Infinite Borders – "one of the most popular mobile strategy games in East Asia", according to publisher/developer NetEase – is now available on mobile and PC worldwide.

"With tens of millions [of] downloads to date", strategy game Infinite Borders tasks you with leading armies in the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. Here, you'll fight alongside legendary heroes like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu and use "mighty warriors to form unique teams, allowing for diverse combinations of generals and battle tactics to defeat your enemies and conquer territory".

"The world of Infinite Borders is genuinely grand to behold, with a 2.25 million grid map, allowing for truly immersive play in its ancient world," NetEase teases. "You can command troops into battle in this land, with over 300 Generals available for our collection. It’s possible to take on many roles, such as Fighter or Farmer, Diplomat or Spy, offering you many avenues to victory. Not only will you lead armies in this epic world, but you can also build and manage your estate, earning you resources in the process."

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A movie adaptation of the anime series Symphogear is in production. The name of the new project that Satelight announced back in 2022 is “Project Symphogear Next.” [Thanks, Dengeki Online!]

On November 30, 2023, Bushiroad announced that it would end service for Senki Zesshou Symphogear XD Unlimited in Japan at the end of January 2024. However, it will also provide an offline archive app so that mobile players will be able to look back on their journey. At the end of this announcement, Bushiroad teased a new project for Symphogear, which is Project Symphogear Next.

There’s not a lot of information yet in regards to the movie. The trailer for it, which bears the hashtag #Symphogear10thAnniversary and came out in November 2022, mostly focuses on the past entries for the franchise. As production continues, we will most likely get some more information on the plot and release window.

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says he is in the midst of a "self-imposed crunch mode" as he gets Stardew Valley's 1.6 update ready for release.

Addressing Stardew fans directly via his X/Twitter channel, Barone says he is in "nose to the grindstone mode", and whilst he's keeping a lot of the details "secret", did reveal one little teaser which made fans very, very happy.

"A ton of progress on 1.6 last month, it's (self-imposed) extreme crunch mode, nose to the grindstone (raw nose) mode," Barone said.

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Sega is bringing a "new era, new energy" to next week's The Game Awards.

That's according to a flyer that's doing the rounds on social media, in which the developer/publisher invites fans to "make sure [that they] tune in to The Game Awards" on 7th December 2023.

Streamer and Twitch ambassador Curiousjoi shared their glossy invitation on X/Twitter earlier today in a post entitled "So I got a letter from Sega…"

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Sony has patented an updated DualSense controller design that will provide players with "predictive AI assistance features".

This means the controller will light up or even move certain buttons and sticks to provide hints on what players need to do if they find themselves stuck in a game.

As reported by GameRant, the patent – which was filed on 30th November – details a machine learning model that will monitor a player's performance and provide predictive assistance should the player be – or about to be – stuck on a particular puzzle.

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Anyone familiar with Greek myths know the relationships between the gods were complicated and all of them were characters, so that should already offer something of a hint of what potential Ueji Yuho’s Lord Hades’s Ruthless Marriage manga might have. Now that the first volume is available via Yen Press, it’s easy to see how various traits and myths are adapted for this comedy.

Hades is a strong, serious, stable leader and god of the Underworld. He’s beloved by his forces, like Hypnos and Thanatos. However, moments after dealing with an escapee from Tartaros, we see the majestic god… blindfolded and with an arrow sticking out of his forehead.

Said arrow is one of Eros’ When Hades removes the blindfold, the first person he sees is the one he’ll fall in love with. And, while he’s very put off by this, his minions like Hypnos and Thanatos are delighted. Everyone’s been worried because he is single and alone, and they want him to be happy.

However, after saying he won’t get married and retreating to his palace, the goddess of spring Kore drops into his lap when the blindfold is gone. The arrow disappears, his guards come in to arrest her, but… it seems he doesn’t feel as though he’s in love with her. He suggests it must have been a dud.

Unknown 9: Awakening will be released in 2024.

That's according to Singapore's rating classification board, which recently rated the action-adventure game as suitable for players aged 16 and upwards and revealed the as-yet-unannounced release year will be 2024.

Unknown 9 was originally due to launch in 2021 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, although interestingly, Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority has only listed it as coming to Asia on PS4 and PS5.

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As part of the many teases about the 1.6 update for Stardew Valley, Eric “Concerned Ape” Barone introduced the Big Chest for people who need a bigger one. It is a new type of item that people can build and place in the game.

In Stardew Valley, the standard Chest is one of the earliest things people can build, and it be built with 50 pieces of wood. Once created and placed somewhere, it can hold 36. As such, someone who has been playing for a substantial amount of time might have multiple ones placed around their farm or in other areas. 

The new screenshot Concerned Ape shared showed that the new, bigger Big Chest in Stardew Valley will hold “almost twice as much as a regular chest.” Double the space would mean 72 items. However, since the description says “almost,” we don’t know the exact amount of storage. Barone did confirm it will be useable with the workbench.

Here’s the latest announcement. In it, Barone also mentioned being in a state of “(self-imposed) extreme crunch” and accomplishing a “ton.”

Fortnite's original map will return again (again) in 2024, following its impending destruction (again) during tonight's The Big Bang live event.

Epic Games made the announcement this afternoon on social media, after the wild popularity of the current "OG" season which saw the hugely-popular battle royale return to its roots.

"Ngl the OG season far exceeded our expectations," Epic Games wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "So much so that we'd like to bring it back… *opens 2024 roadmap doc* In the meantime, see you on the Battle Bus."

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Sunrise will hold an event on December 18, 2023 to announce the development of Z of the Recapture, which will be a new entry in the Code Geass franchise. Guests who will be present include Jun Fukuyama, who voices Lelouch, and Yoshimitsu Oohashi, who will be the director. [Thanks, Comic Natalie!]

During the event, Sunrise will reveal the main cast, as well as an exclusive teaser. Since it also happens to be Lelouch’s birthday, there will be special airings of episode 6 of the first season and episode 5 of the second season. For reference, S1E06 was the episode when Arthur, Suzaku’s cat, stole Lelouch’s iconic Zero mask. S2E05 was the one when Ashford Academy threw a giant party to commemorate Suzaku returning. Both episodes are fairly lighthearted, focusing more on shenanigans than the rebellion. There will also be a stream of the event, though it will not be free.

The Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an official concert tour that will travel the world to play the music from the game. Not only have the pre-sales been successful, but they’ve needed to add extra dates in order to support the demand, which just goes to show just how important the music in a game can be.

Stardew Valley has had the music nailed down since the moment that it launched, and for me personally, it became a huge reason to keep coming back. It’s soothing, simple, ambient, and fitting for the environment that the game sets out for itself. Not just that, but it fits perfectly with the overall vibe of the game to the point where you don’t have to be actively farming to still evoke those same emotions.

Video games make the world a better place. We’ve got honkin’ deals on Xbox Series X, a new genocide-free romance option in Baldur’s Gate 3, and wicked-strong Marvel Snap decks for your perusing pleasure.

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Nestled deep in the heart of virtual Yokohama down an ordinary alleyway lies the Sasaki Game Center - a virtual playground celebrating Sega's arcade heritage. The arcade has become a staple of Sega's Like A Dragon series but with the latest series entry, we've reached a new milestone - Sega has finally, for the first time, introduced official Model 3 emulation with it comes one of the finest racing games ever made.

Daytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge - now known, thanks to licensing issues, as Sega Racing Classic 2 - is an arcade racing game from the legendary AM2 and it stands as one of the fastest, most elegantly designed racing games of all time. It's not alone either, as a second Model 3 game is also included - Fighting Vipers 2. Daytona USA 2 has never been available on home consoles before, but Fighting Vipers 2 has in the form of a creditable Dreamcast port, thought to be uncannily similar to its arcade counterpart. But how close is it really? Thanks to Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, now we can find out.

To understand Sega's Model 3 arcade technology, we need to put 1996 into context. This is the year Nintendo 64 arrived on the market and the year that PlayStation really started to take hold across the industry. It was the year of games like Tekken 2 and Soul Edge, the year of Quake, Tomb Raider, Super Mario 64 and Waverace. On the PC side, the 3DFX Voodoo card arrived on the scene introducing high resolution rendering, faster frame-rates and smooth textures. But then there was Virtua Fighter 3.

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There’s the idea that you’re always the hero in your own story, and that feels exceptionally true for the Taizan 5 manga Takopi’s Original Sin. There are these layers and depths here as we gradually grow to know each character, and that insight keeps changing the reader’s perspective.

Editor’s Note: There will be no spoilers for the Takopi’s Origin Sin manga below.

Takopi’s Original Sin revolves around the relationship between three characters. One is a Happian alien who comes to Earth. Upon landing, he meets a school girl named Shizuka. You get the idea that something is off upon this initial meeting. At best, she’s depressed and bullied by a classmate named Marina and her friends. But as Takopi and Shizuka meet more often, we get a better idea of her exact situation. We see the relationship that develops. 

Amouranth bought an orchard for a cool $17 mill, Bethesda’s attempting to win the hearts and minds of disaffected Starfield players on Steam, and Dan Houser is back! In podcast form!

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Time to open the second door on our advent calendar. No doubt some of you will argue this entry is some kind of cheat, but this is our treehouse and you're wrong.

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Let's Get Evil is a monthly series for Eurogamer supporters in which Bertie rampages through games being as evil as he can. It sounds easy, but is it? And how much freedom does each game afford in this area? There's only one way to find out.

Welcome back; evil grin. Let's cause some more misery and mayhem in Baldur's Gate 3. But first a recap - where did we leave off? Last episode (I'm sure there'll be a TV adaptation at some point), I began my horrendously evil playthrough of BG3. I chose a human paladin to be my vessel of evil, and picked the murderous Dark Urge background. This is a special background in BG3 that can enable unpredictable and murderous things to happen while you play, such as when I severed Gale's hand while he stuck it through a portal asking for help. Sorry Gale (although am I?). Such as me butchering a helpless and innocent tiefling bard while everyone slept in our camp one night, and then giggling about it afterwards. I am, as you can gather from this, quite the monster.

But you might be wondering how on earth - or Toril, which is the name of the world we're in - a paladin can get away with such a monstrous deed. And you'd be right to ask. You see, in Dungeons & Dragons and in Baldur's Gate 3, there is a consequence to such actions. Should you break a sacred oath that you've sworn to uphold - in my case I swore to protect all life and living things, which I quite clearly have not done - you will be considered an Oathbreaker, which in turn means a visit from the foreboding Oathbreaker Knight.

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At long last, it is winter. All this week there's been a definite chill in the air that wasn't there before. No matter how many blankets I pile on top of my knees, it hangs there lurking, breathing down my neck, extending its icy mitts down my fingers until they're too frosty to carry on typing. I sometimes worry the cold will penetrate my very soul, a harbinger of something more sinister and oppressive. Oh wait. False alarm. It's just the cat giving me the evils out the corner of my eye because I've stolen their favourite woolen nap pillow. Nothing to worry about. Anyway! What are you playing this weekend? Here's what we're clicking on from beneath our duvets.

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It's a pretty good time to be an AMD fan. The Red Team's desktop processors include the fastest gaming CPU we've ever tested, while its Radeon graphics card business is increasingly competitive with a forward-looking 'chiplet' design and two flavours of frame generation tech. AMD also appears to be making inroads in the laptop space, where its new X3D laptop CPUs have been achieving some impressive performance. However, there's another laptop innovation that's gone relatively unheralded - that of the Ryzen 9 7940HS, AMD's first laptop CPU with dedicated AI hardware.

We've been playing with a Razer Blade 14 laptop that sports the new chip, to see what difference AI acceleration makes - and how competitive the Ryzen 9 7940HS is when paired with an Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card.

Let's start by getting a sense of this 7940HS CPU. This is a 4nm Zen 4 part with eight cores and sixteen threads, matching the desktop Ryzen 7 7700, with 25 billion transistors, a single-core boost clock of 5.2GHz and a TDP configurable from 35W to 54W. That's a lot of performance on tap - without even mentioning its XDNA AI engine, produced by AMD and recent acquisition Xilinx, branded here as Ryzen AI.

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In an interview with Square Enix during the PlayStation Partner Awards 2023, the director and writer for Final Fantasy XVI teased details about the DLC on the horizon. Both add-ons will focus on expanding the world of Valisthea. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

Square Enix first announced that there will be two pieces of paid add-ons for Final Fantasy XVI in September 2023. At the time of this announcement, Square Enix also talked about Windows PC port, as well as an update that already went live in the game. As for the two piece of DLC, they’ll both give more details about the world of Final Fantasy XVI, as well as allow players to experience the mystery and darkness of Clive’s story.

Aside from deepening the lore of the game, the DLC will also have new battles and powerful enemies to defeat. However, there’s not much details beyond that. Square Enix will release more information on the DLC at a later date.

It's rare to see gaming monitors available for under $100, but that's exactly what Best Buy are offering at the moment. You can pick up an LG 24-inch IPS monitor with a 1080p resolution and 100Hz refresh rate for just $80 after a $90 reduction.

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Avail stores in Japan will start selling Hunter x Hunter apparel and home items starting December 9, 2023. You’ll be able to find them in both physical and online storefronts.

As of the time of writing, clicking on the link in the announcement Tweet will take you to the main Shimamura store for Avail. The online store will not have the Hunter x Hunter items until December 9, 2023. Avail does not offer international shipping. So those who don’t plan on being in Japan at the time will need to use a proxy service if they wish to purchase these items.

The full list of items and prices that are part of the Hunter x Hunter collection from Avail are:

• Back cushion: 1500 JPY
• Backpack charm: 790 JPY
• Card case: 1200 JPY
• Clip: 790 JPY
• Fastener charm: 790 JPY
• Half-sleeved t-shirts: 1800 JPY

The NZXT H1 is a brilliant small form factor PC case that vaguely resembles the Xbox Series X, a portrait orientation design that minimises its footprint. This case originally retailed for $400, but today it's available for $200 from Best Buy. That's an excellent deal for a well-reviewed SFF PC case that also includes a 140mm AiO, a 92mm fan, a PCIe 4.0 riser cable and a 750W SFX power supply.

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Atlus shared a new Persona 3 Reload trailer focused on its battle system. The gameplay footage shows characters using some of the new combat abilities, such as the Shift mechanic and the Theurgy skills.

The Shift mechanic is similar to Persona 5’s Batton Pass, in which a character can give its turn to another party member after gaining a One More for exploiting an enemy’s weakness or performing a critical attack.

Aigis’ Theurgia skill is her Orgia Mode. In the original Persona 3, this was an ability unique to Aigis that improved her damage and healed her status ailments while making her unable to listen to orders. In P3R, Orgia Mode is an attack that deals Heavy Pierce damage to all foes ignoring resistances.

The main character’s Theurgy skill consists of him summoning two Persona to execute a powerful ability. This is similar to the Fusion Spells from Persona 3, which required pairing two specific Persona to cast different powerful abilities. In Persona 3 Portable, Fusion Spells were turned into consumable items. In the trailer, the main character summons Siegfried and Mithras.

The anime and manga series Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister! will be officially collaborating with Sanrio characters. From December 23, 2023, to January 10, 2024, Sanrio x Onimai crossover merchandise will be available to purchase from PremiumShop locations in Japan.

The Sanrio x Onimai crossover collaboration was announced on the official social media account for Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister. You can see the official announcement in the post below:

The characters from Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister! and Sanrio, featured in the collaboration, are listed below:

• Mahiro Oyama with My Melody
• Mihari Oyama with Kuromi
• Kaede Hozuki with Hello Kitty

Bandai Spirits opened pre-orders for its upcoming SH Figuarts figure of Guile from the Street Fighter series. This action figure will depict Guile with his classic Street Fighter II outfit, which is also available to select in Street Fighter 6 as Outfit 2.

The action figure will stand at around 16 cm (~6.3 inches) tall. The package will come with swappable alternate parts for Guile's hands and facial expressions. It will also include a Sonic Boom effect set that lets the owner reproduce one of Guile's signature moves.

The SH Figuarts action figure of Guile will be available at 8,800 yen / $80. The Japanese Tamashii Web site also hinted that the figure will be available for sale in the U.S. via Amazon. While the figure is also available on Amiami, pre-orders on the site had closed in just a few hours after the opening.

It's taken five and a half years of asking from the community, but Sea of Thieves' oft-requested private servers are almost here, with Rare having now confirmed they'll arrive as part of the multiplayer pirate adventure's third major Season 10 update on Thursday, 7th December.

Private servers will be available under the new banner of Safer Seas mode, which'll co-exist alongside the current shared world experience - officially renamed High Seas. Safer Seas lets up to four friends crew a single ship across a private version of the world and access all PvE content - ranging from emergent events to Trading Company quests and narrative-driven Tall Tales - without needing to deal with other players.

It is, then, pretty much exactly what people have been asking for since Sea of Thieves' launch back in 2018, albeit with a number of restrictions. Features including Guilds, Hourglass Factions, and live-service events such as Gold & Glory are all unavailable, and Rare is capping Trading Company progression at 40 in Safer Seas, meaning it won't be possible to reach Pirate Legend status without returning to High Seas mode. Additionally, gold and reputation for Athena's Fortune or their Reaper's Bones counterpart won't be earnable.

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The Japanese version of the mobile rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party will start its second collaboration event with the VTuber production company Hololive on December 6, 2023. The BanG Dream Hololive crossover announcement was made on their official Bandori social media account.

The Hololive talent that will be featured in the BanG Dream! Girls Band Party event includes Tokino Sora, Minato Aqua, Shirakami Fubuki, Hoshimachi Suisei, Sakamata Chloe, Houshou Marine, Yukihana Lamy, and Shishiro Botan.

This second BanG Dream Hololive crossover collaboration will be distributed in three parts. For the first part, three collaboration cards featuring one Hololive talent and one Bandori character will be available to collect via gacha in the game. Minato Aqua will be paired with Aya Maruyama, Tokino Sora with Kasumi Toyama, and Shirakami Fubuki with Kokoro Tsurumaki.

The second part of the collaboration will feature the band Roselia with Sakamata Chloe and Raise A Suilen with Hoshimachi Suisei. Finally, the third part will feature the band Afterglow with Houshou Marine, Morfonica with Yukihana Lamy, and MyGO!!!!! With Shishiro Botan.

As announced previously, the Vocaloid producer cosMo@bousouP uploaded the fifth song for the Hatsune Miku and Pokemon collaboration Project Voltage on December 1, 2023. The new song is called “Battle! (Hatsune Miku).”

This new music video features a new design for Hatsune Miku as she appears alongside several Pokemon like Gengar and Nidoking. Along with the rest of the Project Voltage songs, this song also features sound samples from the Pokemon series.

View the music video and listen to the new Project Voltage song below:

A new Sega prize figure of Asuna from Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of the Deep Night will be released in Japan in the spring of 2024. The upcoming collectible will be part of the FIGURIZMα line.

This new Asuna figure features her in a dynamic pose, with the wind picking up her hair, cape, and skirt as she sprints. She also wields an unsheathed sword in her right hand. The figurine also features Asuna with a stern expression that shows her battle readiness.

This Asuna Sword Art Online Progressive figure includes a base that is more atypical to the standard black base seen often in prize figures. It is made of semi-transparent blue plastic and resembles a natural element, adding to the scene.

You can view the announcement and teaser photo of the new Asuna figure below:

Sega has not yet announced a price point for this new Asuna figure. She will be available to win as a prize from game centers in Japan and also sold at various other Japanese retailers.

The eccentric Tiny Tina from the Borderlands series will appear as a Nendoroid figure in 2024. She is available to pre-order now from the Good Smile US online shop for the price of $43.99 and Japanese one for ¥6,900.

By pre-ordering the Tiny Tina Nendoroid directly from Good Smile Company’s online shop, customers will receive a special round base featuring the Borderlands logo. This figure is expected to ship out in the fourth quarter of 2024 in the US. In Japan, she'll appear in June 2024.

We can view the promotional video for the Tiny Tina Nendoroid from Good Smile Company’s announcement post below:

Baldur’s Gate 3’s fifth big patch added some significant changes to Larian’s Dungeons & Dragons RPG, including a new epilogue, modes, and ways to accomplish previously impossible feats. It also had a slightly less significant update that is probably unnecessary, but is still glorious to behold: Characters’ dicks and…

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Cast your mind back to Cyberpunk 2077's E3 2018 trailer and you might remember Night City's metro system playing a prominent role - which was why its absence as a fully functional transportation service was so notable come the game's beleagured release in December 2020. Three years later though, CD Projekt has announced it's restoring the long-missing rideable metro system in a surprise 2.1 update arriving next Tuesday, 5th December.

The 2.1 update coincides with the launch of Cyberpunk 2077's Ultimate Edition (bundling together the base game and Phantom Liberty expansion) and was detailed in a new developer livestream, beginning with that long-awaited Metro system. "The metro was not in our plans for a long time," producer Monika Janowska explained during the presentation. "However, over time we've revisited our plan and... decided that it actually could be achievable."

Night City's metro system, officially known as Night City Area Rapid Transit and described as an "immersive way to travel through the world", consists of five lines spanning 19 stations. It unlocks after Cyberpunk's Konpeki Plaza sequence relatively early on and can either be used as fast travel locations (as was the case prior to 2.1) or "as a proper metro ride experience" for those who'd like to take in the sights in a more leisurely fashion.

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Square Enix announced that there will be a SaGa Glimmerfest 2023 showcase that discusses SaGa Emerald Beyond. It will air on December 15, 2023 at 6am PT/9am ET/3pm CET on YouTube and Twitch. 

There are two games that will be the focus for this presentation. The one star of the showcase is SaGa Emerald Beyond. The other is Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe, the ongoing mobile game available worldwide. There will be additional updates on both. These will come from three members of the staff working on the series. The SaGa Series Producer Masanori Ichikawa, the SaGa Series Director Akitoshi Kawazu, and Localization Director Neil Broadley are all confirmed to appear to discuss the game at the event. People can watch live or watch it after the fact on YouTube.

Blizzard Entertainment announced the Season of Discovery for World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2023. However, once the update went live on November 30, 2023, the servers struggled to keep up as players rushed to create their characters on servers and dive into a new way to enjoy their favorite online game.

It isn't the most populated I've seen the game — I play Classic Hardcore which has seen a massive uptick in activity — but it's a close second. To be fair, I didn't roll a character on Crusader Strike, the server some of World of Warcraft's most popular streamers and content creators have chosen to level on. Instead, I opted to play on Lava Lash with a handful of friends. I've found role-playing servers in World of Warcraft to have some of the most relaxed and active players, so we all decided that this is where we wanted to play.

And while it was really crowded for those first few hours, with many of us partying up with strangers to kill specific amounts of zombies or obtain bat carcasses, it wasn't the worst experience. Instead, it had that sense of community I always feel is missing from many modern MMORPGs where players band together and create these unspoken rules to help one another progress. For example, standing in line to turn in a quest that impacts an NPC.

Ohagi3, a traditional Japanese sweets shop, will be collaborating with the anime and manga series Fruits Basket in December 2023. The Shimokitazawa shop now has two sets of four ohagi themed after Fruits Basket characters available for pre-order for the price of 1,320 yen ($8.92) each. [Thanks, Natalie!]

The A set includes ohagi based on the characters Tohru Honda, Yuki Sohma, Momiji Sohma, and Hatori Sohma. Tohru’s ohagi is in the shape of an onigiri (rice ball), and Yuki’s is shaped like a rat, which corresponds to his representative zodiac animal in the series. Momiji’s ohagi is honey and cheese flavored, while Hatori’s tastes like purple sweet potato.

The B set features the characters Kyo Sohma, Hatsuharu Sohma, Ayame Sohma, and Shigure Sohma. Kyo’s ohagi is in the shape of a cat, which is his zodiac animal from the series. It’s also flavored with Kinako (roasted soybean flour). Shigure’s ohagi flavor is matcha, Hatsuharu’s is coconut, and Ayame’s is strawberry.

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Microsoft has cheekily riffed on Rockstar's big Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal trailer release date announcement by teasing a surprise announcement of its own.

Just over two years after launch, a fresh reveal for Halo Infinite will apparently arrive on Monday, 4th December at 5pm UK time.

The announcement was made this evening by Microsoft via a post on X, formerly Twitter, made to look like Rockstar's GTA 6 trailer post from this afternoon. The accompanying image shows the softly-lit silhouette of a Halo ring (rather than palm trees and seagulls).

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HoYoVerse announced the 7.1 Honkai Impact 3rd update release date, which will bring new story missions, events, and a Griseo battlesuit. It will debut on December 7, 2023. 

Griseo will be both the new playable character and play a major part in the Honkai Impact 3rd story in the next update. As a unit, she’ll deal physical Bleed damage to enemies. She’s also an SP SD-type unit. Essentially, people can place Beacons on enemies and raise her Internal Energy to eventually use a Special Weapon Skill and Ultimate. 

When people go through Story Chapter XLIL in Honkai: Star Rail, Fu Hua and Griseo will be the primary characters. Players will use Fu Hua against a new boss named Sa while Griseo supports them. 

A few of the new Honkai Impact 3rd events were also revealed. One is going to be Starry Voyage: Strike Back, which will offer the On Fair Clouds outfit for the Starchasm Nyx battlesuit, Crystals, Energy Devices, and Honkai Shards. Seize Sensational Sentience will let people get a Herrscher of Sentience Character Card. 

During the PlayStation Partner Awards 2023 Japan Asia, FromSoftware Producer Yasuhiro Kitao was asked about development progress for the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. Kitao said that they will talk more about the Elden Ring DLC in the future, but gave a small glimpse to what players can expect to see and compared it to Bloodborne. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

Kitao said that the Elden Ring DLC will have new battles and characters and compared it to the Bloodborne DLC and other FromSoftware titles. The producer also confirmed that the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is still some ways off, but that the developers are making good progress.

During the latest Kadokawa financial report in early November 2023, FromSoftware echoed the news and confirmed that development in the Elden Ring DLC is progressing adequately. In addition, FromSoftware recently held a large-scale staff recruiting campaign to develop new games.