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.
Epic Games' Chinese version of Fortnite will shut down on 15th November after almost three years.
This standalone version of Fortnite's battle royale mode was operated in the country by Tencent, and featured numerous differences in order to comply with China's strict video game guidelines.
One thing the Eurogamer Podcast was really good at in the past was giving our writers a way to show themselves outside of the pieces they write for the site. I think this provided an opportunity for you to get to know us, beyond the words, as people, which we are, horns and tails and hooves aside. And I didn't want to lose that with the new incarnation of the Podcast, because it's nice to show you who we are, and there aren't many opportunities for it.
That's why I want to steadily pull in members of the Eurogamer team and talk to them the same way I would any of my guests, and have them share their lives and experiences and build a picture of who they are. My guinea pig for the first of these is someone who has been - and will continue to be - front and centre of Eurogamer for years: deputy editor Martin Robinson. He celebrated his 10th anniversary here earlier this year, and we love him for his reliably contrary views and unrelenting passion for racing games.
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.
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."
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
Thank you everyone for the support these past 10 months. Just a little bit longer 😉 pic.twitter.com/1YQJT2HaMp
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.
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.
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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The new manga series will be available for free on a Japanese online comic platform.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
A long time ago (last year) in a galaxy far, far away (Hollywood), Disney execs confirmed a never-ending slew of Star Wars shows, including multiple spin-offs of The Mandalorian (stop reading now if you’re averse to spoilers for season two of that show). Today, Disney released the trailer for the first of those, The…
Last week, the personalities of Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s (seemingly) final eight villagers were revealed via Pocket Camp. Their Pocket Camp iterations also include their favorite sayings, catchphrases, and broad descriptions of the characters—which has given me enough information to perform a vibe check.
Earlier today, the official Pokémon Go website announced that Dedenne, the adorable electric and fairy-type Pokémon, will be the next monster in the mobile game. Dedenne will be available during the Festival of Lights, the Diwali-inspired event, on November 5 at 10 a.m. through November 14 at 8 p.m. local time.
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 …
Mr. Driller Drill Land will launch for PlayStation and Xbox this Thursday, 4th November.
This is the same remake which Bandai Namco launched for Nintendo Switch and PC back in 2020, which in turn was a souped up version of the series' 2002 Japan-only entry for GameCube.
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.
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 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.
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.
This year's Black Friday sale kicks off on Friday 26 November and there's already plenty of discounts on some of the best-selling gaming headsets. The annual sales event is one of the best times to pick up a new headset at a bargain price, and whether you're looking for a new Corsair or SteelSeries headset for your PC or a Pulse 3D headset for your PS5, we've rounded up the best prices below.
Headphone deals aren't the only thing we're good for, though. Make sure you check out the links below for the best deals on gaming laptops, monitors, mice, keyboards and loads more.
Eric Barone (aka ConcernedApe) says that combat in his new game, Haunted Chocolatier, is being made from scratch - as opposed to being directly copied from Stardew Valley.
"Haunted Chocolatier has a greater focus on combat, so it needs to be very fun, satisfying, and engaging, while also appropriately fitting into the big picture," says Barone in a recent blog post. "You can rest assured that I’m not 'copying and pasting' Stardew’s combat. On the contrary, almost everything in Haunted Chocolatier, including the combat, is completely coded (and drawn) from scratch."
The blog post also features some accompanying footage showing the game's combat in action, which can be seen in the tweet below. Barone notes that some of the animations are different from those shown off in the game's reveal trailer. "That’s because I’m still working on everything, and it’s all a work in progress," he explains. "Everything seen so far could still change before the game is finished. If you followed the development of Stardew Valley, this will be familiar."
Haunted Chocolatier: stunning an enemy allows for a quick attack pic.twitter.com/FQznMeBVb2
id Software currently has a number of job vacancies open at its Dallas offices where the studio is hoping to hire new staff members to work on the development of a "long-running iconic action FPS".
The open positions can currently be found listed on Zenimax's website. As well as stating that the developer is hiring staff to work on an already existing IP, a number of vacancy posts on the site may also provide further clues as to what that might be.
Listed under the job description for Skybox Artist, the studio says that it is looking for someone to join its existing team to provide "AAA-quality sci-fi and fantasy environmental vistas and skyboxes". While id has by no means confirmed what franchise new staff will be working on, its reference to a "sci-fi and fantasy" aesthetic could suggest that the studio is looking to begin development on a new Doom entry. Alternatively, the gothic industrial look of Quake could also be considered within the realms of sci-fi and fantasy.
Doom Eternal, id Software's last entry into the Doom series, was released last year and faired well among critics and fans alike. Feel free to check out our review of the game, which we awarded it a 9/10. While the strong critical reception could be enough to speculate that the studio may be returning to the series again for a sixth Doom, there are also a number of factors that could get Quake fans excited too.
Halo Infinite will be released on December 8, but in the meantime, IGN has exclusive coverage of Master Chief’s spiritual reboot all month long as part of our editorial IGN First “cover story” initiative. That means we’ll be dropping exclusive content throughout the month of November (and yes, we’ve played the campaign – the first four hours of it), starting with today’s reveal of a brand-new Arena multiplayer map called ‘Streets’.
As you can see in the video above with me and lead multiplayer level designer Cayle George, Streets is a small, asymmetrical battleground set in New Mombasa at night. This immediately sets it apart, visually speaking, from the other Halo Infinite multiplayer maps we’ve seen in the test flights thus far. It’s got numerous subtle artistic touches, such as the “Holodog” advertisement, the retro-style Halo Infinite arcade cabinet that plays a MIDI version of the Halo theme, the skyline you can see in the background from certain vantage points on the map, and the glass railings that you can just smash right through. It’s a very fast map with short sightlines, and I really enjoyed it.
The Dark Pictures Anthology series of horror games by Supermassive Games now has three games under its belt and by all accounts, more are on the way. Now that there are a few games to work with, let’s dive into sorting through them all and coming up with a ranking of the best games in The Dark Pictures Anthology series.
Little Hope is the second game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, but it lands last on our list of the best games in the series. Not only did it not take any steps forward really from Man of Medan, but it actually regressed in most ways as well.
Third-party developer FlyTampa recently released Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (LGAV) for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
It’s available on Orbx Direct for $18, which means that you can use the handy Orbx Central client to install it and keep it updated.
Thanks to its position at the center of the Mediterranean, Athens airport is an extremely interesting addition for simmers who enjoy flying not only in Greece but also all over Europe.
If you’d like an extensive look at the scenery, you can watch an ILS approach and landing on runway 03R in the first video below, and a full flyover in a variety of lighting and weather conditions in the second video.
Functionally, all the published approaches, SIDs, and STARS are implemented correctly in accordance with the charts, and the PAPI lights on all runways are functional and well-calibrated to guide you on visual approaches.
Ground services mostly work as they should, but there is no option for the refueling truck available, which still appears to be a common oversight.
A quick perusal of Steam-tracking sites indicates that players returned to Left 4 Dead 2 in droves following the October 12 launch of spiritual successor Back 4 Blood, so much so that the older game is now more popular than the newer one.
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, took the stage at the National Conservatism Conference yesterday to decry the war on men. In a long and meandering speech, he sounded the alarm about falling marriage rates and college attendance, and argued that more and more men are dropping out of the workforce and…
Revealed just last week, Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone has already provided a nice little update about his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. According to a new blog post, the upcoming action-RPG has a “greater focus on combat” in comparison to his previous hit.
Finally, after first appearing in August, the Lego version of Luigi is getting his own sets. But poor blocky Luigi, it seems Nintendo and Lego want to torture him, because the new sets are all based on Luigi’s Mansion. Don’t they know Luigi (and his Lego variant) is afraid of ghosts! Luckily Professor E. Gadd is here…
Housemarque finally took some pity on players of its difficult sci-fi shooter Returnal last week, and added a suspend feature in update 2.0. Now players have found a way to turn it into a full-on save scumming exploit.
As part of Genshin Impact’s ongoing Labyrinth Warriors event, developer miHoYo has launched a limited-time web game called “Yummy! Barbeque Under the Stars.” In this cooking minigame which can be played via your internet browser, players earn in-game items and primogems (premium currency) for their culinary skills.…
Weird West is the upcoming isometric twin-stick shooter from Wolfeye Studios, a relatively new developer headed by former Prey and Dishonored co-creators. It doesn’t take long to feel their immersive sim handprints. In fact, once you’re through the basics of Weird West’s twin-stick shooter action, the same combat scenario experience in games like Dishonored makes an appearance, and it’s a delight.
