Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep is a fan-favorite DLC campaign that was originally released for Borderlands 2 back in 2013, and now, it’s available as a standalone game. Starting today, Assault on Dragon Keep can be bought for $9.99 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. In fact, it’s actually free to claim on the Epic Game Store until Nov. 16.

This new standalone title is being billed as a “Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure” as the March 25 launch date for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands slowly approaches. Assault on Dragon Keep is meant to introduce newcomers to the storyline that helped create the idea for Wonderlands.

If you’re unfamiliar with this Borderlands 2 DLC, it puts Tiny Tina in the role of Bunker Master in a game of Bunkers & Badasses. Think D&D but with more explosions, as players venture through castles, magic forests, dungeons, and more mystical settings.

You can check out the launch trailer for Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure below to see gameplay both new and familiar:

Just ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, Rockstar Games has created a series of animated GIFs and stickers for people to use.

All of these have been published to the official Rockstar Games Giphy page. They can be downloaded there, or you can find them in any messaging app that supports Giphy.

The GTA San Andreas GIFs included C.J. saying things like, "Where all the homies at?" and a simple, "Damn." The famous, "Ah sh** here we go again" is featured as well. For Vice City, there is a GIF of Ken saying to Tommy, "I'm gonna need new pants," and a GTA III GIF of Catalina saying to Claude, "I'm not to be trusted."

You can use these GIFs on Instagram, Tiktok, and anywhere else you send messages. There are, of course, many more than what's available on the Rockstar Games Giphy page, including some less than wholesome creations inspired by other parts of each game.

GTA The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition releases on November 11, featuring updated and improved versions of GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas with GTA V-style controls. November 11 is also the day that San Andreas comes to Xbox Game Pass.

Today Sony Interactive Entertainment and Polyphony Digital released another trailer of the upcoming racing game Gran Turismo 7.

The video stars producer Kazunori Yamauchi as he talks about one aspect of car culture that the franchise portrays, and that’s tuning your car to your liking. He also promises that Gran Turismo 7 will have more parts than ever before in the series.

This follows another trailer released a couple of weeks ago in which Yamauchi-san talked about car culture in general. We also saw one on collecting cars, one on racing, one on liveries, and one on the Scapes photo mode.

You can check out the video below.

With Bethesda Game Studios currently working on Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI is currently in pre-production and likely many years away. But fans are eager for new details on the game regardless, and creative director Todd Howard has offered some hints as to what features the next installment in the legendary RPG franchise may include.

In a new interview with IGN, Howard offered details on what he would change about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which may be a good indication of what fans can expect from The Elder Scrolls VI.

"There are a number of parts of [Skyrim] where we don't go deep enough, where it's a veneer in terms of its interactivity.[...] When we think about games and what we would want to do going forward, it's okay… whatever that system is… how deep can we make it?" Howard said. "The other thing is how AI and NPCs interact with you. That's something I think we still have a long way to go with."

Howard also spoke to IGN on the studio's commitment to making single-player games, but he left room open for experimentation when it comes to adding social elements.

"There are various ways you can talk about adding social elements to a game that I don't think take away from [the solo experience]," Howard said. "We've dabbled with some of that and not put it out, or things on paper, things we'd like to try in our games. So I don't want to rule that out."

As for when fans will be able to get their hands on The Elder Scrolls VI, Howard knows Bethesda's games take a long time to come to fruition.

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Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, the final DLC expansion that was released in 2013 for Borderlands 2, will relaunch this week on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC as a standalone title. On PlayStation and Xbox, the game will set you back $10, but it will be free until November 16 on PC through the Epic Games Store.

In case you missed it when it first launched nearly a decade ago, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is Dungeons & Dragons as viewed through a Borderlands lens and is widely regarded as the best expansion that Gearbox's loot-'n-shoot sequel had to offer.

Beyond poking fun at the strategy genre and banishing Mr. Torgue to the stockades, the campaign was also a touching send-off for one of the characters who perished during the events of Borderlands 2, allowing explosive weapons expert Tiny Tina to gain some closure in the process.

While the expansion had some genuinely heartwarming moments, its minute-to-minute gameplay was also a fantastic mix of magic, enchanting locations to explore, and an arsenal that could take out the dread Dragon Lord. Gearbox Software said in a statement that the re-release will feature brand-new loot and cosmetics.

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When Pokémon Unite devs TiMi Studio Group announced that the next character for the game would be Greedent, many scratched their heads. Others, I presume, had to Google what generation the squirrel-like monster even hailed from. And some fans just scrunched up their noses and thought, why?

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Riot Games has announced Hextech Mayhem, A League of Legends Story, which is a new rhythm-based game coming to Switch and PC next week. 

Revealed today, Hextech Mayhem is described by Riot as a “fast-paced rhythm runner” set in the world of League of Legends, as reported by Eurogamer. It specifically takes place in Piltover, and there’s going to be a lot of bombs in the city, courtesy of Ziggs. 

“From Choice Provisions comes Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, a fast-paced rhythm runner set in Piltover where every action has an explosive reaction and no amount of mayhem is too much,” the description for the announcement trailer reads. “Play as Ziggs on a quest to build the greatest bomb the world has ever seen while outrunning no-fun-allowed Heimerdinger.”

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FFIX Event Designer Kazuhiko Aoki explained how the data limits affected the game's story and theme impacted characters' designs.

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The CEO of Discord recently teased that the world’s largest gaming chat platform could potentially support cryptocurrency wallets. This has led many users to be nervous that their Nitro (a paid Discord service) subscriptions could be used to fund the scammy NFT ecosystem in the future. The teaser tweet caused massive…

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Today Microsoft revealed a new perk that will be added for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers starting today, 75 days of free Crunchyroll Premium: Mega Fan service.

You can access the perk both on Xbox and PC if you live in one of the supported regions (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are excluded), but you need to claim the perk by February 8, 2022, or you’ll miss out.

This will give you access to tons of anime series (over 1,000) to binge to your heart’s content, including new ones like Muv-Luv Alternative or The Faraway Paladin.

Once you claim the perk on your favorite device, you’ll be directed to the Crunchyroll site to activate the subscription.

As usual with this kind of promotion, you’ll need to insert your payment data and you will be charged if you don’t cancel the subscription before the 75 days are up. So if you don’t plan on keeping it going beyond the free period, do make sure to set an alarm or write it down on your calendar.

If you’re not familiar with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, it’s Microsoft’s premium subscription service that includes both Game Pass (on Xbox and PC) and Xbox Live Gold, on top of EA Play and access to cloud gaming with xCloud. It’s priced at $14.99 a month.

Halo Infinite will see Master Chief battle against the forces of the Banished on the damaged Zeta Halo, but it won't just be the Brute chieftain Escharum players have to worry about.

In a new interview with IGN, 343 Industries has offered new details on Jega, a terrifying elite assassin that is part of a group of enemies classified as Spartan Killers. These Spartan Killers, who call themselves the Hand of Atriox--named after the Banished leader who first appeared in Halo Wars 2--serve as mini-bosses in Halo Infinite's campaign and are hellbent on destroying the Master Chief.

Jega looks to be the most ferocious of the group. Associate creative director Paul Crocker said the goal was to make him into "the creepiest, most distributing character that's been in Halo."

"Just every time you see him... he looks at things as prey," Crocker said. "The whole experience of how he toys with Chief is just... how he is."

Animal Crossing is a series about bootstrapping your way out of debt and into wealth and happiness. Now that most ACNH players have finally escaped the yoke of Tom Nook, there’s a new grifter in town: Lottie. According to one fan who did the math, the head of the house flipping enterprise as the heart of the Happy…

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As promised with the partial reveal in September during FlightSimExpo 2021, controller manufacturer Thrustmaster has fully revealed the TCA Yoke Boeing Edition.

Fully licensed by Boeing and Xbox, this controller brings to the table (literally) the “other side” of airliner simulation following the excellent Airbus version released last year.

Its design is inspired by the Boeing 787 which is currently flyable in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and its layout is also perfect for the upcoming 737 by PMDG. Of course, it’ll also work on older sims, if you’re into those.

Pre-orders are already available for the package with both the yoke and throttle quadrant and for the quadrant on its own. They will ship in December just in time for Christmas. The yoke on its own will come at a later date. Below you can find all the dates alongside the pricing.

Suggested retail prices:

• TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition — £449.99 / $499.99 / €499.99
• TCA Yoke Boeing Edition — £349.99 / $399.99 / €399.99
• TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition — £129.99 / $149.99 / €149.99

Preorder dates:

• TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition — November 9, 2021 — Worldwide
• TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition — November 9, 2021 — Worldwide
• TCA Yoke Boeing Edition — February 10, 2022 — Worldwide

Commercial availability dates:

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Spanish studio Gato Salvaje has made the decision to delay its upcoming tactical ARPG, The Waylanders, by 3 months, moving the game’s release date until Feb. 2. The Waylanders has been out in Steam Early Access for over a year, in which time the studio has added a substantial amount of new content and both improved and changed key systems ahead of a full launch.

While this week’s news of a delay will be disappointing to some fans who have already waited a long time, it sounds as though it’s a necessary step to ensure the full release is as polished as can be.

Gato Salvaje co-founder Fernando Prieto said in a press release:

“Releasing this month would not provide the quality experience our fans deserve. While we have been working hard to get all our backers and Early Access players the RPG they’d been hoping for before the holidays, we’ve done an internal review pass on The Waylanders and our team needs more time to polish the game.

Developing during Covid has been challenging for many teams, including ours, and rushing The Waylanders out the door after nearly four years of development will not make anyone happy. The Waylanders will have over two hours of cinematics and more than thirty hours of gameplay, and we want to provide the best possible day one release version to the community.” 

To help tide Early Access players over until the new release date, The Waylanders will receive Early Access and Games in Development updates improving several currently available areas of the game, such as The Cave of Eternity and the Fomorian World in The Corrupted Cove. The updates will also add remaining text localization for multiple Celtic era quests and fix community-reported bugs.

Square Enix will sell Kingdom Hearts Wayfinder necklaces based on the ones Aqua, Terra, and Venus wear in Birth by Sleep.

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Today, Netflix continues its heavy investment into the anime industry by announcing a ton of shows, including some very high profile sequels. In addition to animated productions, they’ve also announced live-action adaptations of several anime, original live-action series, and several films. It is, despite my reticence…

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Bethesda's Todd Howard has ideas for the next mainline Fallout game. Speaking to IGN, Howard was asked if Bethesda might hand a potential Fallout 5 off to another studio in a similar way to how it tapped Obsidian to develop Fallout: New Vegas.

Nothing is certain yet, Howard said, but he does have some ideas in mind for the next game.

"I don't see... Look, Fallout's really part of our DNA here," he said of developer Bethesda Game Studios. "We've worked with other people from time to time--I can't say say what's gonna happen. You know, we have a one-pager on Fallout 5, what we want to do."

The "one-pager" is likely a reference to a single-page document containing high-level details about the next Fallout game. Clearly, it's very early days for the next Fallout game.

Howard went on to say that Bethesda's main focus right now is on November 2022's Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, which remains years off. A potential fifth mainline Fallout game would follow sometime after, so it would be a very long time. Howard said he wishes development could progress faster.

"If I could wave my hand and have [Fallout 5] out--you know, I'd like to find a way to accelerate what we do, but I can't really say today or commit to anything, [like] what's going to happen when," Howard said.

While Fallout 5 might not be here anytime soon, Bethesda is working with Amazon on a Fallout TV series from the creators of Westworld.

The latest entry in the Fallout series is Fallout 76, which released in 2018. In a big shift for the series, the game is a multiplayer, online game. It had its fair share of issues at launch, and Bethesda has updated and improved the game since then.

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Riot has announced Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story.

It's a new rhythm runner developed by Choice Provisions, creators of the Bit.Trip series, and launches on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, GOG.com and the Epic Games Store on 16th November. It's due out on Netflix soon, Riot said.

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Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, the fan-favourite DLC for Borderlands 2, launches today as a standalone game.

The 2013 add-on now costs £7.99/$9.99 on PC via Steam, PlayStation and Xbox - or can be quickly nabbed for free until 16th November via the Epic Games Store.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find another movie as funny and full of heart as Guardians of the Galaxy. Not only is James Gunn’s sci-fi marvel visually impressive (pun intended!), but it also features a stellar cast of colorful characters that imbue the series with an immense level of charm, wit, and banter.

With Eidos-Montréal’s recently released video game adaptation – which we absolutely loved – and a third cinematic outing penciled in for 2023, we thought that now would be a good time to put your knowledge of the ragtag gang of misfits to the test.

All you’ll need to do is identify these ten characters from the recent Guardians of the Galaxy flicks off just a single image. I mean, they do say a picture speaks a thousand words, right?

So, without further ado, put on your favorite ’80s tunes, prepare yourselves for a dance-off, and try not to succumb to Peter Quill’s pelvic sorcery as we board the Milano and take a trip back to the iconic Marvel universe of Guardians of the Galaxy in Twinfinite’s latest movie quiz. Let’s get into it, shall we?

Orbx recently released its rendition of Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis Airport (LGSK) for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Since it serves as a popular Holiday destination, Skiathos airport is pretty much the domain of seasonal and charter flights. There are regular connections with Athens in the colder months, but those are served by turboprops like the ATR 42. We’ll have to wait a little longer to have those properly implemented in the simulator.

It’s also a very interesting airport due to its highly sloped runway and scenic approach over the city, its bay, and port.

It’s currently available on Orbx Direct for $17.49, which means that you can use the convenient Orbx Central client to install the airport and keep it up to date.

If you’d like an extensive look at the scenery, you can watch an approach and landing on runway 01 in the first video above, and a full flyover in a variety of lighting and weather conditions in the second video below.

The Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy of 2.5D side-scrolling platformers is currently to free to claim on PC this week.

If you're interested in trying the three games within the collection, you have until 12th November to nab a copy via Ubisoft Connect.

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Those who purchase the reproduction of the plastic model kit from Kotobukiya will receive special bonus items.

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Forza Horizon 5, the open-world racer from developer Playground Games, has a plethora of accessibility options. This includes text size adjustments and color blindness modes, as well as on-screen sign language interpreters coming soon. But did you know there’s also a setting to change reaction time? Or rather, there’s…

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Dead by Daylight goes back to its roots for its newly announced original chapter Portrait of a Murder.

The chapter is "an artistic ode to fear and darkness set in a surreal interpretation of an abandoned graveyard in the Chilean desert" and features a new killer and survivor.

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Being able to cook and grow new crops are some of the biggest changes in the new update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can make all kinds of dishes and even regular DIY recipes. There’s just one problem. Most of these new delicious-looking recipes require items we’ve never seen before, and it’s not readily…

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