October 2021

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 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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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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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. 

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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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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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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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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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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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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Be careful when starting Pikmin Bloom, as if you begin with a Nintendo Account, you can't later link it to, say, a Google Account.

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

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

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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. 

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. 

Ever since I witnessed a little red-and-blue plumber-man tumble into the gnashing jaws of a Piranha Plant, I knew vegetables weren’t to be trusted. I see my suspicion of all things green and floral as a natural, even instinctual thing. We ourselves aren’t vegetable, and differences so often motivate our deepest fears. The vegetal realm is entirely inaccessible to us, its behaviour strange and habitats dark. From the carnivorous Venus flytrap to the bleeding tooth fungus, from plants that smell like rotting corpses to one's that trap prey and dissolve them with digestive fluids, it’s an unknown, often dangerous world, and one that overlaps closely with our own. And it makes for a compelling game.

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Want to know how to convince the Worldmind in Guardians Of The Galaxy? The adventure to save the galaxy doesn’t just involve shooting Chitauri and cracking jokes. Throughout Guardians Of The Galaxy, you engage in conversations with various characters, in which you can make decisions that will alter the course of the game. Most of these have small, fairly insignificant consequences. However, the conversation with the Worldmind in Chapter 9 could help you get some crucial help in a difficult fight later in the game.

This guide will show you the correct choices to make to convince the Worldmind that Raker can be defeated in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

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Steam user genre tags can be awful. Cyberpunk 2077 was, for example, tagged ‘masterpiece’ for months before the first gameplay trailer, while the much more reasonable and catchy ‘looks cool sure but too early to say anything definitive if we’re being adults about it’ tag was strangely absent. Happily, they are sometimes wonderful, like the tag alongside ‘comedy’ and ‘indie’ that categorises avian arsehole adventure Untitled Goose Game as having a ‘villain protagonist’.

I’ve been thinking about villain protagonists a fair amount this week because GOG just graced our collective thinking tellies with 1996 Zelda-like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, in all its richly overwrought, gothic, inimitably voice-acted splendour. I would estimate this news finds you, reader, in one of two categories: those who give not a fig, and those who give so many figs they are currently scrabbling the world’s few remaining fig-bearing trees, searching vainly for an adequate quantity of figs.

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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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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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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 long-awaited second season of Netflix's live-action Witcher series finally arrives on 17th December and the streaming service has served up a fresh tease of its various narrative threads, whirling white wigs and all, in a brand-new trailer.

A click on the video below will reward curious sorts with almost three minutes of footage from the upcoming season, with all majors players - that is to say, Geralt, Jennefer, Ciri, and Jaskier - getting in on the action. As ever though, there's not nearly enough Jaskier.

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Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig, the creative director on the first three Uncharted games, announced today that they are working on a new narrative-focused Marvel action-adventure game featuring an original storyline.

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Another Mario fan game looks like it’s about to bite the dust, but this time nobody’s shedding any tears. The 1up Platform is a cryptocurrency scheme that got underway earlier this year, seemingly featuring a battle royale of corporate copyrights and stolen artwork. Now it’s finally attracted the attention of Nintendo.

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Boarding a city subway is always a dice roll for whatever terror awaits you once the train doors close. Maybe there’s some trash taking up a seat, or annoying passengers who are hell bent on making their business yours. The new psychological horror game, Subway Midnight, taps into that uncertainty and spices it up by…

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While the biggest news from the Facebook Connect livestream was Facebook’s rebranding to Meta (which I refuse to use), the social media company also announced that Oculus Quest VR headsets will no longer require a Facebook account.

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The first thing that comes to mind when I think of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is that horrifying moon. It’s ominous, always smiling, a reminder that death is an inevitability for everyone. It lingers in the background, like a shadow against a wall, waiting to strike. If, after three days, you fail to save the…

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SuperGroupies items featuring the second, third, and fourth Quintessential Quintuplets sisters Nino, Miku, and Yotsuba are back.

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The new Tales of Luminaria first look gameplay video stars the other three people who will be playable launch, Yelsey, Falk, and Lisette.

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Mount Hikami isn’t ready for the Replay crew. Today, the Game Informer team dons costumes in Halloween fervor as they explore the terrifying secrets of. Will this Replay turn into a full-fledged Super Replay? Anything is possible, so come join us and let us know if you want to see the entire game’s playthrough as we go live on Twitch at 2 PM CST.

The Fatal Frame games task players with battling ghosts by taking photos, meaning you need to zoom in and get close to the ghouls and ghasts, facing down your fears. Can the Game Informer crew master the abilities of the Camera Obscura and survive?

There’s only one way to find out, so join us as the action happens. One of the earlier Fatal Frame games, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, is a horror classic. Will Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water live up to the franchise’s legacy? Well, probably not, as the game originally launched on the Wii U ages and ages ago to rather divisive reception, but this remaster might make for some harrowing Halloween festivities all the same.

Update, 11/01/21: Roblox is finally online again after it went down for roughly three days this past weekend. 

The company announced the news in a blog post released yesterday, and in it, it cites a 'subtle bug' as the cause for the outage. It didn't reveal too much about how this bug caused three days of downtime, but a post-mortem will be released once the company's internal analysis is complete. 

"This was an especially difficult outage in that it involved a combination of several factors," the blog post reads. "A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load. This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenter. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deploy." 

Roblox says the difficulty in diagnosing the bug is why recovery took longer "than any of us would have liked." Upon identifying the root cause of the bug, it was able to "resolve the issue through performance tuning, re-configuration, and scaling back of some load." 

The game is now online again. 

Krafton, Inc., has announced that it is going to acquire Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the developer behind Subnautica. 

This news comes by way of a press release on Krafton’s site, which reveals that it decided today that it is going to acquire Unknown Worlds. Krafton says this acquisition continues the company’s strategy of expanding and securing top-tier talent under its umbrella of studios. 

“This latest decision continues Krafton’s expansion strategy of securing and investing in top-tier talent that aspires to evolve, innovate, and create new experiences,” the press release reads. “Unknown Worlds becomes Krafton’s sixth independent studio, joining a stable of other seasoned developers that include PUBG Studios, Striking Distance Studios, Bluehole Studio, RisingWings, and Dreamotion.”

Remember Maglam Lord, the JRPG + dating sim hybrid released by D3 Publisher in Japan back in March? It’s finally coming west.

The news comes from British publisher PQube, which will release the game both in North America and Europe for PS4 and Nintendo Switch on February 4, 2022.

A Collector’s Edition with a special box and an artbook will also be available at launch if you want something a little fancier.

If you’re not familiar with Maglam Lord, you can check out a trailer, screenshots, artwork, and an official description.

Hot off the heals of the release of the third installment in the series, Bandai Namco Entertainment has just revealed the season one finale of The Dark Pictures Anthology. The fourth episode will be titled The Devil in Me, and it set to follow a film crew investigating a notorious serial killer.

You can check out the trailer for The Devil in Me right down below.

Alongside the trailer, Bandai Namco also included plenty of helpful information via a press release that describes the setting and story more in-depth:

In The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, a group of documentary filmmakers receive a mysterious invite to a replica of the ‘Murder Castle’ of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer. They soon discover that they’re being watched, and there is much more at stake.

Step into the anthology’s most bloodcurdling story yet, where players’ choices, more than ever, determines who lives and who dies. Players will watch in horror as their unfortunate crew falls prey to a twisted game master who is observing their every move.

Earlier today, the official Netflix YouTube channel released the official trailer for season two of The Witcher TV series. It has been about two years since season one was released on the streaming service and now the wait for the follow-up to the debut is just under two months away. This news is coming right after the announcement last month that season three is on the way as well.

At the beginning of the trailer, a shot from above shows Geralt wading through some shallow water thigh-high water. Then it cuts to a further shot and we can see a winged monster approaching the powerful witcher from a distance. We don’t get to see a close-up of the monster, but Geralt doesn’t look all that concerned by its presence.

As it cuts away from that first shot of The Witcher season two official trailer we see multiple shots of impressive set pieces like a scorched battlefield, a snow-covered courtyard, a treacherous ravine, and many more. All throughout these shots, Geralt is sharing a drink with and speaking to Nivellen.

When Nivellen brings up that people are talking about the end of days coming, Geralt reminds his friend that he has lived through three supposed end of days three times. Naturally, this means Geralt doesn’t buy the notion that the world is coming to an end.

As the trailer continues, there are a few shots of Ciri before her training with Geralt. There’s a shot that looks like it’s her first time putting her hands on a sword.

Near the end of the trailer, we see Geralt and Ciri taking on a giant enemy that resembles a Treant. This is likely a little while after Geralt has spent some time working with Ciri since it looks like she’s holding her own pretty well against the attacks of this large monster.

Today Microsoft revealed the new games that will be granted in November 2021 to Xbox Live Gold. subscribers at no additional cost.

Here’s the list:

• Moving Out: Available November 1 to 30
• Kingdom Two Crowns: Available November 16 to December 15
• Rocket Knight: Available November 1 to 15
• Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes: Available November 16 to 30

If you’re not familiar with the games, below you can enjoy a trailer and an official description for all:

Moving Out
Begin your career as a Furniture Arrangement and Relocation Technician (F.A.R.T.)! No task is too dangerous for your company, Smooth Moves, as you attempt to save the town from furniture peril. Play solo or with up to four friends in this ridiculous physics-based moving simulator.

Kingdom Two Crowns
Build your kingdom and explore new lands in Kingdom Two Crowns. Play the role of a monarch atop their trusty steed and protect your realm from the forces of the Greed. You’ll enjoy exploring medieval lands, dark realms, and feudal Japan in a beautiful, pixel-art setting with micro-strategy elements.