The next Fire Emblem Heroes banner will give people a chance to get both Legendary Eitri and Mythic Thorr for their teams.
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There are only days left to take part.
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The countdown begins!
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The celebrations for the second anniversary of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim by Vanillaware are in full swing, and Furyu’s figure brand F:NEX announced via press release a brand new plushie.
Of course, the plushie portrays the mysterious cat Fluffy (named “Shippo,” which means “Tail,” in the Japanese version) in life-sized scale. He’s 40 cm-long excluding the tail and will be priced at 4,950 yen (which roughly translates into $44).
Pre-orders in Japan started yesterday and will end on February 9, with an estimated release window of June 2022.
He’s also posable, so you can display him however you want.
Today Rare revealed the content coming with Season Five of the popular online adventure game Sea of Thieves.
The update that comes on December 2 will bring lots of new goodies mostly tied to the Holidays (on top of a few linked to Pirates of the Caribbean in the Pirate Emporium) and quite a bunch of features, including fireworks, the cannon rowboat, and the ability to bury treasure creating your own mini-quests that other adventurous pirates can solve (earning you reputation).
Yet, perhaps the biggest addition is also the simplest… sitting, on top of laying in bed. Roleplayers will also get a set of dices with a variety of options for the number of faces.
You can check it all out in the trailer below.
Sea of Thieves is currently available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC. Just recently, we learned that it recently passed 25 million players.
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, the sci-fi strategy adventure game by Vanillaware (makers of Odin Sphere and Dragon’s Crown), is making its way to Switch on April 12. The game has only been available on PlayStation 4 since it launched in March 2020.
The game blends side-scrolling visual novel adventure with real-time strategy. Players control 13 ordinary high school students who also pilot giant mech suits called Sentinels. Okay, so they’re not that ordinary. The story primarily revolves around stopping an invasion, but the sci-fi tale branches in all sorts of wacky directions, many of which draw inspiration from stories like War of the Worlds and The Terminator. While you’ll use your mech to defend the world in RTS battles, the real meat of 13 Sentinels is navigating the intertwining, non-linear narratives of the students. Each teenager has their own story arc, and you’ll jump back and forth between them all to uncover the entire bonkers storyline. Take a look at the Switch announcement trailer below for an idea of what to expect.
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With Spider-Man: No Way Home set to release in just a few weeks, producer Amy Pascal has revealed that we’ll be seeing more of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.
Pascal said No Way Home is not the last Spider-Man movie Sony Pictures Entertainment is making with Marvel Studios in a new interview with Fandango. She also revealed that Holland’s next movie will be the first in a new trilogy.
“This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel – [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie,” Pascal told Fandango. “We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We’re thinking of this as three films, and now we’re going to go onto the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies.”
As you can see in Pascal’s quote above, Holland’s Spider-Man will be seen in at least one more Spider-Man movie. He could also appear in the following two movies, but that’s not guaranteed considering Pascal didn’t specifically say Holland will be in all three. Perhaps he appears in the first of this new trilogy and then hands off the title to someone like Miles Morales. Perhaps he remains Spider-Man in all three films of the new trilogy.
CD Projekt Red has been gradually shifting to new projects while continuing to support Cyberpunk 2077. The studio is also allocating more resources to work on the game's expansion.
In CD Projekt Red's Q3 earnings report, it shows that the majority of the company was still supporting Cyberpunk 2077 up until the end of September this year. Now CD Projekt is focused on Cyberpunk 2077's impending expansion along with Gwent-related projects and projects involving Spokko, another studio under the CD Projekt umbrella.
Additionally, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are still on track for their respective Q1 and Q2 2022 releases. This new version of The Witcher 3 will also contain extra items inspired by the Netflix adaptation of the series. They were originally both supposed to release during the second half of this year but were delayed to 2022.
Cyber Monday is here and there are some excellent bargains on tech available, such as this 44 per cent drop on the Razer Barracuda X wireless multi-platform gaming and mobile headset. That's a saving of £44, down from £99.99 to just £55.99. This is already a really decent budget gaming headset, at an affordable price. So getting an even bigger sale deal makes the features-to-price value even more irresistible. It's also on offer in the US for $69.99 at Target.
You can use this headset wirelessly or wired with low-latency on a PC, laptop, smartphone or PS4 and PS5 console and wired with an Xbox thanks to the included USB-C dongle with USB-A extender and 1/8in TRRS cable. Sound quality is good, although there aren't any customisable features. It has a detachable Razer HyperClear Cardioid microphone that aims to suppress background noise for enhanced voice capture during gaming - and it actually does do that.
Relic will open the doors to Company of Heroes 3 again this week, this time via a public multiplayer "pre-alpha".
The real-time strategy game is still some time off from its expected late 2022 release date, but a build will be handed over to fans from tomorrow, Tuesday 30th November at 5pm UK time.
Walmart is releasing another wave of PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles onto its website at 9 AM PT (12 PM ET) today exclusively for its Walmart+ members with a paying membership.
This is part of an early access promotion which you can access by heading here. The same link also includes instructions on how to sign up for a Walmart+ subscription if you're not a paying member already.
Black Friday deals may have ended for most retailers, but you can still shop plenty of new offers today thanks to the Cyber Monday sales.
Logitech not only continues to make some of the best gaming accessories, but they have some major reductions right now. One of the newest additions is their G903 Lightspeed gaming mouse, which has been reduced by a mega 55 per cent at Amazon. It's now an affordable £57.99. And readers in the US shouldn't feel left out either, as it's down from the usual RRP of $149.99 to $84.99 at GameStop.
A new Cyber Monday promotion from Amazon UK reduces the price of the Oculus Quest 2 128GB headset to £249 and also includes a £50 Amazon gift card. If you were already planning on doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon, you're essentially grabbing the Quest 2 for £199. Not bad at all.
The £50 gift card promo was officially launched on Friday as part of the Quest 2 Black Friday deals, but this is the first time we've seen the price of the headset drop to £249 alongside it. At the time of writing, this is a UK-only promotion limited to the 128GB headset and not the 256GB model.
It's Podcast day! And that means a brand new episode for supporters has just gone live, and the episode they listened to a fortnight ago - Episode 4, behind the push for better accessibility in games, with Vivek Gohil - is now available to all.
The tide of accessibility in games is turning, you see. Ground-breaking releases like The Last of Us Part 2, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Forza Horizon 5 have shown what can be accomplished when you think about accessibility properly - when you bring the right people on board at the beginning of development and make accessibility a priority from the off. By doing so, you open the doors for more people to enjoy your games than ever before.
Welcome to the 39th edition of Digital Foundry Direct Weekly - the regular show where the team downs tools for a couple of hours to discuss the latest gaming and technology news, share details on their projects and field questions from backers of the Digital Foundry Supporter Program. This week's offering kicks off with reaction to a new video from Wired with Mark Cerny discussing how the PlayStation 5 was built. It's an interesting talk, albeit one that's very similar indeed to the now iconic Road to PlayStation 5 albeit with the benefit of a year's worth of game titles that better demonstrate and emphasise the PS5's features. It's also a timely reminder of how Sony turned things around after the complications of PlayStation 3 - to double-down on communicating with developers and giving easier access to the hardware's potential.
Amazon Cyber Monday 2021 video game deals include up to 50% off PlayStation games, 54% off Xbox games, and 67% off Nintendo games.
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Both the trailer and visual will be presented during a livestream event.
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Square Enix's latest piece of FFVII Remake concept art shows off two versions of Tseng, the Turks leader, designed for the game.
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In addition to both new and continuing Black Friday game deals, the Switch Cyber Monday 2021 sales include the Pro Controller.
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The latest batch of Pokémon games, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, are experiencing a handful of silly glitches. While the duplication glitch is something players are exploiting to their advantage, there’s another glitchy issue players are encountering that is just plain weird: seeing their monsters’ nicknames…
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has been a glitch-fest so far. While some of the bugs have been annoying or just plain weird, others, like duplication glitches, have effectively broken the game. First, players found a way to clone one Pokémon at a time. Then they found a way to duplicate entire teams. Now,…
CD Projekt hosted its financial conference call for investors and analysts, talking about its future plans for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and more.
We hear that the developer has been focusing on rebuilding positive sentiment about Cyberpunk 2077. And CD Project indeed sees “improvement of the sentiment on every platform.”
Later in the call, the studio’s executives explained that the next-generation version of Cyberpunk 2077 (which was recently delayed) is “currently in the testing phase” as they have to be sure that it’ll release “in a very, very good shape.” This requires substantial efforts since the next-gen version includes both a graphical update exploiting the potential of the consoles and a set of system-level improvements. These systems are “general to the game.” While they’re “not a revolution” they can interact with other systems, so the developers need to be sure that there is “no regression whatsoever,” so extra time for testing is needed.
About the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the situation is a “bit different” as it’s being developed by a trusted partner in collaboration with CD Projekt. The game was originally released almost seven years ago, so technology has advanced and new solutions have emerged, like ray-tracing. The update is mostly technical, applying new technologies to the old game, so the studio needs more time to implement them.
There’s nothing quite like Danganronpa. 10 years after the release of the first game, no other visual novel series has captured the essence of the high school battle royale genre quite like Danganronpa has. The premise for all three games is always the same: a bunch of high schoolers get trapped in a school (or on a beautiful tropical island), and are forced to commit murder and get away with it if they want to escape. There’s also an evil black and white bear named Monokuma that watches over the proceedings.
Danganronpa Decadence is a collection of all three games ported for the Switch, including a small bonus: Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp. There are a few mechanics that feel rather dated, particularly in Trigger Happy Havoc, but even without any additional changes or quality-of-life tweaks, all three games have held up immensely well and they’re still an absolute joy to play through in 2021.
If you’ve somehow never heard of Danganronpa, or if you haven’t played it, the best way to describe it is Ace Attorney on acid. 16 (give or take) high schoolers get enrolled in Hope’s Peak Academy, an incredibly prestigious school that only takes in ‘ultimate’ talents that are the best of the best in their field. Not long after they get accepted into the academy, they find themselves trapped within the compound by Monokuma.
Today CD Projekt published its financial results for the third quarter of 2021, and provided more insight on its business and development pipeline.
We hear that, while sales have grown by 38% year-on-year, profit has dropped by 30% due to costs that did not apply last year including the upkeep of Cyberpunk 2077 and higher development costs for new and unannounced games early in development.
We also hear that the next-generation versions of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are still slated for Q1 and Q2 2022 respectively (following the recent delay)
Last, but not least, the team at work on the “major” expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 has increased in size.
Below you can check out all the relevant slides and a presentation by Chief Financial Officer Piotr Nielubowicz. You need to click on the “cc” button for English subtitles.
While Ant-Man and Spider-Man are arguably two of the quippiest Avengers around, we don’t think anyone ever pictured what a hilarious combination these two would make if they were put together in a ping-pong match with one another. That is exactly what SamplerTimes studios manages to accomplish with their impressive stop motion animation of these two Marvel superheroes.
As you can see in a post to the Marvel Studios subreddit below, this comical back and forth between everyone’s favorite shrinking hero and friendly neighborhood Avenger features some really impressive choreography.
High school is still as cutthroat as ever.
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The Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town 1.10 update is now live, and there's a Japanese trailer to take people through its additions.
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In Pokemon, one of the main goals, and catchphrases, of the game is “Gotta catch ’em all,” prompting players to try and fill out their Pokedex by encountering and capturing every Pokemon possible in the game. For some, this goal might seem impossible, as you need to venture all over, capturing Pokemon, completing trades, and more to get every single one. For Twitch streamer SmallAnt, though, the accomplishment was all in a day’s work.
As you can see in the video below, the well-known Pokemon streamer managed to complete his entire Podex in Brilliant Diamond in just one day. To be exact, it took about 21 hours of straight streaming Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl to complete this task.
How exactly did he accomplish this monumental feat? Well, by owning both copies of the game, SmallAnt was able to trade both the starters and the exclusive Pokemon found in Shining Pearl over to Brilliant Diamond before getting the rest of the others through encounters.
Dauntless is yet another game that will be getting a major next-gen upgrade as it begins to run natively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. This will include higher-resolution visuals, better textures, faster load times, cross-gen support, and more when the update goes live on Dec. 2.
More specifically, this free-to-play co-op action RPG will be seeing up to 90% faster load times, reimagined lighting effects, 60FPS gameplay, and dynamic 4K resolution.
The changes and improvements coming to the game are being marketed as Dauntless Reforged — a version of the game that’ll be reworking gameplay systems and adding a new hunt mode alongside all of the upgrades mentioned above.
You can check out the trailer below to see exactly how all of the updates will look in-game when they come to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S next month.
Dauntless is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch for those who want to get their hands on it before the next-gen changes get released.
With the legendary bounty hunter all set to return on Disney+ this Dec. 29, it’s safe to say that fans of that galaxy far, far away are on tenterhooks for the upcoming sci-fi offshoot, The Book of Boba Fett.
Yes, earlier today, we received a brand new teaser to get all you wookiee-loving nerf herders out there a wee taste of what to expect a month from today. Check out the new clip down below:
While the new video only clocks in at around thirty seconds long, there’re a few neat teases that are worth mentioning.
Interestingly, we get to see footage of the dusty desert planet of Tatooine, while Boba Fett narrates a portion of dialogue in his signature gruff voice.
Specifically, the infamous bounty hunter describes his experience as: “Left for dead on the sands of Tatooine,” with a short clip of the titular antihero recovering in what appears to be an underwater Bacta tank.
There’s a new Halo out, the first in more than half a decade, but all anyone can talk about is its contentious battle pass. The convo has now hit a point of cacophonous saturation, prompting a top creative on the game to openly acknowledge complaints about Halo Infinite’s progression, and state that addressing them…
Some of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s rarest Pokémon aren’t officially in the game yet, but that hasn’t stopped impatient players from finding creative ways to get at least one of them early. Normally, the mythic hedgehog Shaymin isn’t available outside of special events, but thanks to BDSP’s litany of…
When Nintendo released the bongo drum controllers used with the Donkey Konga games and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, the company probably didn’t envision them being used in a Call of Duty game. To be fair, neither did I. But in a recent Call of Duty: Vanguard match, Twitch streamer DeanoBeano managed to amass 105 kills and…
What drives a man to spend his time and money procuring a couple thousand copies of Burger King’s stealth-action advergame Sneak King? I have no idea, but wrestler and professional thumbtack enthusiast Leroy Patterson seems to be having a great time doing it.
Jump Force, a game that will be summarily executed by its publisher in just a few short months, is discounted to just $6 as part of Steam’s fall sale—so this may be your last chance to grab the anime arena-fighter before the game is delisted on February 7, 2022, and sees its online services disabled in August.
Strategists ready to return to the battlefields of World War II have the chance to play in the Company of Heroes 3 pre-alpha multiplayer test starting tomorrow.
A video from developer Relic Entertainment, featuring principal producer Morain McLaughlin, details some aspects of Company of Heroes 3 players can expect to play around with during the test. While the final product will include more factions (including the Italian battalion, which will be detailed next year), players will get their hands on the American and German forces. Each military force will feature two battlegroups to explore, replacing the doctrines and commanders from previous games. These battlegroups will offer a tree of abilities, units, and upgrades to select and utilize throughout a match.
Click here to watch embedded mediaThe pre-alpha test will primarily be a multiplayer-focused affair, but those who wish to take on the computer-controlled AI in 1v1 or 2-player vs. 2-CPU have the option to do so. If you're playing by your lonesome against the CPU, you'll have access to the tactical pause feature not present in modes with more than one person.
Other new features available will be outfitting vehicles with side armor, a veterancy system, and verticality in maps. Relic promises more updates in 2022, including new factions, units, and mechanics to be revealed over the coming months.
With the season of spooky fruit mutilation behind us, Sea of Thieves is readying to trade one lot of festivities for another, and will be getting into the spirit of celebration when its jam-packed fifth season sets sail this Thursday, 2nd December.
Unlike Sea of Thieves's third and fourth seasons, which went all-in with their big headline features - the Pirates of the Caribbean Tall Tales and Sunken Kingdom map expansion respectively - Season Five is focussed on delivering a pleasingly diverse grab bag of slightly less flashy but no-less-welcome additions and quality of life improvements.
The Amazon Cyber Monday sale will soon be coming to an end, and if you're still on a hunt to pick up some last minute PC-related bargains, you'll be pleased to know there's still a huge number of deals available, including deep discounts on storage and peripherals.
We had some fantastic discounts over the Black Friday weekend on super-fast SSD storage for both PC and PS5 owners. But if you missed out on those, don't fret! There are still plenty of affordable Cyber Monday deals available this evening.
Cyber Monday 2021 has been dishing out deals for gaming and tech products all day long and we've been eagle-eyeing the best bargains so you can get the most bang for your buck, before the sales end at midnight.
This last quarter of the year has been a busy time for new game releases, which means plenty of older Xbox game titles have been discounted - including games released earlier this year. And if you've already picked up a bunch of these heavily reduced titles for the latest or last-gen consoles, you might now be wondering where you're possibly going to store all your games and save files? Well, the next port of call following those purchases is a new storage solution to actually be able to hold and install all those games. That's why this deal on the WD_Black D30 1TB game drive SSD, compatible with Xbox Series X and Series S, is the perfect solution!
Company of Heroes 3's multiplayer pre-alpha kicks off tomorrow, November 30, allowing players to get their hands on the next installment of Relic's acclaimed World War II real-time strategy game ahead of its 2022 release.
According to Relic, the pre-alpha includes two factions — US Forces and Wehrmacht (Germany) — and will be playable from November 30 at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. GMT through December 6 at 8 p.m. PT / 11 p.m. ET / 4 a.m. GMT.
Players will be able to experience early builds of two game modes — Victory Points and Annihilation — on four different maps: Twin Beaches (1v1), Pachino Farmlands (2v2), Torrente (2v2), and Aere Perennius (2v2). In addition to PvP, the pre-alpha includes solo and co-op modes versus AI opponents. CoH 3's new tactical pause feature will be available exclusively in the solo vs. AI mode.
Coming to PC sometime in 2022, Company of Heroes 3 is Relic's first new entry in the franchise since 2013. It's shaping up to be a solid return, according to our Company of Heroes 3 hands-on preview, which praised the RTS's "spectacular, layered warscape."
Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.