I already forgive him A mysterious live stream has popped up on the PlatinumGames YouTube, which seems to imply that...
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Government prepares microscope Holding company Tencent, alongside developer TiMi Studio, has announced a brand new, open-world RPG set within the...
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I don't know this virtual woman whose cartons I'm unpacking, not really - I never see her face or hear her voice, but I feel connected to her all the same, just through the act of unpacking her belongings. Unpacking is what it says on the tin, a short game about unpacking after a move, but developer Witch Beam somehow managed to fit a whole life inside, expressed through holiday souvenirs, shampoo brands and plush animals.
Unpacking follows a woman across 6 formative moves over a timespan of roughly twenty years, starting with her childhood bedroom. Each move starts with boxes, neatly stacked in a random room, inviting you to just pull things out and find a place for them. Where you place items is largely up to you - Unpacking has a few rules and is fairly strict about you just dumping things on the floor, but you're given plenty of freedom, and if you don't like that the magnetic whiteboard absolutely has to go on the fridge, you can even activate an accessibility setting that lets you put stuff wherever.
With Halo Infinite's release now just about a month away, it appears the Microsoft marketing machine is set to kick into high gear. The Halo Twitter account posted a teaser on Monday that suggests some kind of new Halo Infinite marketing campaign is about to begin.
"UNSC Archives accessed. Contained within are the untold stories of humanity and heroism behind the Master Chief. Stay tuned for further transmissions," the tweet said, with the word "Become" as a hashtag. You can check out the video below and see if you can spot any secrets.
UNSC Archives accessed. Contained within are the untold stories of humanity and heroism behind the Master Chief. Stay tuned for further transmissions.
#Become #UNSCarchives #HaloInfinite pic.twitter.com/lUaadMRtFq
This year's Black Friday 2021 sale is almost upon us which means hefty discounts on a massive selection of gaming mice and keyboards. Whether you're seeking out a new pair of SteelSeries headphones or looking to cop a Corsair mouse at a discounted price, we've rounded up the best of what's out there.
While we've not officially arrived at the big sales day yet, gaming peripherals such as mice and keyboards get discounted throughout the year and there are some great deals available at the time of writing. As always, be sure to bookmark this page and keep checking back as we'll be updating it regularly once retailers announce their Black Friday deals for 2021.
Even if you’ve never dropped from the party bus, you’ve probably heard of Epic Games’ Fortnite. With large-scale crossover events and concerts, impressively generous content rollouts, record-shattering Twitch numbers, and numerous pop culture references, the cartoonish battle royale continues to have a widespread impact on multiple entertainment industries. However, many of Fortnite’s various features have been stripped away in China. Fortnite China, as it’s known, is an exclusive test build of the popular game that’s been fine-tuned to abide by Chinese media laws. Unfortunately, this test build will cease to exist later this month; Fortnite China is shutting down.
People can now head to the HoYoLab app or site to perform their Honkai Impact 3rd sign-in online to call dibs on all their daily rewards.
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You could say the reception was tepid When Nintendo announced that they were going to charge for the Switch Online...
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Apex Legends Season 11: Escape is going live tomorrow, on Nov. 2. We’ve already seen what the new Legend, Ash, can do, along with all of the other changes coming in the update. Today, Respawn has released the Battle Pass trailer to give fans a quick look at what’s to come in Apex Legends Escape in terms of cosmetics.
As usual, this pass will contain character skins, gun skins, gun charms, sprays, emotes, voice lines, and more. The main pulls this time around are the Legendary skins for Gibraltar, Mirage, and reactive, moving weapon skins for the Prowler.
The standard Battle Pass will cost 950 Apex Coins and net you skins for the Bocek Bow, Revenant, Wraith, and Loba. The premium pass will cost 2,800 Apex Coins and provide all of the above, as well as a 25-level jump along with the Legendary Mirage skin seen in the trailer.
You can check out the Apex Legends Escape Battle Pass trailer below to see a few of the many cosmetics will be available starting tomorrow.
Even when she was writing Harry Potter fanfiction as a child - something I'm sure she won't thank me for sharing - she was doing something she still does now: questioning the world around her and challenging the parts of she doesn't like. It's a mindset that would propel her to fame when collaborating on Inkle's celebrated narrative adventure 80 Days, as she unpicked the famous Jules Verne novel and the backwards colonial attitudes in it.
Since then, she's only gone from strength to strength, working on renowned projects such as Sunless Sea, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Boyfriend Dungeon and, more recently, open-world adventure Sable (when we talked, it had only been out a day). She is Meghna Jayanth, a leading voice in video game writing and narrative design, and this, in roughly an hour, is her life.
Naughty Dog's Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception was released on November 1, 2011, meaning today is the game's 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the studio published a blog post featuring insights and behind-the-scenes stories from the team that worked on it. The whole post is well worth a read, but there is one story that really stands out.
Naughty Dog vice president Christian Gyrling revealed in the post that, just days before the studio planned to send the game to Sony for manufacturing, what turned out to be a very serious set of bugs were discovered in the testing process. The bugs and glitches--which in some cases turned the ocean blood red and completely zapped some levels--were serious enough for the studio to question whether or not it could release the game.
"I myself brought the game home and started playing the game from the beginning. After a few hours of playing, the game started having glitches. The glitches got worse and worse until enemies would be invisible, the ocean became blood red, and levels would be outright missing. I freaked out, and the next morning, I walked into [Naughty Dog president Evan Wells'] office saying, 'We can't ship the game like this,'" Gyrling said. "Playing the game for a few hours on older PS3s would in almost all cases result in a broken game experience."
But Gyrling had an idea for what was causing the issue, and to test the hypothesis, the team created two versions of the game.
The Weird West is a brutal place to live. The prairie boomtowns are overrun with bloodthirsty outlaws, the vengeful undead are climbing out of their graves, and scheming witches are brewing dark magic on the outskirts of society. A heavy, dirgeful soundtrack follows the player everywhere as they cash in bounties, stave off the carnivorous wildlife, and stay one step ahead of everyone who wants to see them dead. In Wolfeye Studios' debut game, everyone is a suspect and nobody should be trusted; good thing you always have your trusty revolver.
Wolfeye Studios is composed of former Arkane veterans, and unsurprisingly, Weird West is steeped in that ill-defined "immersive sim" subgenre emblematized by games like Dishonored and Prey. This is a top-down action-RPG with a huge swathe of incisive, interlocking systems — all working in unison to submerge the player in this perverse interpretation of the American frontier. Weird West has multiple protagonists, but I spent my time with the game under the guise of an amnesiac bounty hunter tracking down her missing husband. You navigate to each encounter by moving from point to point on an all-encompassing map of the backcountry. As players carve through the main quest, they'll stumble into side quests, random encounters, and the occasional mysterious locale off the beaten track. My favorite of those was a band of mysterious cultists guarding a stone temple that seemed to hold some ancient, terrible secrets. It's exactly what you want out of a single-player adventure set in a beguiling, eldritch universe; the feeling that there's always another macabre layer of intrigue left to find.
The new manga series will be available for free on a Japanese online comic platform.
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Xbox Game Pass is starting November off strong. After half a year, It Takes Two, the acclaimed cooperative game from the makers of 2018’s A Way Out, is finally coming to the service, albeit only for those who pay for the premium tier. That’s alongside some other offerings (available to all subscribers). Here’s …
Stars of Blood, a long-lost space pirate game once in the works at Valve, has been glimpsed in newly-surfaced concept art.
The game's existance was acknowledged by Valve boss Gabe Newell during an interview in 2012, although the project had already been canned by that point.
Star Wars spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett premieres on December 29 on Disney+, and a new trailer gives us our first look at Boba’s first solo outing. The story sees the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy (no offense, Mando) transition into becoming its most powerful crime lord.
The series takes place after the events of Season 2 of The Mandalorian, with Boba sitting on the throne of Jabba the Hutt’s criminal empire. In his words, Jabba relied on fear to rule, but Boba intends to lead with respect. However, not all of Jabba’s former captains seem overly enthused by the change in management, putting Boba and his partner, Fennec Shand, in the crosshairs of some of the most dangerous crimelords and cutthroats in the galaxy. We feel bad for the criminals.
Click here to watch embedded mediaTemeura Morrison and Ming-Na Wen reprise their roles as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, respectively. The Book of Boba Fett’s executive producers include Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Colin Wilson, and Kathleen Kennedy. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, who directed The Mandalorian’s acclaimed Season 2 episode, “The Tragedy,” directs several episodes and also has executive producer credits.
Earlier today, Disney revealed the first major look at their upcoming sci-fi adventure spin-off of The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett. The series will follow the return and rise of the infamous Star Wars bounty hunter as he and Fennec Shand navigate the criminal underworld.
A few key takeaways from the trailer include the fact that Boba Fett will value rules over fear, but that there is also going to be a time and place for action as well. You can check out the official details for the series below.
Every galaxy has an underworld. Experience the new trailer for The Book of Boba Fett. The Original Series starts streaming on December 29 on Disney+.
“The Book of Boba Fett,” a thrilling Star Wars adventure teased in a surprise end-credit sequence following the Season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian,” finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
In addition to announcing all the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of November, Microsoft has listed off six games that are leaving the subscription catalog this month.
A total of six games will leave Xbox Game Pass across console, cloud, and PC on November 15, including Final Fantasy VIII HD, Planet Coaster, River City Girls, Star Renegades, Streets of Rogue, and The Gardens Between. You can see the full list below with platform details, too.
In terms of games that are coming to Game Pass, November is yet another very busy month. In the first half of the month alone, subscribers will get titles like Forza Horizon 5, GTA: San Andreas Definitive Edition, and Minecraft for PC, among others. See the full November Game Pass lineup.
The fan-made Bloodborne PSX-style demake will release for free in January 2022. There's also a new trailer showing it off.
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The Battlefield franchise has always been at home on PCs rather than consoles, and that isn't changing with Battlefield 2042. When the game launches in just a couple of weeks, PC players who have the right hardware in their gaming rigs will be able to run the game with some of Nvidia's choice gaming features including DLSS, Nvidia Reflex, and some light ray tracing.
DLSS, Nvidia's AI upscaling technique, is why a majority of ray tracing compatible games can run at a 4K resolution at the same time. For Battlefield 2042 players, the feature's inclusion should mean a clearer picture of the battlefield, and all the enemies in it. That being said, players won't necessarily need to turn on DLSS to run Battlefield 2042 at 4K even with the game's ray tracing options enabled.
Microsoft has announced the games coming to Xbox Game Pass and it's an exciting month ahead.
At the top of the billing is Forza Horizon 5, available day one from 9th November across PC, console and cloud. The latest in the series is set in Mexico and is looking stunning.
Another month, another batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass.
This month’s offerings feature some heavy hitters, too, including Xbox’s own Forza Horizon 5, Oscars-hating Josef Fares’ It Takes Two, a classic Grand Theft Auto title, and more. Xbox Game Pass costs $9.99 on Xbox consoles, or you can purchase a monthly Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription for $14.99. Both give you access to Xbox Live Gold, and the latter gets you Xbox Game Pass on both Xbox consoles and PC. Titles are added each month, and this November, nine games will hit the service.
Janina Gavanker, the actor who starred in Star Wars Battlefront 2 as main character Iden Versio, has announced that she is part of the upcoming Marvel game from Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig.
Gavankar shared the news on Twitter, saying, "I can FINALLY TELL YOU THIS! THIS is what I've been so lucky to be a part of. @Skydance + @amy_hennig x @Marvel = #SkydanceNewMedia."
This AAA, story-driven project that Skydance Media and Amy Hennig revealed in 2019 was confirmed to be a Marvel game just last week. While not much is known as to which characters it will focus on, we do know that it is being marketed as a "narrative-driven, blockbuster action-adventure game" and will feature a "completely original story and take on the Marvel Universe."
Ahead of the Hu Tao banner re-run in Genshin Impact, miHoYo shared a music video EP starring her and some stickers people can use online.
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Xbox Game Pass in November is shaping up to be one of the best months of Game Pass to date. With the likes of Forza Horizon 5 launching on November 9, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition on November 11, Football Manager 2022 on November 9, and It Takes Two on November 4.
There's also an excellent deal on Game Pass Ultimate at Amazon right now (see here), with a 3-Month pass down to $37.99 (was $44.99). Not only that, but starting November 2, new Xbox Game Pass for PC members can get 3 months for just $1. With it also being November, we should fully expect to see more Game Pass deals during the Black Friday sales everywhere.
Forza Horizon 5 is certainly a headliner for Xbox's Fall lineup of games, and probably only topped by next months blockbuster entry, Halo Infinite. Forza Horizon 5 is the highly anticipated racer developed by Playground Games, and fans will be set loose its slice of Mexico presented in the developers' typical style: a picturesque and idyllic driving paradise. It will launch on Xbox Game Pass for consoles, PC, and Cloud on November 9, with pre-loads available right now.
This deal will stack with your current membership. New users should subscribe using the $1 intro offer instead.
Bloodborne PSX, which is a PS1-style demake of the PS4 exclusive, will officially be released for free on January 31, 2022.
Alongside the release date news, Bloodborne PSX developer Lilith Walther (@B0tster) also shared a new trailer for the project that has no affiliation with Sony, SCEA, or FromSoftware, which looks to recreate the early parts of Bloodborne with many features from the original and include such foes as Lost Hunter, Huntsman, Rabid Dog, Troll, Carrion Crow, Werewolf, Hunter, and even the Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne boss fight.
#BloodbornePSX: Releasing on 1/31/2022. Happy Halloween 🎃
Incredible trailer music by @TheNobleDemon
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Sega has backed the development of some of gaming’s most beloved franchises – Sonic the Hedgehog, Yakuza, Streets of Rage, and Bayonetta, to name a few. It seems as if a “tactical alliance” with Microsoft is in the works to create next-generation experiences using the Azure cloud platform. The partnership hasn’t been solidified yet, but a Sega-Microsoft joint effort could lead to the creation of “large-scale, global games.”
An article on the official Sega website provides more context for the entertainment company’s Microsoft-supported plans. Sega’s chief goal is to develop “Super Game(s),” with the specific focus being on keywords like “Global,” “Online,” “Community,” and “IP utilization.” We might be in for a new era of Sega-published/developed multiplayer games based on the recurring theme. Perhaps, even MMOs. But that’s all speculation.
Sega Corporation president and COO, Yukio Sugino, chimed in on his excitement for the partnership and the recent announcement as a whole:
Even though FFVII The First Soldier pre-registration hasn't been open for a full week yet, already two of the reward tiers were cleared.
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This year's Call of Duty game, Vanguard, isn't even out yet, but rumors surrounding 2022's game continue to take shape. New information suggests the campaign will take inspiration from movies like Traffic, No Country for Old Men, and Sicario, and is described as "gritty and unrelenting." The game could have a morality system like Red Dead Redemption 2, and the campaign will apparently feature a new level of gore for the series. As reported previously, 2022's game is rumored to be a sequel to 2019's Modern Warfare from Infinity Ward, focusing on Colombian drug cartels.
Twitter user @ralphsvalve unearthed a trove of unannounced details about 2022's Call of Duty game, and some of the pieces were corroborated by VGC's own sources. The site has accurately reported on unannounced Call of Duty details many times before.
According to the leak, 2022's Call of Duty game is described as "grim" and gruesome." Enemies who are shot may not die immediately and could call out for their mothers, hallucinate, and convulse before biting the dust, according to the report. The gore is described as "realistic," and bullet penetration will be based on the calibre of the bullet, according to the report. Players can also apply pressure to wounds to stop the bleeding, the leak suggests.
The game is also rumored to have a "moral compass" system similar to Red Dead Redemption 2 where key decisions could impact moments later in the game. For the story, the tagline is apparently, "There's no winners in this story," which might be commentary on the war on drugs.
You can currently get an extra 15% off PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch games at eBay (see here). While shopping with any of the eBay Trusted Sellers, such as our favourite Boss Deals, you can get 15% off by using code FESTIVE 15. This promo code is running until the end of the day on November 4, so don't miss out.
Our favourite deals in this sale include an Xbox Series S for just £237.99, or Call of Duty Vanguard preorders for just £54 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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The classic franchise will join the ever-growing list of Granblue Fantasy's collaborations.
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Ubisoft has announced that it plans to develop blockchain games and non-fungible tokens.
The company will integrate blockchain technology into future games, as reported by the International Business Times. It will also employ play-to-earn techniques that allow players to earn content from playing Ubisoft’s games.
“As you see, this industry is changing regularly with lots of new revolutions happening,” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said during a recent earnings call. “We consider blockchain one of those revolutions. It will imply more play-to-earn that will enable more players to actually earn content, own content, and we think it’s going to grow the industry quite a lot. So we have been working with lots of small companies going on the blockchain, and we’re starting to have a good know-how on how we can impact the industry. We want to be one of the key players there.”
Ubisoft has been looking into blockchain for years, according to IBT. More specifically, its Strategic Innovation Lab has been investigating its use of since 2018.
It's a new month, and that means a fresh set of titles are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft has now listed off nine titles coming to the catalog in the first half of November, with presumably a second wave to be announced later, if history is any indication.
Starting off, Minecraft: Java and Bedrock editions are coming to Game Pass on PC beginning November 2. The game is already available on Game Pass for Xbox, but this is the first time the open-ended sandbox game will be on Game Pass for PC, and it features cross-play with all versions. Also arriving November 2 is the puzzle game Unpacking for console, cloud, and PC. Then on November 4, the critical darling co-op game It Takes Two comes to Game Pass for console, cloud, and PC through EA Play for Game Pass Ultimate members.
Also arriving on November 4 is Kill It with Fire, a first-person action game about killing spiders, for console, cloud, and PC. The immensely popular Football Manager series coming to Game Pass on November 9 with the day-and-date launch of Football Manager 22 for PC. Football Manager 2022: Xbox Edition is also available day one on Game Pass for console that day.
Fortnite Chapter 3 may be much closer than people once thought, according to a fan theory growing in popularity. With Season 8 set to turn over in early December, conventional wisdom said that would usher in Season 9 with its own new theme and gameplay mechanics. Instead, a number of pieces of evidence now suggest we may be in the final days of Fortnite Chapter 2. We've compiled all the evidence so far. You be the judge.
While some clues are older, the suggestion of Season 9 being wiped out in favor of Chapter 3 really began to pick up steam when Fortnite influencer FNChiefAko (aka Ako) pieced together a few hints from the in-game items that seem to suggest reality as we know it on Apollo is coming to a dramatic end.
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All info hinting to Chapter 3 being next Season: pic.twitter.com/Iqo5G3i8iD