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Bayonetta 3 Umbran Tears of Blood locations
You may need some help chasing down all the Witch familiars in Bayonetta 3 – so we're here to help.
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LOADING... | Disney Dreamlight Valley not loading? Here’s what you can do while waiting on a fix
There’s also in-game compensation on the way, too.
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IVANTTOSUKURBLOOD | Play as a vampire for free this weekend in V Rising
Just in time for Halloween.
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THE WITCH & FAMOUS | 11 things I wish I knew before playing Bayonetta 3
PlatinumGames latest Nintendo Switch blockbuster lands today – and we have some spoiler-free information that might help you play the game a bit better.
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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut is now free to play via GOG Galaxy
And it’ll stay that way, too!
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HAIR NECESSITIES | Bayonetta 3 review: An instant classic that feels like a proper old-school, content-packed Nintendo adventure
Bigger levels, bigger fights, bigger hair – Bayonetta 3 somehow manages to edge the Platinum formula even harder to deliver one hell of a climax.
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HAPPY BLOODFEAST | Remember V Rising? It’s temporarily going free-to-play, with a free Halloween-themed DLC
You’ll want to be quick to nab it, though.
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OGRE COMPENSATING | Why Tactics Ogre: Reborn is amazing – and how that bodes well for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion
No matter how many times you’ve played this important entry in the TRPG genre, you’re going to want to make time for it again.
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Pray to God Hand | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.22: The best game about gods that isn't God of War
Are "god games" about gods?
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Everybody, Yeah! | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.21: The best dead game you'd buy a console for if it came back
What franchise do you want to see rise from the grave?
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IN THE HAIR TONIGHT | Witches be trippin’: A few hours in, Bayonetta 3 looks like a Nintendo Switch all-timer
Bigger, louder, dumber, and better – this is the sequel every Bayonetta fan has been waiting for.
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ABOUT TIME | Elden Ring is finally separating PvP balance from PvE
Elden Ring's new patch makes a significant tweak to how balance is handled for PvE and PvP.
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SPONSORED | Undecember, the dark fantasy action game that values customisation over classes, arrives this week
A loot-based, action-RPG that eschews character classes in favour of letting players forge their own path in the world.
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CHANGE THAT PASSWORD | Square Enix advising Final Fantasy 14 players to change passwords due to hacking attempt
A third party is attempting to gain access to the Square Enix Account Management System.
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Snake on a plane | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.20: The best game you played on your phone
Good mobile games come in all shapes and forms.
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olympia medal | PS Plus needs these forgotten God of War games before Ragnarok releases
Kratos’ first story arc spans more than three games, but Sony refuses to unearth the God of War PSP titles for players who want the full trip down memory lane.
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Revisiting Tamriel | I didn’t need another reason to replay Skyrim, but then the Anniversary Edition arrived on Nintendo Switch
They released Skyrim… again?
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monster hearts | EA reveals Wild Hearts, a Monster Hunter-like from Dynasty Warrior devs that's current-gen only
Wild Hearts sounds like the name of an indie game about feelings, but it's actually a very violent action RPG about hunting monsters.
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HEAVEN AND HELL | The DioField Chronicle review: An understated, under-marketed strategy RPG romp that deserves better
The DioField Chronicle feels like it’s been sent to die as some mega-niche undertaking, but it’s nevertheless a pleasingly experimental tactical RPG adventure.
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Hoodwinked | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.18: The best game you thought was one genre but turned out to be another
The wool has been pulled over our eyes on more than one occasion.
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ZACK ATTACK | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion goes above and beyond as a remaster, but its PSP origins are plain to see
Square Enix’s remaster of the most important Final Fantasy 7 spin-off is one of the most impressive I’ve ever seen, though it’s still a PSP game at heart.
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Audiotore de force | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.17: Best Assassin's Creed game that isn't an Assassin's Creed game and you can't pick Ghost Of Tsushima
We're altairibly sorry, but our game is a lot like yours.
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Cross up | Guilty Gear Strive and Blazblue Cross Tag Battle are finally on Game Pass
Two of Arc System Works' best fighters have made it to Game Pass at last!
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Into the Frey | Square Enix knows you’ve got ‘open world fatigue’, reckons Forspoken can be a tonic for your blues
We’ve all had a good laugh at Forspoken, but the game’s co-director Takefumi Terada wants you to know it’s more than a one-note viral joke.
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boy story | New God of War Ragnarok trailer shows off more combat, more story, and more of that gorgeous world
Kratos' story is coming to a close, and it looks like Sony Santa Monica wants to wrap things up in style.
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ronin free | Nioh developer Team Ninja announces new 'sprawling RPG', Rise of the Ronin – a PS5 console exclusive
Team Ninja is developing another game alongside Wo Long – and it looks amazing.
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all sorts of stuff | Nintendo Direct: here's what you may have missed
Everything else announced during Nintendo Direct.
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Link to the Future | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom finally has a name and release date
The Breath of the Wild sequel will arrive on 12 May 2023.
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Luminous Projections | Say what you like about Forspoken, it’s an exceptional advert for the PS5
It might not win any awards or sell 10 million copies, but I’d own Forspoken just to see it running on the PlayStation 5.
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Off the cuff | Square Enix says Forspoken dialogue memes have “no context” – but admits some are “really funny”
Forspoken creative producer, Raio Mitsuno, responds to that infamous Forspoken trailer, and tells us what lessons the studio learned from its viral status.
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Full Motion Vidiots | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.16: Best game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the '90s
Games really wanted to be films, didn't they?
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elf-help group | Amazon's Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power is great, but the games need to reach PS2-era brilliance again
No, thank you! We don’t want any more Lord of the Rings spin-offs, expansions, or distant relations!
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steel tips | Steelrising tips to help you run the French Revolution like clockwork
Before you start pirouetting and clickety-clanking your way through 18th Century France, our Steelrising tips are required reading.
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one night in paris | Steel Rising review — A ballet of French steampunk and Souls that’s more tedious than tour de force
Souls-like in nature, Spiders has tinkered with the formula to make a machination all of its own – to mixed results.
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respect your elders | Why The Elder Scrolls 6 should look to the past to create a better future for the series
Despite all the modern game design ideas and tech innovations available, the key to making the sixth Elder Scrolls an all-timer lies in its own past.
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Focus home to roost | With the big boys out to lunch, Focus Entertainment stole the show at Gamescom
Evil West, Aliens: Dark Descent, Atlas Fallen, and A Plague Tale: Requiem – a stellar line-up of great games that made Gamescom worth going back to.
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sacrificial rites | Elden Ring's Ancestor Spirit bosses are much more complex and horrifying than we realised
You could tell something was up about the Ancestor Spirit bosses in Elden Ring from the moment you stepped foot in the arena.
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Nude Tarnished | Elden Ring now has an official comedy manga, with cheeks on display right from the start
Video games often get manga adaptations, but this one is doing its own thing a little bit.
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love hurts | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.15: Best game with a wedding in it
Till death do us part (or until we fall out over a podcast topic)
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you're not crazy | Elden Ring doesn't technically have input reading, but it might as well have
Elden Ring does not actually read your inputs and respond to them, but what it does can look identical in practice.
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end us | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.14: Best game you’d fire into space to prove the Earth isn’t worth saving
Some games are just so bad it doesn't pain us in a great light.
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no lies detected | Lies of P feels even more like Bloodborne in these 12 minutes of gameplay
Gamescom has not only brought us a fresh look at Lies of P, but an actual gameplay demo.
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block widow | Evil West will let you remove spiders if you’re arachnophobic
Nobody likes spiders, not really, and Flying Wild Hog has made sure to let you know they can be turned off in-game.
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prodigal sun | Atlas Fallen is not a Souls-like, compares itself more to God of War or Horizon: Forbidden West
Deck13 wants you to know that Atlas Fallen is more Horizon than Dark Souls – despite the developer’s experience with The Surge series.
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assimilate | Diablo is turning into Call of Duty – and that sucks
Activision has gotten its grubby hands on Diablo, forever changing it.
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Never Let Me Diablo | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.13: Best game that was called a clone of another game
Copy, paste, change slightly, repeat.
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all gone to hell | Blizzard is extremely keen to tell us how Diablo 4 isn't like Diablo Immortal
Blizzard is once again putting out statements about how Diablo 4 won't be pay-to-win, as Diablo Immortal continues to rake in the cash.
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plagueborne | Thymesia tips - How to block, dodge and re-spec your way to victory!
Thymesia may not strike you as a complex Souls-like, but it hides depth and a few mechanics that go unmentioned. Good thing we put together these tips to help you.
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Noot Noot | Pingu meets Elden Ring thanks to this fan-made Unity project
One bored Unity developer decided to create a Pingu x Elden Ring project just for fun.
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evil wait | Wild West God of War with guns, Evil West, is the latest game to suffer a delay
Evil West is proof that there's still time in 2022 to delay games without pushing them to 2023.