Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is a game that marks several returns for From Software. It’s a return to the series that they built much of the foundation of their legacy off of; a return to a series that they’ve not touched since 2013's Armored Core: Verdict Day; and a return to a genre that isn’t anything remotely close to a Soulslike. I got to play through the entirety of the first chapter of AC6, and if initial impressions are anything to go off, it’s a return that’s going to be triumphant.
My experience with soulslikes is vast, but my time with the Armored Core series is admittedly limited. I’ve played the first couple of missions of For Answer, but very little beyond that. Still, given that lack of experience, one of the things...
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Ubisoft has reportedly canceled its plans for a sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising. This decision was made earlier this month by Ubisoft’s leadership due to difficulties establishing it as an IP.
According to VGC, the sequel was reportedly in development at Ubisoft Quebec, the same studio in charge of the first game. While Immortals Fenyx Rising received positive reviews, it reportedly only sold a moderate amount of copies. Many of the units sold apparently came from heavy discounting during sales. Additionally, its European sales were reportedly 70% lower than Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s during a similar period.
Ubisoft has recently pivoted to focus on its most prominent franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, so it might be unsurprising...
Bethesda Game Studios released three new animated stories for Starfield, focusing on the three major cities in the Settled Systems.
The first short film, "Supra Er Ultra," is set on New Atlantis, which Bethesda previously confirmed is the biggest city the studio has ever made. The video focuses on a courier pilot, Kent, who "aspires to live in the most desirable part of the settled systems".
The second animated short, "Where Hope is Built," is set in Akila City and tells the story of an orphan girl searching for repair parts to fix a broken ship and live out her dream of exploring the stars.
The third film, "The Hand That Feeds," is set in Neon and focuses on two street rats who steal from wealthy tourists and catch the attention...
Sea of Stars launches day-and-date as a PlayStation Plus Game Catalog title August 29, developer Sabotage Studio has revealed.
The upcoming turn-based role-playing game inspired by the classics was already announced as coming to Xbox as a day-and-date Game Pass title, as well as PC, and Nintendo Switch.
Sea of Stars tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
Its release into the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog means Sea of Stars will be available for all Extra and Premium members on launch day. “It’s incredible for us to imagine how many more players...
Final Fantasy 16 producer and 14 director Naoki Yoshida is officially tired of online trolls complaining about his games.
As reported by Eurogamer, comments made by Yoshida during a Japanese documentary were translated by streamer and Twitter user Audrey of Aitai Kimochi (below). "There's a lot of people who just yell at you, people I've never seen, met, or talked to before. It's weird," Yoshida said of reading negative comments online.
The documentary highlighted a handful of these comments, though most likely picked some of the tamer ones that were appropriate for TV. Reddit user elevenmile translated them: "Eikonic battles are so plain looking," read one. "Still [the only Final Fantasy] that I'm not going to buy day one," said...
An ambitious The Simpsons: Hit and Run fan remake is now complete, but its creator says it will never be released.
Creator Reuben "Reubs" Ward remade Radical Entertainment’s much-loved 2003 action-adventure from scratch, figuring out how the original Grand Theft Auto 3-inspired game was coded and remaking every little detail and feature in Unreal Engine 5.
In a new video published to YouTube, Reubs declared the project complete. This latest version began life a year ago after Reubs pulled an earlier version offline to avoid potential legal issues with Disney. That earlier version drew praise from Hit & Run lead designer Joe McGinn, who said at the time: "Amazing what you accomplished! Really gives a taste of what a full modern...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Used ‘Intimacy Co-Ordinators’ to Help Actors Feel Comfortable During Romantic Scenes
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian employed specially trained intimacy co-ordinators to make sure actors felt comfortable during romantic scenes.
In an interview with the BBC, actors Jennifer English and Devora Wilde, who play half-elf cleric Shadowheart and githyanki warrior Lae'zel respectively, praised Larian for employing the intimacy co-ordinators. "I never felt 'yuck' in a recording session at all,” said English. “And I've got quite a low 'yuck' threshold.”
While intimacy co-ordinators are now commonly used in film and TV productions, Larian said it reckons it’s one of the first studios to use them during the development of a traditional video game. While 2022’s Immortality used an intimacy coordinator, that game is more an...
Diablo 4 players have heavily criticised the Season 1 battle pass, accusing developer Blizzard of not including enough virtual currency.
The $10 battle pass, which launched last week, dishes out 666 Platinum in total upon completion, a figure in-keeping with Diablo’s hellish setting and a nice marketing gimmick, but not enough to afford a single item from the in-game store, where the cheapest cosmetic costs 800 Platinum.
Unlike some other live service games, the Diablo 4 battle pass doesn’t even include enough virtual currency to afford the next battle pass, expected to cost 1,000 Platinum.
Games like Call of Duty include a battle pass that essentially pays for itself in virtual currency. Those battle passes dish out enough COD...
Square Enix has finally explained the logic behind what many fans consider to be a plot hole in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, justifying it through Aerith having vague memories of future events.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake's protagonist Cloud likes to keep to himself, so when he meets Aerith and she already knows he's an ex-SOLDIER (a specific military group) and now a mercenary, there's no obvious way for her to know that.
It's been a hotly-contested moment for years, with players' strongest theory being that a friend of Aerith called Zack was also a SOLDIER, so she'd recognise the look, but many others still didn't buy it.
Square Enix has finally weighed in through a tweet translated by Siliconera, and spoilers for both versions of Final...
Remnant 2 has shot to the top of Steam’s best-sellers list ahead of its launch later today, July 25.
Gunfire Games’ well-received looter-shooter soulslike currently tops Steam’s best-sellers list, which is ordered by revenue. Remnant 2 is currently beating big-hitting rivals such as Valve’s own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 (which enjoyed a Steam chart surge of its own after a bear sex reveal), and Bethesda’s Starfield.
While the first Remnant did well enough to justify a sequel, it’s clear Remnant 2 has attracted a much larger audience across PC and console. IGN’s Remnant 2 review returned a 9/10: “Where Remnant: From The Ashes was a strong first draft, Remnant 2 is a revolutionary sequel and a sterling...
If you're like me, getting up to swap a disc is far too big a pain. That's precious energy, which could be expended on actually playing a game or reaching for another Tiny Teddy or Iced VoVo. This being the case, I've scoured the digital stores for the best discounts on downloadable goods. Nothing but the finest, er...softest wares from the PlayStation Store "75% off Winter Sale" and the "50% off Ultimate Sale" on Microsoft's Store. Oh, and Steam's Stealth Fest is also worth sneaking into.
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Aussie birthdays for notable games and hardware
- Magic Sword (ARC) 1990.
- Mario’s Picross (GB) 1995.
- Painkiller (XB) 2006. Get
- Dynasty Warriors 8 (PS3,X360) 2013.
- Shadowrun Returns (PC) 2013.
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Elon Musk's affinity for the letter 'X' is shared by least one Kingdom Hearts character: Master Xehanort, the overarching villain of Square Enix's popular trilogy and the leader of the Real Organization XIII.
The connection has led to Kingdom Hearts fans changing their profile pics en masse to those of the hooded Nobodies of Organization XIII. It's just one in the massive wave of memes as fandoms across the board poke fun at Musk's strange decision to do away with one of the world's iconic brands.
It seemingly began with a user named Letryx who urged Kingdom Hearts fans to change their bio pic, writing, "KH fans, it's time to rise up."
The trend quickly caught on among Kingdom Hearts fans on the platform, many of whom posted scenes...
Over the weekend, fans of Ubisoft games underwent a minor panic as a rumor spread that Ubisoft might be spontaneously deleting inactive Ubisoft accounts, permanently destroying digital game libraries if users aren't logging on often enough. However, Ubisoft has now clarified that this is false, and users' digital game libraries are safe, even if their accounts are inactive.
The rumors were kicked off when a tweet circulated showing an email entitled "Ubisoft Account Closure Due to Inactivity." The email instructed that the recipient's Ubisoft account had been temporarily suspended, and would be closed permanently in 30 days unless the closure was canceled by the account owner.
The email was then confirmed to be legitimate by the...
One dedicated Starfield fan thinks they've uncovered the upcoming Bethesda RPG's entire skill tree after spending 200 hours piecing together different gameplay clips, trailers, and other game snippets.
As reported by GamesRadar, asd8dhd on Reddit has listed each individual skill that's identifiable by different elements of gameplay or developer commentary and put them together to create what they believe is the complete skill tree.
This includes things like the Equilibrium skill, which can be upgraded twice, pulled from zero gravity gameplay and a developer talking about how firing weapons in zero gravity will have different effects. Then there's the martial arts skill, evidenced by gameplay showing the player locked in hand-to-hand...
Amnesia: The Bunker developer Frictional Games is looking to cut back on horror games "to give greater focus on other emotional qualities".
Speaking to 80.lv, Frictional creative director Thomas Grip echoed the sentiments of fellow horror studio Bloober Team, which also recently said it was stepping away from the games it was traditionally known for.
"While all of our games have been horror in some way, what we really try to do is to get a kind of playable immersion," Grip said. "We want to give the player some sort of immersive fantasy, be that being a [World War 1] soldier trapped in a bunker or a robot stuck at the bottom of the ocean.
"Horror games naturally are where emotions are front and centre. Games really excel at this...
Tencent announced it's buying Polish developer Techland, the studio behind the original Dead Island and the Dying Light series.
In a blog post, Techland CEO Pawel Marchewka announced that Tencent "is currently in the process" of becoming the studio's majority shareholder. "Teaming up with Tencent will allow us to move full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for our games," Marchewka explained. "We have chosen an ally who has already partnered with some of the world's finest video game companies and helped them reach new heights while respecting their ways of doing things."
Marchewka insisted that even though Tencent will own the studio, Techland will retain full ownership of its intellectual properties, maintain creative...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 are meant to be realistic, right? On the face of it, that’s what the hugely popular Activision shooters are, with campaign missions that ape historical military operations and an army-obsessed aesthetic that recreates real-world weapons and vehicles in video game form.
Enter Call of Duty’s latest cosmetic concoction, dubbed “laser cats!”. Here’s redditor exileonwoodct with a clip of it in action.
The laser cat is actually a combination of two $20 cosmetics: the Sgt. Pspsps Operator skin included in the Whisker Tango bundle, which costs 2,400 COD Points or around $20, and the Homelander skin from The Boys Homelander Operator bundle, which also costs 2,400 COD Points.
The Homelander...
Players who enjoy stripping Bethesda NPCs (often literally) of everything they're worth won't have such an easy time of it in Starfield as pickpocketing will happen in real-time.
Space thieves will have an extra level of intensity when picking the pockets of poor NPCs as, unlike in previous Bethesda games like Skyrim or Fallout 4, time won't pause while doing so in Starfield.
A Reddit post from OkPain2022 shared a sliver of Starfield gameplay previously gone unnoticed that shows the player creeping around behind an unsuspecting guard as they pull items from their person.
Players no longer have all the time in the world to weigh up the odds of taking items (which are presented alongside a percentage chance of alerting the NPC)...
I have deleted my save file in Time Bandit and started a new game three times now. I keep messing up and missing a very, very important appointment with a strange figure in scuba gear who wants to meet in secret. Fourth time’s the charm - I wake up early and make my appointment. Finally, I can get back to work.
Developer Joel Jordon pitched me on covering Time Bandit for this column months ago, based on my known love for a similarly real-time game, The Longing. Time Bandit exists within the same very small genre of games that take place in real-time, but which also are not endless in the way that Animal Crossing or certain mobile games are - it’s a story that plays out, minute-by-minute, as you go. You play as a worker in a factory...
Diablo 4 developer Blizzard has promised a fix for a user interface issue that is causing some players to accidentally activate the premium battle pass.
Streamer Rurikhan took to Twitter to post a clip showing how he inadvertently activated the 1,000 Platinum (£8.39 / $9.99) Season 1 premium battle pass on Diablo 4's battle pass menu screen. Not only is the 'Activate Premium Battle Pass' button close to the button used to check your Season Journey, but the cursor defaults to the 'Activate Premium Battle Pass' button on this screen.
Rurikhan explained he was saving his battle pass unlock, obtained by buying either the Digital Deluxe or Ultimate Editions of Diablo 4, for a future season “since I don't have time to commit to this one”...
A Diablo 4 player saw over 40 hours of game time go to waste after his new Season 1 Hardcore character died after a disconnect.
Diablo 4 YouTuber and streamer Wudijo, widely considered one of the best Diablo players in the world, saw his level 93 Hardcore Rogue die after a disconnect seconds away from the completion of an event in a Nightmare Dungeon, and just seven levels away from reaching the 100 level cap. The entire event was captured in a Twitch livestream.
Hardcore mode adds permadeath to Diablo 4, which means if you die, your character is gone forever.
Diablo 4’s first two months of life have been punctuated by the death of Hardcore characters following disconnect, adding fuel to the fire of complaints about Blizzard’s...
Another week, another chance to save serious amounts on the games worth buying. Today the theme seems to be violence — fighting game prices everywhere are getting [upper]cut to size. I'd also like to flag the first decent discount on Aliens: Dark Descent. It's got my pick as the sleeper hit of 2023. Absolutely nails the intensity of James Cameron's Aliens.
In historical news, it's been 32 years to the day since Aussies first met the blue dude with the 'tude. Yep, Sonic the Hedgehog spindashed to stardom on CRTs everywhere. This prompted much critical acclaim and the first major conversations about gaming / light-induced seizures. Chalk that up to too much 'blast processing' or simply Sega doing what Nintendidn't, I guess.
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At San Diego Comic-Con 2023, we had the chance to chat with Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada and producer Michael Murray and learn the latest details on the much-anticipated next entry of the legendary fighting franchise.
During the interview, we touched on a wide variety of topics, including how the team is dealing with player feedback, how that feedback is making them a bit nervous as it's been "overwhelmingly positive," who the best-dressed fighter in the Tekken universe is, which move would hurt the most in real life, and much more.
Tekken 8 currently has no release date, but a PlayStation 5-only closed network test is currently taking place through today, July 24, and all platforms (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC) will have one...
Have you always wanted to know what people cook and eat in a galaxy far, far away? Well, it sounds like Star Wars Outlaws may give players the chance to discover that for themselves, according to a cryptic tease from Ubisoft Massive creative director Julian Gerighty.
In a panel covering the game today at San Diego Comic-Con, Gerighty participated in a discussion regarding details of Tatooine and the new location the team created, the moon Toshara. After chatting about speeders and geographic aesthetics, Gerighty concluded the panel with a tease of two potential surprises one might encounter on Toshara:
"There are a couple surprises I don’t want to spoil," he said. "There is a particular predator on Toshara that is mind-blowingly...
After confirming earlier this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con that Invincible's Omni-Man would be headed to Mortal Kombat 1 alongside Homelander and Peacemaker, we've also just learned that J.K. Simmons will be voicing the role, having already popularized it in the Amazon Prime animated series.
This comes from an interview on the Comic-Con show floor during which Netherrealm's Ed Boon revealed that Simmons had been recording the voiceover for Omni-Man. "It's as authentic as it can be," Boon said.
Simmons has been beloved across film, TV, and even video games for some time. He's perhaps best known for playing J. Jonah Jameson across multiple Spider-Man instances including Sam Raimi's trilogy, Far From Home and No Way Home, Across the...
Talking gun comedy shooter High on Life has launched on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 after seven months’ of console exclusivity on Xbox.
Developer Squanch Games made the surprise announcement during San Diego Comic-Con 2023. “The fans have spoken. And spoken. And spoken,” said studio director Mike Fridley. “We’ve been thrilled with High On Life’s reception since it launched in December. Our PlayStation fans have been slightly less thrilled, which is why we’re so excited to share that it’s coming their way very soon. Like now soon! Thank you for your patience!”
IGN gave High on Life 8/10 in its review: “High on Life is a laugh-out-loud funny space odyssey that’s chaotic, bizarre, and a ton of fun,” we said. It was a smash hit, and...
Developers from Ubisoft Massive and their compatriots over at LucasFilm shared a number of new details today with IGN at San Diego Comic-Con regarding Star Wars: Outlaws and the two locations revealed for the game thus far: the new moon Toshara, and Tatooine. Including, yes, that you can both work for and betray (if you want) Jabba the Hutt.
Speaking to IGN, director Julian Gerighty says that Toshara is inspired by the eastern African savannah, and was specifically designed with heroine Kay Vess' speeder (which yes, is at least somewhat customizable) in mind, with lots of wide, open plains. The team even visited Tanzania for inspiration.
"We start off with a biome, in this case, southeast African biomes as an inspiration, and then...
At San Diego Comic-Con 2023, we were able to sit down with NetherRealm Studios' Ed Boon, Thiago Gomes, and Dominic Cianciolo, along with voice actors Kelly Hu and Yuri Lowenthal, to discuss Mortal Kombat 1.
Hu and Lowenthal discussed a bit about their characters and the changes made to them as the next installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise serves as a reboot for the series.
The interview follows a big reveal that happened during the Mortal Kombat panel that took place yesterday, which revealed that Homelander, Peacemaker, Omni-Man, along with returning Mortal Kombat characters Quan Chi, Ermac, and Takeda will be available in the first Kombat Pack. Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon explains why the studio chose Homelander...
Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima seems to be teasing something very Death Stranding-related on his Twitter account, which may be related either to Death Stranding 2, or to the upcoming Death Stranding film adaptation.
In a tweet posted last night, Kojima shared multiple photos of what appear to be a motion capture (mocap) stage with an actor moving around several large prop boulders. The stage is surrounded by what looks like an enormous LED wall similar to what was used to film The Mandalorian, except this one has what is clearly a Death Stranding background. On it, we can see snowy mountains, multiple BTs in the distance, a small campsite with multiple tents, and a completely unknown new figure looming large on the left-hand...
NetherRealm Studios appeared at San Diego Comic-Con to discuss its upcoming game Mortal Kombat 1, including how PlayStation and Xbox's next-gen consoles help enhance the small details found in the game.
During the panel, Thiago Gomes, the art development director at NetherRealm Studios, elaborated on how the ninth generation of home gaming consoles allows the studio to show more little details and interactions in the costumes and levels.
"With the new consoles, we have a lot more power to show a lot more little interactions, including the little robot that comes in and cleans up all the blood," Gomes said. Little details, such as the stitches on Li Mei's costume, are also noticeable, thanks to the power of the new consoles.
Gomes...