The horribly squidgy world of tiny tots and giant cannibals will call us back for Little Nightmares 2 on the 11th of February, 2021, Bandai Namco announced today. The first game was wonderfully unpleasant and yup, the puzzle-platforming horror sequel looks it too. We’ll be playing as a new wee kid this time, with our old littl’un tagging along to help us with yet more oversized terrors. Here, meet some of them in the new trailer below.

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Sony has confirmed that PlayStation VR will be compatible with the PS5, so you'll be able to bring your PSVR games from the PS4 to the new console and play them with your current headset, camera, and controllers--though you will need a PS5 adapter, which Sony plans to provide at no additional cost. That makes this new PSVR sale particularly exciting. Sony is featuring six different PSVR titles in a Buy 1, Get 1 50% off sale that runs until September 8.

All you have to do is add two of the games to your cart, and the discount will be applied automatically. Unfortunately, this only applies once per transaction, so you won't be able to add four games to your cart to receive another B1G1 50% off discount. If you really want more games, though, it seems like you can place multiple orders to take advantage of multiple discounts.

Buy 1, Get 1 50% off PSVR games

• Astro Bot Rescue Mission -- $20
• Blood & Truth -- $40
• Everybody's Golf VR -- $30
• Farpoint -- $20
• PlayStation VR Worlds -- $15
• Until Dawn: Rush of Blood -- $15

And so, nearly two years after I first lamented the absence of the great Yaddle from ALL the Star Wars games, my suffering has ended. Finally, those cowards have released the first in-game footage of Yaddle from 2021’s LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

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The new Gamescom Stasis trailer really gave us a great look at Destiny 2’s newest power

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It seems a developer has managed to leverage two bits of my Ancient Egypt-related childhood nostalgia in one go today. Triskell Interactive and publisher Dotemu used an animated trailer that reminds me of famous Val Kilmer musical Prince Of Egypt to announced a 2021 remake of absolute stone cold classic citybuilder Pharaoh. Well played.

Pharaoh: A New Era was revealed as part of Gamescom this year, in the wake of the Gamescom Opening Night Live show (and we have rounded up every trailer from that for you already). The trailer is almost entirely just nice scenes of life in Ancient Egypt that bare no relation to the game, but we did get, conservatively, about five seconds of the game in action, which is enough to get me very excited.

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Fuzzy freelance coppers-for-hire Sam & Max are back from their ten-year hiatus. They’re getting a new game, see – and for this case, you’ll need a big plastic headset strapped to your noggin. Announced during tonight’s Gamescom festivities, Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual will let you join the duo as a nameless third wheel sometime next year.

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Steve Purcell's wise-cracking anthropomorphic crime-fighting duo Sam & Max will be making their long-awaited return to the world of video games in Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual, a new VR adventure from developer HappyGiant.

There's not, admittedly, a whole lot more to report just yet, but it's been over a decade since the release of the dog and homicidal bunny's last video game outing - Telltale Games' Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - so even this teeniest morsel of news is likely to bring a tear to the eyes of fans patiently waiting the return of Purcell's Freelance Police.

The brief teaser trailer accompanying today's news tells us, "In a world gone strange, one elite force stands against the darkness", before reintroducing Sam & Max by way of a gunfight against what I'm only tentatively going to call an octo-hydra.

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Japan is getting a sweet Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend limited edition that comes with a 600-page story compilation book.

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From hedgehogs to superheroes, and everything in between, Roger Craig Smith’s voice has helped tell hundreds of video game stories.

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What’s more stressful than constructing a shonky haphazard bridge? Why, constructing a shonky haphazard bridge while zombies attack, of course! Developers ClockStone and publishers Headup Games revealed Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead today at Gamescom Opening Night Live, with a live-action teaser trailer and so little else that the Steam store page just has screenshots from the production of that teaser trailer. Cliff notes are: it has bridge construction, it has zombies, and those zombies are the same ones that have been troubling Andrew Lincoln and his son Coral for all these years.

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Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond

got a new story trailer at tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live and despite the gritty WW2 subject matter, it looks pretty fun. Coming from Respawn Entertainment, the makers of Apex Legends, Above And Beyond will revive EA’s shooter series in VR. It’ll place players into the boots of an Office of Strategic Services agent who’s dropped behind German lines to do some cool sneaky things. Check out the trailer below, which has some crafty secret passageways, and whomping a Gestapo officer on the head with a bust.

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Elden Ring fans have had enough of the radio silence, it seems. From Software hasn't released any more info about its upcoming open-world action RPG since announcing it at last year's E3. The internet's sadness finally reached a boiling point today after no news was revealed during Gamescom 2020 Opening Night Live.

Fans were eager to see more of the game at one of the many summer game showcases, but no new info was shown at any of the streams put on by major publishers and gaming conventions. The game was originally announced for current-gen consoles, but it may not launch before the Sony and Microsoft's new consoles come out later this year.

It's the early years of the 22nd century, and Hell has frozen over — at least, that is, if Colorado happens to be your idea of Hell. It certainly looks like it in Wasteland 3: Colorado Springs was spared the nuclear holocaust at the heart of Wasteland lore, but an unrelenting nuclear winter holds the entire Centennial State in its grip. Radiation oozes through mountain valleys. Killer clowns ravage the eastern plains. A cult that worships Ronald Reagan controls Colorado's oil supply. It's a distinctively bold setting for this lengthy and often challenging isometric RPG, and it improves on Wasteland 2 in almost every way.

For all the fancy shooting and whimsical adventures offered up during tonight’s Opening Night Live showcase, Teardown‘s appearance reminds us that sometimes it’s just fun to take a hammer to a brick wall. Launching later this year, the smash ‘n’ grab heist game from Tuxedo Labs has returned with a new trailer. It might only be a minute and a half long, but blimey, I could watch these buildings crumble for hours.

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Bungie today revealed more of the new elemental powers we will get to wield in Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Stasis (it’s ice). Thanks to us getting chummy with the forces of Darkness, every class will get a new Stasis subclass in the expansion, with brand new abilities. Yup, some chill. Sure, some freeze. And oh heck yes, some shatter.

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Two professional Counter-Strike teams have postponed their upcoming match to support protests against systemic racism. Team Liquid and Chaos FC both announced that they would not be competing in August 27's ESL One Cologne 2020 match.

"We are mad, we are exhausted," Chaos FC said in a tweet. "We know that gaming is part of the problem. We are not competing[...]in order to do our part to move the light where it belongs."

Chaos FC was the first to decide not to play; Team Liquid followed shortly after. "We support their decision and stand with Chaos," Team Liquid tweeted.

Following the reveal of a new trailer at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, Bandai Namco released a new press kit with new screenshots of Scarlet Nexus.

We get to meet four new characters and OSF members that will accompany the protagonist Yuito Sumeragi. Their names are Hanabi Ichijo, Nagi Karman, Fubuki Spring, and Kasane Randall.

Kasane is a cool girl who looks like someone who saved Yuito’s life when he was a kid. She’s quite mysterious and little is known about her past.

Hanabi is the inevitable childhood friend who is always cheerful and energetic. She obviously went to the same school as Yuito but they were separated when moving to the training academy. They have now been reunited in the OSF after a long time.

Nagi is the usual mood maker, healthy, and bright boy. He has gone to the training academy with Yuito and volunteered to join the military. Despite knowing the fame of Yuito’s family, he treats him casually without any special reverence. He’s basically his best friend.

Fubuki is one of the squad leaders the OSF. He has many fans among the ladies due to his good looks and personality. He is nicknamed “Septentrion” and he is among the best warriors who fight against the Others.

Geoff Keighley and his Gamescom jamboree unveiled dozens of new PC games this evening as part of his Gamescom Opening Night Live stream, and we’ve gathered up every last trailer into one handy post. Whether you missed the stream or just want a handy recap of what went down, here’s everything you need to know from Gamescom’s Opening Night Live bonanza.

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We didn't get a Gamescom this year, but we did get a Gamescom Opening Night Live - another chance to stare again into the crystal ball of gaming's future, presented as ever by host Geoff Keighley.

Opening Night Live began with Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, and a chat about the various things we found out about yesterday - branching narrative within missions, character creation, that kind of thing. We also saw a cut-scene from early in the game where the team are briefed on the Perseus threat and meet president Reagan.

Next was a debut trailer for a game named Unknown9: Awakening, from Reflector Studios, starring a young Indian girl with supernatural powers. It looked promising, if mysterious.

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Factor 5 and Strictly Limited Games are teaming up to bring back Turrican, a classic game that was originally released in 1990.

For the game’s 30th anniversary, various anthologies of the game will be released, from Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 physical copies to even legacy SNES cartridges.

If you’re unfamiliar with Turrican, it’s a Metroid-like, non-linear run and gun exploration game. It was originally released on the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts and eventually made its way to other top consoles at the time such as the Genesis and TurboGrafx-16.

The Gamescom trailer (where the 30th anniversary revival was announced) boasts the legendary graphics and music that Turrican had, including statements from composter Chris Huelsbeck proclaiming it is his among his “proudest works.”

There are two collector’s editions of the 30th anniversary Turrican anthology.

The first collector’s edition includes:

● Volume 1 & 2 for Nintendo Switch or PlayStation 4
● Large Poster
● Keychain
● Artbook
● Soundtrack Selection CD
● Sticker Sheet
● Making of Documentary Blu-ray

The “ultra” collector’s edition includes:
● Amiga style Big-Box
● Acrylic diorama
● 4-CD Soundtrack Collection
● 20cm Turrican figurine
● Instructional Booklet with game facts and insight

There are also items from each collection and anthology sold separately on the Strictly Limited Games website, including the legacy SNES cartridge releases, which you can view right here.

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During Gamescom 2020, Sony provided an extended look at Insomniac’s upcoming action/platformer Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

This demo starts in an alien city when Ratchet and Clank pop out of a dimensional rift. The duo seems to be hunting down Dr. Nefarious when they get attacked by a group of hostile aliens. Insomniac's use of Sony’s PS5 tech is impressive, as alien NPCs ran around in the background while Ratchet fends off a series of hostile foes and the camera seamlessly transitions between action and cutscenes. One big new mechanic is Ratchet’s Rift tether, which a

llows Ratchet to grab orange dimensional rifts and pull them open – effectively teleporting Ratchet across the level. In addition to these rifts, Ratchet and Clank will also fall through purple rifts, which transport them to other worlds, and all of this happens nearly instantaneously, which is incredibly impressive.

Insomniac Games’ anticipated Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was one of the big standouts during Sony’s PS5 showcase earlier this summer, and now we’ve got an even longer look at its gameplay as part of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live.

The eight-minute presentation is essentially a longer, uncut version of what we saw during Sony’s event, but it offers a better feel for how Rift Apart actually handles in a moment-to-moment gameplay sense.

There’s certainly a lot going on, with the game’s particle effects and physics animations making everything look incredibly hectic in the best possible way.

You’ll also get a good look at how the rift tether mechanic works, too, which allows the dynamic duo to jump between different worlds seamlessly.

Just as was the case the first time we saw Rift Apart, there’s a very brief tease of a female Lombax right at the very end. Insomniac has already confirmed she’ll be a playable character.

But the big announcement for today was left until the very end of the presentation after the demo concluded, when Insomniac confirmed that Rift Apart is set to launch during the PS5’s launch window.

No specific date was mentioned, and who knows how long Insomniac considers a console’s launch window to actually be, but hey, it’s something!

On this week's exciting new episode of The Game Informer Show, we're joined by the Spawn On Me podcast's host and creator Kahlief Adams to discuss what we've been playing including Microsoft Flight Simulator, Battletoads, and more! Later in the segment, we discuss the absolutely bonkers reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War that took place in Activision's Warzone battle royale. 

Our main talker for the week, though, comes from the report that Nintendo is ramping up production on a more powerful model of the Switch for 2021. We unpack what we want from the house that Mario built from both a console and game perspective and examine what the next few years could look like for the Switch.

As always, we end the show with another gripping round of community emails and character rankings. So please join Kahlief Adams, Joe Juba, Jeff Cork, and me for one of the most fun episodes we've put out this year.

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There's a new Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Gameplay trailer! The extended demonstration is here for the PS5 launch window game.

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