September 2022

The 17-year-old suspect believed to behind the recent hack of Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games has pled not guilty to the charge of computer misuse.

However, the teen did plead guilty to breaching bail conditions, Eurogamer understands.

In a statement to Eurogamer this afternoon, the City of London Police's Cyber Crime Unit acknowledged the individual had appeared in court over the weekend - and was now being held at a youth detention centre.

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Kena: Bridge of Spirits will receive an anniversary update today, including a New Game Plus mode among other features.

Originally released last year across PlayStation consoles and PC (Epic), the free update adds in a number of new features.

The game is also available via Steam from today, with a 25 percent discount to celebrate for the first seven days.

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Today SNK announced the release date of the next DLC for its popular fighting game The King of Fighters XV.

The “Team Samurai” DLC will release on October 4 on all platforms. It does pretty much what it says on the tin, bringing a team of three fighters to The King of Fighter XV.

Those are Haohmaru, Nakoruru, and Darli Dagger, which was introduced for the first time in the newest Samurai Shodown game.

The announcement came with a trailer and gallery of screenshots, that you can watch below.

It may sound like an exaggeration, but October of 2022 may well be one of the best months for anime in recent memory. Not only does it have a slew of mainstays with new cours to share, but it also has promising new offerings and unexpected returns from properties thought to be long gone. There’s honestly something for everyone, and of the shows set to air, these our our picks for the 10 best anime of October 2022 you should watch.

FIFA 23 is upon us, and with it, excitement. Yet while player ratings are all well and good, nothing quite compares to taking the field with a powerhouse. So today, we’re going to break down all the best teams in FIFA 23.

FIFA 23 Best Teams Guide

As one could imagine, the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool are inescapable in England. But this isn’t Premier League 23, this is FIFA 23, and we’re here to show you every single five-star team the game has to offer.

Best Premier League Teams in FIFA 23

Perhaps unsurprisingly, no other PL club hits the five-star rating in FIFA 23. Though numerous clubs, including Arsenal, Aston Villa, Leicester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United all hit the four-and-a-half star rating.

Thor: Ragnorak gave us a side of Thor that was badly needed, a version of Thor that moved away from the whole fish-out-of-water and into a goofball. Thor: Love and Thunder continue this new tradition, firing joke after joke all the while expertly weaving impactful moments into the story. That’s more than enough reason to give it a rewatch. With the movie available on Disney+ now, these are the 10 best moments in Thor Love and Thunder you need to watch again.

When it comes to massively popular open-world video games, few are more noteworthy than Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row. Both of these franchises have massive fanbases, and even in a genre that receives a glut of games every year, these feel a step ahead of the pack every time. But which one will provide you with more bang for your buck? Here’s our guide to whether Saints Row or Grand Theft Auto is the better open-world option.

Today Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse released a new trailer showcasing one of the new characters coming with version 3.1.

This one is about Cyno, following the brief introduction we saw a few days ago. This time around we get to see a bit of gameplay, even if this isn’t the usual in-depth explainer of all of Cyno’s powers. That’ll come likely tomorrow.

Cyno will be made available with the new version on September 28, and she’s voiced in English by Alejandro Saab.

The Japanese voice Miyu Irino may sound more familiar since he’s Sora in the Kingdom Hearts series.

You can check the trailer out below both in English and in Japanese, depending on your voice-over preferences.

Following the recent Fortnite update, Ranger Shotgun has returned to the island. If you weren’t aware, Ranger Shotgun is a single-barrel shotgun that deals considerable damage at a longer range. Similar to other weapons, the weapon spawns in five different variants – Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary. If you’re wondering where to find Ranger Shotgun in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 4, then here’s a dedicated guide for you.

The highly anticipated Genshin Impact 3.1 is releasing tomorrow, and it’s scheduled to bring a ton of exciting events. As always, travelers can participate in these Genshin Impact events and complete the challenges to unlock premium rewards. So without any further delay, here’s a detailed overview of every Genshin Impact 3.1 Phase I event.

Today Warner Bros. Games released a new trailer of the upcoming action RPG Gotham Knights and this one is all about the PC version.

The trailer promises 4K resolution, ultra-high framerate, ray-traced reflections, intel XeSS support (basically Intel’s platform-agnostic DLSS-like upscaling), extensive customization options, ultra-wide screen resolution, and multi-monitor support.

While not everyone will be able to enjoy the game with quite so nice visuals, there indeed seem to be plenty of ways to customize your performance, in case your rig isn’t really cutting-edge-

You can watch the trailer below.

Gotham Knights releases on October 21 for PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. If you want to see more, you can enjoy another trailer focusing on the Court of Owls and one showing the inspirations behind our heroes.

Gotham Knights is set in a massive open-world Gotham City in which Batman is dead and now the streets are controlled by criminals, thugs, and supervillains.

We’ve all known for a few months that the first Overwatch will disappear completely and morph into the new Overwatch 2. Considering players are going to be losing access to a game they have been playing for the last six years, there is plenty of wondering about when exactly the first Overwatch will be gone. We’ve got all the info you want for when Overwatch 1 will be shutting down.

When Will Overwatch 1 Shut Down

The last day for all players to experience Overwatch 1 will be Oct. 1. After that, the Overwatch 1 servers will be taken offline on Oct. 2 to begin the Overwatch 2 transition for the Oct. 4 launch.

We repeat: This upcoming Saturday will be your last day to play Overwatch 1 before it becomes the free-to-play sequel.

On the bright side, you aren’t necessarily losing access to anything in your inventory. All cosmetics (character skins, player icons, etc.) will be making the transition to Overwatch 2. Overwatch 1 isn’t getting a full deletion, more like a merge into the sequel.

That is everything there is to know regarding when Overwatch 1 will be shutting down. Be sure to stick around as we will keep you up to date with any further developments in the last several days of Overwatch 1.

Rhythm FPS Metal: Hellsinger only came out a couple of weeks ago, but if you’re already getting tired of its relentless heavy metal soundtrack then the game’s new modding tools should help. You can now pop in whatever music you want to listen to, not just metal. What genre did devs The Outsiders choose to show off this new feature? Lucifer’s very own favourite, jazz, of course. Brace yourself for some syncopated shenanigans before you watch the trailer below.

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There’s nothing inherently wrong with the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT's concept – faster clock speeds than the RX 6600 XT, to better compete with Nvidia’s RTX cards? Yeah why not – but surely its timing is questionable. Any GPU launching several months into 2022 would only ever do so under the looming shadows of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series and the AMD Radeon RX 7000 series, the latter being officially revealed in just a few days’ time. Not to mention Intel Arc Alchemist, delayed as it has been.

Still. AMD’s next-gen, RDNA 3-based GPUs are an unknown quantity, and the RTX 40 series will at first focus on high-end models like the RTX 4090. Even if its RDNA 2 architecture is on the way out, could the RX 6650 XT not find room in the pack as one of the best graphics cards for 1080p and 1440p?

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Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Fall Guys, has unleashed another “F” into the world by adding an NFT-based video game to its online store: Fuck, are we still doing this crypto-baby thing?

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Warner Bros. just released a new trailer to tell you how beautiful Gotham Knights will be on your PC, as if to reassure everyone that this time, it’s getting the PC version right. Back in 2015, the publisher’s PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight was so famously bad that it pulled the game from Steam until it could…

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) isn't dead. In fact, it'll be back next year, according to the latest word from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). E3 2023 will be the first in-person show held since 2019. E3 2023 will return on June 13 to 16, 2023. This new schedule puts just under nine months from now to the planned date. Prior to the disruptions of 2019 and beyond, E3 was one of the world's largest video game industry events. Alongside events like Gamescom and the Tokyo Game Show (which both returned to in-person hosting in 2022), E3 was a major avenue for announcements from the industry's biggest presences [Thanks, VentureBeat!].

E3 2020 was cancelled due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Those same concerns caused it to go fully online for E3 2021. The ESA cited COVID-19 concerns again when it cancelled both the digital and physical E3 2022 shows, but some commentators suggested that the decision was made some time before.

UPDATE: EA's servers are coming back online after an outage that lasted roughly two hours. Players are now able to log into Ultimate Team.

ORIGINAL STORY: FIFA 23 officially launched its early access period today for those who bought the Ultimate Edition, and already the servers have gone down.

At the time of publication, Ultimate Team was unplayable on both PlayStation and Xbox.

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It's no secret we're big fans of PowerWash Simulator here at Eurogamer which, for me, makes this hour-long development deep dive video something of a must-watch.

I've often wondered while playing whether certain objects auto-complete faster than others. If you're yet to try PowerWash yourself, it's worth knowing the game will, after you clean a certain amount of surface area, auto-complete the rest of the object in question. (This also provides a nice 'ding' sound.)

This subject is one of many covered in the developer video, which is ostensibly about how levels in the game are created but also delves into thoughts on dirt design, parkour, and the game's lack of fall damage.

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Today Blizzard Entertainment released a new trailer of the upcoming hero shooter Overwatch 2.

As usual, Activision likes releasing “launch” trailers way before the actual release, so we get to see Overwatch’s superbly-animated heroes in epic action, including the new ones.

At the end of the trailer, we also get to see some more of the Mythic skins that will come with the premium battle pass, on top of a further look at the one for Genji that we had already seen before.

You can check the trailer out below.

Overwatch 2 will launch for PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on October 4. It’s worth adding that the launch of the second game will simultaneously see the sunsetting of the first. One of the largest differences between the two titles I the switch to 5v5 gameplay,

The game will be free to play for everyone, with the inevitable optional microtransactions.

The Jackbox Party Pack 9, the latest installment of the annual party game series, will be coming to all platforms on Oct. 20, developer Jackbox Games revealed today.

The new pack comes with four new party games and one returning favorite with Fibbage. The trivia-bluffing game Fibbage 4 introduces new categories for two to eight players such as video questions, questions submitted by fans, and an “Enough About You mode.” The four new games in the pack include:

Musophobia is a fear of rats and mice, and A Plague Tale: Requiem seeks to once again trigger it. If you’re familiar with A Plague Tale: Innocence you know that the world in the game is being entirely overcome with rats carrying a plague. The new game once again has players journey as Amicia alongside her brother Hugo as they aim to escape the spreading rats. Only, Hugo seems to be holding a very dark curse.

Watch the trailer for yourself, if you can stand to look at the pretty horrifying swarms of rats.

A press release we received accompanying the new trailer describes the story as:

As Amicia and Hugo set out to find a mysterious island in the hope of ending the curse which runs through Hugo’s blood, they find themselves having to rely on the help of the people they meet. Walking into foreign territory, the young de Runes are unlikely to make it alone… but how much trust can they place in strangers? The answer seems as uncertain as the island is beautiful and terrifying.

The next early access update for grim roguelike Darkest Dungeon 2 revamps its progression system and brings in some temporary hired muscle in the form of bounty hunters. The Altar Of Hope update is already live in the game’s experimental branch and is coming to the main game when devs Red Hook are satisfied with its stability. You can catch a glimpse of the bounty hunter in the teaser below.

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I had hoped to bring you a proper review of Moonscars today, the new 2D Soulslike from indie studio Black Mermaid. But alas, both time and its ferociously difficult combat have got the better of me, so you'll have to settle for some impressions instead. This isn’t simply a case of drinking the 'git gud' kool-aid either. While I'll hold my hands up now and say that Soulslikes have always been a bit of a challenge for me, I feel like I've been making some pretty good in-roads into the genre lately, and after falling in love with Moonscars' reveal trailer earlier in the year during the Humble Games Showcase, I really, really, really wanted to like this one. Sadly, it's become increasingly clear that Moonscars does not like me very much, and maybe even hates my guts a bit - which is ironic, considering how many organs I've chucked at its feet over the last week and a bit to appease its hungry dread moon.

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It’s not often that a rapper goes to bat for a video game developer after a disgruntled fan base enacts gross harassment, but not all rappers are built like T-Pain.

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Sega announced a new partnership with Japan-based blockchain firm double jump tokyo, which has begun development on a new Sangokushi Taisen blockchain game. Once completed, the game will likely be the first Sega property that uses blockchain technology. There is no confirmed release date or platform. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

double jump tokyo will handle the development of the game, with Sega providing the Sangokushi Taisen license. The game will utilize double jump's new "Oasys" blockchain project. Originally unveiled in February 2022, the Oasys architecture is reportedly built to support blockchain games. The official Oasys website states that the architecture also supports the trading of NFTs and claims it is "eco-friendly". Ethereum, one of the primary blockchains supporting NFT-based projects, recently completed a switch to "Proof-of-Stake", a verification mechanism that is said to dramatically reduce the energy costs to maintain the blockchain. One of the major objections to blockchain-based technology is that the favored mechanism for maintaining it, "Proof-of-Work" , deliberately consumed large amounts of energy through "mining" activity. Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency system, still uses Proof-of-Work.

With Overwatch 2’s launch just a week away, Blizzard spilled more details about what will be different in the free-to-play sequel, and it’s sounding rough. While returning players will have access to all of the game’s returning heroes, brand new players will have to play approximately 100 matches to unlock them all. A…

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Though it’s not expected until next year, this week we got an even closer look at the upcoming HBO TV adaptation of the PlayStation 3 megahit, The Last of Us. Previous glimpses of the show revealed some stunning parity to the source material, and the first teaser trailer shows even more synergy with the game’s set…

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If you were hoping for more Madden 23 content as part of the game’s weekly schedule, you might be waiting a little longer. With Florida currently experiencing horrid complications due to the rapidly approaching Hurricane Ian, developer EA Tiburon announced that this week’s Madden drops are “subject to change.”

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If you were eagerly awaiting the release of Rick from Rick & Morty in MultiVersus, the wait ends today, as the brand new character is now available to wreak havoc on the battlefield.

Of course, the misunderstood genius Rick Sanchez isn’t alone in Warner Bros’ fighting game, as his traditional partner Morty is also already available.

To celebrate the release, the developers launched a gameplay trailer, which you can enjoy below.

If you’re not familiar with Rick, here’s a brief description.

“A nihilistic mega-genius and one of the galaxy’s most wanted. Earth-hailing scientist Rick Sanchez has seen just about everything reality has to offer. Along with his grandson Morty, Rick has saved the galaxy and the space/time continuum dozens of times”

Of course, you can expect to find more information about the release date of for Rick here on Twinfinite as soon as Warner Bros. Games announces it, so you should definitely stay tuned.

MultiVersus is currently available for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.

Steam is ditching its annual Lunar New Year sale next year, opting instead for a new spring sale. That means the digital storefront will now have sales for all four seasons, and Valve have also outlined the dates for the next three major sales events.

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The 17-year-old suspected of hacking Rockstar Games and leaking footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has pled not guilty to the charge of computer misuse. He has reportedly pled guilty to breaching bail conditions however and is now being held in a youth detention centre.

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Granular environment destruction is up there with grappling hooks in the videogame hall of fame. The Finals, an upcoming multiplayer shooter, seems to have both. Its new trailer shows players grappling and ziplining between buildings, and those buildings being destroyed chunk by chunk.

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Overwatch 2 differs from its predecessor by being free-to-play, which means it will be more vulnerable to players who are up to no good. Blizzard today outlined how they intend to prevent "disruptive behaviour" from players, including the use of SMS verification and machine learning. More awkwardly, game modes will be locked for first-time players, and Overwatch 1's original heroes will only be unlocked "over the course of approximately 100 matches."

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I don’t know much about the Gundam franchise beyond a few memories of the older shows when they aired on Toonami back in the day. Young Zack liked the big mech battles. And in 2022, I still like big mechs. I also like team-based shooters. So lucky me, Gundam Evolution mashes together the famous mechs from the Gundam …

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