September 2020

Keepsakes are a major aspect of your metaprogression throughout Hades, the fast-paced roguelite from Supergiant Games. Bartered from the various Olympians and Underworld inhabitants you’ll meet throughout your journey, these Keepsakes offer powerful passive bonuses that can completely alter your playstyle and the outcome of your runs.

Our Hades Keepsakes guide will walk you through how Keepsakes can be earnt, used, and upgraded, along with a tier list of the very best Keepsakes in the game and the full effects of each one (including two secret Keepsakes!).

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The six weapons of Hades are your primary means of battle through the ever-changing, ever-punishing halls of the Underworld. And there’s an awful lot to learn about each one, with different movesets, upgrades, and aspects to unlock for each Infernal Arm throughout your journeys.

Our Hades weapons guide looks to furnish you with all the knowledge you need to wield these titan-slaying weapons, with in-depth tips and details on every facet of each one – and my personal opinion on the very best weapons in Hades.

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The studio behind the excellent XCOM: Long War mods have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help finish their own game about alien invasion. Terra Invicta is not XCOM by a new name, mind. It’s a grand strategy game which starts with mysterious first encounters, leads to geopolitical manoeuvring as factions jostle for position and contend with alien influence, can develop into global war, then sprawls across the solar system with industrial colonies and spaceship battles. The devs say they plan to release Terra Invicta next summer, but could use a bit more cash to make it fancier.

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Titan Blood is one of the rarest resources you can encounter in Hades, Supergiant Games’s fantastic godlike roguelite. You can gain these droplets of Titan Blood by vanquishing the toughest adversaries in the Underworld, and then you can spend it to upgrade your Titan-slaying weapons. Our Hades Titan Blood guide will walk you through every method of obtaining and using this powerful resource.

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Trials of Mana's ver 1.1.0 update will also bring a variety of bug fixes and adjustments to the action RPG.

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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul Movie Review • TAY Retro: Nintendo Game Boy: Hoshi no Kabi (Kirby’s Dream Land) [TV Commercia (JP)] • TAY Retro: Nintendo Entertainment System - Felix The Cat [TV Commercial (NA)]

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Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to attempt to look past how blatantly horny the Ar Tonelico series is so we can focus on how good its music is. I wish us all luck.

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Jump Rope Challenge, the free Nintendo Switch game designed to promote exercise at home during the global pandemic, will no longer be deleted from the eShop today.

Nintendo revealed the news via Twitter this morning, and announced some 2.5bn jumps had been completed in-game by players worldwide.

Developed by Nintendo designers while they themselves were in lockdown earlier this year, Jump Rope Challenge was originally designed as a limited-time release.

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Goodbye, Harv’s fence

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Nintendo’s brief presentation starts at 10 a.m. ET

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The coming-of-age story played to raves at Sundance

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Another World, one of the most ported video games of all-time, could soon have another format to add to its ever-growing list of platforms. Homebrew programmer Eric Majikeyric has released in-progress footage showing the seminal fantasy adventure running on the humble Commodore 64.

The video features the entire intro from the 1991 Amiga classic, scaled down to fit the C64's ultra-humble 8-bit processor. We then see various moments from the adventure replicated in Commodore form, including Lester Chaykin Knight's arrival in the strange new dimension, his first meeting with "friend," as well as a glimpse at the game's somewhat bleak finale.

Batteries...they're a pain, am I right?

Just recently we were reminded about the dangers of the PSP's battery, now, Nintendo is giving us tips on how to maintain a healthy Switch console. The gist? Charge your Switch once every six months.

This past week, Nintendo of Japan's customer service Twitter account shared a helpful tip: "please charge [your battery] every six months." Simple, right? Nintendo says that the battery baked into the Switch "may become unchargeable if it has not been charged or used for too long."

You might be thinking "well I keep my Switch docked all the time!" And you'd be right: you're good. But if you ever get a second Switch and retire your original unit to storage, or upgrade to a Switch Pro and do the same, you might want to keep this tip straight from the horse's mouth in your back pocket.

The dangers of having a big collection of hardware! One tip I've heard from another game preservation expert is to schedule reminders every six months or so to take an inventory of all of your old systems and either charge them or inspect their batteries. As a kid, I used to experience that battery leakage/rot in my old Game Boys. Never again!

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Nintendo of America has announced via Twitter that the next DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be revealed tomorrow on Oct. 1 during a three-minute-long video presentation.

The video will air tomorrow at 7 am PT and will be followed by a “brief message” from game director, Masahiro Sakurai.

You can tune into the presentation via the YouTube video embedded down below:

Today Bandai Namco released a new trailer of its upcoming action game  Kamen Rider: Memory of Heroez.

This time around, we get to see the opening cutscene. If you’re a fan of tokusatsu series and of Kamen Rider in particular, you’ll probably find it rather epic.

We also hear the theme song “Over Again” performed by Aya Kamiki & TAKUYA.

You can watch the trailer below.

Kamen Rider is one of the most long-lasting TV shows in the history of Japanese TV and has continued to air in the country with annual series all the way since 1971.

It’s so much of a staple on Japanese TV that the periods of broadcasting are named after eras of the local calendar. The latest series is titled Kamen Rider Zero-One, and started in September 2019.

 Kamen Rider: Memory of Heroez will be released in Japan and Asia for PS4 and Nintendo Switch on October 29, 2020.

This time around, the Asian version will include English subtitles, so western fans will be able to easily import and enjoy the game.

Today, during the second part of PlayStation China’s showcase, Sony and its China Hero Project revealed new trailers of some of the games that were revealed under the project’s brand.

Those games were showcased during earlier presentations from the project, and their studios revealed an updated look to show off the progress on each.

You can check out each trailer below and also take a look at those revealed during the first part of the event.

We start with the space first-person-shooter Boundary, by Surgical Scalpels.

We then move on to ThinkingStars’ lovely cyberpunk game Anno Mutationem.

Warzone Season 6

is finally here and brings with it a ton of new content. There’s new weapons to try out, new operators to unlock and a brand new underground subway system. This allows you to travel across Verdansk quickly, essentially operating as a sort of fast travel system. There are seven subway stations available, so we’ve marked their locations clearly for you to find. We’ll also go into some detail on how the subway works, and how to make the most of it.

• Warzone Subway Map
• How does the subway work?
• Will the subway travel into the gas?
• Weapons won’t shoot after leaving subway?
• Tips for using the subway in Warzone

Warzone subway map

In the image below you can see an overview of all the subway stations that have been added to Warzone. You can use your map to cross-reference these and find them in-game, and we’ll be providing a little more info on each station further on in this guide.

Lenovo have started selling a device they proudly describe as “the world’s first foldable PC”, the ThinkPad X1 Fold. It’s a Windows 10 laptop with a bendy 13.3″ touchscreen that lets you fold the whole thing in half, and it starts at £2430. While I do know several people who are thrilled to tears by foldable tech, no, I demand scrunchable tech. We should see this as merely a small step on the way towards the technology we actually need: a PC I can safely screw up into a ball and throw at the wall.

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Summon Volkner and Luxray at an increase rate and participate in the new event to receive a guaranteed 5★ Scout Ticket.

The post Volkner and Luxray Arrive in Pokemon Masters EX Alongside Eccentric Electrician Event appeared first on Siliconera.

Love Final Fantasy XIV's music? The FFXIV Pulse Remix album is out now. There are even samples so you can hear a few of its tracks.

The post FFXIV Pulse Remix Album Features Tracks From Soken, Ishikawa, and Imamura appeared first on Siliconera.

The rhythm game spinoff of Fate/Grand Order adds the franchise's original heroine performing a classic song.

The post Fate/Grand Order Waltz Adds OG Saber and a Classic Fate Theme appeared first on Siliconera.

Players will be able to perform over one hundred free summons in War of the Visions through different campaign banners.

The post War of the Vision: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Six Month Anniversary Includes Up to 100 Free Summons appeared first on Siliconera.

The legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games will be settled by a judge rather than a jury, if both companies get their way. ...

The deal is part of Sumo's plan to break into the U.S. market, and includes Pipeworks' 134-strong team and original properties like Prominence Poker. ...

In a perfect world, we could download apps from a centralized, secure app store on our phones, and these apps would allow us to connect to other services we enjoy without any extra hassle. In the real world, you’re going to have to employ some clever workarounds if you want to get game streaming to work on the…

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As the leaves turn and we all brace ourselves for the deafening roar of noise that will constitute daily life in the final month before America’s presidential election, it’s nice to know that we can pop on some headphones and find respite in the upcoming swell of great new music arriving in October. From big names…

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A few expansions into playing Final Fantasy XIV, I decided to try leveling one of the game’s many crafting classes. For one, I’d heard a fair amount of FFXIV’s strongest weapons and most stylish gear were locked behind them. On top of that, I’d found the adventuring life to be expensive. Sure, running dungeons and…

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Nintendo will unveil its new DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tomorrow, 1st October, at 3pm UK time.

Unlike the previous DLC character, Arms' Min Min, we know nothing of who the fighter might be, or from which franchise they may come.

Perhaps we'll see a representative of Monster Hunter, following the reveal of new games in the series for Nintendo Switch? Or maybe we'll finally get that long-rumoured Microsoft representative, after the continued cosiness between the two companies? Or maybe it'll be Birdo.

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Google Stadia finally gets the Crowd Choice feature this week.

Crowd Choice, a kind of choose your own adventure system for those watching streamers play Stadia games on YouTube, goes live alongside the release of Dead by Daylight on 1st October 2020.

It'll also be available with Baldur's Gate 3 when Larian's hotly-anticipated role-playing game launches on Google's streaming service on 6th October.

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Grounded, the light-hearted Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style survival game from Obsidian, is rolling out a big Halloween update today around 6pm UK time.

Download it and you'll get new building items, decorations and bug fixes (by which we mean... literal fixes for bugs).

Grounded's garden gets a new world landmark, Frankenline, a creepy discarded Etch-a-Sketch you can actually draw on, a Jack-o-Lantern and edible candy corn you can forage. The map's Hedge area has also been reworked.

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A few top names in the gaming industry have already given us their thoughts on this generation's best games, but now Sony has made its opinions clear with a range of discounts in its own Games of a Generation sale.

They've picked out some of the biggest, best or most influential games to come to the PS4 in recent years and put them up for sale on the PSN Store. Having had a look through, I wouldn't say it's the most complete or comprehensive list you'd imagine given the title - but it does feature a few tempting offers.

Headlining the sale is samurai adventure Ghost of Tsushima with its first PSN Store discount to £43.44. Not exactly a massively enticing price, sure, but if you head to ShopTo you can pick up a £45 PSN Wallet top-up for just £37.85. Pay using that instead and you'll get a much better saving.

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Car heists and vampires are coming to PlayStation Plus this month

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The mighty Diplo is gone

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Lightsabers sold out fast, but there’s plenty more

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From pundits to comedians, everyone was left dizzy by the presidential debate

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29 horror films to kick off the spooky season

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Free game gives you some indoor cardio

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Square Enix has announced that it will release the latest update for fantasy adventure Trials of Mana on October 14. Version 1.1.0 will add two new difficulty settings along set to test the mettle of the most hardened adventurers.

The new update will offer access to the new "Very Hard" and "No Future" difficulty settings. The former can only be selected in New Game+ mode and will offer a greater challenge than Trials players have faced to date. No Future, however, is a whole other bag.

This new mode will not only return the player to level one, but will also increase the strength of all enemies and boss characters, will add a time limit to each fight, and will limit the usage of items and certain special abilities, making this a true test of skill for Trials of Mana experts.

And your reward for conquering this relentless, bloodthirsty challenge? Bunny slippers.