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Back To The Bugs | As Arrowhead unleashes a "massive Terminid outbreak", Helldivers 2's napalm barrageless legions cite low morale as a factor in their latest defeat

"This MO could not have come more inconveniently."

Sept. 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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Not Xbox's Destiny | "I passed on so many games" - Xbox's Phil Spencer doesn't regret not grabbing Destiny or Guitar Hero as exclusives, even if he now gets their appeal

The man just wasn't into PvP and plastic guitars, it happens to the best of us.

Sept. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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For Free, No Less | Baldur's Gate 3 devs considered a first-person dialogue camera, but ended up breaking their cinematic cam rules to give you a good look at goblin feet

"Next thing we know, they're zooming in on a goblin toe."

Sept. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Change Is Coming | Helldivers 2's Pilestedt says Arrowhead's "confident" its next balancing update "will see a significant meta shift" and bring fun to the fore

"I have had a good time with the experience shift, and it is closer to the original intent of the game and what it was at launch."

Sept. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Blue Em Away | Fresh The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer shows the Princess turning blue, da ba dee da ba di, and swinging her sword about

Zelda likes a bit of Hyrule 65, who'd have thunk?

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Layoffs, Reportedly | Visions of Mana only came out yesterday, but its studio is reportedly already set to be shuttered, following a long string of cuts

NetEase scaling back its Japanese presence looks to be the reason for the impending closure.

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Is The Price Right? | Amid Twitter economics lesson, Larian dev says Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 were priced "below their value", due to "faith" in recouping costs

The publishing director recently suggested that "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because of rising production costs.

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Merqaal Modeling | Star Wars Outlaws gets a day one PC hotfix to help keep things stable while you do a full 4090 ray-traced photoshoot with Nix

Look, we don’t blame you, he’s a cool little fella.

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Al In This Together | Alan Wake and Control TV and movies look to be on the way from Annapurna, thanks to new partnership with Remedy over Control 2

Relinquishing some control in order to gain some, er, control over Control.

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Steamwatch | Squirrel With A Gun's PC release has been commemorated by a day-long stream of real life squirrels doing squirrel things in someone's garden

It might be a bit late to tune in now, but hopefully the entire thing gets uploaded somewhere so you can enjoy it in perpetuity.

Aug. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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Coruscantpensation | Have you been involved in a Star Wars Outlaws playthrough restart that wasn't your fault? You may be entitled to some Trailblazer bling and Ubisoft points

Hey, at least Ubisoft is offering early access folks some compensation for their lost hours.

Aug. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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Barrett Gone | Ex-Marathon director was reportedly fired from Bungie following a misconduct investigation

Joe Ziegler was announced as having replaced Chris Barrett as lead on the game earlier this year.

Aug. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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Witcher Waiting For | Wahey, The Witcher 4 has had "substantial progress" made on it, with CD Projekt "gearing up" to put the game into full production

REDkit modders also got a nice shout out, and there's some potentially good news for Cyberpunk Edgerunners fans.

Aug. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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Majimaing Your Hopes | Like A Dragon developer locks in an RGG Summit for September, leaving fans pining for a new Judgement or Yakuza: Dead Souls remake

RGG'd previously suggested it'd be announcing a game at the Tokyo Game Show not long after this freshly announced showcase.

Aug. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Plastic Fantastic | Helldivers 2's latest Major Order will unlock "Orbital Napalm Barrages", assuming players can liberate a big pile of what yoghurt pots are made from

Just grab a huge bag of plastic forks from the bots and kill a bunch of them. How hard can it be?

Aug. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Castle Vlogihar | Thanks to mods, a Skyrim streamer is now basically vlogging their playthrough live from Tamriel as a Dragonborn influencer

Yes, it's the same dude that previously turned the game's NPCs into one big Twitch chat.

Aug. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Back to Bespinning | A big Star Wars Outlaws PS5 patch is trapping some players in space, and Ubisoft's advising those who may be affected to start over from scratch

Not ideal for those who invested to be able to enjoy early access to their interstellar adventure.

Aug. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Freestyling | Monster Jam Showdown feels a bit like what would happen if Forza Horizon had a baby with my childhood, and that’s cool

Maybe this isn’t what the ideal Monster Jam game would look like, but it’s still a pretty good racing thing.

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

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It's Ogre | Wahey, PowerWash Simulator's getting a Shrek DLC pack about getting the stains outta his swamp

What a Shrock!

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

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Switching Styles | Yakuza Kiwami finally arrives on Switch later this year, so get ready to beat up some goons Nintendo folks

Big Kaz is switching it up.

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

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Loco-motor | Good news, Starfield's moon buggy has just received its true rite of modding passage - transformation into Thomas the Tank Engine

Forget it being made into a Warthog, this was the true moon buggy mod we should all have known was unavoidable.

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

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Please Tree Reason | Squirrel With A Gun has now loaded a console release date into its pistol alongside the PC bullet it already had, and my hands are very much up

Look, think of me as being like a nut, and my family as being a rodent that really loves me...

Aug. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Switchbuckling | A new Witcher 3 mod lets Geralt get his Assassin's Creed Black Flag on and pilot a full-size ship that I'm dubbing 'The Jankdaw'

Look, it's natural to sit weirdly floating in the air in front of your frigate's wheel as you steer, Edward Kenway did it all the time.

Aug. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Just Ducking In | Helldivers 2 bossman Pilestedt rocks up on Discord for the first time in a little bit to answer about ten million questions and reflect on the criticism

"The worst thing would have been if we fucked up and no one cared."

Aug. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Cap Converters | Fallout co-creator Tim Cain believes that criticising capitalism was "never the point" of the series, it's actually just the whole war never changing thing

Though, he is fine with people reading it that way, and acknowledges his general take on our economic system might need some reconsidering.

Aug. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Close To Check Out | Night of the Consumers, that indie game about the unspeakable horrors of working in retail, finally looks to have locked in a full release date

Yes, it seems you'll be able to consume the final version soon, please don't start yelling for the manager.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Hobnobbing | Remember getting it on with Baldur's Gate 3's Emperor? Larian says that tentacle stroking animation began as some biscuits being fondled

It's ok, we know none of you have ended up watching this scene.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Mandatory Fun | As Helldivers 2 players blast through five million Bile Titans, Arrowhead reiterates that making things fun is "an explicit company target" now

You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled when it comes to what the studio's delivering as part of its 60 day plan, though.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Spacerunner | Starfield's moon buggy can do sick jumps, but it can't outrun the inevitable - modders swapping it for Halo's Warthog, a Star Wars speeder, and, er, a van

See, I told you it wasn't a totally pointless thing.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Not Being Sicily | Don't worry, Mafia: The Old Country's missing Italian voice acting isn't a weird oversight, 2K's going full Sicilian for extra Cosa Nostra authenticity

Va bene.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Indy News Again | Xbox boss Phil Spencer's just said some things about the decision to bring Indiana Jones and The Great Circle to PlayStation

"I think it's just gonna be a strategy that works for us."

Aug. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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We’re Still 9-8 | Madden NFL 25 review: Boom and Bust

In some ways, Madden 25 is a step forward from its predecessor, in others, it’s stuck at the line of scrimmage.

Aug. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bang For Your Buck | You might have missed these games being announced for Xbox Game Pass at Gamescom 2024

Look, there was a lot going on last night, we don't blame you.

Aug. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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Fire Fixes | UPDATE: Wahey, Helldivers 2's latest patch takes aim at "excessive ragdolling", ineffective flamethrowers, and inescapable tentacles

Yep, you read that last one right.

Aug. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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He's Back | Peter Molyneux's not-Fable, not-Black & White, not-Dungeon Keeper, Masters of Albion, looks to bear some similarities to his blockchain game, Legacy

From what what's been shown so far, Albion does seem to have gotten rid of all the web3 nonsense.

Aug. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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Sorry, Italians | Mafia: The Old Country finishes up Gamescom ONL 2024, so you don't see a bunch more games and fuhgeddaboudit

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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No Shattering | Starfield's Shattered Space expansion arrives this September, and here's a free moon buggy that you can grab today doing some sick jumps, bro

Bethesda has finally confirmed the release date for Shattered Space, the first major piece of Starfield DLC.

Aug. 20, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Gaul Wild | Civilization 7 arrives in early 2025, offers first look at friendship-destroying gameplay during Gamescom ONL 2024

Now we've all see what it'll look like as we try to conquer the world by building the Statue of Liberty as Genghis Khan.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Ooh, a Spooky Thing | Dying Light: The Beast revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, following that 'The Beast Is Coming' tease

The beast has indeed come, now please stop giggling about that being the case.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Goated | Goat Simulator Remastered revealed via a million re-release gags at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, drops later this year

Does this count as technically being Goat Simulator 2? We've got no idea.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Green to Blue? | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is seemingly the next Xbox title coming to PS5, but not until next year

Indy and his hat will be whip-swinging onto Sony's consoles following a period of timed exclusivity, it's claimed.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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The Games Are Back | Watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 here

It's time for another big serving of the video games, this time beamed straight from Germany.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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What? Why? Whomst? | Surprise, Hideo Kojima's back on the Death Stranding 2 actor tease shenanigans, and fans seem to have sussed this one out in record time

We've missed faceless people with questions over them popping up on our Tweeter.

Aug. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Ah Well | Bad news, Helldivers 2 rebels who were hoping to see what'd happen if the bots reached Super Earth, your dreams look to have been scuppered for now

Sorry Chaosdivers, the latest Major Order's going against your goal of bringing the galactic war to your own doorstep.

Aug. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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The Yorkshireman | Eeh by gum, Thank Goodness You're Here is actually the greatest organised crime drama of our time, and you can't convince me otherwise, luv

I'll mek ‘im an offer ‘e can't refuse.

Aug. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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And For Deserts... | Fallout: Nuevo Mexico devs confirm the big New Vegas mod is "no longer on hold" and "in a good state", but there's still no word about a release date

"We only get one chance to show something off, and we want it to be what we all have in mind."

Aug. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

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Things To Buy | Dragon Age: The Veilguard's array of special editions revealed, and one includes a light-up dagger that definitely isn't a toy, but not the actual game

Look, I'm not complaining, who doesn't want to (carefully) wave a thing around in their living room going 'vwoosh'? (Don't do that, just for the record).

Aug. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

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A Chaotic Twist | Helldivers 2 players hellbent on seeing Super Earth fall have turned their movement into rebel faction roleplay, and some want Arrowhead to make it an actual thing

The Chaosdivers are apparently now part of the community's lore, complete with their own logo and mission statement.

Aug. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

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Launched Into Orbit | Good news faff dislikers, Civilization 7 is dropping the 2K launcher as a requirement on PC, with Steam copies of Civ 6 having just done the same

Like a Catholic Gandhi inevitably nuking a Queen Victoria-led empire that somehow contains the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a great victory was achieved here.

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

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Cyrodiil On Track | Skyblivion, the massive mod remaking Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, looks pretty great as devs show off some fresh quest gameplay ahead of 2025 release

Mages bickering over books and goblin killing sprees. Aye, that's Oblivion alright.

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren