October 2021

For Animal Crossing fans, it is pretty hard not to want to go out and spend all of your money on amiibo cards for the game, especially with all of the new content that is coming out for Animal Crossing New Horizons in the near future. As tempting as those new amiibos are, though, know that there are other alternatives to satisfying your needs.

In order to avoid the dreaded but tempting fate of overspending on Animal Crossing cards, Redditor Lions_And_Lambs decided to spend their time and money making their own unique amiibos in the game via some interesting little coins. As you can see in the post below, these creative little bits of Animal Crossing currency are custom made, featuring characters like Pascal, Poppy, and many more.

Amy Hennig and Skydance Media are working on a new "narrative-driven, blockbuster action-adventure" set in the Marvel universe.

Hennig, perhaps best known for her work as head writer and creative director on Naughty Dog's first three Uncharted games, joined Skydance back in 2019. Prior to that, she was working on a highly-anticipated Star Wars title in conjunction with Visceral Games - a long-in-development project which was ultimately cancelled by EA.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is nearing its one year anniversary, and it's probably fair to say the last 12 months haven't gone quite as CD Projekt was hoping. One year on, the developer is still struggling to right ship - and save face - following the game's disastrous launch, and a newly revised roadmap for those remedial efforts has now seen all new Cyberpunk 2077 updates and DLC formally pushed into 2022.

While CD Projeckt's development roadmap for Cyberpunk 2077 has never been overly fond of specifics, the studio began 2021 by announcing its troubled RPG would receive "multiple updates and improvements" - including free DLC and the game's long-awaited enhanced edition for next-gen consoles - throughout this year.

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The PSP is long dead. The Playstation Vita too. But long live Valve’s Steam Deck, a handheld that’s just around the corner, and thanks to Sony’s new PC gaming push, will finally make the dream of playing the company’s biggest blockbusters on a small portable device a reality.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas isn’t filled with ghosts, aliens, cryptids, monsters, or shadow people. But in the years after its initial 2004 release—at a time when uploading videos to the internet was hard and datamining games was less common—people believed Rockstar’s classic open-world game contained all those…

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Here’s a small item that had me feline fine on this debatably not-fine Friday: In Far Cry 6, there’s an island with a shipwrecked boat full of cat dolls. It’s cute. It’s also, as I just learned today, apparently a long-running gag in a particular flavor of Ubisoft map games.

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What do you think is the best Halloween game? Check out our picks for the spooky season.

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"Together, we can't lose!"

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If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we’re scared of something. If you’re saying right now, “I ain’t scared of anything,” well, come on, you know there’s that something that makes your spine shiver. For me, it’s death and suffocating spaces. Oh, and Michael Myers, too. Fortunately, there aren’t any games based on Halloween out there for me to play (although the famed slasher is a playable killer in the excellent asymmetrical multiplayer horror, Dead by Daylight). 

However, there’s plenty of games where you die. You can die in most games, though, but the ones that really emphasize those deaths are the ones that leave me shaking in my boots. Add a touch of claustrophobia to the formula and you’ve created my nightmare. My all-time favorite horror game is something some might not necessarily consider a game in that genre, but it spooks me nonetheless: BioShock. 

Halloween is coming, and Resident Evil Village is certainly an appropriate choice to celebrate the spooky season. To help with that, this giveaway will let you win a bunch of awesome collectibles courtesy of Capcom.

To be more specific, you can win one of five bundles including a Chris Redfield figure, a cloth map, and an artbook.

You can see them in the gallery. As you’ll probably notice, they are the same collectibles that were included in the (now sold out) Collector’s Edition of the game. This means that if you missed that, now it’s your chance to get the items.

It’s relevant to mention that the prize does not include the rest of the collector’s edition (The game itself, the special box, the steelbook, and the Trauma Pack code), what you see in the gallery at the bottom of the post is what you get.

Important: due to shipping agreements, this giveaway is open only to residents in the United States excluding Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. We apologize if you can’t participate, but there will be more giveaways for everyone soon.

The way to get involved is really, really easy.

All you have to do is comment on our articles, everywhere on the site, and add at the end of your comment the word “US” if you live in the United States, which makes your comment eligible. The more you comment, the better your chances, as each comment basically works like a raffle ticket. We want to hear your opinions and insight, and there is no better way for that to happen than by sharing your comments with us.

An important caveat is that comments on this post are not eligible for the giveaway. Of course, you’re welcome to comment here, but in order to participate, you need to comment at least on one other article.

Valorant Episode 3, Act 3, is just around the corner from its release next week, and so today Riot Games is offering us our first glimpse of the new battlepass content. From the looks of it, this promises to be one of the best yet with a very cool range of different weapon skins and festive accessories.

A press release sent to Twinfinite features a comment from senior producer Preeti Khanolkar, who sums up its contents nicely when asked about the inspirations behind its design:

“This Battlepass has a lot of fantastic Player Cards related to Agents. Some of my favorites are the “Unstoppable // Viper” card, which is a reimagining of her original card from the Closed Beta. There’s also the “Downtime // Omen”card, which shows Omen knitting—of all things. The “Versus // KAY/O +Brimstone” card is a great lore card that builds upon other KAY/O and Brimstoneaccessories that players have analyzed in the past. This Battlepass also has some really gorgeous and well-designed weapon skins: Aero, Genesis, and Goldwing. The Genesis Arc is the first melee of that type (lovingly called “the protractor”) to be included in the Battlepass“

The three different weapon skinlines can be viewed in the gallery below.

After numerous teasers since as far back as midway through this year, which in turn led to all sorts of speculation about a new Valorant Agent codenamed Deadeye, Riot Games has finally officially unveiled the latest addition to the roster. He’s called Chamber, and he’s a sentinel with some unique abilities that we’ve not yet seen before in the game.

As usual, Riot has prepared a cool cinematic trailer to introduce the character and tee up some of the lore that has led him to become a member of Brimstone’s team. Check it out:

As for the specifics of his abilities, here’s a full overview:

Marvel Games and Skydance New Media have just announced that they’ll be partnering together to create a new narrative action-adventure game. This is a notable reveal, not only because of Marvel’s general popularity, but also because Skydance New Media is helmed by Amy Hennig — an award-winning writer and director who worked on Legacy of Kain, Jak and Daxter, and the Uncharted series.

According to the news post on the Skydance website, the game will feature a completely original story set in the Marvel universe that’ll be brought to life by “an accomplished crew of developers with decades of AAA experience in action and adventure gaming.”

It’ll be the very first project for Skydance New Media since Amy Hennig and former EA executive Julian Beak were brought on board when forming this interactive division of Skydance Media in 2019.

Here is what Hennig had to say about the Skydance collaboration with Marvel on this project:

The Marvel Universe epitomizes all the action, mystery and thrills of the pulp adventure genre that I adore and lends itself perfectly to an interactive experience. It’s an honor to be able to tell an original story with all the humanity, complexity, and humor that makes Marvel characters so enduring and to enable our players to embody these heroes that they love.

There’s no release date or even a release window for the game just yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop as more details get announced.

Xbox Live Gold subscribers with a hankering for freebies will have a fresh selection of games to add to their libraries next week, including Kingdom Two Crowns and Moving Out.

Moving Out, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, will be available to download as part of next month's Xbox Games With Gold offerings from 1st-30th November. Developed by SMG Studio and DevM Games, it's a raucous, physics-based moving simulator, in which friends team up for some knockabout furniture-shifting action across increasingly hazardous environs.

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Happy Game, the "psychedelic horror" adventure from Amanita Design - the developer behind the acclaimed likes of Samorost, Machinarium, and Creaks - is out now on PC, Mac, and Switch.

Announced back in 2020, Happy Game is the brainchild of artist, animator, and designer Jaromír Plachý - who also created Amanita's whimsical garden adventure Botanicula and brash comedy caper Chuchel - and tells the story of a young boy trapped in his nightmares.

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Sometimes, Halloween can be just a bit too scary. There are ghosts and ghouls and undead and…assholes. Living is frightening and, so too, is the thought of death and mortality. That’s exactly why Skul: The Hero Slayer works as a comfy spooky game. It’s not really scary. It just pretends to be.

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The new SMT V trailers are a mix of something old and something new, as they look at Kaya-no-Hime and Idun.

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Former Uncharted series director, Amy Hennig, has revealed that she's working on a Marvel game with Skydance Media. 

Skydance tapped Hennig to head up a new division within the studio to work on games heavily focused on narrative back in 2019; now we know more about her first game there ... well kinda. We know it's a Marvel game, but it's currently an unannounced title, so there's no telling which superheroes or villains we'll be playing as. However, we do know what kind of experience it will be. 

After holding our cards close to the vest for so long, we’re excited to finally be able to share the news! We’re having a blast working with @MarvelGames on our first project at @Skydance New Media, and can’t wait until we can share more. Excelsior! https://t.co/opj87SJwQ6

Uh oh! It’s Halloween weekend, and you still don't have a costume for yourself or your children? Fear not! I have scoured the internet for the best, and worst, outfits you can buy. Being that we're all gamers here, I focused on outfits based on our favorite interactive medium. Some of these are great. Others... not so much. But the clock is ticking, and beggars can't be choosers. Here's a list of video game Halloween costumes that haven't sold out (yet), along with links to purchase them. 

Tokuro Fujiwara didn’t play video games; he didn’t even know that Konami was a game developer when he walked into the studio to apply for a product planner job he’d heard about through a college recruiter. However, Fujiwara excelled at game development. After breaking into the industry at Konami, Fujiwara moved over to Capcom, where he created Ghosts ‘n Goblins and Bionic Commando before working on other 8-bit classics such as Strider, DuckTales, and Mega Man 2.

Fujiwara’s most significant contribution to the gaming industry, however, might be an often-overlooked RPG for Nintendo’s first console that never officially released outside Japan. Entitled Sweet Home, Fujiwara’s project sounds like a game bound for obscurity; it was an adaptation of a low-budget Japanese horror film that served as an early experiment in video game horror. In spite of all this, Sweet Home became a cult hit and went on to inspire the Resident Evil franchise as well as the entire survival horror genre.

On this week's episode of All Things Nintendo, we have a surprising amount of topics to chat about. Host Brian Shea is joined by Ky Parker aka Captain Dangerous to talk about her work as a toy photographer and set builder, and what means to be a Nintendo Ambassador. They also chat about all the news coming from the world of Nintendo before Brian gives his review on this week's big release: Mario Party Superstars.

If you'd like to follow the people from this episode on Twitter: Brian Shea (@brianpshea), Ky Parker (@CaptDangerous64)

The All Things Nintendo podcast is a weekly show where we can celebrate, discuss, and break down all the latest games, news, and announcements from the industry's most recognizable name. Each week, Brian is joined by different guests to talk about what's happening in the world of Nintendo. Along the way, they'll share personal stories, uncover hidden gems in the eShop, and even look back on the classics we all grew up with. A new episode hits every Friday!

It’s Halloween weekend in 2021. While some people are comfortable going out and celebrating the holiday (safely please!) some of us just want to take it easy this year and sit back and watch some classic Halloween sitcom specials. While there’s a lot to choose from, we’ve narrowed down some of our favorites here, a little mix of old, new, animated, and live-action. So enjoy!

Brooklyn 99: Halloween (S1, E6)

Best Sitcom Halloween Specials

You can’t go wrong with any of Brooklyn 99’s Halloween heist episodes as they are all classics in their own right filled with twists and surprises. However, the original that was so well-received that it kicked off the tradition to begin with is a great place to start if you’re putting together a night of watching excellent sitcom Halloween specials.

Today Cloud Imperium Games released new videos about its growing space simulator Star Citizen.

The first video is a teaser of the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo event that is coming soon, while the second showcases the creation of a space station in the upcoming Pyro System with principal environment artist Josh Van Zuylen.

The Intergalactic Aerospace Expo will kick off on November 19 and will continue until December 1.

It’ll feature a free fly event featuring over 100 vehicles that everyone will be able to try out without needing to pledge for the game, announcements of new ships, and more goodies.

It’ll also include an in-game expo space showcasing the game’s ships, vehicles, and equipment, returning to Microtech for the second year in a row.

As usual, various brands of ships will be flyable on a daily rotation, and we’re going to get humorous videos with Jax McCleary (who Jeremy Clarkson fans may find familiar) and his Stig-like assistant.

Below you can check out the videos and the full calendar.

Nintendo closed its California office today, displacing roughly 100 employees, sources tell Kotaku.

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With Halloween just days away, we thought it would be fun to post our Game Over page from issue 319 of Game Informer, highlighting some of the creepiest entries found within the Pokédex. Not every Pokémon is cute and cuddly, many are dangerous and pose a serious threat to the lives of others. Without further ado, here are The Scariest and Creepiest Entries in The Pokédex:

So, you wish Pokemon were real? Maybe reading these creepy facts from the various Pokémon games will make you think twice.

Each year brings hundreds of new board and card games to the market, and even the recent dampener on social get-togethers hasn’t halted the flow. Without fail, in each year, some of the most popular themes include horror, monsters, magic, and mystery – perfect fits for a Halloween get-together.

Whether you’re looking to head to the game store and snag something for a game night this weekend, or you’re planning farther out, and you’re just a fan of games about things that go bump in the night, each of these recent releases provides a lovely evening of fun, with just the right mix of amusement and spooky vibes.

Earlier this month, the Pokémon Trading Card Game released its special Celebrations expansion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise as a whole. While that limited expansion was focused squarely on the past, the world of Pokémon TCG pushes ahead with its newest expansion, Sword & Shield – Fusion Strike.

Earlier this year, The Pokémon Company released its Sword & Shield – Battle Styles expansion, which introduced a new mechanic that allows players to use special variants of Pokémon to either deliver a knockout blow or approach battles more strategically. This latest expansion, Sword & Shield – Fusion Strike, expands on that mechanic with new Fusion Strike cards that typically gain bonuses when other Pokémon with Fusion Strike are in play. The idea is to let players create synergies between their Pokémon through Fusion Strike Style decks.

The Fusion Strike expansion adds 20 Pokémon V, 13 full-art Pokémon V cards, and 8 Pokémon VMAX cards, including a few really awesome Mew cards. In addition, players can collect 20 new Trainer cards, plus 7 full-art Supporter cards and 1 special Energy card. 

Today was a packed news day for Microsoft Flight Simulator’s third-party developers, with lots of new assets for upcoming add-ons, announcements, and a relevant release.

First of all, we get new screenshots of the F-16 Fighting Falcon from SC Designs and DC Designs, alongside a development update.

“A huge amount of work has been done on the F-16s this week with the assistance of DC Designs, as we wanted to get the package ready for Sim Acoustics, who will be performing the custom sound work using recordings from a real F-16!

To that end, the F-16C cockpit was completed this week, and the F-16D rear-seat cockpit added and the detail built up. The rear seat will have fully functioning flight controls and also will have every switch working ( although not all with functions connected to the sim itself ).

The MFD screens and HUDs will be repeaters from those in the front seat, and we recently had the chance to check out the super-cool FLIR effect for night flying at low altitudes! In addition, some paintwork has been done and we have decided to select a mixture of standard low-viz schemes along with some of the more spectacular paint jobs that have been applied to the F-16s over the years. There are so many to choose from that we of course cannot include them all ( although the paint kit will be included so that users can create their own schemes ) but at least 10 schemes will be included with the package at launch.