January 2022

The FFXI January 2022 update is on the way next week and will bring new Ambuscade changes, but won't continue The Voracious Resurgence yet.

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Sega announced that Nvidia DLSS support will come to PSO2 New Genesis in February 2022, allowing for higher FPS while playing.

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The River City Girls PS5 version will be out this month with some exclusive features, and existing PS4 owners get to upgrade for free.

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After years of silence, the second season of the KanColle anime will release in Fall 2022.

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Arcade1Up, makers of affordable arcade cabinets built at a manageable size to put in your home, is broadening its product line to offer a larger, full-size machine for collectors who want a more true-to-arcade experience. 

The first in the line of Arcade1Up's Pro Series cabinets features a handful of games, centered around Rare's classic fighter, Killer Instinct. What makes the Pro Series stand apart from its contemporaries isn't its slate of games, though; it's the construction of the cabinet itself.

Arcade1Up's traditional home arcade machines stand somewhere between 47" and 57" tall, depending on whether you have it sitting on the height-boosting riser. The Killer Instinct Pro Series cabinet measures in at 67.5" tall (or 5ft 6in), almost a foot taller than the typical cab with a riser setup. Its monitor is also larger at 19 inches compared to Arcade1Up's standard 17-inch screens. Other premium additions include a lit marquee, faux chrome trim, molded fake coin slots, an upgraded joystick, and "more generous spacing between components that improves precision​." It even comes with a Killer Instinct branded swivel stool that sports a backrest for (hopefully) comfortable seated play. Not bad!

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Nobody Saves The World, the upcoming action RPG from Guacamelee developers Drinkbox Studios, has a release date and it’s less than two weeks away. 

More specifically, it will be released on January 18 and as previously announced, it will hit Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC via Windows 10 and Steam for $24.99. However, if you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber or a member of Microsoft’s PC Game Pass, the game will hit those services on day one, meaning you can download them for free. 

Hopefully, you’ve got a friend lined up to play Nobody Saves The World with, too, because the game features online co-op, although it does not feature cross-play so you’ll need to be on the same platform as your friend to play together. 

In Nobody Saves The World, you control a “featureless nobody” that can transform into a variety of different animals and creatures, including a slug, a ghost, a dragon, a rat, a robot, and much more. You’ll need to swap between over 15 different forms with mixed and matched abilities to unlock and complete quests to progress through the game’s narrative. 

Speaking of abilities, Drinkbox says there are over 80 different Form abilities, meaning each player will likely have their own customized build that works best for them. You might play as an egg that leaves a trail of slime behind you or a rat that shoots fireballs – the choice is up to you. 

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, the upcoming Jet Set Radio-inspired game by the makers of Lethal League, is all about style. With that in mind, what’s cooler than hitting a bunch of sick tricks set to a fresh soundtrack? Not much based on this latest trailer. 

Although the video doesn’t update players on when Bomb Rush Cyberfunk will drop, it does provide a glimpse into some of the cool moves you can pull off. Whether you’re tearing up the city on a pair of skates, a bike, or a skateboard, executing stylish rail grinds and nailing combos is not only fun but vital to progression. The crux of the game is tagging enough spots with your graffiti and out-tricking other crews to earn enough reputation to challenge them for territory control. Mastering traversal also matters for reaching hidden areas of the city that may contain secrets. 

If this modern homage has you chomping at the bit to play it, developer Team Reptile promises in the video's description that it's “going in hard” to get Bomb Rush Cyberfunk out the door this year. The game is slated to arrive on Switch and PC. 

What do you think of this latest look at Bomb Rush Cyberfunk? Let us know in the comments!

Following the colourful luchador metroidvania violence of the Guacamelee! series, developers Drinkbox Studios are returning to punch up fantasy in an action-RPG. Today they announced a release date of January 18th for Nobody Saves The World, a top-down ARPG with where players can transform into everything from a rogue to a rat, and customise them to be even weirder. It will be on Game Pass, too.

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Ubisoft today announced a surprising upcoming addition to Game Pass: Rainbow Six Extraction will be available on Microsoft's subscription service right from the start when it launches later this month. The monster-mashing spin-off from R6 Siege isn't one of their full-price games, coming at a slightly cheaper £34, but still, damn, that's a good get. And exactly the sort of game I likely wouldn't buy new but would try on Game Pass.

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Having been born and raised in one of the “white brick” buildings in Chicago’s now-demolished public housing projects in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood, I’d often find myself fantasizing about what scenarios led my family to live in what is now an empty lot in the shadow of a Target building. A large part of that…

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Riot Games have pulled the curtains back on the newest agent joining Valorant and her name is Neon. 

Revealed by way of a special agent trailer, Neon is a fast-paced electric shooter that seemingly specializes in zooming all over a given map quicker than any other agent in the game. The short story trailer, which runs less than three minutes, reveals that Neon is a Manila, Philippines-based agent with an excellent taste in music. 

As you can see in the trailer, Neon is a fan of Entertain Me by Ylona Garcia and 88rising. She’s also seemingly a fan of dreaming about what players are going to accomplish on the battlefield using her powers. We see her sprinting and sliding all over the maps shown in the trailer, using her electricity to make it easier. However, it doesn’t seem like she’ll be able to shoot while sprinting so don’t expect to be the run-n-gunner Neon might appear to be. 

We also get a quick look at one of her abilities where Neon lifts two large and long walls of electricity in a straight line, walls that she’s free to run in and out of. 

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on as quickly as some predicted, but VR headsets have managed to amass an impressive collection of software in the last few years regardless. And given Sony's recent PSVR2 announcements, this could be a big year for virtual reality. If you just bought a Meta Quest or haven’t fired yours up in a long time, there are several great experiences to be had. We highlight some of the best VR titles out now for the Quest, from high octane music games to spooky shooters. Here are 10 VR games you shouldn’t ignore, in no particular order.

Honorable Mentions: Half-Life: Alyx and Lone Echo

If you have a VR-ready gaming PC, you can connect it to a Quest via an Oculus Link Cable or over WiFi using Air Link. Doing so unlocks a number of PC-based VR games, most notably Half-Life: Alyx and Lone Echo. You definitely need some extra firepower to run these impressive games, but those experiences are well worth the trouble.

Earlier today, King Vader revealed the trailer for his newest collaboration with Netflix. This time around, the talented Youtuber set his sights on The Witcher series, as he explores the world of this Netflix original using his own thoughts and dreams with his short film, The Witcher: The Story of Cain.

You can check out the trailer for the fourth episode in King Vader’s Netflix Dreams project below.

This short film is the fourth such video that King Vader has made via the Netflix Dreams project, with previous episodes centering around his unique take on The Umbrella Academy, Cobra Kai, and Army of the Dead.

The Witcher: The Story of Cain stars King Vader, Caleb City, Hardstop Lucas, Jennings Brower, Melissa Richardson, and Alex Drastal. The full film can be seen on the Still Watching Netflix channel, running at just under an hour, which we’ve also linked below.

In her recent (and gorgeous) reveal trailer, Neon, the newest agent about to be introduced to Riot’s team-based tactical shooter, Valorant, breaks the cardinal rule of the sweaty, tryhard, head-clicking tac-shooter genre—she can actually move fluidly.

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As a big fan of Jet Set Radio, an early-aughts action-rollerblading game publisher Sega still has yet to officially reboot, I was stoked to see developer Team Reptile unveil its spiritual successor, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, in 2020. Here is a game that serves as a Jet Set Radio sequel in all but name alone. However, a new …

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Studio director and co-founder of Playground Games, Gavin Raeburn, has revealed that he’s leaving the company. 

First reported by Windows Central, he has revealed that after co-founding and working at Playground for 12 years, he’s retiring from the racetrack. This news comes two months after the studio put out its most successful title yet in Forza Horizon 5, which at the time of its release, also had the biggest launch of any Xbox Game Studios game ever. 

“After 12 years working on five award-winning Forza Horizon games, Gavin Raeburn is leaving Playground Games as studio director,” Turn 10 Studio Head and Forza franchise lead Alan Hartman told Windows Central. “A founding member of Playground Games, we thank Gav for his leadership and contributions to the Forza franchise and wish him all the best.” 

Crashes and glitches are nothing new to the video game community, but that does not mean the inconvenience it can cause should be the norm. For players who enjoy Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends, the last thing you would expect to crash your game is a skin, which is what is happening with a new skin for Bangalore.

Adding new skins for characters is great, especially when it comes with its own special introductory animation. However, players have been unable to enjoy the hard work of the developers, nor even the game itself, with the addition.

Videos have surfaced online and via Reddit, showing players getting an error message while being booted from the lobby or a more serious system crash after selecting the Mil-Spec skin for Bangalore in Apex Legends. The likely cause of this problem appears to be that intro animation, with the problem occurring every time it tries to play.

You can still use the skin, but it will require you to load up the game following a crash, which is less than ideal. For now, Respawn is aware of the issue and is actively working on a fix. The Bangalore skin remains up for sale in Apex Legends, however, but a warning screen informing players of the issue does appear everytime you boot up the game.

If you are looking to enjoy the game and Bangalore is your go-to character, your best bet is to enjoy the other skins the game has to offer for now until the fix is in place.

If there’s one game in the Resident Evil series that hasn’t gotten any sort of remake treatment but desperately needs one, it’d be Code Veronica. One of the last games to make use of the infamous tank controls from the series’ early days, Resident Evil: Code Veronica continues the story of Claire Redfield as she travels to Rockfort Island to try to find her brother, Chris.

Narratively, it makes sense to remake this one. After the events of the Resident Evil 2 remake, which we could arguably see as a soft reboot of sorts, Code Veronica would continue Claire’s story to let fans see what happens next. But seeing as how Capcom has yet to announce a CV remake (with rumors suggesting that they may be working on a Resident Evil 4 remake next instead), fans are taking things into their own hands.

A fan project for a Code Veronica remake is currently underway and is broken down into three parts, with the first set to release this year. You can check out a short demo down below:

Developed by Drinkbox Studios, best known for releasing the Guacamelee! games, Nobody Saves the World is a new colorful RPG that’s set to be released on Xbox and PC later this month. Announced via press release from Drinkbox, the game will be released on Jan. 18 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

If you’re a Game Pass subscriber, you’ll also have access to the game on day one on console or PC through the Xbox app.

Nobody Saves the World features a vibrant, colorful world and a narrative that’s just dripping with charming and funny writing that players have come to expect from the Guacamelee! developers. It also features online co-op, so players will be able to team up with each other to explore the world together.

Here is an official description taken from the launch date trailer above:

From the creators of Guacamelee! comes Nobody Saves the World, a top-down Action RPG with Online Co-op, in which you play many different character Forms, each with their own unique gameplay mechanics.

Following the game’s flashy trailer at The Game Awards 2021, Babylon’s Fall is gearing up nicely for a March 3 release. It has been a long development journey for PlatinumGames and Square Enix, with plenty of hype generated at its reveal, followed by long periods of silence and unease. Now, it is absolutely certain that Babylon’s Fall will hit its release date, with the news that the game has gone gold.

As shared on a Square Enix livestream, the confirmation is certainly a step in the right direction. The fantasy-themed and co-op action roleplaying game has divided opinions, and players can finally get the chance to experience it themselves in just a short while. If you are still unsure about how the game functions, or the combat system that is all about the weapons you equip, you can check out plenty of beta gameplay out in the wild to help you make up your mind.

An overview of Babylon’s Fall is as follows:

Experience acclaimed developer PlatinumGames’ signature combat in Babylon’s Fall with up to three other players or take on the Tower of Babel alone, in this new cooperative action RPG.

After the Babylonians perished, only their great tower “The Ziggurat” remained. Now a new empire has come to pillage its ruins and uncover its fabled treasures. Join forces with other Sentinels, unwilling subjects forcibly implanted with Gideon Coffin, relics that grant the few survivors unrivalled powers.

As with most games nowadays, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has seen its fair share of content updates as well as patches, growing an already substantial game into something even bigger. While it is always fun to have more to do in the game, sometimes, things can get broken for all sorts of reasons. A new patch arriving tomorrow on January 5 will be fixing issues with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla latest Yule Festival event, so players can enjoy the merry-making without problems.

It has certainly taken quite a long time, considering that the event was more or less broken since before Christmas. It probably was not a good idea either to implement something right before the developers and the studios go off on a break. Nevertheless, with 2022 in full swing, everyone is back to make sure that things run more smoothly from now on.

The arrival of the patch will also see the Yule Festival extended in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and players have until January 27 to enjoy the festivities. At least now, your progress will no longer be blocked as Eivor and crew can take a break from destroying their opposition and get some rest.

The title update 1.4.1.2 also marks the game’s first update of the year. With a big expansion coming in just a few months, we can expect to see even more activity for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

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Today Square Enix hosted a livestream revealing a ton of gameplay of the upcoming action JRPG Babylon’s Fall.

The gameplay was presented by director Kenji Sato, management director Takanao Sugiyamama, planner Isao Negishi, and producer (on the Square Enix side) Junichi Ehara.

The game was officially mentioned as running on PS5, and we get to see plenty of co-op gameplay, including battle, exploration, menus, and even a fight against a boss named Zenon.

You can watch it below.

Babylon’s Fall will release on March 3, 2022, for PC, PS4, and PS5. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can watch the latest promotional video, the previous trailer, a gallery of screenshots, and read the official description.

Jeopardy! record-breaker Amy Schneider revealed that she is all right following a robbery on Monday.

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In response to the news that Ghost of Tsushima sold more than 8 million copies, the director of the PlayStation exclusive Days Gone revealed a sales number for the 2019 game.

Jeff Ross, who directed Days Gone and has subsequently left the studio, said on Twitter that when he left Sony, Days Gone had sold 8 million copies on console alone. The game has subsequently sold more on PlayStation consoles, plus a further 1 million+ on Steam, Ross said.

Ross went on to claim that local studio management "always made us feel like it was a big disappointment." Ross said the press coverage--but not review scores--was a factor. "The press didn't help our case," Ross said.

Ross went on to say that Sony management had more faith in Death Stranding than Days Gone. The developer also spoke about the game's development, saying, "Development was a long slog, but we were a small team learning how to make our first open world game. All things considered, it's amazing we finished at all."

The Fortnite Item Shop has been refreshed once more and today's inventory lacks any major new crossovers, but it's rather loaded with Epic-made heroes dating back as far as Chapter 1, Season 2. Spanning all four-plus years of the game so far, the Item Shop inventory has a bit of everything today. Here's what you'll find in the digital store for January 6, 2022.

The headlining item really comes down to personal preference. Nothing in the shop today has been absent more than a month or two, so it doesn't really have any rare items at the moment, unless you count the soon-to-be-leaving Boba Fett and Cobra Kai cosmetics.

On the Epic side, you can find fan-favorites such as Manic, with her two styles and Scarlet Sai pickaxes, as well as Love Ranger and his Tat Axe pickaxe. Heroes from the in-universe anime, Battle Breakers, have also returned in the form of Razor and Kurohomura, two of the fake series' lead characters.

Microsoft's Jason Ronald has confirmed that Xbox has "no plans" to remove or disable developer mode on Xbox consoles following speculation this week that it was planning to do just that.

Ronald, who is Partner Director of Program Management at Xbox, confirmed this on Twitter. "We continue to believe in and support a healthy independent app and game development community on Xbox," Ronald said.

Some Partner Center accounts were "inadvertently deactivated," Ronald said, which is what caused the confusion and speculation that the developer mode feature was being removed. "We are actively working on identifying and reenabling these accounts as soon as possible," Ronald said.

Ronald said those who had their accounts accidentally deactivated can reach out to Microsoft at ReportApp@microsoft.com to speed up the account recovery. "We apologize for the inconvenience and we are working to remedy this as quickly as possible and thanks for your patience."

Raven Software has released an update for Call of Duty: Warzone on January 5 that includes a change to the Firesale public event and a fix for the invisible operator skin that caused frustration over the holiday break.

Following the patch, Warzone's Firesale public event will now last for the entire duration of the circle it becomes active for. Previously, the random event only lasted for a brief duration during a circle, but now players will be able to get discounts at the Buy Station for its entirety.

While this is a small update that still leaves plenty of bugs and performance problems for Caldera, it also addresses the invisible operator skin that plagued many matches over the holidays. Previously, the "Awoken" operator skin for Francis was not properly visible from a distance, leaving the operator to look like nothing more than a floating head on the map. The January 5 update should allow players to see their opponents properly, even if they are dressed as the Awoken version of Francis.

The patch notes also mention collision issues have been fixed with various elements across Caldera that allowed players to exploit, peek, or shoot through them. Hopefully, Warzone can get even more improvements with the upcoming Season 1 Reloaded update.

The full patch notes can be found below, as shared by Raven Software.

This week marks three weeks since employees across Activision Blizzard went on strike to show solidarity with twelve Raven Software QA employees unexpectedly laid off late last year and, subsequently, three weeks of silence from the company's leadership regarding the worker's demands. In an attempt to initiate conversation with Activision Blizzard once more, the former Raven QA team sent the company a letter Monday, January 3 outlining the conversations they hope to have with the company. Following the letter being sent to Activision Blizzard management, ABetterABK (A Better Activision, Blizzard, and King)--a Twitter group which was formed after reports of sexual harassment and sexism at the publisher surfaced earlier this year--shared the piece online.

In 2021, Destiny 2 figured out what it wanted to be.

True, this wasn't a year of the biggest content releases for Bungie's MMO shooter--the Beyond Light expansion was late 2020 and The Witch Queen is due to hit the game in 2022. Destiny 2 last year mostly subsisted on seasonal content, with new activities popping up and stories told in serialized fashion across weeks. The year saw a new raid come to Destiny 2, but it was a refreshed version of Destiny 1's Vault of Glass. The biggest influx of new stuff came with the 30th Anniversary content, with its hilarious Grasp of Avarice dungeon and Dares of Eternity event, but even that amounted to a fraction of what players are used to seeing when Bungie goes all-out with a new expansion for the game.

But in 2021, Bungie discovered how to go beyond just being a series of new content drops and expansions. The developer refined the approach it had been working on since the launch of the Forsaken expansion, and for the first time, Destiny started to feel like a contiguous, connected world. The vision for Destiny 2 finally started to match the reality of Destiny 2, and the game has been more compelling, at least for me, than ever before.

It all can be traced back to a single important addition: In 2021, Destiny 2 gained a protagonist.

The Anacrusis is coming to contend for the increasingly contested horde shooter crown, and if you plan on diving into the sci-fi co-op game yourself, you'll need to understand its full arsenal of weapons. Below we've detailed the full range of Anacrusis guns and equipment, including its out-of-this-world array of grenades and energy-shooting firearms. Consider this your introduction to all of the weapons and grenades, and a quick explainer on how to refill ammo in The Anacrusis.

The Anacrusis guns list

In Season 1 of the Early Access game, there are seven guns to find sprawled across the world of the titular luxury starcruiser. Three of them can be found in every safe room, while three others, the "special weapons," must be scavenged from the corridors and food courts of the shifting levels. The seventh, your standard pistol-type gun, is immovably equipped as your secondary weapon and features infinite ammo, so you'll never be totally without a fighting chance to defend yourself and your team. Here's the rundown of primary and special weapons.

Pokemon Go trainers should prepare for a bit of mountain hiking as the first major Pokemon Go event of 2022 has been announced: Mountains of Power.

The Rock- and Steel-type event kicks off January 7 at 10 AM local time, runs until January 13 at 8 PM local time, and continues the game's Season of Heritage arc. As the official Niantic blog post describes: "Team Mystic Leader Spark journeys through the terrain reminiscent of mountains found in the Johto and Sinnoh regions."

The Mountains of Power event will see an uptick in Rock- and Steel-type Pokemon both in the wild and in raids, while also offering special Pokemon for completing Timed and Field Research tasks. The full list of events for Mountains of Power is as follows:

An official date hasn't been confirmed for Call of Duty's Season 1 Reloaded update for Vanguard and Warzone, but we've officially reached the middle of the season. Call of Duty's mid-season updates generally bring more content and weapon tuning across multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone, but few details have been revealed by Activision. Here's what we know so far about the big update.

Season 1 Reloaded start time

Call of Duty's Season 1 update went live on December 8 for Vanguard and Warzone, and now there are less than 28 days left in the battle pass, so we've officially reached the halfway point for the season. Updates are always subject to change, but this means a roadmap and details should be arriving soon. And if this mid-season update follows the past update times, Season 1 Reloaded could arrive around 9 PM PT January 11 and 12 AM ET on January 12.

Multiplayer

It's uncertain what content players can expect for Vanguard's multiplayer without an updated roadmap, but Sledgehammer Games has given a small update regarding some of the mode's planned changes. The list includes a tweak to the Mortar Barrage killstreak, changes to Panzerfaust weapon challenges, perk adjustments, and a weapon tuning pass. These updates weren't mentioned to be specifically coming with the Season 1 Reloaded update, so we may see these changes sooner than the big mid-season update.

The action-RPG Nobody Saves the World now has a release date, and it's closer than you might have thought. The game from Guacamelee studio Drinkbox is coming on January 18 to PC and Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. If you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber on PC or consoles, you'll have it on release day as part of your subscription.

The date was announced in a trailer, showing off tons of gameplay and some story content, along with the uniquely cartoon-creepy art style. Nobody Saves the World is a top-down Zelda-like adventure game. You play as a featureless person who can shapeshift into different forms, each with their own special abilities to navigate the world and engage in combat. Each form has its own set of challenges and upgrade tree, and you can mix and match your abilities and loadouts.

A demo for Nobody Saves the World was released as part of ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest, letting you sample some forms like a poisonous rat or a hulking knight. The new release date trailer shows off even more forms, like a stage magician and an automaton. It also features co-op, so you can have two nobodies running around shapeshifting to solve puzzles and combat scenarios.

Behaviour Interactive announced on January 3 that it intends to remove a cosmetic skin for The Cannibal (also known as Leatherface). The removal of the mask follows reports that players have been experiencing racist harassment in-game using the mask.

A two-part development update posted on Monday outlined numerous changes coming to the game and addressed the reports. "Members of the community have shared their experiences with people targeting and harassing them while using some of these masks. These reports were disheartening to hear, and we absolutely condemn this behaviour," said Behaviour Interactive in the update.

As a result, the Leatherface survivor mask cosmetic will be removed by the release of the Mid-Chapter update. The cosmetic would allow players to wear the faces of survivor characters in Dead by Daylight, one of which belongs to Claudette Morel, who is a Black woman. Behaviour Interactive stated, "We will not tolerate hateful activity and will continue to take every step necessary to protect the community."

Pagan: Control, the second major DLC headed to Far Cry 6, now has a release date--and its much sooner than you might have expected. Starting on January 11, Far Cry 6 players will be able to take control of Pagan Min, the soft-spoken yet always-extravagant antagonist of Far Cry 4. The update follows last year's Vaas: Insanity DLC, and is part two of the game's three-part, villain-inspired season pass.

Set within the confines of Min's mind, the upcoming DLC blends "intense action and storytelling" as players explore Min's psyche and attempt to help break the self-proclaimed King of Kyrat's cycle of guilt and violence. In order to perfectly convey the trial-and-error process of growth and self-reflection, Pagan: Control pays tribute to the rougelite genre, meaning each death as Min sends the player back to the start of the DLC with only their accumulated knowledge and skills to help guide them through their second (and third, and fourth...) time around. Last but not least, Far Cry 4 fans will be thrilled to know Min's original voice actor, Troy Baker, will be returning to the Far Cry series for this performance.

Following Pagan: Control, only one infamous Far Cry villain remains to be added into Far Cry 6: Far Cry 5's Joseph Seed. While Ubisoft has not specified exactly when "The Father" will make his Far Cry 6 debut, the company has confirmed it will release sometime later this year.

We're well into Fortnite Chapter 3 now, with the Season 1 Week 5 challenges ready to be tackled this week. But many fans are still asking the all-important question: When is Tilted Towers coming back? The beloved drop zone is second to none in Fortnite's illustrious history, and many have noticed that the giant ice blocks currently sitting in the middle of the map are situated in such a manner that reveals a grand secret beneath the ice: Tilted Towers is coming back. Here's what we know about its specific return date.

Fortnite Tilted Towers

The named location has not been mentioned officially by Epic Games just yet, but we know from dataminers that the location is 100% returning this season. In fact, it should be as early as this month. According to Hypex, the world's foremost Fortnite leaker, the snow will begin to melt across the island this week.

I have a desk. I have a PC. I have a combination desk PC. That's what Razer wants to create with its new hybrid creation, currently known as Project Sophia. Announced during CES 2022, Project Sophia is a modular system designed to function as both a workstation and a gaming rig, letting you quickly reconfigure it to fit your needs without taking up excessive space. And a separate haptics-equipped gaming chair is the icing on the cake.

Project Sophia will not include a traditional PC tower, instead fitting a custom PCB directly onto the desk--an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU are included and housed in a magnetic chassis that can snap underneath the tabletop, and it's upgradable so you'll be able to keep the form factor for a long time. It also includes modules for adding things like touchscreens, wireless charging, and even a cup warmer.

To go (or not go) with the Project Sophia system is the newly announced Enki Pro HyperSense chair. Based on the existing Enki Pro design, the new chair uses D-BOX haptic feedback that includes native support for more than 2,200 games. Several streaming platforms are also supported, and that are 65,000 different haptic variations to give you a unique experience with everything you try.

Project Sophia will be available in either 65-inch or 77-inch versions, while the Enki Pro HyperSense includes a 22-inch seat. No release date or price has been announced for either product yet, but with the standard Razer Enki already costing $400 and the Enki Pro costing $1000, you can expect the HyperSense to be quite a bit more.

The latest Valorant Agent to be revealed by Riot Games is Neon. The electric Agent was shared with us in a trailer posted by Riot on January 5, displaying that the colorful character will be sliding onto our screens soon as Episode 3 ends on January 10.

More information about Neon and her abilities is yet to be revealed, with the trailer giving fans some indication of what she might be capable of. First and foremost, it's clear to see that the Manila-born Agent has the power of electricity on her side, as she sprints about with lightning following her tracks.

We can only make assumptions about Neon's abilities for now, but it looks like the character will share similarities with Jett and Phoenix in terms of agility and her control of the map. Neon appears to have some form of sprint ability accompanied by a form of stim; we presume this may allow her to slide like Jett and equip her weapon faster.