Bethesda's upcoming space RPG Starfield bagged itself a release date last night (November 11th 2022, in case you missed it), but we still don't know a whole about what we'll actually do in it. In a recent interview, executive producer Todd Howard said "it's like Skyrim in space", though I doubt that means exploring draugr-filled asteroids. Slightly more interestingly, Bethesda's managing director Ashely Cheung compares it to Star Wars.

"For me, Starfield is the Han Solo simulator. Get in a ship, explore the galaxy, do fun stuff," he says.

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Elden Ring game director Hidetaka Mizayaki revealed some of the elements that are going into making Elden Ring From Software’s most ambitious dark fantasy action RPG to date. The realm that players explore in Elden Ring is known as The Lands Between, and was created in collaboration with George R.R. Martin of A Song of Ice and Fire fame. While Martin’s work may be best known today for the popular Game of Thrones series, he also was instrumental in crafting the history of the world of Elden Ring.

However, ever since we learned that Elden Ring would be a sort of Soulsian open world endeavor, the question remained - how on earth would that work, when the Souls games, Bloodborne, and even Sekiro have such carefully curated level design that funnels the player into carefully placed foes, traps, bosses, and breathtaking sights?

Somehow I'd missed that Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, unlike most of the other VTM games these days, is not interactive fiction. Nope, apparently a 3D walking-around sort of "narrative RPG", made by the studio behind 2018's curious The Council. Huh! I'm interested. A new trailer out E3 introduces us to one of the three protagonists we'll switch between, Leysha - a Malkavian. Her fashion is truly great.

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Microsoft and Playground Games have shared some more screenshots of the stunning, varied landscape of Forza Horizon 5‘s Mexico, and a closer look at some of the incredibly detailed vehicle models, too.

Included in the images are some dune buggies and monster trucks, the AMG Project ONE Forza Edition — Forza Horizon 5’s cover car — and even a look at the impressive Ray-Tracing lighting effects in the Forzavista mode. Check out all the sweet reflections in that shiny chrome!

While it may not be your average Monday, as E3 is in full bloom, the majority of people do still have to start their work week once again. Never fear, though, as we’ve got plenty of amazing gaming memes to help you beat those Monday blues.

Those include everything from Final Fantasy to Animal Crossing to Mario. So sit back, relax, and enjoy all of the hilarious gaming memes we found from across the internet last week.

Be sure to let us know which ones were your favorites in the comments below. Also, don’t hesitate to leave any other great memes that we may have missed down there to help make us all laugh.

Today Furyu hosted a livestream showcasing the first gameplay of its upcoming JRPG Monark, mostly focusing on battle gameplay.

You can see the video below, timestamped at the correct moment in which the gameplay begins. We get to see the basics of battle, including assists, positional attacks that require sandwiching the enemy between your characters, and the fact that when you enter “madness” mode you can attack both friends and enemies.

Then the developers show it in action in actual live gameplay.

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Monark, it’s a school JRPG developed by a team composed by multiple Shin Megami Tensei series veterans.

The game is coming to Japan on October 14 for PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. After that, NIS America will publish it in the west for the same platforms plus PC.

Below you can read a brief official description that gives you the gist of the story.

Lego has detailed a third set of Super Mario Character Packs to be released in blind bags this summer.

As with previous waves, there are 10 additional enemies and items to collect, and you'll need a bit of luck to obtain the full set with no duplicates. (Or to swap with a friend. Or eBay.)

There's no release date or price yet for Series 3, but we'd expect these to cost the same as the last two waves (£3.49/$4.99/€3.99 each) and arrive alongside the upcoming Super Luigi Starter Course on 1st August.

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Fuga: Melodies of Steel, the next Little Tail Bronx game, will debut in July 2021. Check out its gameplay and learn about its Deluxe Edition.

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As promised during Square Enix’s E3 2021 presentation, the playable demo for action game spin-off Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin has been available for download on the PlayStation 5 since yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, the demo has been corrupt and completely unplayable the whole time. Square Enix is…

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Sure, the internet was going nuts about the Big Tall Vampire with Lady Dimitrescu, but let's not also forget about poor Ethan Winters' hands. Both in Resident Evil 7 and Village, Capcom just loves putting Ethan's digits through the ringer, but modders are bringing the character (and his hands) the love that devs won't. That's right, there's a Resident Evil Village mod that gives Ethan back his hands. Lord knows he's been through enough...

In Resident Evil Village, Ethan loses his fingers, his hand, and his sanity. Maybe not so much that last part, but the former point is absolutely true. I don't know what Capcom hates about Ethan particularly, but the poor boy has gone through enough. That's where this Resident Evil Village mod comes in. 

The mod itself is simple (and just for PC, as console mods are still largely limited to just Bethesda titles). It gives back Ethan's chewed-up fingers that he loses pretty early on in the game. Is this a mind-blowing mod? Nah. Did I enjoy writing it because Ethan gets too much hate? Yah. 

For those interested, you can download this restorative experience right here through Nexus Mods. 

Remember that brightly-coloured alien exploration game In Other Waters? Well, the developer is back with another sci-fi offering, although this time it's all taking place on a run-down space station.

Titled Citizen Sleeper, the game was previously teased under the name Project Sidereal, but developer Jump Over The Age revealed the new name and trailer during last night's PC Gaming Show. It's described as "roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism," with the player taking the role of a "sleeper" - in other words, a digitised human consciousness. The bad news is that you're also owned by a huge corporation that wants you back, and your body will deteriorate as part of "planned obsolescence" for escapees. This what happens when billionaires start jetting themselves into space, I guess.

"Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and colourful inhabitants of the Eye, you need to build friendships, earn your keep, and navigate the factions of this strange metropolis, if you hope to survive to see the next cycle," the Steam description explains. "Escape the makers of your decaying body, and chart your own path in a richly imagined, deeply relevant sci-fi world which explores ideas of precarity, personhood and freedom."

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The Ninja Warriors and Elevator Action will be included in this collection of classic arcade games from the '80s.

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August will mark five years since Team17’s Overcooked burst onto the scene and first earned its reputation as one of the very best couch co-op multiplayer games on any system, and the developer is keen to celebrate the occasion. Today, it has announced that on Aug. 9 there’s a new content update coming for Overcooked! All You Can Eat across all platforms, and it’s totally free.

The news comes by way of a Tweet from the game’s official channel, which appears to be teasing some sort of grand birthday feast. We’ll certainly RSVP!

Go OC, it’s your birthday
We gon’ party like it’s your birthday
& we gon’ sip tea like it’s your birthday
Gon’ make cake & scream, coz it’s our birthday!

We’re turning 5. Would you care to PARTY?!

Free update for #Overcooked! All You Can Eat, coming to PC & consoles on Aug 9th pic.twitter.com/0bkvsxgCU7

— Overcooked 🍽 (@Overcookedgame) June 14, 2021

Overcooked! All You Can Eat released last year alongside the launch of the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, and is a compilation and remaster of Overcooked! and Overcooked! 2.

I've been after a shooter that'll loosen my grip on Call Of Duty: Warzone and I think Battlefield 2042 might be it. Having watched the gameplay trailer at Microsoft and Bethesda's E3 showcase, it's large-scale shooty bang in areas exclusively ravaged by tornadoes and storms. Clear skies and an easy shot? Nah mate, not any longer. Have a tornado.

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There was a moment over the weekend where Alice0 pointed out that a lot of people are remaking Left 4 Dead - apart from Valve. I have mentioned this before, but playing L4D2 accounted for about 60% of my time at university. I have a tattoo of the safe house symbol on my ribs (it is terrible).

The Left 4 Dead formula is simple on paper - small team of co-op players vs monster horde, getting from point A to point B with potential incidental side objectives on the way - but is tough to nail. You need to get the mix right. And this year's E3 has revealed a lot of people are rolling up their sleeves to have a go. Let's have a look.

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Xbox went into its E3 2021 swinging by kicking off its live stream event alongside Bethesda with our first real look at Starfield. The new IP from Bethesda is a fresh start for the company that gave us Fallout and Elder Scrolls, especially when looking at its use of a different engine. While the trailer shown gives us a glimpse at the exploratory scope of this new game, Bethesda had a pretty interesting comparison when describing what Starfield's experience is all about. Any Indiana Jones or Star Wars fans reading this? Yes? Good. 

In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Bethesda's Ashley Cheng mentioned that this is basically one giant Star Wars-like experience. "For me, Starfield is the Han Solo simulator. Get in a ship, explore the galaxy, do fun stuff." Bethesda's Todd Howard chimed in when chatting with The Telegraph with his own comparison, saying that it's "NASA meets Indiana Jones meets the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." 

Nice. 

I get a childlike sense of glee from playing games that let me run around as a miniature human in a world that's far too big for them. Add a dash of Pikmin to that, and you've really caught my interest. The newly announced puzzle platformer Tinykin seems to provide exactly that: it's about a very small astronaut exploring a giant house with the help from lots of little one-eyed alien pals.

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XSEED's final E3 2021 reveal is Knockout Home Fitness, a Switch game that helps people work out with virtual trainers each day.

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By now, you will likely have seen Bethesda's first in-game footage of Starfield, its long-awaited sci-fi role-playing game coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S as a console exclusive on 11th November 2022.

But how will it play? What will you actually do? And will we ever get to finish that half-eaten space sandwich?

Bethesda has given a couple of interviews which mostly avoid answering specifics, but do touch a bit on some of the above.

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Friendships? They come and go, but you know what's forever? Memes. Memes last forever. Sound dorky? You're probably right, but the fact is that companies have been incorporating "meme culture" into marketing strategies more and more in recent years, and the effect is hard to deny. The team over at Xbox is a perfect example, handing over social media control to gamers that are passionate about the community and memes? There's no denying that's a universal language. The company of Xbox itself isn't afraid to get a little weird for a new promo. Case and point? The Xbox Series X fridge Microsoft debuted last year. We thought that was the end of that, but no, Team Green is back with another kitchenware item: the Xbox mini-fridge not too long after and now? Now you can buy one yourself. 

Yuji, Megumi, Nobara, Satoru, and Kento are some of the characters receiving new artworks in this mobile game.

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Pokemon Go creator Niantic is working on a real-world Transformers mobile game called Transformers: Heavy Metal. ...

The Crucial MX500 - Digital Foundry's pick for the best SSD for gaming - is now just £42.

The 500GB model has been reduced to its lowest price so far according to our price tracker - and it will remain that way for the rest of the week.

Why's the MX500 so highly rated, though? Well, it's excellent value for money and will give you a significant boost to loading times when used for OS or game installs. The strong read/write speeds make it superior to the cheaper BX500 series, while other drives from the likes of Samsung and Western Digital offer similar performance but at a higher cost.

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"BigBox VR may be small, but they are a mighty, nimble team of game industry vets who seamlessly nail the game development duality of craft and data-driven live service." ...

Niantic of Pokémon Go fame is bringing their real-world augmented reality know-how to Transformers.

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"Get in a ship, explore the galaxy, do fun stuff": that's Bethesda's Starfield in a nutshell, according to executive producer Todd Howard. The first time I read that neat little triptych in yesterday's Washington Post interview, my brain skated over it. It's one of those broad, sweeping statements that promises something so big you end up disregarding it by default. But then I went back to it, and after forcing my mind's eye to hover over the words like a fat hawk, the words really sank in. The middle three, in particular.

Explore the galaxy. That, right there, is a premise that space games have always tended to fall short on over the years, and I'd forgotten how badly I wanted it fulfilled. Speaking bluntly, science fiction is one of the biggest things in my life. Exploring the galaxy is a big deal to me, and yet, the experience space games have delivered in the past has never quite been the one I've been after. Now, I'm daring to ask myself how I'd feel if this time, it was.

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Last week, Sony announced it had signed a deal with Deviation Games to make a brand new PlayStation IP - the second such deal Sony has announced in recent months.

Deviation Games was set up in November 2019 by former Treyarch Studios developers Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell, both of whom played a key role in the success of the Call of Duty: Black Ops series.

Blundell, one of the chief creators of Call of Duty's popular zombies mode, left Treyarch after 13 years at the developer.

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Niantic, developer of Pokémon Go, has announced its involvement in another new mobile AR game project - Transformers: Heavy Metal.

This real-world robot-battling phone game is being developed by another studio, the Seattle-based Very Very Spaceship, though will use Niantic's Lightship platform and well-oiled augmented reality toolset.

Images of the game show Pokémon Go raid-style battles between autobots, as well as a familiar-looking world map.

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Last fall, the main Adores Akihabara arcade closed. The building, a local landmark, is now one of an increasing number of shuttered establishments in the area, which has been impacted by the ban on foreign tourists due to covid-19. Now, the other Adores arcade in Akihabara will also close this month.

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In 2022, Fallout 76 will let players explore beyond the reaches of Appalachia for the first time. Bethesda are adding Expeditions to their post-apocalyptic MMO, which will allow former vault-dwellers to adventure in other areas of the Fallout universe. The first one might be familiar to folks who played some of Fallout 3's DLC too, because it's sending us back to The Pitt (that is: radiation-ravaged Pittsburgh).

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Somerville has been teased with a number of trailers over the past few years, but during yesterday's Xbox-Bethesda showcase we got another look at the game - and now have some idea of what the main characters will look like.

The sci-fi adventure is being made by Jumpship, an independent studio founded by animator Chris Olsen in collaboration with Playdead co-founder and former CEO Dino Patti. (Playdead created Limbo and its spiritual successor Inside, two very unsettling puzzle-platformers.)

As you can see from the trailer, Somerville set in a sci-fi world and focuses on the struggles of a family trying to survive a major disaster. "In the wake of catastrophe you must find the means to make your family whole again," says the official description. "Somerville is a sci-fi adventure grounded in the intimate repercussions of large-scale conflict.

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The studio behind Northgard and Evoland are jaunting into yet another genre, this time an open-world RPG with turn-based tactical combat. Shiro Games last night announced Wartales, a game about leading a band of mercenaries in the aftermath of an apocalyptic plague. It looked like an unfatastical medieval world in the trailer until I saw a colossal crest of black fur rolling through a forest and OOH what is this. See for yourself in the trailer below.

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Yesterday, we saw a meme turned reality. No, not Final Fantasy Origins, but the Xbox Series X mini fridge.

Microsoft is really going to release this dinky desk-sized refrigerator later this year. Like Halo Infinite, it has a vague "holiday 2021" launch date.

If you stuck around after Microsoft's big Xbox and Bethesda Showcase event yesterday, you'll have seen the following trailer pop up, showing off how it'll look:

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Additionally Jack will be able to switch between two different jobs.

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When not playing Football Manager the hard way, Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is playing soccer. When he’s not doing that, he might be watching Yu-Gi-Oh! But does he play it? Hrm...

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