Krafton, the South Korean company behind Plunkbat and Tera, today announced that they're buying Unknown Worlds, the studio splendid subaquatic survival sim series Subnautica and the fantastic FPS-RTS hybrid Natural Selection. Huh! The professed plan is for them to keep on as usual, still working on the Subnauticae as well as a mystery game debuting next year.

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Toss a coin to your Witcher-song-singing friends. Netflix released the first official trailer for The Witcher’s second season, which debuts on December 17. No other way to put this: It looks bonkers. It also kinda muddies the suspenseful setup from the end of the first season.

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CD Projekt Red didn't officially announce it, but it updated the Cyberpunk 2077 roadmap to push all major additions and updates to 2022.

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This time, I've returned from a trip to Devon having spent too much time ignoring my friends and playing Hollow Knight instead. But what about FPSes? Well, I didn't play any of those. Thankfully Imogen has all of us covered on this week's episode of the Ultimate Audio Bang, with a news segment rammed with lots of exciting announcements. Namely, Apex Legends gets a new Legend and map, Halo Infinite sees a new trailer, and Call Of Duty's new anti-cheat Ricochet leaks early.

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Knockout City, EA’s wacky multiplayer dodgeball game, ranks among 2021’s most pleasant surprises. The game is a riot and will join November’s batch of PlayStation Plus games after already appearing on Xbox Game Pass. If you’ve enjoyed lobbing exploding balls into the faces of friends or strangers on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S, your matches are about to look and feel even better. 

On November 2, new-gen enhancements will hit the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Knockout City free of charge. Players who obtained the game through Game Pass or PS Plus are eligible for the upgrade as well. What are you getting? Here’s the full breakdown below:   

• PlayStation 5: Native 4K at 60FPS or 1440p (upscaled to 4K) at 120FPS
• Xbox Series X: Native 4K at 60FPS or 1620p (upscaled to 4K) at 120FPS
• Xbox Series S: 1440p at 60FPS or 1080p at 120FPS

Options for Performance and Quality modes will appear in the main menu. Developer Velen Studios has also improved Knockout City’s overall lighting and added effects such as ball lights. High-fidelity textures arrive across the board after only being present in the Series X and PC versions of the game, too. You can read more about the enhancements at the Knockout City website. 

YouTube has released a new blog post explaining how it will support gaming content on the streaming platform.

This year alone has seen 800bn gaming-related video views, 90m hours of livestream content, and 250m gaming videos uploaded.

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Want to know how long it takes to beat Guardians Of The Galaxy? This planet-hopping adventure takes you on the cosmic ride of your life in an original Guardians Of The Galaxy story, involving plenty of punching, shooting, and generally jumping around with jet boots. Throughout the adventure, you'll come across many classic characters, such as Cosmo the spacedog, Adam Warlock, Mantis, Fin Fang Foom, and Lady Hellbender. However, since it isn't based directly on a certain comic storyline or movie, it can be hard to judge how long you'll actually spend playing Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy.

This guide will break down how long it takes to beat Guardians Of The Galaxy, including a list of chapters so that you can figure out how far you are through the adventure.

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The newest FGO figure has the Halloween spirit, as it is Assassin/Shuten Douji and she's dressed as a jiangshi from her Event Craft Essence.

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Spanish studio to begin work on mobile game Activision has announced that it has acquired mobile developer Digital Legends. The...

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Krafton, Inc., the company behind battle royale PUBG, has bought Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds for an undisclosed fee.

Unknown Worlds becomes Krafton's sixth studio, joining PUBG Studios, Striking Distance Studios, Bluehole Studio, RisingWings and Dreamotion.

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Netflix has released a new trailer for the upcoming second season of The Witcher and as you might expect following the end of the first season, it teases the coming war. 

That war will see Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia aka The Witcher, Freya Allan’s Ciri, Anya Chalotra’s Yennefer, and more weaving their way through it, too, all while fighting monsters and magic, of course. As the trailer notes, “something has changed” and the world is acting strange – there’s a war, monsters roam freely when they should be hibernating, and for everyone that isn’t Geralt, it seems like the end of days. For Geralt, though, it’s just “horses**t,” as he’s already lived through “three supposed end of days.” 

If one thing is clear from the trailer, it’s that there is a war coming, and as Geralt points out in it, it’s because The Continent belongs to nobody (despite basically everybody trying to make it theirs.) Monster by Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, and Bon Iver plays over the entire thing, too, and now we want to hear Jaskier's rendition of the song. 

Ian Bell, the founder and CEO of Slightly Mad Studios, is to leave the Project Cars developer.

Bell made the announcement via Twitter, with the news verified by our partners at GamesIndustry.biz.

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Unsighted, the recent isometric Metroidvania from two trans Brazilian developers, Studio Pixel Punk, is the genre at its best. From its impeccable art, music, and atmosphere, to its open-ended “explore how and where you want” structure, deliciously anxiety-inducing time limit, and satisfying combat, it is a…

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A new game in the Dark Pictures Anthology has been announced: The Devil In Me.

The fourth in the horror series from Supermassive Games, The Devil In Me is the finale of the anthology's first season, continuing its legacy of cinematic action and choice-based gameplay.

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Maglam Lord will appear in English next year. Players worldwide will get to be a demon lord out to find love and restore their power.

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Resident Evil Village will get free DLC, Capcom has said.

Confirmation comes from a company report, which adds Monster Hunter Rise is also set for free DLC.

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Last Halloween, Alice Bee visited Ghost Town's 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival, carving a pumpkin of her own to place amongst the spooky virtual showcase. It was a lovely little indie game from Adam "Adamgryu" Robinson-Yu, creator of the much-adored A Short Hike. Well, Halloween is upon us again, and Mayor Bones has returned with another gourd-o-rama, putting servers back online and inviting us to contribute new pumpkins. It's still lovely.

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343 Industries has revealed in a new Inside Infinite blog post that it relied on character and enemy designs from the Halo 3/Halo: Reach era of the franchise for inspiration. 

Microsoft and 343 Industries have been pretty open about their desire for Infinite to harken back to the days of classic Halo. It’s set on a single Halo ring – Zeta Halo – much in the same way Halo: Combat Evolved was set on a ring, and the designs retain the more streamlined look of Bungie’s Halo games. Now, we know it’s because Halo 3 and Halo: Reach were the inspiration. 

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Amidst all the excitement of Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs, let’s not forget that the first Intel dedicated graphics cards are on their way. Codenamed Arc Alchemist, these GPUs will launch alongside XeSS (Xe Super Sampling), an Nvidia DLSS-style upscaling/anti-aliasing piece of tech that promises to boost performance while sharpening up those jagged edges. And we now know the first two games that will support XeSS: Hitman 3 and The Riftbreaker.

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The update patch also brings in some quality-of-life improvements.

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The dying days of the world’s most expensive platform QUByte Interactive has presented the fighting game community with the most...

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The classic super robot anime show will appear in a new 3D action game.

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Bandai Namco has announced a new Tekken 7 Legendary Edition - but there's a catch.

While this new boxed version of the 3D fighting game, which appears to be Europe-only, includes all 36 characters available in the base version of Tekken 7, it only includes eight of the 15 DLC characters.

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A quick check on Twitch is enough to see how popular Dead by Daylight has become online. The asymmetrical horror game first released back in 2016; now it's a horror sensation.

Its success isn't necessarily a surprise: it has gradually incorporated iconic franchises from cinema and gaming to become a hub of all things horror. "A fan told us, you know, you're like the Smash Bros. of horror," says creative director Dave Richard.

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When Microsoft and 343 Industries revealed the first-ever Halo Infinite campaign gameplay last year, it was met with a lot of criticism, and Craig the Brute was at the center of it all.

Craig, at the time, was just a standard brute. The poor guy showed up to work that day thinking he'd just be standing around, guarding an outpost, just like every day before. Craig was earning money to put food on the table for his family, and then one fateful day, Spartan 117, aka Master Chief, came knocking, and the brute had to get absolutely wrecked by him. As if that's not a tough enough workday, Craig became the central point of criticism regarding that gameplay showcase: people thought he didn't look great. 

Well, look who's laughing now: Glow-Up of the Year winner Craig the Brute. 

It’s nearly Halloween, so there’s a good chance you’re in the mood for some horror. Might I tempt you with some from Japan?

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The wallpaper features the twins with an adorable moogle.

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Halloweekend is almost upon us and sitting on my coffee table is my battered old paperback copy of Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection of short horror stories by Stephen King. Back in my wild teenage years I binged King's entire back-catalogue of published fiction, and now that it's been long enough for me to have forgotten most of the details, I'm treating myself to some selective re-reads. Fair to say some of his stuff hasn't aged brilliantly, but despite many rough edges he undeniably remains one of my all-time favourite authors. I am, after all, a self-confessed horror nerd.

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Attendees will be able to hunt the Velkhana through this VR attraction.

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I hesitated. Not to play The Riftbreaker, you understand. I'd played its demo last year, which was enough to sell me on playing the full game. But to cover it as a strategy game is another matter.

It does games in particular a disservice to get prescriptive with genre, but there's no question that Riftbreaker falls under 'action strategy', with an even greater emphasis on action than, say, Hostile Waters or Sacrifice. But then, it also has detailed base building, tower defence, and a tonne of resource management. I've given up trying to categorise it, and it will always be distinct from most strategy games, but I think its peers could still learn a few things from it.

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Activision has acquired the Barcelona-based game developer Digital Legends--known for its work on the Respawnables game series--to work on a new Call of Duty game for mobile. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Activision president Rob Kostich said in a statement. "This is a great step forward as we continue to build additional world-class development resources focused on creating exciting and innovative content for our players."

Activision Mobile boss Chris Plummer added, "Digital Legends’s tenure developing highly-polished mobile titles is unparalleled."

Digital Legends have already been working together for "much of" 2021, Plummer added. "We are building a world-class mobile development roster of talent and teams, and we look forward to what's to come."

Digital Legends CEO Xavier Carrillo-Costa added, "We're very excited for the opportunity to work on one of the greatest franchises in the world."

The unannounced new Call of Duty game that Digital Legends is developing is being made alongside other Activision studios such as Solid State, Beenox, and Activision Shanghai.

Atlus has released another of its trailers showcasing the 200+ demons of its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V one by one.

This time around, the trailer focuses on a brand new demon, Idun. She debuts in the series with Shin Megami Tensei V and she’s inspired by Norse mythology. Specifically by Iðunn, the goddess of apples and youth and Bragi’s wife.

You can watch her in action below.

Wolfeye Studios’ cowboys and robbers-inspired sim, Weird West, is aiming for a Jan. 11 release date on PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

The news comes by way of a press release and a freshly cut video that confirmed the new launch date. Go ahead and check out the new footage down below:

Announced at The Game Awards back in 2019, Weird West is an immersive isometric cowboy-RPG that places you in the shoes of a handful of distinct characters. Each of their narratives interconnect with one another in different ways and you’ll essentially get to see, control and influence their own personal origin stories.

Players can interact with the game’s world in numerous ways, and the developer promises in the above vid that, “if you see something that seems possible, chances are, it is possible.”

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Resident Evil, Behaviour Interactive has added several character skins in Dead By Daylight for Jill Valentine, Leon S. Kennedy, and Nemesis.

The character skins, which can be purchased now from the in-game store, represent each of the Resident Evil character's most iconic designs from different games in the franchise. There are two classic looks for Jill and Leon, two inspired by Chris and Claire Redfield, as well as a new gruesome look for Nemesis.

The "Nemesis Blight Set", which is the only original skin in the DLC pack, features a new look for the Tyrant, with yellow cysts growing all over his body, his eyes hidden, and just a generally more terrifying look.

The two Leon skins include the "Persistent Investigator"--directly inspired by the character's look in Resident Evil 4 with his brown jacket--and "Chris Redfield", a skin that makes Leon look like the Raccoon City police officer.

As for Jill, an "Impervious Agent" skin was revealed and is inspired by her look in Resident Evil 3, fitted with a skirt and blue top. With the "Claire Redfield" skin, Jill will be transformed into the other Redfield sibling, equipped with her iconic red, leather jacket and character model inspired by the Resident Evil 2 Remake.

This time, all of the skins can be bought in a bundle with the Resident Evil Collection, whereas last time the characters were introduced, players could only purchase legendary skins for them individually.