Today Cygames hosted a panel at its Tech Conference discussing the Cyllista Game Engine that is being used for its still mysterious JRPG codenamed Project Awakening.

We get to take a look at a brief teaser demonstrating how the engine builds the game’s open world, and then a few clips of the terrain and foliage system in action.

You can watch them below. At the bottom of the post you can also find the relevant slides of the presentation, showcasing more images.

We learn that the engine is geared toward production efficiency, enabling the efficient creation and editing of terrain on a vast scale, both for close-up views and for distant vistas, the same goes for foliage.

It also includes tools that let developers quickly update the terrain directly in the game, alongside the placement of foliage.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host as we look back at the best community works from the previous week. Well, Extra Life's Game Day came and went and the Giant Bomb Team ended up raising $123,244, which as of the writing of this Spotlight is enough to put the team #4 on Extra Life's overall team rankings. Many thanks to all who participated! Both users and staff allowed this year's Extra Life to go off without a hitch. Also, please be aware, Fundraising Pages (new and old) stay open through December 31! If you were not able to donate or participate during the event, you still can! Also, don't think this is the end of Giant Bomb's Extra Life coverage! We still have some heavy-hitters yet to stream for the event. Finally, if you enjoy the Community Spotlight feature, please consider donating to my Extra Life page.

Today Arc System Works revealed the third DLC character that will be added to its popular fighting game Guilty Gear -Strive-.

The new character is Happy Chaos and we get to see him in action. We also learn that he’ll be released on December 3, but those who have purchased the first character pass will be able to play him on November 30.

Happy Chaos won’t be the only update coming to the game, as room customization will also be implemented, allowing players to decorate their match rooms with over 500 items. They can be acquired via fishing mode by using coins earned in the game.

You can check out the announcement trailer below, both in Japanese and English depending on your voice-over preference.

This is the perfect period for those currently trying to level up a character.

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Azur Lane’s popularity has been drawing the attention of hobby manufacturers and another figure has been made available for pre-order.

The figure, produced by Neonmax, portrays the Chinese shipgirl Ying Swei, who was introduced in the game to celebrate the Lunar New Year in January 2021.

You can pre-order her at Ami Ami for 21,780 yen, which translates approximately into $191.

The prototype is sculpted by CKB and painted by Hiiro (scarlet). The scale is 1/7 for an approximate height of 30 mm.

She’s inspired directly by Ying Swei’s main illustration in the game, so the pose should prove pretty much familiar to players who haven’t missed the event in which she was available.

The release is a year away, as she’ll ship in November 2022. In the meanwhile, you can check out what the prototype looks like below.

Uneven, to say the least It’s been a rocky (early access) launch for Battlefield 2042 for many players, which comes...

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As players continue to criticize the recently released GTA Trilogy remastered collection, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive has decided this is the perfect time to use DMCA takedown notices to remove some more GTA mods and fan projects.

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Extinguish some flames Elden Ring is actually playable soon via the closed network test. And you know what that means?...

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A Short Hike hits PlayStation and Xbox on 16th November.

Adam Robinson-Yu's A Short Hike, one of the very best games of 2019, is already out on PC and Nintendo Switch. Its launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One means players on PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One X and Series S and X can experience A Short Hike in 4K.

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Seamus Blackley, the father of the Xbox who is now better known for baking ancient bread, has shared a message ahead of the 20th anniversary of Xbox.

Posting on Twitter, Blackley said said the team who helped design and release the Xbox only are owed about 40% of the credit for the success of the console. "The real people who made Xbox successful are gamers and fans. You guys, " Blackley said. "Without the support of the people who took the risk to buy the thing, it never could have succeeded."

"And buying an Xbox and being an Xbox fan--convincing your mom, your boyfriend, your girlfriend that it was OK to have an Xbox, to have a console from the company that made Excel, was a big deal," he added. "Especially in 2000. It wasn't obvious. It was something, you know, that took some intestinal fortitude to be an Xbox fan. And I really appreciate that. The credit is yours. So thank you."

A Grand Theft Auto mod website has said a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strike forced a Grand Theft Auto 4 save file offline.

The people behind LibertyCity.net, which hosts mod files for a number of Grand Theft Auto games, said three files were removed after two DMCA claims received on 11th November.

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Rabble Rousing? Friends, I don’t know what to tell you with this one. Still hot on its Namco kick, the...

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With incredibly detailed gameplay and more player options than you'd expect, Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi is fun to figure out.

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Doomscrolling is that thing where you spend way too much time flipping through Twitter or Instagram reading bad news. And apparently, a metal guitarist in Dallas, Texas thought it would be the perfect name for a new band. But after attempting to trademark the band name, Doom devs Id Software began a legal opposition…

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Third-party developers released quite a few new screenshots of upcoming airports for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with an interesting tease by a new developer named “Saviart” that opened its Facebook page showcasing Milano Malpensa (LIMC) in Italy, which should be ready in about two months.

Early access to the first DLC pack will also start on the same day.

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Dataminers have discovered code relating to the infamous Hot Coffee mini-game from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition.

However, dataminers suggest it may be impossible to enable Hot Coffee in the remastered version of San Andreas.

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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has released new videos showcasing its growing space simulator.

Today we take a look at an interesting discussion on how the developers plan to evolve space combat in the future within the game.

As a bonus, we also get a second video featuring concept artist Gavin Rothery, albeit this is more on Rothery himself than about Star Citizen.

You can check both out below.

In other Star Citizen news, the crowdfunding total has just passed $397 million and it’s currently sitting on $397,608,132.

The release of Call of Duty: Vanguard is a contentious one - but on a technological level, it's a return for the brilliant Modern Warware 2019 engine (known internally as IW8), enhanced and expanded upon to accommodate the ambitious of Sledgehammer Games' latest offering. There are engine advances designed specifically for multiplayer, but for my money, it's the campaign that is the star of the show. Telling the story of an elite squadron delivered via set-piece after set-piece, the technology shines thanks to brilliant materials work, stunning lighting and remarkable volumetrics. IW8 was always designed to scale across the generations - and the end result is a highly polished result on the new wave of machines, albeit with some oddities and blemishes that the developers should address.

Today Team Coreupt released a new trailer of the upcoming fighting game, focusing on one of its playable characters.

We get to see Winry in action against another of the game’s characters, Gatling, who she basically uses as a punching bag.

You can check her out in the trailer below.

At the moment, not much is known about Coreupt besides the fact that it looks impressive and it’ll be free to play for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.

The game doesn’t have a release window just yet besides “soon.” We also know that the game is using Bolt Framework by ArcForged.

“Ah shit, here we go again.” Before I jump into each individual game, let’s discuss the high-res textured elephant in...

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The figure comes ready with Kugisaki's signature hammer and nails.

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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition has suffered a pretty bad launch since releasing on November 11. On PC, players have been unable to play the game for over 24 hours due to Rockstar Launcher issues. All versions of the game are filled with bugs, visual glitches, horrible weather effects, missing fog,…

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Jeymes Samuel on Westerns vs. sci-fi, turning reggae into Old West music, and miracles on the set

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Akatsuki and Too Kyo Games released another trailer of their upcoming mixed media project Tribe Nine, introducing one of the tribes showcased in the game.

The new trailer introduces the Ota Tribe, its characters, and its theme song, “Gareki War.”

This follows previous trailers focusing on the Minato and Chiyoda Tribes, on the Adachi Tribe, and on the Taito tribe.

You can watch it below.

In the past, a game console's success in competing against other major systems was based on a few recurring factors. They were the obvious ones--game lineup, price, unique features, power--but this generation is already a lot different. After a full year, both the Xbox Series X and the PS5 remain nearly impossible to find, even for those vigilantly waiting on Walmart and Best Buy pages for the latest supply to go on sale. Continued parts shortages and shipping issues exacerbated by the global pandemic have kept supply far below demand, making any public sales figures for the systems less about which is more popular and more about which company could make the most. With no end in sight for some of the key factors contributing to the consoles' scarcity, their mere availability could be a metric for success this generation.

Back in April, I wrote a piece detailing why both the Xbox Series X and PS5 were so difficult to find--about five months after the consoles launched. At the time, it was already an unusually long period of scarcity for the systems, and nothing has changed since then. For context, a graph of search interest for both "Xbox One stock" and "PS4 stock" shows a big peak in November 2013, followed by a fairly sharp decline that had bottomed out by the end of winter. From that point on, finding an Xbox One or PS4 wasn't all that difficult. If the local Walmart didn't have one, the local Target, Best Buy, or GameStop probably did.

Today Microsoft released a brand new video dedicated to its massively-anticipated first-person shooter Halo Infinite.

The video is another from a series showing small glimpses of the lore behind the Master Chief equipment, and this time around, we meet the colonial miners who made the ultimate sacrifice to extract the ore after the bombardment of a UNSC excavation site.

This follows another video focusing on the energy shield and one on the grapple hook.

You can enjoy it below.

Halo Infinite launches on December 8, 2021, for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.

If you’d like to know more, you can check out a recent trailer and read an official description below.

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From shonen to shōjo and everything in between

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The dreaded bra-snap While I generally wouldn’t say that any of their games are in the fluctuating list I might...

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He also revealed the top ten most played games on the PS5 in the blog post.

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The first season of Game Informer’s Video Gameography explores the history of the Metroid series. After running down Samus' 2D outings, we’re ready to venture into the world of 3D with Metroid Prime.

Released on November 17, 2002 for Nintendo's Gamecube, Metroid Prime is often considered one of the best games of its era. However, to better understand Metroid Prime's influence we first have to go back to the tumultuous founding of Retro Studios. In order to develop Metroid Prime, Retro canceled four other projects, and even then many of its designers almost didn't survive development. In the end, Retro created a total masterpiece that feels ahead of its time. Join us as we talk about Retro's struggles, why Shigeru Miyamoto felt that the morph ball was essential to the formula, and how we almost saw Kraid in 3D. 

Join hosts Ben Reeves (@BenjaminReeves), Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), and special guest, Game Informer's own Blake Hester (@metallicaisrad) for the next hour as we explore Metroid Prime's lore, development history, and lasting impact. 

A Battlefield 2042 skin that references the Russo-Ukrainian War will be renamed, DICE has said.

DICE was criticised for the epic-tier "Little Green Man" skin for Battlefield 2042 specialist Pyotr "Boris" Gukovsky.

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A brand-new teaser for Halo Infinite has arrived amid ongoing rumors that the game's multiplayer element will be released early to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary. The new teaser shows off the backstory of how Master Chief got his exoskeleton technology.

"After the bombardment of a UNSC excavation site, colonial miners volunteered to extract an ore critical to the Master Chief's exoskeleton despite threat of the cave collapsing," reads a line from the video.

This is the third episode in the UNSC Archives series that digs into the "untold stories of humanity and heroism" from the Halo lore. The first revealed the heartbreaking story behind Master Chief's energy shields and the second revealed the origins of Master Chief's new Grappleshot for Halo Infinite.

Who is your favorite SSR in Fate/Grand Order?

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Picture the scene: It's the dawn of a new century, E3 2000 is in full swing, and the one game stealing all of the attention at that event is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. A direct sequel to the landmark game that debuted on the PS1 in 1998, game director Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami's follow-up was announced with a trailer that had everyone talking.

It was nine minutes of next-gen PS2 gameplay and impressive cinematics, a showcase of Sony's upcoming console that featured Solid Snake performing his trademark tactical espionage actions while he was being hunted by mercenaries across a rain-soaked freighter ship. Hype was building up, fans dialed up their expectations for the return of Solid Snake to 11, and a demo of the game that came with Hideo Kojima's mechnificent Zone of the Enders saw Metal Gear Solid 2 mania reach critical mass.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is now 20 years old.

The Hideo Kojima-helmed stealth sequel launched in North America on 13th November 2001 on PlayStation 2, before coming out soon after in Japan, then in Europe in March 2002.

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It looks increasingly likely Halo Infinite's multiplayer will be made available to play on Monday, 15th November.

Twitter user Adam Fairclough revealed Xbox store data for Halo Infinite multiplayer included reference to the 15th November date.

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Rockstar is being inundated with refund requests as the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition backlash intensifies.

The company's official Twitter support page has been replying to a constant stream of refund requests ever since Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition went on sale on 11th November.

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Rockstar pulled Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition from sale on PC to "remove files unintentionally included", it's admitted.

This week the PC version launched exclusively on the Rockstar Games Launcher. Soon after, the Rockstar Games Launcher went offline, making Rockstar's PC games played through it unplayable. In the same breath, Rockstar removed the ability to buy the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition from its website.

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