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Kessel Re-Run | Star Wars: Outlaws is completely unoriginal, but that's kind-of the best part

It's not innovative, but sometimes the best thing about Star Wars is that it's unmistakably Star Wars.

Dec. 20, 2024 James Billcliffe

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Testers Wanted | Fancy testing out Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 and its long-awaited crossplay mechanics? Larian's now letting folks sign up to do just that

Apply for a nice prezzie that you might get to open in January, if you're one of the players picked.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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We'll Lu-see | Fallout season two likely won't see Fallout 76 take its TV crossovers to a whole new level, as its devs don't want to "give fan service for just the sake of doing it"

"We probably won't go out of our way to add a whole bunch of stuff specific to the show, because we don't feel like we need to."

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Ray-Aw, Man | Rayman stars in a weird NFT game vaguely inspired by the coolest Far Cry DLC that Ubisoft's just quietly plopped out, because of course he does

Also, he's seemingly now a Die Hard baddie who makes a lot of probably very salient points about how America sucks.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Holiday Hell Hurl | Diablo 4 is free to play until the new year on everything, and you can even try out the new Spiritborn class

Blizzard really wants you to be playing Diablo 4 over the holidays and into the new year.

Dec. 20, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Future Box Fight | Either PlayStation or Xbox will "struggle mightily" to do well with their next gen console, while Nintendo'll be "the clear winner”, predicts research firm

“There isn’t room for more than two major console systems" in the upcoming cycle, reckons DFC Intelligence.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Carnundrum | Helldivers 2's Illuminate are coming for your new wheels, and players are convinced it's a push towards Meridia's definitely not suspiciously revamped black hole

It's ok, Arrowhead says the purple circle's new appearance is nothing to worry about right now. People aren't buying that though.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Smooth | Monster Hunter Wilds' performance has been improved in the final game, and we may even get a second beta

Capcom just revealed a bunch of new Monster Hunter Wilds details, and addressed several points of criticism from the recent open beta.

Dec. 20, 2024 Sherif Saed

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I Got A Letter... | It's been a grim year, hasn't it? 2024’s best games are all about disgust, decay, and existential dread

I had a pretty cheerful 2024 in gaming, as you can tell.

Dec. 19, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Super Santa | Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead comes up with a suitably festive solution to all that Killzone collab price backlash

"We will revisit this," the studio says of the item prices folks weren't fans of, while loading up the free gifts onto its sleigh.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Flying Or Crashing | James Gunn's Superman has just received its first trailer: some people love it, some don't, and we can't tell if Krypto or Lois Lane has the bigger stan army

Not everything is praise and hype.

Dec. 19, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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The Next Evolution? | Would Fallout 76's devs be open to doing playable super mutants? The game's lead producer says it could depend on how much people like going ghoul

"That does give pause to talk about: ‘Okay, does it make sense for us to have anything else in this world that players can do?’"

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Ghould Vibes | As it heads into 2025, Fallout 76’s lead producer discusses playable ghouls, why Fallout needs a giant snake, and whether we’ll ever get playable super mutants

“I think ‘cool’ kinda overrode whether or not anybody cared about ‘does this even fit like that’”, says lead producer Bill LaCoste.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Radioactivity | Fallout 76 playable ghoul hands-on preview – a rad expansion, especially if you're keen for an undead dip

Playing as a noseless adventurer in a Fallout game had me embracing my inner irradiated Michael Phelps.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Sense Of Wonder | James Gunn's Superman teaser trailer shows Krypto the super dog, and is therefore incredible (other characters appear too)

A fresh new start which skips the origin story.

Dec. 19, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Cash Money | Pokemon TCG Pocket players are heads over heels for a new addition to the cosmetic store

It's a cute little thing, but nothing can save you back-to-back tails I'm afraid.

Dec. 19, 2024 Connor Makar

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Start Again | Zenless Zone Zero devs speak on huge version 1.4 changes, where the game stands among the HoYoverse catalogue, and being a dev team 'who actually listens'

What sort of mindset does the Zenless team has towards big changes?

Dec. 19, 2024 Connor Makar

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BEEEEEGGGGGG | Stalker 2 gets its "first major patch", patch 1.1, featuring a mammoth list of more than 1,800 fixes that includes the first batch of A-Life tweaks

GSC says "the size of the patch is huge and the process of downloading will take some time", so you best set it away and make a cup of tea.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bloody Reunion | Courteney Cox is officially returning for Scream 7 after months of doubt, locking yet another Gale Weathers and Sidney Prescott reunion

Will she survive this one?

Dec. 19, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Rock And Hard Place | As Helldivers 2's Killzone collab pricing backlash rumbles on, CCO Pilestedt says Arrowhead chose not to make it a warbond to try and avoid exactly this kind of thing

Either way, players don't reckon the price is right.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Through The Jungle | Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards promises a very simple "survival story" and says they put the actors in water that poisonous snakes call home

Living dinosaurs aren't real, but other dangerous animals were.

Dec. 19, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Horny Bat | Zenless Zone Zero saves gooner Christmas by fixing bug that prevented pervy camera angles

The online community freaked out a bit before it knew this was an unintended change.

Dec. 19, 2024 Connor Makar

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Not In Control | Jesse Eisenberg believes the reaction to Batman v Superman and his performance as Lex Luthor hurt his career, even if that's "kind of embarrassing to admit"

Flew too close to the sun.

Dec. 19, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Soulslike Strats | Sony becomes the "largest shareholder" in FromSoftware owner Kadokawa, as the two put an Elden Ring on a "strategic capital and business alliance"

After all that corporate courting, the big duo have opted to strengthen their collaborative ties, but haven't gone the full buyout route.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Fight the new year | 2XKO fiends will have to wait until February to hear what's coming next in Riot's upcoming fighting game

The team is on holiday, but we have a roadmap on future updates

Dec. 19, 2024 Connor Makar

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FLO RIDA | Revenge of the Savage Planet is a deeply funny open world metroidvania that oozes charisma... and ooze

Racoon Logic takes us to New Florida in a cathartic spin on a survival game that really hits.

Dec. 18, 2024 Connor Makar

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Credit Crunch | "I hear what you're saying" Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead's CEO responds to backlash from players against the lofty prices of its new Killzone collab gear

"The more of this we sell - the more Illuminate type stuff we can keep dropping for free"

Dec. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Sul Sul, My Lovely | Love, death, and innovative storytelling: Game design, broadening perspectives, and the future of The Sims 4 with Anna Huerta

2024 has been a strong year for The Sims – we spoke to TS4's Senior Creative Director about the philosophy behind (re-)designing the life sim.

Dec. 18, 2024 Rebecca Jones

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Honk If You're... | The first trailer for A24's Death of a Unicorn has Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega freaking out about accidentally killing everyone's favourite fictitious animal

It's an understandable reaction, honestly.

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Somewhere In Time | VG247's best games of 2024 that aren't actually from 2024, because we're all time- and money-poor these days, right?

Look, it's expensive to keep up with the release schedule these days, and most of us have a huge backlog to get through – so let's celebrate some older games, yeah?

Dec. 18, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

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Up In The Sky! | Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a tease of a teaser trailer for James Gunn's Superman, and it really wants you to look up

That's too many teases.

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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MassConaughey | Remember Exodus? Here's its first gameplay, featuring a not quite Commander Shepard sci-fi slapping up a space bear

The game also has Matthew McConaughey in it, doing video games for the first time.

Dec. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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You're Kidding Me | Who said nostalgia was dead? Certainly not the first trailer for Karate Kid: Legends

It's some guys you've seen in films before! Neato!

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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A Colourful Bunch | A Bluey movie is on the way, putting the fear of uncontrollably sobbing in front of a crowd of children in parents everywhere

Based on how parents have reacted to the TV show, you might want to bring some tissues.

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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In The Killzone | Helldivers 2's first ever crossover is here, and it's good news for super credit flush Killzone fans

When two PlayStation-backed shooty things with armour that looks a bit fascist love each other very much...

Dec. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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This Is Fine | Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse finally puts some names to its directors, and no, they didn't just join the film

It might not be coming out next year, but it's seemingly doing just fine.

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Ciri You Soon | Can't wait for The Witcher 4? Well, thanks to Witcher 3 modders, you can now get an early taste of playing as grown up monster slayer Ciri

As TW4's director says, the Witcher community always delivers.

Dec. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bonus Level | Turns out Secret Level wasn't so secret after all, as Amazon has renewed it for a second season

Start placing your bets on what gets adapted next.

Dec. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Leaf It Out, Mate | My game of the year is Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree because, yes, of course you're are allowed to choose DLC

It's my game of the year, I'll choose whatever I like, thanks.

Dec. 17, 2024 James Billcliffe

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Rising Starr | "There's a lot packed into this update emotionally" warframe 1999's Ben Starr speaks on bringing some humanity to Arthur

"I was fully naked the entire time, bathed in goo, a la Get Your Own Back"

Dec. 17, 2024 Connor Makar

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Music Matters | Den of Wolves lead reveals the secret behind badass video game music, the "other mid tempo", and Metal Gear Rising's composer's involvement

Simon Viklund sits down for a conversation on music, something here's clearly a fiend for.

Dec. 17, 2024 Connor Makar

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Rider! | Warframe does it again, turning another mobility bug into a permanent feature

Motorbikes weren't meant to be used in non-Warframe 1999 missions. But fun comes first!

Dec. 17, 2024 Connor Makar

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Fallen-on-and-On | If you can believe it, Lords of the Fallen is still getting patches that change its combat this many months after launch

Over a year after its initial release, the devs behind Lords of the Fallen continue to tweak some of its most fundamental aspects.

Dec. 17, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Shadowy Behaviour | Turns out we can't have anything nice anymore, as Sonic the Hedgehog 3 spoilers are apparently already floating around

The film is due out later this week.

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Dun-dun-dun-duhh-duh | While you wait for that Superman trailer, have a listen to the upcoming film's quite lovely main theme that calls back to the 1978 original

A little something to tide you over.

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Exciting Stuff | Hideki Kamiya might be all in on the Okami sequel at his new studio, but that doesn't mean completely new titles aren't on the table

"Our mission at Clovers is to create unique games that only we can make."

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Fingers Crossed | The Witcher 4 might not end up looking as pretty as its reveal trailer, but at the very least CD Projekt Red says it represents an "overall feel" the devs wants it to have

"The trailer is a cinematic look at the kind of experience The Witcher 4 is aspiring to give to players."

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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All Aboard | We really don't need a Cyberpunk 2077 movie, but if there ever is one, Idris Elba is already up for reprising his role

"Let's speak that into existence."

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Dead Man's Hand | Balatro Dev jokes about adding loot boxes to lower 18 age rating, highlighting the "real gambling" EA Sports FC gets away with

The game features no actual gambling, while other games monetised through loot boxes get off with a lower rating.

Dec. 16, 2024 Connor Makar

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Global Goblin Grind | Diablo 4's final event of the year has the entire community chasing Treasure Goblins for some cool rewards

Diablo 4 is just about ready to wrap up 2024, and it's going to do so with a very on-theme event.

Dec. 16, 2024 Sherif Saed