November 2023

Mechanical gaming keyboards used to be premium options available to very few, but now they often go on sale for extremely low prices - even from big names. Today HyperX joins that list of big-name bargains with their Alloy Origins full-size mechanical keyboard dropping to just $32 when bought from GameStop in the US, versus its original price of $109.99. That's a great bargain for a keyboard with red (soft linear) mechanical switches, optional RGB lighting and a high-quality metal chassis.

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Glorious, makers of excellent ultralight mice and mechanical keyboards, have kicked off their early Black Friday sales over at their US site (with fast international shipping).

They're currently offering both a range of keyboard-and-mouse bundles and sales on individual products, so I thought I'd take a look at the sale and recommend a few items that I've personally tested and have recommended for Digital Foundry. Let's go!

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Revenant Hill was to be the first game from The Glory Society, the new studio founded by former Night In The Woods developers Bethany Hockenberry and Scott Benson. Unfortunately due to "recent serious health issues" affecting several members of the team, the team have decided to "suspend operations" and end development.

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Lexar's NM790 4TB SSD has dipped to just £197, a great price for a high-end, high-capacity PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive that battles with the class-leading Samsung 990 Pro. This model is our current best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming is well worth adding to your rig - though it has been slightly cheaper before and may yet fall further during the Black Friday sales.

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Earlier this year - in September to be exact - we spotted a great deal on Dell's G2724D 27-inch Fast IPS monitor, which brought this model down from its original price of £299 to just £209. Two months later, we're back with an even better bargain - just £179 for a 1440p 165Hz monitor that sits right in the sweet spot for gaming. To get this deal, just use code GROUPON8 at the checkout!

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The open world co-op survival game I liked most was Wurm Online, in which every action was performed via a right-click menu and we needed a town meeting to discuss who would spend the hours necessary to flatten a small patch of land.

I therefore look at co-op survival game Enshrouded, with its voxel building, grapple hooks, wingsuits, and think: pah, what tomfoolery. This looks fun. Not at all my sort of thing. It might be yours, though. It's now got a January 24th release date and a new trailer, below.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has named its first playable race: the Brujah, who love to settle brouhahas with brutal melee combat. A brief, fifteen second trailer showed a little of that combat in action in The Chinese Room's rebooted take on the RPG sequel. Find it below.

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Still doubtless beaming from the runaway success of this year's Super Mario Bros. movie, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is in the works.

Details are sparse at present, but Miyamoto, announcing the news on Nintendo Japan's Twitter/X account, said the project has already been in development for "many years now". As per an accompanying press release, Miyamoto will produce the movie - which is being co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment (Sony will also handle worldwide theatrical distribution) - with Avi Arad, responsible for "many hit films", also producing.

Arad's films, if you're wondering, are primarily (but not exclusively) within the superhero genre, ranging from this year's acclaimed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and its celebrated 2018 predecessor, to 2022's Tom-Holland-starring Uncharted adaptation, as well as the likes of Venom, Morbius, the live-action Ghost in the Shell, and next year's Borderlands movie.

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Koei Tecmo announced that Ibrahim, a Nijisanji VTuber, will appear in Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening as free DLC. Players have until November 20, 2023 to download him.

In Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening, Ibrahim will be “Ib Rahim,” who is an officer living in the Sengoku Era of Japan. Not only is he playable, but he’ll also be a star in a new event. This event focuses on the Honnoji Incident. Ibrahim (or Ib Rahim) will look different from his usual avatar. There is a partial mask over his right eye, and he has much longer hair, complete with a more Chinese-inspired outfit.

This is not the first time that Koei Tecmo has collaborated with Anycolor to put a Nijisanji VTuber in one of its games. In 2021, Kuzuha, Sister Claire, and Debidebi Debiru appeared as playable units in Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV. This was also a free download.

Nintendo announced that it is working with Arad Productions and Sony Pictures on a live-action movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad will produce the film together, with Wes Ball as the director.

According to the announcement, Nintendo and Sony Pictures will finance the movie together. However, Nintendo will handle over 50% of the budget. Sony will distribute the movie worldwide, though there is no information yet in regards to a release window. In general, there’s not much information on the Zelda live action movie. It’s unclear if it will follow the events of a particular game, or if it will tell a complete new story.

An anime based on the mobile game, Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans: Urdr-Hunt, is in production. There’s no information on when to expect it, but there is an announcement trailer available to watch.

The trailer shows plenty of characters from the game, such as protagonist Wistario. You can watch the trailer via the game's official Twitter account. Urds-Hunt takes place in P.D. 323, and focuses on Wistario, who hails from the Radonitsa Colony near Venus. Venus acts as a prison colony, and most of the people living there are not legally recognized. One day, Wistario runs into a girl named Korunaru Kousa, who tells him that she knows the way to the Urdr-Hunt.

UPDATE 1pm UK: Rockstar has now confirmed it will release the first GTA 6 trailer next month, in December. See our full reporting for more.

ORIGINAL STORY 10am UK: Rockstar will officially announce Grand Theft Auto 6 in the coming days, it's been reported.

Bloomberg sources have laid out Rockstar's likely announcement plan for the game, with a brief announcement "as early as this week" and then a trailer for the game next month, in December.

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Update 8th November 2023: Rockstar have confirmed that a GTA 6 trailer will release before 2023 is out. Posting on Xitter, the developer's co-founder Sam Houser wrote that "we are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto."

Original story: Rockstar will make a quick Grand Theft Auto 6 announcement as soon as this week ahead of the first proper GTA 6 trailer in December - the month of Rockstar's 25th anniversary - according to a fresh report.

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Years of anticipation finally became reality last night when a videogame company posted a video of somebody in a sharp trench coat and mirror visor walking down a dim hall, swivelling dramatically to eyeball the viewer, then casually drawing a pistol and walking into a roomful of unfocussed Potential. This is Mass Effect 5, actual title possibly Mass Effect: Epsilon - "epsilon" being the Top Secret Codename of this hidden page on the Mass Effect website. What does it all mean? I don't know. It's a nice coat, though, isn't it? I like those padded red lapels.

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BioWare's new Mass Effect game may still be several years away, but fans of the stellar sci-fi franchise are working hard to provide new playable content for the series' Mass Effect Legendary Edition trilogy package much sooner, in the form of mods.

As is now tradition, a showcase featuring many of these mods - some available now, some still in development - has been released to commemorate the franchise's annual N7 Day celebrations.

You can watch that all below, as - with thanks to the modders behind each project and those who have put together the showcase - Eurogamer is able to highlight some of the many promising projects fans have to look forward to.

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Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh developer Pendulo Studios has said is it committed to fixing the game "in the coming weeks" after admitting it is not the "experience as we intended it to be" at launch.

Cigars of the Pharaoh quietly launched yesterday on PC, PlayStation and Xbox and adapts the early Tintin comic book of the same name.

Player reviews on Steam so far are mixed, with most mentioning gameplay bugs, visual glitches, and terrible AI. Pendulo published a release announcement on launch day revealing it is aware of the issues players will encounter whilst playing.

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Rockstar Games will release the first trailer for its highly anticipated sequel to 2013's Grand Theft Auto V, which became the most profitable entertainment product of all time in 2018, next month. As of August, Grand Theft Auto V has sold more than 185 million copies since its release 10 years ago. 

Official news of this trailer from the Rockstar Twitter account comes less than a day after a Bloomberg report that states Rockstar will reveal the sequel, presumably titled Grand Theft Auto VI or Grand Theft Auto 6, this week with a trailer for it arriving sometime next month; Since the release of this report yesterday, Rockstar has confirmed a trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto will, in fact, be released in December. 

Rockstar Games has confirmed it will release the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer next month, in December.

The news follows this morning's Bloomberg report that claimed Rockstar was ready to formally announce GTA 6 within days.

Rockstar co-founder Sam Houser has just issued the following statement, confirming the release window for the first GTA 6 trailer.

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Humble has announced the line-up of games for Humble Choice this month, which includes our 2021 game of the year Unpacking - and a bit of something for everyone.

Other titles we recommend checking out from Humble Choice's November games are the retro-inspired sci-fi shooter Prodeus and spaceship salvaging simulator Hardspace Shipbreaker.

We crowned Unpacking our game of the year in 2021 for its human storytelling and satisfying puzzles of tidying things up. In her Unpacking review, Malindy Hetfield called the game a "calm and tactile little sim" which also allows players "personal expression and finding fun in what's literally just stuff".

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Lego has now revealed its Shadow the Hedgehog set, due to arrive on 1st January 2024 in the UK.

Following the Sonic, Tails, Amy and Robotnik sets released in August, Lego teased new sets would be on the way for Knuckles, Shadow and Rouge last month.

Shortly after, the Shadow set leaked online - but now it's official!

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The Marvels director Nia DaCosta has revealed she is a big fan of Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children and even used it as inspiration for the film.

The latest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero franchise is set for release later this week, with DaCosta admitting to IGN the Square Enix film was used as a reference for "a couple of scenes".

"It's just an amazing, amazing movie, and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters," she said of Advent Children.

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder has sold more than 4.3m copies worldwide.

Yesterday Nintendo announced its latest financial figures, stating Switch sales had passed 132m. Now more details have been released, including sales of its latest Mario game.

Mario Wonder is the fastest-selling Super Mario related game, with those sales accumulated in just two weeks.

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Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!

Oh and you can find our entire Five of the Best archive elsewhere on the site.

Doors. I love a good door. I stop to take photos of doors while I'm walking around the real world. To me they suggest adventure, because who knows what might be behind one? Were I reading a story, that door might lead to another world. Have any of you read Stephen King's The Dark Tower series? Yeah, that. Doors are motifs for adventure that have been used over and over again.

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A Pokemon Mudkip plush bundle is available to order from Build-a-Bear. This set costs $72, and it’s only available online.

The bundle will come with the Mudkip plush, a raincoat set, and a sleeper. Though Build-a-Bear offers the option to turn your toy into a scented one, the Mudkip is not eligible for that. The plush will also come with a sound chip which can play five different sounds. If you click on the video on the webpage for it, you can hear what it sounds like. Mudkip sounds like it does in the anime rather than in the game. You can put the sleeper (which looks like a onesie) or the raincoat on Mudkip, or you can simply leave it as is.

The Pokemon franchise has always been popular with the toy market due to the many species in the series. Build-a-Bear has released several Pokemon plushes in the past. Examples include Teddiursa, Sprigatito, Growlithe, Leafeon, and Umbreon.

Sure, Modern Warfare III, the latest Call of Duty release featuring a brand new single-player story, failed to shake up the format of traditional Call of Duty campaigns. But as I said in our review of the single-player offering, MWIII’s more open-ended levels show some interesting potential, and hint at a more…

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Possibly the most anticipated video game reveal ever is just weeks away. Rockstar Games president Sam Houser confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI will get its big trailer reveal in December, showcasing the next game in the hit open world series after massive hacks, insider reports, and years of rampant fan speculation.

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Last time, you narrowly decided that soulslike bloodstains are better than ghosts walking through walls. That sounds to me like the decisions of cowards who not only don't want to be got by ghosts, they want to be warned about the presence of any danger. Maybe I'm being ungenerous; maybe what you truly enjoy is watching other people get extremely ghostgot. I cannot deny it is great to watch someone absolutely stack it. Onwards! This week, I ask you to choose between two automatic assists. What's better: auto-level up, or auto-detect graphics settings?

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Paratopic was a muddy, blood-filled VHS cassette of a game, a game of midnight highways, pinched, pixellated faces and acidic service station lighting. The next game from developer Arbitrary Metric, Roman Sands RE:Build, is... very different, at least on the surface.

The first Act of the new Steam demo sees you staggering onto the beach below some kind of tropical resort. You wander up past the pools to the cavernous lobby and are immediately set upon by haggard guests, who appear to think you're a member of staff. So you become a member of staff, fetching margaritas, tracking down the check-in ledger and running downstairs to adjust the boiler settings. You earn XP from quests towards employee ranks that unlock useful items at vending machines. And you try to work out what you're doing here, and why everybody's so terrified of the sun. I haven't deciphered the mystery yet.

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In what seemed to be a leak, Persona 5 Tactica ended up already available to purchase and play on Steam for the PC briefly on November 8, 2023. Its release date is November 17, 2023. [Thanks, Wario64 and Faz!]

The game was supposed to appear on Steam on either November 16, 2023 or November 17, 2023, depending on your region. However, the page updated and the game was temporarily live and able to be purchased. Both the $59.99 standard and $79.99 digital deluxe versions were already available. As Wario64 and SteamDB noted shortly after, Atlus and Valve caught and fixed the issue.

This also was apparently a playable version. Those who purchased Persona 5 Tactica on Steam following the update showed it can already be played on a PC immediately. As noted by Faz on social media, the person was already in the main menu and starting the game.

Rockstar Games announced that the first trailer for the new Grand Theft Auto game, which could be GTA 6, is coming in early December 2023. This first-ever official look at the title is being released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publisher.

Bloomberg previously shared rumors that the long-awaited trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 would be coming sometime during December 2023 in association with the 25th anniversary. No official word had been given by Rockstar Games until the announcement made on November 8, 2023.

Square Enix shared new concept art of one of the dress options that Cloud can wear in FFVII Remake. The dress showcased is the second option out of three available.

While Cloud can wear three different dresses during the infiltration of Don Corneo’s mansion, the dress shown is the second one available. This dress can be accessed if the player completes three particular Odd Jobs during Chapter 9, The Town That Never Sleeps. These Odd Jobs are The Party Never Stops, A Dynamite Body, and Burning Thighs.

Check out the new concept art of Cloud wearing one of his three dress options in FFVII Remake here:

The post above mentions that the concept art of Cloud shows him before applying makeup. You can see the comparison with the in-game render of Cloud. In addition, Madam M and Chocobo Sam have additional dialogue if Cloud talks to them wearing a dress.

Good Smile Company announced that pre-orders for a Pop Up Parade figure of Sayori from Doki Doki Literature Club are open. You will have until December 7, 2023 to put in your orders.

The Sayori figure Pop Up Parade figure costs 4800 JPY or $31.99. Those in Japan can expect to get her some time in May 2024. Meanwhile, Good Smile Company will ship out the figure in Q4 2024 for North America.

Nintendo isn't quite ready to say goodbye to the Switch, its second best-selling console ever. According to a new financial briefing from the company, it plans to support the Switch seemingly long after the release of rumored new-gen hardware expected to launch next year. 

It's been a big week for Nintendo, with the company revealing that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the fastest-selling Super Mario game in the series and that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie is on the way. We also learned yesterday the Switch has surpassed 132 million units sold on the heels of great results for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. Now, Nintendo has pulled back the curtains a bit on its approach to the Switch platform moving forward. 

Yesterday, we learned that the Nintendo Switch had surpassed 132 million units sold on the heels of great results from recent first-party releases like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. Now, Nintendo has revealed that its latest first-party release, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, is the fastest-selling game in the Super Mario series. It achieved this record after selling more than 4.3 million units in two weeks. 

"Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which was released worldwide on October 20, achieved global cumulative sales of 4.3 million units within the first two weeks," Nintendo's financial briefing reads. "This makes it the fastest-selling Super Mario related title. Super Mario related titles also tend to sell consistently over a long period of time. We anticipate this title will be an appealing choice for consumers during the upcoming holiday season and will continue to sell next year onwards as well." 

BioWare, the developer behind EA's Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises, has released a new trailer for its next Mass Effect game and it teases a connection to the original trilogy and the Andromeda sequel, and maybe even a new protagonist. Since yesterday was November 7, known as N7 Day in the Mass Effect community as a reference to the N7 Systems Alliance military in the series, BioWare launched a countdown on a special Mass Effect "Epsilon" web page. 

A decoded message says the following on the site now:   

/////ACCESS CODE: EPSILON

/////ACCESS CODE ACCEPTED

/////SECONDARY ENCRYPTION DETECTED

/////VJBSVU-XXXX-XXXXXXXX

/////ANDROMEDA DISTRESS SIGNAL DETECTED

/////YEAR SENT: [REDACTED]

/////AUDIO TRANSCRIPT: ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD KNOW BY NOW NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE HUMAN [REDACTED]

Apple's made some big moves to support Mac gaming over the past year, with ports of Resident Evil Village and No Man's Sky, plus the Game Porting Toolkit translation layer that allows Macs to run PC games. Finally those moves are beginning to pay dividends for Apple's much more popular iOS and iPad OS devices as well, with the port of RE Village for iPhone 15 Pro and M1 and M2-based iPad models.

This port promises the full-fat game experience, somehow delivered on a device that can fit in the palm of your hand. Today we'll be evaluating Village on the brand new iPhone 15 Pro, to see just how well this beautiful console and PC showcase translates to a pocketable gadget. Is this a genuinely good experience, or do the mobile concessions simply cut too deep?

I'd be remiss if I didn't emphasise how amazing Resident Evil Village looks on the iPhone right off the top. This is an extremely accomplished visual effort that is very similar to the existing console releases of the game, and the graphics are astonishing. Village is, bar none, the best-looking mobile title I've ever seen. The incredible quality of the PBR materials and environmental density really stands out on a six-inch screen, with no obvious cuts or modifications from the game's appearance on more power-hungry systems.

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It's happening. After some chonky leaks and release dates hints, we now know Grand Theft Auto 6 will be officially unveiled in December.

Even though it's an announcement of an announcement, it's still a seismic moment in the world of video games, because that's the level of influence GTA has, and I've no doubt it will be a talking point for many weeks, months, and years to come. GTA 5 managed to straddle three generations of console hardware, after all.

Few gaming series are as famous, or as rich with material, which is why we've written so much about Grand Theft Auto over the years. We've looked at it from every angle we can think of, from the scorching Hot Coffee scandal to interviews with the people who created the very first GTA, to people who role-play as cops in GTA Online.

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If you’re not on TikTok, you might be surprised at how the smallest game-related thing can grow into a massive, ubiquitous trend that transcends even its own community. That’s what’s happening with Genshin Impact right now, as a line delivery from Neuvillette, one of the playable characters in miHoYo’s RPG, has blown…

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For years and years, video games—especially shooters—have gotten faster and faster. RoboCop: Rogue City, out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC (see on Amazon), bucks this trend and puts you in the clunky, lumbering metal boots of RoboCop himself. But the real surprise isn’t how much fun it is to be a slow-walking tank,…

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Hallowe’en may be over (just), but for this month’s Reality Frights, I’ve got a wonderfully seasonal game for you. It’s the brand-new remake of the grand old mystery puzzler The 7th Guest, a game which Bill Gates notably referred to as “The new standard of interactive entertainment.” In fairness to ol’ William, he said this seven months before Doom blew out the new standard’s insides with a 12-gauge shotgun, shunting PC gamers’ tastes away from kitsch adventure games and toward grisly murder-fests. But The 7th Guest is nonetheless fondly remembered for its spooky atmosphere, alongside its blend of pre-rendered backgrounds and live action cutscenes you could call ‘pioneering’ had it not proved such an evolutionary dead end.

Today, the original 7th Guest looks more dated than Henry VIII, which is probably why this remake replaces everything but the very skeleton of the 1993 original. The game still takes place in a creepy mansion belonging to a murderous toymaker, and still involves six eccentric guests to the house searching for a missing boy named Tad. But it’s otherwise been completely rebuilt, with whole new puzzles and whole new mechanics, all designed to be experienced in first-person VR.

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