Players hoping to get stuck into Techland's impressive Switch port of Dying Light have run into a pretty significant hurdle while trying to purchase the zombies-and-parkour shooter from Nintendo's eShop; the digital version is currently unavailable in the UK and across Europe as a result of Dying Light being banned from sale in Germany.

Switch players began flagging Dying Light: Platinum Edition's unexpected absence from eShop in multiple territories, despite its 19th October release date, over on Reddit. The mystery was eventually solved by an official Techland spokesperson, who explained the issue stems from the fact Nintendo's European eShop is registered in Germany - a country where Dying Light is unrated and thus prohibited from sale.

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With the company still mired in lawsuits spurred on by historical allegations of harassment, Activision Blizzard has used an interview with the Financial Times to disclose that a number of employees have “exited,” and more “disciplined,” in the wake of the case.

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Virtual reality is an ever-growing platform that enables people to play games in new ways. It brings us experiences we wouldn’t be able to experience otherwise, such as playing through Valve's Half-Life: Alyx, and it gives us new ways to play old classics, like Resident Evil 4 VR on the Oculus Quest 2. 

While virtual reality continues to expand in the gaming space, it’s nowhere near as popular as traditional video game console experiences, and it’ll likely remain that way for now. That’s why Xbox is remaining committed to software, rather than hardware such as virtual reality, this generation, according to Xbox head Phil Spencer. 

Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting a 'Game Of The Year' edition. The skybound sim has received regular free updates since launch, each adding new cities and points of interest. The GOTY edition will bring even more, including new potogrammetry cities, 8 new airpirts, and 5 new aircraft. It'll launch on November 18th and be free to all existing players.

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If you've found yourself tantalised by Ubisoft's upcoming extreme sports game Riders Republic, but not so much that you're quite ready to commit, you might like to get involved in the newly announced Free Trial week, giving players up to four hours with the full game ahead of launch.

Riders Republic, a spiritual successor to 2016's underrated Steep, expands on the open-world winter sports action of that game to usher in a fuller roster of activities. There's skiing, snowboarding, biking, and wing suits (of the vanilla and jet-powered varieties), playable both solo and competitively, with Ubisoft's heavily pushing the game's large-scale competitions for upward of 50 players.

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Raw Fury is publishing the monster-fusing RPG, and it’ll be on Xbox Game Pass It’s nice to check back in...

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Marcus Lehto, former creative director at Bungie and the artist responsible for Master Chief, has joined EA to found a new studio that will make first-person games. Lehto's last company was V1 Interactive, who released the short-lived Disintegration last year.

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Pokémon Unite is poised to get a substantial update on October 20, which will kick off the Halloween event on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Though TiMi Studio Group has yet to drop the official patch notes, what’s expected are wild changes, including nerfs to Blastoise and tweaks to Rotom.

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Xbox Game Pass continues to grow, with a new estimate putting the subscriber count at 20 million as of June. Microsoft disclosed in a financial document that Xbox Game Pass subscribers grew by 37% in the 12 months ended June 30. The target was 48% growth, so Microsoft did not deliver on expectations as it related to Game Pass.

According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, 37% growth would put Game Pass subscribers at 20 million-plus as of June 30, a figure that has surely grown since then.

Microsoft revealed this as part of a disclosure regarding executive pay. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's pay is based in part on Xbox Game Pass subscriber growth.

The last official Game Pass subscriber number that Microsoft released was 18 million back in January. Take-Two's Strauss Zelnick estimated that Game Pass might have 30 million members now, but Microsoft won't discuss Game Pass numbers in terms of raw data, at least not yet.

Microsoft will announce its full earnings report on October 26, and we might get a new hard number on Game Pass subscribers then. Keep checking back with GameSpot for more.

Dying Light: Platinum Edition launched on Nintendo Switch today, but due to an extremely peculiar Germany-specific ban, the digital version of the game is unavailable to players in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Do you enjoy the feeling of having pins hammered into your head? Then allow me to introduce you to: our modern reality.

Today's pin to the brow is that you can now buy NFTs based on Dead By Daylight's in-game models of Hellraiser's Pinhead. I can tell the difference between pleasure and pain, and this is pain.

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Puts the ‘Behemoth’ in ‘Behemoth Typhoon’ You can always trust the fighting game community to make sure that the strangest...

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Like other fantasy-themed live-service games such as Final Fantasy XIV and Elder Scrolls Online, Genshin Impact has a highly customizable housing system. With it, players can craft furniture using materials they’ve gathered, they can grow flowers for use in potions, and they can even create little rock gardens in the…

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Mario Party gets a lot bleaker when you think about it

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The elevator pitch for Cassette Beasts, a forthcoming indie game, can’t fit on a single line. A lo-fi monster-hunting game clearly inspired by Pokémon? Or, oh, oh, how about a top-down role-playing game with gorgeous pixel art and killer music? Surely it’s something distinguished by being awash in ‘80s vibes? The…

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It’s no secret that Microsoft and Xbox have been bolstering their studio ranks over the last couple of years, and Xbox head Phil Spencer has now reiterated that commitment to studio acquisitions it deems a good fit for the company.

This news comes by way of the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live Event, as reported by Video Games Chronicle, where Spencer was asked whether or not the Xbox Game Studios lineup was complete. Spencer essentially stated that it could never be finished as there’s no quota the company is after. 

A whole new kind of console wars As we all know, the internet loves to get up in arms about…...

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Suzuki had already been announced as the director of the upcoming Sunbreak expansion.

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Activision Blizzard, embroiled in legal wranglings over alleged appalling work conditions for its staff, has requested additional time to investigate and potentially disqualify the California Department of Fair and Equal Housing from its ongoing legal battle with the agency. This is on account of potential ethics…

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Season six looks off the rails — even for Riverdale

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Today former Bungie director and co-creator of the Halo series, Marcus Lehto, announced on Twitter that he is joining EA as a game director and will lead a new studio that EA is opening up in the Seattle area, not too far from Bungie’s HQ in Bellevue.

At the moment, there’s not too much out there about what kind of project Lehto is working on but according to Gamesindustry.biz, he will be leading an FPS project of some kind. Not surprising considering his past work on Halo and Disintegration.

In addition to the big news from Microsoft, third-party developers also had more to share about new add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with Flightbeam studio, which revealed another look at its Auckland Airport (NZAA) in New Zealand.

We also hear that the airport will enter beta testing this week and we get a rundown of some of the features we can expect.

Explore 9th century Scandinavia in a free expansion, or stand-alone module for PC

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Could there be a new collection incoming? Hamster Corporation, which you will all know from the weekly Arcade Archives releases,...

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Today, Square Enix has released two brand new versions of Tifa Lockhart’s blue dress figure from the Final Fantasy VII Remake. As you can see in the images below, the Wall Market models of this beloved FFVII character come in both jointed and static.

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There are many ways to buy them online, but watch out for scams

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Among the many discoveries of this month's Twitch source code and data leak was a file called "do_not_ban_list." While not as black and white as the name suggest, the file sheds light on the otherwise opaque way Twitch has enforced its rules when streamers break them.

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Both of the latest SMT V demons take to the sky, as the newest Japanese videos from Atlus look at Quetzalcoatl and Incubus.

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Save the rainforest in style The hand-drawn beat ’em up Tunche is finally going live. Developer LEAP Game Studios and HypeTrain...

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Apple had apparently considered launching a cloud gaming service alongside its own gaming platform, Apple Arcade. It appears that Apple has dropped those plans.

In the post-game Q&A section of Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg (the story is behind a paywall), one of his readers asked about whether Apple had plans for a cloud gaming service. He was told, "The company in the past has internally discussed the prospects of launching such a service."

Gurman said that Apple had a unique position in the games space by relying on titles that could run on native devices as opposed to streaming from the cloud. Cloud-based gaming offers a wider selection of games and creates an "open buffet" Netflix-style experience, rather than the more carefully curated selection that Apple Arcade has.

This is how Apple separates itself from other players such as Nvidia's GeForce and Google Stadia. However, Apple doesn't allow its competitors to join Apple Arcade through the App Store. "The company says that’s not because they’re competitors, but simply because it doesn’t allow all-you-can-eat cloud gaming services on its devices," explained Gurman.

Right now, Apple Arcade has some notable titles such as Mistwalker's Fantasian and Platinum Games' World of Demons. Recently, Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls returned to mobile devices as an Apple Arcade exclusive after being delisted from other storefronts for a year.

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Colorful comic adventure jets off October 26 Square Enix has released the PC specs for its incoming comic book epic...

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Asmodee’s Edge Studio gets the nod from Disney and Lucasfilm

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Roguelikes have come a long way since Rogue, and the original tentpole facets such as permadeath and randomized dungeons tweaked and altered to create new iterations on the concept. Today, many roguelikes are instead roguelites, meaning they offer the player some or a lot of permanent progression elements at various levels to ensure that the experience can be completed by dedicated players. 

Some games, like Returnal, obfuscate the development to kick up the tension factor while still offering powerful permanent progression boosts, while others like Rogue Legacy offer massive, easy-to-grasp power-ups. Any way you look at it, the variable hooks from run to run in the roguelike make them fascinating to play and experience, tinkering around with different builds and options over many hours. What roguelike should you play today? Let’s take a look at some of the best listed in no particular order. 

Today Spike Chunsoft reached out with a press release to provide more details and images of Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp and an update on sales for the series.

First of all, the press release answers a question many have been asking themselves about the pricing for the optional microtransactions.

Here’s how it’ll work.

Players can obtain all content such as characters, character upgrade cards, and items just by collecting and spending in-game coins. For example, if a player wants a specific character card, they can gather Monocoins and use them on the MonoMono Machines for a chance to win that card. Players can rest assured that they will not receive duplicate Character cards and Hype cards from machines. In addition to this, players cannot exchange real-world money for in-game Monocoins.

Let’s say a player really wants a swimsuit Nagito card, but doesn’t have a lot of time to play. They could visit the Nintendo eShop and purchase a “1 card” DLC. Using this DLC allows them to get the rare Nagito card without leaving it to luck. Here’s how it works: at the School Store, there will be an option to visit the Nintendo eShop to purchase a DLC. This DLC will allow the player to select any prize the player wishes from any machine, effectively removing the random chance element.

The prices of the DLCs are listed below:
1 card = $0.99
3 cards = $1.99
5 cards = $2.99
3 cards (can only buy this once) = $0.99

We also learn that the four games of the series have surpassed 5 million units shipped as of September 2021. Interestingly, a high percentage of sales from outside of Japan and on PC, with the platform accounting for approximately 3 million units sold. The PC versions of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair have exceeded one million units each.

The MSI GF65 Thin is the first Black Friday gaming laptop deal we've spotted, around a month before the shopping holiday traditionally begins. At Best Buy, you can pick up this RTX 3060 equipped machine for $850, a cool $250 below its usual price of $1100. That's a fantastic value for a laptop that's seen strong reviews since its release earlier this year.

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