May 2023

CCL are offering an RTX 4070 gaming PC with Diablo 4 for £960

1 year 1 month ago

It's been a little while since we covered a prebuilt gaming PC here at RPS, but there's a good deal today on a RTX 4070 system over at CCL.

Update (18/5): CCL has upgraded the motherboard from an Asus A320 to a newer MSI A520 model. Original article continues:

A configuration that includes a Ryzen 5 5700G, 16GB of DDR4 and 500GB NVMe SSD is available for £960 when you use code GAMER20 - and you even get a free copy of Diablo 4, which debuts on 6/6 and looks quite promising!

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Will Judd

Long Covid Mods translate “real-world symptoms" into Elden Ring, Minecraft, and The Witcher 3

1 year 1 month ago

A new series of challenge mod packs aim to raise awareness for Long Covid and chronic fatigue symptoms using three perennial favourites: Elden Ring, Minecraft, and The Witcher 3. The initiative is called Long Covid Mode and all three mods make sweeping adjustments to the games, turning “real-world symptoms into in-game effects.” Take a look at some of the examples below:

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Kaan Serin

Ubisoft expanding Assassin's Creed team by 40% over coming years

1 year 1 month ago

Ubisoft has detailed plans expand its Assassin's Creed team by 40 percent "over the coming years" as it seeks to focus its resources on "big brands and long-lasting Live games".

The news comes as part of the publisher's Financial Year 2023 earnings report, its first earnings report since a disappointing quarterly update in January which saw it pledge an "increased cautiousness over the coming years" and cancel three unannounced projects.

In today's end-of-year report, Ubisoft recorded net bookings of €1.74bn, marking an 18 percent year-on-year decrease for the publisher, but there were some notable wins for its biggest games, including a record number of active users for the Assassin's Creed franchise over the last year, coming it at 44 percent higher than Origins and 19 percent higher than Odyssey.

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Matt Wales

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Honkai: Star Rail Kafka and Dan Heng Story Segments Make the Game Stronger

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Honkai: Star Rail Kafka and Dan Heng Story Segments Make the Game Stronger

It isn't unusual for a game to occasionally shift protagonists. It can happen briefly to serve as a way to introduce a person or a story element. With Honkai: Star Rail, we've seen HoYoVerse employ this mechanic both with Kafka and Dan Heng, two people with major roles in the story. In both cases, it can feel a bit different than the typical exposition or character questline, and it works to the benefit of the game in many ways to make its storyline, lore, and even gameplay better.

Editor’s Note: There are no spoilers for Honkai: Star Rail’s story or Kafka and Dan Heng’s background below.

By having the player be Kafka when Honkai: Star Rail begins, it helps provide a greater opportunity to question her motives and morality. We’re someone who is setting the story in motion. Kafka is bringing our avatar to life. Can she really be bad? Likewise, it’s letting us see her interactions with Silver Wolf and perhaps see that maybe she isn’t as potentially malicious as our later Astral Express encounter and Xianzhou Luofu experiences with her suggest.

[caption id="attachment_963387" align="alignnone" width="1200"]Honkai: Star Rail Kafka and Dan Heng Story Segments Make the Game Stronger Screenshot by Siliconera[/caption]

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Jenni Lada

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Idol Showdown Is Another Surprisingly Solid Fangame

1 year 1 month ago

Hololive Idol Showdown

Hololive fan-games appear to be having a moment right now. First, there's the surprisingly good survivors-like Holocure, and now a fighting game offering in Idol Showdown. This is to say nothing of the RPG's, flash games and platformers also coming out of the fan-game scene. Going into Idol Showdown, I was initially apprehensive. I have precious little experience with fighting games, but thankfully it does a decent job of acclimating newer players to the controls.

For the uninitiated, Idol Showdown is a free fan-made fighting game from Besto Game Team and starring VTubers from the Hololive agency. Everything from the moves to the characters and palette swaps are a reference to Hololive streams and in-jokes. When the fight is over, the screen zooms out to a very Youtube-like layout complete with a chatbox and faux-recommendations. Even the voice lines are clipped from the streamers themselves, although several of them have since provided voice lines for the developer to add into the game. There are eight playable characters taken from the agency's Japanese branch, though plenty of members from the English and Indonesian speaking branches also make cameo. The developers also teased additional characters, such as Usada Pekora.

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Elliot Gostick

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ESRB Xbox One and Series X Listing Appears for Stray

1 year 1 month ago

Stray Xbox

Cyberpunk cat game Stray is coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X soon, based on a new ESRB listing. The listing contains the same text as the game’s previous listing, only now the game is specifically listed for the two Microsoft consoles. Stray previously released in July 2022 for PC, PS5, and PS4. [Thanks, Wario64!]

Neither Microsoft nor publisher Annapurna Interactive confirmed this release yet, so no date is currently known. It’s also not clear if Stray will be part of Xbox Game Pass, similar to how it was a day one release for PlayStation Plus.

Stray sees players taking control of a cat in a futuristic world set in a society where humans have disappeared and been replaced by robots. The cat teams up with a small drone robot as he tries to reunite with his family. It allows players to perform a whole bunch of cat behaviors, including knocking paint cans off ledges and clawing furniture.

Stray received widespread acclaim, with it picking up several nominations at The Game Awards in December, including Best Art Direction and Game of the Year. It won awards for Best Indie and Best Debut Indie.

Stray is available now for the PS5, PS4 and PC, and it seems will be getting an Xbox One and Series X release sometime in the future.

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Leigh Price

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Overwatch 2's long-promised flagship PvE mode has been scrapped

1 year 1 month ago

Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard has spoken out to reassure fans upset by its decision to ditch plans for a PVE Hero Mode, to say it still had "a lot of great PvE content" still in the pipeline.

"A clarification that I wanted to make is that, while we made the decision to cut Hero Mode + Talents, we have a lot of great PvE content coming this year," Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss wrote on Twitter this morning.

This amounted to "big story missions, new cinematics, co-op events and single player Hero Mastery missions" for the game - even if its major Hero Mode has been left on the cutting room floor. More on all that below.

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Matt Wales

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Kingdom Hearts Keychains Include Three New Keyblades

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Kingdom Hearts keychains keyblade

Square Enix revealed a new line of Kingdom Hearts merchandise featuring three new keychains based on popular keyblades in the video game franchise. The three new keychains are Two Become One, Bond of Flame, and the χ-blade (pronounced the same as “keyblade.”) All three of them cost 2,090 JPY (roughly $15 USD). They are available to pre-order from the Japanese Square Enix online store, and they are expected to release on September 9, 2023. They aren't showing up in the worldwide Square Enix storefronts yet. [Thanks, Dengeki Hobby!]

The new Kingdom Hearts keyblade keychains are made of zinc alloy. All three of them have a metallic polished finish, with Two Become One and the χ-blade painted silver and Bond of Flame painted crimson red.

You can take a better look at the new Kingdom Hearts keyblade keychains in the gallery below.

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Daniel Bueno

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Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode Canceled, Story Missions Coming

1 year 1 month ago

Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode Canceled in Favor of Story Missions

The new Overwatch 2 roadmap is here for season 5 through 7, and it confirmed that the PvE Hero Mode option is being scrapped in favor of Story Missions. Upon the announcement coming out, GameSpot also shared an interview with Director Aaron Keller and Executive Producer Jared Neuss that went over the decision to get rid of this mode and why.

In the GameSpot interview by Tamoor Hussain, resources were cited as an issue. Specifically, Director Keller noted that that development of the Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode would be like “running two separate games at the same time with a set of Heroes as the piece that is shared between two of them.” He noted the time necessary to do that and resources meant it was “pulling focus away from the live game.”

Neuss also expounded on how much extra work it involved and told GameSpot:

But for games like this, it's tougher because the team was building something that is totally different than anything that they'd built before. These story missions are significantly different than Archives or other ways that [we've] told stories inside the game before. And so developing those, what it takes to do that, the technology required, the people required, the iteration required is all different.

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Jenni Lada

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The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails September Release Date Set

1 year 1 month ago

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails - Release Date

NIS America officially announced The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails release date is on September 19, 2023, for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC. This will be the first time Nayuta no Kiseki will be available for English audiences. A new trailer focusing on the game's story setting is also now available.

Take a look at the new story trailer for The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails here below.

https://youtu.be/RLbXBI4qvWI

The story of the game starts when Nayuta gets the opportunity to embark on an adventure after meeting a fairy-like creature named Noi. The trailer shows some bits at the start of the journey, when Nayuta and his friend Cygna encounter an imposing man in dark clothes after finding Noi.

After that, the video also shares some gameplay segments showcasing the action-RPG elements of the game. You can see various locations while Nayuta and friends jump and attack enemies through forests, ice caves, and ancient-looking ruins.

Nayuta no Kiseki was originally released in 2012 as an action spin-off of the Trails series for the PSP, but it wasn’t localized for English audiences until now. This release follows the recent NIS America efforts in bringing The Legend of Heroes games to western audiences, the latest ones being Trails to Azure and Trails into Reverie.

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Frank Reyes

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Tales of Symphonia Switch Patch Finally Fixes Issues

1 year 1 month ago

Tales Of Symphonia Remastered Switch - Update Patch

Bandai Namco announced the patch to fix issues in Tales of Symphonia Remastered for Nintendo Switch will finally roll out on May 18, 2023. This update is expected to deal with problems such as black screens, background music glitches, and freezes throughout the game. Players have been reporting game-breaking issues since the game’s release. It will bring the game up to version 1.2.

According to the patch notes, this update will fix significant issues including processing slowdowns while moving through the Triet area, freezes in the middle of boss battles, and sudden black screens that locked the game in place. This quality-of-life update, known as Patch 1.2, arrives about three months after the game’s release in February 2023.

Since the game’s release, many players have reported severe performance issues from framerate drops to missing effects and animations. As a response, Bandai Namco apologized for the problems found in the game and announced the team would be working on fixing them.

It’s worth noting this Patch 1.2 is only coming to the Nintendo Switch version of the game, which has been reported to have the most severe issues. Bandai Namco has not mentioned any similar patches for the other platforms so far.

Tales of Symphonia Remastered is currently available for the Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. Another version based on the PS3 release is available on PCs via Steam.

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Frank Reyes

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Mega Man 11 Model Kit Can Be Posed Without His Helmet

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Mega Man 11 Model Kit Can Be Posed Without His Helmet

Kotobukiya announced launch details about the upcoming Mega Man 11 model kit, including the reveal that the finished figure can be posed without his helmet. He will cost 7,800円 (~$57). The Japanese release window for it is October 2023. There's no North American release window yet, but it will appear worldwide.

This version of Mega Man is a non-standard scale unit. Once fully built, he'll stand at 135mm. That is just about five inches tall. There are 51-200 parts in the kit. Also, like past kits, it is recommended people have things like nippers.

The finished Mega Man figure will be articulated and able to be posed in different ways. There are four face plates. Mega Man can be posed with or without the helmet. He can have his Mega Buster equipped. There are also Charged Shot effect parts.

Here's a closer look:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UiTySFf88&ab_channel=KOTOBUKIYATV

As a reminder, this is one of many Mega Man model kits from Kotobukiya. The company manufactured many based on past installments. Earlier in May 2023, it also announced additional designs like one based on Black Zero.

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Jenni Lada

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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Producer Calls Open World 'the New Format to Proceed From'

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builds upon the groundbreaking open world design of 2017's Breath of the Wild, and the creative leads behind the sequel have seemingly confirmed that the Zelda team will stick with this formula for future entries.

In an interview with Game Informer, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi discussed the future of the Zelda franchise, saying the open world format — or "open air" as Nintendo liked to call it in 2017 — is here to stay.

"With Ocarina of Time, I think it's correct to say that it did kind of create a format for a number of titles in the franchise that came after it," Aonuma said. "But in some ways, that was a little bit restricting for us. While we always aim to give the player freedoms of certain kinds, there were certain things that format didn't really afford in giving people freedom. Of course, the series continued to evolve after Ocarina of Time, but I think it's also fair to say now that we've arrived at Breath of the Wild and the new type of more open play and freedom that it affords. Yeah, I think it's correct to say that it has created a new kind of format for the series to proceed from."

Aonuma's new comments mirror what the longtime Zelda producer said back in 2017. Just after Breath of the Wild's launch, Aonuma said, "From now on, this will probably be the standard form."

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Logan Plant

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PSA: Tears of the Kingdom's Best Quality of Life Feature Is Easy to Miss

1 year 1 month ago

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out now, and simply bursting at the seams with secrets, hidden treasures, little detours, and easter eggs. Its main story path is fairly easy to follow in the midst of all that, and generally will get you to collect all the key powers, items, and story points you'll want before eventually beating the game. However, Tears of the Kingdom's best quality of life feature sits somewhere in between main story and secret, and is possible to miss entirely. We're talking about the Autobuild power.

For those who are trying to avoid major spoilers, here's the short version: Autobuild is essentially a power that lets you instantly build any design you've previously made with Ultrahand, either using parts in the area or materials you have on hand. It's a genius timesaver, and one well-worth getting, but it's waiting at the end of a quest chain that, while major, isn't necessary.

For a spoiler-free hint: follow the quest chain that begins with "A Mystery in The Depths" once it becomes available, and you'll eventually pick it up at Lookout Landing from Josha. We also have a detailed guide on how to get the Autobuild ability earlier than this, if you want.

Warning: Spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the kingdom follow below the video. Read on at your own risk!

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Rebekah Valentine

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Blizzard Details Overwatch 2 2023 Roadmap

1 year 1 month ago

Overwatch 2

During a developer livestream today, Blizzard revealed its roadmap for the coming months. The roadmap, which was presented by game director Aaron Keller and executive producer Jared Neuss, details what is coming during Season 5, 6, 7, and beyond. In addition to PvP updates, the Overwatch 2 developers also gave us an idea of when to expect the long-awaited PvE experience that was announced alongside the game in 2019.

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Brian Shea

You can try the Dead Space remake for 90 minutes with a Steam free trial

1 year 1 month ago

It's long been possible to download demos of some games on Steam, particularly during periodic Steam Next Fests. It's also technically possible to buy a game, play it for under two hours, then refund it if it's not for you.

As of yesterday, you can experience a marriage of both these ideas on Steam via a time-limited 90 minute trial for EA's Dead Space remake.

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Graham Smith

Crowd control puzzler Humanity is out now

1 year 1 month ago

Humanity has been released. Not from our inevitable march towards eternal slumber, but the puzzle game wahey. It's being published by Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Enhance and it seems shot through with the same mixture of the silly and the sublime as that designer's Rez and Tetris Effect, as you play a Shiba Inu who commands crowds of humans around large abstract architecture.

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Graham Smith

This extreme overclocking EVGA Z690 Kingpin motherboard is more than 50% off at Newegg

1 year 1 month ago

EVGA's Kingpin motherboards are some of the most bonkers out there, proper slabs that are designed for extreme overclocking with hugely impressive power delivery, multiple BIOSes and some unique features. They're also hugely expensive, normally costing close to $1000, but a deep discount on their Z690 model over at Newegg brings it to $400. That's still pricey, but a reasonable pickup given the feature list for anyone designing a top-end gaming rig around Intel's 12th-gen or 13th-gen Core processors.

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Will Judd

Steam dabbling with 90-minute game trials, starting with Dead Space remake

1 year 1 month ago

Valve has quietly introduced 90-minute game trials to Steam, with the feature making its debut in conjunction with EA's Dead Space remake.

Accessible via the Dead Space remake's Steam page, the new 90-minute trial version requires players to first install the full game then hit the "play now" button to begin their free trial period, whereupon a timer will keep track of the minutes still remaining.

There doesn't appear to be a progression cap on the trial, meaning players are free to continue as far as they can before their hour and a half expires.

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Matt Wales

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Naoki Yoshida Met with Horror and Mystery Novelist Yukito Ayatsuji

1 year 1 month ago

Yoshi-P Yukito Ayatsuji

Final Fantasy XIV and XVI Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida (or Yoshi-P) has met with Japanese novelist Yukito Ayatsuji to talk. During their conversation, both Yoshida and Ayatsuji talked about video games, and the mystery genre. Their conversation is set to appear on “a certain website” in roughly a month. More details will be revealed at a later date. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

On May 16, 2023 Yukito Ayatsuji posted on his Twitter account a photo of himself and interview partner Yoshida. Both Yoshida and Ayatsuji had planned to talk around 2020, but their plans were cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Their conversation was finally possible three years later.

You can take a better look at the photos that Yukito Ayatsuji posted on his Twitter account here:

https://twitter.com/ayatsujiyukito/status/1658404811233165312

Ayatsuji also teased his meeting with Yoshida the day prior, by posting a photo of both of them, face cropped, holding Pui Pui Molecar felt plushes. However, due to Yoshida recognizable necklace, fans managed to discover the identity of Ayatsuji’s interview partner.

Yukito Ayatsuji is a Japanese writer and novelist, and he is well known for his mystery and horror stories. Some of his most famous works include mystery novel The Decagon House Murders, and the Another series of horror novels.

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Daniel Bueno

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Chainsaw Man Aki Figma Arrives Ready to Hunt Devils

1 year 1 month ago

Chainsaw Man Aki Hayakawa - Figma

Good Smile Company opened pre-orders for a figma figure of Aki Hayakawa from Chainsaw Man. Just like in the series, this figure involves Aki wearing the Public Safety uniform, carrying his sword, and even smoking a cigarette for a possible pose. This figma costs ¥11,000 and is planned for a February 2024 release date in Japan. It will cost $78.99 for North American buyers, with shipping scheduled for Q2 2024.

This figure presents Aki with his iconic Public Safety devil hunter style with three face plates: a standard one, a shouting one, and another with one eye closed for a fox demon invocation pose. There’s also a bonus glaring face with sweat-like drops if someone buys it from the official Good Smile Online Shop.

As for the accessories, he will come with a fox hand and a cigarette-holding hand, in addition to a pair of both closed and open hands. The figure of him will also include two sets of swords, with one a standard one and another a sheathed nail-shaped one. (The latter can’t be removed from its sheath.)

You can take a closer look at the Chainsaw Man Aki Hayakawa figma and the figure's accessories here below.

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Frank Reyes

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Tears of the Kingdom Players Are Hunting for a Major Missing Breath of the Wild Character

1 year 1 month ago

With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now out in the world, everyone has been slowly exploring its massive world and story and, along the way, running into fan-favorite characters making their returns for a second adventure after Breath of the Wild. In trailers alone, we saw Link and Zelda (of course) alongside Prince Sidon, Riju, and Tulin, and even more make appearances in game. But there's one major Breath of the Wild cast member that's seemingly MIA, and fans are trying to track them down.

Warning: Spoilers for a potentially missing character in Tears of the Kingdom, as well as their role in Breath of the Wild, follow below the video. Read on at your own risk!

It's Kass, the Rito bard who played a major role in both a large sidequest in Breath of the Wild, and also starred in its DLC, the Champions Ballad. As a recap, Kass could be found all over Hyrule in Breath of the Wild, and was very distinctive as he was always playing an accordion that could be heard from a distance. Using his songs as clues, players could find hidden Shrines, and finding all of them led to a small, extra scene with Kass and his family back in Rito Village. In Champions Ballad, Kass guided Link around Hyrule with his songs as Link explored the remaining mysteries around his own Divine Beast. For someone with such a huge role in Breath of the Wild, it's a massive omission to not have him in Tears of the Kingdom.

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Rebekah Valentine

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Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode Canceled: 'A Difficult Choice'

1 year 1 month ago

Blizzard has officially scrapped Overwatch 2's long-awaited PvE Hero mode, but the game's creative leads are assuring fans that PvE is still a focus for the game moving forward.

On a Twitch stream detailing Overwatch 2's content roadmap, executive producer Jared Neuss explained the decision to cut the PvE content.

"Development on the PvE experience has not really hasn't made the progress that we have hoped," Neuss said. "The team has created a bunch of amazing content so there's awesome missions that are really exciting. There's brand new enemies that are super fun to fight and some truly great and ridiculous hero talents. But unfortunately, the effort required to pull all of that together into a Blizzard-quality experience that we can ship to you is huge, and there really is no end in sight or defined kind of end date where we can put that out into the world.

"And so we are left with another difficult choice. Do we continue to pour all that effort into PvE, hoping we can land it at some point in the future or do we stick with this set of values that we have aligned on and focus on the live game and focus on serving all of you? With everything we have learned about what it takes to operate this game at the level that you deserve, it's clear that we can't deliver on that original vision for PvE that was shown in 2019. What that means is that we won't be delivering that dedicated hero mode with talent trees, that long-term talent power progression. Those things are just not in our plans anymore. And we know that this is going to be disappointing to many of you which is why we wanted to bring it up before we talk about the road map. And to be perfectly honest it's been really difficult for many of us and a lot of folks on the team that pour their heart and soul into that stuff."

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Logan Plant

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Dragon Quest X Online Sword Designed by Bleach Artist Returns

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Dragon Quest X Online Bleach

One of the Dragon Quest X Online weapons designed by Bleach manga artist Tite Kubo will return to the game. The one-handed sword Spalt Edge is one of the three collaboration weapons designed by Kubo released in 2015 for DQX Online, and it will make a reappearance soon. [Thanks, ryokutya2089!]

The weapons were originally available through download codes included in the August 2015 issue of the V Jump magazine, as well as the DQX Online third anniversary fan book. The other two Spalt weapons are the two/handed Spalt Blade and the Spalt Claws knuckle weapon.

The Spalt weapons were originally made available as part of several collaboration events in 2015. The Spalt Blade appeared in Dragon Quest X Online on July 2015, while the Spalt Edge appeared on August, and the Spalt Claws on October of the same year.

Bleach author Tite Kubo also collaborated by drawing an illustration for the Dragon Quest X Online third anniversary fan book, depicting three members of the Ogre species wielding the Spalt weapons.

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Daniel Bueno

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Tales of Symphonia Remastered Finally Getting a Patch, But Fans Still Aren't Happy

1 year 1 month ago

Bandai Namco has announced that it will be rolling out Patch 1.2 for Tales of Symphonia Remastered on May 18, just over three months after its release. But fans are still angry over the issues that have been present in the game.

According to the patch notes the company released on its site Tuesday, the update will fix a variety of quality-of-life issues that players have reported since the game came out in February. These include:

  • Fixed an issue that was causing significant processing slowdowns while moving through the sandstorm area of "Triet”.
  • Fixed an issue where the game would freeze at the end of certain boss battles.
  • Fixed an event where the screen would black out and become inoperable while navigating certain world maps and towns.
  • Fixed an event where the background music would be interrupted when moving to the world map after a battle.
  • Other minor bugs have been fixed.

However, those updates won't be enough to satisfy players, especially those who own the Nintendo Switch version of Tales of Symphonia Remastered. In one Tales subreddit, when u/guccyjuicy asked if the game is a bad experience for new players, the majority of fans complained that the Switch version is a botched port of the original GameCube version due to severe performance issues, frequent crashes, long load times, and framerate drops.

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Cristina Alexander

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How High Does Tears of the Kingdom's Map Actually Go? We Found the Answer

1 year 1 month ago

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builds upon an already massive Hyrule from Breath of the Wild to add a simply unbelievably large vertical scope from sky to ground...and beyond. Without loading screens, you can climb ridiculously high up and jump down into Hyrule from almost anywhere. So naturally, we had to figure out just how high it all goes. And we did.

There is, it turns out, an upper limit to the sky. It's all the way up at +3300 on the Y axis (visible on the minimap in the bottom right corner of the screen). Unfortunately, you don't get anything for reaching that high — just a message that says "You can't go any farther."

For context, "sea level" in Tears of the Kingdom is a flat 0, and the highest point on the map you can actually stand on without building is roughly just above 2600 meters. In contrast, the underground goes down roughly to as deep as roughly -1166, though we won't tell you where this is — it's a bit of a spoiler.

We tried the longest possible fall in Tears of the Kingdom

Just for fun, we tried to create the longest possible fall in Tears of the Kingdom with this information. We didn't use a paraglider for this (except at the very end, to keep from dying), but we did use some special equipment that improved our diving abilities. Though it may be possible to do a longer one, we managed to jump from 3288, where our balloon hit the sky's upper limit, all the way down through the Gerudo Summit Chasm to a depth of roughly -1130. It doesn't seem possible to go all the way from the height limit of the map to the lowest possible depth, simply because there's not a chasm close enough to make that work.

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Rebekah Valentine

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Looks Like Steam Now Has Timed Demos, Dead Space Up First

1 year 1 month ago

The ability to try before you buy has been a thorn in gaming retail’s side for generations. From the demo discs of old to the subscription models of today, publishers and shopfronts have had to wrestle with the idea that a lot of people only want to spend money on games they’ll enjoy.

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Luke Plunkett

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Hyakumantenbara Salome Merchandise Available to Pre-Order

1 year 1 month ago

Hyakumantenbara Salome merchandise

Nijisanji Vtuber Hyakumantenbara Salome is going to inspire a new line of commemorative merchandise, celebrate her past record-breaking 1 million subscriber count on YouTube two weeks after her debut on May 2022. The lineup of goods includes a choker, diary and pen, voiced keychain, and black tea produced by Hyakumantenbara Salome herself. The new line of merchandise is now available for pre-order from the Nijisanji official store until June 17, 2023.

The Hyakumantenbara Salome purple choker costs 2,500 JPY (~$18). Meanwhile, the pen and diary costs 6,000 JPY (~$44). The voiced keychains are available in three variations, and each one includes three different voice lines. They are available for 1,500 JPY (~$11). The black tea costs 2,000 JPY (~$15). All goods in the new line of merchandise are expected to release in early September 2023.

You can take a better look at the new line of Hyakumantenbara Salome commemorative merchandise in the gallery below.

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Hyakumantenbara Salome debuted on May 24, 2022, and she is currently the record holder for being the fastest VTuber to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube, after breaking Gawr Gura’s record of 39 days. Salome reached the 1 million mark after only 13 days and a few hours.

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Daniel Bueno

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