Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew developer Mimimi Games has announced it'll release two DLC expansions for the supernatural stealth tactics game on 6th December.

The DLCs will mark the final release from Mimimi before it closes as it announced back in August. At the time, studio co-founders Dominik Abé and Johannes Roth revealed it was working on a "big content drop" for Shadow Gambit, which we know now is in the form of two expansion.

Each expansion will include a new playable character with unique abilities, a new island to explore, and a story campaign told across six new missions. The new characters can be used in most of the main game's missions and aren't limited to the DLC missions, Mimimi stated.

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As always, Siliconera is attempting to make Black Friday 2023 Xbox Series X and S Black Friday 2023 shopping a little easier with a round-up of sales on consoles and games. We collected all the best prices from various ads to make things easier for everyone.

Best Xbox Series X Black Friday 2023 Deals on Consoles

Okay, the absolute best deal is also very limited as it’s at BJ’s Wholesale Club. It’s November 23-27, 2023 deals include a $219.99 Xbox Series S and a $439.99 Xbox Series X, as shown on BlackFriday.com. But if you’re not on the east coast or in states like Ohio, you won’t be able to take advantage of that.

For a more universal deal, maybe consider Target? The store will have an Xbox Series X with a $75 gift card or the Xbox Series X Diablo IV bundle with a $75 gift card for $449.99. 

Ubisoft has given a brief update on its missing in action Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which has had a troubled development and still lacks a formal release date.

Originally announced back in 2020 for release the following year, work on the game was rebooted when development dragged on and the project was then moved from Ubisoft Mumbai to Ubisoft Montreal.

Updates from the project have since been scarce, though Ubisoft broke cover last night to state that the game was still very much in development and had recently "passed an important internal milestone".

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The Xmas season approaches, but for some of us, Halloween never ends. I've just finished (well, reached a grisly end within) the demo for Chiyo, a first-person horror game from Nimbus Games, set in Edo era Japan, in which you are a plucky young mystic sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate's Magical Arcane Division to investigate and cleanse a spooky abandoned mansion on the coast.

Much like the protagonist of fellow Japan-set exor-simulator Ghostwire: Tokyo, you have a brace of occult, gesture-based powers with which to explore and, hopefully, vanquish any lurking spirits, but so far, the only ones I've gotten access to are a funky finger torch, the ability to unseal cursed doors, and the ability to see glowing puzzle props through surfaces. I very much do not feel like an Edo era John Constantine. I don't even feel like an Edo era Scooby Doo. I mean, at least he was good at running away: the titular Chiyo waddles about like she's worried her trousers are about to fall down.

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What’s the best Steam Deck accessory that isn’t a microSD card? My vote’s for a docking station: all it takes to turn this handheld PC into a functioning desktop is a few extra ports. Ports that are provided most gladly by the Syntech Docking Station, which thanks to Black Friday, is currently 20% off in the UK and 40% off in the US.

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Activision has said its new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken multiple player engagement records, without providing any specific player numbers.

"Just two weeks in, Modern Warfare 3 has already set records with the highest engagement in the new Modern Warfare trilogy," states a post by the Call of Duty account on X, formerly Twitter.

These records include the fact Modern Warfare 3 owners are playing "more hours per player overall" and "campaign players [are] putting in more time per player" than in the modern Modern Warfare 1 and 2.

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GameMaker, a series of cross-platform engines for game developers, has ditched its subscription model for non-commercial purposes, hobbyists and indie developers.

GameMaker will now be free for anyone using its software non-commercially on all non-console platforms. Creator and indie subscriptions have been replaced with a one-time fee of $100, meanwhile, which grants a commercial license and enables exports to desktop and mobile platforms.

The change appears to have been prompted by the recent and controversial changes Unity announced for its pricing model, which would introduce a fee for developers per game install. The plan was met with anger from indie developers, causing Unity to walk back significantly on its proposed changes.

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The Warlock's set looks based the Ursine Armour and the clothing of the Skellige people in general, while the Hunter's set of course features a hood and is therefore reminiscent of the agile Cat School armour.

The collaboration arrives alongside Season of the Wish, perhaps a coincidental reference to the first Witcher book, The Last Wish. Bungie also enjoys another easy reference to the beloved fantasy series, with the second Witcher Book being the Sword of Destiny.

Nintendo 64 classic Jet Force Gemini will join the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service next week, on Thursday 30th November.

This sci-fi third-person shooter was developed during the N64 heyday of British studio Rare, and launched during the four-year period the company also released classics such as GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 and Perfect Dark.

It may not have the brand power of some of those, but it's still a solid arcade-inspired adventurey shooter with a lengthy single-player and a deathmatch-style multiplayer.

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The holiday season is upon us and video game deals are ripe for the taking. Steam is famous for its seasonal sales, but PlayStation has surprised us this year with many of its best exclusives at the lowest price ever. The Black Friday PlayStation Store sale ends on November 27 at 11:59 PST, so strike the iron while it’s hot! Here are our carefully selected picks for the best PS Store Black Friday deals.

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.

Ever since Kevin Kostner strapped on some tight leather trousers and helped a film studio lose loads of money, the world has been besotted with watery worlds. That's not true, I just wanted to reference Water World. It's not even a useful analogy for this piece, because I want to talk about underwater worlds. God, Kevin, way to mess up my intro.

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Dyson Sphere Program is already rather overwhelming - this is, after all, a strategy sim about wrapping whole planets in conveyor belts so as to build cages around stars and harvest their juices - and now the absolute madfolk of Youthcat Studio are adding combat features. It's like watching somebody upend a bucket of termites over the world's most elaborate model trainset.

The associated Rise of the Dark Fog update is out on 15th December. Youthcat have put together a nifty announcement trailer that makes cunning use of the ability to raze factories from orbit - I'm curious to know if it was actually performed in-game.

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In the fabled beforetimes of the early 2010s, Games Workshop made the decision to end the world. Not our world, though it may feel like it at times, but the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The long-bearded miniatures game was vastly outperformed by its younger sci-fi sibling, Warhammer 40,000, so in 2015 it was killed off and replaced with Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This new setting, literally built from the shards of the previous one, reinterpreted iconic Warhammer elements and added a whole pile of shiny newness, most prominently the Stormcast Eternals, huge armoured warriors designed to be the mass appeal poster boys that GW felt WFB lacked.

To say it was a controversial move is something of an understatement, and while this isn't the time or place for a deep dive into why, it does help explain why AoS has largely been ignored by the video game industry, while high-profile Old World-set games like the Total War: Warhammer series (which didn't even start until a year after the release of AoS) have still been popping up. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin isn't the first video game set in the Mortal Realms of AoS, but it is the first one to make much of a stir.

Arc Titans have an up-and-down history throughout Destiny 2. Some Seasons, they’re left out to dry, and other Seasons, like the more recent ones, have them destroy everything in their path with ease. However, such Seasons are typically dictated by what Exotic armor they’re wearing. So today, we’re going over the top 10 Exotic armor pieces for Arc Titans in Destiny 2 as of the Lightfall DLC and Season of the Witch.

Developed by Zeekerss, Lethal Company is the latest multiplayer horror indie hit on Steam. Its explosion in popularity quickly led to it surpassing Phasmophobia in terms of peak concurrent players, and needless to say, the fun mods are already pouring in.

Reddit user u/boheaa posted a clip on the forum showing off the custom boombox music mod for the game, and while it’s simple in premise, it also makes the game that much more goofy and funny. The mod in question does exactly what it says on the box: it lets you play custom music on the in-game boombox, which players can carry around the map.

Within just a week of its early access release, it looks like Zeekerss’ new indie hit Lethal Company has quickly surpassed Phasmophobia in terms of all-time peak concurrent players. This is a pretty impressive feat, especially if you think back to how popular Phasmophobia was back when it first released in 2020.

Kinetic Games’ ghostbusting horror game released during the height of COVID-19 and quickly took over as one of Steam’s biggest games of the year, but that crown has officially been passed over to Lethal Company.

Ask any Marvel Snap player what they think about Series drops, and it’ll quickly become clear that this is a pretty contentious topic within the community. When Series 4 and 5 were first introduced to the game, Second Dinner had stated that Series 5 cards would drop to Series 4 after a set amount of time.

However, they quickly reneged on this statement and implemented a flexible Series drop system, where new cards would occasionally release in Series 4, and Series drops would happen as and when it made sense. With that in mind, we haven’t seen a proper Series drop in more than half a year, and naturally, the community is getting pretty pissed off about it.

As of November 21, 2023, Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade is readily available on mobile devices in Japan. Much like most modern smartphone games, it is free to play but may contain in-app purchases. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

All of the characters from the show's first season will be present as playable units, and the story will also draw from the plot arc. For reference, the show's first season ended during the Death Painting Arc. The game's plot will also branch off into an original story featuring original characters.

Since the game reached its pre-registration goal, all players will receive a guaranteed SSR gacha ticket that you can re-roll until you get who you want. As a reminder, Phantom Parade will be a turn-based RPG. The characters will use skills that they demonstrated during the first season of the anime. You’ll also be able to use combination attacks depending on who you have in your party.

It’s that time of year again. With every Steam sale comes the opportunity to crack open that wallet and start nabbing those games you’ve had your eye on for a while. Here are the best Steam Autumn 2023 sale deals.

Bandai Namco revealed that Wonder of U will be the final DLC character for the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Season Pass 2. Wonder of U will come out on December 8, 2023, two days earlier for owners of the Season Pass 2.

Wonder of U is Toru’s Stand, and they appear in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 8 Jojolion. Due to how Wonder of U works in the manga Toru himself won’t fight, and will only appear in the intro, as well as outro victory poses.

You can check out the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R reveal trailer for Wonder of U (Toru) here:

Wonder of U is voiced by Takayuki Sugo, who is known for being the Japanese voice of Hashirama Senju in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden and Yhwach and Zangetsu in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War.

HoYoverse will re-release a scale figure of Paimon from Genshin Impact. It’ll come out sometime in March 2024. [Thanks, Hobby Dengeki!]

The Paimon figure from HoYoVerse looks like she’s holding up her hand and waving hello at the Traveler. She also has a big smile on her face, with her cape flowing behind her. The Paimon figure will cost 6380 JPY ($43). She is a 1/7 scale, standing at approximately 14 centimeters tall.

As mentioned earlier, her release window is March 2024. You can order her via sites such as Tokyo Figure, which offers international shipping. Paimon is arguably one of the most recognizable characters in Genshin Impact because she is the game's mascot. Her face is even the logo of the application.

Since the game first came there has been numerous merchandise featuring her. For example, in 2021, a set of miniature Paimon figures showing her with food came out. This is a reference to a joke in which the Traveler refers to Paimon as “emergency food,” though the joke disappeared early in the game’s lifespan.

Conveniently timed to coincide with the launch of this year's Steam autumn sale, Blizzard has announced a free trial week for Diablo 4 - plus discounts across all versions of the game - starting today and running until 28th November.

Diablo 4's free trial lets players dip their toes into the world of Sanctuary, and includes full access to co-op and crossplay, but there's one major limitation: progression is capped at level 20. It's unclear how much playtime that'll likely equate to, given Diablo 4's Mother's Blessing event is also now live, boosting XP and Gold by 35% until 27th November.

Regardless, Blizzard says all trial progress can be carried over to the full game should your time with Diablo 4 convince you to make a purchase. And there's additional incentive to do so, considering all versions of the game are currently discounted by 40% as part of the Steam sale.

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Good Smile Company has opened up pre-orders for a Nendoroid of Kasane Teto: Synthesizer V AI Version. Pre-orders will close on January 18, 2024.

Those in Japan can get her for 7500 JPY, and she’ll ship out sometime in May 2024. Meanwhile, those in North America will need to pay $47.99, and she’ll arrive during Q4 2024. Ordering from Good Smile Company will get you a bonus base that has her name on it, as well as a giant 15th Anniversary logo.

The Kasane Teto Nendoroid will come with three face plates, just like most other Nendoroids. She has a default smiling face, a singing face (where she is smiling but her mouth is open), and an expectant face (complete with starry eyes). Aside from additional arm parts to pose her, the Nendoroid will also come with a baguette and wings. 

Here are some more pictures of the Kasane Teto Nendoroid:

Crucial's P5 Plus NVMe SSD is the first high-end PCIe 4.0 drive that I've seen crack the $90 barrier for a 2TB model, offering a huge amount of performance and capacity for not that much money. This drive is suitable for both PC and PS5 use (although Sony would like you to use a heatsink, please and thank you) and generally comes highly recommended by those that have tried it, including yours truly.

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Logitech's MX Keys S is a nice low-profile keyboard for folks that have tried mechanical keyboards and don't want none of that clicking and clacking in their quiet corner of the home/office, no thank you sirree. The MX Keys S basically feels like the best laptop keyboard you've ever tried, with quiet scissor switches that are quick to operate with precision. The graphite colour scheme looks pretty neat too.

At £85, rather than the regular £110, this is a pretty good value for a full-size wireless keyboard that supports both 2.4GHz wireless and Bluetooth, making it a good fit for Mac, PC and many more devices besides.

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In a recent interview, the developers of Persona 5 Tactica talked about adapting the series to the SRPG genre. They also discussed the reason for choosing that genre and their experience developing the Atlus title. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

Persona 5 Tactica is the first strategy RPG in the Persona series. Composer Toshiki Konishi also noted that it is the first Atlus simultaneous worldwide release on multiple platforms. Director Naoya Maeda said that the development of Persona 5 Tactica lasted approximately four years.

Business Producer Atsushi Nomura said that the developers wanted to focus on showing the Phantom Thieves acting as a team when they started the project. The developers then concluded that the most appropriate genre to deliver the feeling would be a strategy RPG.

Since some members of the development team weren’t fans of strategy RPGs due to their perceived high difficulty and the time-consuming element of leveling and managing so many different units, Maeda revealed that a lot of effort went into streamlining some of the game's most challenging elements, while maintaining the sense of progressing and growing each playable unit.

If your life has been upsettingly devoid of underwater terror since polishing off Subnautica: Below Zero, a glimmer of nautical promise is on the (distant) horizon, with publisher Krafton confirming it expects the ocean survival series' next instalment to arrive in the first half of 2025.

Official word that a new Subnautica game was on the way first surfaced in April last year, when developer Unknown Worlds - the studio behind the series' original 2018 entry and its 2021 follow-up Subnautica: Below Zero - announced it was seeking a senior narrative designer to "help shape the next game in the Subnautica universe".

And now, a little over 18 months later, the new Subnautica has made an appearance in publisher Krafton's slate of upcoming releases, as shared via the deeply unsexy means of financial report slide presentation (thanks Rock Paper Shotgun). It's set to launch in "1H25" - the first half of 2025 - but, beyond that, details are limited.

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Izanagi Games’ and MyDearest’s former VR games Tokyo Chronos and Altdeus will appear on the Nintendo Switch. This comes as DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate Definitive Edition debuts on the platform.

All three games are set in the Chronos universe. However, when Tokyo Chronos and Altdeus appear, they won’t be sold separately. The two previous adventures will be sold as a twin-pack. Things kicked off first with Tokyo Chronos, which was a VR visual novel that strangely featured eight reunited childhood friends in Shibuya solving a murder mystery. Altdeus is the sequel that combines visual novel adventure elements as well as mecha battles.

As a reminder, here’s the Tokyo Chronos trailer.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 had no confirmed release date beyond the vague "2023" still listed on its Steam page. In a business update released today by publishers Focus Entertainment, however, it seems the third-person boltgunner has been delayed into the "second half of 2024".

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Valve’s annual autumn sale. Some of the best and biggest PC games, including action-RPG Diablo IV, the fantastic Star Wars game Jedi: Survivor, and Bethesda’s latest, Starfield, are all on sale right now.

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GameMaker, the 2D game creation toolkit, has been used to make everything from Chicory: A Colorful Tale to Gunpoint to the original freeware Spelunky. It's also one of the more accessible ways to make games for beginners, kids and students, thanks to a drag-and-drop interface and forgiving scripting language.

Good news, then: GameMaker is now "free for non-commercial purposes on all non-console platforms" - such as PC.

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Nijisanji announced that Vtubers Tachitsute Toto, Shioriha Ruri, and Milan Kestrel are the new members of the main Nijisanji branch. Official goods and merchandise will be available this week.

The debut streams for each of the three new Nijisanji members will start on November 24, 2023. There will be one at 7pm JST for Tachitsute Toto, 7:30pm JST for Shioriha Ruri, and 8pm JST for Milan Kestrel. In addition, the X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the three Vtubers went live on November 21, 2023 in Japan.

You can check out the debut trailer here:

Star Wars: Empire At War wasn't a great game, but it did fulfill a simple fantasy: it was a real-time strategy game with original trilogy Star Wars units. If what you wanted was to fling swarms of AT-ATs against swarms of X-Wings then, yeah, you could do that. Darth Vader versus entire platoons of rebel soldiers? That too.

Why am I talking about a 2006 RTS? Because it just got a new official patch to make it run in 64-bit and fix a number of bugs.

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Build-a-Bear kicked off its Black Friday 2023 Bear Building sale, and various Animal Crossing plush are included. There are single and bundle options for Isabelle, Tom Nook, and K.K. Slider.

There are essentially two sorts of options during the promotion. One gives people the animal with an outfit or accessory, and the more expensive bundle includes a sound chip. So a standard Tom Nook in his summer attire would be $18 instead of $44, but one that includes the phrases sound chip would be $25.20 instead of $52.

Here’s the full list of available Build-a-Bear Animal Crossing plush on sale for Black Friday 2023.

• Isabelle Summer - $18

Back in September, Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket unveiled Nakwon: Last Paradise, a 16-player stealth-survival extraction game set on the streets of Seoul amid an undead apocalypse, and now - with a public pre-alpha playtest looming - it's shared 22 minutes of gameplay.

Nakwon is a game of two parts; the primary focus is Scouting, requiring players (either solo or in a team of two) to leave the titular safe zone in order to scavenge for resources out in the city. Being a PvPvE experience, the threats outside are twofold: there're the zombies - which can't be killed, meaning stealth is key to survival - alongside other human scavengers, who'll either need to be avoided or set upon with makeshift weaponry (firearms are a scare commodity).

Players can come and go as they like, meaning once they're satisfied with their haul, they can return to the safe zone, where Nakwon's more simulation-focused activities occur. Here, hard-gained resources can be sold for money, which is used to increase Citizen Grades and secure better priveliges and benefits. "Every day, you must decide whether to go out for Scouting or staying inside," Mintrocket explained previously. "But, you must consistently secure more food to avoid starvation and make the best choice whenever an unexpected event occurs."

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I watched a few hours of Worldless being played last night and didn't really register that it was turn-based. That's because it's a Metroidvania platformer and, when it is time for back-and-forth combat, you're not choosing attacks from a menu. Instead you're stringing together combos in real-time, then when your alotted attack time is over, you're parrying enemy assaults with rhythmic flair.

So, turn-based, yes, but with a twist. It's also out today.

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