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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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Featured Games | Call of Duty is decoupling Warzone from the annual games, and revamping Call of Duty HQ

Getting into the different Call of Duty games is about to become easier, but not without some growing pains.

Aug. 16, 2024 Sherif Saed

A Helldiver in Helldivers 2 alongside a fan concept for a Chaosdivers cape.

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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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Sword of Convallaria's Dantalion in his banner art pose

Guide

Sword of Convallaria Dantalion build guide

The right weapons and trinkets for Dantalion to dish out princely punishment.

Aug. 15, 2024 Josh Broadwell

Custom header image with evo 2024 and esports world cup press images spliced together

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FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE | "If you're going to expect to be involved in the culture, you need to become part of the culture" Evo general manager speaks on growing Saudi presence in the FGC

Following a record breaking Evo 2024, we speak to general manager Rick Thiher on Saudi investment, sportswashing, and cultural clashes between the country and the FGC.

Aug. 15, 2024 Connor Makar

The Plucky Squire is set to be a storybook adventure that jumps between 2D and 3D worlds.

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Get Plucked | The Plucky Squire, one of 2024's coolest looking indies, is launching day one on PlayStation Plus

This lovely looking game is launching September 17, with a special treat for PlayStation player.

Aug. 15, 2024 Connor Makar

Gilgamesh looking well hench in Civilization 6.

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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

A character riding a horse near The Imperial City in Skyrim mod Skyblivion.

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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

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DELAY | Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 delayed until February 11

Announced in an Embracer Financial Report, and later in a full-on video to the fans.

Aug. 15, 2024 Connor Makar

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Artwork for the Roblox game Hunter Era showing two anime-inspired Robloxified characters.

Guide

Hunter Era codes

No need to hunt for codes with our handy guide.

Aug. 15, 2024 Amelia Zollner

Pete Davies in Fallout: London alongside Lae'zel in Baldur's Gate 3.

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DungeonsNDeathclaws | Fancy spicing up Fallout: London with some Baldur's Gate 3-style randomness? Team FOLON's now put out a dice roll add-on that'll help you unleash chaos

"Do not expect a serious playthrough whilst using this mod."

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

Some characters who may or may not have genitals in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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Veil Lifted | Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date seemingly leaks ahead of official reveal

Hey, it's not like you had any Halloween plans anyway.

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

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Sword of Convallaria's Col in her banner art

Guide

Sword of Convallaria Col build guide

The best skills to keep Col sneaking and stabbing.

Aug. 15, 2024 Josh Broadwell

The in-game shop screen in Sword of Convallaria showing a Castalia bundle.

Guide

Both ways | Where to get Castalia in Sword of Convallaria

Castalia lets you make overpowered builds in Sword of Convallaria, but how do you get any?

Aug. 14, 2024 James Billcliffe

Article

World Warrior | Evo is trying to kick off some world warrior ambitions" General manager Rick Thiher speaks on the biggest video game tournament going global

"there's an incredible amount of super, super engaged fighting game communities worldwide".

Aug. 14, 2024 Connor Makar

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Out In The Jungle | PlayStation Plus goes wild this August, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Cult of the Lamb and more

Plus a blast from the past with TimeSplitters!

Aug. 14, 2024 Connor Makar

The courier looking at New Vegas in Fallout New Vegas.

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All Or Nothing | Fallout New Vegas' director might be open to working on more Fallout, but it'd come down to the big inevitable question veteran devs often seem to have

"What are we allowed to do and not allowed to do?"

Aug. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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I am once again asking you to ignore Epic Games Store exclusivity, and please play Witchfire - because there’s still nothing like it

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The Witch is Back | I am once again asking you to ignore Epic Games Store exclusivity, and please play Witchfire - because there’s still nothing like it

Witchfire’s latest content update addresses a lot of what I didn’t like about the game, and adds plenty of fresh content to get stuck in.

Aug. 14, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Witching in Progress | Witchfire finally comes to Steam Early Access this year, but this latest update makes the wait even harder

If you held out out all this time on grabbing Witchfire off the Epic Games Store, we have some good news for you.

Aug. 14, 2024 Sherif Saed

League of Legends defeat screen cut with bait ping penguin emote

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Baited | League of Legends' infamous bait ping is making its return via a cute emote, and there's absolutely no way it'll be used for anything else

There's no possible way this could ever be used for other, funnier stuff.

Aug. 14, 2024 Connor Makar

Claude walking down a street with a gun in GTA 3.

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Leaf It Out | GTA 3's litter proved so divisive among devs that San Andreas' streets were cleaned up after a tiff about trash, but the code for it still snuck into Manhunt

Rectangle in the wind.

Aug. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

A man covered in sweat, dirt, and scratches stood in a dimly lit room in the Until Dawn remake.

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How Long? | Until Dawn's PS5 and PC remake gets spooky season release date and shows off new Unreal Engine 5 graphics in comparison trailer

Shiny! Old but new! Camera work!

Aug. 14, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Spooks In The Sludge | Dredge: The Iron Rig review: A solid reason to reel yourself back into spooky fishing

The Lovecraftian trawling adventure’s second major expansion is good fun, if a bit anticlimactic story-wise.

Aug. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

Five Magic the Gathering Cards showing Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 on a table with a knife, various dice, a the logos for Secret Lair and Dungeons & Dragons.

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Blood's On The Menu | Attention, Magic the Gathering and Baldur's Gate 3 fans: some beautiful Astarion Secret Lair cards are on the way, and yes, they'll make you thirsty

Just a little bit of sucking - blood sucking, that is - in these ones.

Aug. 14, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Tom's face next to a number of games consoles

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PODCAST | What's the best game on the worst console?

Console wars with a twist.

Aug. 14, 2024 Tom Orry

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A Helldivers 2 player incinerating a Terminid with a flamethrower.

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Rapid Action | Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead addresses Escalation of Freedom update backlash by unveiling 60 day plan to fix things like flamethrowers and ragdolling

"As many of you have pointed out, and we agree, what matters most now is action. Not talk."

Aug. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

ZZZ's Qingyi sitting at a table wearing a bored expression

Guide

Zenless Zone Zero Qingyi builds and teams

A stun agent with more than a few tricks up her sleeves

Aug. 14, 2024 Josh Broadwell

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FRESH HELL | The Borderlands movie may be rotten, but at least it's pushed players to return to the excellent games

It turns out bad jokes can be forgiven when paired with genuinely fun gunplay.

Aug. 13, 2024 Connor Makar

Some helldivers gathered around a console in Helldivers 2.

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Your Move, Joel. | Helldivers 2 players continue to call Arrowhead's bluff by letting the bots advance, but they're still seemingly on track in the current MO

Galactic War protests are weird, yo.

Aug. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

Ellie shooting a blaster in The Outer Worlds.

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Outta This World | Fallout co-creator Tim Cain shows off the remarkable The Outer Worlds demo that got the publisher thumbs up only a year into development

There are a few more bald blokes than we got in the final game, but you can definitely see the vision in what became the Roseway level.

Aug. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

John Marston on a horse in Red Dead Redemption.

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Back In Mars-town? | Red Dead Redemption's long-rumoured PC port might finally have been revealed via the PlayStation Store, as we all expected

"Experience the epic western adventures that defined a generation — now on PC for the first time ever."

Aug. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

Artwork for the Roblox game Egg Empire showing cute, cube-shaped chickens.

Guide

Egg Empire codes

Egg-cellent Roblox rewards.

Aug. 13, 2024 Amelia Zollner

A horse not behaving in Fallout: London next to the leader of Brickton.

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Horsing Around | "We had ridiculous scenes happening" Fallout: London's devs had to ditch rideable horses and bikes because they wouldn't stop flying up buildings

Look, Skyrim's horse physics were trying their best, ok?

Aug. 12, 2024 Mark Warren

A Fallout: London character standing in from of the ruined tower bridge.

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Not So Lonesome Road | "You can be inspired, but understand the sacrifice" Fallout: London project lead on Team FOLON's future and making massive mods

"I don't want us to move into this corporate sphere and then become anything less than we are."

Aug. 12, 2024 Mark Warren

A Helldiver wielding a weapon from the Polar Patriots warbond in Helldivers 2.

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Ruh Roh | Helldivers 2 players are so unhappy with the Escalation of Freedom update, they're doing the unthinkable: letting the Automatons win

"Let the Super Earth burn."

Aug. 12, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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PT header, with a woman standing in the middle of the screen and the image fading to black and white around her.

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Ghost In The Machine | 10 years on, P.T. remains the most influential horror game that never existed

A playable teaser for the Kojima-helmed Silent Hill game that never was, looking back on a decade of P.T. proves that it has one of the most unusual legacies in gaming.

Aug. 12, 2024 Rebecca Jones

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It's All Connected | Despite the 10 year wait, BioWare says Dragon Age: The Veilguard was always going to 'pay off' Inquisition's ending

"There was no world where we were ever going to say, 'And now let's go to something completely different'."

Aug. 12, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A player character in Skyrim is holding up a shield, preparing to be hit by a breath of fire from a dragon.

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Feeling Immersed | Are Skyrim and Baldur's Gate 3 immersive sims? If you're asking one of the guys that created Dishonored, yes

It's a complicated question.

Aug. 12, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Some Helldivers fighting alongside an exosuit in Helldivers 2.

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No One's Happy | It's not just Helldivers 2 players that're disappointed with how the Escalation of Freedom update's played out, Arrowhead's CEO says many devs are too

"We want every release to be a step in the right direction. Constant improvement. I don't think we feel this was that."

Aug. 12, 2024 Mark Warren

Artwork for the Roblox game Anime Heroes Simulator, showing anime-inspired Robloxified characters.

Guide

Anime Heroes Simulator codes

I need a (anime) hero.

Aug. 12, 2024 Amelia Zollner

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BIKER GANG | Better start saving, Zenless Zone Zero reveals two new characters for its best faction

The Sons of Calydon are due some new characters. Thankfully, it looks like we're getting two!

Aug. 12, 2024 Connor Makar

The player speaks with a bot voiced by John Bercow in Fallout 4 mod, Fallout London

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Ber-have Yourself | Fallout: London's first big patch stops you from cheekily hacking the John Bercow bot, and makes trying to pet the mangy foxes a bit less lethal

Also, it's fair to say a few people have given the mod a go since its release.

Aug. 12, 2024 Mark Warren

The cast of the Borderlands movie all huddled together looking at something offscreen.

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Flop Era | To the surprise of literally no one, Borderlands bombs at the box office its opening weekend with... yeesh, $16 million on a $115 million budget

Yes, it was that bad.

Aug. 12, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Good News | Huzzah! PUBG's publisher has saved Tango Gameworks and Hi-FI Rush - but The Evil Within and Ghostwire Tokyo are sticking with Microsoft

The Tango team - expected to meet unemployment - have all had their jobs saved.

Aug. 12, 2024 Connor Makar

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Geralt giving a big thumbs up

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Wind's Howling | It sounds like we won't be playing as Geralt in The Witcher 4, according to his voice actor - but that doesn't mean he won't be in it

"It's not about him this time. We don't know who it's about. I'm excited to find out."

Aug. 11, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Steph and Alex from the Life is Strange series, against an abstract background of red, purple, and yellow.

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Hot And Heavy | Life is Strange: Heatwaves proves that the franchise is still willing to experiment, and has me more excited than ever for Double Exposure

The second prose novel tie-in to Square Enix's coming of age superhero drama series is more interesting than Steph's Story, but not quite as satisfying.

Aug. 11, 2024 Rebecca Jones