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  2. <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, 28 Mar 2024 17:49:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>As the assault on Troost begins, Helldivers 2's massive new Quasar Cannon is earning pretty stellar reviews</title><link>/helldivers-2-assault-on-troost-new-quasar-cannon-earning-pretty-stellar-reviews?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:49:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-assault-on-troost-new-quasar-cannon-earning-pretty-stellar-reviews?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-melee-weapons-gun-bash-killer-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-melee-weapons-gun-bash-killer-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> folks. You'll probably be glad to know that the forces of Super Earth are now moving on the automaton-infested Troost, having just wrestled control of Vandalon IV. To be fair, they've had help from two huge new guns, one of which certainly seems like it might be a new fan favourite.</p><p>These fresh additions to the arsenal have been a welcome surprise, especially since <a href="/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes">Arrowhead has temporarily barred players from getting into snowball fights</a>, due to an issue it's busy looking into. While your <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix">arc weapons should no longer cause crashes</a> like those snowballs currently are, you'll probably want to give these new firearms a whirl as you push on towards major order victory over the next days or so.</p><p>As I write this, there's a force of 140,000-ish helldivers battling to liberate Troost, with it having become the number one target in their crosshairs once Vandalon IV <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bpz22f/vandalon_iv_has_been_liberated_onward_to_troost/">fell into Super Earth's hands just a little bit ago</a>. It's the big final boss of this latest major order, so here's hoping the attack goes well, even if it currently looks like it'll take 20 hours or so of strongly sustained push, since we're currently only at about 4% liberation percentage, according to <a href="https://helldivers.io/">Helldivers.io</a>.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-assault-on-troost-new-quasar-cannon-earning-pretty-stellar-reviews?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, the sequel to DreamWorks and Netflix's Camp Cretaceous, is looking much darker</title><link>/jurassic-world-chaos-theory-netflix-release-date-teaser-trailer-revealed?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>/jurassic-world-chaos-theory-netflix-release-date-teaser-trailer-revealed?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Jurassic World: Chaos Theory</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Jurassic World</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Animation</category><category>DreamWorks Animation</category><category>TV</category><category>Netflix</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Jurassic-World_Chaos-Theory_trailer.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Jurassic-World_Chaos-Theory_trailer.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Did you know a five-season animated Jurassic World series was released on Netflix? No? Well, if you're a diehard dinosaur fan, you ought to check it out. At least until the end of season 3, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous was pretty sweet and more mature than you'd expect. Now, Chaos Theory aims to be a darker follow-up.</p><p>Entertainment Weekly <a href="https://ew.com/jurassic-world-chaos-theory-trailer-exclusive-paul-mikel-williams-darius-sean-giambrone-ben-8621071" target="_blank">has all the new details</a> about DreamWorks Animation's sequel series, which debuts ten episodes on May 24 on Netflix. Plus, the streaming service has finally released a proper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZMLpmBwQf4" target="_blank">teaser trailer</a> that better sets up the tone and the main premise.</p><p>Scott Kreamer, an executive producer and showrunner on Camp Cretaceous, explained why he jumped on the opportunity to helm a sequel series right after ending the previous one's lengthy run. "I would want to tell a more sophisticated story with the older kids, tonally closer to the end of the Harry Potter movies than the beginning of the Harry Potter movies...it kept going from there, and people luckily got on board," he explained.</p> <p><a href="/jurassic-world-chaos-theory-netflix-release-date-teaser-trailer-revealed?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a live-action anime finale in which the two kaijus play Vegeta and Goku</title><link>/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Legendary Pictures</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Monsterverse</category><category>Warner Bros.</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</category><category>Movies</category><category>Godzilla</category><category>King Kong</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Godzilla-x-Kong-main-poster.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Godzilla-x-Kong-main-poster.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>There are no spoilers ahead for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, beyond what's been revealed in marketing materials.</strong></p><p>Adam Wingard's second MonsterVerse movie, <a href="/godzilla-x-kong-second-trailer-arrives" target="_blank">Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</a>, might feel looser than 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, but it finally lets its gargantuan protagonists lead the story.</p><p>It's loud. It's silly. It's a Showa-era kaiju movie, but made on a beefy Hollywood budget, through and through. We've just enjoyed the finest dramatic Godzilla movie since 1954 in Toho's <a href="/you-could-buy-godzilla-minus-one-oscar-shoes" target="_blank">Godzilla Minus One</a>, so it only makes sense that Legendary Pictures and the bold filmmakers behind the MonsterVerse keep rowing in the opposite direction after having tackled disaster-movie-like Godzilla too in the past.</p> <p><a href="/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Anthony Mackie says the Marvel Cinematic Universe is limited by the source material, but we're not sure that's the problem</title><link>/anthony-mackie-says-marvel-cinematic-universe-is-limited-by-comic-books?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>/anthony-mackie-says-marvel-cinematic-universe-is-limited-by-comic-books?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Marvel</category><category>TV</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Comic Books</category><category>Anthony Mackie</category><category>Marvel Cinematic Universe</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Captain America: Brave New World</category><category>Movies</category><category>Marvel Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Sam-Wilson_Captain-America.jpeg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Sam-Wilson_Captain-America.jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe <a href="/disney-ceo-downplays-superhero-fatigue-problems" target="_blank">has been having a bit of trouble recently</a>, yet it remains big and profitable enough to keep the spark alive and shift plans around so the upcoming big-screen releases and <a href="/best-cheap-disney-plus-deals" target="_blank">Disney+</a> shows are much better. Now, Anthony Mackie is adding his voice to that of the critics', despite, you know, playing the new Captain America.</p><p>The actor, who's now shooting Captain America: Brave New World - which arrives on February 14, 2025, after big strike-related delays and rewrites - is currently promoting the international release of 2023's pretty solid Twisted Metal TV adaptation. Of course, he was asked about the Marvel sandbox and had a spicy take about its limitations.</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/anthony-mackie-marvel-universe-hard-exclusive-newsupdate/" target="_blank">Radio Times</a>, the actor explained the decades and decades of source material available to pluck storylines and character arcs from often restrict the narrative possibilities of the movies and series they make for. "I would say the Marvel thing is completely different, just because it's such a space of controlled entertainment," he said, "Like, there's only so much you can do. There's only so much creativity you can bring to the table, because Stan Lee gave us so much content...it's like, you can't really go outside of the lines of those comic books."</p> <p><a href="/anthony-mackie-says-marvel-cinematic-universe-is-limited-by-comic-books?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Attention Dragon's Dogma 2 moaners, Capcom's asking for your probably terrible additional DLC pitches</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-player-survey-probably-terrible-additional-dlc-pitches?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:58:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-player-survey-probably-terrible-additional-dlc-pitches?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-stained-glass(1).jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-stained-glass(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Oi, you. If you're one of the folks who've had a bit of a moan about <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a>'s DLC, as we're all perfectly entitled to do about any game, now's your chance to tell Capcom what you might like it to do when it comes to additional DLC that could arrive for the game.</p><p>Yep, a games company is asking you for input on a game, try not let all of the power go to your head at once. This is actually something Capcom, it its credit, does pretty regularly, having previously asked about the likes of <a href="/capcom-wants-to-know-which-resident-evil-remake-you-want-next">Resident Evil remakes</a> and <a href="/capcom-survey-asking-more-dead-rising-and-dino-crisis">classic Capcom IPs</a> such as Dead Rising. Whether much ends up coming of your input is another thing, but it's nice to feel heard at least.</p><p>You can find the <a href="https://www.enqform.capcom.com/form/pub/form1/dd2_en2">fresh survey about DD2 here</a>, just make sure you've set aside a bit of time first, because it's fairly chunky, although you have got until April 21 to fill it out. The bit you probably care the most about is on the third and fourth pages of it, once you've gotten through answering stuff like how you heard about the game and what you've thought of it so far.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-player-survey-probably-terrible-additional-dlc-pitches?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2 meat fest! Hot meat ranked from worst to best! Your doctor hates it...</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-meat-fest-hot-meat-ranked-from-worst-to-best-your-doctor-hates-it?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:36:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-meat-fest-hot-meat-ranked-from-worst-to-best-your-doctor-hates-it?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Sequence.00_13_08_20.Still698.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Sequence.00_13_08_20.Still698.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>There's a lot to love about <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">Dragon's Dogma 2</a>, obviously. The game is a cut above a lot of other games we've seen come out in recent months (yeah I'm including Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth too), and we reckon it's due to some truly unique quirks and charming little features you can find sprinkled all over Capcom's latest action RPG. You want an example? For my money, you've got to love the live action cooking scenes.
  3. </p><p>That's why I was pleasantly surprised when the good folks over at Eurogamer ranked each of the cooking cutscenes in order of worst to best, which you can watch in the video above! Not only is it packed full of meat puns (as you'd expect), but it'll also help you get a troublesome achievement / trophy if you follow it along yourself.
  4. </p><p>Obviously the rotten meat goes at the bottom but you may be surprised which ranks near the top. This reminds me of a university story. Did you know one of my old flat mates once ate undercooked sausages in front of four people, and pretended they were cooked? We were making fun of him not being able to cook sausages properly, and instead of admiting he couldn't even over-cook food, he forced his way through three raw sausages to prove a point. He was later ill, obviously. He didn't even get a trophy for it - he flunked out of third year I think. &pound;25,000 down and no trophy...</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-meat-fest-hot-meat-ranked-from-worst-to-best-your-doctor-hates-it?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Terrible news, fun-loving Helldivers 2 folks, Arrowhead wants you to avoid having snowball fights for now</title><link>/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:58:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It's defintely not Christmas, but Christmas in <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> has basically just been cancelled. Arrowhead's advising that you refrain from lobbing any snowballs at your mates until further notice, until it figures out how to fix your favorite pastime from inadvertently causing crashes.</p><p>That's right, you might be <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix">safe to use your arc weapons again without fearing any sudden freezes</a>, thanks to the game's latest patch stopping that from being a thing, but now you've got to avoid trying to cover someone in a suspicious patch of yellow snow you've found mid-op and are somewhow okay with picking up. To be fair, you're now supposed to be <a href="https://twitter.com/helldivers2/status/1773002198688887026">making sure those pesky bots get driven back</a> now anyway, so you've got plenty to keep you occupied.</p><p>Over in the official Helldivers 2 Discord server, Arrowhead community manager Baskinator announced this depressing news, declaring: "Helldivers, avoid having snowball fights". Don't worry though, this isn't some kind of punishment for failing a major order or, er, being a bit too reticent to stop killing Terminids and actually deal with the galaxy's current biggest threat.
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  6. "We're aware of a crash caused by picking up and throwing snowballs," the developer explained, "We hope to have this fixed in the near future, but until then, we advise against snowball throwing". So, there you go, if you want to make sure you don't get booted out, stop trying to take people's heads off every time you drop onto a frigid planet.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-not-snowball-fights-crashes?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Diablo 4 deserves a lot of the flack it gets, but anyone jumping into today's Game Pass launch shouldn’t care</title><link>/diablo-4-flack-game-pass-launch?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:02:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-4-flack-game-pass-launch?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Open World</category><category>PC</category><category>Diablo</category><category>Hack &amp; Slash</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Game Pass</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lilith-d4-game-pass.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/lilith-d4-game-pass.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>In recent weeks, it has become somewhat customary to dunk on <a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a> for one reason or another. Most of it has been <a href="/diablo-4-season-of-the-construct-review">entirely justified</a>, and we&rsquo;ve certainly <a href="/diablo-4-season-3-last-epoch">partaken in some of that dunking ourselves</a>.</p><p>Blizzard just seems to have been speedrunning through unforced errors, which kicked off all the way back at the game&rsquo;s release last year. But how much of that has any bearing on its impending Game Pass release? The answer is, likely, very little.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-4-flack-game-pass-launch?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Hollywood's insatiable desire for reboots catches Pirates of the Caribbean's sinking ship in its maelstrom</title><link>/next-pirates-of-the-caribbean-will-reboot-franchise?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:57:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>/next-pirates-of-the-caribbean-will-reboot-franchise?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Johnny Depp</category><category>Jack Sparrow</category><category>Walt Disney Studios</category><category>Jerry Bruckheimer</category><category>Pirates of the Caribbean</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Movies</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean_Dead-Man's-Chest_Jack-Sparrow.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean_Dead-Man's-Chest_Jack-Sparrow.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann's tales are done for good, as Disney and the producers confirm that, to the surprise of no one but the most hopeful Johnny Depp fans, they're looking at other options for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.</p><p>We'd been hearing chatter about the adventurous movie series looking for fresher waters for a few years now, with talent as big as the writers behind <a href="/deadpool-and-wolverine-super-bowl-first-trailer" target="_blank">Deadpool</a> or <a href="/barbie-star-margot-robbie-producing-live-action-the-sims-movie" target="_blank">Margot Robbie</a> trying to bring new ideas into the franchise, but it seems like the powers that be at Disney are carefully considering the options before moving forward with another set of pirates and an entirely new storyline.</p><p>Via <a href="https://comicbook.com/movies/news/pirates-of-the-caribbean-reboot-movie-jerry-bruckheimer-disney/" target="_blank">ComicBook.com</a>, and while talking to the site about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwDen1Wrx8" target="_blank">The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare</a>, legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who's been attached to all previous Pirates of the Caribbean flicks (which are available to watch on <a href="/best-cheap-disney-plus-deals" target="_blank">Disney+</a> right now), confirmed the current status of the IP at Disney and what they want to do. "It's hard to tell. You don't know, you really don't know... You don't know how they come together. You just don't know," he said, "Because with Top Gun you have an actor who is iconic and brilliant. And how many movies he does before he does Top Gun, I can't tell you. But we're gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don't have to wait for certain actors."</p> <p><a href="/next-pirates-of-the-caribbean-will-reboot-franchise?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>SEGA to reportedly lay off 240 staff, as Company of Heroes developer Relic announces plans to go independent</title><link>/sega-lay-off-240-company-of-heroes-developer-relic-go-independent?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:33:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>/sega-lay-off-240-company-of-heroes-developer-relic-go-independent?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Strategy: Real-Time Strategy</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Two Point Studios</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Sports</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>THQ</category><category>Platformer</category><category>PS4</category><category>Relic Entertainment</category><category>SEGA</category><category>Company of Heroes</category><category>PC</category><category>THQ Wireless</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Football Manager</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Sonic Dream Team</category><category>Indie</category><category>Company Of Heroes 3</category><category>SEGA Hardlight</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Two Point Hospital</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sega-eye.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sega-eye.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>SEGA is reportedly planning to cut 240 jobs across a number of its studios, with <a href="/games/total-war-pharaoh">Total War</a> developer Creative Assembly, SEGA Europe, and <a href="/games/sonic-dream-team">Sonic Dream Team</a> developer Hardlight being the studios set to be affected by these layoffs. Meanwhile, the publisher has announced that it's sold <a href="/games/company-of-heroes">Company of Heroes</a> developer Relic, which now plans to go independent.</p><p>This news is the latest to break in what's been a terrible year for games industry layoffs so far, especially among big publishers, with <a href="/microsoft-lays-of-1900-staff-from-its-video-game-division">Microsoft having laid off 1,900 staff from its video game division</a> in late January, and <a href="/playstation-announces-plans-to-lay-off-900-people-will-close-london-studio">PlayStation having let 900 staff go just last month</a>. While the numbers involved in these cuts aren't as huge, they do also follow <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sega-of-america-to-lay-off-61-employees">SEGA of America laying off 61 people earlier this year</a>, after <a href="/sega-of-america-accused-of-moving-to-lay-off-temporary-staff">announcing plans to "phase out" tepmorary workers in controversial fashion late last year</a>.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sega-sells-relic-and-will-cut-240-jobs-across-uk-studios">GamesIndustry.biz</a>, most of the layoffs are set to affect staff at Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while Hardlight will seemigly see a smaller number of cuts. Neither <a href="/games/two-point-hospital">Two Point Hospital</a> studio Two Point Studios or Football Manager developer Sports Interactive, both of which are also owned by SEGA, were mentioned as part of these cuts.</p> <p><a href="/sega-lay-off-240-company-of-heroes-developer-relic-go-independent?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The best action RPG you never played is getting a sequel</title><link>/the-best-action-rpg-you-never-played-is-getting-a-sequel?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:29:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>/the-best-action-rpg-you-never-played-is-getting-a-sequel?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>MMO</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Hellgate Redemption</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hellgate-redemption-logo-w-back.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hellgate-redemption-logo-w-back.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Yes this is real. No you're not imagining things. Another Hellgate game is in development, with the original Hellgate London lead Bill Roper at the helm. Hellgate Redemption is coming - built in Unreal Engine 5 for PC and consoles. No release date yet, of course. All we have for now is this mic-drop announcement to scratch our heads over.
  7. </p><p>In development at Lunacy games, which was <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/a-group-of-industry-professionals-have-launched-lunacy-games">only recently founded by a collection of industry vets</a>, is also making a wild west survival RPG alongside their new Hellgate title. However, judging by the <a href="https://www.einpresswire.com/article/698511180/bill-roper-opens-a-new-hellgate">official announcement</a> for Hellgate Redemption and Roper's own history with the IP, it's this game that's closest to his heart.
  8. </p><p>Roper states, "I&rsquo;ve dreamed of returning to the franchise we created back in 2007 for many, many years, I&rsquo;ve always felt I had unfinished business with the Hellgate IP, which is why our codename for the project is Hellgate: Redemption."
  9. </p> <p><a href="/the-best-action-rpg-you-never-played-is-getting-a-sequel?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Mission: Impossible 8 is still shooting somehow, adds Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O'Brian to cast</title><link>/mission-impossible-8-continues-shooting-adds-love-lies-bleeding-katy-obrian?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:57:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/mission-impossible-8-continues-shooting-adds-love-lies-bleeding-katy-obrian?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Mission: Impossible</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two</category><category>Tom Cruise</category><category>Movies</category><category>Katy O'Brian</category><category>Paramount Pictures</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Love-Lies-Bleeding_Katy-O'Brian.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Love-Lies-Bleeding_Katy-O'Brian.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>If you've recently been obsessing over <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AULR_GPteNQ" target="_blank">Love Lies Bleeding</a>, especially its two main stars, and also enjoy the incredibly consistent <a href="/mission-impossible-nintendo-64-spy-games-2022" target="_blank">Mission: Impossible</a> saga, you're in luck. Katy O'Brian has joined the cast of the follow-up to last year's Dead Reckoning - Part 1.</p><p>But wait! Mission: Impossible 8 is still shooting? Well yeah, apparently. Believe it or not, the two-parter (though Paramount may be considering an entirely different title for the second one, after all that's transpired) started production <em>before</em> the pandemic, so at this point it feels like Tom Cruise, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, and everyone involved have been stuck doing these films forever.</p><p>Regardless, the first Dead Reckoning (AKA Mission: Impossible 7) kicked a large amount of butt, despite several production hiccups, and we're not expecting the next one to suddenly suck, so the excitement is still there. After many delays, the eighth installment is set to arrive on May 23, 2025.</p> <p><a href="/mission-impossible-8-continues-shooting-adds-love-lies-bleeding-katy-obrian?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Embracer Group sells Borderlands creator Gearbox to Take Two for 460 million</title><link>/embracer-group-has-divested-itself-of-gearbox-with-take-two-acquiring-the-company-for-460-million?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:33:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>/embracer-group-has-divested-itself-of-gearbox-with-take-two-acquiring-the-company-for-460-million?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>2K Games</category><category>First person</category><category>Indie</category><category>Cyberfront</category><category>Gearbox Publishing</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Borderlands</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Gearbox Software</category><category>Hyper Light Breaker</category><category>PS3</category><category>Xbox 360</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/borderlands-3_gZGtLOh.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/borderlands-3_gZGtLOh.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Embracer Groups is divesting itself of Gearbox for 460 million dollars,<a href="https://embracer.com/releases/embracer-group-divests-gearbox-entertainment-for-a-consideration-of-usd-460-million-to-take-two-interactive-software-inc/"> according to an official Embracer Group press release</a>. Gearbox - creator of <a href="/games/borderlands">Borderlands</a>, <a href="/games/risk-of-rain">Risk of Rain</a>, and more video game IPs - will be aquired by Take Two and paid entirely with newly created Take Two shares.
  10. </p><p>When it comes to exactly what Embracer is selling, this includes Gearbox Software, Gearbox Montr&eacute;al, Gearbox Studio Quebec and well as various IP like Borderlands, Homeworld, Risk of Rain, Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem. However, Embracer will be keeping its grip on Gearbox Publisher (soon to be renamed following the sale), Cryptic Studios, (Neverwinter Online and Star Trek Online), Lost Boys Interactive and Captured Dimensions. These developers will be folded into the Embracer company proper following the sale.
  11. </p><p>Back in 2021, Embracer group bought Gearbox for $1.3 billion. $363 million was upfront, split 50 / 50 between cash and Embracer shares. There was then rougly $1 billion up for grabs if Gearbox hit several targets within six years, though there is no mention on whether these targets were hit by Gearbox since being acquired. Randy Pitchford will remain CEO of Gearbox as the company jiggles under Take Two's umbrella.
  12. </p> <p><a href="/embracer-group-has-divested-itself-of-gearbox-with-take-two-acquiring-the-company-for-460-million?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>One of the best roguelike survival games, Don't Starve, is getting its own tabletop adaptation</title><link>/dont-starve-the-board-game-coming-to-kickstarter-q3-2024?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:34:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dont-starve-the-board-game-coming-to-kickstarter-q3-2024?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Indie</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Klei Entertainment</category><category>Glass Cannon Unplugged</category><category>Board Games</category><category>PS4</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Don't Starve: The Board Game</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Nintendo Wii U</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Don't Starve</category><category>Mac</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dont-starve-the-board-game.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dont-starve-the-board-game.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>One of the best survival games out there is getting a board game courtesy of Glass Cannon Unplugged, and it&rsquo;s Klei Entertainment&rsquo;s roguelike classic <strong>Don&rsquo;t Starve</strong>.</p><p>Going the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glasscannonunplugged/dont-starve-the-board-game">crowdfunding route through Kickstarter</a>, <strong>Don't Starve: The Board Game</strong> takes 1-4 players into the randomly generated world of the Constant, a strange and dangerous realm where magic and science intertwine.</p><p>With the elements and plenty of baddies working against you, as one of the video game&rsquo;s iconic characters, you and your friends will need to use your wits to outsmart fate, find subsistence, and stay alive.</p> <p><a href="/dont-starve-the-board-game-coming-to-kickstarter-q3-2024?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer signals openness to broader store options which could lead to third-party retailers appearing on Xbox</title><link>/phil-spencer-open-to-third-party-game-stores-on-xbox?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:08:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>/phil-spencer-open-to-third-party-game-stores-on-xbox?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Xbox One</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Phil Spencer</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/xbox-logo-12.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/xbox-logo-12.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Microsoft's Phil Spencer wants players to have more options beyond the first-party stores tied to consoles.</p><p>Spencer has always seemed keen on creating a more open and accessible digital environment for players and has often discussed reducing platform fragmentation and providing customers with more options and control over where they play or purchase their games.</p><p>Speaking with <a href="https://www.polygon.com/24108670/xbox-epic-games-store-phil-spencer-interview">Polygon</a> at GDC 2024, Microsoft&rsquo;s CEO of Gaming discussed the idea of providing Xbox users with additional ways to purchase titles by adding third-party stores such as the Epic Games Store, Itch.io, or GOG to the console instead of forcing users to buy from the official Xbox storefront.</p> <p><a href="/phil-spencer-open-to-third-party-game-stores-on-xbox?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Star Trek 4 is still happening, surprisingly, and it's sounding like the end of the reboot films</title><link>/star-trek-4-still-happening-will-wrap-up-reboot-films?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:50:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>/star-trek-4-still-happening-will-wrap-up-reboot-films?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Star Trek</category><category>Paramount</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Star Trek Into Darkness</category><category>Science Fiction</category><category>Paramount Pictures</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/star-trek-2009.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/star-trek-2009.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  13. Despite the third entry having been released eight years ago, <strong>Star Trek 4</strong> is still moving ahead, though with a slightly different crew.
  14. </p><p>
  15. Back in 2009, Star Trek was thrust back into the mainstream with the J. J. Abrams directed reboot film of the same name, spawning a couple of sequels including Into Darkness and Beyond. The third entry came out way back in 2016, and a fourth entry was meant to be coming at some point, but things have been quiet on that front until now. As reported by <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/star-trek-4-screenwriter-steve-yockey-1235953186/">Variety</a>, Star Trek 4 is moving ahead, bringing on Steve Yockey as the new screenwriter for the project. Yockey hasn't helmed too many notable projects, probably best known for the HBO series The Flight Attendant.
  16. </p><p>
  17. Unsurprisingly, story details are still under wraps at this point in time, but Variety says that Paramount and Bad Robot are lining up this as of yet untitled sequel as the final entry in the rebooted series of films. Apparently one of the big issues for the film has been bringing back all of the cast for the project, which isn't exactly massively surprising - Karl Urban has been busy with The Boys, Zoe Saldana is of course Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, and Chris Pine has appeared in DC's Wonder Woman films amongst others, so wrangling all of the back together and more isn't massively surprising.
  18. </p> <p><a href="/star-trek-4-still-happening-will-wrap-up-reboot-films?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bad news, Baldur's Gate 3 fraudsters, the latest hotfix stops you hoodwinking merchants using container tricks</title><link>/baldurs-gate-3-latest-hotfix-stops-merchant-container-tricks?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:21:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>/baldurs-gate-3-latest-hotfix-stops-merchant-container-tricks?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bg3-hotfix-18-vendor-bug-fices-patch-6-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bg3-hotfix-18-vendor-bug-fices-patch-6-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hello there, <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-walkthrough">Baldur's Gate 3</a> people. We're doing this dance again. There's a newly released hotfix, and it does things. What things? Well, for one, it fixes a bunch of exploits involving containers that you'd previously been able to use to defraud the game's merchants.</p><p>Yep, after <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-hotfix-22-stops-minthara-suddenly-dumping-dark-urge">the last hotfix helped out the not quite evil Minthara romancers</a> who'd been <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-hotfix-21-controversial-romance-rejections-minthara-again">getting rejected by her in really quite brutal - although to be fair this is Minty we're talking about - fashion</a>, a new one's arrived to save some NPCs from you instead. Though to be fair, you're no longer in danger of getting permananetly trapped in conversation with Lae'zel like she's an in-law you've been seated next to at a wedding, so both sides are benefitting here.</p><p>If you take a peek in the <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/4173221461865693102">full set of notes for hotfix 23</a> - which has gone live today - Larian's described all the downright sneaky methods folks have been using to save or score some extra gold. The studio's whacked bugs that allowed you to "generate gold by buying multiple items but only paying for one of them if you dragged the items into a container" and acquire "a stack of items for free when dragging the stack into a container and using the item splitter".</p> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-latest-hotfix-stops-merchant-container-tricks?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Look out, Overwatch 2, Marvel Rivals might just steal your audience</title><link>/netease-reveals-overwatch-clone-marvel-rivals?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>/netease-reveals-overwatch-clone-marvel-rivals?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Marvel</category><category>Free-to-play</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Marvel Rivals</category><category>PC</category><category>Netease</category><category>Shooter</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/marvel-rivals_8soPPwY.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/marvel-rivals_8soPPwY.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  19. <strong>Overwatch 2</strong>? What Overwatch 2? I think you're looking for <strong>Marvel Rivals</strong>, the upcoming free-to-play hero shooter.
  20. </p><p>
  21. Marvel and NetEase have just revealed the first trailer for Marvel Rivals, a game that is so obviously just meant to be Overwatch but with your favourite comic book characters instead. Much like how Overwatch used to work, Marvel Rivals is a team-based, 6v6 shooter, described as having "thrilling, fast-paced, cooperative gameplay," with a "deep" roster - that includes your classic like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk, as well as newer characters like Peni Parker and Magik.
  22. </p><p>
  23. What seems to be the big thing that sets it apart from Overwatch are the team-up abilities. Take Rocket Racoon and Groot for example: they have a unique team-up where Rocket can hop up on Groot's back and cause havoc together. And of course there's a variety of abilities unique to each character, and ultimates for some more explosive power too.
  24. </p> <p><a href="/netease-reveals-overwatch-clone-marvel-rivals?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>A REAL ARTIST reviews our Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creations</title><link>/a-real-artist-reviews-our-dragons-dogma-2-character-creations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:08:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>/a-real-artist-reviews-our-dragons-dogma-2-character-creations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Racing</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Sports</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Rockstar Games</category><category>PS2</category><category>Arcade</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><category>Midnight Club</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Football Manager</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Rockstar San Diego</category><category>Third person</category><category>First person</category><category>PS5</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dogma-header.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dogma-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  25. Yeah, get a load of that headline, art people. With your paintbrushes, your easels, and your pointless degrees. We, a group of people with equally expensive degrees that might honestly be a tiny bit more useless have made some art using <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a>'s very nice character creator.
  26. </p><p>
  27. Obviously there's more to DD2 than just trying to recreate your nan, or your cat, or your favorite member of the Bee Gees, but quite frankly, you can get lost in just picking your nose all on its own. So, that's what we've gone and done. </p><p>Jim and his friend, er, let me look this up, Owen O'Donnell of The Infinite Review, teamed up to take a look at some of the characters us at VG247 and a couple of other people who either are or have been associated with Gamer Network at some point in time have created in Dragon's Dogma 2. Every character showcased and analysed in the kind of depth you can only expect from a man who actively grimaces whenever he has to reveal his own pick on our podcast - despite the fact he's in control of it - and one of that man's mates was definitely created in Dragon's Dogma 2.
  28. </p> <p><a href="/a-real-artist-reviews-our-dragons-dogma-2-character-creations?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Sand Land: A perfect epitaph to Akira Toryiama, I wish I had a game like this when I was growing up – final preview</title><link>/sand-land-final-preview?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dom Peppiatt</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/sand-land-final-preview?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Sand Land</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>PC</category><category>Open World</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Akira Toriyama</category><category>RPG: Action</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sand-land-header.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sand-land-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>What an honour it is to Akira Toriyama&rsquo;s legacy that <strong>Sand Land</strong> is releasing just after <a href="/akira-toriyama-dragon-ball-dragon-quest-obituary">his unfortunate passing</a>. The man &ndash; creator of <a href="/games/dragon-ball">Dragon Ball</a>, lead artist on <a href="/games/chrono-trigger">Chrono Trigger</a>, and so much more &ndash; always revelled in the joy of innocence, always pushed ideas of naivety and pure-heartedness in his works. <a href="/sand-land-toriyama-rpg-preview">Sand Land</a>, a game adapted directly from one of his most under-represented original stories, is a fitting epitaph to the man and his view of the world. I wish I had a game like this when I was growing up.</p><p>The RPG follows a mischievous demon imp with a begrudgingly pure heart, a crotchety old man that masks his just nature with gruff sternness, and a comic relief codger that likes to dress as Santa Claus. The three of them are quickly embroiled in a conspiracy that involves much of the world&rsquo;s natural water &ndash; hoarded as it is by an autocratic king, a picture of greed himself.</p><p>It&rsquo;s somehow both predictable and fresh, but the detail and depth of the human heart beating at the middle of this intra-species story is something you&rsquo;d expect to find in a Pixar film or Becky Chambers book.</p> <p><a href="/sand-land-final-preview?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>While you wait for Beyond the Spider-Verse, check out this official Spider-Man short and raise some money for charity</title><link>/while-you-wait-for-beyond-the-spider-verse-check-out-official-spider-man-short?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>/while-you-wait-for-beyond-the-spider-verse-check-out-official-spider-man-short?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>animation</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</category><category>Sony Pictures</category><category>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse</category><category>Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/spider-verse-the-spider-within.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/spider-verse-the-spider-within.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  29. <strong>Beyond the Spider-Verse</strong> is in a state of limbo right now, but lucky for you a new Spider-Man short just came out that can hopefully tide you over a bit longer.
  30. </p><p>
  31. Originally, Beyond the Spider-Verse was meant to launch this week, as Sony had announced last year that it was getting a release date of March 29, 2024. It's now indefinitely delayed, because of the pair of strikes that took place last year, though to be honest that always sounded like an optimistic date, especially considering the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html">allegations levied against its predecessor Across the Spider-Verse</a>. There's still no word on when Beyond the Spider-Verse might release, but Sony Pictures Animation has released a short film about Miles Morales with a different kind of battle: his own mental health.
  32. </p><p>
  33. The short film, titled The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, is just above though I would issue a content warning to those of you with arachnophobia, as there is a scene that features a whole lot of spiders that is presented in quite an uncomfortable manner. It's a good little short though, one looking at how the stresses of being a superhero might affect a teenager.
  34. </p> <p><a href="/while-you-wait-for-beyond-the-spider-verse-check-out-official-spider-man-short?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>No Man's Sky Orbital update drops today, will let you customise your ship and explore revamped space stations</title><link>/no-mans-sky-orbital-update-drops-today-customise-ship-revamped-space-stations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/no-mans-sky-orbital-update-drops-today-customise-ship-revamped-space-stations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Indie</category><category>First person</category><category>No Man's Sky</category><category>PC</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>505 Games</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Virtual Reality</category><category>Hello Games</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/no-mans-sky-orbital-update-drops-today-customise-ship-revamped-space-stations-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/no-mans-sky-orbital-update-drops-today-customise-ship-revamped-space-stations-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>If you're a fan of cool space things and/or retro TV shows about rather tacky vehicle maintenance, here's some good news. A fresh update for <a href="/games/no-mans-sky">No Man&rsquo;s Sky</a>, dubbed the Orbital update, arrives today - March 27. What does it do? Well, it lets you customise your spaceship, for one.</p><p>Yup, after <a href="/no-mans-sky-omega-update-limited-time-free-trial">last month's Omega update</a>, which sent you on a nice expedition that kicked off on Nafut Gamma and involved unpicking "the threads of a mystery involving the past, the present, and what could be&hellip;", this update's a bit less cryptic, thankfully.</p><p>As outlined in the <a href="https://www.nomanssky.com/orbital-update">patch notes for it</a>, it brings a hugely-requested feature to the game, in the form of "a ship editor [which] allows players to customise their ships" and "even create never before seen starship types". </p> <p><a href="/no-mans-sky-orbital-update-drops-today-customise-ship-revamped-space-stations?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Tony Hawk will finally live up to his name in his upcoming animated series about skateboarding birds</title><link>/tony-hawk-making-animated-series-about-skateboarding-birds?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:43:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>/tony-hawk-making-animated-series-about-skateboarding-birds?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>tony hawk</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>animation</category><category>Film &amp; Television</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tony-hawk-skatebirds.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tony-hawk-skatebirds.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  35. Finally, Tony Hawk is making use of his surname by making an animated children's series all about skateboarding birds.
  36. </p><p>
  37. Obviously Hawk is mostly known for his skateboarding skills, but a name like his obviously helps for the overall brand too. His nickname is even Birdman, and he literally owns a skateboard company called Birdhouse, so the feathered-friend connection isn't lost on him. But it's always felt like he could do more with that name - and now, as reported by <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/tony-hawk-skatebirds-animated-series-laughing-dragon-1235868424/">Deadline</a>, he is, as alongside Laughing Dragon Studios he is developing Skatebirds, an animated series aimed at kids between 6-11. It is, unsurprisingly, inspired by his nickname, and aims to "celebrate skateboarding&rsquo;s playful community while emphasising its adventurous nature," according to the show's producers.
  38. </p><p>
  39. Skatebirds follows "a group of young skateboard enthusiasts, who just happen to be birds, who flock together to support their hometown and show the world that when they put their feathers together, they can do anything they set their minds to." The themes of the show all sound quite nice, focusing on teamwork, friendship and community, all big parts of the skateboarding experience. Episodes will apparently run at 11 minutes a pop, the standard for animated kids shows, and there's apparently plans for expansions to platforms like YouTube and TikTok.
  40. </p> <p><a href="/tony-hawk-making-animated-series-about-skateboarding-birds?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bioshock creator's new game Judas reportedly feels a lot like, er, Bioshock</title><link>/bioshock-creators-new-game-judas-reportedly-feels-a-lot-like-er-bioshock?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:48:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/bioshock-creators-new-game-judas-reportedly-feels-a-lot-like-er-bioshock?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>2K China</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Meridian4</category><category>Feral Interactive</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>2K Games</category><category>Minecraft</category><category>Puzzle</category><category>PC</category><category>Irrational Games</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Virtual Reality</category><category>Mac</category><category>PS3</category><category>Indie</category><category>First person</category><category>BioShock Infinite</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>BioShock</category><category>Judas</category><category>Point and Click</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ss_1208d51a8d016ab28a652b23c3d08c21c87f9acc.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ss_1208d51a8d016ab28a652b23c3d08c21c87f9acc.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Following the <a href="/judas-state-of-play-trailer">fresh trailer for it that aired during late January&rsquo;s State of Play showcase</a>, we&rsquo;ve now gotten some more info on <a href="/games/judas">Judas</a>, the upcoming sci-fi action title from Ghost Story Games, the studio co-founded by <a href="/games/bioshock">BioShock</a> creator Ken Levine.</p><p>If you&rsquo;ve been eagerly awaiting any news on the game since it was <a href="/after-five-years-in-development-bioshock-creator-ken-levine-finally-reveals-judas">revealed back in late 2022</a>, you&rsquo;ll be glad to hear that there are some gameplay impressions this time around. The verdict? Well, it sounds pretty interesting, and also plenty like, well, BioShock.</p><p>Ghost Story Games invited both <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/judas-first-details-how-ken-levine-is-building-on-bioshock-with-narrative-legos">IGN</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5wjyC1P1Jc&amp;t=88s">Geoff Keighley</a> to sample 5 to 6 hours of it, and they&rsquo;ve now shared what they thought of what they saw during that time. The former says that Judas is &ldquo;a first-person narrative-driven shooter that, from a moment-to-moment gameplay perspective, will feel familiar to BioShock fans.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="/bioshock-creators-new-game-judas-reportedly-feels-a-lot-like-er-bioshock?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bad Boys 4 looks fine, but there's one transition with a gun so good I'll watch it anyway</title><link>/bad-boys-4-trailer-looks-fine-except-for-one-shot?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:31:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>/bad-boys-4-trailer-looks-fine-except-for-one-shot?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Will Smith</category><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Sony Pictures</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bad-boys-4.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/bad-boys-4.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  41. The first trailer for <strong>Bad Boys 4</strong> is here, and in general, it looks fine! Though there is one shot with a gun that's so ridiculous it has me convinced.
  42. </p><p>
  43. It's been about four years since we last saw the Bad Boys, i.e. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, but the first trailer for their latest outing in Bad Boys: Ride or Die is here and yeah, it definitely looks like another one of those. This time around, those mischievous boys are on the run, working together to clear the name of their late police captain who's been set up as a corrupt cop. Outside of that, most of the trailer just consisted of your typical action shots suitable for a trailer as they don't give too much away, but look cool enough to make people excited.
  44. </p><p>
  45. And sure, they're all pretty serviceable for the most part, but at 2:25, there's one shot where Smith's character throws a gun to his partner Lawrence, the camera following the gun closely, and as goofy as it is, I can't help but be won over by it. It's not the most beautiful shot in the world, but it's fun, a word that I feel is sorely missing in a lot of movies these days.
  46. </p> <p><a href="/bad-boys-4-trailer-looks-fine-except-for-one-shot?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Cash-strapped Dragon's Dogma 2 players, here's how you can apparently make close to 500k gold per hour just by selling fruit</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-500k-gold-fruit-cash-farming?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:38:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-500k-gold-fruit-cash-farming?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-500k-gold-fruit-cash-farming-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-500k-gold-fruit-cash-farming-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You. Yes, you. Do you need money in <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a>? Well, first of all, stop getting so many haircuts, and second of all, you'll be glad to hear that one player's apparently worked out out how you can make even more money from the fruit-based cash farming method some players are employing.</p><p>Yep, if you're after an easier path to becoming a DD2 millionaire than by <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers">teaching pawns how to kill an ogre without getting pounded into pulp</a>, it turns out that making sure folks in DD2 are easily able get their five a day is the way to go.</p><p>So, if you're out of the loop, this fruit selling exploit looks to have originated on YouTube, where creators having put together tutorials with entirely unhyperbolic titles like '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSkvArARQ_Q">INSANE Dragon's Dogma 2 GOLD GLITCH, 300,000 PER HOUR, best money glitch so far</a>' showing you how to do it. The basic gist is this: buy a bunch of apples and grapes in Melve, waiting a bit, then fast travelling to Bakbattal and timing that just right so that they're all ripe when you arrive and can be sold for the maximum profit.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-500k-gold-fruit-cash-farming?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Bond? No raised eyebrows from Mr GoldenEye</title><link>/aaron-taylor-johnson-gets-support-from-mr-goldeneye?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:36:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>/aaron-taylor-johnson-gets-support-from-mr-goldeneye?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>James Bond</category><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>MGM</category><category>Aaron Taylor-Johnson</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Sony Pictures</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/pierce-brosnan-aaron-taylor-johnson-james-bond.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/pierce-brosnan-aaron-taylor-johnson-james-bond.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  47. As speculation grows over Aaron Taylor-Johnson's casting as the next <strong>James Bond</strong>, Pierce Brosnan shares his thoughts on the potential fresh face.
  48. </p><p>
  49. Most people probably think of Daniel Craig when they think of James Bond these days, mostly because 1. he is the current incarnation, and 2. he's had the longest consecutive stint as 007. Of course, if you're around my age (which isn't that old, to be clear), you probably would have grown up with Pierce Brosnan as the leading man. It's been a couple of decades since he's been in the role, but the actor recently spoke about Taylor-Johnson's potential casting on <a href="https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22374721/">RTE Radio 1's The Ray D'Arcy Show</a>, and he had nothing but supportive words.
  50. </p><p>
  51. "I think the man has the chops and the talent and the charisma to play Bond, very much so," Brosnan said about Taylor-Johnson as Bond. The two have actually worked together, with Brosnan going on to note this himself, saying, "One of the first movies we made, one of the earliest movies, was The Greatest. And he was the greatest in it. So, yes, I read the news about his possibilities of being a Bond, so I would definitely tip my hat to the fellow."
  52. </p> <p><a href="/aaron-taylor-johnson-gets-support-from-mr-goldeneye?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Xbox celebrates release of South Park: Snow Day by giving away four custom South Park-themed Series X consoles</title><link>/south-park-snow-day-custom-limited-edition-xbox-series-x-sweepstakes?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:44:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>/south-park-snow-day-custom-limited-edition-xbox-series-x-sweepstakes?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>South Park Digital Studios</category><category>South Park: Snow Day</category><category>PC</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>South Park</category><category>THQ Nordic</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Roguelike</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Third person</category><category>Question Games</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/south-park-snow-day-xbox.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/south-park-snow-day-xbox.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Microsoft is giving away four unique Xbox Series X consoles and controllers themed after<strong> South Park: Snow Day</strong>, which was released today.</p><p>You can win one of these consoles in a limited-time sweepstakes that runs from today through April 22.</p><p>In collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and THQ Nordic, the four available consoles feature Grand Wizard Cartman, Kyle the High Elf, Princess Kenny, and Barbarian King Stan Marshwalker.</p> <p><a href="/south-park-snow-day-custom-limited-edition-xbox-series-x-sweepstakes?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>V Rising - Legacy of Castlevania pits you against legendary vampire hunter Simon Belmont in a neat crossover this spring</title><link>/v-rising-castlevania-crossover-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:41:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>/v-rising-castlevania-crossover-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Castlevania</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>V Rising</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Stunlock Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/v-rising-main.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/v-rising-main.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Stunlock Studios and Konami have joined forces to bring <strong>V Rising</strong> and <strong>Castlevania</strong> together via a content crossover titled Legacy of Castlevania.</p><p>Available in V Rising at release, Legacy of Castlevania finds famed vampire hunter Simon Belmont arriving in Vardoran to challenge all vampires. With his legendary whip and arsenal of holy weaponry, no night stalker will be safe from his crusade. But, if you defeat him, you will unlock the secrets of his iconic weapon, which in turn offers new combat abilities.</p><p>While Legacy of Castlevania, including Simon Belmont and the new whip weapon, will come as free content, a Legacy of Castlevania Premium Pack cosmetic DLC pack will be available for purchase. This pack allows you to construct castles inspired by Castlevania&rsquo;s classic gothic aesthetic, enjoy character customization options inspired by classic Castlevania characters, and ride across the land on your new skeletal mount. You can even set the tone in your castle with two Castlevania themes reimagined by V Rising composer Aleksandria Migova.</p> <p><a href="/v-rising-castlevania-crossover-release-date?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2 players have figured out that catapults can be used to uncover hidden areas on the game map</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-catapult-trick-map?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:28:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-catapult-trick-map?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-112923-(6).jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-112923-(6).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>If you&rsquo;re playing <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">Dragon's Dogma 2</a>, you&rsquo;ve more than likely come across catapults. Well, did you know you can use them for more than just tossing things at your enemies? And no, we&rsquo;re not talking about putting one of your pawns in there and throwing them across the map. <a href="https://twitter.com/XestyTV/status/1772630062707204338">That doesn&rsquo;t work</a>, apparently.</p><p>What you can do, is use the siege device to launch a projectile onto the map to unlock new paths or areas, as<a href="https://twitter.com/Peppo_LS/status/1772539605843120542"> X user Peppo demonstrates</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I just found out you can use catapults to unlock new parts on the map in Dragon's Dogma 2! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DD2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DD2</a> <a href="https://t.co/RhH1OsiDEg">pic.twitter.com/RhH1OsiDEg</a></p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-catapult-trick-map?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Enshrouded's first major update, Hollow Halls, delivers colossal dungeons, fresh threats, and some welcome fixes</title><link>/enshrouded-hollow-halls-update-released?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:40:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>/enshrouded-hollow-halls-update-released?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Open World</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Exploration</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Realism</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Survival &amp; Crafting</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Keen Games</category><category>Indie</category><category>Enshrouded</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Sandbox</category><category>Social</category><category>Full product</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/enshrouded-(1).png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/enshrouded-(1).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Keen Games has released the first major content update for its action RPG, <strong>Enshrouded</strong>.</p><p>The Hollow Halls content update includes new, larger dungeons with a new enemy faction and new legendary rewards, a mysterious crafting station with new recipes, and new quests.</p><p>It also comes with additions for builders, crafters, and growers as well as many improvements to performance, UI, and quality-of-life, all influenced by players using Enshrouded&rsquo;s Feature Upvote tool. You will pleased to know that the 60hz issue has been solved, support for Nvidia Reflex has been added, and you now have the option to switch off micro spiders.</p> <p><a href="/enshrouded-hollow-halls-update-released?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bellwright is a mix of Rimworld and Mount &amp; Blade, and a true rebellion game at heart</title><link>/bellwright-is-a-mix-of-rimworld-and-mount-blade-and-a-true-rebellion-game-at-heart?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:56:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>/bellwright-is-a-mix-of-rimworld-and-mount-blade-and-a-true-rebellion-game-at-heart?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Open World</category><category>Donkey Crew</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Exploration</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Historical</category><category>Bellwright</category><category>RPG: Action</category><category>Survival &amp; Crafting</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Strategy: Builder</category><category>Snail Games USA</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/5_isATf1l.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/5_isATf1l.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Why hasn't there been a proper rebellion game? Not some false implication of taking back control, where simply taking down some radio tower in <a href="/games/watch-dogs-legion">Watch Dogs Legion</a> suddenly "liberates" Oxford Street from oppressive forces. I'm talking about that real rabble-rouser energy. Forming a small band of like-minded people and taking the fight to enemy bases, pushing back the lines. Well, if that sounds like something you've been looking for, a contender may just be around the corner.
  53. </p><p>"I was wondering the same thing and to be honest, I never found a clear answer," states project lead Florian "chadz" Hofreither in the Bellwright preview hotel suite. With a background in the Mount &amp; Blade modding scene, he and the original members of the developer Donkey Crew are coming back to their roots with a medieval management game where you have to build up your own settlement, build a rebellion force, and push back against the monarchy ruling over the land.
  54. </p><p>The world itself isn't this dire bloody mess of burning buildings and ruined castles. Instead, the world you inhabit (at least in the starting hours of the game) is luscious with vast open plains and woodlands. Indeed, this particular push against the ruling kingdom may not be the black and white business you'd assume. Especially as you grow your forces and wage larger conflicts, the merits of what you're doing isn't always clear.
  55. </p> <p><a href="/bellwright-is-a-mix-of-rimworld-and-mount-blade-and-a-true-rebellion-game-at-heart?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Even Jack Black can't believe Rockstar hasn't made a GTA or Red Dead Redemption movie yet</title><link>/jack-black-cant-believe-rockstar-hasnt-made-gta-red-dead-redemption-movie?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:50:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>/jack-black-cant-believe-rockstar-hasnt-made-gta-red-dead-redemption-movie?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Xbox One</category><category>Rockstar North</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Gearbox Software</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>2K Games</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Borderlands</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Rockstar Games</category><category>PS4</category><category>PC</category><category>Red Dead Redemption</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Grand Theft Auto V</category><category>Rockstar San Diego</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Red Dead Redemption 2</category><category>PS3</category><category>First person</category><category>Cyberfront</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Peaches_JackBlack.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Peaches_JackBlack.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  56. It seems like Jack Black mostly has video game movies on his mind outside of Kung Fu Panda these days, as even he's wondering where a <strong>Grand Theft Auto</strong> movie is.
  57. </p><p>
  58. No matter which video game movie you look at, Black appears to be in it. He's in the upcoming Minecraft movie, <a href="/jack-black-will-sing-in-the-minecraft-movie">which he will be singing in</a>, he was of course Bowser in last year's Super Mario Bros. Movie, and we'll be hearing him as Borderland's Claptrap in <a href="/borderlands-movies-first-look">this year's adaptation</a> of the beloved shooter series. Black recently spoke to Total Film (via <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/jack-black-borderlands-claptrap-exclusive/">GamesRadar</a>) about his role as Claptrap, where interestingly enough, he also expressed his befuddlement at the lack of a Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption movie.
  59. </p><p>
  60. "I can't believe they haven't already started making a movie of any of the Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto, but especially Red Dead Redemption," Black said. "Those things are already like movies, you know? I guess that's the thing. Some video games are already halfway there to telling those kind of stories, and there are some movies that are like video games.
  61. </p> <p><a href="/jack-black-cant-believe-rockstar-hasnt-made-gta-red-dead-redemption-movie?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Baldur's Gate 3 devs planned for you killing everyone, didn't expect you to "jump through the entire thing"</title><link>/baldurs-gate-3-devs-planned-killing-everyone-didnt-expect-jump-through-entire-thing?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/baldurs-gate-3-devs-planned-killing-everyone-didnt-expect-jump-through-entire-thing?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Indie</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Divinity: Original Sin</category><category>Full product</category><category>Mac</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-patch-5-bing-bong-canon-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-patch-5-bing-bong-canon-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-walkthrough">Baldur's Gate 3</a>'s developers did a whole bunch of planning to ensure the player couldn't totally ruin the game's story if they randomly decided to murder every single NPC, but not even Swen Vincke predicted that speedrunners would literally bounce through the entire thing.</p><p>To be fair, did any of us? It feels like every time we've watched one of these madcap dashes through Larian's RPG, there's been a new and very weird strategy on display. From, the now infamous 'Shadowboxing' strategy to <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-speedrun-all-acts-under-20-mins-flying-bear">flying stealth bear one-shots</a>, it's a shame we aren't going to get see what kinds of ways folks could have worked out to speed up <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-bear-sex-speedruns-are-finally-here-and-already-under-an-hour">the process of shagging a bear</a> all over again, since <a href="/larian-will-not-be-making-baldurs-gate-4-or-any-baldurs-gate-3-dlc">Baldur's Gate 4 isn't going to be a thing</a>.</p><p>Vincke, BG3's director, discussed how he's found watching people make a very entertaining mockery of his game in the name of pure speed during an interview with <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-director-swen-vincke-answers-all-our-questions-about-foregoing-dlc-aaa-development-and-more">IGN</a> that also saw him discuss why the studio <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-director-once-on-board-with-sequel-now-hes-aiming-for-very-big-rpg">elected to scrap some DLC for the game it'd started working on, before pivoting away from that idea</a>. "No, no, I didn't expect them to do it that way," Vincke said of the folks who first cracked under the ten-minute mark speedrun wise by using Gale to bounce through the game way faster than you could ever run.</p> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-devs-planned-killing-everyone-didnt-expect-jump-through-entire-thing?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Phil Spencer is still pining for an Xbox handheld, but some publishers are reportedly unsure if Microsoft's consoles are worth it</title><link>/phil-spencer-pining-for-xbox-handheld-some-publishers-reportedly-unsure-if-microsofts-consoles-worth-it?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/phil-spencer-pining-for-xbox-handheld-some-publishers-reportedly-unsure-if-microsofts-consoles-worth-it?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>PC</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Xbox</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Fallout 76</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/phil-spencer-pining-for-xbox-handheld-some-publishers-reportedly-unsure-if-microsofts-consoles-worth-it-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/phil-spencer-pining-for-xbox-handheld-some-publishers-reportedly-unsure-if-microsofts-consoles-worth-it-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You know all that chatter about Xbox and whether it was doing ok earlier this year? Well, coming out of GDC, it seems we&rsquo;re dipping back into the whole &lsquo;what&rsquo;s going on with Microsoft&rsquo;s gaming division&rsquo; debate. Phil Spencer&rsquo;s seemingly still focused on handhelds, but it&rsquo;s the company&rsquo;s other hardware that some publishers are reportedly worrying about.</p><p>If you&rsquo;re out of the loop, <a href="/xbox-big-update-podcast-over-two-times-comments-as-seconds">Xbox ended up doing a kinda weird podcast about that state of the company and its plans for the future</a> back in, er, oh my god, it was only last month. Shortly after that, <a href="/phil-spencer-announces-four-xbox-games-will-headed-to-different-consoles">four Xbox games made their way onto PS5, Switch or both</a>, while the likes of <a href="/games/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle">Indiana Jones and the Great Circle</a> and <a href="/starfield-guide-quest-walkthroughs-item-locations-and-more">Starfield</a> were confirmed to be staying put for now.</p><p>Now, in an update of sorts on <a href="/xbox-phil-spencer-liking-handheld-tweets">his liked tweets from the other month</a>, Spencer&rsquo;s said some more stuff about the idea of an Xbox handheld and what it might be like - with <a href="/xbox-fully-native-handheld-in-development-claims-insider">recent reports having claimed it&rsquo;s working on a &ldquo;fully native&rdquo; one</a>. The key thing, it seems, is how to make a handheld feel like an Xbox, in line with the console maker&rsquo;s current buzz phrase that <a href="/xbox-bigwigs-every-screen-an-xbox-company-update-podcast">every screen can be an Xbox</a>.</p> <p><a href="/phil-spencer-pining-for-xbox-handheld-some-publishers-reportedly-unsure-if-microsofts-consoles-worth-it?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Blur vs Split Second was Deep Impact vs Armageddon for mid-2000s arcade racers</title><link>/best-armageddon-game?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jim Trinca</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:40:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>/best-armageddon-game?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>Hotline Miami</category><category>Strategy: Real-Time Strategy</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Racing</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bizarre Creations</category><category>Gearbox Software</category><category>VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><category>Abstraction Games</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>2K Games</category><category>Team Ninja</category><category>Sports</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Hack &amp; Slash</category><category>PSP</category><category>PS4</category><category>Arcade</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><category>Puzzle</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Dennaton Games</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Retro City Rampage: DX</category><category>Third person</category><category>Blur</category><category>Weekly Podcast</category><category>Mac</category><category>PS3</category><category>Indie</category><category>First person</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Devolver Digital</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Split/Second: Velocity</category><category>Croteam</category><category>Activision</category><category>Rise of the Ronin</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Battleborn</category><category>Overwatch</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/PODFUM-copy.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/PODFUM-copy.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none for ages, and then two come along at once! See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about Earth getting clobbered by an asteroid. See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about America getting clobbered by volcanoes. See also: those ones about the White House (former home of Bill Clinton) getting clobbered by some guys with guns. I dunno. You don't read this anyway.</p><p>Listen. It's just an excuse for everyone to shout at me. Listen at your own inconvenience here.</p><p>
  62. Stay tuned for a new episode of <em>The Best Games Ever Show</em> every Friday. Subscribe <a href="/topics/vg247-best-games-ever-podcast">right here on VG247</a>, or wherever you get your podcasts:
  63. </p> <p><a href="/best-armageddon-game?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Spider-Man 4 has Disney eyeing up a director that should make the web-slinger a touch fast, and a little furious</title><link>/spider-man-4-disney-eyeing-up-fast-and-furious-director?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:45:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>/spider-man-4-disney-eyeing-up-fast-and-furious-director?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Marvel</category><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Marvel Cinematic Universe</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Sony</category><category>The Walt Disney Company</category><category>Spider-Man: Homecoming</category><category>Spider-Man: No Way Home</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/spider-man-tom-holland.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/spider-man-tom-holland.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  64. It's sounding like some movement is being made on the MCU's fourth <strong>Spider-Man</strong> film, as Disney is seemingly eyeing up a Fast &amp; Furious director.
  65. </p><p>
  66. Spider-Man: No Way Home is now more than two years old at this point, and we haven't seen any more of the friendly neighbourhood superhero since then, but it sounds like some headway is being made on a sequel finally. According to industry insider Jeff Sneider, on his latest release of the <a href="https://www.theinsneider.com/p/euphoria-season-3-delay-zendaya-spider-man-4-scarlett-johansson-jurassic-world-movie-batman-2-shoot">Insneider</a> (paywalled), Disney is currently looking to Justin Lin to direct the next entry in the MCU take on Spider-Man, as Jon Watts, director of the first three, is apparently not coming back. Lin is known for directing several entries in the Fast &amp; Furious series like Tokyo Drift, Fast Five, and F9, as well as 2016's Star Trek Beyond.
  67. </p><p>
  68. The Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard was <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielRPK/status/1742992287527846398">rumoured to be replacing Watts</a> earlier this year, but if that was ever the case, it's sounding like Disney has moved on to Lin to helm the next entry. Sneider's report also claims that Zendaya is set to return to film Spider-Man 4 this summer, which is apparently the reason behind the <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/euphoria-season-3-delayed-premiere-hbo-1235867238/">recent season three delay of Euphoria</a>. Tom Holland is also expected to return, unsurprisingly, but there isn't much known about the potential project at this point in time.
  69. </p> <p><a href="/spider-man-4-disney-eyeing-up-fast-and-furious-director?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Nice, Helldivers 2's latest patch stops the game from freezing when you fire three lightning-infused guns</title><link>/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:09:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;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>Good news, if you've been having issues with <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> freezing since <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-exosuit-planetary-hazard-fixes">its last patch</a> was deployed, there's now a new one designed to stop at least some instances of the game doing just that when you use specific guns.</p><p>If you're out of the loop, things had been going well in-game for the soldiers of Super Earth until <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof">a number of pesky issues hit last week</a>, likely contributing to the <a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-seems-like-players-are-getting-conflicting-result-reports">failure of a major order, which some players were seemingly told hadn't failed, even though it definitely had</a>. Arrowhead's been working very hard on sorting a lot of them out and here's a big fix, as the focus starts to go back to what cool stuff might happen in-game next.</p><p>As detailed in the <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/4141695629560003238?l=english">very snappy notes for patch 1.000.104</a>, which was <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-is-coming-soon-to-fix-freezes-guns-to-avoid-using">teased last week</a>, it has one job and hopefully will do it well. That one job is fixing the game's arc-based weapons, and stopping the act if firing them from freezing the game. The guns and stratagems in question are the Arc Thrower, Arc Shotgun, and Tesla Tower.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-patch-lighting-gun-freeze-fix?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>You can be just like Luke Skywalker by guzzling down this official Star Wars blue milk</title><link>/you-can-drink-official-star-wars-blue-milk-now?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:36:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>/you-can-drink-official-star-wars-blue-milk-now?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Star Wars</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>The Walt Disney Company</category><category>Lucasfilm</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/star-wars-blue-milk.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/star-wars-blue-milk.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  70. Desperate to recreate that one seen in <strong>Star Wars: The Last Jedi</strong> where Luke Skywalker absolutely chugs some blue milk? You'll soon be able to!
  71. </p><p>
  72. The original Star Wars trilogy has a lot of great moments with Luke. There's pretty much any moment he spends with Yoda, his fashionable outing at the beginning of episode three, and of course the classic scene where he finds out about Darth Vader being his papa. None of them, however, come close to that one moment where Luke takes a big ole wet sip of blue milk that he just received straight from the teat of whatever alien thing that was in The Last Jedi. That scene truly changed me, I was a different person leaving the cinema. And now, we can all be just like Luke, as the <a href="https://www.starwars.com/news/imperial-march">official Star Wars website</a>
  73. has announced that some official blue milk is on the way.
  74. </p><p>
  75. The milk in question is being made by TruMoo, which is making me question just how real the milk is - the name does feel like a fictitious company in a Disney Channel movie where aliens are capturing people and turning them into milk, or something. It's not regular milk, either, it's vanilla flavoured, so you won't just be tasting the wonderful flavour of blue food colouring. Apparently the milk will be available on April 17, so you've still got a couple of weeks to wait until you can actually try it, but I'm sure it will be a good way to commemorate the annual May the 4th celebrations.
  76. </p> <p><a href="/you-can-drink-official-star-wars-blue-milk-now?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Missed out on the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics? You can now check them out online, and it won't cost you a penny</title><link>/avatar-the-last-airbender-comics-free-on-webtoons?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:40:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>/avatar-the-last-airbender-comics-free-on-webtoons?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Webtoon</category><category>Dark Horse Comics</category><category>Nickelodeon</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Avatar: The Last Airbender</category><category>Comics</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-promise.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-promise.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  77. <strong>Avatar: The Last Airbender</strong> didn't finish when the show did, and you can now read the comics that continued its story for free online.
  78. </p><p>
  79. The original animated Avatar: The Last Airbender did wrap things up mostly conclusively, but having as big a world as it does, there was still plenty of room to tell more stories. And more stories there were, as back in 2012, The Promise, a trilogy of comics set a year after the events of the original show was released. It follows Aang, Zuko and co having to work with the Earth King to stabilise the world after the Hundred Year War, though of course things aren't that simple. It was written by the show's original creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, alongside Gene Luen Yang, so it is a part of the main canon, making it well worth checking out.
  80. </p><p>
  81. It's pretty easy to pick up physical copies of The Promise still, but if you aren't able to there's good news: webcomic hosting site Webtoons is releasing all of The Promise for free, with the first three issues already available to check out <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/avatar-the-last-airbender/list?title_no=6205">here</a>. The entire comic is planned to be released for free on Webtoons, with new issues being released every Saturday, though you can pay and use the site's Fast Pass system to read them sooner if you wanted to.
  82. </p> <p><a href="/avatar-the-last-airbender-comics-free-on-webtoons?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Facing outrageous haircut prices, Dragon's Dogma 2 players are farming cash by helping pawns become Witchers</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:03:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>PS4</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt</category><category>Third person</category><category>Warner Bros. Games</category><category>CD Projekt RED</category><category>The Witcher</category><category>Atari</category><category>CD Projekt</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>CD Projekt Localisation Centre</category><category>PS5</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> can sometimes be a bit like real life - sometimes everyone has the plague, and you never quite have enough money. Unsurprisingly, folks who&rsquo;re keen not to have to save up their gold every time they want to try out a new hairstyle are already finding ways to quickly earn a fortune.</p><p>Weirdly, it feels like a lot of the chatter around DD2 since it came out has been linked to finances in some way. I&rsquo;m mainly talking about the <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion">furore surrounding those controversial microtransactions</a>, which was arguably a bit overblown, given that <a href="/how-to-get-nearly-all-dragons-dogma-2-dlc-microtransactions-items-for-free-in-game">a lot of the stuff affected can be found in decent quantities just by playing the game</a> and <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items">modders have quickly stepped up to provide alternatives</a>.</p><p>Now, however, some players have found a way to use the game&rsquo;s pawn system a bit like an investment scheme, and apparently it&rsquo;s pretty lucrative, provided you don&rsquo;t mind teaching a few hapless helpers how to slay monsters like a <a href="/games/the-witcher">Witcher</a>. Yep, someone call Gerry from the Riviera, DD2&rsquo;s pawn babysitters are coming for his job, and they don&rsquo;t need any mutations, unless you count Dragonsplague as one.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-pawn-bounty-cash-method-witchers?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>I'm hoping Hyper Light Breaker can pull a Hades and hammer out its flaws when it finally lands in Early Access later this year – preview</title><link>/im-hoping-hyper-light-breaker-can-pull-a-hades-and-hammer-out-its-flaws-when-it-finally-lands-in-early-access-later-this-year-preview?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:59:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>/im-hoping-hyper-light-breaker-can-pull-a-hades-and-hammer-out-its-flaws-when-it-finally-lands-in-early-access-later-this-year-preview?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Indie</category><category>Gearbox Publishing</category><category>PC</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Hyper Light Breaker</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Hyper-Light-Breaker-header.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Hyper-Light-Breaker-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>When you release a sequel to a hit indie game, do you play it safe and stay true to the original vision, or do you take a chance and go off in new, interesting directions? It's a tricky question that many studios have had to face throughout the years, and while taking that leap to greener pastures may lead to greater success, it's not without risk. Enter <a href="/games/hyper-light-breaker">Hyper Light Breaker</a>.
  83. </p><p>Hyper Light Breaker is a third-person action game, complete with open world maps, rogue-like elements, and a healthy dollop of difficulty. This word salad may sound long, and tasty, but its a notable mention right at the top as the last Hyper Light game - <a href="/games/hyper-light-drifter">Hyper Light Drifter</a> - was a totally different beast. It was a pixel art top-down action RPG. Breaker looks different, it feels different... and it's an altogether different beast.
  84. </p><p>Having played the game's demo at both Day of the Devs and GDC, Hyper Light Breaker feels totally solid ahead of its early access release later this year.  Combat is decent; a bit better than <a href="/games/genshin-impact">Genshin Impact</a> but not quite as good as <a href="/games/nier-automata">Nier Automata</a> - two games that (according to the developer) were inspirations for Hyper Light Breaker's new direction. It's this core combat experience that was the highlight for me, as judging from my all-too-brief hands-on time with the game, it is not without fault. In dashing from one dimension to the next, it feels as though Hyper Light Breaker may have slipped a little.
  85. </p> <p><a href="/im-hoping-hyper-light-breaker-can-pull-a-hades-and-hammer-out-its-flaws-when-it-finally-lands-in-early-access-later-this-year-preview?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Still haven't gotten round to Cyberpunk 2077? You can try it out for free very soon, but not for long</title><link>/cyberpunk-2077-is-getting-a-temporary-free-trial?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/cyberpunk-2077-is-getting-a-temporary-free-trial?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>CD Projekt</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Third person</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Cyberpunk 2077</category><category>CD Projekt RED</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-fixes-misbehaving-melee-finishers-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-fixes-misbehaving-melee-finishers-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  86. If everything you've heard about <a href="/cyberpunk-2077-guide">Cyberpunk 2077</a> over the years has you uncertain about it, an upcoming free trial can let you try it out without financial regrets.
  87. </p><p>
  88. It would be pretty understandable if you've been waiting for the right time to play Cyberpunk. We all know how bad a launch it has, we don't need to get into that here, but it also released more than three years ago, meaning a whole bunch of other good games have come out since then. So, even if you wanted to try it out, maybe you couldn't justify the purchase (I can fully appreciate that in a stacked year like 2023, and also just because of how expensive games are now). Well, if you can manage to get yourself away from Dragon's Dogma 2 this weekend, CD Projekt Red is offering a free trial, no strings attached.
  89. </p><p>
  90. The trail will be available on both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and offers up to five hours of playtime. You also don't need a subscription of any kind, so don't worry if you aren't a PlayStation Plus or Game Pass subscriber, it's available to all. However, it's not around for all that long. You'll be able to start the demo this Thursday, March 28, at 8am PT/ 3pm GMT, and it will be available until March 31, 11:59pm PT/ April 1, 7:59am BST (the clocks change for us over in the EU this coming Sunday, in case any Americans are confused by the time zone designation change).
  91. </p> <p><a href="/cyberpunk-2077-is-getting-a-temporary-free-trial?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Have Final Fantasy 14 modders finally gone too far?</title><link>/final-fantasy-14-mod-perfect-alexander?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:46:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/final-fantasy-14-mod-perfect-alexander?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Square Enix</category><category>RPG</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alexander-perfection.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alexander-perfection.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Look there's no way of sugar-coating this. A mod has recently hit the <a href="">Final Fantasy 14</a> scene and it's hard to look away from. Courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/grymnoire">Grym </a>, the Epic of Alexander raid has been changed forever. Whether that's for better or for worse is up to you to decide.
  92. </p><p>First posted to Twitter and the Final Fantasy 14 mod archive late last week, the mod caught the attention of many in the Final Fantasy 14 community. It adds additional 'assets' to Perfect Alexander's in-game model that are, well, phallic in nature.
  93. </p><p>In the mod description it's written that it's "an edit to Perfect Alexander's model to make him even more perfect. Dedicated to everyone who joked about wanting to f**k this guy, go forth and have fun. Affects both the glowing and non-glowing versions of Perfect Alexander's model."
  94. </p> <p><a href="/final-fantasy-14-mod-perfect-alexander?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Bethesda cheekily confirms early builds of The Elder Scrolls 6 are already being played by devs, and they sound pretty fun</title><link>/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:32:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>Android</category><category>Side view</category><category>The Elder Scrolls VI</category><category>The Elder Scrolls: Arena</category><category>ZeniMax Media</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><category>PS3</category><category>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</category><category>First person</category><category>Strategy: Builder</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>The Elder Scrolls: Castles</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>We&rsquo;ve all been waiting to hear more about <a href="/games/the-elder-scrolls-6">The Elder Scrolls 6</a> <a href="/the-elder-scrolls-6-announced-too-early-todd-howard">for years now</a>, and, in a nice post celebrating the series&rsquo; 30th anniversary, Bethesda&rsquo;s offered us a nice little update. People at the studio are apparently playing early versions of the game, and from the sounds of it, they&rsquo;re having fun.</p><p>While the game&rsquo;s no doubt still ages away from actually, you know, being a thing the rest of us can play, it&rsquo;s nice to actually hear things about it from Bethesda. After all, it took about 5 years for us to actually have it <a href="/the-elder-scrolls-6-development-has-started">confirmed by the now retired Pete Hines that the game was actually in early development</a>, following its <a href="/elder-scrolls-6-e3-2018">announcement at E3 2018</a>, via a teaser that feels a bit like we all dreamed it at this point.</p><p>This latest update came within a nice message from Bethesda commemorating The Elder Scrolls&rsquo; 30th birthday, with today, March 25, being the same date that The Elder Scrolls: Arena released on way back in 1994. After running down how much TES has grown and evolved over that time, as well as impacted loads of fans and developers, the studio touched on what it&rsquo;s currently got going on with the series and what&rsquo;s in the works for the future.</p> <p><a href="/elder-scrolls-6-early-builds-being-played-bethesda?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>"I wouldn't rule it out" Valorant producer hints towards agents coming to 2XKO</title><link>/i-wouldnt-rule-it-out-valorant-producer-hints-towards-agents-coming-to-2xko?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:22:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>/i-wouldnt-rule-it-out-valorant-producer-hints-towards-agents-coming-to-2xko?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>PC</category><category>Fighting</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Riot Games</category><category>Valorant</category><category>2XKO (Project L)</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/2xko-valorant-cross-header.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/2xko-valorant-cross-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Following the conclusion of the <a href="/games/valorant">Valorant</a> Masters Madrid tournament, SVP &amp; executive producer on Valorant Anna Donlon responded to a question on whether Valorant Agents would be making an appearance in <a href="/companies/riot-games">Riot Games</a>' upcoming fighting game: <a href="/everything-we-know-2xko">2XKO</a>. The answer? Surprisingly not no!
  95. </p><p>"I wouldn't rule it out," Donlon responded. "We want to see how 2XKO does. We're really excited to be bringing that game to players."
  96. </p><p>She continued, "I don't think we have any immediate plans to bring the two worlds together, but I definitely wouldn't rule it out. I think if that's what players in that community are looking for, we'd be really open to it. It's a good question! We've definately thought about it, and there's a world where I could definitely see that happening."
  97. </p> <p><a href="/i-wouldnt-rule-it-out-valorant-producer-hints-towards-agents-coming-to-2xko?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>It's ok, Capcom knows you’re upset about Dragon’s Dogma 2's launch woes, and has some fixes coming soon</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-updates-roadmap?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-updates-roadmap?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-updates-roadmap-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-updates-roadmap-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hello. <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> has had its fair share of woes and contrversies around launch, but it's ok, Capcom has some fixes coming. Some of them might be stuff you've heard alluded to before, but they're coming, ok?</p><p>Even if you weren't too bothered about its <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items">controversial microtransactions</a>, since <a href="/how-to-get-nearly-all-dragons-dogma-2-dlc-microtransactions-items-for-free-in-game">a lot of the stuff affected can be found in decent quantities just by playing the game</a>, there've been some perfance-related issues and minor omissions that've rigtly frustrated people. Thankfully, some patches that might help with some of that is already on the way.</p><p>"To all Dragon's Dogma 2 players," Capcom said in tweet accompanying a bit of a roadmap oulining its current plans update-wise, "We're planning to release patches including the following updates and fixes in the near future, and will release them as soon as they are ready for distribution on each platform. Thank you for your patience and support!"</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-updates-roadmap?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The Rising Tide DLC Trailer</title><link>/the-rising-tide-dlc-trailer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Orry</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:31:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>/the-rising-tide-dlc-trailer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Square Enix</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Final Fantasy XVI</category><category>RPG</category><category>PS5</category><category>Third person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Risingtide-thumb.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Risingtide-thumb.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  98. Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide - the game's second DLC - takes place before the ending of the main game. Square Enix has revealed that fans will be able to play the DLC from April 18, bought on its own or as part of the existing Expansion Pass. Either way, you'll need to also own the original game.
  99. </p><p>
  100. "An unmarked letter arrives at the hideaway containing a most curious request: the Dominant of Leviathan, the long-lost Eikon of Water, needs rescue," Square Enix says. "To heed this call, Clive and his companions must journey to Mysidia - a hidden land under a blue sky - where they will uncover the tragic history of a forgotten people."
  101. </p> <p><a href="/the-rising-tide-dlc-trailer?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Despite fan theories, Elden Ring's Malenia doesn't look to sneakily be the twin of a Sekiro boss we never got</title><link>/elden-ring-malenia-sekiro-theory-animations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:28:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>/elden-ring-malenia-sekiro-theory-animations?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>PC</category><category>FromSoftware</category><category>Hack &amp; Slash</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PS4</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Activision</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Third person</category><category>Elden Ring</category><category>Xbox One</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-maleina-sekiro-theory-animations-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-maleina-sekiro-theory-animations-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>For a good while now, one of the many fan theories that&rsquo;ve been buzzing around the <a href="/games/elden-ring">Elden Ring</a> community has concerned Malenia. She looks a bit like a Sekiro boss and moves a bit like a <a href="/games/sekiro-shadows-die-twice">Sekiro</a> boss, so there&rsquo;s a chance she might sneakily be a Sekiro boss we never got, right? Well, sadly, I&rsquo;m about to rain on your parade.</p><p>Given <a href="/elden-ring-alternate-intro-beach-cut-content-recreation">the amount of digging folks have done into ER</a>, it&rsquo;s arguably surprising that <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/u7g305/theory_malenia_is_literally_a_repurposed_sekiro/">this particular rumour</a>, which points to the waterfowl dancer being something akin to a twin of a character you hear about - but never encounter - in Sekiro, has rumbled on so long. Now, though, one of the game&rsquo;s loreheads has decided to take their own look into it, via some interesting animation comparisons between the two games.</p><p>&ldquo;There's one question I get asked about Malenia almost every time I include her in a video, and I've never really had a solid answer for it,&rdquo; FromSoft YouTuber and community figure <a href="https://twitter.com/ZullieTheWitch/status/1771945090413449481">ZullieTheWitch wrote in a tweet</a>. &ldquo;I realised it might actually be possible to get more context, but the method for getting it might be a little odd.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="/elden-ring-malenia-sekiro-theory-animations?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>You can now own a digital bobblehead of the man that laid off 900 people at PlayStation before he retired</title><link>/you-can-own-a-jim-ryan-playstation-stars-digital-bobblehead?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:03:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>/you-can-own-a-jim-ryan-playstation-stars-digital-bobblehead?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Jim Ryan</category><category>Sony PlayStation</category><category>Sony</category><category>PS5</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/jim-ryan-playstation-showcase-2023-capture-3.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/jim-ryan-playstation-showcase-2023-capture-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  102. The latest PlayStation Stars digital collectible is a bobblehead of Jim Ryan, the soon to be former <strong>PlayStation</strong> boss whose last major act at the company is laying 900 people off.
  103. </p><p>
  104. Last September, Ryan announced that he is <a href="/what-does-playstation-look-like-without-jim-ryan">retiring from his role as PlayStation boss</a> after 30 years at the company. And now, to commemorate his time at the company, through PlayStation's Stars program that lets you collect digitable objects (that definitely aren't NFTs), you can now get "A nod to Jim Ryan," the pun obviously intended there as it's a bobblehead of Ryan. "Help us celebrate Jim Ryan's 30 years at PlayStation by playing any one of the many impressive games he championed as CEO and get a special Digital Collectible," reads the item's description. "Happy retirement, Jim!"
  105. </p><p>
  106. I'm sure being the boss of PlayStation allows you to have quite the comfortable retirement, but I'm not sure if it's work that I'll remember him for - as last month, one of Ryan's last big acts at the company was laying off 900s of its employees, including the complete shutdown of London Studio (a studio he <a href="https://twitter.com/izzyfoley94/status/1760762617625235961">visited and happily smiled in photos with</a> less than a week before this news). "Thanks for 30 years of hard work and great games, Jim" indeed.
  107. </p> <p><a href="/you-can-own-a-jim-ryan-playstation-stars-digital-bobblehead?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Yoshi-P correctly assumes what we'll all be playing ahead of Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail: "I'll give you one week to enjoy the Elden Ring DLC"</title><link>/yoshi-p-gives-us-one-week-to-play-elden-ring-dlc-before-final-fantasy-14-dawntrail?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:08:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/yoshi-p-gives-us-one-week-to-play-elden-ring-dlc-before-final-fantasy-14-dawntrail?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>MMO</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>Bandai Namco Entertainment</category><category>PC</category><category>FromSoftware</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Third person</category><category>Elden Ring</category><category>Xbox One</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-dlc-final-fantasy-14-dawntrail.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-dlc-final-fantasy-14-dawntrail.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  108. <strong>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail</strong> is launching exactly a week after <strong>Elden Ring's</strong> DLC, and yes, it does sound like producer Naoki Yoshida did that on purpose.
  109. </p><p>
  110. Last week at PAX East, Yoshida, aka Yoshi-P, got up on stage and finally announced that Final Fantasy 14's next expansion Dawntrail will <a href="/final-fantasy-14-dawntrail-release-date">finally be releasing June 28</a> for those with early access, with the full release coming July 2. Those of you that fit within the venn diagram of Final Fantasy 14 fan and Elden Ring fan might have noticed that that early access date is exactly a week after Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree drops. It sounds like Yoshi-P is very much aware of that himself, as he kind of made it sound like the expansion was delayed slightly to accommodate the fact that everyone will be playing that Elden Ring DLC.
  111. </p><p>
  112. "We figured everyone would be interested in playing the Elden Ring DLC," he said via a translator. "I'll give you one week. I'll give you one week to enjoy the Elden Ring DLC and then just go into your summer vacation into Dawntrail." While laughing, he added, "I just want to make it clear, it's not because I want to play Elden Ring DLC and then play Dawntrail. Although I am looking forward to it."
  113. </p> <p><a href="/yoshi-p-gives-us-one-week-to-play-elden-ring-dlc-before-final-fantasy-14-dawntrail?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>This Dragon’s Dogma 2 mod takes away the need for that controversial DLC - just don't buy too much at once</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:40:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><category>Mods</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>There&rsquo;s a good chance <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> has just consumed an entire weekend of your life, but that&rsquo;s ok, we don&rsquo;t blame you. Well, assuming you haven&rsquo;t been put off by the performance issues or microtransactions. If the latter&rsquo;s the case, a new mod&rsquo;s definitely worth checking out.</p><p>Even if <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion">the furore about them was arguably a bit overblown</a>, given that <a href="/how-to-get-nearly-all-dragons-dogma-2-dlc-microtransactions-items-for-free-in-game">a lot of the stuff affected can be found in decent quantities just by playing the game</a>, you can understand why people weren&rsquo;t fans of the idea of potentially being tempted into paying for stuff. Thankfully, there's now a mod that can help you totally avoid feeling any pressure of that nature.</p><p>The mod in question is &lsquo;<a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/59?tab=description">Crazy's Shop</a>&rsquo;, by XxCrazyPotatoxX, whose name is straight out of a 2009 Call of Duty deathmatch. What does it do? Well, you know useful stuff like rift crystals, ferrystones, wakestones, and camping kits - which makes up a lot of those optional purchases, it adds more of those to the inventories of vendors in Vernworth than you could ever realistically need.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-mod-crazys-shop-microtransaction-items?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Oops, the Sonic Fall Guys clone leaked and - surprise - it actually looks pretty good!</title><link>/sonic-fall-guys-clone-leak-looks-pretty-good?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:56:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>/sonic-fall-guys-clone-leak-looks-pretty-good?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Nintendo Wii</category><category>Sonic Frontiers</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Sonic the Hedgehog</category><category>Mediatonic</category><category>Xbox 360</category><category>Sports</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Android</category><category>Platformer</category><category>SEGA Australia</category><category>Side view</category><category>PS4</category><category>Epic Games</category><category>SEGA</category><category>PC</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Fall Guys</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>PS3</category><category>Indie</category><category>Devolver Digital</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Sonic Team</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sonic-fall-guys-clone.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/sonic-fall-guys-clone.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  114. That <strong>Sonic the Hedgehog Fall Guys</strong> clone has leaked, and somehow, it actually looks like it might not be half bad.
  115. </p><p>
  116. There's been rumours about a Sonic game inspired by Fall Guys for a little while now, but yesterday, the YouTube channel The Sonic Show shared a leaked trailer for the strange clone. Titled Sonic Toys Party, the multiplayer game is quite literally just Fall Guys, but if everything were Sonic themed. That means having Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, Shadow and more as playable characters, and all of the stages being themed around classic Sonic levels. It's a weird choice for a spinoff game to be honest, but more surprising than its existence is that&hellip; it looks kind of fun!
  117. </p><p>
  118. While it's a bit slower-paced than most 3D Sonic games, the gameplay does appear to be pretty similar, and it even has some 2D sections too, so clearly there was more thought put into it than just slapping the blue hedgehog on a Fall Guys bean and calling it a day. Yes, you of course collect rings too, because what kind of a Sonic game would this be otherwise? And it looks like you can even get companion Chaos to run around with you as you play through the stages, which seems like a smart strategy to bring in all those Sonic Adventure fans that can't get over the Chao garden (I am Sonic Adventure fans).
  119. </p> <p><a href="/sonic-fall-guys-clone-leak-looks-pretty-good?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Ever wondered why Cyberpunk 2077's side quests are so good? Apparently all it takes is a lot of rejection</title><link>/cyberpunk--side-quests-are-so-good-thanks-to-a-lot-of-rejection?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:54:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>/cyberpunk--side-quests-are-so-good-thanks-to-a-lot-of-rejection?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>CD Projekt</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Third person</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Cyberpunk 2077</category><category>CD Projekt RED</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-team-announced-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-team-announced-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  120. <a href="/cyberpunk-2077-guide">Cyberpunk 2077</a> has plenty of good side quests, but perhaps unsurprisingly, the road to get there is paved with a whole lot of rejections.
  121. </p><p>
  122. Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 lead quest designer Pawe&lstrok; Sasko spoke with <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/how-are-cd-projekts-side-quests-so-good-cyberpunk-quest-designer-says-they-reject-over-90-of-their-pitches/">PC Gamer</a> at GDC, where he shared what it took to make the side quests as good as they are. Turns out, all you need to do is reject a whole bunch of them. "A good designer has an acceptance ratio of their ideas of between five to 10%," Sasko said. "If someone has 10%, this is probably one of the best people we have in the team." Obviously that means a whole lot of pitching has to be done, as even 10 pitches would result in only one side quest being developed.
  123. </p><p>
  124. Sasko went on to explain that part of weeding out the bad ideas at CD Projekt Red is by simply having quest designers offer all of their ideas, no matter the quality - that way, the best ones will stand out even more. "So what I do with our designers, I'm like, okay here's the list of genres. Here's a list of the themes that I want you to work with&mdash;list of topics. Write me pitches. And then they write, yeah, five, 10, 20 a day. Basically, an excellent pitch is like four sentences of like: That's the pitch."
  125. </p> <p><a href="/cyberpunk--side-quests-are-so-good-thanks-to-a-lot-of-rejection?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Spyro and Crash studio Toys for Bob might be independent now, but it's already signed a deal with Microsoft for its next game</title><link>/spyro-crash-studio-toys-for-bob-sign-deal-with-microsoft-for-next-game?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/spyro-crash-studio-toys-for-bob-sign-deal-with-microsoft-for-next-game?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Crash Team Rumble</category><category>PS5</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time</category><category>Platformer</category><category>Side view</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Toys for Bob</category><category>Activision</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Third person</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Crash-Bandicoot-4-Its-About-Time-Screenshot8-06222020.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Crash-Bandicoot-4-Its-About-Time-Screenshot8-06222020.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  126. <strong>Toys for Bob</strong> went independent last month, but it has apparently landed a deal with Microsoft for its next game.
  127. </p><p>
  128. Last month, Toys for Bob announced that it would be going independent as a studio, meaning it can make what it likes without being forced onto Call of Duty projects. Of course, that has led to <a href="/crash-bandicoot-uncertainty-toys-for-bob-indie">plenty of fans hoping that it will get to keep making Crash Bandicoot games</a> even if it isn't owned by Activision Blizzard or Microsoft anymore. It's future still isn't clear, but according to a recent report from <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/exclusive-xbox-has-reached-an-agreement-with-toys-for-bob-for-their-first-independent-game">Window Central's</a> Jez Cordon, the studio has formed a deal for its first game since going independent - and it's with Microsoft of all companies.
  129. </p><p>
  130. "Sources have indicated to me previously that Toys for Bob's culture didn't gel well with Activision's oft-restrictive corporate mandates, and they were excited for the opportunity to spin out as independent in agreement with Microsoft," Corden explained in his report. In Toys for Bob's <a href="https://www.toysforbob.com/blog/2024/WereGoingIndie">announcement post</a> about going independent, it did say that it was "confident" that it would "continue to work closely together" with Activision and Microsoft as part of its future, so that at the very least seems to be the case with the latter.
  131. </p> <p><a href="/spyro-crash-studio-toys-for-bob-sign-deal-with-microsoft-for-next-game?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Persona 3 Reload producer says Portable's female protagonist would cost "two to three times" as much as The Answer DLC, so it won't be possible</title><link>/persona-3-reload-producer-say-female-protagonist-too-expensive?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/persona-3-reload-producer-say-female-protagonist-too-expensive?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Atlus USA</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Persona 3 Reload</category><category>Visual Novel &amp; Dating</category><category>SEGA</category><category>Persona 3 Portable</category><category>Atlus</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/persona-3-reload-portable.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/persona-3-reload-portable.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  132. <strong>Persona 3 Reload</strong> fans desperately want the female protagonist added into the game, but its producer says that would be too expensive.
  133. </p><p>
  134. Sorry, Persona 3 fans, it sounds like now matter how much you beg, Portable's playable female protagonist Kotone won't be coming to Reload. In a recent interview with <a href="https://personacentral.com/p3r-episode-aigis-interview/">Persona Central</a>, general producer Kazuhisa Wada was asked about the possibility of the Portable exclusive character, where he essentially said it would be too expensive to include her. "I&rsquo;ll begin with an apology, but unfortunately, the appearance of the female protagonist in P3R will not happen," Wada said.
  135. </p><p>
  136. "Of course, we considered the inclusion of the female protagonist alongside &ldquo;Episode Aigis,&rdquo; but the more we delved into it, the more hopeless it seemed&hellip; The development time and costs would likely be two to three times that of &ldquo;Episode Aigis,&rdquo; making it challenging to entrust entirely to external companies and exceeding our capabilities. Even if P3R and the &ldquo;Expansion Pass&rdquo; were to exceed our sales expectations and resolve the cost issues, the release would still be far off."
  137. </p> <p><a href="/persona-3-reload-producer-say-female-protagonist-too-expensive?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Are Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's bonus items hinting at a FF9 Remake? Maybe! But Yoshi-P says the reason behind them is a secret for now</title><link>/are-final-fantasy-14-dawntrails-bonus-items-hinting-ff9-remake?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:03:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>/are-final-fantasy-14-dawntrails-bonus-items-hinting-ff9-remake?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>PS1</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>MMO</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Android</category><category>Final Fantasy IX</category><category>PS4</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Third person</category><category>PS3</category><category>PS5</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-9.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-9.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  138. <strong>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail</strong> finally has a release date, but some Final Fantasy 9-themed items are raising some eyebrows.
  139. </p><p>
  140. Yesterday at PAX East, Square Enix finally confirmed that Final Fantasy 14's next expansion, Dawntrail, <a href="/final-fantasy-14-dawntrail-release-date">will be arriving July 2</a>, a week after Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree (which yes, does seem like it was on purpose). That's exciting enough for Final Fantasy fans, but one of the more subtly interesting parts shown off by Square Enix is that Dawntrail will feature a number of Final Fantasy 9-themed items. One such item is a pre-order bonus of a wind-up Zidane minion, and there are other in-game bonus items like a wind-up Garnet Minion, and an Ark Mount, all from Final Fantasy 9.
  141. </p><p>
  142. During the panel, producer and director Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida didn't ignore the inclusion of the Final Fantasy 9 items, but he did play coy about them, saying "You may have noticed a lot of Final Fantasy 9 references here&hellip; but the reason is a secret." Now, that obviously raises some questions. What secret could there possible be behind such a secret? There could always be a Final Fantasy 9-themed raid planned for the expansion that hasn't been revealed yet. Or, perhaps that long-rumoured remake is finally actually happening.
  143. </p> <p><a href="/are-final-fantasy-14-dawntrails-bonus-items-hinting-ff9-remake?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>First Nintendo emulators, now one of the biggest Pokemon fan game sites around gets hit with a DMCA takedown</title><link>/one-of-the-biggest-pokemon-fan-game-sites-hit-by-dmca-takedown?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/one-of-the-biggest-pokemon-fan-game-sites-hit-by-dmca-takedown?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Open World</category><category>Pokemon Scarlet and Violet</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Kids &amp; Family</category><category>Family-friendly</category><category>Nintendo</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Anime</category><category>Game Freak</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/pokemon-horizons_4eRZu21.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/pokemon-horizons_4eRZu21.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  144. Relic Castle, the biggest <strong>Pokemon</strong> fan game site around, has apparently been shut down due to a sudden DMCA takedown notice.
  145. </p><p>
  146. Earlier this month, the Switch emulator Yuzu was <a href="/nintendo-yuzu-settle-lawsuit-emulator-shut-down">shut down</a> following a lawsuit that was settled by its creator and Nintendo. This also resulted in the 3DS emulator Citra being shut down too, marking another win for Nintendo in its quest to remove all ability to play its library of games that it has made <a href="/the-wii-u-and-nintendo-3ds-eshop-will-be-shutdown-next-year">almost impossible to play</a>. And now it seems that Relic Castle, a Pokemon fan game website, has also been shut down, though it's not particularly clear who by at this point in time (thanks, <a href="https://kotaku.com/pokemon-fan-games-relic-castle-shutdown-dmca-reason-1851359618?utm_source=vip">Kotaku</a>).
  147. </p><p>
  148. For those that haven't heard of Relic Castle before, it was a forum set up back in 2014 where people could share their love for Pokemon fan games. It was also common practice to share links to these fan games that people could download from third-party websites, though Relic Castle never hosted any of these games itself, it's important to note. Essentially, it was just a convenient place to find any fan games you might want to play.
  149. </p> <p><a href="/one-of-the-biggest-pokemon-fan-game-sites-hit-by-dmca-takedown?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>It sounds like Xbox wants a piece of the Nintendo Switch pie, as a new report claims that it's working on a "fully native" handheld</title><link>/xbox-fully-native-handheld-in-development-claims-insider?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:01:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>/xbox-fully-native-handheld-in-development-claims-insider?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Xbox Game Studios</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/xbox-game-pass_UxnUyor.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/xbox-game-pass_UxnUyor.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  150. Where <strong>PlayStation</strong> opted for the cloud-based handheld route, a new report is claiming the <strong>Xbox</strong> is prototyping a native handheld.
  151. </p><p>
  152. Last year, in a clear attempt to tap into some of what Nintendo is offering with the Switch, Sony released the PlayStation Portal, a weird little cloud-based handheld <a href="/playstation-portal-review-ps-handheld-everyone-no-one">for everyone and no one</a>. While plenty have their hang-ups over the handheld's inconsistent stability due to its reliance on a good internet connection, <a href="https://twitter.com/MatPiscatella/status/1770800821518602677">it has done quite well overall</a>, so clearly it's a device people feel they need a use for. Now, it's sounding like Microsoft wants a piece of the same pie, though it seems it will be closer to the Switch than it will be to the PS Portal.
  153. </p><p>
  154. Speaking on the Xbox Two podcast, Jez Corden said that he knows that "[Xbox] have got handheld prototypes right now." He clarified that they are "new prototypes" and not old ones that were supposedly previously in the works, and he also made sure to point out that it's "not a cloud handheld" it's "a fully native Xbox handheld." This was pointed out on the podcast too, but it should be noted that just because Xbox is working on a handheld prototype, if it is, that doesn't mean it will ever actually release. Projects like these are cancelled all the time, so don't go writing any comments complaining it never came out when it was never guaranteed in the first place.
  155. </p> <p><a href="/xbox-fully-native-handheld-in-development-claims-insider?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>First-person shooter fans rejoice, Fortnite is finally adding the highly requested mode later this year</title><link>/fortnite-is-finally-adding-first-person-mode?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:18:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>/fortnite-is-finally-adding-first-person-mode?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Android</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fortnite</category><category>Epic Games</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Mac</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fortnite-og_oInaWRL.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fortnite-og_oInaWRL.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  156. <strong>Fortnite</strong>, the battle royale shooter that has only been third-person for its entire existence, will be introducing a first-person perspective later this year.
  157. </p><p>
  158. While the majority of the most popular shooters out there, like Call of Duty or Apex Legends, use a first-person perspective, Fortnite has always opted for a third-person one. That'll definitely be partially because Epic likely wants you to see all those skins that you've either earned or paid real money for, but that hasn't stopped some wanting a first-person mode. Well, if you're one such person, you'll be happy to hear that the massively popular shooter will be adding in first-person into the game, though it's unclear just how it will be featured just yet.
  159. </p><p>
  160. Epic Games hosted a talk at GDC 2024 earlier this week titled the State of Unreal, where it showed off a bunch of changes coming to Unreal Engine. As you can see in the video above, around an hour and six minutes in, Epic offered a first look at what first-person will look like in-game, and yeah, it sure does look like first-person Fortnite! What wasn't confirmed, though, is whether first-person will feature in any of the main modes, or if it will be just limited to the game's Unreal Editor.
  161. </p> <p><a href="/fortnite-is-finally-adding-first-person-mode?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Overwatch 2 fails to justify its existence as Blizzard reportedly plans to scrap PvE altogether</title><link>/overwatch-2-blizzard-reportedly-plans-to-scrap-pve?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:27:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>/overwatch-2-blizzard-reportedly-plans-to-scrap-pve?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Overwatch 2</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PC</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/overwatch-2-tracer_EDNt7J5.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/overwatch-2-tracer_EDNt7J5.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  162. <strong>Overwatch 2</strong> is starting to feel a touch pointless, as a new report is claiming that the game is abandoning PvE altogether.
  163. </p><p>
  164. The big selling point of Overwatch 2 was initially the game's PvE Hero Mode, but barely a year later that was <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/overwatch-2s-long-promised-flagship-pve-mode-has-been-scrapped">completely scrapped</a>. There were still some PvE elements through the game's story missions, except there hasn't been all that much of them. And now, according to a report from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-22/blizzard-entertainment-makes-big-changes-as-overwatch-2-struggles">Bloomberg</a>, PvE content is being scrapped entirely in favour of PvP. Bloomberg's report claims that last year's paid pack of three PvE story missions sold poorly, a major reason as to why the PvE elements are being scrapped.
  165. </p><p>
  166. Apparently the layoffs that took place <a href="/microsoft-lays-of-1900-staff-from-its-video-game-division">across Microsoft earlier this year</a> resulted in a majority of the Overwatch 2 PvE team being laid off, and Bloomberg says that the team has been informed that Blizzard has no intention to finish off any PvE content in development, instead focusing on the game's competitive element. How that might affect the rest of the PvE team isn't particularly clear at this point in time. Currently, though, the most concerning thing for Overwatch 2 devs is the lack of bonuses.
  167. </p> <p><a href="/overwatch-2-blizzard-reportedly-plans-to-scrap-pve?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>What are you playing this weekend?</title><link>/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-93?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:17:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-93?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>What are you playing?</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>What are you playing this weekend</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/murder-on-the-orient-express.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/murder-on-the-orient-express.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>It&rsquo;s finally spring. Of course, you know this already if you live in the States because March 10 was &ldquo;spring forward&rdquo; day. Yup. When you think it&rsquo;s 7am, it&rsquo;s really 8am, and you should have been at work 30 minutes ago. And, earlier this week was the first day of spring, so yeah.</p><p>However, some of us knew it was spring before the calendar did because we had to mow our yard at the end of February. The last time we mowed was in late December. Seriously, Mother Nature? You couldn&rsquo;t give us more than two measly months for a mowing reprieve?  What did we ever do to you? Oh, right, littering and other terrible things.</p><p>So, yes some of us will be mowing again and readying their flowerbeds for planting season. Which will likely come early, the way things are going. But we&rsquo;ll also have time to play video games too, thankfully.</p> <p><a href="/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-93?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail soars into action on July 2 - pre-orders open March 26 with Early Access</title><link>/final-fantasy-14-dawntrail-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:45:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>/final-fantasy-14-dawntrail-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>MMO</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Final Fantasy</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-14-online-dawntrail.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-14-online-dawntrail.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Square Enix has <a href="https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/">announced a release date</a> for the <strong>Final Fantasy 14 Online</strong> expansion, <strong>Dawntrail</strong>.</p><p>Going live on July 2, pre-orders kick off on March 26 and include three days of Early Access beginning June 28. Bonuses for pre-ordering and picking up the Collector&rsquo;s Edition were announced, and are Final Fantasy 9-themed.</p><p>One pre-order bonus is the Wind-up Zidane Minion, a vanity pet that&rsquo;s a miniature version of Final Fantasy 9&rsquo;s Zidane. The other is Azeyma's Earrings which feature attributes that will vary according to your class/job and current level. They also increase EXP by 30% when defeating enemies up to level 90, but are only able to be equipped by Disciples of War or Magic classes and jobs.</p> <p><a href="/final-fantasy-14-dawntrail-release-date?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Final Fantasy 16's The Rising Tide DLC concludes Clive's story with new battles, locations, and more on April 18</title><link>/final-fantasy-16-dlc-the-rising-tide-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>/final-fantasy-16-dlc-the-rising-tide-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>PS5</category><category>Final Fantasy XVI</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Final Fantasy</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-16-the-rising-tide-(6).png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-16-the-rising-tide-(6).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Square Enix has announced that the upcoming DLC for <strong>Final Fantasy 16</strong>, titled <strong>The Rising Tide</strong>, will be released on April 18, following the launch of the first paid DLC, <a href="/final-fantasy-16-dlc-the-game-awards">Echoes of the Fallen</a>.</p><p>This is <a href="/final-fantasy-16-might-get-more-dlc">the final DLC chapter</a> for the action RPG and unlocks an all-new story, battles, sidequests, weapons, accessories, a new level cap, and more. In The Rising Tide, an unmarked letter arrives to Clive at the hideaway containing a request to rescue the Dominant of Leviathan, the long-lost Eikon of Water.  The rescue takes Clive and his companions to the hidden land of Mysidia where they will uncover the history of a forgotten people.</p><p>The Rising Tide will become available <a href="https://na.finalfantasyxvi.com/dlc/the-rising-tide#steps-to-unlock">after unlocking Origin</a> as a destination on the world map and completing the quest Priceless in the main scenario. You can look over the steps needed to experience the DLC in the link above.</p> <p><a href="/final-fantasy-16-dlc-the-rising-tide-release-date?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Grand Theft Auto 6 spring 2025 release window in flux per rumors hinting at fall 2025 or 2026 delay</title><link>/gta-6-possible-delay-2026-rumor?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:09:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>/gta-6-possible-delay-2026-rumor?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>GTA Games</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Open World</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Modern Day</category><category>Rockstar Games</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Full product</category><category>Grand Theft Auto</category><category>Grand Theft Auto 6</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gta-6-mud-bunny.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gta-6-mud-bunny.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/gta-6-release-date-leaks-map-trailer-reveal-rumours">Grand Theft Auto 6</a> is currently slated for a spring 2025 release, but it&rsquo;s possible the game could slip into 2026.</p><p>According to an exclusive report from <a href="https://kotaku.com/gta-6-development-2026-delay-rockstar-office-release-1851359831">Kotaku</a>, citing sources with insider knowledge of the development of GTA 6. The sources stated that heads of the studio are concerned that the game could face delays and may not be released until 2026.</p><p>The sources have cited "falling behind" with development as the primary reason for the potential delay, causing Rockstar's leadership to worry about the release timeline slipping past its planned date.</p> <p><a href="/gta-6-possible-delay-2026-rumor?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dead Island 2’s second DLC takes you to a Californian music festival turned gore-splattered rave</title><link>/dead-island-2-sola-dlc-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:13:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dead-island-2-sola-dlc-release-date?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Deep Silver</category><category>Zombies</category><category>PC</category><category>Hack &amp; Slash</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Dead Island</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Dambuster Studios</category><category>Dead Island 2</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dead-island-2-sola-dlc-(5).jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dead-island-2-sola-dlc-(5).jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Dambuster Studios has announced a release date for the second batch of story DLC coming to <strong>Dead Island 2</strong>.</p><p>Out April 17, the DLC centers around what&rsquo;s left of the SoLA music festival, built upon ancient grounds by the event&rsquo;s organizers, who, apparently aren&rsquo;t a very savvy bunch. Here, LA&rsquo;s beautiful bohemians ran afoul of a deadly virus sweeping through The Valley, to turn its inhabitants into ravenous zombies as a chthonic rhythm calls from beyond: the beat of the Autophage.</p><p>SoLA features one of its biggest and most open arenas yet, with the aesthetic of a summer festival and more than a few dashes of splatter-movie vibes. There&rsquo;s an interconnected world behind the stages, where you can see the band members, slay said band members, and explore where they&rsquo;ve stayed and played.</p> <p><a href="/dead-island-2-sola-dlc-release-date?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Thanks to a cool new Cyberpunk 2077 mod, you can now rock out with Keanu Reeves in any of V's apartments</title><link>/cyberpunk-2077-mod-heres-johnny-keanu-reeves-all-apartments?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:56:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>/cyberpunk-2077-mod-heres-johnny-keanu-reeves-all-apartments?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>CD Projekt</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty</category><category>PS4</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Cyberpunk 2077</category><category>CD Projekt RED</category><category>Mods</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-mod-heres-johnny-keanu-reeves-all-apartments-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/cyberpunk-2077-mod-heres-johnny-keanu-reeves-all-apartments-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The very good Phantom Liberty aside, <a href="/games/cyberpunk-2077">Cyberpunk 2077</a> is, for better or worse, that game where you can hang out with Keanu Reeves, because he's physically stuck inside your chracter's brain in slightly airheaded rock singer form. For those that love some Keanu, which you kind of have to or you're at risk of violating the rules of the internet, a new Cyberpunk mod is defintely worth checking out.</p><p>While a <a href="/cyberpunk-2077-update-pc-mice-mods-messed-with">quick update to the PC version of the game designed to help fix some misbehaving mouse buttons</a> temporarily caused some modding strife eariler this week, all the core mods a lot of your load order relies on have now been updated, so things should pretty much be back to normal. We might be in for more of that if <a href="/cyberpunk-2077-cd-projekt-done-adding-small-tweaks">CD Projekt's devs come across any more litle things they'd really like to add to Night City</a>, but for now, you're free to make your own fun by adding your own pet actor to all of your flats.</p><p>Cyberpunk modder Deceptious, who's also recently turned V into an art collector in pretty interesting fashion, has just released their latest work, a mod called &lsquo;<a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/13779">Here's Johnny</a>&rsquo;. What does it do? Well, in the base game, Silverhand only usually spawns in interactable form outside of cutscenes in one of the game's aparments - V's original digs in Megabuilding H10.</p> <p><a href="/cyberpunk-2077-mod-heres-johnny-keanu-reeves-all-apartments?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Yes, Stardew Valley mayonnaise drinking speedruns are now a thing, and already sub 20 minutes</title><link>/stardew-valley-mayonnaise-drinking-speedruns-are-a-thing?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:49:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stardew-valley-mayonnaise-drinking-speedruns-are-a-thing?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Larian Studios</category><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Chucklefish Games</category><category>Android</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PS4</category><category>Stardew Valley</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Indie</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-mayonnaise-drinking-speedruns-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley-mayonnaise-drinking-speedruns-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Hi there. It&rsquo;s Friday afternoon, everyone's being very loud about <a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon&rsquo;s Dogma 2</a> and I&rsquo;m about to tell you about something that&rsquo;s kinda disgusting. It&rsquo;s about <a href="/games/stardew-valley">Stardew Valley</a>. People are racing to drink mayonnaise in it as fast as they can.</p><p>Yeah, this is what life is now, apparently.</p><p>First, here&rsquo;s some background info on how we got here. In 2016, Stardew Valley became a thing. In March 2024, we <a href="/stardew-valley-update-will-let-you-drink-mayonnaise">learned that drinking mayonnaise in Stardew Valley would be becoming a thing</a>. Then, with <a href="/stardew-valley-update-16-live-patch-notes-lots-of-content">the release of Stardew Valley&rsquo;s 1.6 update</a>, it became a thing. Then, <a href="/stardew-valleys-all-time-high-concurrent-players-mod-maker-helped-develop-16-update">lots of people flocked to the game</a>, probably to drink mayonnaise. Now, people are seeing just how fast they can reach the mayonnaise and drink it. Soon, we&rsquo;ll all be dead.</p> <p><a href="/stardew-valley-mayonnaise-drinking-speedruns-are-a-thing?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Slave Zero X is a gore-soaked trip down memory lane, for better and for worse</title><link>/slave-zero-x-impressions-side-scrolling-bloody-action?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/slave-zero-x-impressions-side-scrolling-bloody-action?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Indie</category><category>PC</category><category>Ziggurat Interactive</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Slave Zero X</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Slave-Zero-X-key-art.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Slave-Zero-X-key-art.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Do you like gore, biopunk visuals, and retro fighter-like combo systems? <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/Slave_Zero_X/" target="_blank">Slave Zero X</a> might be for you. Be warned though: It's tough as nails, and not for the right reasons in many occasions.</p><p>Released a month ago, the game from the retro vibes experts at <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/developer/PoppyWorks" target="_blank">Poppy Works</a> nails a fast &amp; furious combat system and the striking aesthetics of its 1999 <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/328470/Slave_Zero/" target="_blank">third-person shooter relative</a> for PC and Dreamcast, but forgets that some chunks of the past were meant to be left behind.</p><p>The biopunk, 2.5D future of Slave Zero X takes players to Megacity S1-9, where the Sovereign Khan "rules with fists of iron and flesh," and the city below. The star of the show? A vengeful, sword-wielding warrior that embarks on a journey to murder the false God with the help of a stolen Slave Unity Prototype, turning the enemy's most powerful weapon against them. This lethal armor first comes across as a biomecha suit, but we quickly learn it's much more than that.</p> <p><a href="/slave-zero-x-impressions-side-scrolling-bloody-action?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>UPDATE: After hours of preparing to fail Helldivers 2's latest major order, it seems like players are getting conflicting reports as to whether they actually have</title><link>/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-seems-like-players-are-getting-conflicting-result-reports?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:52:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-seems-like-players-are-getting-conflicting-result-reports?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-melee-weapons-gun-bash-killer-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-melee-weapons-gun-bash-killer-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>UPDATE (22/03/24, 17:00 PM GMT): While it still doesn't look to have been addressed by Arrowhead, the consensus on this weird happening seems to to be that the successful order completion messages were most likely a bug of some kind, as the community definitely didn't achieve the objective in time.</p><p>Uh, ok, so this is gonna be a weird one. After <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> have <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bko07c/im_ok_with_the_operation_failing_and_you_should/">spent the last little bit all preparing to fail</a> the game's latest major order - likely due to all of the issues that've been plaguing the game this week - it looks like they've now gotten conflicting reports as to whether they have or not.</p><p>Yeah, they're just as confused as you are. And I don't just mean the folks who've been having to hope <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof">that the game's mechs will someday become idiot proof</a>. Though, to be honest, given the problems that've been afflicting the game's galactic war liberation percentages, this might not be that surprising.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-latest-major-order-seems-like-players-are-getting-conflicting-result-reports?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Baldur's Gate 3's director was once on board with doing a sequel, but now he's aiming for "a very big RPG that will rule them all"</title><link>/baldurs-gate-3-director-once-on-board-with-sequel-now-hes-aiming-for-very-big-rpg?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:44:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>/baldurs-gate-3-director-once-on-board-with-sequel-now-hes-aiming-for-very-big-rpg?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-honour-mode-speedrun-40-mins-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-honour-mode-speedrun-40-mins-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>So, <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-walkthrough">Baldur's Gate 3</a> developer Larian <a href="/larian-will-not-be-making-baldurs-gate-4-or-any-baldurs-gate-3-dlc">isn&rsquo;t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur&rsquo;s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&amp;D in the near future</a>. It&rsquo;s ok, stop crying. As it turns out, CEO Swen Vincke was once on board with some of those ideas, but now he&rsquo;s got his eyes on creating "a very big RPG that will rule them all", well, as soon as the tech it&rsquo;ll need is actually a thing.</p><p>Yup, the thing you were salivating over isn&rsquo;t going to be a thing, but it&rsquo;s ok, there&rsquo;s a new thing vaguely floating on the horizon for you to salivate over, praise be. To be fair, <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards">having just grabbed yet more hardware during the GDC awards</a>, Larian&rsquo;s earned a chance to pursue its interesting pipe dreams and mysterious ideas, though that seemingly wasn&rsquo;t always the plan.</p><p>Speaking to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egQgPD1wd7A">GameSpot</a>, Vincke&rsquo;s given a bit more context to yesterday&rsquo;s big announcement, and how Larian arrived at the point where it was so sure that it wasn&rsquo;t in the making DLC for and following up on one big success kind of studio. &ldquo;When it came to BG3, everybody was telling me &lsquo;you gotta make DLC&rsquo;, you&rsquo;ve gotta make DLC, and really you should be starting on a sequel,&rdquo; Vincke recalled, adding that, as you&rsquo;d expect, this was powered by the game&rsquo;s success and money-making ability.</p> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-director-once-on-board-with-sequel-now-hes-aiming-for-very-big-rpg?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2 is being review bombed on Steam over microtransactions, but the situation has been blown out of proportion</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:09:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> has just been released and, er, people are certainly talking about it, though a lot of that chatter isn&rsquo;t positive. You see, <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">reviews</a> for the version of the game on Steam are already mostly negative, citing performance issues and a huge day one DLC lineup that&rsquo;s rubbed people the wrong way.</p><p>Now, largely thanks to the whole <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-30-fps-console-confirmed-discourse">30 fps on consoles discourse</a> and debate about whether <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-pc-frame-rate-struggles-looked-into-innocent-bystanders">slaughtering a bunch of innocent NPCs would be a good way to try and improve your fps numbers on PC</a> (they were joking, put the sword down), we already knew the game was taxing on hardware. But, now the DLC&rsquo;s entered the fray too, and, er, there&rsquo;s lots of it.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s kick off with a picture of how negative the reception to the game <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2054970/Dragons_Dogma_2/">over on Steam</a> has been so far. As of writing, the game has just jumped back up to a &lsquo;mixed&rsquo; overall verdict, with only 40% of the 6,300-ish reviews it&rsquo;s racked up so far being positive. As alluded to earlier, the majority of the reasons cited for giving a big thumbs down are related to performance, microtransactions, or both.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review-bombed-steam-microtransactions-situation-blown-out-of-proportion?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The first three hours of Dragon's Dogma 2</title><link>/the-first-three-hours-of-dragons-dogma-2?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jim Trinca</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:16:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>/the-first-three-hours-of-dragons-dogma-2?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-(17).png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-(17).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  168. You might be aware that things are changing here at Gamer Network. As well as a certain looming sale that became public knowledge a few weeks back, we're also shuffling things around to unify our video teams from across all the brands, making a sort of videography supergroup that encompasses everyone from Dicebreaker to Eurogamer.
  169. </p><p>
  170. That may not really be important to you folks, but it means I get to work more often with our friends across the network, which includes showing up for Eurogamer's <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> livestream with Ian Higton, whose work I've long been a fan of. </p><p>On Thursday, we teamed up to take a look at the opening hours of Dragon's Dogma 2, including pawn creation, early side quests, and making that precarious initial journey to the capital city. Having already started my own playthrough about a week earlier, it was fascinating to see just how much of the early-game content I'd missed, and how much I'd stumbled upon that Ian hadn't. There are many forks in the road in Dragon's Dogma 2, as ever.
  171. </p> <p><a href="/the-first-three-hours-of-dragons-dogma-2?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2 vs Rise of the Ronin: which should YOU buy?</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-vs-rise-of-the-ronin?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jim Trinca</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:58:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-vs-rise-of-the-ronin?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Team Ninja</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Rise of the Ronin</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/header_mTRohR5.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/header_mTRohR5.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  172. <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-review">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> and <a href="/rise-of-the-ronin-review">Rise of the Ronin</a> are both &ldquo;western style&rdquo; open world games from acclaimed, beloved Japanese studios who don&rsquo;t usually do this sort of thing. On paper, they have a lot of similarities: deep combat systems, vast landscapes to explore, visuals that push current gen consoles to the limit, and an intrinsic love of cats. In practice, despite their obvious crossover appeal, they&rsquo;re wildly different beasts.
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  174. So, which should you buy? Well, if you haven&rsquo;t got a PS5, the question is moot on account of Rise of the Ronin being a PlayStation exclusive. But assuming you&rsquo;ve got a PS5, which should you buy? Our expert reviewers Alex Donaldson and Sherif Saed have joined me in the comparison video above to help you decide for yourself. Contains loads of gameplay footage. Like and subscribe etc.
  175. </p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-vs-rise-of-the-ronin?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2 prepares for takeoff... but not on Steam Deck (for now): Streaming the only option for handheld players</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-doesnt-run-too-well-on-steam-deck-other-pc-gaing-handhelds?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:08:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-doesnt-run-too-well-on-steam-deck-other-pc-gaing-handhelds?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Dragon's Dogma</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-stained-glass(1).jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-stained-glass(1).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> lands tomorrow, but hold on to your excitement, handheld PC gamers, because your new pride and joy won't be the perfect travel companion for this adventure.</p><p>That&rsquo;s because your handheld is likely unable to run the game well in the first place.</p><p><a href="https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/15623-dragons-dogma-2-an-amazing-game-but-you-wont-be-running-it-on-steam-deck">According to RPGsite</a>, outside of streaming Dragon&rsquo;s Dogma 2 from another PC or a console, you won&rsquo;t be playing it on handhelds such as Steam Deck, the <a href="/asus-rog-ally-release-date-pricing-specs">ROG Ally from Asus</a>, or even <a href="/lenovo-legion-go-switch-steam-deck-new-handheld-pc">Lenovo Legion Go</a>. If you own the Ayaneo 2, a gaming handheld more powerful than Steam Deck, you&rsquo;ll be able to run the game, but this handheld too has its problems, so it&rsquo;s not recommended either.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-doesnt-run-too-well-on-steam-deck-other-pc-gaing-handhelds?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Larian will not be making Baldur's Gate 4, or any Baldur's Gate 3 expansions</title><link>/larian-will-not-be-making-baldurs-gate-4-or-any-baldurs-gate-3-dlc?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>/larian-will-not-be-making-baldurs-gate-4-or-any-baldurs-gate-3-dlc?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-art.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-art.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Larian will not be working on Baldur's Gate 4, or any expansions for <a href="/games/baldurs-gate-iii">Baldur's Gate 3</a>, it has just been revealed.
  176. </p><p>This information comes from the CEO of Larian himself - Swen Vincke. Hosting a talk at GDC 2024 titled "The secrets of Baldur's Gate 3", he closed with this bombshell after roughly an hour of development discussion, funny storys, and revelations about work left on the cutting room floor.
  177. </p><p>"I told you at the beginning that we were a company of big ideas" Vincke said. "We are not a company that is made to create DLCS [or] expansions. We tried that actually a few times, it failed every time. It's not worth it. Life is too short, and our ambitions are very large, but like Gustaf (the dog whose name was attributed to Baldur's Gate 3 during development) it was always have a warm place in our hearts."
  178. </p> <p><a href="/larian-will-not-be-making-baldurs-gate-4-or-any-baldurs-gate-3-dlc?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Larian considered having multiple narrators in Baldur's Gate 3 - including Matt Mercer</title><link>/larian-considered-having-multiple-dm-voices-in-baldurs-gate-3-including-matt-mercer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:33:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>/larian-considered-having-multiple-dm-voices-in-baldurs-gate-3-including-matt-mercer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-find-minsc.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-find-minsc.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/baldurs-gate-iii">Baldur's Gate 3</a> director Swen Vincke has just hosted a bombshell Baldur's Gate 3 talk at GDC 2023, peeling back the curtain at the development process of the <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards">GDCA game of the year winner</a>. One of the secrets he spilt was that at one point during early development, the team wanted there to be multiple dungeons masters narrating the game... Including Matt Mercer.
  179. </p><p>This revelation came during an anecdote about the early ambition of the game, including the desire to make cinematics a major part of the Baldur's Gate 3 experience.
  180. </p><p>"You'll notice that Divininty: Original Sin 2 had this narrator - this dungeon master. We said you know what, we should make that the thing for Baldur's Gate 3 also". Sven stated in front of a live GDC crowd. He'd go on to showcase a very early cinematic of <a href="/baldurs-gate-3-minsc-underduke-sluice-gate">Minsc</a>, with a narrator providing the running commentary on his actions, even going as far as adding an 'he barks' following Minsc's line.
  181. </p> <p><a href="/larian-considered-having-multiple-dm-voices-in-baldurs-gate-3-including-matt-mercer?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Yay, a fresh Helldivers 2 patch is coming soon to fix freezes, here are some guns to avoid using until it does</title><link>/helldivers-2-patch-is-coming-soon-to-fix-freezes-guns-to-avoid-using?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:15:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-patch-is-coming-soon-to-fix-freezes-guns-to-avoid-using?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-best-gun-just-the-one-you-like-stats-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-best-gun-just-the-one-you-like-stats-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>There've been a lot of issues afflicting <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> since its latest patch dropped yesterday, but the good news is that Arrowhead's now revealed that it's working on a fresh patch that should take care of the biggest one - the game freezing up on regular basis.</p><p>When should this new patch arrive? Soon is the answer by the looks of it, and there are some guns the developer suggests that you stay away from until that point. Given how quickly it managed to sort <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof">the recent issues with the game's Galactic War not registering progress properly</a>, I'd listen.</p><p>The reveal of this came via the official Helldivers 2 Discord server, where community manager Baskinator writes: "We have identified the cause of the freezes many players have been experiencing, and we're in the process of building a patch to fix it that should be ready to deploy early next week."</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-patch-is-coming-soon-to-fix-freezes-guns-to-avoid-using?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Ultrahand physics had Nintendo staff marveling at flying horses pre-release</title><link>/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gdc-ultrahand-horses?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:56:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gdc-ultrahand-horses?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Single Player</category><category>RPG</category><category>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</category><category>Nintendo</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gdc-ultrahand-horses-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gdc-ultrahand-horses-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>You know how a lot of us spent a good few months at least last year just building weird, wacky and/or impressive things in <a href="/games/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom">The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</a>? Well, during a panel at GDC, some of the fine folks who worked on the game at Nintendo have offered a bit more insight into how the amazing physics system that made all of that possible came to be.</p><p>The answer involves flying horses, just in case you need a reason to read on. But yeah, getting back on track, all of this happened well before the game was, according to Nintendo in that lawsuit against the creators of the Yuzu emulator that ended up leading to that emulator <a href="/nintendo-yuzu-settle-lawsuit-emulator-shut-down">no longer being a thing</a>, <a href="/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-zelda-totk-pirated">pirated a million times before it even came out</a>. </p><p>"Multiplicative gameplay". What's that? Well, it's Nintendo's phrase for the philosophy behind both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, which essentially boils down to letting people mess about with actions and objects to create a bunch of interesting possibilities and scenarios. As outlined in this GDC talk (thanks, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-reveals-tears-of-the-kingdoms-single-biggest-problem-and-how-it-was-solved">IGN</a>), Ultrahand came about as an extension of that idea, letting people slam mutiple objects together like you did when you were an unruly five year old.</p> <p><a href="/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gdc-ultrahand-horses?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Netflix's new massive sci-fi show, 3 Body Problem, is finally here, but the reception is mixed so far</title><link>/netflix-3-body-problem-arrives-mixed-reviews?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>/netflix-3-body-problem-arrives-mixed-reviews?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Novels</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>3 Body Problem</category><category>TV</category><category>Netflix</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/3-Body-Problem_Netflix.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/3-Body-Problem_Netflix.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>If you're into hard sci-fi and/or checking out Netflix's latest big shows, chances are you'll be watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvzhCL7vIA" target="_blank">3 Body Problem</a> starting today. After all, Netflix has blown $160 million (plus $200 on a deal with its creators) on the series, so it should <em>at least</em> feel grand, right?</p><p>David Benioff and D.B. Weiss' (Game of Thrones) long-anticipated adaptation of Liu Cixin's hit 2008 sci-fi novel has been in the works for a long time, roughly since around the time the pair were done with Thrones' highly divisive final season and <a href="/game-of-thrones-showrunners-cancelled-star-wars-movie" target="_blank">left a massive Star Wars project at Lucasfilm</a>. Is their new endeavor a return to form or a big-budget misfire? Opinions on the eight-episode first season are all over the place, it seems.</p><p>Before jumping into the pool of varied reactions, this is the official, non-spoiler synopsis shared by Netflix: "A young woman&rsquo;s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity&rsquo;s history."</p> <p><a href="/netflix-3-body-problem-arrives-mixed-reviews?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Starfield quest designer highlights an unfortunate reality of game development</title><link>/starfield-designer-final-quest-game-development-reality?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/starfield-designer-final-quest-game-development-reality?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>First person</category><category>Open World</category><category>PC</category><category>Bethesda Game Studios</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Starfield</category><category>Bethesda Softworks</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Shooter: First Person</category><category>Science Fiction</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-designer-final-quest-game-development-reality-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-designer-final-quest-game-development-reality-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Warning: Spoilers for Starfield lie ahead.</strong></p><p>Ok, you&rsquo;ve gotten past the headline, here we go.</p><p>So, at a recent GDC talk, former <a href="/starfield-guide-quest-walkthroughs-item-locations-and-more">Starfield</a> lead quest designer Will Shen has discussed how the game&rsquo;s final quest came together, with the answer being in fashion that was a bit last minute. That&rsquo;s far from ideal, but as Shen alluded to in the talk, it is unfortunately a symptom of the kind of challenge a game as big as Starfield currently represents for a lot of studios.</p> <p><a href="/starfield-designer-final-quest-game-development-reality?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>If you're loving Delicious in Dungeon as much as I am, then you need to check out this incredible fantasy series</title><link>/if-you-love-delicious-in-dungeon-check-out-witch-hat-atelier?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/if-you-love-delicious-in-dungeon-check-out-witch-hat-atelier?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Kodansha</category><category>Delicious in Dungeon</category><category>Anime</category><category>Netflix</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/delicious-in-dungeon-witch-hat-atelier.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/delicious-in-dungeon-witch-hat-atelier.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  182. <strong>Delicious in Dungeon</strong> is having a little bit of a moment, and I'm personally thrilled to see it. When it comes to things like merchandise, you won't really see a series get any until it's in anime form, and a plethora of merch and things like collaboration cafes are typically reserved for more popular series - luckily the fantasy series from Ryoko Kui is being treated to both and more. It's refreshing, as Delicious in Dungeon is such a unique take on fantasy that the genre has sorely needed for the longest time. But it's not alone in revitalising fantasy.
  183. </p><p>
  184. While it is yet to receive an anime, there is another manga I really think you should check out if you like Delicious in Dungeon: <strong>Witch Hat Atelier</strong>. Rather than eating monsters and diving into dungeons, Witch Hat Atelier follows a young girl, Coco, who lives in a world where only people born with the ability to use magic can do so, making it a pipe dream for most, including our protagonist. Except, that's not quite the truth, as Coco discovers, accidentally petrifying her mother, thrusting herself into a world of magic as she searches for a cure, all the while getting roped into a wider conspiracy.
  185. </p><p>
  186. Excellent hook aside, it's actually the worldbuilding I love the most about Witch Hat Atelier. In Delicious in Dungeon, there are regularly explanations for how each of the monsters work that are often scientific, making them feel like they could be real creatures. Whether it be dragons clicking their tongues to light the spark for their fire breath, <a href="/delicious-in-dungeon-episode-3-studio-trigger-magic">or living armour that's actually molluscs</a>, there's clearly just so much thought put into every aspect of how the world works.
  187. </p> <p><a href="/if-you-love-delicious-in-dungeon-check-out-witch-hat-atelier?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>ARK: The Animated Series is apparently a thing and has just surprised-dropped six episodes onto Paramount Plus</title><link>/ark-the-animated-series-surprise-drops-on-paramount-plus?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:19:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>/ark-the-animated-series-surprise-drops-on-paramount-plus?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Ark 2</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Animation</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Ark: Survival Ascended</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Android</category><category>PS4</category><category>TV</category><category>Ark: Survival Evolved</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Ark: The Animated Series</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Ark</category><category>Virtual Reality</category><category>Studio Wildcard</category><category>Indie</category><category>First person</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Snail Games USA</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ARK-animated-series_CGcWafJ.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ARK-animated-series_CGcWafJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>An animated series for Paramount+ based on ARK: Survival Evolved (<a href="/ark-survival-ascended-sees-another-delay-on-xbox-series-xs" target="_blank">now Ascended</a>) ahead of the launch of <a href="/ark-2-delayed-to-2024-for-the-betterment-of-the-final-product-and-the-teams-well-being" target="_blank">ARK 2</a> was <a href="/ark-the-animated-series">announced in 2020</a>, but we don't blame you if you'd forgotten, as that pterosaur flew under most folks' radars. Now, the streaming service has surprise-dropped six episodes of it in the US and Canada.</p><p>One would think this production was a smaller one, yet we're looking at huge names such as Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Russell Crowe (The Loudest Voice), Gerard Butler (Plane), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction), Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy), Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time), and Vin Diesel (Fast &amp; Furious franchise). They're not messing around, eh?</p><p>The show itself, which released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMTbYmS5o_Y" target="_blank">a lengthy trailer</a> in late 2022 too, looks okay and like your average streaming-only animated adaptation based on a video game. That is, below Castlevania's level and on par with stuff like DOTA, Dragon's Dogma, or the upcoming <a href="/tomb-raider-remastered-game-preservation" target="_blank">Tomb Raider</a> for Netflix.</p> <p><a href="/ark-the-animated-series-surprise-drops-on-paramount-plus?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Unlike The Game Awards, the GDC Awards didn’t shy away from industry layoffs and the situation in Gaza</title><link>/gdc-awards-didnt-shy-away-from-industry-layoffs-gaza?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:48:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>/gdc-awards-didnt-shy-away-from-industry-layoffs-gaza?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Kids &amp; Family</category><category>Awards</category><category>GDC</category><category>Yenba</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-21-06.10.58.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-21-06.10.58.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The GDCAs were hosted last night during GDC 2024. While various awards were given out and developers celebrated as expected, the stage also was used by winners to shine a spotlight on a variety of important ongoing issues. This includes the current state of the video game industry and the huge waves of layoffs we've seen, as well as the ongoing war in Gaza.
  188. </p><p>This includes (but is absolutely not limited to) the devs behind Mediterranea Inferno, who stated that publishers and platform owners have an obligation to make sure developers "not just survive, but thrive", the Anthology of the Killer team writing "f*ck the IDF and free Palestine" in their acceptance video, and host Alanah Pearce tackling layoffs as part of her opening monologue.
  189. </p><p>"People who normally attend GDC every year have had to cancel because coming here is sort of an extravagant luxury when you don't know when your next paycheque is coming," said Pearce.</p> <p><a href="/gdc-awards-didnt-shy-away-from-industry-layoffs-gaza?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>A new The Office series might be happening and end up even more cringe than what came before</title><link>/new-the-office-series-with-creator-greg-daniels-in-development?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:30:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>/new-the-office-series-with-creator-greg-daniels-in-development?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Greg Daniels</category><category>The Office</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>NBC Universal</category><category>TV</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Office_meeting.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Office_meeting.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The Office creator Greg Daniels is teaming up with Nathan for You's Michael Koman to develop a new series set in the same continuity, but it won't be a sequel. Yay?</p><p>Sitcoms are the type of TV show that simply keeps working <em>just fine</em> for studios, streaming giants, and cable broadcasters. They're cheap (and quick) to write and produce, and can go on for years, if not decades, if needed. Of course, with every Hollywood giant going through their library of once-successful properties, a reboot of The Office happening was only a matter of time.</p><p>Plans for a comeback of NBC's hit American sitcom (there was also a pretty great BBC series) have been in motion for a while now, but a formal commitment hadn't been announced yet. Now, <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/the-office-new-series-michael-koman-co-creator-greg-daniels-1235863465/" target="_blank">Deadline has revealed</a> Universal Television is doubling down on the potential spinoff series, which isn't actually described as a reboot or remake, but instead as an in-continuity follow-up focusing on an entirely different office and company.</p> <p><a href="/new-the-office-series-with-creator-greg-daniels-in-development?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>UPDATE: Sadly, Helldivers 2's mechs still aren't idiot proof, and lots of crashes have followed the latest patch</title><link>/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:04:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Helldivers 2</category><category>Arrowhead Game Studios</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Shooter: Third Person</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof-01.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof-01.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Are you an idiot? Well, I've got some bad <a href="/games/helldivers-2">Helldivers 2</a> news for you. The game's <a href="/helldivers-2-patch-exosuit-planetary-hazard-fixes">latest patch</a> hasn't totally eliminated the phenomenon of accidentally destroying your own exosuit with your own missiles. Also, its deployment has been followed by a wave of crashes, which Arrowhead is working on solutions for.</p><p>Unfortunately, while things have been going well in-game for the soldiers of Super Earth occupied as they <a href="/helldivers-2-flying-bugs-players-worried-about-termicide">battle against the Terminids</a>, there've been a number of pesky issues that've been plaguing folks. Arrowhead's <a href="/helldivers-2-difficulty-stuck-issues-being-resolved">working very hard on sorting a lot of them out</a>, but yeah, it might take a little while to see them all rectified.</p><p>Let's start with the positives, since more things have been happening in Helldivers 2 than you can probably keep track of. Arrowhead's now deployed some fixes designed to solve some of the issues folk have been having with friend invites, as well as some malfunctionging stats. Sadly, since that point, as outlined in <a href="https://discord.com/invite/helldivers">the game's official Discord server</a>, some other problems have arisen.</p> <p><a href="/helldivers-2-patch-followed-by-crashes-mechs-not-idiot-proof?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra Story Trailer</title><link>/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-story-trailer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Orry</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:30:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-story-trailer?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra</category><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>Marvel Games</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Skydance New Media</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-20-10.07.32.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-20-10.07.32.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  190. Marvel Games has a new video game due in 2025, and it's Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. If you ask us it's looking pretty great, at least going on this story trailer.
  191. </p><p>
  192. Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is an original story featuring a number of Marvel greats, including Captain America and Black Panther. The game, in development at Skydance New Media, is being headed by industry great Amy Hennig.
  193. </p> <p><a href="/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-story-trailer?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>The MonsterVerse may stay silly a while longer, as Godzilla x Kong director Adam Wingard wants to stick around</title><link>/godzilla-x-kong-director-adam-wingard-has-more-sequel-ideas?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:21:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>/godzilla-x-kong-director-adam-wingard-has-more-sequel-ideas?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Legendary Pictures</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Monsterverse</category><category>Warner Bros.</category><category>Toho</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</category><category>Movies</category><category>Godzilla</category><category>King Kong</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Godzilla-x-Kong_Kong-tries-to-reason.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Godzilla-x-Kong_Kong-tries-to-reason.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/godzilla-x-kong-second-trailer-arrives" target="_blank">Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</a> looks rad, but I can see how it's not for everyone, especially if you aren't familiar with like 90% of Toho's Godzilla franchise and would rather stick to more serious affairs, such as <a href="/after-the-success-of-godzilla-minus-one-its-director-wants-to-make-a-monster-versus-monster-movie" target="_blank">Godzilla Minus One</a>. Well, sorry if you're in that boat, as the American movies might be staying balls-to-the-wall silly for a bit longer.</p><p>Legendary's MonsterVerse has done a bit of everything over the years, but the numbers (as well as the critical and public reception) say it finally blew up with 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1383892481/" target="_blank">which performed quite well theatrically</a> despite a day-and-date release on HBO Max and dropping in the middle of the Covid pandemic. Of course, the powers that be wanted director Adam Wingard (of The Guest fame) to stick around for a second crossover flick, and it sounds like <strong>he's been enjoying the ride so much that he wants to try and finish a trilogy of sorts</strong>.</p><p>This news came straight from the filmmaker's mouth during an interview about Godzilla x Kong, which releases on March 27, with <a href="https://discussingfilm.net/2024/03/20/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-director-adam-wingard-already-has-plans-for-another-sequel-exclusive/" target="_blank">DiscussingFilm</a>. While Wingard is currently attached to a number of blockbuster projects that may or may not move forward, <strong>he makes it sound like the MonsterVerse has his full attention as long as WB, Legendary, and Toho want him back for more</strong>: "The whole idea that if you&rsquo;ve done two movies, like, maybe you should just go ahead and do a third because, as you said, there&rsquo;s a trilogy in there. I definitely think there&rsquo;s more story to this, and I think that I have more story to tell. But it just depends on how [Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire] does and how things kind of shape out."</p> <p><a href="/godzilla-x-kong-director-adam-wingard-has-more-sequel-ideas?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Rise of the Ronin review - Team Ninja without the bite, or the Nioh heights</title><link>/rise-of-the-ronin-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>/rise-of-the-ronin-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Team Ninja</category><category>Story Rich</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Open World</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Third person</category><category>Sony Interactive Entertainment</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Rise of the Ronin</category><category>Reviews</category><category>Historical</category><category>RPG: Action</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/rise-of-the-ronin-review-header-1.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/rise-of-the-ronin-review-header-1.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/rise-of-the-ronin">Rise of the Ronin</a> is a frustrating game. If you&rsquo;re familiar with the work of Japanese studio <a href="/companies/team-ninja">Team Ninja</a>, that sentence may not be surprising to read. This is a team that has long prided itself on creating challenging, and sometimes unforgiving, action games laser-focused on delivering a specific experience. You&rsquo;re either onboard with that or you aren&rsquo;t.</p><p>But this game is not frustrating because of its exacting difficulty, myriad of interlocking systems or rage-inducing boss fights. No, what makes it so is that - in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, <strong>Rise of the Ronin</strong> appropriates the worst parts of its contemporaries.</p><p>Rise of the Ronin is simultaneously Team Ninja&rsquo;s most modern, and its most dated, game. The jump in graphical fidelity compared to the <a href="/games/nioh">Nioh</a> games is massive, and it&rsquo;s all the more impressive when you factor in how large and open the game&rsquo;s world is. It&rsquo;s the sort of upgrade many Western studios had to undertake between the <a href="/platforms/playstation-3">PS3</a> and <a href="/platforms/playstation-4">PS4</a> generations. That this is happening in the <a href="/platforms/playstation-5">PS5</a> era, lessens the effect, but the benefits are nonetheless palpable.</p> <p><a href="/rise-of-the-ronin-review?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Princess Peach: Showtime review – Nintendo's leading lady is anything but asleep at the Switch</title><link>/princess-peach-showtime-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kelsey Raynor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/princess-peach-showtime-review?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Family-friendly</category><category>Kids &amp; Family</category><category>Nintendo</category><category>Side view</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Princess Peach: Showtime!</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/peach-header.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/peach-header.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Princess Peach has made her long-awaited comeback in <strong><a href="/games/princess-peach-showtime">Princess Peach: Showtime</a></strong>, her second mainline game since Super Princess Peach arrived on the Nintendo DS, way back in 2005. Almost two decades later, Mario's number one princess has returned to show us what she&rsquo;s really all about &ndash; no longer being at the whim of her emotions, but instead taking to the center of the stage as she reclaims the Sparkle Theater from the Sour Bunch.</p><p>That&rsquo;s right. Princess Peach previously starred in a platforming game of her own where the main mechanic was channeling her emotions - rage, joy, gloom, and calm - to harness different abilities throughout the game. A 10-year-old me thought that it was great. It was vibrant, jovial, full of style - as a Peach game should be - but it hasn't really aged well.</p><p>It&rsquo;s safe to say this derivative mechanic has been addressed - and flipped on its head entirely - in Princess Peach: Showtime. The world's a stage in Showtime, quite literally, as Peach takes on multiple starring roles in each of the stage-plays being hosted at Sparkle Theater, which is being overtaken by the notorious Sour Bunch.</p> <p><a href="/princess-peach-showtime-review?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Dragon's Dogma 2's PC frame rate struggles are being looked into, and that might save some innocent bystanders</title><link>/dragons-dogma-2-pc-frame-rate-struggles-looked-into-innocent-bystanders?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark Warren</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:36:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/dragons-dogma-2-pc-frame-rate-struggles-looked-into-innocent-bystanders?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>PC</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Third person</category><category>Capcom</category><category>Dragon's Dogma 2</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2_NWT0LxV.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2_NWT0LxV.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/games/dragons-dogma-2">Dragon's Dogma 2</a> is a big game and one that&rsquo;s pretty demanding on your hardware. For PC players, the most noticeable problem looks to be struggling frame rates, something Capcom&rsquo;s already said it&rsquo;s looking into. It&rsquo;s ok though, some fans have got their own morally dubious plan.</p><p>Yep, after <a href="/dragons-dogma-2-30-fps-console-confirmed-discourse">the whole 30 FPS on consoles discourse</a>, we&rsquo;re now into a new stage of performance-related patter, with those of us who&rsquo;ve invested far too much money in big boxes wondering just how little we&rsquo;ll have to pay for heating over the next few months. The good news is that some big brains - both official and very much unofficial - are already thinking about how to help out your ailing CPU.</p><p>First of all, the official help, you know, from Capcom itself. In a statement to <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-is-aware-of-dragons-dogma-2-frame-rate-issues-on-pc-looking-into-fixes">IGN</a>, the publisher has said that it&rsquo;s aware of the issues, which it says may well be linked to how the game handles rendering NPC characters.</p> <p><a href="/dragons-dogma-2-pc-frame-rate-struggles-looked-into-innocent-bystanders?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Following Barbie, Margot Robbie is producing the live-action The Sims movie you've been hearing about forever</title><link>/barbie-star-margot-robbie-producing-live-action-the-sims-movie?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fran Ruiz</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:14:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>/barbie-star-margot-robbie-producing-live-action-the-sims-movie?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PS2</category><category>Margot Robbie</category><category>Maxis</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>PC</category><category>EA</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox</category><category>Movies</category><category>Electronic Arts</category><category>Aspyr</category><category>The Sims</category><category>Barbie</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Nintendo GameCube</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Sims-4_group.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Sims-4_group.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Like it or not, Barbie is one of those Hollywood success stories that have a years-long impact across the whole movie industry, and perhaps the most important person behind it was Margot Robbie, its star, who also produced the movie through her LuckyChap Entertainment company. Her next mission? Repeating the magic trick with EA Maxis' <a href="/the-sims-24th-anniversary" target="_blank">The Sims</a> franchise.</p><p>Even before making <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1077904129/" target="_blank">$1.44 billion globally</a> at the box office (becoming WB's highest-grossing movie ever), earning <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/barbie" target="_blank">the critics and audiences' trust</a>, and taking home one Oscar win, the movie had already kickstarted <a href="/mattel-announces-bob-the-builder-animated-movie" target="_blank">an IP-to-movie frenzy at Mattel</a>. It also sent co-writer and director <a href="/barbie-director-greta-gerwig-ken-movie-rumors" target="_blank">Greta Gerwig</a> towards another huge project: <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/greta-gerwig-ignores-barbie-oscar-snubs-wrote-chronicles-of-narnia-movie-already-1235897427/" target="_blank">new Chronicles of Narnia movies for Netflix</a>.</p><p>Now, Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider <a href="https://x.com/TheInSneider/status/1770591923516187038?s=20" target="_blank"> has dropped this fascinating news about The Sims</a>, also claiming that (busy) <a href="/how-loki-season-2-good-when-marvel-bad" target="_blank">Loki</a> season 1 director Kate Herron was attached to write and direct the movie. <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-sims-movie-luckychap-vertigo-entertainment-1235947918/" target="_blank">Variety</a> later confirmed Sneider's exclusive, adding that Herron is set to co-write the daring adaptation with Briony Redman (The Inside Man). The writing duo have recently collaborated on the script for a new Doctor Who episode, and Herron is next set to direct an episode of <a href="/the-last-of-us-season-2-cast-abby-jesse" target="_blank">The Last of Us season 2</a>.</p> <p><a href="/barbie-star-margot-robbie-producing-live-action-the-sims-movie?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Diablo 4's Season 4 and its loot changes are so massive, Blizzard pushed it back by a month</title><link>/diablo-4-season-4-delay-ptr-date-big-loot-overhaul-details?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sherif Saed</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:35:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>/diablo-4-season-4-delay-ptr-date-big-loot-overhaul-details?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Blizzard Entertainment</category><category>Open World</category><category>PC</category><category>Diablo</category><category>Hack &amp; Slash</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Diablo IV</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Activision Blizzard</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-new-s2-store-items-1.jpeg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diablo-4-new-s2-store-items-1.jpeg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Last night was pretty big for <a href="/diablo-4-beginners-guide-builds-maps-and-tips-for-new-players">Diablo 4</a>, if you consider reveals and teasers about things coming in the future a big deal. During the most recent <a href="/diablo-4-campfire-chat-season-4-teaser-loot-overhaul-watch-times">Campfire Chat developer livestream</a>, Blizzard announced a host of new details about the future of the game.</p><p>The main point of the show was to preview some of the major systemic changes coming to the game with the next season, the studio&rsquo;s ethos behind them, and how it&rsquo;s going to go about testing them in the real world.</p><p></p> <p><a href="/diablo-4-season-4-delay-ptr-date-big-loot-overhaul-details?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year and three other awards at the 2024 Games Developer Choice Awards</title><link>/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:17:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy</category><category>Baldur's Gate III</category><category>GDC 2024</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Fantasy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><category>Full product</category><category>Awards</category><category>Larian Studios</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-art.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/baldurs-gate-3-art.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-walkthrough">Baldur's Gate 3</a> has taken the Game of the Year award at the 2024 Games Developer Choice Awards, beating out Cocoon, Dredge, Marvel's Spiderman 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.</p><p>The awards were given out at the 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDC Awards), in front of an audience of developers, industry professionals, and press attending the annual GDC Conference in San Francisco.</p><p>Baldur's Gate 3 also took home awards in Best Design, Best Narrative, and the Audience Award. Nominees for the latter are selected from the list of finalist games from every Main Category with the winner chosen through a public vote.</p> <p><a href="/baldurs-gate-3-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Red Dead Redemption 2 surprise update fixes glitches, enhances stability, unveils HDR10+ Gaming support, and more</title><link>/red-dead-redemption-2-title-update-1-32-pc-ps4-xbox-one?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:31:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>/red-dead-redemption-2-title-update-1-32-pc-ps4-xbox-one?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Open World</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Simulation</category><category>Take-Two Interactive</category><category>Rockstar Games</category><category>PS4</category><category>horses</category><category>western</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>PC</category><category>Red Dead Redemption</category><category>RPG</category><category>Red Dead Online</category><category>patches</category><category>Shooter</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Red Dead Redemption 2</category><category>First person</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/red-dead-redemption-2-a-man-his-horse-and-his-dog.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/red-dead-redemption-2-a-man-his-horse-and-his-dog.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Rockstar Games released a title update for <a href="/red-dead-redemption-2-walkthroughs">Red Dead Redemption 2</a> that fixes a few glitches, improves stability, adds HDR10+ Gaming support, and stops you from becoming stuck when entering the stables.</p><p>Prior to this week, the last title update was <a href="https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/9295354296595/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-Title-Update-1-31-Notes-PS4-Xbox-One-PC">issued in January</a>, and several issues that could result in a crash in Red Dead Online were patched for PC.</p><p>Today&rsquo;s update covers PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and includes general fixes for Red Dead Online, it improves stability and performance, makes it so Night Stalkers can no longer collect Night Stalker masks, Windows 11 updates should no longer interfere with Offline Mode, and horses will no longer ignore you when summoned - unlike some of the bratty flesh and blood horse I cared for when I worked as a farmhand.</p> <p><a href="/red-dead-redemption-2-title-update-1-32-pc-ps4-xbox-one?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Stardew Valley's concurrent players skyrocket following collaborative 1.6 update with popular mod maker</title><link>/stardew-valleys-all-time-high-concurrent-players-mod-maker-helped-develop-16-update?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:45:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stardew-valleys-all-time-high-concurrent-players-mod-maker-helped-develop-16-update?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>life-sim</category><category>iOS</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Xbox One</category><category>Simulation</category><category>PlayStation Vita</category><category>Chucklefish Games</category><category>Android</category><category>Nintendo Switch</category><category>PS4</category><category>Stardew Valley</category><category>PC</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Indie</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>PS5</category><category>Bird view / Isometric</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley_u4eLZzo.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/stardew-valley_u4eLZzo.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The long-awaited <strong>Stardew Valley</strong> 1.6 update was <a href="/stardew-valley-update-16-live-patch-notes-lots-of-content">released yesterday</a>, and tons of players were excited to jump into the game and experience the new content.</p><p>On Steam, the update&rsquo;s release helped Stardew Valley reach 147,612 concurrent players, <a href="https://steamdb.info/app/413150/charts/">a 139.3% uptick</a> from the game&rsquo;s previous all-time high of 94,879 in January 2021. If you include players who purchased the game through GOG, that figure will be even higher.</p><p>Alongside news of the player count, comes word that <strong>FlashShifter</strong>, creator of the popular mod Stardew Valley Expanded, helped develop the 1.6 update with the game&rsquo;s creator Eric &ldquo;ConceredApe&rdquo; Barone. <a href="https://twitter.com/FlashShifter/status/1770154666019467595">FlashShifter announced the news on X</a>, while also confirming a patch making Stardew Valley Expanded fully compatible with the update was released and comes with some new additions.</p> <p><a href="/stardew-valleys-all-time-high-concurrent-players-mod-maker-helped-develop-16-update?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Final Fantasy 14 on Xbox Series X/S introduces FFXIV Coins: New digital currency required for optional items and potential subscription fees</title><link>/final-fantasy-14-on-xbox-series-xs-introduces-ffxiv-coins?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephany Nunneley-Jackson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>/final-fantasy-14-on-xbox-series-xs-introduces-ffxiv-coins?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>MMO</category><category>Blockbuster</category><category>Square Enix</category><category>PC</category><category>Multiplayer Cooperative</category><category>RPG</category><category>Single Player</category><category>MMORPG</category><category>Xbox Series X/S</category><category>PS4</category><category>Strategy</category><category>Multiplayer Competitive</category><category>Third person</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>Final Fantasy XIV: Online</category><category>Final Fantasy</category><category>PS3</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-14-online-(1).png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-14-online-(1).png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><strong>Final Fantasy 14 Online</strong> will soon arrive on Xbox Series X/S, and players were surprised yesterday to learn this version of the game will feature a currency known as FFXIV Coins, causing some confusion for a few folks.</p><p>According to Square Enix, FFXIV Coins are a required currency to pay for &ldquo;service fees and optional item purchases&rdquo; on the console, <a href="https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/1dbee42784bc6216357ba39428a6fe649210cde2">according to the official blog post</a>. Optional items will likely include various in-game services and items.</p><p>Currently, we aren&rsquo;t quite sure, but we presume &ldquo;service fees&rdquo; pertain to the game&rsquo;s monthly subscription. Square has different subscription tiers available depending on which option you choose. For the Entry tier, you can purchase 30 days at a time for $12.99, but it restricts the number of characters you can have per physical data server. If you opt for the standard sub, you can purchase 30 days/$14.99, 90 days/$13.99, and 180 days/$12.99 worth of time.</p> <p><a href="/final-fantasy-14-on-xbox-series-xs-introduces-ffxiv-coins?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been revealed - and is a visual banger</title><link>/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-revealed-visual-banger?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Connor Makar</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-revealed-visual-banger?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Marvel</category><category>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra</category><category>Action Adventure</category><category>GDC</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-20-10.07.32.png?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Screenshot-2024-03-20-10.07.32.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Marvel has just announced <strong>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra</strong> at GDC 2024. The game, shown at the Unreal showcase, is using Unreal engine 5.4 and is looking like an absolute visual feast. It's set to release in 2025, with no season nor month revealed as of writing.
  194. </p><p>The game was shown off by Amy Hennig, formerly the writer and director behind the <a href="/games/uncharted-drakes-fortune">Uncharted</a> series. Following her work on that, she briefly jumped to Visceral Games before <a href="/star-wars-title-from-visceral-games-shifts-direction-as-studio-is-shuttered">EA shuttered the studio</a>. Following that, she left for Skydance New Media, where her work with Marvel Entertainment began.
  195. </p><p>Back in 2022, we learned that this game would be an action adventure title featuring both Captain America and Black Panther, but were otherwise left in the dark as to the story and setting. That all changed today, as we can now see it's a blast from the past, with both characters taking on Hydra in World War 2 Paris.
  196. </p> <p><a href="/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-revealed-visual-banger?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>End of Evangelion is an animated heart attack, but that's why I love it so much</title><link>/end-of-evangelion-is-an-animated-heart-attack?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>/end-of-evangelion-is-an-animated-heart-attack?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Neon Genesis Evangelion</category><category>Anime</category><category>Gainax</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/end-of-evangelion.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/end-of-evangelion.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  197. <strong>Neon Genesis Evangelion</strong> is a bit of an eternal anime. There are plenty of series from the 90s that people still talk about to this day, and are plenty influential themselves, but I think even after the heat death of the universe there'll still be a horde of figures and rotting VHS tapes floating about waiting for the birth of the next one. It's a little ironic that it would then, at least for a little while, wrap things up with a film called <strong>End of Evangelion</strong>, as if to say "yeah, alright, we've all had enough of this, haven't we?"
  198. </p><p>
  199. Maybe that's why the film is such a stressful one to experience, from the second hand shame and terror you'll feel from watching Shinji make a bit of a tit himself, to the literal world-ending stakes that make up the latter part of the film. Could it be that director Hideaki Anno, known for tying his deep feelings of depression into his work, wanted to fill us with so much dread, and misery, and fear that we'd be done with Evangelion forever? Possibly! But honestly, that's why I love the film so much, warts and all.
  200. </p><p>
  201. You see, as I've gotten older I've found that I want to experience less and less comforting media, and embrace pieces of work that are difficult to view in some shape or form. Sometimes it's a game that's a <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/in-praise-of-the-710">strong 7/10, bogged down by ambitious ideas</a>, other times it's a directorial debut that's free from experience, offering a rough presentation of authenticity you just can't get from a more seasoned creative.
  202. </p> <p><a href="/end-of-evangelion-is-an-animated-heart-attack?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item><item><title>Alien: Romulus trailer suggests we might be getting the first good Alien film in 37 years</title><link>/alien-romulus-trailer-first-good-alien-film-in-37-years?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oisin Kuhnke</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:58:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>/alien-romulus-trailer-first-good-alien-film-in-37-years?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed</guid><category>Film &amp; Television</category><category>20th Century Studios</category><category>Alien</category><category>Pop Culture</category><category>Alien: Romulus</category><category>20th Century Fox</category><media:content medium="image" url="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alien-romulus.jpg?width=1920&amp;height=1920&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=80&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp"></media:content><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/alien-romulus.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>
  203. The first trailer for the mysterious <strong>Alien: Romulus</strong> is here and you know what? It looks like we might actually be getting a good Alien film for the first time in a long while.
  204. </p><p>
  205. While we've heard <a href="/alien-prequel-series-is-ignoring-prometheus">bits and bobs</a> about the upcoming Alien prequel series, up until today there's not been much to know about Alien: Romulus, the first new film in the franchise since 2017. 20th Century Studios released the first teaser trailer earlier today, finally offering a first look at what to expect and what we got was&hellip; not much. But! What the trailer does show is incredibly atmospheric, and is inspiring some confidence that we might be getting the first good Alien film, since, well, to be honest Aliens.
  206. </p><p>
  207. For the most part we just see shots of what looks to be an abandoned space station, but as it progresses we get more and more of a sense of what actually went down (which is, that a lot of people died). We then got some shots of the cast having an absolutely terrible time having to deal with face huggers and xenomorphs, all of which looks like it's adding up to some classic Alien horror.
  208. </p> <p><a href="/alien-romulus-trailer-first-good-alien-film-in-37-years?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed">Read more</a></p>]]></description></item></channel></rss><div class="mads-block"></div>
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