Horizon Forbidden West has one of the most extraordinary suites of in-game and accessibility options, making for a frankly daunting collection of tweaks and changes available to adapt the game for exactly how you want to play it. But there’s one feature buried there that you’ve likely missed, and it’s amazing:…
The bubble dragon brothers are back with a brand new surprise, as two brand new limited physical editions of Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey have just been revealed for PlayStation. These titles allow players to explore lush local while solving 100 new puzzles in Puzzle Bobble’s first-ever 3D and optional VR experience.
You can check out the official trailer and list of features below.
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Along with announcing a spiritual sequel to Hypnospace Outlaw, named Dreamsettler, the alt-reality webmasters at Tendershoot today revealed a curious spin-off. Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance Of The Slayer is an FPS 'made by' one of Hynospace's netizens, the rude 'tude dude Zane "ZANE_ROCKS_14" Lofton. It's a retro-styled shooter overflowing with that trademark Zane 'tude, and you can see a bit in the trailer below.
Unreal Engine 5 has finally released, after nearly a year of early access and nearly two years since its reveal (featuring that Tomb Raiderish tech demo). Having launched a few minutes into Epic Games’ State of Unreal event, Unreal Engine 5 is likely to be the basis of many a PC game over the next few years, in addition to a few in-development games that have already made the jump: games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Black Myth: Wukong.
Two years after Epic Games revealed Unreal Engine 5 with a gorgeous tech demo, the next-gen games engine is officially available. It's been released alongside a playable shooter, Lyra.
Unreal Engine 5 is Epic’s latest in the line of game engines available to game developers big and small. While the release of a new game engine isn’t typically news that excites folks until, well, video games start getting made with them, Epic first revealed Unreal Engine 5 with a blockbuster tech demo.
Called Lumen in the Land of Nanite, the tech demo was made to specifically demonstrate two of the marquis features of Unreal Engine 5. Lumen is a dynamic illumination tool where the light adapts to the world naturally and easily.
Nanite, meanwhile, lets developers import film-quality visual assets into the game while maintaining a real-time frame rate and without dips in fidelity.
While tech demos are a nice early glimpse at what a new engine is capable of, Lumen in the Land of Nanite shared an early look at the power of next-gen consoles and made its heroine, Lumen, popular enough to guest in Fortnite.
Hypnospace Outlaw is getting a sequel. Well, a spiritual sequel called Dreamsettler. But it's almost exactly the same thing: a detective game set in an old version of the internet, which you'll trawl to uncover a mystery.
And there's more: another new game called Slayer X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer. It's more of an accompaniment or spin-off, and it's fictitiously made by Hypnospace Outlaw character Zane! Though developer Tendershoot and publisher No More Robots are so committed to this fiction they'll even apparently roleplay as Zane when answering questions on Steam forums and so on.
The Slayer X game is like retro Doom, or Duke Nukem 3D - a game in that vein. It's pixelated and filled with trashy gore and ridiculous weaponry. And if you know the story of Hypnospace Outlaw, you'll know Zane is out for revenge. He apparently found an old CD-ROM with the game on and decided to brush it up for a noughties audience.
After jacking into an alt-reality 90s Internet in Hypnospace Outlaw, creators Tendershoot are now jumping forward a few years with a "spiritual sequel" named Dreamsettler. Announced today, Dreamsettler will once again send us into an unconscious alternet, this time set from 2003-2005. Watch the trailer below for a peek at the wonders awaiting.
Amazon Games has outlined its April and May content plan for Lost Ark, including two new playable classes.
Coming in April is the Glaivier, a new female martial artist advanced class who weaves together attacks with a spear and glaive depending on the two stances she uses: Focus and Flurry.
"“"While certain builds may focus your attention onto one of these weapons, an effective Glaivier can maximize their potential by creating balance between the two stances, building up energy in one stance which grants an impactful stat-boost when swapping to the other,"”" reads the blog post.
Yesterday, Monkey Island fans got the news they’d be waiting years to hear, as creator Ron Gilbert confirmed that a new game in the series has already been in development for the last two years and that it would be released later this year. Titled Return to Monkey Island, the new game is set just after the events of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, once again starring Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate.
With the news that Return to Monkey Island would pick up after the events of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, many were wondering what exactly that meant for the three games that were released after that 1991 installment. Will there be new stories? Will all the characters we loved from those games be erased? Oh, god, what about Murray?!
These are just some of the questions fans have had over the past 24 hours. Thankfully, Gilbert has already assured fans on Twitter that Return to Monkey Island will be very careful about respecting the previous canon. More importantly, he also confirmed that Murray is indeed in the game.
Developer Tendershoot is releasing two sequels to '90s internet simulator Hypnospace Outlaw – and they're both due to arrive this year.
Dreamsettler is the true spiritual sequel to Hypnospace, putting players inside the internet of the early 2000s. Meanwhile, Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer is a Doom-like first-person shooter featuring a character from the original Hypnospace Outlaw.
The games were announced by Tendershoot and publisher No More Robots during their Hypnospace Next presentation and are due for release on PC and consoles.
Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dreamsettler will have players navigating a parodic version of the internet – but where the first game was set in a '90s-like cyberspace, Dreamsettler takes aim at the early 2000s. The new game see you take on the role of a digital private investigator navigating the dawn of social media. Tendershoot promises a weird and wonderful story that's uncovered through watching videos, exploring websites, and searching files.
Slayers X takes the Hypnospace universe in a very different direction, following the character of Zane Lofton from the original game in a Doom-esque first-person shooter that retains the wacky style of Hypnospace.
Set in 2022, Lofton is now 37 and is re-releasing a game he made when he was 14. In it, he must take down the Psyko Sindikate in a fourth-wall breaking adventure (to the point where the fictional developer has a real Twitter account). While it didn't give an exact release date, Tendershoot promised that Slayers X is coming "very soon."
Publisher No More Robots and developer Tendershoot held a Hypnospace Next presentation today, revealing what comes next for the Hypnospace Outlaw series, and it's not one but two new games coming this year.
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First is a spiritual successor to Hypnospace called Dreamsettler, set in an alternate reality in the early 2000s. In Dreamsettler, you'll play as an internet private detective trying to solve problems for other users on the Somnius Sleepnet Systems. There will be all kinds of familiar references while surfing this shifted reality version of a burgeoning time for the web. You'll experience an early version of social media, listen to alternate-reality genres of music, and explore a version of the 00s internet that's much like our own but with some abnormalities. Although, No More Robots hints it will get weirder as it gets even darker.
Over the past few months, Microsoft has bucked expectations and irritated games journalists everywhere by dropping gems, like Tunic and Paradise Killer, on Game Pass without warning. Then it went silent on the Game Pass front for weeks. For a while there, some reasonable observers (hi) assumed Microsoft did away with…
Ubisoft’s long-running tactical shooter, Rainbow Six Siege, is coming to iOS and Android devices as Rainbow Six Mobile, and a brand-new trailer has just been released to make the announcement.
This has been in development for over three years and was built from the ground up with mobile in mind, which means that controls and gameplay are altered to create a better fit for iOS and Android devices.
So far, only two maps — Bank and Border — and 10 classic Operators have been confirmed, but more will be added in the future. Here are the five Attackers and five Defenders that we know so far:
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Those who want to get in on the action a bit early can sign up right here on the official site for a chance to play the game before it releases.
You can check out the reveal trailer below to get a quick look at a mix of cinematics and gameplay from Rainbow Six Mobile.
Everything is permitted, the classic Assassin's Creed slogan says - and that's certainly true for Fortnite's bustling item shop.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla heroine Eivor will become available to purchase later this week with a bundle of themed items, alongside a general launch for the game's previously-released Ezio promotional skin.
Both Ezio and Eivor will make their item shop debuts upon the store's refresh on Thursday night (that's 1am Friday here in the UK).
Today Creative Assembly revealed the first major update for Total War: Warhammer III, including plenty of improvements.
Besides stability and performance optimizations, we also get several balance changes to the campaign.
Prominently, certain aspects of the campaign certainly applied a lot of negative modifiers to factions fighting against the spread of chaos, and the update changes that pretty radically.
Below you can check out a trailer, on top of a list of major changes. Do keep in mind that the video includes a major spoiler for the end of the campaign, so you should likely skip it if you haven’t finished it yet.
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Tales of Arise is a great game – it’s one of Game Informer’s highest-reviewed games of 2021, with us giving it a 9.25 out of 10. For that reason, it’s easy to imagine a sequel or follow-up to it, even though it does end quite nicely, all things considered. However, it doesn’t sound like one is in the cards.
A new video from Bethesda has offered a closer look at VASCO, the first Starfield companion to be revealed.
VASCO is an expeditionary robot in the service of Constellation, which is denoted by his white and red paintwork. Based on a bipedal chassis, VASCO was designed to aid in extended overland journeys, and comes equipped with components to aid in the carrying of survival gear and payloads.
Starfield's lead artist, Istvan Pely, says that VASCO is a peaceful robot, but "does have defensive capabiulities should the need arise". The concept art shown in the video suggests Vasco's right arm houses some kind of rifle, and a square box on his should could perhaps be some kind of launcher.
Pely describes VASCO as a "reliable companion that an intrepid explorer like yourself can depend on," and "a utillitarian, heavy industrial machine well suited to the rigors of space travel."
For more from Starfield, be sure to take a look at the multiple factions that you will be able to join, how it will update an old Oblivion dialogue mechanic, and some fantastic concept art.
Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.
Ubisoft has unveiled Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mobile, an upcoming free-to-play tactical first-person shooter mobile game from the Rainbow Six franchise.
In this new game, players will be pitted against each other in 5v5 matches, or "Attack vs Defence". As the name suggests, attackers will have to gain intel on their enemy by deploying drones and breaching "walls, floors and ceilings". Meanwhile, those on the defence team will have to ensure their intel is secure with the use of spy cameras and traps.
You can check out Rainbow Six Mobile's reveal trailer below.
The stylish side-scrolling samurai story Trek To Yomi will launch on the 5th of May, publishers Devolver Digital announced today. And to sate your black-and-white bloodthirst until then, they've released a new 15-minute gameplay trailer full of monochromatic murder. Check it out below.
Today Sega revealed the new major update coming in June for Phantasy Star Online 2, on top of content coming in April.
This month will see three content drops. Tomorrow, April 6, we’re getting the Casual Comfort AC Scratch ticket.
April 13 will see the release of new SG scratch items and new high-rank content for Retem.
April 20 will see the implementation of the Geometric Labyrinth, a new challenge for groups of 4 players.
The big reveal is the major update coming in June, which will be titled “Frozen Resolution.” As the title suggests, it’ll be focused on a wintery area called Kvaris.
You can watch the first look below.
A ton of content is being added to Lost Ark over the next two months including a new continent, classes, and raids.
Amazon Games didn't give specific release dates in its April and May roadmap but broke the content down by each month, revealing that the new continent, South Vern, and a new martial artist class are coming this month.
South Vern is a brand new region in Lost Ark that joins Punika as the second Tier 3 continent, requiring an item level of 1340 to begin. It features new quests, characters, and stories centred around Queen Ealyn and and Knight Commander Avele.
The new class coming in April is the Glaivier, a martial artist class that uses a short spear in the Flurry stance and a glaive in the Focus stance. Players are encouraged to use both modes as different abilities activate when swapping between stances.
The second new character, the Destroyer, arrives in May. This fourth warrior advanced class wields a massive hammer and can bend gravity to its will, pulling and pushing enemies away to set up devastating attacks.
Also coming in May are the Trial Guardian Raids, a new weekly activity where players can attempt to defeat the three Trial Guardians. These enemies rotate out each week and scale to the player's item level, so Amazon Games hopes they'll provide a constant and fresh challenge.
A new Guardian raid is also coming in the form of Deskaluda, arriving as one of the most powerful in the game requiring an item level of 1415.
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Blizzard Entertainment
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With folks constantly on the prowl for hands-off strategies in Elden Ring, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to reach the end of the game without fighting anything at all.
The enjoyable Life is Strange: True Colors is the next major addition to Xbox Game Pass.
The latest entry in the teen-with-special-powers narrative adventure series first launched last summer, and was warmly received. It's "a beautiful return to small-town mystery and young adult drama," I wrote in Eurogamer's Life is Strange: True Colors review.
True Colors is just one of Microsoft's latest list of titles headed to Xbox Game Pass through the first half of April. Also on the cards are sports games Cricket 22 and MLB The Show 22, plus gothic fairytale Lost in Random and cybernoir point-and-click adventure Chinatown Detective Agency.
Another lineup of games will be coming to the Xbox Game Pass service on PC, Xbox consoles, and the cloud during the first half of April, Microsoft revealed today.
Starting today, Game Pass subscribers on console and cloud can play MLB The Show 22. The baseball title had been playable since April 1 for those who bought the MVP Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, but now anyone can play. Also available beginning today is Cricket 22 for console and cloud.
A few titles will be coming on April 7 including “cybernoir” point and click adventure game Chinatown Detective Agency for PC, console, and cloud. The other titles are Dragon Age 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and Star Wars: Squadrons that are now playable in the cloud via EA Play.
Coming April 12 is Square Enix’s Life Is Strange: True Colors for PC, console, and cloud alongside strategy game Panzer Corps 2 and tactical RPG The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk for PC. Although, The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk is currently available on console and cloud. Finally, action-adventure gothic fairytale Lost In Random will be coming to PC, console, and cloud via EA Play on April 14.
Microsoft also revealed games leaving Xbox Game Pass this month, such as the previous edition of MLB The Show and cute comedy game Rain on Your Parade. The full list of games leaving includes:
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a compilation of games featuring the stories of the nine mainline Star Wars movies. The game is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox One and Series X after its release on 5th April 2022.
The game promises the same charming action adventure gameplay you can expect from a Lego game. That means slicing through enemies with your lightsabre and destroying different parts of the environment to find all sorts of collectibles. What's also great about this game is, regardless of platform, being able to complete the story through local co-op. So if you have more than one Star Wars fan in your life, this could be a great game to play together.
Below we've listed all the best places to purchase Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga standard and deluxe editions, as well as where you might still be able to grab some pre-order bonuses.
Chrono Cross is a time travel tale but it often feels more like a ghost story, albeit one rendered in dazzling, oceanic colours that give every pre-rendered backdrop the ambience of a tropical reef. Teenage protagonist Serge is gathering shells on the beach one day when he tumbles through a portal to a parallel world. This world has a different history: its version of Serge died as a child, his epitaph written in coral high above the waves. Seeking answers, Serge meets a boisterous, Australian-accented girl called Kid, and joins the hunt for a sinister, cat-headed man who is himself searching for something called the Frozen Flame.
This journey sees you warping back and forth between worlds, the basis for a narrative in which every character, place or thing is haunted by its alternative. In one reality, a vast technological complex exists far across the sea; in another, it is a ruin. In one reality, a local man has become an accomplished fisherman; in the other, he is a feverish recluse who worships a straw idol (which you can eventually recruit as a party member). In one reality, the lagoons surrounding a fairy village have been drained, thwarting access to a dragon; in the other, they have been overrun by goblins ousted from their homelands.
Earlier this year, social media was utterly dominated by little green, yellow, and black squares as everyone triumphantly (or otherwise) showed off their Wordle scores. The hype has since died down considerably, but not without pushing Wordle to the second-most-discussed game on Twitter in 2022 so far.
This is according to data shared by Twitter, which put Genshin Impact as the most-discussed game between January and March this year. Apex Legends clocked in at No.4, followed by Final Fantasy at No.5.
Despite what your timeline might have looked like in the last month, Elden Ring was only the seventh-most-discussed game for that period. That said, the conversation doesn't appear to have slowed at all, based on this graphic shared by Twitter:
Ubisoft has announced Rainbow Six Mobile, a new game that brings the core gameplay of Rainbow Six Siege to mobile devices.
Rainbow Six Mobile looks and plays like its console counterpart; it’s a 5v5 attack and defend FPS with destructible environments and a variety of specialist gadgets. Attackers use drones, explosives, and various other offensive items to push their way into the defending team’s fortified positions.
Welcome Operators to Rainbow Six Mobile!
— Rainbow Six Mobile (@Rainbow6Mobile) April 5, 2022
Rainbow Six Mobile will bring the same tactical shooter gameplay that you love to your mobile devices.
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While a huge amount of Rainbow Six Mobile appears to be a near enough straight adaptation of Rainbow Six Siege, there are some notable changes. Matches are shorter as R6 Mobile is a best-of-three-rounds affair, and the HUD has been adjusted to work for mobile. It also seems, at least at launch, that there will be a smaller pool of maps and operators to pick from. Confirmed so far are classic locations Bank and Border, while Ubisoft says “the most popular Rainbow Six operators” will be included.
Chrono Cross was one of those Square JRPGs that never made its way to Europe at its original time of release. Heck, the first time I got to play time-travel classic Chrono Trigger was when the Nintendo DS version came out in 2009, almost 15 years after it first came out on the SNES. Chrono Cross, its semi-related but not direct sequel, has taken even longer to get here. First releasing on the original PlayStation in 1999 in Japan (and 2000 in the US), it's finally arriving on PC and modern consoles on April 7th as Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, which bundles the original game with its accompanying text-based side story Radical Dreamers that only ever released on the ill-fated Satellaview. The latter's original 4:3 pixel art looks mildly ropey blown up on today's screens, but the main game has received all the modern conveniences you've come to expect from Square Enix's recent run of retro PC ports: new HD character models, re-orchestrated music, multiple font options, and the holy grail: a fast-forward button.
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Square Enix
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In recent years, Square Enix has been porting a portion of its hallowed JRPG library onto modern consoles in a plethora of ways. Titles from Final Fantasy, the Mana series, and more have found their way onto consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, providing an excellent history lesson to those who want to understand the foundations of contemporary RPGs. Chrono Cross is next on the list, and on this episode of New Gameplay Today, we're taking a look at the fan-favorite title and letting you know how The Radical Dreamers Edition holds up.
Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you had made different choices? What would things be like if you had taken a different career path, or what if you had never met your closest friends or significant other?
Perhaps a single decision you made at one point in your life set you on a path that took you to where you are right now, reading this review. If you had made a different decision, would your life be the way it is today?
How would the world be different if you had died at a young age? Would it be any different at all?
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition explores these concepts and more. You play as a boy named Serge who lives in a quiet fishing village before he is transported to a parallel dimension. Here, everything and everyone seems similar, but he quickly learns a disturbing difference: in this alternate world, Serge died 10 years ago. He teams up with new friends who help defend him from Lynx, the main antagonist.
Today Aksys Games announced that it will bring west the recently-released (in Japan) Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid shoot ’em up by Bushiroad with the title Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Burst Forth!! Choro-gon☆ Breath.
The game will come this summer for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
If you’ve not kept up with the news about it, here’s an official description directly from the press release.
“After being abducted by a cursed PC, the dragons and Miss Kobayashi must combine their powers to escape.
After receiving a cryptic email, Miss Kobayashi and her maids go to Takiya’s house to investigate. There they are mysteriously (and overdramatically, let’s face it) sucked into the PC. Help them clear stages by banding together and using their wits to defeat the computer. Using the 3-fold attack system of Long Range, Melee and the unique and deadly Choro-gon Breath (they’re dragons, get it?), you’ll obliterate the enemy! Combine the power of three with the Tag System by using Tohru, Kanna, and Elma to tackle each stage with Kobayashi’s support. There’s no enemy they can’t defeat! In certain conditions, activate the dragons’ Raging Spark to deal even deadlier damage!
As you progress, collect 30 unique Memorial Pieces of the friends’ precious daily life in beautiful illustrations created especially for the game!”
Splatoon 2 icons have come to Nintendo Switch Online.
Last month saw Nintendo add a new missions and rewards section to its Switch Online service. Included here were a series of new icon elements from Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario Odyssey.
Now, these icons have been refreshed for April, with NSO users now able to get their hands on a different selection of Animal Crossing themed icons (all based around islanders with April birthdays) as well as ones from Splatoon 2.
MSI have always made great accessories focussed primarily for PC gamers, and that includes their monitors.
Right now, their MAG Artymis curved gaming monitor is currently a third off at Amazon, available for just £149. A saving of £70 is quite significant at this price point.
The 24 inch monitor has a VA panel, so you'll get a wide range of viewing angles without having to compromise by going for a TN panel, for example. And with a 1000R curve, you're sure to be more immersed in your games than a standard flat panel.
Minecraft is being used to teach young people in schools about flooding.
A new mod, named Rivercraft, has been created and is currently being tested in a school in Preston, as detailed by Microsoft.
The mod was created in a collaboration between Minecraft, the Environment Agency and BlockBuilders, an organisation that specialises in digital youth engagement.