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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>VG247 Latest Articles Feed</title><link>/feed</link><description>This is a feed of the latest articles from VG247.</description><atom:link href="/feed" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 19:28:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Elden Ring's fate sealed as Shadow of the Erdtree confirmed as sole DLC by FromSoftware boss</title><link>/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-confirmed-as-sole-dlc</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 19:28:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-confirmed-as-sole-dlc</guid><category>PS5</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Elden Ring</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>FromSoftware</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Elden Ring</strong> fans need to prepare to bid farewell to the Lands Between when <strong>Shadow of the Erdtree</strong> is released.</p><p>Why? Because according to FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki, Shadow of the Erdtree will be the game's only DLC, marking a departure from the studio's usual approach, with games like Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 boasting multiple expansions.</p><p>While Elden Ring's story might reach its endpoint with Shadow of the Erdtree on June 21, Miyazaki has left the door open for future adventures, maybe even more games, as reported by <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/elden-ring-will-only-get-one-dlc-in-shadow-of-the-erdtree-but-fromsoftware-isnt-ruling-out-a-full-sequel-for-the-rpg/">GamesRadar</a>, via Chinese publication <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/694720699">Zhihu</a>.</p> <p><a href="/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-confirmed-as-sole-dlc">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>GeForce Now expands Steam Deck support alongside 24 new games joining the May library including Hellblade, MotoGP24, and more</title><link>/geforce-now-expands-steam-deck-support-adds-24-new-games</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 18:16:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>/geforce-now-expands-steam-deck-support-adds-24-new-games</guid><category>Steam Deck</category><category>PC</category><category>Nvidia</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/geforce-now-library-update.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/geforce-now-library-update.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Nvidia has announced it’s making it easier to stream <strong>GeForce Now</strong> across devices, with a new beta installation method for Steam Deck.</p><p>The new installation script will automatically install Google Chrome to the device and add all necessary settings to allow you to get straight into it.</p><p>Released last week, <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/release-highlights/">the GeForce Now update</a> helps you navigate the service through the browser with a gamepad, including on the Steam Deck, for a seamless experience finding and playing games on the handheld without worrying about system specs, including non-Steam games and titles with supported Nvidia DLSS and ray-tracing.</p> <p><a href="/geforce-now-expands-steam-deck-support-adds-24-new-games">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Claim Cat Quest 2 and Orcs Must Die 3 free on the Epic Games Store now through May 9</title><link>/epic-games-store-cat-quest-2-orcs-must-die-3-free-through-may-9</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>/epic-games-store-cat-quest-2-orcs-must-die-3-free-through-may-9</guid><category>Android</category><category>Puzzle</category><category>Indie</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Free games</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Cat Quest 2</category><category>Robot Entertainment</category><category>Strategy</category><category>iOS</category><category>Epic Games Store</category><category>Orcs Must Die! 3</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cat-quest-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cat-quest-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Cat Quest 2</strong> and <strong>Orcs Must Die 3</strong> are the latest freebies on the <strong>Epic Games Store</strong>.</p><p>A sequel to The Gentlebros’ rather fun Cat Quest, <strong>Cat Quest 2</strong> is a 2D open-world action RPG set in a fantasy realm of cats and dogs.</p><p>The game expands on the original with more spells, expanded weapon options, a new character switch mechanic, and local co-op.</p> <p><a href="/epic-games-store-cat-quest-2-orcs-must-die-3-free-through-may-9">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Skate reveals character customization, cosmetics and currencies including Vans Old Skools and more</title><link>/skate-character-customization-cosmetics-vans</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">James Billcliffe</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 17:15:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>/skate-character-customization-cosmetics-vans</guid><category>Simulation</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>PS5</category><category>PS3</category><category>Electronic Arts</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Full Circle</category><category>Skate</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Skate 4</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Sports</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/skate-4-vans.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/skate-4-vans.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Episode 5 of The Board Room from Skate developers Full Circle has revealed some of the upcoming game's character customization and cosmetics.</p><p>This reboot, colloquially known as Skate 4, is the first entry in the now long-running series for almost 15 years, and includes many new and returning product partners to help you nail that perfect skater look.</p><p>A personal highlight is the inclusion of the legendary Vans Old Skools, which I will definitely be rocking - unless the vastly superior slip-ons are also included, of course.</p> <p><a href="/skate-character-customization-cosmetics-vans">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Magic The Gathering’s ‘Universes Beyond’ tie-ins are synergistic gaming perfection</title><link>/magic-the-gathering-universes-beyond-gaming-perfection</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alex Donaldson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/magic-the-gathering-universes-beyond-gaming-perfection</guid><category>Card Games</category><category>Wizards of the Coast</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Fallout</category><category>Magic: The Gathering</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/MtG-Fallout-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/MtG-Fallout-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>To me, <strong>Wizards of the Coast</strong> is the company that made the <a href="/pokemon-trading-card-game-classic-is-a-stroke-of-genius">Pokemon Trading Card Game</a>. That probably speaks to my age as well as to my level of exposure to the company: it was in fact only responsible for the first few waves of Western <a href="/video-game-franchises/pokemon">Pokemon</a> releases, before Pokemon spun up its own internal operation. That just so happened to be when the TCG had taken over my school playground. But, the point is, of everything WOTC has done, I typically still associate them with a brand they haven’t worked with for decades.</p><p>Or to put it another way: I’ve never really been a <a href="/games/magic-gathering">Magic: The Gathering</a> person.</p><p>This has never really tracked. It’s <em>weird</em>, in fact. I was into <a href="/games/pokmon-trading-card-game">the Pokemon TCG</a>, and regular readers of VG247 will know I am a disgraceful RPG mechanics nerd of the highest order. Magic is the sort of thing I should be into - but I’ve just never quite <em>gotten around</em> to it. I needed some sort of push to get me into it - and Wizards has really found exactly the right way.</p> <p><a href="/magic-the-gathering-universes-beyond-gaming-perfection">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann's horror movie Shelby Oaks gets extra boost from genre maestro Mike Flanagan</title><link>/youtuber-chris-stuckmann-horror-movie-shelby-oaks-adds-mike-flanagan-support</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 15:50:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>/youtuber-chris-stuckmann-horror-movie-shelby-oaks-adds-mike-flanagan-support</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Chris Stuckmann</category><category>Shelby Oaks</category><category>Mike Flanagan</category><category>Movies</category><category>Horror</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Paranormal-Paranoids.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Paranormal-Paranoids.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>YouTube content creator and movie critic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisStuckmann" target="_blank">Chris Stuckmann</a> has been working on a horror feature titled Shelby Oaks for some time now, following a 2022 Kickstarter campaign that raised $1.39M in under a month. Now, The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass (among other shows and movies) filmmaker Mike Flanagan is backing the project as work on it continues.</p><p>In a shocking turn of events, it was revealed a while back the movie would be based on the viral <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUtMdfebeaoeRmIr6v7pnQpWOHmHceEcl" target="_blank">Paranormal Paranoids series</a> uploaded to YouTube a few years back. The videos followed a group of paranormal investigators and focused on the character of Riley, who ominously disappeared in one of the last videos.</p><p>Though plenty of fan theories have been floating around regarding the authorship of the video series, all signs are now pointing to Stuckmann being directly or indirectly involved. If so, this would be quite the master movie. It will follow Mia (Camille Sullivan) as she searches for her sister Riley (Sarah Durn), the star of the unnerving videos. "As Mia’s obsession grows, she begins to suspect that the imaginary demon from Riley’s childhood might have been real," the synopsis adds. The movie is said to mix the traditional and <a href="/new-blair-witch-movie-announced" target="_blank">mockumentary</a> film styles.</p> <p><a href="/youtuber-chris-stuckmann-horror-movie-shelby-oaks-adds-mike-flanagan-support">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Masters of the Universe movie set at Amazon with Bumblebee director, and it might actually get made now</title><link>/masters-of-the-universe-live-action-movie-set-at-amazon</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>/masters-of-the-universe-live-action-movie-set-at-amazon</guid><category>Masters of the Universe</category><category>Toys & Collectibles</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Mattel</category><category>He-Man</category><category>Amazon MGM Studios</category><category>Travis Knight</category><category>Movies</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Masters-of-the-Universe_Netflix.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Masters-of-the-Universe_Netflix.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>A new <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/masters-of-the-universe-movie-dead-netflix-1235673281/" target="_blank">live-action adaptation of Masters of the Universe</a> has been in the works for what feels like forever, but it's now getting close to finally happening, and Amazon MGM Studios is backing it - with some interesting talent attached.</p><p>After Netflix shut down costly development on the movie last year, Mattel was quick to team up with Amazon to give the project <em>yet another</em> refresh (it's been floating around since 2017). This makes sense, as the toy giant has been trying to get <a href="/mattel-announces-bob-the-builder-animated-movie" target="_blank">as many projects based on its IPs as possible off the ground</a> ever since Barbie defied all our collective expectations last year and <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1077904129/" target="_blank">broke box office records</a>.</p><p>Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/02/masters-of-the-universe-travis-knight-1235824500/" target="_blank">shared the exclusive news</a> that Kubo and the Two Strings and Bumblebee director Travis Knight was circling the project earlier this year. Now, <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/masters-of-the-universe-movie-amazon-mgm-travis-knight-release-date-1235989182/" target="_blank">Variety is reporting</a> that Mattel Films and Amazon have dated the movie for a theatrical release on June 5, 2026, meaning they're quite serious about the current iteration of the project, which is written by Knight's partner Chris Butler (ParaNorman, Kubo and the Two Strings).</p> <p><a href="/masters-of-the-universe-live-action-movie-set-at-amazon">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The Fall Guy is an uncomplicated, old-fashioned movie magic centred on some of today's hottest stars</title><link>/the-fall-guy-review-ryan-gosling-emily-blunt</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/the-fall-guy-review-ryan-gosling-emily-blunt</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Aaron Taylor-Johnson</category><category>Universal Pictures</category><category>Emily Blunt</category><category>Ryan Gosling</category><category>Movies</category><category>The Fall Guy</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Fall-Guy_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Fall-Guy_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>I'm happy to confirm that The Fall Guy, one of the coolest-looking big-budget movies of 2024, is indeed a fantastic time at the cinema.</strong> Moreover, it's also an enchanting romantic comedy with plenty to say about the entire film industry, not just the craft developed by stunt performers.</p><p>Following <a href="/oppenheimer-cillian-murphy-joins-28-years-later" target="_blank">Oppenheimer</a>'s surprise domination of a good portion of 2023's global box office, many cinephiles and industry pundits have been expecting Universal Pictures, and perhaps other major studios, to double down on classic star-studded projects that look appealing enough without resorting to relying on IP power. While David Leitch's The Fall Guy was in development well before the <a href="/28-years-later-recruits-aaron-taylor-johnson-jodie-comer-ralph-fiennes" target="_blank">Cillian Murphy</a>-led biopic from Christopher Nolan rocked the world, it still feels like a firm step in the right direction.</p><p>The pre-summer 2024 blockbuster season has been quite hot already, with Legendary's <a href="/dune-part-two-denis-villeneuve-talks-cut-roles" target="_blank">Dune: Part Two</a> and <a href="/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review" target="_blank">Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</a> performing strongly at the box office, while earning strong thumbs-ups from audiences. By and large, April has been great for those looking to watch smaller and more reasonably budgeted movies. Right as May starts, however, we're looking at The Fall Guy, <a href="/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-marketing-takes-over-real-life" target="_blank">Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVswuip0-co" target="_blank">Furiosa</a> being the talk of town. But only the first one isn't based on an already renowned property.</p> <p><a href="/the-fall-guy-review-ryan-gosling-emily-blunt">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The next Mad Max movie may be another prequel to Fury Road, actually</title><link>/next-mad-max-movie-might-be-another-fury-road-prequel</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 14:16:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>/next-mad-max-movie-might-be-another-fury-road-prequel</guid><category>Furiosa</category><category>George Miller</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Warner Bros.</category><category>Tom Hardy</category><category>Mad Max: Fury Road</category><category>Mad Max</category><category>Movies</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/mad-max-fury-road_Hardy.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/mad-max-fury-road_Hardy.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>As we eagerly await <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVswuip0-co" target="_blank">Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga</a>, we're also wondering what's going on with the <em>actual</em> follow-up to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Well, it now sounds like it could be another prequel!</p><p>Look, I'll forever be on George Miller's team, but it's a bit odd the saga is now kind of stuck circling around Fury Road's events. In fact, even the highly underrated Mad Max video game released later that year has been <a href="/furiosa-surprise-prequel-to-best-7-10-game" target="_blank">confirmed to be another canon prequel</a>.</p><p>This tidbit comes from <a href="https://ew.com/furiosa-anya-taylor-joy-chris-hemsworth-cover-story-8641567" target="_blank">Entertainment Weekly's in-depth look at Furiosa</a> and some of the stories surrounding the making of both it and Fury Road. </p> <p><a href="/next-mad-max-movie-might-be-another-fury-road-prequel">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Freeze, Helldivers 2's next Warbond is dropping soon, and the new guns and gear in it look pretty cool</title><link>/helldivers-2-warbond-polar-patriots-announced</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-warbond-polar-patriots-announced</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-warbond-polar-patriots-announced-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-warbond-polar-patriots-announced-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Guess what? <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a>'s next Warbond has just been revealed, and you'll probably be a big fan of it if you like getting into snowball fights or have ever fantasised about being in a battle on Star Wars' Hoth. Seriously, it's even called Polar Patriots.</p><p>Yup, following <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-hotfix-just-a-little-fella-should-get-rid-of-new-issues-and-crashes">two patches this week</a>, you're getting more Helldivers 2 things, because multiplayer video games are physically incapable of standing still. How does this Warbond follow-up <a href="/new-helldivers-2-warbond-arrives-next-week-includes-explosive-crossbow">last month's Democratic Detonation drop</a>, you ask? Well, by making you look like you could survive living in a fridge.
</p><p>As outlined in the <a href="https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/02/new-helldivers-2-warbond-brings-trap-laying-weaponry-arctic-themed-armor-and-more-may-9/">PlayStation blog</a> about it, as well as the trailer you can watch below, this new Warbond's called Polar Patriots, and it's set to drop on May 9.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-warbond-polar-patriots-announced">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Warframe reckons it's time for you to get Protea Prime - starting right now</title><link>/warframe-reckons-its-time-for-you-to-get-protea-prime-starting-right-now</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 13:41:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>/warframe-reckons-its-time-for-you-to-get-protea-prime-starting-right-now</guid><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Warframe</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Digital Extremes</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/protea-prime.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/protea-prime.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's that time yet again - <a href="/games/warframe">Warframe</a> is getting another Prime Access release that introduces a pumped-up version of one of its many distinct and powerful frames. This time it's Protea Prime - everyone's favourite time-bending warframe - getting this gameplay and visual overhaul. Great news for fans of gadget utility, turning back the clocks, and having two dads.
</p><p>This release was celebrated with a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ONmP3TGZ4">brand-new video showcase</a>, in which the new Protea drip is displayed for our viewing pleasure all while her two dads bicker about how cool she is. Very supportive. Protea Prime Access comes with 90-day boosters and some exclusive accessories and cosmetics.
</p><p>But hey, if you'd benefit from turning back time to a point where you have more disposable income (me too) you can also farm her out the good ol' fashioned way. By staying up to 2AM and farming out Axi relics, dumping your void traces, and crossing your fingers. </p> <p><a href="/warframe-reckons-its-time-for-you-to-get-protea-prime-starting-right-now">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Marvel vs Capcom Infinite is finally easy on the eyes thanks to a lone modder</title><link>/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-finally-easy-on-the-eyes-thanks-to-lone-modder</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:46:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-finally-easy-on-the-eyes-thanks-to-lone-modder</guid><category>Capcom</category><category>Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-new-look.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-new-look.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>One modder is taking on the gargantuan task of giving Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite a serious makeover. The 2017 Capcom fighter has long been dunked on for poor visuals, but with a bit of elbow grease, cell-shading, and some modeling work, we may be on the verge of a real transformation for MvC's ugly duckling.
</p><p>The hero in question taking up the charge of this particular project is <a href="https://twitter.com/WistfulHopes">Ryn</a>, a game dev and artist who has been posting her work on this Marvel vs Capcom project over the past few days. The results - <a href="https://twitter.com/WistfulHopes/status/1785704891782172906">shared via Twitter</a> - are reminiscent of characters ripped straight from comic books, giving more of a stylistic aesthetic to what was previously a somewaht bland presentation.
</p><p>This includes cell shading to backgrounds, <a href="https://twitter.com/WistfulHopes/status/1785757691417338224">which benefit from a similar effect as a result</a>. These posts have been met with high praise as you can imagine, bringing in interest from fighting game and marvel fans alike.
</p> <p><a href="/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-finally-easy-on-the-eyes-thanks-to-lone-modder">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Watch Blizzard make a case for Diablo 4 Season 4 in today's post-PTR developer stream</title><link>/diablo-4-season-4-reveal-ptr-developer-stream-watch-times</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-4-season-4-reveal-ptr-developer-stream-watch-times</guid><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Diablo</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>PS4</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/barbarian-close-up.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/barbarian-close-up.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a> returns to the spotlight once gain today, thanks to a new developer livestream from Blizzard. This one is set to focus on all the lessons learned from the game's recent Public Test Realm (PTR), and basically discuss the larger points of feedback.</p><p>This also happens to be the pre-Season 4 stream, so we’re bound to learn more about the upcoming season.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-4-season-4-reveal-ptr-developer-stream-watch-times">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>A real-life version of Up's floating house sounds like a terrible idea, but Airbnb is offering exactly that</title><link>/up-floating-house-airbnb-unveiled</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:02:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>/up-floating-house-airbnb-unveiled</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Marvel</category><category>Airbnb</category><category>Up</category><category>Animation</category><category>Pixar</category><category>TV</category><category>X-Men 97</category><category>Movies</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Up-real-life-house.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Up-real-life-house.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Are you afraid of heights? No? Maybe you should look into spending a night inside Up's floating house <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1126185893236246260?guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=db3ee1b9-f2c4-44e5-b515-48ef4434cf69" target="_blank">courtesy of Airbnb</a>, just so you can tell your grandchildren (if you survive).</p><p>Via <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/entertainment/purple-rain-house-airbnb-icons-experiences/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>, the "vacation destination rental company" announced on on May first a series of limited-time, special locations named 'Icons' that pay homage to "the greatest names in music, film, television, art, sports, and more." It remains to be seen whether this will be a recurring thing from the company, but so far, the initial selection of locations is quite large, with Up's floating house being the most striking by far.</p><p>The official description of the Up house reads as follows: "Sleep inside one of Disney and Pixar’s most iconic homes – and yes, it floats. You’ll explore Carl’s world in this detailed re-creation of his home, complete with more than 8,000 balloons, and located in the scenic red rocks of Abiquiu, New Mexico." According to Airbnb, the house will actually float (with the help of a crane), but exactly how long you'll be left hanging isn't mentioned. Imagine trying to sleep inside a floating house for an entire night. In any case, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.</p> <p><a href="/up-floating-house-airbnb-unveiled">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Witcher 3 dev's new mod lets you experience an alternative version of Blood and Wine's most memorable quest</title><link>/witcher-3-mod-developer-blood-and-wine-quest-alt-version</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 11:59:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>/witcher-3-mod-developer-blood-and-wine-quest-alt-version</guid><category>CD Projekt RED</category><category>Mods</category><category>PS5</category><category>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt</category><category>The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>CD Projekt</category><category>PS4</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Warner Bros. Games</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/witcher-3-mod-developer-blood-and-wine-quest-alt-version-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/witcher-3-mod-developer-blood-and-wine-quest-alt-version-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You there. You like <a href="/games/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt">The Witcher 3</a> right? Well, it got some fresh modding tools last month, and, thanks to one CD Projekt developer's desire to try them out, you can now experience a bit of an alternative version of one of the most iconic quests from the excellent Blood and Wine DLC.</p><p>Even if you haven't take a trip to Toussaint in a while, odds are you'll definitely remember 'Beyond Hill and Dale': while you do have to pick a specific ending to the expansion's great main story in order to play through it, it's pretty hard to forget a mission that transports you into a fairytale-inspired magical realm. Though, said realm wasn't always supposed to be full of sunshine and rainbows, as a new mod shows.</p><p>The mod in question is '<a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/9083">Golden Beyond Hill and Dale</a>', and it's by CD Projekt Red narrative director Philipp Weber. Yep. So, why did Weber make it?</p> <p><a href="/witcher-3-mod-developer-blood-and-wine-quest-alt-version">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh are set to fight in a movie unrelated to the ones you probably know</title><link>/mickey-mouse-and-winnie-the-pooh-crossover-horror-movie-announced</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 11:01:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/mickey-mouse-and-winnie-the-pooh-crossover-horror-movie-announced</guid><category>Mickey Mouse</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Winnie the Pooh</category><category>Movies</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/MvW_cropped.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/MvW_cropped.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Sorry, but it looks like mining the public domain for quick bucks is the new trend in low-budget horror. Following the success of <a href="/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-2-first-trailer" target="_blank">Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey</a> (2023) and the launch of its '<a href="https://gizmodo.com/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-cinematic-universe-coming-1851340990" target="_blank">Twisted Childhood Universe</a>' à la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, more filmmakers are grabbing everyone's cute childhood memories and turning them into nightmares. Unsurprisingly, Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh will be duking it out sooner rather than later.</p><p>Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/mickey-vs-winnie-glen-douglas-packard-direct-horror-slasher-mickey-mouse-winnie-the-pooh-1235901354/" target="_blank">dropped the exclusive</a> on May 1, highlighting the upcoming crossover horror movie won't have any ties to pre-existing flicks such as the Blood and Honey features or <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67861538" target="_blank">Mickey's Mouse Trap</a>, which was promptly announced just as the classic Steamboat Willie cartoon hit the public domain in January.</p><p>So far, the exploitation of these childhood characters in mature yet puerile fashion - with tons of blood and homages to low-budget horror fare - has proven to be a profitable endeavor, with the first Blood and Honey movie making roughly $5 million worldwide at the box office on a measly $50,000 production budget. While the quality was certainly up for debate, it's easy to see why some aspiring filmmakers may take this route to put their name out there and gradually go bigger. It remains to be seen, however, whether the joke holds up in the long run and bigger distributors show an interest in such projects.</p> <p><a href="/mickey-mouse-and-winnie-the-pooh-crossover-horror-movie-announced">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Helldivers 2's latest hotfix is just a little fella, but it should get rid of some new-ish issues and crashes</title><link>/helldivers-2-latest-hotfix-just-a-little-fella-should-get-rid-of-new-issues-and-crashes</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 10:44:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-latest-hotfix-just-a-little-fella-should-get-rid-of-new-issues-and-crashes</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hello there. <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a>'s last big patch only dropped on Monday - bringing with it a huge host of changes - and there's already another one out. Thankfully, this hotfix is just a little fella designed to sort out some of the performance issues and crashes that've cropped up since its hefty predecessor was deployed.</p><p>If you're out of the loop, <a href="/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked">Monday's patch featured a pretty extensive array of balancing changes to 24 weapons and stratagems</a>, as well as tweaks to some enemies. Though, it has also caused some unintended consequences, such as an uptick in self-killings and the gremlins this hotfix aims to, er, fix.
</p><p>If you read the notes for <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/4196868529804260414?l=english">Patch 1.000.301</a>, you won't be at it long. There are four main things it mentions rectifying, with these all being crashes and performance issues that've cropped up since Patch 01.000.300 dropped.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-latest-hotfix-just-a-little-fella-should-get-rid-of-new-issues-and-crashes">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Rise of the Ronin may have come and gone, but Koei Tecmo says it's selling faster than Nioh and Nioh 2</title><link>/rise-of-the-ronin-launch-sales-vs-nioh-koei-tecmo</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 10:09:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>/rise-of-the-ronin-launch-sales-vs-nioh-koei-tecmo</guid><category>Nioh</category><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Rise of the Ronin</category><category>Team Ninja</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Koei Tecmo</category><category>RPG</category><category>Historical</category><category>Sony Interactive Entertainment</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Open World</category><category>Third person</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/rise-of-the-ronin-launch-screen-5.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/rise-of-the-ronin-launch-screen-5.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You'd be forgiven for not remembering that the storied Team Ninja put out its most ambitious game just a few weeks ago. <a href="/games/rise-of-the-ronin">Rise of the Ronin</a>, the studio’s open-world epic, landed with a bit of a thud.</p><p>The action RPG was generally favourably reviewed by critics, and received well enough by players, but it clearly didn’t satisfy longtime followers of the studio, or really anyone who thought it would be an evolution of the Nioh games.</p><p>As it turns out, Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja may have made the right decisions with that one.</p> <p><a href="/rise-of-the-ronin-launch-sales-vs-nioh-koei-tecmo">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Rollerdrome and Kerbal Space Program 2 studios to be shut down by Take-Two as part of mass layoffs</title><link>/take-two-to-shut-down-rollerdrome-kerbal-space-program-2-studios</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 09:16:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>/take-two-to-shut-down-rollerdrome-kerbal-space-program-2-studios</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>Indie</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Grand Theft Auto 6</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Modern Day</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Shooter</category><category>OlliOlli World</category><category>Sports</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Arcade</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS5</category><category>Rockstar Games</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Private Division</category><category>Full product</category><category>PC</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Open World</category><category>Roll7</category><category>Rollerdrome</category><category>Third person</category><category>Kerbal Space Program 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/take-two-to-shut-down-rollerdrome-kerbal-space-program-2-studios-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/take-two-to-shut-down-rollerdrome-kerbal-space-program-2-studios-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Take-Two Interactive, the company behind <a href="/games/grand-theft-auto-vi">GTA</a> developer Rockstar Games - is reportedly set to shut down both <a href="/games/kerbal-space-program-2">Kerbal Space Program 2</a> developer Intercept Games and Roll7 - the studio behind <a href="/games/rollerdrome">Rollerdrome</a> and <a href="/games/olliolli-world">OlliOlli World</a>.</p><p>According to a report from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/take-two-interactive-shuts-down-two-game-studios">Bloomberg</a>, these shutterings are part of mass layoffs at the company, with plans for Take-Two to cut just over 500 jobs and cancel some in-development projects by the end of 2024 <a href="/gta-publisher-take-two-announces-plans-layoff-staff-cancel-projects">having been revealed via an SEC filing last month</a>. This news also comes after Take-Two <a href="/embracer-group-has-divested-itself-of-gearbox-with-take-two-acquiring-the-company-for-460-million">recently acquired Borderlands developer Gearbox Software for $460 million</a>.</p><p>Both Intercept and Roll7 - based in Seattle and London respectively - were part of Private Division, Take-Two's indie publishing label, which has produced some pretty cool stuff since its creation, as indie publishing labels often do. According to a note to staff at Roll7, those affected there will be offerend severance agreements.
</p> <p><a href="/take-two-to-shut-down-rollerdrome-kerbal-space-program-2-studios">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Starfield is finally getting a map overhaul and other key changes ahead of "massive" Shattered Space expansion"</title><link>/starfield-getting-a-map-overhaul-other-key-changes-ahead-of-massive-shattered-space-expansion</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>/starfield-getting-a-map-overhaul-other-key-changes-ahead-of-massive-shattered-space-expansion</guid><category>Starfield</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>PC</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>RPG</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-may-update-map.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-may-update-map.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/starfield">Starfield</a> is getting a vast new selection of fixes, changes and much-requested additions in its upcoming May update. These include interior ship decorations, new surface maps that should make nevigation less frustrating, new difficulty and gameplay options, and more. This update is live right now via Steam beta, but goes live for the public on May 15.
</p><p>The info comes via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObHRMHtTMY">a dedicated video from Bethesda</a>, as well as <a href="https://bethesda.net/en/game/starfield/article/174M0cdUyxhn9mI0AvkcN9/starfield-update-1-11-33-may-1-2024">a blog post</a> which dives into each individual change and fix coming with the May update. We're also left with a tease for the future courtesy of that video, in which we're told that the Starfield team is working on a land vehicle, more quests, and the "massive" Shattered Space expansion. In addition, the beta creation toolkit is in the hands of verified creators for Starfield, so expect some wacky new community creations in the near future.
</p><p>To dig in to some of those big new additions coming to the May update, let's start with the surface map overhaul. Rather than the vague map we got at launch, Starfield's planets will have more comprehensive overviews bursting with more detail and utility. When this udpate goes live, you'll be able to see structures and terrain. In cities, markers for all the shops and places of interest will be there too, hopefully making exploration a bit more intuitive.
</p> <p><a href="/starfield-getting-a-map-overhaul-other-key-changes-ahead-of-massive-shattered-space-expansion">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>“I would do it all over again right now” Creating the cool Fallout fan film that dropped just before Amazon’s TV show</title><link>/fallout-deadweight-fan-film-making-of-interview</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-deadweight-fan-film-making-of-interview</guid><category>Fallout</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS4</category><category>First person</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-deadweight-feature-header-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-deadweight-feature-header-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>“I remember the first three days, everything was so perfect,” Fallout: Deadweight writer and director Nigel Kim tells me. “Everything we got was so perfect that I was having the most fun of my entire life just being there on that set.”</p><p>“The last day we kind of hit some production snags, and in the very last 30 minutes of the project,” he continues, “we were rushing, we were trying to get the shot with the stimpak, and it breaks.”</p><p>“It drops and shatters into a million pieces in front of me, and, this project, I've been trying to make this happen for like three years now. So, it was just years worth of time and attention and money. Then when this prop broke, it literally shattered my brain for like a split second, where I think I dropped to the ground and my mind was, like, blank for a second. Then Caine - my executive producer - and Eric literally pull me up, throw me in front of a monitor and say, ‘Glue it back together, roll it!’. They kind of slapped me out of my little funk there for a second.”</p> <p><a href="/fallout-deadweight-fan-film-making-of-interview">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Sow the seeds of fun with Steam's Farming Fest - we've picked the perfect games for every kind of virtual farmer</title><link>/steam-farming-fest-heres-our-picks</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:28:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>/steam-farming-fest-heres-our-picks</guid><category>Simulation</category><category>farming</category><category>Steam</category><category>PC</category><category>Farming</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/steam-farming-fest.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/steam-farming-fest.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Steam's Farm Fest</strong> is in full swing, and whether you're a seasoned farmer or a curious newcomer, there's a perfect plot waiting for you.</p><p>Whether the farm is realistic, fairy-filled, on the back of a dinosaur on a distant planet, or something in between, there’s something for everyone on sale through May 6.</p><p>We've picked out a basketful of our favorite farming games on sale, so grab your virtual hoe, rake, and watering can and get to planting.</p> <p><a href="/steam-farming-fest-heres-our-picks">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>I'm not sure I believe those Kingdom Hearts movie rumours, but if one does happen, I'm begging, keep it simple</title><link>/kingdom-hearts-movie-keep-it-simple</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:16:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/kingdom-hearts-movie-keep-it-simple</guid><category>Sony Computer Entertainment</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Disney Interactive Studios</category><category>Kingdom Hearts</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Sony Computer Entertainment Europe</category><category>PS2</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/kingdom-hearts-movie.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/kingdom-hearts-movie.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
As they do, every once in a while, there are some rumours floating around at the moment about a <strong>Kingdom Hearts</strong> movie. Both <a href="https://thedisinsider.com/2024/04/24/the-disinsider-mailbag/">The DisInsider</a>, who generally typically shares details about behind-the-scenes go-ons at Disney, and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/103110074?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_source=android">Daniel Richtman</a>, a supposed industry insider, have claimed a film adaptation of Kingdom Hearts is potentially in the works, though nothing has been greenlit just yet. I've not heard of The DisInsider before this, though I had heard of Richtman, and it seems like in both cases their records are spotty at best, so I'm not placing any bets just yet.
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Still, it could happen, as video game movie adaptations seem to be all the rage these days, and with a world like Kingdom Hearts (i.e., one that literally features a crossover of several beloved Disney IPs), there's absolutely potential money to be made somewhere along the line. Whether anything does end up happening, we obviously won't know until it does, but in the event that Disney does push forward one, I have a request- nay, a demand: don't overcomplicate things.
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Right off the bat I want to be clear on something. I am, in fact, one of those freaky Kingdom Heart fans who knows a bit too much about it, and could actually explain the lore to you if pressed. I live for it, even, though the main draw is the heart (pardon the pun) the series exudes in ways most people don't appreciate. Yet even I'm not foolish enough to suggest that the series hasn't gotten a bit… difficult, to put it lightly, for new players to get into.
</p> <p><a href="/kingdom-hearts-movie-keep-it-simple">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Funko Fusion just got a new trailer, and your kids will either love it or hate it, because no one understands children</title><link>/funko-fusion-reveal-trailer-kids-love-hate</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:08:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>/funko-fusion-reveal-trailer-kids-love-hate</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>Funko Fusion</category><category>Comedy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Point and Click</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/funko-fusion-reveal-trailer-kids-love-hate-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/funko-fusion-reveal-trailer-kids-love-hate-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>There's a video game about Funko Pops coming out in September. Yes. It's called <strong>Funko Fusion</strong>, and it's just gotten a reveal trailer, which features Funko Pops from about 15 thousand different IPs. Your kids might end up totally addicted to it, as they are to <a href="/games/roblox">Roblox</a> and eating crayons. Or, they might hate it. Or, they may very well not even care that it exists.</p><p>Why's this a thing, you ask? Well, without answering 'capitalism' in quite a reductive manner and clocking off for tea and biscuits, my answer has to be that it's the product of a collaboration between 10.10 Games and Funko to create video games. Funko Fusion is one of those, and apparently it's designed to be "a festival of fandom" the likes of which you've never experienced.</p><p>In line with that slgan, the reeveal trailer that's just arrived for Funko Fusion - a name which in and of itself sounds a bit like a drug from a 90s cartoon - features enough popular franchises in Funko Pop form that you'll definitely get flashbacks to times you've visit a shop that happens to sell a few DVDs or comics in addition to a mountain of real life Funko Pops.</p> <p><a href="/funko-fusion-reveal-trailer-kids-love-hate">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Good news, there's a new Batman Arkham game! Just ignore the fact you'll need a Meta Quest 3 to play it</title><link>/batman-arkham-shadow-vr-game-reveal-trailer</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:53:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>/batman-arkham-shadow-vr-game-reveal-trailer</guid><category>Warner Bros.</category><category>Camouflaj</category><category>Batman: Arkham Shadow</category><category>Meta Quest</category><category>Warner Bros Discovery</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/batman-arkham-shadow.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/batman-arkham-shadow.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Those of you wishing for a new <strong>Batman: Arkham</strong> game will soon have your wish granted, though it might not be exactly how you envisioned it.
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Earlier this year, <strong>Rocksteady</strong> released its latest addition to its Batman Arkhamverse with <strong>Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League</strong>. Unfortunately, it did not go down very well with either fans or <a href="/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-no-reviews-anywhere">critics</a>, and months later the game still isn't in a state that many would describe as good. But, all is not lost, as a new Batman: Arkham game was announced! The catch? It's releasing exclusively on the Meta Quest 3. Revealed earlier today with a short teaser trailer, Batman: Arkham Shadow is the latest title to take part in the Arkhamverse Rocksteady established all those years ago, though it won't be the ones developing it.
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Arkham Shadow will instead be developed by Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj (yes, I spelt that right) alongside Oculus Studios, in partnership with Warner Bros. and DC. A <a href="https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/quest/batman-arkham-shadow-reveal/">blog post</a> that accompanied the game's announcement explains that "evil stalks the streets. Gotham City is in danger. And you’re the only one who can save it." That tells us literally nothing about what you'll actually be doing in the game, nor does it even confirm you'll actually be playing as Batman, but I am going to go out on a limb here and assume that you will.
</p> <p><a href="/batman-arkham-shadow-vr-game-reveal-trailer">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Indika review - A bizarre, beautiful, and unforgettable journey of a scorned nun</title><link>/indika-review</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kelsey Raynor</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/indika-review</guid><category>Puzzle</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>PC</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Interactive Drama</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Historical</category><category>11 Bit Studios</category><category>Odd Meter</category><category>Mystery</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Indika</category><category>Horror</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/VG247-Indika-review-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/VG247-Indika-review-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Indika</strong> is a game that definitely isn’t for everyone, as I very quickly learned while stepping into the titular protagonist’s shoes. The story first starts in a Russian Orthodox monastery, where Indika - a nun who is hearing a devilish voice - is clearly scorned by her peers. As the others tire of her, she is expelled from the monastery and ends up on a philosophical journey of self-discovery and self-loathing, questioning everything that she has known up until now.</p><p>Who determines what acts are more sinful than others? And are the punishments for our sins fair? If humans are sinful, why aren’t animals? Is a soul needed to experience love? If so, is God capable of truly loving anyone? These are just a small handful of the increasingly analytical questions that Indika raises on her short, puzzling adventure; an adventure that forces you to conjure up your innermost thoughts on morality and religion, while experiencing what is a stoic criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church and institutional religion.</p><p>Indika, put in the simplest of terms, is a relatively serious game (with some offbeat, comedic moments) that has you traveling from place to place as a troubled nun in an attempt to deliver a letter, but of course, other priorities come to light. There’s platforming, clever environmental puzzles to solve (that aren’t too troubling), and a thought-provoking story which is heavily influenced by directors <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Aster">Ari Aster</a> (Midsommar, Beau is Afraid) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorgos_Lanthimos">Yorgos Lanthimos</a> (The Lobster, Poor Things), as well as writers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol">Nikolai Gogol</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bulgakov">Mikhail Bulgakov</a>.</p> <p><a href="/indika-review">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The new Lego Sonic sets will allow you to get drilled by Dr. Eggman</title><link>/new-lego-sonic-sets-2024-summer</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alex Donaldson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>/new-lego-sonic-sets-2024-summer</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>SEGA</category><category>Sonic The Hedgehog</category><category>LEGO</category><category>The LEGO Group</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/robotnik-drill-you_720.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/robotnik-drill-you_720.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The world of Lego is nowhere near as secretive as video games, and that means it’s pretty normal for the first word about upcoming Lego sets to just squeak out onto the internet with little fanfare thanks to retailers and the like. Such is the case for the next wave of <strong>Lego Sonic the Hedgehog</strong> sets, which are set to arrive in August.</p><p>Lego Sonic currently consists of seven play sets, plus four BrickHeadz figurines and the old <a href="/sonic-hedgehog-getting-official-lego-set">glorious Lego Ideas set</a> - but in August, a three new <a href="/sonic-new-lego-kits-traditional-playsets">traditional playsets</a> will arrive, bringing the blue blur’s <a href="/lego-sonic-sega-nintendont">genuinely impressive</a> Lego footprint up to ten sets.</p><p>News of the sets appeared via a German retailer, which were then quickly corroborated by Lego experts like the folks at <a href="https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-sonic-the-hedgehog-summer-2024-revealed">Brick Fanatics</a>.</p> <p><a href="/new-lego-sonic-sets-2024-summer">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Manor Lords players have found a possible solution to trading post traffic jams - the medieval drive-thru</title><link>/manor-lords-trading-post-traffic-jams-drive-thru</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:42:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>/manor-lords-trading-post-traffic-jams-drive-thru</guid><category>Strategy: Real-Time Strategy</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Slavic Magic</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Manor Lords</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-trading-post-traffic-jams-drive-thru-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-trading-post-traffic-jams-drive-thru-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hello. You know <a href="/games/manor-lords">Manor Lords</a>, that <a href="/manor-lords-dev-reassures-players-struggling-to-buy-at-launch">fun little early access thing</a> that lets you build a nice little medieval village and slowly take over the world by producing more little gamebesons than your tunic-wearing foes? Well, some people have been running into a very, er, non-medieval issue in it. And now there's an equally non-medieval solution doing the rounds.</p><p>You see, one of the very useful little things you can build in your perfect recreation of a little Bavarian hamlet is a trading post, which, as you might expect, allows you to import and export goods to other places. Naturally, this means that the families you've assigned to it are constantly going out on and returning from trips to transport goods back and forth.</p><p>As some folks who've really decided to go all-in on the commodity trading have been highlighting, if you've got enough traffic coming in and out of your trading post, you can end up with traffic jams - or traffic accidents - as villagers and merchants try to guide their carts in and out of the post. </p> <p><a href="/manor-lords-trading-post-traffic-jams-drive-thru">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>From saving Barbie Land to fighting demons, Margot Robbie's next role looks set to be a character from the creator of Deadpool</title><link>/margot-robbie-looks-set-to-play-character-from-deadpool-creator</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:15:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>/margot-robbie-looks-set-to-play-character-from-deadpool-creator</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Warner Bros.</category><category>Rob Liefeld</category><category>Comic Books</category><category>Margot Robbie</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Warner Bros Discovery</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/margot-robbie-avengelyne.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/margot-robbie-avengelyne.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Margot Robbie might be more focused on her work as a producer right now, but it looks like she's finding some time for her next role too.
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As reported by <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/warner-bros-avengelyne-margot-robbie-olivia-wilde-1235987192/">Variety</a>, Robbie is apparently currently looking to star in an upcoming adaptation of Avengelyne, a '90s co-created by Cathy Christian and Rob Liefeld, the latter of which being the co-creator of the iconic Marvel anti-hero Deadpool. Robbie, if she joins the film, would be taking on the lead role of the titular character, a fallen angel that can use her blood as a weapon or miracle through quoting Bible verses. Yes, this does very much sound like a '90s comic, complete with an oversexualised design, though I'm sure a film version will shape up a bit differently.
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Warner Bros. is also apparently close to finalising a seven-figure film rights deal, with Don't Worry Darling director and Tron: Legacy actor Olivia Wilde on directorial duties, and Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class, Logan) as producer. Poor Things screenwriter Tony McNamara is also attached to pen the script. In a statement provided to Variety, Liefeld said, "This incredibly humbling journey to bring Avengelyne to life onscreen started through my relationship with super-producer Simon Kinberg who told me he had a perfect fit for the material and asked me to trust him.
</p> <p><a href="/margot-robbie-looks-set-to-play-character-from-deadpool-creator">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Fancy playing the original Fallout remade in Fallout 4's engine? Prepare to look out for a demo this summer</title><link>/fallout-1-remake-in-fallout-4-mod-demo-coming-this-summer</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 10:20:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-1-remake-in-fallout-4-mod-demo-coming-this-summer</guid><category>Fallout</category><category>Mods</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PC</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-1-remake-in-fallout-4-mod-demo-coming-this-summer-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-1-remake-in-fallout-4-mod-demo-coming-this-summer-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>While the likes of <a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4</a> and <a href="/games/fallout-76">Fallout 76</a> are all well and good, <a href="/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever">after enjoying Amazon's Fallout TV show</a>, a lot of us have been left craving a fresh Fallout experience - or even a new remake - to sink our teeth into.</p><p>To its credit, while <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it">Fallout 4's next-gen update has fallen a bit flat</a>, <a href="/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard">Bethesda does at least seem to be aware of the desire for it to do a bit more with the series</a>. Though, until it can find a way to up its output, mods will continue to provide plenty of Fallout stuff to look forward to in between entries - with one interesting project looking set to release its first demo this summer.</p><p>Fallout: Vault 13 is, as you might have gleaned from the name, a modding project dedicated to remaking the very first <a href="/games/fallout">Fallout</a> game using Fallout 4's engine - seemigly in a pretty similar vein to the likes of <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_F4NV">Fallout 4 New Vegas</a> (no prizes for guessing what that one's all about either). Following the release of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibk6r8-sHO8&t=1s">Shady Sands showcase video</a> back in 2022, the project's team has been <a href="https://twitter.com/FalloutVault13/status/1712239625413021904">working on a playable demo</a>, and has just provided a fresh update on it.</p> <p><a href="/fallout-1-remake-in-fallout-4-mod-demo-coming-this-summer">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The Legend of Zelda film director wants it to be "grounded" so don't expect a motion captured Tingle</title><link>/the-legend-of-zelda-film-director-wants-it-to-be-grounded</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 10:16:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>/the-legend-of-zelda-film-director-wants-it-to-be-grounded</guid><category>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Nintendo Wii U</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>RPG</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Nintendo</category><category>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild</category><category>Sony Pictures</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Nintendo GBA</category><category>Classic NES Series - The Legend of Zelda</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><category>The Legend of Zelda</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/zelda-tingle.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/zelda-tingle.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>The Legend of Zelda</strong> movie director Wes Ball has said he's aiming for something a little more "grounded" with his adaptation than he first envisioned a decade ago.
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Now, admittedly, right off the bat when I saw Wes Ball, the guy behind the soon-to-be-released Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, say that he wants his Zelda move to be more "grounded" and "real" alarm bells went off in my head. You're telling me you want the series where its protagonist, Link, has been a furry, a painting, and a Deku scrub, to be grounded? But this is why it's important to read on a touch, as that's not exactly what he's getting at. Ball recently spoke in a brief interview with <a href="https://www.polygon.com/24145926/zelda-movie-director-wes-ball-grounded-style">Polygon</a>, where he was asked about his more than a decade old <a href="https://twitter.com/wesball/status/8362170683">tweet about a hypothetical Zelda film</a>, in which he said "Since I could never even hope to have the chance to direct it... the next big mo-cap Avatar-like movie should be... THE LEGEND OF ZELDA."
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Bear in mind, this was literally a month after the original Avatar released, so it's no surprise it was on his mind. These days, though, Ball is singing a different tune, saying that a completely motion-capture Zelda film "probably isn't his choice." He then went on to say he wanted the film to be more "grounded" and "real" so it more sounds like he doesn't want a bunch of CGI elf-like people wandering around green-screen sets. I'm hoping that means he's leaning more towards practical effects, a bit of a dying artform in a post-MCU world.
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<strong>My Adventures with Superman</strong> is back later this month, and it's looking set to introduce a couple of classic comic characters.
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Adult Swim dropped a brand new trailer for My Adventures with Superman yesterday (easily the best on-screen version of the iconic hero we've had in many, many years), giving us a look at everything we can expect from season 2. It wasn't actually that long ago that we saw Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen, as the show wrapped up back in September, but as confirmed in the recent trailer, the show will be back on our screens May 25. The first two episodes will be premiering on Adult Swim on that date, but if you can't catch them live, you'll be happy to hear that they'll be available the very next day on Warner Bros.' streaming service Max.
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As expected of Superman, it looks like he'll be doing plenty more punching, flying, and whizzing around the place to save the people of Metropolis and those he cares about. Quite notably in the trailer, season 2 also sees the arrival of the villain who is easily Superman's number one nemesis, though in this case their rivalry is just beginning - Lex Luthor. You might not recognise him at first because he has hair, but I'm sure in time they'll make that boy bald, it's practically his destiny.
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</p><p>In a post on the game's official Discord server, community manager Spitz outlined that the studio has found the issue to actually stem from rogue shrapnel being kicked out by shots from the Eruptor - something a few investigative players had theorised might be the case.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-self-killing-spike-due-to-shrapnel-not-ricochets-fix-is-coming">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Diablo 4 Season 4 is actually called Loot Reborn, but boy does it sound light on content</title><link>/diablo-4-season-4-loot-reborn-iron-wolves-details</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 07:58:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-4-season-4-loot-reborn-iron-wolves-details</guid><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Diablo</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>PS4</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-season-4-helltide-reborn-screen-4.jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-season-4-helltide-reborn-screen-4.jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You know it’s almost time for a new <a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a> season because Blizzard is starting to line up <a href="/diablo-4-post-ptr-early-season-4-livestream-details">developer livestreams</a> and publish hefty blog posts about the new content, of which there doesn’t seem to be much this time around.</p><p>The game’s Season 4 has been officially named Loot Reborn, which ties into the fact the upcoming season will introduce the game’s largest loot overhaul since launch. Blizzard plays into this more than you might think in the season’s blurb, which is a bit worrying.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-4-season-4-loot-reborn-iron-wolves-details">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Sea of Thieves Season 12 raises the Jolly Roger: Prepare for zipline adventures, loot, new weapons, pets, and a PS5 premiere</title><link>/sea-of-thieves-season-12-ps5-release</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:20:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>/sea-of-thieves-season-12-ps5-release</guid><category>Sea of Thieves</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Microsoft Studios</category><category>PS5</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Xbox Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>First person</category><category>Pirates</category><category>Rare</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sea-of-thieves-season-12.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sea-of-thieves-season-12.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong><a href="/games/sea-of-thieves">Sea of Thieves</a></strong> is now available on PlayStation 5 as a digital download and supports cross-play between PC, PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox.</p><p>The release coincides with the launch of <a href="https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/season-12-launch">Season 12</a>, a free update to players across all platforms, and it brings a host of game-changing features.</p><p>The central focus of Season 12 is expanding the tools at your disposal so you can always be the type of pirate you want to be, no matter what that looks like. To make that happen, Rare focuses on combat this season. For the first time since launch, two new weapons have been added to your Armoury, offering new alternatives for approaching the likes of skeletons, Sirens, Ocean Crawlers, and, of course, enemy crews.</p> <p><a href="/sea-of-thieves-season-12-ps5-release">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster explodes: New trailer showcases master-apprentice battles and more character reveals</title><link>/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-more-character-reveals-new-trailer</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-more-character-reveals-new-trailer</guid><category>Anime</category><category>PS5</category><category>Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragon-ball-sparkling-zero-(1).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragon-ball-sparkling-zero-(1).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The latest trailer for <strong>Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero</strong> pits masters and apprentices together as more characters are revealed.</p><p>Sparking Zero, developed by Spike Chunsoft for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, marks the comeback of the Budokai Tenkaichi franchise after more than 15 years.</p><p>The below 10 characters join the ever-expanding roster that now has 61 characters announced:</p> <p><a href="/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-more-character-reveals-new-trailer">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Square Enix absorbs $140 million hit as canceled games take significant financial toll; company revising approach to HD titles</title><link>/square-enix-absorbs-140-million-hit-as-canceled-games-take-significant-financial-toll-company-revising-approach-to-hd-titles</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:21:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>/square-enix-absorbs-140-million-hit-as-canceled-games-take-significant-financial-toll-company-revising-approach-to-hd-titles</guid><category>Financials</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PS5</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-(10).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-(10).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Square Enix has announced it will "recognize extraordinary losses" during its fiscal year report ending March 2024, as it pertains to several canceled games.</p><p>For the fiscal year 2024, the firm will report a $140 million loss due to this content abandonment.</p><p><a href="https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/pdf/20240430_01_en.pdf">According to Square</a>, during a meeting on March 27, the Board voted to revise the company’s approach to developing high-definition games. 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Always has been. Amongst RPG fans, it’s a series infamous for its difficulty. Whether it’s the bastard Matador skill-check in <a href="/games/shin-megami-tensei-iii-nocturne-hd-remaster">Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne</a>, or the Minotaur boss that gated so many people into the starting area of <a href="/games/shin-megami-tensei-4">SMT4</a> on the 3DS, the series has become totemic of difficulty in RPGs – especially as the genre has become a little more dilute and more mainstream-friendly (here’s looking at you, <a href="/games/final-fantasy-xvi">FF16</a>).</p><p>The original <a href="/games/shin-megami-tensei-5">Shin Megami Tensei 5</a> – a Switch exclusive, until now – deviated from this rock-hard formula a little bit. If you spent time fusing demons, grinding out random encounters in the wastelands of a ruined Tokyo, and learning what the legions of demons in the game were weak to, you could rather effortlessly meander through the story without too much resistance. It was fun, don’t get me wrong – it just didn’t feel very MegaTen.</p><p>But <a href="/shin-megami-tensei-5-vengeance-nintendo-direct-release-date">Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance</a> reassess that balance. It wants to make you suffer. It wants to make you earn your victories, eke through its encounters by the skin of your teeth. Bring the grit in you out. I’ve only played about three hours of the game at a preview event hosted by publisher Sega and developer Atlus, but already I can feel that the waters here are darker, deeper, and deadlier than they were in the vanilla outing of the game.</p> <p><a href="/shin-megami-tensei-5-vengeance-preview">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Don't like Chris Hemsworth's performance in Thor: Love and Thunder? Turns out neither does he, and he's looking to do better with future gigs</title><link>/chris-hemsworths-didnt-like-his-performance-thor-love-and-thunder</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:05:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>/chris-hemsworths-didnt-like-his-performance-thor-love-and-thunder</guid><category>Marvel</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Thor: Love and Thunder</category><category>Film & Television</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/thor-love-and-thunder-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/thor-love-and-thunder-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Despite a strong outing with <strong>Thor: Ragnarok</strong>, Chris Hemsworth felt that he "became a parody" of himself with <strong>Thor: Love and Thunder</strong>.
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In general, I'm not a massive fan of the MCU - it does a few projects that I actually quite like, and Thor: Ragnarok is one of them. It's fun, the action is good, and I think it did a really good job of highlighting Hemsworth's acting chops, particularly with how funny he is. That comedy aspect is clearly something director Taika Waititi and Hemsworth wanted to double down on with its sequel, except it just ended up being too much (and that's ignoring the awful story). Now, in an interview with <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/chris-hemsworth-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a>, Hemsworth has shared that he isn't very happy with his Love and Thunder performance.
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"I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself," Hemsworth said. "I didn’t stick the landing." Overall the actor seemed to be quite stressed by the work he's done over the years across his career, noting he'd often be too anxious to turn down a big role, even if he might have wanted to perform in something like a drama or romantic comedy. "I’d been trying to muscle and beat things into existence for so long, out of obsession and desperation to build this career, and I was just exhausted.
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, and while the initial list for May is short, the offerings are rather good.</p><p>Access hundreds of great games for Xbox and PC when you become a Game Pass member. Benefits include playing new games on day one, enjoying new game additions each month, plus you can get exclusive member discounts and other free perks. Choose from Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, or a Game Pass Ultimate subscription so that you can play all your favourite games on your console, gaming PC or on your phone, tablet or TV using cloud. Prices start from just <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-game-pass#join">£7.99 per month from Microsoft</a>, or you can support our site when you buy Game Pass subscriptions from our eShop.</p><p><a href="https://codes.vg247.com/en/?s=game+pass" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank">Buy now</a></p> <p><a href="/little-kitty-big-city-tomb-raider-definitive-edition-game-pass-may-2024">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Gray Zone Warfare immediately becomes Steam's top seller as it shoots up the most played chart</title><link>/gray-zone-warfare-steam-top-seller-concurrent-players-negative-reviews</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:59:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/gray-zone-warfare-steam-top-seller-concurrent-players-negative-reviews</guid><category>Gray Zone Warfare</category><category>MADFINGER Games</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>Grey Zone Warfare</category><category>Battle Royale</category><category>Steam</category><category>Open World</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gray-zone-warfare-headline.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gray-zone-warfare-headline.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>As expected, the hottest release in realistic military shooters right now, <a href="/games/gray-zone-warfare">Gray Zone Warfare</a>, has done quite well in such a short span of time. The tactical extraction shooter <a href="/grey-zone-warfare-steam-early-access-extraction-shooter-timing-tarkov-drama">launched on Steam Early Access earlier today</a>, and has quickly become <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/global">Steam’s best-selling game</a>.</p><p>In fact, because the top seller list is based on revenue, Gray Zone Warfare has <em>two</em> entries in the top five. The standard edition at number one, and the Supporter Edition Upgrade at number three.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/gray-zone-warfare-steam-top-seller-concurrent-players-negative-reviews">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The Xbox and Activision love-in formally begins this year with the Xbox and Call of Duty showcases – now back-to-back</title><link>/xbox-activision-summer-call-of-duty-showcases-back-to-back</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>/xbox-activision-summer-call-of-duty-showcases-back-to-back</guid><category>PS5</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Xbox Game Studios</category><category>Activision</category><category>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>eSports relevant</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/CoD-xbox-redacted.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/CoD-xbox-redacted.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>Xbox</strong> has just confirmed its summer showcase, and it sure does look like it'll be following it up with a Call of Duty Direct immediately afterwards.
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As announced over on the <a href="https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/04/30/xbox-games-showcase-2024-redacted-direct/">Xbox Wire blog</a>, Xbox will be hosting its yearly summer games showcase on June 9, 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 6pm BST. As the post notes, "like our double-feature last year with Starfield Direct, immediately following the Showcase we’ll be airing a special deep-dive into the next instalment of a beloved franchise." The post is currently referring to this second presentation as a "REDACTED" Direct, except, it's almost definitely Call of Duty. For one, Gematsu made a <a href="https://twitter.com/gematsu/status/1785310721451921625">nifty gif</a> showing the Activision logo very neatly laid over one portion of the screen that is redacted.
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And notably, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145262/xbox-games-showcase-summer-2024-call-of-duty-direct">The Verge</a> says that according to sources that spoke with them, this Direct is in fact Call of Duty, so if you wanted to bet some money on it, you'd likely be placing a pretty safe bet. No word on what this particular Call of Duty title will be called, though a new Black Ops title wouldn't be particularly surprising. The blog post goes on to say that this "will also be our first Showcase featuring games from our portfolio of studios across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios, in addition to titles from our third-party partners."
</p> <p><a href="/xbox-activision-summer-call-of-duty-showcases-back-to-back">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Attention comic nerds, that big Returnal tease was for a graphic novel, not a new game</title><link>/big-returnal-tease-for-graphic-novel-not-new-game</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:55:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>/big-returnal-tease-for-graphic-novel-not-new-game</guid><category>Returnal</category><category>PS5</category><category>Housemarque</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/returnal-tease-graphic-novel-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/returnal-tease-graphic-novel-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Ok. So, yesterday <a href="/games/returnal">Returnal</a> developer Housemarque casually <a href="https://twitter.com/Housemarque/status/1784931755931177197">dropped a tease for a something to do with the game</a>. As all teases of this kind must be by law, it was very vague, kinda artsy, and got lots of people talking about things that may or may not actually be a thing.</p><p>Ok. So, yesterday <a href="/returnal-review-ps5">Returnal</a> developer Housemarque casually dropped a tease for a something to do with the game. As all teases of this kind must be by law, it was very vague, kinda artsy, and got lots of people talking about things that may or may not actually be a thing. As it turns out, <a href="https://twitter.com/Housemarque/status/1785293476034146605">the thing actually being teased was a graphic novel</a>.</p><p>Ok. So, yesterday Returnal developer Housemarque casually dropped a tease for a something to do with the game. As all teases of this kind must be by law, it was very vague, kinda artsy, and got lots of people talking about things that may or may not actually be a thing. As it turns out, the thing actually being teased was a graphic novel. It's called Returnal: Fallen Asteria, and it's set to come out in October this year.</p> <p><a href="/big-returnal-tease-for-graphic-novel-not-new-game">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Diablo, are you okay?</title><link>/diablo-youtube-rave-international-dance-day</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:40:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-youtube-rave-international-dance-day</guid><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Diablo</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>PS4</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/disco-diablo-inarius-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/disco-diablo-inarius-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>As much as we like to cover the <em>very</em> (<a href="/diablo-4-ptr-new-players-past-seasons-major-season-4-overhaul">many</a>) serious topics surrounding Blizzard’s <a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a>, this story is not actually about the game, or even the Diablo series. Instead, it’s specifically about the official Diablo YouTube channel.</p><p>If you play and follow Blizzard’s action-RPG series, you’ll have likely seen a few of the channel’s videos in your recommendation feed on YouTube. For the most part, the YT channel offers some nice insight into the development of the game, the usual run of trailers, as well as the occasional dive into lore and story.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-youtube-rave-international-dance-day">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>What's the best game where you fight a bear? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 97</title><link>/best-game-where-you-fight-a-bear</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/best-game-where-you-fight-a-bear</guid><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Shooter</category><category>iOS</category><category>PS3</category><category>RPG</category><category>VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>Fallout: New Vegas</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Obsidian Entertainment</category><category>PC</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Apple</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bears-final-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bears-final-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>There's now a premium, <a href="/best-games-ever-podcast-extended-edition-info-page">extended version</a> of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our <a href="/subscribe/standard">Support Us</a> page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.</p><p>Bears. What are they like? Big and furry to be honest. Also, often in video games. Whether it's they Yao Guai in Fallout New Vegas, or the two-headed bear in the NCR flag from <a href="/games/fallout-new-vegas">Fallout New Vegas</a>, or the two bears high fiving from that weird painting at the start of...er...Fallout New Vegas, you just can't escape them.</p><p>Why are we talking about bears this week, of all weeks, you ask? Well, it's probably not for the reason you think, so you'll just have to tune in, armed with your own bear suggestion that you can yell at the screen/into the air of if you're just listening via headphones, to find out. I'm sure it's a good reason, after all, we're talking about bears here.</p> <p><a href="/best-game-where-you-fight-a-bear">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>"We don't want to wait that long either" - As we all crave fresh Fallout, Todd Howard says Bethesda's looking to find ways to up its output</title><link>/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:14:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard</guid><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Fallout 5</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Obsidian Entertainment</category><category>Open World</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>The Elder Scrolls VI</category><category>Starfield</category><category>iOS</category><category>PS3</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>Fallout: New Vegas</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>First person</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Apple</category><category>PC</category><category>PS4</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Have you been left a bit bummed out that, after <a href="/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever">having your appetite for the series renewed</a> by <a href="/tv-shows/fallout">Amazon's Fallout TV show</a>, the most recent Fallout games on offer are <a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4</a> and <a href="/games/fallout-76">Fallout 76</a>, both of which are getting fairly long in the tooth, even if they are still getting fresh updates? Well, here's what could be a bit of good news - Todd Howard says Bethesda's looking into upping its output, if it can do so in a manner it's a fan of.</p><p>Yup, while we have had <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it">Fallout 4's rather, er, troubled next-gen update</a> to dig into, and Appalachia to rediscover, the show's highlighted the need for more regular entries. Especially given that <a href="/games/the-elder-scrolls-6">The Elder Scrolls 6</a> is next up on the docket and <a href="/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda">still seems years away at this point</a>.</p><p>Speaking to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wvqF41_Bgw">Kinda Funny Games</a> for an interview that also saw him <a href="/starfield-shattered-space-expansion-dropping-this-fall-big-update-set-to-arrive-sooner">confirm when Starfield's first expansion will be dropping</a>, Todd Howard also touched on where the studio's at in terms of making new things.</p> <p><a href="/bethesda-trying-find-ways-to-up-output-todd-howard">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>2023's best space game just keeps getting better</title><link>/everspace-2-incursions-free-update-endgame-loot-unreal-engine-5</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:12:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>/everspace-2-incursions-free-update-endgame-loot-unreal-engine-5</guid><category>Everspace 2</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PS5</category><category>Indie</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Space Combat</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>ROCKFISH Games</category><category>Shooter: RPG Shooter</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/everspace-2-art-squad-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/everspace-2-art-squad-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/everspace-2">Everspace 2</a> is celebrating its one-year anniversary of graduating out of Steam Early Access, and releasing on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with a major new update. The Incursions free update is out now, and it brings a tonne of new content to the game.</p><p>Incursions touches many parts of the core game, but it also makes a few interesting additions to the loot and action parts of the game.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/everspace-2-incursions-free-update-endgame-loot-unreal-engine-5">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Life by You's devs are keen to let you know that the June early access launch is for real this time</title><link>/life-by-you-early-access-release-date-confirmed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rebecca Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:44:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>/life-by-you-early-access-release-date-confirmed</guid><category>Krafton</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Life by You</category><category>Life Simulation</category><category>inZOI</category><category>Paradox Tectonic</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Paradox Interactive</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/life-by-you_zZ7jmcr.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/life-by-you_zZ7jmcr.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The team over at Paradox Tectonic has announced that its upcoming life simulator <a href="/games/life-by-you">Life by You</a> will be launching into Early Access on June 4 this year — and, if that sounds like something you've heard before, it's because we've actually known the date for a couple of months already!</p><p>If you're wondering why a studio would go out of their way to re-announce something it already said — and relatively recently, too — the answer lies between the lines of the press release. What they've actually said is that "Life by You is <em>ready</em> for early access" (emphasis mine), and the intention is probably to differentiate this from the last two early access releases for the game, which caught delays.</p><p>The highly touted <a href="/games/the-sims-4">Sims</a>-alike was originally <a href="/former-the-sims-studio-head-is-working-on-a-competing-life-sim-life-by-you">announced in March 2023</a> for a mid-September early access release the same year, only to be pushed back to March 2024 at the end of July. Then that March date was <a href="/life-by-you-sims-competitor-delay">put back again to June 4</a> in early February of this year. Both of these delay announcements came around five or six weeks before the intended launch which — oh look, is just about where we are now! So, it seems like Paradox Tectonic just wants to reaffirm that we should keep that date seriously cleared on our calendars, after its last couple of rain checks.</p> <p><a href="/life-by-you-early-access-release-date-confirmed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' physical release will include a cut of the film perfect for people who are terrified of CGI apes</title><link>/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-physical-release-no-apes-cut</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:59:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-physical-release-no-apes-cut</guid><category>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>20th Century Studios</category><category>Film & Television</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-poster_tnsw1yg.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-poster_tnsw1yg.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
If you're absolutely horrified by CGI apes, a bonus feature on <strong>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</strong>' physical release might be for you.
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It might be 13 years old, but to this day I think 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes has some of the best motion-capture acting and CGI apes around. They're looking equally good, if not better, in the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Understandably though, they might venture a little bit into uncanny territory for some people, so it's possible they might be giving this one a miss. But I've got good news for you with this latest sequel! In a recent interview with the YouTube channel Ape Nation (yes, it's actually called that), director Wes Ball spoke of the film's eventual physical release, and specifically of one bonus feature it will include.
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"I'm doing a little thing for the DVD where you can watch the entire movie with the raw dailies," Ball explained. "You'll see how close they get and what they do and how they stitch everything together. It's amazing!" What that means is, it'll be all of the footage without any post production effects laid over the top, meaning it'll just be actors wearing mo-cap suits, so presumably there'll be nary a CGI ape in sight. It's a cool sounding behind-the-scenes look at how a film gets made, and it's great for people who seriously struggle with the uncanny valley!
</p> <p><a href="/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-physical-release-no-apes-cut">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Helldivers 2's latest update comes under fire for ricochet changes, as players can't stop shooting themselves</title><link>/helldivers-2-latest-update-under-fire-for-ricochet-changes-players-cant-stop-shooting-themselves</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:44:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-latest-update-under-fire-for-ricochet-changes-players-cant-stop-shooting-themselves</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-ricochet-complaints-self-shootings-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-ricochet-complaints-self-shootings-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hello. <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> gots a rather beefy new patch yesterday, and now people can't seem to stop finding ways to accidentally defeat themselves in battle. What's to blame for this sudden rise in rather hilarious mistakes? Well, a change to how bullet ricochets work seems to be drawing the majority of the ire.</p><p>Yup, while there's some of the usual unhappiness about the nerfs that came as part of <a href="/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked">the patch's array of balancing changes to weapons</a>, which were admittedly outnumbered - or at least equaled - by the amount of buffs on offer, the big backlash this time is related to what bullets do after they leave your gun. That being, in a lot of these recent cases, casually pinging straight back into the body of the helldiver that fired them.
</p><p>So, as a bit of context, one of the changes Patch 01.000.300 enacted is this: "Shots that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now properly hit the Helldiver who fired them." The idea behind looks just to be focing folks to be a bit more disciplined with their fire, since they'll now be at risk of the consequnces.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-latest-update-under-fire-for-ricochet-changes-players-cant-stop-shooting-themselves">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Have you fallen victim to Tekken 8's latest vigilante? An Eddy Gordo hero that's wreaking havoc online</title><link>/have-you-fallen-victim-to-tekken-8s-latest-vigilante-an-eddy-gordo-hero-thats-wreaking-havoc-online</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:32:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>/have-you-fallen-victim-to-tekken-8s-latest-vigilante-an-eddy-gordo-hero-thats-wreaking-havoc-online</guid><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>Tekken 8</category><category>Single Player</category><category>BANDAI NAMCO Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tekken-8-eddy-gordo.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tekken-8-eddy-gordo.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>A new hero is lurking in the lower ranks of <a href="/games/tekken-8">Tekken 8</a> right now. JinMashima is dominating not only the Twitch.tv Tekken 8 category, but also the ranked ladder by mashing a single button over and over. Through repeatedly slamming 3 as hard and fast as they can, the whold world is witness to perhaps the purest Eddy Gordo experience of all time.
</p><p>The experiment started several days ago out of nowhere, with JinMashima booting up the stream with a simple layout. No webcam, no added background music nor notifications or sub goals. The only added feature to their stream is a fightstick button layout in the bottom left of the screen, on which you can see the 3 button repeatedly mashed at all times. Don't believe me? <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jimmashima">You can check the stream out right here</a>.
</p><p>It's been a bumpy road for JinMashima, with the ranked grind ranging from hilarious highs to humbling lows. As of writing, the peak rank hit by the player is the orange ranks of vanquisher and destroyer in which they have a negative win-rate by all accounts. If we compare that to the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/1auur37/tekken_8_ranked_distribution/#lightbox">published February ranked distribution among Tekken 8 players</a>, this puts an Eddy player using a single button at a higher skill level as 44.83% of players. Think about that for a second.
</p> <p><a href="/have-you-fallen-victim-to-tekken-8s-latest-vigilante-an-eddy-gordo-hero-thats-wreaking-havoc-online">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The dog days aren't over: Netflix is reportedly taking its own stab at a live-action Scooby-Doo</title><link>/netflix-is-reportedly-developing-live-action-scooby-doo-show</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:05:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>/netflix-is-reportedly-developing-live-action-scooby-doo-show</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Netflix</category><category>Scooby-Doo</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Warner Bros Discovery</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/scooby-doo-2002.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/scooby-doo-2002.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Never say an old dog can't learn new tricks, as it seems like <strong>Netflix</strong> is making a new live-action version of <strong>Scooby-Doo</strong>.
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I would say that these days, every new take on Scooby-Doo is kind of flogging a dead horse, yet they keep making them, so somebody's got to be watching them. As reported by Variety, another one is in the works once more, this time apparently another live-action outing. According to <a href="https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/scooby-doo-live-action-series-netflix-1235985955/">Variety</a>, the one-hour drama project is getting close to a deal with a script-to-series commitment. Plot details haven't been shared, so all that's known about it right now is that it will be a live-action take on Scooby-Doo. Warner Bros. Television will also apparently produce, making this the latest time the production company is working with the streamer, as the two also worked on <a href="/love-the-sandman-watch-next-netflix-series-dead-boy-detectives">Dead Boy Detectives</a> together.
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Josh Appelbaum, best known for writing the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films and Scott Rosenberg, known for 2018's Venom and the Jumanji reboots, will both serve as writers on the show, and will also work with André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner as executive producers under their Midnight Radio banner. For the most part both writer's previous works don't inspire confidence, even if I do love Venom, but they've certainly had some successful projects at the very least.
</p> <p><a href="/netflix-is-reportedly-developing-live-action-scooby-doo-show">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Gray Zone Warfare is the first of many extraction shooters that do what Tarkov don't, and it's out today in Early Access</title><link>/grey-zone-warfare-steam-early-access-extraction-shooter-timing-tarkov-drama</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:44:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>/grey-zone-warfare-steam-early-access-extraction-shooter-timing-tarkov-drama</guid><category>Gray Zone Warfare</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Battlestate Games</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>MADFINGER Games</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>Escape from Tarkov</category><category>RPG</category><category>Battle Royale</category><category>Steam</category><category>First person</category><category>Unreal Engine 5</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Open World</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/grey-zone-warfare-early-access-screen-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/grey-zone-warfare-early-access-screen-2.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The extraction shooter subgenre continues to grow, with new and exciting releases appearing on the scene every few months. Usually, these games only exist in pre-release trailers and hyperbolic blurb about their level of ballistics simulation, but most never see the light of day.</p><p><a href="/games/gray-zone-warfare">Gray Zone Warfare</a>, the debut game from Madfinger Games, is attempting to change that. The indie extraction shooter is available for purchase today, so players can actually see for themselves whether the hype has been justified.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/grey-zone-warfare-steam-early-access-extraction-shooter-timing-tarkov-drama">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Good news, Starfield's Shattered Space expansion is dropping this fall, with a "big update" set to arrive even sooner</title><link>/starfield-shattered-space-expansion-dropping-this-fall-big-update-set-to-arrive-sooner</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:12:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>/starfield-shattered-space-expansion-dropping-this-fall-big-update-set-to-arrive-sooner</guid><category>Starfield</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>PC</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>RPG</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-bethesda-responding-to-negative-steam-reviews-01.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-bethesda-responding-to-negative-steam-reviews-01.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>While we've all been caught up in Fallout fever, <a href="/starfield-guide-quest-walkthroughs-item-locations-and-more">Starfield</a>, the latest game Bethesda's actually released into the world, has kind of taken a backseat in most of our minds - something that's arguably been happening since the start of this year. Now, though, Todd Howard has provided a bit more info on the updates that're in the works for the game, including the Shattered Space expansion, which is coming later this year.</p><p>Yup, while Bethesda's had <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it">a lot on its plate recently</a> with regards to <a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4</a>'s rather troubled next-gen update, as well as the <a href="/tv-shows/fallout">Fallout show</a> that <a href="/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever">pretty much everybody and their mum seems to love</a>, Todd's not gonna let folks forget about his big space baby.</p><p>Speaking to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wvqF41_Bgw">Kinda Funny Games</a>, Howard provided a bit of an update on Starfield's roadmap. First of all, he confirmed that "Shattered Space is in the fall", putting a season on the story expansion, which we'd only previously known was set for some point in 2024. So, there's some of your post-summer plans sorted.</p> <p><a href="/starfield-shattered-space-expansion-dropping-this-fall-big-update-set-to-arrive-sooner">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Fallout is already Amazon's second most watched show ever, proving Bethesda should have had a new game ready yesterday</title><link>/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:58:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever</guid><category>Fallout</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>First person</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-the-ghoul.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-the-ghoul.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>Amazon's Fallout</strong> series has quickly proven popular as in just over two weeks, it's already become the streaming service's second-most-watched show.
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I could probably tell you how popular the Fallout show has been just from looking at my timeline, but I think the <a href="/fallout-tv-show-season-two-officially-confirmed">confirmation of a season two</a>, alongside just <a href="/everybody-is-playing-fallout-4-new-vegas-thanks-to-amazon-fallout">how many people are playing Fallout 4 again</a>, is more concrete as evidence. More definitive than that, though, is the fact that according to Amazon, the Fallout series has become Prime Video's second-most-watched show in its first 16 days of release (via <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fallout-ratings-big-amazon-1235886146/">THR</a>). It also said that 65 million viewers globally have watched at least some of the show since it was released, with the only series to have performed being The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, but there's no surprise there really, is there? Apparently most of the viewership came from outside the US, with 60% of Fallout's audience coming from global territories, quite the funny thing given its whole 50s Americana vibes.
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More than anything though, this proves that Bethesda probably should have had something Fallout lined up on the games front - those Steam sales surely helped bring in quite a few sales (Fallout 4 sales were up 7500% in Europe), but even a spin-off would have gone down massively with the release of the show. A recent report from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frfcWeJMAc&ab_channel=RandalThor19">The Xbox Two podcast's Jez Corden</a> claimed that Xbox wants the next Fallout game to release faster, though with The Elder Scrolls 6 up next, and Bethesda only working on one game at a time, some other plans might need to be drawn up. Though, at this point it might be too little too late to capitalise on the show's hype.
</p> <p><a href="/fallout-amazon-second-most-watched-show-ever">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Another Crab's Treasure brings something truly fresh to Xbox Game Pass and the Soulslike genre</title><link>/another-crabs-treasure-brings-something-fresh-xbox-game-pass-soulslike-genre</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:01:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>/another-crabs-treasure-brings-something-fresh-xbox-game-pass-soulslike-genre</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Another Crab's Treasure</category><category>Indie</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/another-crabs-treasure-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/another-crabs-treasure-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's no secret that various developers have taken solid cracks at the Soulslike genre in the wake of Dark Souls' industry-shaking impact on the industry. Why wouldn't they? Intricate third person action games with an emphasis on patience and perserverance have not only proved refreshing to gamers looking for a bit of bite to their games, but are also financially viable for developers looking to make a hit for a dedicated fanbase. Another Crab's Treasure is one-such game. But this oceanic title has one quirk that feels like a breeze of fresh sea air.
</p><p>While Lies of P, The Surge, Lords of the Fallen, Remnant and more all have their merits, Another Crab's Treasure takes a step away from its inspiration in a way I frankly believe is quite brave. It's vibrant, and does not take itself too seriously. The core of a great Soulslike is there, but without some vague attempt to replicate the dour vibes of its peers. Another Crab's Treasure makes an argument for the separation of the nail-biting, anxiety-ridden experience the Dark Souls series established from the typical themes that surround it.
</p><p>If you use your Xbox Game Pass subscription to check out Another Crab's Treasure, as well as the various other Soulslike games on the service, you'll recognise this within moments of booting it up. One could say it's the whole selling point, beyond telling an environmental message. Another Crab's Treasure is deeply, <em>deeply</em> funny. It embraces the silly little crab adventure theme and scuttles around with it.
</p> <p><a href="/another-crabs-treasure-brings-something-fresh-xbox-game-pass-soulslike-genre">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Knuckles follows a long-standing tradition of baffling video game adaptations, but I can't figure out if that's a good thing or not</title><link>/knuckles-baffling-video-game-adaptation-good</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>/knuckles-baffling-video-game-adaptation-good</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>SEGA Australia</category><category>Android</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Nintendo Wii</category><category>iOS</category><category>SEGA</category><category>PS3</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Sonic Team</category><category>Side view</category><category>Sonic the Hedgehog</category><category>Single Player</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Knuckles-header-(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Knuckles-header-(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
I don't think any of us ever saw it coming, but it seems that video game adaptations are kind of good now. Not perfect, but certainly polished enough where you won't necessarily be embarrassed to say you watched it, or get a strange look when you try to explain what it's about.</p><p>Illumination's Mario film was pretty and drew in the big bucks, Sonic's movies are actually quite fun despite that initial hurdle called Ugly Sonic, and most recently everyone's been raving about the Fallout series - <a href="/amazon-fallout-series-might-have-made-me-a-fan">even I, a non-Fallout fan, enjoyed it</a>. Gone are the days of the original 1993 <strong>Super Mario Bros.</strong> movie, no more do we see quite odd castings like with Jean-Claude Van Damme as all-American Guile in the live-action <strong>Street Fighter</strong> film.
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And yet, last week <strong>Paramount</strong> decided to remind us how bad things can get when it released <strong>Knuckles</strong> onto the world. Our own Dom described it as a <a href="/knuckles-tv-series-preview">fever dream, for better and for worse</a>, and I think that's definitely an accurate description. More than that though, it feels like an accidental callback to '90s and naughties video game movies that really are quite awful in ways that are a bit difficult to comprehend.
</p> <p><a href="/knuckles-baffling-video-game-adaptation-good">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Knuckles' first episode is free on YouTube, making it very easy to just watch that and not see how weird the rest of the series is</title><link>/knuckles-first-episode-is-free-on-youtube</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>/knuckles-first-episode-is-free-on-youtube</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>SEGA Australia</category><category>Android</category><category>Side view</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Nintendo Wii</category><category>iOS</category><category>SEGA</category><category>PS3</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Paramount Pictures</category><category>Sonic Team</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Sonic the Hedgehog</category><category>Knuckles</category><category>Single Player</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/knuckles-cowboy-hat.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/knuckles-cowboy-hat.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Those of you hesitant to pick up a <strong>Paramount Plus</strong> subscription but want to try out <strong>Knuckles</strong> are in luck, because the first episode is available for free on YouTube.
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It seems like an increasingly common tactic of roping in new subscribers to streaming services is by releasing the first episode of a series for free, which is exactly what Paramount has done with Knuckles. As long as you're in the US (it isn't available in the UK, and can't speak for other territories), the whole first episode is free to watch from start to finish on YouTube. The episode was uploaded earlier today, but there's no indication how long it will be available for. Your mileage may vary, but typically these aren't permanently public, so if you do want to watch it without subscribing to Paramount Plus, now is the best time to do so.
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It being free might also be a bit of a blessing, as outside of the incredibly odd fourth episode that I still can't figure out if it's actually good or not, the first episode is the best one (yes it's because Sonic and Tails are in it, why are you asking). Seriously, the rest of the show isn't… great, to put it politely - our own Dom described it as something of a <a href="/knuckles-tv-series-preview">fever dream</a>, which I would certainly agree with as an assessment.
</p> <p><a href="/knuckles-first-episode-is-free-on-youtube">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Following Fallout 4's next-gen update, its most popular mods are currently ones that, er, allow you to get rid of Fallout 4's next-gen update</title><link>/fallout-4-mods-popular-get-rid-next-gen-update</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:22:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-4-mods-popular-get-rid-next-gen-update</guid><category>Mods</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS4</category><category>First person</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-4-mods-popular-get-rid-next-gen-update-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-4-mods-popular-get-rid-next-gen-update-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4's</a> next-gen update arrived late last week, and uh, a lot of folks weren't too impressed. While a lot of the initial backlash was due to technical issues or bugs, a lot of those on PC who've given the update a go now seem to be looking for ways to revert their game back to its pre-update state. Enter a couple of works that've quickly shot to the top of the game's Nexus Mods page.</p><p>If you're just catching up on things, while a lot of the big complants folks have had about <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update">Fallout 4's next-gen update</a> have involved problems that've either since been resolved or hopefully should be soon - such as <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it">PlayStation Plus users temporarily being unable to upgrade PS4 versions to PS5 without being charged</a>. Meanwhile, on PC - as game updates often do - it's rendered a lot of key Fallout 4 mods unable to be used until they too have been updated, earning plenty of ire from those in the midst of modded playthroughs who <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-nexus-mods-tags">hadn't made plans to stop their game from updating</a>.</p><p>So, this is how we've ended up with two mods specifically aimed at helping people who've installed the update get back to playing pre next-gen Fallout 4 rocketing right to the top of Nexus Mods' most downloaded Fallout 4 mods for the past week, despite only having arrived after the update did.</p> <p><a href="/fallout-4-mods-popular-get-rid-next-gen-update">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>No Rest for the Wicked dev's CEO boldly compares it to Lord of the Rings, as he lays out why we won't see Ori 3 for a long time</title><link>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-ceo-compares-it-to-lord-of-the-rings</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-ceo-compares-it-to-lord-of-the-rings</guid><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Mac</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>No Rest For The Wicked</category><category>No Rest for the Wicked (2024)</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Narrative / Story Driven</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Side view</category><category>Point and Click</category><category>Moon Studios</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Private Division</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Exploration</category><category>Gugames</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/No-Rest-for-the-Wicked-screen2-Steam.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/No-Rest-for-the-Wicked-screen2-Steam.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>Moon Studios</strong> CEO Thomas Mahler has made the always wise decision to frame <strong>No Rest for the Wicked</strong> as their own <strong>Lord of the Rings</strong>.
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The latest game from Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios, No Rest for the Wicked, launched into early access this week, with our Sherif saying it's made a <a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-makes-killer-first-impression">killer first impression, even if he's worried about all the crafting and survival guff</a>. While the game's 1.0 is likely still a while away, Mahler has made it clear that once it does come out that there will be lots more to come after it. Writing on Twitter, the CEO wrote, "Judging by the questions I'm getting, it looks like some people think that we'll release 1.0 and then we're done? Folks, we're nowhere near done with No Rest for the Wicked. There is so much that we've already built that none of you even know about and we want to deliver this in a masterful way!"
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Mahler described the early access phase as "just the beginning for us" and that the studio already has plans for what comes after 1.0. "No Rest for the Wicked is like our Lord of the Rings. And to further use this analogy, what we've done so far is akin to doing a 'test screening' of the first bits. 1.0 will be our 'Fellowship of the Ring'. And as you all know, there's lots to come after that. So to be clear: We'll be working on No Rest for the Wicked for another 5-10 years. This is our Magnum Opus. We always had lofty ambitions and we said we're going to contribute in a huge way to the ARPG genre - and that is our intention."
</p> <p><a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-ceo-compares-it-to-lord-of-the-rings">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Turns out Dragon's Dogma 2 has an unfinished path-tracing feature, and a new mod lets you use it - just don't expect it to run perfectly</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-unfinished-path-tracing-feature-mod</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:13:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-unfinished-path-tracing-feature-mod</guid><category>Capcom</category><category>PS5</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-pawns.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-pawns.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> seemingly has a path-tracing renderer hidden with it, and there's now a mod that lets you turn it on.
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Now, right out the gate, I should be clear that just because something is in a game doesn't mean that it's cut content. Sometimes certain things just exist as tests, or were just earlier versions of something that still exists. Having said that, earlier this month it was discovered that Dragon's Dogma 2 has a path-tracing feature that gives the game much more realistic lighting. Last week, a modder by the name of EXXXcellent reached out to Digital Foundry about their <a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/693">mod that activates the feature</a>, and the latter went hands on with it to see exactly how the game shapes up with all that new lighting.
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Right out the gate, it really does look quite good. Reflective surfaces like metal and bottles have a much more realistic look to them, shadows have a lot more definition to them, even just brickwork and cobblestones look great. Character models and things like hair get a real boost too, overall it really works with the game's visual style, though there are some indoor areas that actually look worse due to a lack of light. But here comes the but. But! This unsurprisingly comes at the cost of performance.
</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-unfinished-path-tracing-feature-mod">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Helldivers 2's huge latest patch tweaks 24 weapons and stratagems - and lets you spread democracy at higher difficulties</title><link>/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's been a bit of a longer wait between <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> patches than we've previously been used to lately, with the last one have dropped back on April 16 to <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-ground-breaker-armour-passive-fix">fix some misbhaving passives</a>. That's just changed though, with a big new update dropping - and casually making balancing changes to 24 different weapons and stratagems.</p><p>Yup, while folks are just finishing up <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-forces-players-choose-between-weapons-rocket-launcher-winning-early">battling to secure themselves a new rocket launcher in the game's latest Major Order</a>, a lot of the other stuff in their arsenals has just been re-jigged. The good news for those who're worried about the community's capacity to keep on <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-looked-lost-cause-battle-down-to-one-planet">recording impressive victories</a> is that a fair amount of this update's gun tweaks do look to be on the buff side of the coin.
</p><p>If you take a gander at the notes for <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/4169846298204053636">Patch 01.000.300</a>, you'll be greeted by a huge list of changes to primary, secondary & support weapons. Some of these, such as the Exploding Crossbow and BR-14 Adjudicator, have undergone pretty substantial reworks, while others have only been tweaked in a couple of ways.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-next-patch-24-weapons-stratagems-tweaked">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Akuma finally gets radical Street Fighter 6 gameplay trailer at Evo Japan - coming May 22</title><link>/akuma-finally-gets-radical-street-fighter-6-gameplay-trailer-at-evo-japan-coming-may-22</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:22:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>/akuma-finally-gets-radical-street-fighter-6-gameplay-trailer-at-evo-japan-coming-may-22</guid><category>Capcom</category><category>Arcade</category><category>PS5</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Street Fighter 6</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/akuma-street-fighter-6_gx7kYjv.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/akuma-street-fighter-6_gx7kYjv.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Akuma has just gotten a shiny new gameplay trailer at Evo Japan, signaling the imminent arrival of the fighter to <a href="/games/street-fighter-6">Street Fighter 6</a>. Alongside the trailer, we now know that Akuma will be coming to the game on May 22nd.
</p><p>As for what we actuallly see in the trailer, we get a great glimpse at all his moves in-action, as well as his rad new design that's taken the beastial aspects of the Street Fighter V and taken it to 11. He looks brilliant, and much like the other SF6 characters his kit has ben pushed to its limit with explosive new attacks and supers. You can watch the trailer yourself below!
</p><p>Shout out to the returning legacy costume for Akuma, and perhaps the coolest version of the raging demon super ever. Just saying, it's fantastic.
</p> <p><a href="/akuma-finally-gets-radical-street-fighter-6-gameplay-trailer-at-evo-japan-coming-may-22">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Counter-Strike 2's latest update lets you hold weapons in the wrong hand (but that's actually good)</title><link>/counter-strike-2-update-lets-you-hold-weapon-in-left-hand</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:04:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>/counter-strike-2-update-lets-you-hold-weapon-in-left-hand</guid><category>Counter-Strike 2</category><category>Military</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>First person</category><category>Valve Software</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>Valve</category><category>eSports relevant</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/counter-strike-2-in-game-screenshot-4.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/counter-strike-2-in-game-screenshot-4.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Left handed people, you get a win today, as <strong>Counter-Strike 2</strong> has added in the ability to switch which hand you're using in its latest update.
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Being able to play as a left-handed person in video games is few and far between. It's not exactly a deeply pressing matter when it comes to representation, but as a left-handed person whenever I see such an option I do think "oh, neat!" That's exactly what I thought today when I saw that in a <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/4202497395513061959">recent update</a> for Counter-Strike 2, the option to switch which side of the screen your weapon is on has been added, ergo, the game now lets you choose whether you're left- or right-handed (thanks, <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/counter-strike-2-adds-a-lefty-mode/">PC Gamer</a>). OK, technically it's just made everyone in the game ambidextrous, but when only 10% of the world is left-handed, you take what you can get.
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Obviously I'm goofing around here a bit, but the update is honestly a useful one. The problem with first-person-shooters that only allow you gun to hang out on one side of the screen is that it takes a whole lot of your visual real estate up in that area. That means if you're trying to say, look around a corner, it might be blocking your view, meaning you're more likely to get hit. Now though, you can just switch up which side you want your weapon on and hey presto, you can see it all! You can even set which hand you prefer to start with, as well as switching mid-round, so all around it seems like a useful update.
</p> <p><a href="/counter-strike-2-update-lets-you-hold-weapon-in-left-hand">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Diablo 4: Blizzard will finally tell us what it learned from the PTR, and reveal Season 4 this week</title><link>/diablo-4-post-ptr-early-season-4-livestream-details</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-4-post-ptr-early-season-4-livestream-details</guid><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>PS5</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>RPG</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><category>Diablo</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-quests.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-quests.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It’s been a while since we’ve had some fresh <a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a> news to get excited about. Blizzard has us covered, however, with the next developer update lined up for this week.</p><p>This is the one where the Season 4 beans will be spilled, but it’s also the one where we get to parse how the game will change based on <a href="/diablo-4-ptr-best-feature-season-4">the very successful PTR held recently</a>, a test that effectively acted as a preview of the majority of mechanical and systemic changes coming to the game.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-4-post-ptr-early-season-4-livestream-details">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Lidia is coming to Tekken 8 this summer alongside balance changes, a photo mode, and a new story chapter</title><link>/lidia-is-coming-to-tekken-8-this-summer-alongside-balance-changes-a-photo-mode-and-a-new-story-chapter</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:40:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>/lidia-is-coming-to-tekken-8-this-summer-alongside-balance-changes-a-photo-mode-and-a-new-story-chapter</guid><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>Tekken 8</category><category>Single Player</category><category>BANDAI NAMCO Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lidia-tekken-8.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lidia-tekken-8.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Lidia</strong> has been announced as the second season 1 DLC character for <a href="/games/tekken-8">Tekken 8</a>, returning from Tekken 7 where she first appeared in the game's later seasons. She's set to release in Summer 2024, though no exact date has been revealed.
</p><p>This comes alongside the announcement that new free content updates are on the way too. This includes a balance upate, the seaside resort stage, and a photo mode. There's also a new chapter in the main story on the way, seemingly continuing the narrative beyond the climax in the base game. You can watch the trailer below!
</p><p>This comes ahead of the Evo Japan 2024 Tekken 8 grand finals, where a variety of players from around the globe turned up to fight for first place. It's the first premier event for Tekken 8,<a href="/tekken-8"> which launched to positive reviews among players and competitors</a>.
</p> <p><a href="/lidia-is-coming-to-tekken-8-this-summer-alongside-balance-changes-a-photo-mode-and-a-new-story-chapter">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Slayer announced as the next DLC character for Guilty Gear Strive</title><link>/slayer-announced-as-the-next-big-guilty-gear-strive</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:47:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>/slayer-announced-as-the-next-big-guilty-gear-strive</guid><category>PS5</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Guilty Gear -Strive-</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><category>BANDAI NAMCO Studios</category><category>Arc System Works</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/guilty-gear-strive-slayer.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/guilty-gear-strive-slayer.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/guilty-gear-strive-">Guilty Gear Strive</a> has just got some incredibly exciting news. You've got Slayer - the final character in its season 3 DLC. He's set to come to the game on May 7th, so you won't have to wait too long to try him out. The Arc System Works team also announced that season 4 is on its way!
</p><p>Slayer, a beloved character among Guilty Gear fans, is the prime annoucnement here, getting a dedicated gameplay trailer showing off his moveset and stylish new makeover for Strive. He returns from Guilty Gear Xrd, although he's been as taple for the series for decades now. You can watch the new trailer yourself below!
</p><p>While the Slayer update won't be coming with a balance adjustment, his addition should mix up the meta quitea bit! As for that season 4 update, it'll have the typical spread of new characters as well as a 3v3 team mode. There's not much in terms of info when it comes to that little tease, but we've been urged to sit back and wait for more info.
</p> <p><a href="/slayer-announced-as-the-next-big-guilty-gear-strive">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>After spending $15k on their Skyrim VR setup, one streamer has added a haptic suit just to feel pain</title><link>/skyrim-vr-streamer-takes-the-next-step-adds-haptic-suit-to-feel-pain</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:18:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>/skyrim-vr-streamer-takes-the-next-step-adds-haptic-suit-to-feel-pain</guid><category>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Virtual Reality</category><category>PS3</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/skyrim-bethesda.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/skyrim-bethesda.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
A <strong>Skyrim VR</strong> streamer who spent $15,000 on a VR setup just for the <strong>Bethesda</strong> game has added a new element into the mix: actual pain.
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You ever feel like video games don't feel real enough to you? Sure, you can put on a headset and experience games in first-person thanks to VR tech, but you can't feel anything exactly. There's always putting on a haptic feedback suit, but even then, something's missing… The true way to experience a game is to feel the very pain your character is feeling, something that Skyrim VR and Fallout VR streamer Gingas has decided to put themselves through for the sake of entertainment (thanks, <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/skyrim-vr-player-who-spent-dollar15k-on-the-most-immersive-setup-adds-a-second-haptic-suit-to-simulate-real-pain/">GamesRadar</a>).
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GingasVR has already done a bit of work to make Skyrim VR a bit more of an immersive experience, which she <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/meet-the-vr-enthusiast-who-spent-dollar15000-to-make-skyrim-as-immersive-as-possible/">put around $15,000 into</a>, alongside some mods for things like physics and more accurate body movements via three Vive trackers. She also uses a fan to simulate wind and weather, and she does have a haptic vest to feel all sorts of things. Now, as she shared in a video earlier this week, she's added another vest on top of that - one that electrocutes her anytime she feels pain.
</p> <p><a href="/skyrim-vr-streamer-takes-the-next-step-adds-haptic-suit-to-feel-pain">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>If Fallout 5's going to set the world on fire, Bethesda should head north of the border</title><link>/fallout-5-north-of-the-border-canada</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-5-north-of-the-border-canada</guid><category>Fallout 5</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Xbox Game Studios</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Blockbuster</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Fallout-5-toronto.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Fallout-5-toronto.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>I recently asked the Fallout community <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-fallout-5-pitches">what they might personally want to see</a> from <a href="/games/fallout-5">Fallout 5</a>, whenever it arrives. All of their ideas were very cool, and got me thinking about what I - another <a href="/tv-shows/fallout">Fallout</a> fan - might want from the game too. So, here’s another pitch:</p><p>Picture the scene. You’re an anonymous member of a merchant caravan wandering along the highway. The leader of the group - your usual bottlecap-hoarding used car salesman type, you know, the kind of guy who might sell you a malfunctioning laser pistol by ‘accident’ - is telling you how much he’s looking forward to kicking back with a drink when you reach your destination.</p><p>"Ronto", he says as it comes into sight in the distance, "is a dangerous place to be headed nowadays, but well worth the trip for those who do. Life’s never easy, even now that the world’s starting to recover a little bit from nuclear armageddon, but if you can all just make this run - things’ll work out just fine."</p> <p><a href="/fallout-5-north-of-the-border-canada">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Stardew Valley meets Baldur's Gate 3 in a mod that will let you hang out with your faves without the fear of a bad dice roll</title><link>/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3-mod-in-the-works</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:42:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3-mod-in-the-works</guid><category>Android</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Indie</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Larian Studios</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Chucklefish Games</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>Strategy</category><category>iOS</category><category>PS5</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Full product</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Stardew Valley</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
Love <strong>Stardew Valley</strong> and <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-walkthrough">Baldur's Gate 3</a>? You might be interested in this currently in-development mod that brings Astarian and more to Pelican Town.
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Baldur's Gate 3 is obviously the game of 2023, and to be honest, might even be the game of 2024. And while it's a bit older, Stardew Valley sits in a similar boat of being a "forever game," so it makes perfect sense that someone would want to mod Baldur's Gate 3 characters into ConcernedApe's modern classic. That's exactly what XunHe1145 and their team of modders are setting out to do, with the appropriately named Baldur's Village project (thanks, <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-group-of-modders-are-building-baldurs-village-in-stardew-valley-an-idyllic-little-town-where-you-can-date-astarion-and-maybe-hang-out-with-some-of-those-other-guys/">PC Gamer</a>). Describing the mod on Twitter, Xun wrote that they are "making a Stardew Valley mod that will include a new map and residents from Baldur's Gate 3. The characters we are currently working on include Astarion, Shadowheart, Gale and Halsin."
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As of right now, Astarion is the only dateable character, and will also have a unique romance plot, given the small size of the team, but they will try to make more of them dateable if they can. So far, they've managed to make an independent map, Baldur's Village itself, with four different styles of buildings. And there's even some excellent looking artwork of Astarian and Shadowheart too. Right now the aim is to have the mod out before the first anniversary of Baldur's Gate 3's full release, but it's also looking for support on translation duties - the team is made up of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese speakers, so they'll be <a href="https://twitter.com/XunHe1145/status/1784225524413276275">looking for volunteers</a> to help translate it in the future.
</p> <p><a href="/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3-mod-in-the-works">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bloober Team is feeling "very confident" in its Silent Hill 2 remake, as it confirms it's working on a new, original IP</title><link>/bloober-team-is-feeling-very-confident-about-silent-hill-2-remake</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:13:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>/bloober-team-is-feeling-very-confident-about-silent-hill-2-remake</guid><category>Konami</category><category>Puzzle</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Silent Hill 2 Remake</category><category>Silent Hill 2</category><category>PS2</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/silent-hill-2-remake-combat_nfhtaWl.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/silent-hill-2-remake-combat_nfhtaWl.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>Bloober Team</strong> has recently expressed that it is "very confident" in its <strong>Silent Hill 2</strong> remake, and it also appears to be working on a new IP too.
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The Medium and Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team recently held its annual report, and according to the document (as translated by <a href="https://twitter.com/pl_evil">@pl_evil</a>, thanks <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/silent-hill-2-remake-developer-is-excited-and-very-confident">Eurogamer</a>), the team is feeling "very confident about the final result." It also acknowledged that the success of Silent Hill 2 remake will be "the most important test" the developer has come up against so far. "We do not hide it internally or externally - this is the most important test of our actions," Bloober reportedly said. "We are not only excited, but at the same time very confident about the final result."
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Eurogamer also noted that via Google Translate, Bloober shared that in 2023, just under half of its production forces were working on Silent Hill 2. It's also apparently working hard to provide the best possible emotions to original fans of the game, as well as potential new ones. Weirdly, they also said it is the first game where environmental storytelling is going in the background for them, with action coming into the foreground. An odd choice, given how important environmental storytelling is to Silent Hill as a whole, but particularly Silent Hill 2, so that particular line, if accurate, doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence.
</p> <p><a href="/bloober-team-is-feeling-very-confident-about-silent-hill-2-remake">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Don't have Paramount Plus but desperate to watch the befuddling Knuckles? That's OK, it looks like it's getting a physical release</title><link>/knuckles-is-seemingly-getting-a-dvd-blu-ray-release</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:40:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>/knuckles-is-seemingly-getting-a-dvd-blu-ray-release</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>SEGA Australia</category><category>Android</category><category>Side view</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Nintendo Wii</category><category>iOS</category><category>SEGA</category><category>PS3</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Paramount</category><category>Sonic Team</category><category>Film & Television</category><category>Sonic the Hedgehog</category><category>Knuckles</category><category>Single Player</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Knuckles-(2024)-trailer---Sonic-%26-Knuckles.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Knuckles-(2024)-trailer---Sonic-%26-Knuckles.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
<strong>Knuckles</strong> just arrived on <strong>Paramount's</strong> streaming service <strong>Paramount Plus</strong> this week, but it looks like you'll be able to pick it up on DVD and Blu-ray.
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To describe the Knuckles show as good would probably be a lie. It's good in the way the origina 1993l Super Mario Bros. movie is, in that it's not at all good, but each subsequent, equally baffling creative choice is so out there you can't help but be impressed, even if it's a far cry from what it actually should have been. But, you won't be able to experience any of that for yourself if you don't have a Paramount Plus subscription. Most streaming services don't typically release their shows and film physically, but as shared in a recent promoted post from Wario64, it looks like Knuckles is getting the rare streaming to DVD and Blu-ray treatment, steelbook and all.
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The series is available for pre-order on both Amazon and Walmart, but no date has been confirmed as of yet. It also doesn't seem like it's available to pre-order in the UK just, so right now it's only the US that is seemingly confirmed for a physical release. Sega and Paramount haven't actually officially announced it yet either, so it's a bit unclear what's actually going on there.
</p> <p><a href="/knuckles-is-seemingly-getting-a-dvd-blu-ray-release">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Alien is making a comeback this year, as alongside the upcoming Romulus, a VR game is on the way now too</title><link>/alien-rogue-incursion-new-vr-game-announced</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:15:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>/alien-rogue-incursion-new-vr-game-announced</guid><category>20th Century Fox</category><category>20th Century Studios</category><category>PlayStation VR2</category><category>Meta Quest</category><category>Alien</category><category>Survios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alien-rogue-incursion_eBiChrJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alien-rogue-incursion_eBiChrJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
It seems like 2024 is going to be a good year for <strong>Alien</strong> fans, as alongside the upcoming pre-sequel Romulus, a VR game is on the way.
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You would think that the world of Alien plus virtual reality would be a match made in heaven (or hell, I guess), but it turns out there hasn't been such a game just yet. Earlier this week, VR developer Survios announced Alien: Rogue Incursion, the first VR game that's set in the world of the classic horror film series. "Alien: Rogue Incursion fully immerses players in a harrowing VR journey deep into the Alien universe with an all-new storyline of an ultimate mission that tests their courage, wits, and skill to survive the terrors of the 'Perfect Organism,'" reads an official description of the game.
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The single-player title will apparently be available on PlayStation VR2, PCVR via Steam, and the Meta Quest 3, set to release this holiday season. Specific story details haven't been revealed just yet, so who knows if it ties into the film in any direct way, or if it will just be its own isolated adventure.
</p> <p><a href="/alien-rogue-incursion-new-vr-game-announced">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Manor Lords dev reassures players who can't buy at launch - game off to flying start on Steam</title><link>/manor-lords-dev-reassures-players-struggling-to-buy-at-launch</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>/manor-lords-dev-reassures-players-struggling-to-buy-at-launch</guid><category>Strategy: Real-Time Strategy</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Slavic Magic</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Manor Lords</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-1_8RljKB9.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-1_8RljKB9.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
If you're seeing all the hype for <strong>Manor Lords</strong>, but can't pick it up right now, don't worry - the game's devs have assured everyone that it'll run frequent discounts.
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Manor Lords is having a bit of a moment. Earlier this week developer Hooded Horse had to write a <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/0/4355619963542957718/">Steam post</a> noting that the store is so overwhelmed from "all the people buying, it may take a couple tries for a bit while things calm down." It also went as high as fifth place on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed">Steam's top 100 most played games list</a>, currently sitting in sixth place at the time of writing. Josh even called it <a href="/manor-lords-2024-must-play-game-pass">2024's must-play strategy game, even in early access</a>, so I wouldn't blame you if you're dying to play it. Of course, at its launch discount of £26, that isn't feasible for everyone right this second.
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Thankfully, though, it seems like there are plenty more discounts planned for the game's future. In a <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1363080/view/4207000995140845446?l=english">news post</a>, CEO Tim Bender noted the team's appreciation for everyone's support so far, but also said that he doesn't want anyone to "feel any pressure to buy the game if waiting is better for you. If money is tight right now or you're still uncertain, we'll run those 25% discounts often and give you plenty of opportunities to get the game later as well, no one should feel any fear of missing out or any kind of pressure.
</p> <p><a href="/manor-lords-dev-reassures-players-struggling-to-buy-at-launch">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Everyone's favourite singing dog is next up on the Lego Animal Crossing docket</title><link>/lego-announces-new-animal-crossing-sets-kk-slider</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:10:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>/lego-announces-new-animal-crossing-sets-kk-slider</guid><category>Simulation</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Nintendo</category><category>Animal Crossing: New Horizons</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Single Player</category><category>The LEGO Group</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lego-animal-crossing-kk-slider.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lego-animal-crossing-kk-slider.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
More <strong>Lego Animal Crossing</strong> sets are on the way, and this time they'll see the arrival of fan favourite singing dog K.K. Slider.
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Back in March, Lego <a href="/lego-underwhelming-animal-crossing-sets-are-out-next-march">released its first collection of (slightly underwhelming) Animal Crossing sets</a>, and as meh-looking as they might be, they sold like hotcakes. You can get your hands on them now, but at the time you might have struggled to pick up one of the sets. And now, earlier this week Lego announced that it has a couple more sets based on Animal Crossing on the way. The bigger of the two sets is based on Animal Crossing New Horizons' town hall, which includes the main building itself, a van, a cafe stand, and minifigs of Isabelle, Audie, and of the one and only K.K. Slider. The minifigs look really good, but the town hall is essentially just the front of it, so it's not very exciting.
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The other set is of a Dodo Airlines airport, complete with control tower, dock, aeroplane, and minifigs of Wilbur and Tangy. Again, it's pretty cute, but mostly pretty dull - and you just know you're going to be charged a plastic arm and a leg for these things, despite not offering all that much. But hey, if you're a fan of simplicity, there might be something there for you at least!
</p> <p><a href="/lego-announces-new-animal-crossing-sets-kk-slider">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Escape from Tarkov devs won't call its controversial PvE mode DLC, but it is making it free for players who own a now delisted edition of the game</title><link>/escape-from-tarkov-dev-making-pve-free-for-players-who-own-edge-of-darkness-edition</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:21:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>/escape-from-tarkov-dev-making-pve-free-for-players-who-own-edge-of-darkness-edition</guid><category>Simulation</category><category>Battlestate Games</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Escape from Tarkov</category><category>RPG</category><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Escape-from-Tarkov-Streets-(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Escape-from-Tarkov-Streets-(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
After facing controversy over an incredibly pricey <strong>Escape from Tarkov</strong> gamemode, Battlestate Games has decided to release it for free after all - kind of.
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Earlier this week, Battlestate Games made the quite baffling decision to announce that <a href="/escape-from-tarkov-community-blasts-new-unheard-edition">Escape from Tarkov's upcoming PvE mode will cost a whopping $267</a> for new players, which obviously did not go down well with the game's community. Further frustrating was the fact that those who owned the Edge of Darkness edition were meant to get all future DLCs for free, except that edition has now been delisted, and those who do own that version of the game would still have to pay $100 to upgrade to the new Unheard Edition. It's a ridiculous amount of money for not even a full game, just a single mode, and following the reaction, it seems like Battlestate Games has changed its mind on how it will be selling the mode, mostly for the better.
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Battlestate Games studio head Nik Buyanov shared a post on the game's official subreddit to "clarify the situation." According to Buyanov, the PvE gamemode "is not DLC. DLC in our understanding is the major additions to the game, including various functionality and content that are released after the official release of the game as a themed DLC pack (Scav Life DLC for example, which will add a lot of new mechanics and content for Scav gameplay and levelling)."
</p> <p><a href="/escape-from-tarkov-dev-making-pve-free-for-players-who-own-edge-of-darkness-edition">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Marco Rodrigues is back in action-packed Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves trailer</title><link>/marco-rodrigues-fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-trailer</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:29:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>/marco-rodrigues-fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-trailer</guid><category>Fighting</category><category>SNK</category><category>Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fatal-fury-marco-rodrigues-reveal.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fatal-fury-marco-rodrigues-reveal.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>A much-loved character has returned in the latest traler for <a href="/games/fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves">Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves</a>! Marco Rodrigues is back in a serious way, and thanks to a stunning new trailer shown off at Evo Japan, we can see him in action for the first time in SNK's upcoming game.
</p><p>First playable in Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Marco is back with much of his classic and stunning martial arts prowess fighting game fans love him for, as well as those wonderful sideburns. Polished up in a new 3D in this new era of SNK games, it's a great character to see come back.
</p><p>This came during the finals of Evo Japan's King of Fighters XV tournament, in which Jiahong "ET" Lin from Taiwan took first place in a high-intensity grand finals. He was followed up by Hong Kong's very own Xiaohai in second place, and M from Japan in third.
</p> <p><a href="/marco-rodrigues-fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-trailer">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Guns, ghouls, and good looks: Why the Fallout series challenges expectations with its (relatively) unscarred gunslinger</title><link>/fallout-series-challenges-expectations-with-its-relatively-unscarred-gunslinger</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:16:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-series-challenges-expectations-with-its-relatively-unscarred-gunslinger</guid><category>Prime Video</category><category>Fallout</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Amazon Prime</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-tv-series-amazon-(2).jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-tv-series-amazon-(2).jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>In the <strong>Fallout</strong> universe, ghouls are a tragic byproduct of radiation exposure. While some retain their humanity, many succumb to a feral state, driven mad by the same radiation that grants them extended lifespans and a horrifying, ravaged appearance.</p><p>However, not all is lost. Certain ghouls possess a unique resilience to radiation, even finding it mildly restorative.</p><p>In Prime’s Fallout series, the enigmatic ghoul, played by Walton Goggins (Justified), was once a handsome pre-war actor named Cooper Howard. Known for his starring role in Western films, he retains his gunslinger style even in the wasteland. A trademark cowboy hat and a preference for canine companions hint at his past life, shown in flashbacks throughout season one. Howard comes off as a good guy who loves his family and his Australian Shepherd, and has a strong sense of right and wrong - something that seems to have been lost upon him in the Wasteland… or has it?</p> <p><a href="/fallout-series-challenges-expectations-with-its-relatively-unscarred-gunslinger">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>What are you playing this weekend?</title><link>/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-94</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-94</guid><category>What are you playing?</category><category>PC</category><category>What are you playing this weekend</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-classic-deathwing.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-classic-deathwing.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's finally spring! Huzzah! But instead of enoying the outdoors like you should, it's the weekend, which means you're probably planning to catch up on Fallout or Shogun. But when you're finished binging, why not pop in a game and continue the relaxation? That's our plan.</p><p>Of course, some of us have finished both series and despite starting an American Horror Story marathon, a few games need to be played because our Steam and Game Pass list is getting longer by the day.</p><p>Here's what some of the VG247 crew are getting into this weekend:</p> <p><a href="/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-94">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Stardew Valley updates dig deep with 40 new mine layouts, fish frenzy fun and busier bees, but console farmers face a wait</title><link>/stardew-valley-updates-164-165-166-console-release-news</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stardew-valley-updates-164-165-166-console-release-news</guid><category>Android</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>iOS</category><category>Indie</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>RPG</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Strategy</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Chucklefish Games</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Stardew Valley</category><category>PC</category><category>Farming</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-expanded-flashshifter-nexus-mods.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-expanded-flashshifter-nexus-mods.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Since the release of update 1.6 for <strong>Stardew Valley</strong>, ConcernedApe has been a busy beaver, releasing five patches for the update over the last month or so, the most recent being 1.6.6.</p><p>While 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 mainly focused on fixes and QoL updates, the developer recently released <strong>patch 1.6.4</strong>, which added fish frenzies, a new cutscene, and four new fairy styles. It also features 40 mine layouts, 20 “alternatives” after reaching the bottom of the mine, and 20 new volcano layouts that appear once you have unlocked the shortcut between the caldera and the volcano entrance.</p><p>With the patch, you can now place eight additional non-fish items into fish tanks, the Raccoon Shop now includes a trade for mystery boxes and golden mystery boxes, vinegar can now be poured onto trees to stop them from ever-growing moss, and shaving enchantment will now cause tree-specific drops.</p> <p><a href="/stardew-valley-updates-164-165-166-console-release-news">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Shogun is brave, bold, and a must-watch TV epic for the ages</title><link>/shogun-is-brave-bold-and-a-must-watch-tv-epic-for-the-ages</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alex Donaldson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:18:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>/shogun-is-brave-bold-and-a-must-watch-tv-epic-for-the-ages</guid><category>TV</category><category>TV series</category><category>厂丑ō驳耻苍</category><category>TV adaptation</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/shogun-h.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/shogun-h.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>As someone who has always taken an interest in Japanese history, James Clavell’s 1975 novel <strong>Sh&omacr;gun</strong> is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s an enticing premise: the story of the first Englishman to reach Japan and his experiences within the country. A fight for survival leads to an actual important role, our adventuring lead ultimately rubbing shoulders with some of Japan’s most important and elite historical figures.</p><p>It’s an intriguing adventure that masquerades as a history book - or perhaps it’s the other way around?</p><p>The truth is, Clavell played fairly fast and lost with the actual history. Shogun’s protagonist John Blackthorne is directly based on William Adams, who was the first Englishman to reach Japan. Adams was an important figure - but Clavell takes it quite a bit further. </p> <p><a href="/shogun-is-brave-bold-and-a-must-watch-tv-epic-for-the-ages">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Farewell, Freedich: ArcheAge will sail off into the sunset on June 27 when servers close in Europe and North America</title><link>/archeage-north-america-europe-server-closure-june-27</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>/archeage-north-america-europe-server-closure-june-27</guid><category>Trion Worlds</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>MMO</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>First person</category><category>Archeage</category><category>XLGAMES</category><category>Tencent Games</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Sandbox</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/archeage_GOu9hAY.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/archeage_GOu9hAY.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Kakao Games will shut down European and North American servers for ArcheAge on June 27.</p><p>Released in both regions in 2014, servers for the open-world MMO are closing due to the decline of active players and users.</p><p>“After discussing the performance of ArcheAge with XL Games at length, we have concluded that we’re no longer able to provide the MMORPG we envisioned,” <a href="https://archeage.playkakaogames.com/news/3136">reads the notice</a>. “The declining number of active players means the game’s content is no longer accessible in the way it used to be, and the experience of it is different from what was originally intended. In light of this, we’ve made the difficult decision to terminate the live service of ArcheAge in Europe and North America.</p> <p><a href="/archeage-north-america-europe-server-closure-june-27">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>I went into No Rest for the Wicked completely blind, and that absolutely worked in its favour</title><link>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-subverts-expectations</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-subverts-expectations</guid><category>Moon Studios</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Private Division</category><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>PS5</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>No Rest for the Wicked (2024)</category><category>PC</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>RPG</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Narrative / Story Driven</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Exploration</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/No-rest-for-the-wicked-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/No-rest-for-the-wicked-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>I haven't spent more than a few hours with <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371980/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked/" target="_blank">No Rest for the Wicked</a> yet, but it already feels like something special, and I wholeheartedly believe Moon Studios made the right call with an early access launch.</p><p>Looking at <a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-missing-features-mixed-reviews" target="_blank">the Steam reviews</a>, this may be a bit of a hot take, but I'm not afraid to say it: <strong>No Rest for the Wicked could very well be the 'big refresh' that <a href="/best-soulslikes-2024-not-fromsoftware" target="_blank">Soulslikes</a> (we're in dire need of a proper name for these) have been needing for a while.</strong> Mainly because it's both a ruthless follower of FromSoftware's teachings and an isometric action RPG with crafting elements that isn't just another riff on <a href="/games/diablo-iv" target="_blank">Diablo</a>.</p><p>I'd only really paid attention to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ozk5iBuH4" target="_blank">No Rest for the Wicked's striking reveal trailer</a>, which painted a far more traditional (despite the unique visuals) picture of the game than the previews released in the lead-up to the big early access launch which I unconsciously avoided. The thing is that, despite the firm isometric view and some surface-level similarities, I never expected Moon Studios' post-<a href="/games/ori-and-the-will-of-the-wisps" target="_blank">Ori</a> project to behave like a fast-and-furious action RPG.</p> <p><a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-subverts-expectations">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Life Eater is a short, gripping 'kidnapping sim' that’ll have you questioning everything you believe in</title><link>/life-eater-question-everything</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kelsey Raynor</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>/life-eater-question-everything</guid><category>Life Eater</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/life-eater-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/life-eater-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2632930/Life_Eater/">Life Eater</a> caught my eye the moment it appeared on <a href="https://twitter.com/WritNelson/status/1780219676800307588">my Twitter feed</a>, having described itself as a ‘horror fantasy kidnapping sim’. My initial thought was “oh, God no,” as I immediately worried just how sadistic a game like this could get in our current climate. But, while it <em>is </em>somewhat sadistic, it also has plenty of heart.</p><p>And considering the game was developed by the likes of Strange Scaffold - the brilliant minds bursting with bizarre ideas such as neo-noir shooter <a href="/games/el-paso-elsewhere">El Paso: Elsewhere</a> (which is soon <a href="/el-paso-elsewhere-movie-adaptation">being adapted into a film</a>) and market tycoon, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator - it really comes as no surprise that Life Eater is as strange a concept as it is, while feeling incredibly hearty.</p><p>Describing a kidnapping simulator as ‘hearty’ definitely doesn’t feel quite right, but it’s that thought - that jarring feeling - in and of itself that makes Life Eater stand out to me amongst other games. As you kick things off, you’ll be stepping into the shoes of a druid, Ralph, who must navigate your typical day-to-day life while completing annual sacrifices to his dark God, Zimforth.</p> <p><a href="/life-eater-question-everything">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Manor Lords has entered Early Access and for the next two weeks you can take a tenner off, so hurry up and grab it</title><link>/manor-lords-released-to-early-access-on-sale</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:31:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>/manor-lords-released-to-early-access-on-sale</guid><category>Strategy: Real-Time Strategy</category><category>Game Pass</category><category>Indie</category><category>Epic Games Store</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Slavic Magic</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Steam</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>gog</category><category>Manor Lords</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-battle.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/manor-lords-battle.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The highly-anticipated medieval strategy builder <strong>Manor Lords</strong> is now available through Early Access.</p><p>Available through the Epic Games Store, GOG, Microsoft Store, <a href="/manor-lords-most-wanted-steam-game-pass">PC Game Pass</a>, and Steam, for the next two weeks, you can take 25% off the normal price of $39.99 - or your regional equivalent - and pay only $29.99 through all of the retailers listed above, save for the Microsoft Store.</p><p>One of the most wishlisted games on Steam, Manor Lords has been on our must-play list for quite some time. Some of us even tried the demo during a Steam Next Fest and enjoyed it quite a bit.</p> <p><a href="/manor-lords-released-to-early-access-on-sale">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>During promoted live stream, MapleStory’s top player holds the game’s feet to the fire with a scathing critique</title><link>/during-promoted-live-stream-maplestorys-top-player-holds-the-games-feet-to-the-fire-with-a-scathing-critique</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:04:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>/during-promoted-live-stream-maplestorys-top-player-holds-the-games-feet-to-the-fire-with-a-scathing-critique</guid><category>Platformer</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Nexon</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Side view</category><category>MapleStory</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><category>AsiaSoft</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/maplestory-art-official.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/maplestory-art-official.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>MapleStory may have just witnessed the most extraordinary community mic drop in years, perhaps ever. Niru - undoubtedly the game's most dedicated player in recent memory - has been grinding to hit level 300 for months. No one has ever done it before, but moments from hitting the record-breaking milestone, and with the developer promoting his livestream both in-game and on social media, he flipped his own celebration on its head.
</p><p>On the verge of hitting his goal, Niru stopped and delivered a staggering scathing critique infront of 20,000 live viewers on the state of the game for roughly 40 minutes (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPjMTiNTia4&ab_channel=tniru">the full video is available on his YouTube channel</a>). He then logged off, pledging not to play the game again until these issues are fixed and providing MapleStory developer Nexon a historical case of corporate blue balls. Today, he is streaming Zelda.
</p><p>"I am very sorry, but I just don't want to do anything because I feel this needs attention and anything I do will take away from it, which is why I decided not to level up," writes Niru in the description of his latest video ("I won't play MapleStory unless things change"). "I am very sad over this, and worked very hard to build up a Twitch page that I really wanted to do for years and I feel I am throwing it all away, but this is probably the best chance that I can think of to try and improve this and if not I just won't return."
</p> <p><a href="/during-promoted-live-stream-maplestorys-top-player-holds-the-games-feet-to-the-fire-with-a-scathing-critique">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>As Honkai: Star Rail turns one, we look back on the Genshin Impact successor that might just outshine its blockbuster older sibling</title><link>/honkai-star-rail-one-year-release-anniversary</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rebecca Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/honkai-star-rail-one-year-release-anniversary</guid><category>Android</category><category>Anime</category><category>RPG</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Honkai: Star Rail</category><category>Cutesy</category><category>Single Player</category><category>HoYoVerse</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Free-2-Play</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>iOS</category><category>PS5</category><category>Genshin Impact</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Cognosphere</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/honkai-star-rail-genshin.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/honkai-star-rail-genshin.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>In a year almost unprecedentedly packed with brilliant game releases, <strong><a href="/honkai-star-rail-guide-walkthrough">Honkai: Star Rail</a></strong> — which today celebrates the first anniversary of its release — nevertheless stands out as a 2023 success story. A low-key one, admittedly; it wasn't hugely lauded at the end of the year, receiving only three nominations across all five major game award shows and winning just one (Best Mobile Game at <a href="/the-game-awards-2023-winners-baldurs-gate-3-game-of-the-year">The Game Awards</a>) — although it did sweep up every gong it could at several smaller and more mobile-focussed ceremonies.</p><p>But not only did Star Rail review positively among critics, it's been an enormous hit with the gaming public: boasting nearly 22 million estimated players in the past month according to the unofficial tracker <a href="https://activeplayer.io/honkai-star-rail/">ActivePlayer.io</a>, and spending several months since its launch <a href="/honkai-star-rail-maintains-momentum-by-earning-44-million-dollars-in-october">vying with Genshin Impact</a> for the title of the <a href="/honkai-star-rail-loses-top-gacha-earner-genshin-impact-horny-shooter">top-earning gacha game</a>, even managing to beat its predecessor into second place on more than one occasion.</p><p>There are a number of potential reasons why one of the most popular games going right now is often detached from wider conversations around gaming. Despite being available <a href="/honkai-star-rail-ps5-preview">on both PC and PlayStation 5</a> as well as iOS and Android devices, Honkai: Star Rail is almost exclusively talked about in critical circles as a <a href="/best-mobile-games">mobile game</a>, perhaps because its free-to-play gacha monetisation model indelibly associates it with those platforms in many peoples' minds.</p> <p><a href="/honkai-star-rail-one-year-release-anniversary">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>New report states rumored Switch 2 console will feature magnetic Joy-Cons and potential size boost</title><link>/switch-2-magnetic-joy-cons-potential-size-boost-report</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:11:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/switch-2-magnetic-joy-cons-potential-size-boost-report</guid><category>rumours</category><category>Report</category><category>Nintendo Switch 2</category><category>Nintendo</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/mario-wink-switch-oled.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/mario-wink-switch-oled.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The Joy-Con controllers for <strong>Switch 2</strong> will not only be larger than the current offerings but will stick to the upcoming console via magnets, according to a new report.</p><p>According to accessory manufacturer sources speaking with the Spanish-based site <a href="https://vandal.elespanol.com/noticia/1350770848/exclusiva-switch-2-conocemos-en-primicia-nuevos-detalles-de-la-proxima-consola-de-nintendo/">Vandal</a>, the report also stated that not only will the Joy-Con controllers be larger, but the new Switch will be larger than current models - but not as big as Steam Deck.</p><p>It’s also said that Switch 2 is compatible with the current Switch Pro controllers.</p> <p><a href="/switch-2-magnetic-joy-cons-potential-size-boost-report">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>I talked to Nvidia’s AI NPC: it’s impressive, uncanny, an ethical nightmare, and inevitably here to stay - like it or not</title><link>/nvidia-ai-npc-here-to-stay</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alex Donaldson</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/nvidia-ai-npc-here-to-stay</guid><category>PC</category><category>AI</category><category>Nvidia</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/AI-NPC-Nvidia.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/AI-NPC-Nvidia.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Usually, when you go to see one of the big hardware powerhouses, the presentations are primarily focused around… well, you know - hardware. That’s been shifting over the years, however, as specialized software becomes an increasingly vital part of the computer hardware battleground.</p><p><a href="/companies/nvidia">Nvidia</a> has led much of this charge. When you buy an RTX-series GPU, you’re not just buying it for the raw rasterization power - that is to say, how many pixels and frames it can push with the maximum visual bells and whistles enabled. You’re also buying it for specific software implementation that will aid in the presentation of your games - stuff like <a href="/cyberpunk-2077-nvidia-dlss-30">DLSS</a> and <a href="/horizon-forbidden-west-nvidia-rtx-4070-super-dlss-3">Frame Generation</a>, which can boost frame rates without sacrificing visual splendor, or <a href="/nvidia-reflex-esports-game-changer">Reflex</a>, which aims to reduce input lag.</p><p>All of this is of course part of a greater graphics arms race. When one feature gets added by one manufacturer, the other fires back with an equivalent or better alternative. As this race deepens, Nvidia sees a chance to synchronize gaming with its other key interest - Artificial Intelligence.</p> <p><a href="/nvidia-ai-npc-here-to-stay">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The Hunter x Hunter fighting game finally gets a gameplay trailer, but some fans aren't exactly blown away</title><link>/hunter-x-hunter-fighting-game-gets-gameplay-trailer-fans-arent-blown-away</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:36:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>/hunter-x-hunter-fighting-game-gets-gameplay-trailer-fans-arent-blown-away</guid><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PS5</category><category>Fighting</category><category>PC</category><category>HunterxHunter NenxImpact</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hunterxhunter-nenximpact-art.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hunterxhunter-nenximpact-art.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The HunterxHunter fighting game has finally got a gameplay trailer, following a brief tease earlier in the year that left fans of the manga, anime, and the fighting game genre in general guessing. Titled <strong>HunterxHunter NenxImpact</strong> (wow), it's a 3v3 fighter developed by Bushiroad Games and looks like a fast-paced Marvel vs Capcom style game. This is great news for fighting game fans who can smell some high quality jank a mile away, but fans of the IP itself don't seem totally sold.
</p><p>The reason why is the visuals. HunterxHunter NenxImpact's gameplay looks fantastic thanks to a collaboration between Bushiroad Games and Eighting (DNF Duel, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3), but when it comes to how graphically intensive the game is, many out there feel a touch underwhelmed. Indeed, when placing this next to other fighting game comtemporaries like Dragonball Fighterz, DNF Duel and the like, it's not hard to see a clear chasm in quality. You can watch the trailer yourself below for yourself for an idea of what I'm talking about.
</p><p>The game is clearly of a lower budget than folks may have wanted. However, allow me to offer some hope. If you watch the gameplay, and pay close attention to some of the <a href="https://twitter.com/JeuneSensei/status/1783489160260526321">tiny details as numerous fans across the internet have</a>, you'll notice clear similarities to games like Marvel vs Capcom 3, which is an all-time great fighting game people still adore. <a href="https://twitter.com/JWonggg/status/1783357861655175602">Pro players like Justin Wong have already tried HunterxHunter and come away impressed</a>, so it's clear the quality is beyond what you might see on the surface level.
</p> <p><a href="/hunter-x-hunter-fighting-game-gets-gameplay-trailer-fans-arent-blown-away">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Helldivers 2's latest Major Order forces players to choose between two weapons, and yup, the rocket launcher looks to be winning early</title><link>/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-forces-players-choose-between-weapons-rocket-launcher-winning-early</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:20:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-forces-players-choose-between-weapons-rocket-launcher-winning-early</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-devs-figuring-it-out-fixes-vs-new-stuff-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-devs-figuring-it-out-fixes-vs-new-stuff-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Bad news, people who like stratagems that don't easily lend themselves to being wielded like a power-crazed idiot, <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a>'s latest Major Order is designed around forcing people to choose between a rocket launcher and another weapon. As no one could have predicted, early signs look to be pointing the way of the rocket launcher.</p><p>This order seems like it may well have been designed specifically to target what's been a bit of a weakness for the forces of Super Earth so far - <a href="/helldivers-2-hardcores-want-casual-players-stick-to-plan-arrowhead-doing-what-it-can"> not being able to easily come to an agreement and fight as one unified force sticking to the same plan</a> when presented with battles on mutiple fronts. To be fair though, they've just overcome this hurdle in order to <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-looked-lost-cause-battle-down-to-one-planet">record a pretty impressive win</a>, and it looks like this latest attempt from Arrowhead to divide and conquer might come a bit of a cropper too.
</p><p>"Helldivers, it's time to choose between liberating Choohe or Penta," Arrowhead declared in its <a href="https://twitter.com/helldivers2/status/1783831163317989858">announcement of the Major Order</a>, "Depending on your choice, you will receive either the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher." So, putting aside everyone's very real concern for the very real people that're in need of saving as part of this operation, there was a key decision to be made. How's it looking so far, you ask?</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-forces-players-choose-between-weapons-rocket-launcher-winning-early">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Hear me out. After the Fallout TV show I don't want a new Fallout FPS - I'm fiending for a top down RPG</title><link>/hear-me-out-after-the-fallout-tv-show-i-dont-want-a-new-fallout-fps-im-fiending-for-a-top-down-rpg</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>/hear-me-out-after-the-fallout-tv-show-i-dont-want-a-new-fallout-fps-im-fiending-for-a-top-down-rpg</guid><category>Fallout 5</category><category>PC</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-2_Y8a2v0G.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-2_Y8a2v0G.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>That <a href="/tv-shows/fallout">Fallout Amazon show</a> is really popping off huh? Following its conclusion we've seen <a href="/fallout-games-hitting-millions-player-numbers">millions of interested players new and old flock to the games as a result</a>. <a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4</a> is hitting player peaks not seen in years, and <a href="/games/fallout-76">even Fallout 76 is basking in the glory</a>. So obviously everyone is seeing this excitement, and is looking to the future. Fallout 5 is on everyone's mind; Bethesda's own take on the wacky post-apocalypitc wasteland. But what I want is a return to the roots of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2. The time is ripe for another Fallout CRPG.
</p><p>Let's not beat around the bush here - <a href="/games/baldurs-gate-iii">Baldur's Gate 3</a> has laid the roadwork for such a venture. The Fantasy RPG blew away the gaming public, winning the full suite of major industry Game of the Year awards at events such as <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards">GDC</a>, <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-secures-game-of-the-year-at-dice-awards">DICE</a>, and <a href="/the-game-awards-2023-winners-baldurs-gate-3-game-of-the-year">The Game Awards</a>. It's about as close to a uncontestable game of the year statement as you can get. Millions of people either experienced the joys of a well-made, narrative CRPG can bring, or get a familar blast of the good stuff. The player numbers and awards are proof enough there's a real appetite for big IPs viewed through an eagle-eyed perspective.
</p><p>Fallout used to provide exactly this. The original two games are old now so maybe you've not given them a go, but they're dope! Playing them these days has you struggle through dated controls and graphics to get to the juicy centre that built a franchise. A truly iconic setting was established here, a distinct and often brutal sci-fi locale you could gorge yourself on. Bethesda took the reins with Fallout 3 and drastically shifted the form in which Fallout was presented to players, and that's proven to be a fruitful move throughout the years when you look at the swarms of vault dwellers who hopped onto the Fallout train while it was Todd's baby.
</p> <p><a href="/hear-me-out-after-the-fallout-tv-show-i-dont-want-a-new-fallout-fps-im-fiending-for-a-top-down-rpg">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>After the Helldivers 2's community's latest victory, here's more good news - those "impossible" citizen evac missions will be adjusted soon</title><link>/helldivers-2-impossible-bot-citizen-evac-missions-adjustment-coming</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:20:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-impossible-bot-citizen-evac-missions-adjustment-coming</guid><category>Shooter</category><category>PS5</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-impossible-bot-citizen-evac-missions-adjustment-coming-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-impossible-bot-citizen-evac-missions-adjustment-coming-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a>'s most recent Major Order <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-looked-lost-cause-battle-down-to-one-planet">really came down to the wire</a>, but the community managed to pull out a victory that's really impressive - given how dire the situation looked earlier this week. The celebrations haven't ended there either, with Arrowhead having indicated that some evac missions which've been proving near impossible should be adjusted soon.</p><p>Yup, after plenty of arguing about <a href="/helldivers-2-hardcores-want-casual-players-stick-to-plan-arrowhead-doing-what-it-can"> the difficulty hardcore players were having in trying to convince all of their casual pals that they needed to pitch in</a>, the same tenacity that <a href="/helldivers-2-players-have-managed-to-kill-two-billion-terminids-so-quickly-that-people-are-er-actually-trying-to-do-maths">killed a bunch of bugs</a> the other week helped folks successfully defend ten planets. And their nightmares might not features as many evac mission flashbacks in the near future. You love to see it.</p><p>As folks celebrated over on the Helldivers 2 Discord server, community manager Twinbeard provided them with even more reason to get hyped. "To all of you offering feedback on how the bot citizen evac missions are $€@!£X@&! impossible on higher difficulty levels," they wrote, "We agree 100 % and will therefore adjust these in the near future!"</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-impossible-bot-citizen-evac-missions-adjustment-coming">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>No Rest for the Wicked's biggest hotfix yet brings major performance boosts, adds quality of life updates, and 8 new shields</title><link>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-hotfix-5-big-changes</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:36:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>/no-rest-for-the-wicked-hotfix-5-big-changes</guid><category>RPG: Hack & Slash</category><category>Indie</category><category>Mac</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>No Rest For The Wicked</category><category>No Rest for the Wicked (2024)</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Narrative / Story Driven</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Side view</category><category>Point and Click</category><category>Moon Studios</category><category>Hack & Slash</category><category>Private Division</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Exploration</category><category>Gugames</category><category>PC</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/no-rest-for-the-wicked-early-access-screen-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/no-rest-for-the-wicked-early-access-screen-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/no-rest-for-the-wicked-2024">No Rest for the Wicked</a>, the - <a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-missing-features-mixed-reviews">initially divisive</a> - new Early Access game from Moon Studios, has been available to play for one week. The developer has been diligently, and quite remarkably, <a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-launch-hotfixes-balance-bug-fixes-performance">releasing hotfixes almost every day</a> since the game’s release.</p><p>Just a few hours ago, the game received its fifth hotfix, and it’s the largest one by far.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/no-rest-for-the-wicked-hotfix-5-big-changes">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>UPDATE: Fallout 4 next-gen update's free upgrade issue on PS5 is now "successfully resolved", Bethesda says</title><link>/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:28:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it</guid><category>Mods</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS4</category><category>First person</category><category>Fallout 4</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-4-next-gen-update-issues-playstation-plus-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-4-next-gen-update-issues-playstation-plus-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Well, <a href="/games/fallout-4">Fallout 4's</a> next-gen update arrived yesterday, as expected, though its deployment has been far from issue-free. The most noteworthy of these was a problem which has led to those who previously acquired the game via PlayStation Plus being unable to upgrade it to the PS5 version for free. Bethesda's said that it's working on rectifying this, with players being left to twiddle their thumbs in the interim.</p><p>If you're just catching up on things, <a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update">Fallout 4's next-gen update</a> brings the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, as well as including some graphical tweaks and bug fixes that vary from platform to platform. There's also a fair amount of free Creation Club content bundled in with it.</p><p>Sadly, when PlayStation players who'd previously acquired their PS4 version of the game via PlayStation Plus attempted to upgrade it to the new PS5 version for free - as they'd been told they'd be able to - they were instead <a href="https://twitter.com/videotechuk_/status/1783498755599134842">only greeted with the option buy the PS5 version seperately</a>. Naturally, this caused some backlash, especially given that the process seemed to be working as intended for those upgrading in similar fashion on Xbox.</p> <p><a href="/fallout-4-next-gen-update-runs-into-pretty-big-problem-on-ps5-bethesda-working-on-it">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Sand Land review – an imperfect, but worthy, final game from one of the best to ever do it</title><link>/sand-land-review</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/sand-land-review</guid><category>Sand Land</category><category>RPG</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/SAND-LAND-REVIEW.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/SAND-LAND-REVIEW.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
As every <strong><a href="/games/dragon-ball">Dragon Ball</a></strong> fan will know by this point in time, Akira Toriyama <a href="/akira-toriyama-dragon-ball-dragon-quest-obituary">sadly passed away</a> in March of this year. I won't spend too much time eulogising him, many others closer to him have put it much better than I ever could, but it was obviously a monumental loss for the world of anime and manga. <a href="/blue-dragon-spiritual-successor-chrono-trigger-nobody-played">And games</a>, too.
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There quite literally is no <strong><a href="/games/dragon-quest">Dragon Quest</a></strong> or <strong><a href="/games/chrono-trigger">Chrono Trigger</a></strong>, amongst so much else that his work inspired within video games, so <a href="/games/sand-land">Sand Land</a> – based on one of his own worlds and stories – finally getting its due in both the form of a film (later released as a series in the west) and as a video game felt more than appropriat. It felt like it was always meant to happen. The final result isn't perfect, granted, but I came away loving it specifically because of <a href="/sand-land-final-preview">how strongly the themes you find in Toriyama's work come through</a>. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, let's set the scene.
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Sand Land is a much lesser known manga title from Toriyama's catalogue, originally releasing in the year 2000, only consisting of a single volume following Beelzebub (the prince of all demons), Rao (the aforementioned old man), and Thief (another demon that serves as a guide to Beelzebub). The game and series actually added a fourth member to the crew, Ann, a mysterious young woman and mechanic whose story ventures into spoiler territory. They all reside in Sand Land, a desert area ruined by climate disaster and war, and the main setting for the game which you traverse around as you set off on a quest to find a Legendary Spring so that the country's people have easy access to water again.
</p> <p><a href="/sand-land-review">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Xbox games revenue surges with Activision boost and Game Pass users rack up millions of hours playing Diablo 4 - Microsoft Q3</title><link>/xbox-games-revenue-activision-diablo-4-game-pass-10-million-hours-microsoft-q3-2024</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:03:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>/xbox-games-revenue-activision-diablo-4-game-pass-10-million-hours-microsoft-q3-2024</guid><category>Financials</category><category>Microsoft Financials Q3 2024</category><category>microsoft financials</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Activision</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Microsoft ABK acquisition</category><category>Blizzard</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-king.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-king.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Microsoft has announced its third quarter earnings for the period ending March 31, 2024, noting a 62% revenue increase in Xbox content and services.</p><p>As part of the More Personal Computing sector, Microsoft said the increase was driven by 61 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition. Thanks to the latter, revenue for the sector was up 17% to $15.6 billion year-over-year (yoy). However, taking Activision Blizzard King out of the equation, revenue for Xbox content and services was only up by 1%.</p><p>Gaming revenue was up 51% yoy to $5.45 billion, but once again, <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/FY-2024-Q3/Document/DownloadDocument/38/SlidesFY24Q3.pptx">55 points were from Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King</a>, otherwise, the sector would have reported a decline of 4% yoy.</p> <p><a href="/xbox-games-revenue-activision-diablo-4-game-pass-10-million-hours-microsoft-q3-2024">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>BlizzCon 2024 canceled without a definitive explanation, but Blizzard vows the celebration will return in the years to come</title><link>/blizzcon-2024-canceled-says-blizzard</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>/blizzcon-2024-canceled-says-blizzard</guid><category>BlizzCon 2024</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>BlizzCon</category><category>Blizzard</category><category>PC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/blizzcon-logo-generic.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/blizzcon-logo-generic.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Blizzard has announced that after “careful consideration over the last year,” it will not host <strong>BlizzCon 2024</strong> this year.</p><p>According to the company, the “decision was not made lightly,” as BlizzCon “remains a very special event” for the studio, and it knows that many people look forward to it.</p><p>“While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years,” said the firm in a statement.</p> <p><a href="/blizzcon-2024-canceled-says-blizzard">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Shogun has concluded and despite fans yearning for more, the creators aren't sure a second season is needed - and we agree</title><link>/shogun-is-a-hit-but-doesnt-need-a-second-season-in-our-opinion</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:08:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>/shogun-is-a-hit-but-doesnt-need-a-second-season-in-our-opinion</guid><category>shogun</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>FX</category><category>TV</category><category>Hulu</category><category>mini-series</category><category>TV series</category><category>厂丑ō驳耻苍</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/shogun-yoshii-toranaga-2024.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/shogun-yoshii-toranaga-2024.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The FX limited series <strong>Shogun</strong> ended on April 23, and fans of the ten-episode drama are clamoring for a second go-round; however, that’s not likely to happen, according to showrunner Justin Marks and writer Rachel Kondo.</p><p>This is because the series was based on the novel of the same name by the late James Clavell, who didn’t write a sequel. Set in 17th-century feudal Japan, it tells the story of shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne<strong> </strong>(Cosmo Jarvis)<strong> </strong>who<strong> </strong>spends the rest of his days in the country. Blackthorne’s character was based on the real-life William Adams who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan and became a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.</p><p>Despite Clavell's other works having minor ties to Shogun (The Asian Saga), the novel concludes the story of Blackthorne and his relationships with the main players. That said, producer and co-star, Hiroyuki Sanada (John Wick 4, Mortal Kombat, Westworld) who plays the powerful busho Yoshii Toranaga, feels that <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/shogun-hiroyuki-sanada-japan-epic-season-2-1235841825/">while there is a history</a> within the book, and “real history models,” a second entry or related series “depends on the audience’s reaction,” which as we know has been very positive.</p> <p><a href="/shogun-is-a-hit-but-doesnt-need-a-second-season-in-our-opinion">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item></channel></rss><div class="mads-block"></div>
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