-Life 2, so obviously, we're not looking at state-of-the-art technology here. However, brilliance in game and art design make both titles a great match for Nintendo's hybrid console and it's been fantastic to revisit these games, which turn out to be a perfect fit for the platform.

Before we go into platform differences, it's worth discussing the basic graphical makeup of both titles and the huge artistic and technical improvements made between the two games. Portal is essentially a series of basic puzzle rooms. The puzzles are interesting enough but the environments are simple, with rudimentary flat-textured walls, angular geometry and a heavy reliance on baked lighting and shadows. The game has an austere look with repetitive, straightforward artwork. Given the constraints of the project - developed by a team of about 10 people - these limitations make sense.

Nintendo and Lego are partnering again, this time on a large Bowser set.

The 2807-piece design stars the king of the Koopas standing upright on a stone platform, between flaming stone plinths.

Lego says The Mighty Bowser will be the largest Lego Mario adult set released to date when it becomes available on 1st October, priced £230/$270.

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Bandai Namco released one more character trailer of its upcoming fighting game JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R.

This time around, it’s time to see 8th Arc protagonist Josuke Higashikata alongside his stand.

Of course, the real protagonist is Josuke’s hair, which plays a prominent role in his introduction.

You can watch the trailer below.

You read that right, the usually multiplayer card game Gwent is has now been turned into a single player deckbuilding roguelike. Gwent: Rogue Mage is out today and considered a “single-player expansion” to Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. Rogue Mage is fully standalone and doesn’t require owning the original game.

The press release cites this reason as “due to its extensive scope and single-player nature, Rogue Mage is distributed separately from Gwent: The Witcher Card Game.” Seeing as Rogue Mage does offer a fully single-player experience, it doesn’t require an internet connection. For those who would like to play Rogue Mage on differently platforms, “players can also utilize cross-saves, allowing them to transfer their progress across all supported platforms when logged in via a GOG account.”

As for setting, Rogue Mage takes place “hundreds of years” before the Witcher games, when there were deadly monsters everywhere but not yet any Witchers. Players will control the mage Alzur, and his companion Lily as they “embark on a dangerous quest to create a living weapon that will eradicate the monster threat once and for all.”

Gwent: Rogue Mage is available for PC on Steam and GOG as well as iOS and Android devices. The game is $9.99 on all platforms, but Steam and GOG offer a digital deluxe edition for $19.99 that includes:

Stardew Valley features a ton of different supplies and resources that you’ll need in order to craft things within the game. Not to mention they’re how you can make some extra coins. You’ll find an abundance of wood wherever you chop, but what about that red wood known as Hardwood? What gives with that? It seems you’ll need a small amount of them for crafting certain things, so it must not be very common.

How to Get Hardwood in Stardew Valley

You’re right in those assumptions. In order to get Hardwood, you need to chop up those fallen tree logs, giant stumps or the large Mahogany Trees.

The best place to find these is the Secret Woods in the northwest corner of Cindersap Forest. Six of the large stumps spawn here every day, even if they’re cut down the day before, meaning you’ve got a never-ending supply of Hardwood in Stardew Valley.

To reach here, though, you’ll need to cut through the log lying in the way just above the Wizard’s Tower, shown in the image below, which requires you to have a Steel Axe to cut through.

Witch Strandings is the second official “strand-type” game, a genre (but more like an ideal) first introduced by Hideo Kojima’s transportation-focused Death Stranding. Like that other game, Witch Strandings makes you traverse a ruined, perilous landscape in order to deliver things. Unlike that other game, Witch…

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A modder working to overhaul GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Mafia: Definitive Edition with VR support says he’s received an unexplained DMCA takedown notice from publisher Take-Two Interactive. Known as LukeRoss, he says the DMCA will force him to remove all content relating to games produced by Take-Two's subsidiaries such as Rockstar and 2K, including his VR mods. However, he also states the notice provides no clarification from Take-Two about how he's actually breaching their copyright.

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Valorant Masters Copenhagen is just around the corner, and if you’re a fan of the game’s esports scene and want to attend the event then you’re in luck: for the first time ever, there’s going to be a live crowd at a VCT LAN. Here’s everything you need to know about how to get Valorant Masters Copenhagen tickets.

Between July 10-24, 12 teams are set to compete for their share of what is expected to be around $500,000, as well as valuable circuit points to compete at the big end-of-year event, Champions. Masters Copenhagen is the second event of the 2022 Valorant Champions Tour, which kicked off earlier this year with Masters Reykjavik and was won by Optic Gaming.

How to Get VCT Copenhagen Tickets

Tickets to Masters Copenhagen can only be purchased from the event’s official website, which you can find here. There is a maximum of four tickets that can be bought per person for each day of the event. Do keep in mind that only the finals will see live crowds in attendance. There are three games: the Upper Final, Lower Final, and Grand Final.

The event is not age-restricted.

How Much Is a Valorant Masters Copenhagen Ticket?

Ticket prices vary depending on your preferred choice of seats. Obviously, the closer you are to the action, the more expensive the tickets are. There are two tiers:

Developer FYQD-Studio and Playism announced the release date of the console versions of the “lightning-fast fusion of FPS and action” Bright Memory: Infinite.

The game, which is already available on PC, will launch on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Nintendo Switch on July 21, 2022.

The Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 versions will have support for 4K resolution with ray tracing, while running at a locked 60 frames per second.

If you have a 120 FPS screen, you can activate 120 FPS mode for higher FPS and less input lag. Speaking of input, the PS5 version has DualSense adaptive trigger support. 

The Nintendo Switch port makes do with TAA anti-aliasing and gyroscopic aiming support.

Those who have already purchased Bright Memory on Xbox Series X|S can get a 20% discount on Infinite.

The press release included a comment by Zeng from FYQD, promising great gameplay regardless of platform.

“My partners and I took the time to ensure that Bright Memory Infinite plays great no matter which system you choose. We know that Bright Memory: Infinite will set a new benchmark for what indies can do on console hardware.”

Below you can check out not one, but three trailers dedicated to the different consoles.

New details from the recent playtest for Skate 4 have leaked online.

The leak was shared on reddit and pertains to an early alpha test - meaning details may well not be representative of the final game.

Here, a new map from the Skate 4 playtest called Fun City was shown. This was likely only a small section of the full map.

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3, out for the Nintendo Switch later this month, is an anticipated tentpole release for the hybrid console. And thanks to some schedule shuffling, it's sooner than ever! We’ve spent time with the game’s opening areas, which set a foundation for what should be another long, sweeping adventure.

Combat will feel similar to players of earlier Xenoblade games. You probably know at this point if you like it! It feels a lot like MMO combat. Characters auto-attack, and the strategy comes through selection and timing of special skills. The Xenoblade Chronicles 3 version is all about combos that trigger Break, Topple and Daze statuses. Attacks have special effects if you attack from certain directions, and a handy arrow on the UI lets you know your current angle designation.

The early tutorial sequences of a JRPG can be something of a slog, as the game's long running time means a couple of hours getting you settled isn't entirely unreasonable. Still, Xenoblade 3 breaks down elements and rolls them out in bits! This helps with a battle interface that otherwise might overwhelm.

After what feels like eons, God of War Ragnarok will finally be releasing later this year on Nov. 9 as Kratos and Atreus embark on their next big adventure and most likely decimate a few Norse gods along the way. Alongside the release date, we received a quick cinematic hype trailer full of interesting little tidbits of what to expect in the full game. The trailer is only 30 seconds long, but it holds enough information to cause Ragnarok itself and, in case you missed them, here are 3 things you might have missed in God of War Ragnarök’s Father & Son trailer.

SPOILER WARNING: The following post will feature story spoilers for 2018’s God of War. If you have not played it yet, stop reading!

With the recent Nintendo Direct and just under three weeks to go until the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the hype for this game is approaching its climax. Even though Nintendo has been happy to share tons of information with the public, there’s plenty more that’s new and familiar for fans of the franchise to dig into.

First off, the battle system in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will look unsurprisingly familiar to those who have played past titles. You can run around with the left stick, approach an enemy to start auto-attacking it, and use special attacks called Arts with the face buttons. But it’s the additions to this system that help to keep the experience feeling fresh.

Attack canceling returns from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to help give a relatively passive battle system a bit more interactivity. Canceling auto attacks with Arts can boost the efficacy of these special moves. The margin of error for timing the attack cancel isn’t massive, but it’s narrow enough to assure that the player is actually paying attention instead of just spamming Arts as soon as their cooldown ends.

Final Fantasy 7 fans were on cloud nine after the recent 25th anniversary showcase. Not only did Square Enix reveal the second part of the Remake trilogy - named Rebirth - but it also announced a remaster of the PSP spin-off Crisis Core.

Since then, fans have been speculating that Crisis Core's story will have increased significance in the wake of Remake. The release of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 - Reunion between Remake games surely offers a chance to recontextualise its story and characters.

Of course, the team at Square Enix are keen not to spoil any forthcoming plans, but it's a fair assumption that Zack - the star of Crisis Core - may have a bigger role to play in the trilogy's future.

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I'm a bit baffled by Xenoblade Chronicles 3. What's set to be a climax for a trilogy that started off so spectacularly with the 2010 original - and following on from the stuttering start of creator Tetsuya Takahashi's infamously stunted Xenosaga series - this JRPG epic has an awfully slow start all of its own. The dozen hour mark is fast creeping up and the training wheels remain firmly in place, while perhaps more frustratingly so too are embargo restrictions that mean I can't tell you much about the really interesting stuff.

Still, I can tell you some of the pertinent stuff. If you're a returning fan, know this: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 takes the best bits of the preceding games, folding in a fascinating evolution of Xenoblade Chronicles 2's broad and brilliant combat, the more defined fantasy of the original (and ditching some of the more embarrassing anime excesses) and some of the more open-ended elements of Xenoblade Chronicles X (though sadly I can't really go into any detail on them just yet).

Perhaps most importantly, it's technically far more impressive than the clearly compromised Xenoblade Chronicles 2. That was a launch year title for the Switch way back at the tail-end of 2017, of course, and in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 you can feel the five years of progress and familiarity that Monolith Soft have built up with the hardware - this looks simply sublime playing either handheld or docked, with the impossible vistas of the world of Aionios stretching to the distance (it bodes well for Breath of the Wild 2, too, with Monolith Soft's epic topography so key to the success of Zelda's open world outings). It's seriously impressive stuff, and Digital Foundry will have a deeper dive on the details closer to launch.