Elden Ring Collector's Edition is now available to preorder in the UK, it will cost £179.99 and ship by February 25, 2022 (see here). The Collector's Edition is currently in stock for PS4, and Xbox, while the PS5 and PC versions are now out of stock.
Preorder the collector's edition of Elden Ring, and you'll receive the game itself along with Statue of Malenia - Blade of Miquella (9 inches), an exclusive Steelbook, 40-page hardcover artbook, and the digital soundtrack. Plus, anyone who buys the PS4 or Xbox One version will get a free next-gen upgrade as well, which is always nice to see.
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Cardy reviewed Call of Duty: Vanguard's campaign so tells you all about its hits and misses. Matt and Dale join him to wax lyrical about the pure joy of Forza Horizon 5 and where the fun can be found in Riders Republic once you've broken through the wall of shack daddies and their triple shroom burgers. Matt also gives his verdict on Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho before a Mass Effect Endless Search quiz. Stay tuned until the end for some spoiler-filled Guardians of the Galaxy chat too
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Konami has delayed the 1.0.0 update for eFootball from November 10 until Spring 2022 – effectively pushing back the launch of the full version of the game.
Announced on the eFootball website, the developer says that it "concluded that more time is needed to deliver the product in the quality that will meet the expectations of our users and have decided to postpone the delivery."
The current version of eFootball has been described by Konami as "basically a demo", with 1.0.0 set to add the game's Creative Teams mode, multiple new ways to play (including normal online matches), new player types, microtransactions and more. That update was also set to add mobile versions of the game, but Konami now says it will "announce details of...
Note: This review covers the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Vanguard. For our thoughts on the other two modes, check our our Call of Duty: Vanguard Multiplayer review in progress and our Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies review in progress.
Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign starts off on the right track – literally. An explosive train sequence through a burning Hamburg, Germany thrills as you jump between carriages, fending off dozens of angry Nazis on your way to a submarine base. It’s a cinematic opening to a game that wears its film influences proudly; whether that be the tense behind-enemy-lines aspects of D-Day in The Longest Day or the vivid depictions of the Pacific in Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. No shadow hangs...
Thank your own personal God—possibly Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight—it's Friday! Today is largely about Call of Duty: Vanguard, the WWII shooter that arrived today and gets a headstart in my affections for featuring an Aussie spec ops character. Along with the cheapest deals on it, I've found an eclectic array of other discounts that deserve your precious money and time this weekend. Stay safe, save often and see you Monday!
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Exciting Offers for XO/XS
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Note: This review covers the Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Vanguard. For our thoughts on the other two modes, check out our Call of Duty: Vanguard Single-Player Campaign review and our Call of Duty Vanguard Multiplayer review in progress.
Call of Duty’s Zombies mode has circled around the axis again. With Vanguard returning to the gristly frontiers of World War II, we are back in the 1940s culling the rotten corpses of the Third Reich on gothic European battlefields for the first time since 2017's Call of Duty: WW2. And for anyone who spent their high school years boarding up the windows when Zombies debuted in Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World of War, Sledgehammer's interpretation is both a homecoming and a living testament to how far...
Forza Horizon 5 is coming very soon to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. It's also coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one of release on November 9, 2021. Or, if you preorder the Premium Add-Ons Bundle, Deluxe, or Premium Edition, you can play it on November 5. It's a little complicated, so read on for full details about what comes in each edition.
What's not complicated is the question of whether it's any good. You can read our Forza Horizon 5 review for full details about why our critic gave it a 10/10 score.
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Xbox
Get it at Amazon - $59.99
Get it at Best Buy - $59.99 (free $10 gift card)
Get it at GameStop - $59.99
Get it at Walmart - $59.99
Get it at Microsoft - $59.99
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After months and months of waiting, further complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Spider-Man is finally coming to Marvel's Avengers on November 30, exclusively for PlayStation players.
Spider-Man is releasing as part of the Spider-Man: With Great Power Hero Event in Marvel's Avengers, which will tell the story of Spider-Man through unlockable challenges.
Surprisingly, Square-Enix made the release date announcement as only a small part of its broader content roadmap update published Thursday.
In Spider-Man's story mode, Peter Parker discovers that A.I.M. plans to acquire tech that would make their robot army invincible, prompting Spidey to join forces with Ms. Marvel and Black Widow, who remain unaware of his identity. One of...
Amazon Games has provided its New World community with an update on many of the features in the game that have experienced issues including character transfers, the game's economy, and much more.
In a developer blog post published to the game's forums, a community manager for New World explained that the team had been working hard to investigate several problems with the MMO before providing an update to fans on the issues that it believes are most critical to the community.
Following recent reports that New World has been suffering from a deflationary currency crisis, the blog post spoke further about the current state of the game's economy and updated fans on what changes the development team would be making going forward.
"From a...
Sega has officially announced the release date for Total War: Warhammer 3, and has also confirmed that the game will be coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC at launch.
In an update to its website, Sega announced that Total War: Warhammer 3 will be released on February 17, 2022, and that it will be coming to Xbox Games Pass subscribers on day one.
“It’s fantastic to finally put a release date on our epic third instalment,” said Creative Assembly's Chief Product Officer, Rob Bartholomew in the post. “And, in partnering with Xbox Game Pass, we’re able to bring the ruinous powers of Chaos to as many players as possible. May all serve within their glorious embrace.”
News of the game's official release date comes after Creative Assembly...
If you’re a reasonably dedicated fan of ARPGs in the vein of Diablo, or you’re into story-driven MMORPGs like Final Fantasy 14 or Elder Scrolls Online, you may have already had your eye on the upcoming western release of Lost Ark, the MMO-slash-ARPG hybrid which (by no coincidence at all) has taken South Korea by storm over the last three years. Good news: we’ve already played our very own Striker — one of 15 playable advanced classes — all the way up to level 20 in Lost Ark’s closed beta. During which we cleared the very first continent, delved into Lost Ark’s epic storyline and several of its dungeons, including the visually gorgeous Morai Ruins, and also got a solid taste of this surprisingly deep character customization system. With...
Elden Ring is set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 25, 2022. Anyone who buys the PS4 or Xbox One version will get a free next-gen upgrade as well, which is always nice to see. Elden Ring is the next game from the makers of tough-but-satisfying action RPGs like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
The game comes in a standard edition as well as a cool-looking collector's edition, and it's available for preorder now. Read on to see what comes in each edition and where you can lock in your Elden Ring preorder.
Elden Ring Collector's Edition
PS5
Get it at Best Buy - $189.99
Get it at GameStop - $189.99
Get it at Target - $189.99
Get it at Amazon UK - £179.99
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FromSoftware has released 15 minutes of new gameplay footage from Elden Ring, the studio's highly anticipated next game.
The new gameplay can currently be watched over on YouTube and Twitch.
The gameplay is comprised of multiple segments, each looking at Elden Ring's many fundamentals. While looking much like Dark Souls in many ways, there are clearly many differences in the way Elden Rings plays. The open world provides a somewhat Skyrim-like atmosphere, something particularly heightened when a dragon descends on the player character out of nowhere.
The gameplay reveals that Elden Ring's bonfire alternative are known as a Site of Grace, and project rays of guiding light that can be used to find new areas. The open world nature of...
Black Friday is fast approaching, but that doesn't mean we can't experience a few early deals before the big day. Right now at Amazon you can get 3-Months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $37.99 (was $44.99) in its early Black Friday sales (see here).
This is a deal of epic proportions, as this code will stack on top of your current Game Pass membership, extending it for 3-months at the reduced cost. You can do this multiple times as well, continiously stacking the discount.
Black Friday 2021: 15% Off Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at Amazon
This is perfect time to jump into Xbox Game Pass at the moment, with the likes of Forza Horizon 5 launching on November 9 (which we gave a 10/10 in our review), GTA San Andreas on November 11, and It...
Sony is reportedly investing in Devolver Digital, the indie publisher behind the likes of Hotline Miami, Inscryption, and Death’s Door.
According to a report from GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is set to make a 5% investment in the company. This follows the announcement that Devolver Digital has been valued at $950 million after being floated on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange.
The GamesIndustry.biz report notes that the European law firm that advised Devolver, Fieldfisher, noted that the company has received a “significant strategy investment from a key industry player.” The report then states that such a key industry player is apparently Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Devolver Digital has two headquarters; one in Austin...
As Forza Horizon 5 crosses the finish line, the bar for open-world racing has again been raised in so many different ways. A map of Mexico that’s bigger, higher, and wildly more varied than any Horizon game yet. A fresh change to the way the Horizon Festival itself is gradually constructed, which results in more one-off events deliberately designed to showcase Horizon 5 at its very best. Improved tools that allow us to build completely custom events that can be more or less indistinguishable from those crafted by the developers themselves.
An enormous visual upgrade, especially to lighting, tyre smoke, and dust effects. Hundreds and hundreds of new custom parts, rims, and performance mods, and cars with more character than ever...
PC gamers would do well to head on over to Fanatical today as it's their 4th birthday sale. I've curated a bunch of the best stuff from it already but there's still some gold in those thar hills. Meanwhile, console folk should take note of a bunch of cheap CoD titles, some of which are very recent and over half off. Lastly, I've noticed (a 4-player version of) Bubble Bobble is on sale. Who the hell doesn't love that game?
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After another Halloween has come and gone with no official Undead Nightmare DLC for Red Dead Redemption II, it's up to the modding community to save the day.
Modders have uploaded to Nexus Mods on Monday and Undead Nightmare II mod that features zombies rampaging through the towns and forests of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Town residents have boarded up their doors and are shooting at every zombie they see. New weather and music effects have also been added to create the perfect zombie-hunting ambiance.
Undead Nightmare was a DLC that was released for the first Red Dead Redemption. The horror-themed paid DLC added zombies and other supernatural horrors to Rockstar's fictional wild west. Fans hoped that the sequel, Red Dead Redemption 2...
Marvel's Avengers hasn't had the warmest reputation since it launched last year, but now we've got some words from Square Enix's president about its own internal reception.
In Square Enix's annual report for 2021, president Yosuke Matsuda says that Marvel's Avengers was an ambitious GaaS (Games as a Service) release. However, Avengers was not as successful as the company would have liked.
"We overcame a variety of unexpected difficulties in the final phase of the game’s development, including needing to transition to work-from-home due to the pandemic. We were able to surmount these challenges and release the game, but it has unfortunately not proven as successful as we would have liked," Matsuda says.
Matsuda said Square Enix would...
As a part of its second-quarter earnings announcement today, Take-Two Interactive announced that Firaxis' upcoming Marvel strategy game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, is being delayed into the second half of next year.
This isn't a massive bump as the Midnight Suns was previously planned for March 2022. Now, it's looking at somewhere between July and December of that year. In a press release, the company implied that the delay was connected at least in part to increases in the difficulty of making games as technology has improved.
As it becomes possible to make bigger and more technologically interesting games, those games are also tougher and take longer to make.
"While we don’t take delays lightly, we know that our proven success has...
Square-Enix's Guardians of the Galaxy game puts players into Star Lord’s jet-boots to boss around everyone’s space-faring A-holes. As we covered in our review, it's a winning Marvel formula. But this new game exists outside of the MCU and the comic book versions we know and love, and these Guardians aren’t afraid to carve out their own section of the galaxy.
So how exactly does the game's climactic ending draw from the Marvel Comics source material, and what does that tell us about the direction of a potential sequel? Let's take a deep dive into the ending, but beware of full spoilers ahead for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy!
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Remember when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 teased the debut of Adam Warlock? Well, it...
Ubisoft has said that it accidentally added a mission featuring Hollywood actor Danny Trejo into Far Cry 6 early and that it has subsequently begun removing it from the game.
In a statement released on Twitter, Ubisoft explained that the mission "Dani & Danny vs Everybody", which included the Spy Kids and Sons of Anarchy actor, had been released into the game by mistake. "The Dani & Danny vs Everybody mission is a work-in-progress and was accidentally released early," read the statement. "We're working to remove it and look forward to when players can check out the final version."
Since raising the mistake with its fanbase, Ubisoft has begun rolling out an update to Far Cry 6 that will see the mission removed from the game. While the...
Publisher WayForward (also known as the beloved developer behind games like Contra 4, Duck Tales Remastered, and A Boy and His Blob) is partnering with developer 13AM Games on Dawn of the Monsters, a new co-op brawler in which you get to play as a Kaiju who stands up to other giant monsters and inadvertently trashes the fully destructible fictional city of New Toronto in the process. It is due out in the first half of 2022 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
There are four playable beasts: Megadon, Ganira, Aegis Prime, and Tempest Galahad. Each has Brutal Rage abilities, Cataclysm Attacks, and finishing moves. As you can see in the trailer above and in the screenshots below, Dawn of the Monsters has a...
EA and DICE have offered an in-depth look at how Battlefield Portal, the create-your-own-Battlefield-experience tool that will be available in Battlefield 2042, works. The details reveal just how flexible the system is, from allowing faithful recreations of fan favourites such as Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3, to Frankenstein-like mashups that bring in weapons, rules, and maps from multiple different legacy games.
Battlefield Portal will use a web browser interface, allowing for easy set up of custom modes. The Portal can be accessed even if you don’t own Battlefield 2042, meaning you can still create games and share them with friends that do own the game.
Creating an ‘Experience’ in Battlefield Portal requires completing a variety...
FromSoftware has announced that 15 minutes of Elden Ring gameplay will be showcased tomorrow, November 4.
The announcement was made on the Elden Ring Twitter page, with no details offered beyond a time: 3pm CET / 7am PDT. It will be available to view on Bandai Namco US' Twitch channel, as well as on YouTube. Links to both are available in the tweet above.
November will be a big month for Elden Ring fans; following this 15 minute slice of gameplay, a closed network test will be available on console from November 12-14. This will offer up a playable segment of the game, although interested fans needed to have registered by November 1 if they wanted to get involved.
For more, check out our first preview of Elden Ring, based on 15...
A developer has created a very smart mod that turns Crusader Kings 3 and Mount & Blade 2 into a single game, allowing players to strategize in the former and battle inside the latter.
For as much as Crusader Kings 3 does an impressive job at simulating the complex political and social structures of medieval rule, one particular element that it lacks is a battle simulator that allows players to jump into the action and see their forces battle it out in real-time.
Now, however, a developer has created Crusader Blade - a new mod that remedies that exact problem. Taking your armies from Crusader Kings 3, the Crusader Blade mod then uses the battle engine from Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord to allow you to fight against your enemies at...
Battlefield 2042 will be getting a 10-hour trial for members of EA Play, starting on November 12. This will also include Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members on consoles, alongside members of Game Pass PC, and EA Play Pro on PC.
The game had a fairly interesting open beta, sparking a lot of debate about the current state of the shooter. EA has tried to calm nerves by informing fans that the beta build was a few months old at least, but that doesn't mean there still won't be concerns about the final product. So, this trial might be a good opportunity for a second chance at a first impression.
Battlefield 2042 is set to release on November 19, 2021, after being delayed by a month from its original October 22 launch day.
This trial will be...
Get in quick on these ones. Local brick and mortar retailers are slicing prices on stocking stuffers, and (naturally) online retailers are following suit. Personally, I'd pay particular attention to Resi Village going for half off, and Immortals Fenyx Rising (60% off) is an under-loved ARPG, too. While stocks last, all these deals and more await you below...
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Is id Software moving onto Quake after Doom? Job postings suggest that might be the case, and we discuss what we'd like to see out of what would be Xbox's next major exclusive first-person shooter. Plus: Miranda and Ryan tell you about their visit to 343 Industries to play Halo Infinite, Sega and Microsoft forge a new partnership, and more!
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In the last month or so, World of Warcraft has been working on a number of small changes to older parts of the game, removing or editing content that, well, hasn't aged all that well.
Some of this, Blizzard explicitly addressed, such as its removals of references to real-life employees who have departed the company in the wake of a lawsuit alleging harassment, discrimination, and a toxic work environment. Other changes are more subtle, though, like the toning down of some in-game paintings and the removal of a number of "joke" lines that players could deliver using a chat command. Much of the removed content could be considered unnecessarily sexual compared to the tone of the rest of the game, or was explicitly or implicitly degrading...