Ellie Cooper is an artist based in the UK who has done stuff for companies like Disney and Google.
I wrote about a Dark Souls gun mod last year, but that one was just for fun. This new one by InfernoPlus is a lot bigger and a lot more ambitious.
Back in February it was announced that Mass Effect Legendary Edition wasn't going to be including everything in the trilogy, because the source code for a single piece of old DLC—Pinnacle Station, which we reviewed back in 2009—had been lost.
The second season of Pokémon Unite is now live on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Dubbed Sun, Sun, Sunshine, it introduces tons of new content to the popular MOBA, including another battle pass with 90 levels for you to grind through, as well as holowear for monsters and other rewards.
Remember Lies of P, the Dark Souls clone announced earlier this year that's based on the classic Pinocchio fairy tale from 1883? Here's proof it wasn't a collective fever dream.
Nintendo has once again released Amiibo Cards for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and they've once again sold out, leading to a second-hand market full of hassle and sky-high mark-ups. It's perfect timing considering the game's big 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC recently went live, and players are desperate to…
Okay, look. Netflix is lying to you. Netflix keeps calling things that are absolutely not anime "anime". Please scroll down if you would like my full rant on this topic. For now, though, the thing you're here to learn about is the new animated Witcher film, following up on The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The next movie was briefly announced months ago, but it's still a long way off.
Producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich tells Entertainment Weekly that the film "way, way, way in the future", and there's no clear release date, even internally, because "we're just now getting started on it". As for the direction of the film, however, Hissrich says that "I hope that the anime [sic] is a little bit more of a standalone project that will bring new eyes onto the franchise but also really be able to stand out there on its own". The movie will be written by a pair of writers who have "been on the staff from the beginning".
Nightmare of the Wolf was produced by Studio Mir, the South Korean animation house responsible for such excellent productions as The Legend of Korra and Netflix's own Voltron series. It's a great studio. It does not make anime.
RELATED LINKS: The Witcher 3 mods, The Witcher 4 news, Play The Witcher 3
I've spent over 300 hours getting to know Final Fantasy XIV in the run-up to the Endwalker release date, and I'm still terrified of raids - the Savages and Ultimates, anyway. Luckily, one FFXIV fan has gone to the trouble of building a simulator to help you practice the mechanics of the MMORPG's most challenging encounters.
XIVsim.com has been in beta for some time, and version 1.0 just launched. As creator Appropriate_Bit2021 explains on Reddit, the beta version has seen 15,000 players run over 40,000 duties, and over the course of the beta, "multiple useful features have been added such as the ability to pause at anytime and discuss, or automatically pause on a death. Along with a much improved engine and netcode".
The Raid Simulator lets you spawn enemies and mechanics you want to try, load timelines, or create your own timeline to practice whatever you specifically need to. The tool is currently struggling under the weight of early interest, so queue times can be a bit long - but hey, DPS players at least know that struggle. Once you've grabbed a server, you can invite your friends to practice alongside you by just sending them a link.
RELATED LINKS: FFXIV Shadowbringers review, FFXIV Gunbreaker job guide, FFXIV Dancer job guide
While emulation has dramatically improved over the years, low input lag is still one major advantage to playing old console games on original hardware on a CRT TV. Emulator developers have been finding creative ways to work around that problem for ages, and the devs behind the RetroArch frontend have been making those options more convenient for players to use. The latest push back against input lag is a particularly neat one: automatic frame delay.
Frame delay itself has been in RetroArch for years. It essentially allows you to push back the rendering of a frame to the last possible millisecond, so that your input comes as close as possible to when that frame is rendered on-screen. So at 60fps, a frame comes roughly every 16 milliseconds. If your computer is beefy enough to render that frame in, say, eight milliseconds, frame delay lets you get that extra half-frame of input latency back. A half-frame of input lag would be imperceptible to most, but combined with other types of lag reduction, it adds up.
The issue is that up to this point, RetroArch users have had to manually configure the frame delay setting in each emulator core, and in some cases, they'd need different configurations for individual games. RetroArch 1.9.13 makes that process unnecessary with automatic frame delay.
Kislev, Khorne, Tzeentch, Cathay - they've all had their time in the pre-release spotlight in the long leadup to the Total War: Warhammer III release date. Lately, however, we've gotten our first peek at the strategy game's tallest and hungriest faction, the Ogre Kingdoms. In a new video highlighting a selection of the Ogre Kingdoms' unit roster, we get a look at how well-rounded these big meat-eating lads really are.
Zerkovich's latest video shows off a partial selection of the Ogre Kingdoms army roster. It ranges from the diminutive Gnoblars at the small end up to the fearsome legendary lords Skrag the Slaughterer and Greasus Goldteeth at the other. In between, you have a surprisingly wide array of potential jobs for an ambitious young ogre to fill, whether their preference is melee combat or hunting down huge monsters on horseback.
The Ogre Kingdoms are a mobile society that operate somewhat like a horde faction, a concept introduced in Total War: Attila. As such, they're relatively lightly armoured compared to other factions: metal armour and shields are a rarity in these ranks. The basic Gnoblar infantry lacks any of the anti-large spear weapons or silver shields carried by their Goblin counterparts in Greenskin armies, but they make up for their lack of protection by being extremely cheap to recruit.
Updated over a long enough timeline, all games seemingly become the same - at least structurally. Deep Rock Galactic got its biggest ever update last week, for example, which adds a battle pass with 100 levels to advance through and new items and cosmetics to unlock.
There is a twist, at least: the battle pass is 100% free, and there's a new robot-battling mode included in the update, too.
Some players have reported lag in Factorio for years. Lag always seemed fair to me given the sprawling, complex bases you can build in the game, but the latest patch might make things better. Version 1.1.46, released this Saturday, makes several changes which should reduce multiplayer latency.
The description under the video below says it is being released "in celebration of 10 years" of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Ten years! I'd have sworn it was 9, tops. The video itself is a 4K remaster of The Old Republic's original reveal trailer. If you like the ol' space biff, this is some really high resolution space biff.
Giger-inspired first-person shooter Scorn was due to welcome players to its world of bone and cartilage this year, but not now. A new Kickstarter update says that the game has slipped into 2022, while explaining why the development team have been quiet over the past year.
It is a good time to be a Riot fan.
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More Assassin's Creed Valhalla content is coming your way.
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Developed by Turtle Rock Studios, Back 4 Blood was released just last month and it serves as a spiritual successor to the widely beloved Left 4 Dead 2. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with it, even if it seems as though the game is suffering from a few queue issues here and there. That said, […]
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Kadokawa Games has been revealing new artwork and details about the upcoming mecha strategy JRPG Relayer focusing on its mecha.
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Ubisoft fully revealed the new operation for its popular squad tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, alongside its new operator.
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If you can't get enough of the popular "Poke-Lid" enameled manhole designs, you'll be excited to know that there are eight more designs that have just been unveiled in Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. This time, each of these eight new Poke-Lid designs feature Vulpix along with several other Pokemon friends. Here are all of the […]
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Blue Reflection: Second Light offers opportunities to explore, investigate mysteries, aid magical girls, and connect with characters.
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VR-ify the whole Resident Evil catalog, Capcom After Capcom's outstanding early work in Resident Evil 7, and Armature Studio's recent...
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The co-creative director of Arkane's Deathloop will now reportedly lead the studio Dinga Bakaba, who's worked on several of Arkane's big...
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The dreaded bra-snap While I generally wouldn't say that any of their games are in the fluctuating list I might...
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Roll for initiative Dicey Dungeons, the stylish dice-based roguelite all about fantasy warrior dice, is coming to Xbox this week....
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Nintendo's Black Friday deals for Switch hardware and games start November 21, 2021 Nintendo has given shoppers a heads-up about...
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Master of puppets When Lies of P was first announced, I was awestruck by its concept. An action RPG Souls-like set in a...
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Sega hasn't officially announced the name of 2022's modern Sonic game yet Sonic Frontiers might be the name of the...
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(Not really, get them for yourself) The nights are drawing in and the great indoors is becoming just as chilly...
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The free game trial runs from November 10–16 and you can pre-load it now on your Switch It's a minor...
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More cards, modes, and ways to deal with the Ridden It seemed pretty clear that Back 4 Blood was going to get...
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We've entered the third phase of the Shadow of the Ancients event in Genshin Impact. By now, you've already prepared various devices, which means it's time to battle the boss. Here's our Genshin Impact Shadow of the Ancients Day 3 – Live Testing guide to help you beat the Anomalous Ruin Grader. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub. Likewise, you can take a look at our main guide for the Shadow of the Ancients event. Genshin Impact: Shadow of the Ancients event guide (Day 3) – Live Testing phase and the Anomalous Ruin Grader boss If you've already done the requirements from the previous days, then you can go ahead and visit Hosseini in Ritou. He tells you to travel back to the Ruin Grader's location south of Wakukau Shoal. Once you get there, you'll notice that the giant golem has disappeared. However, you'll be able to use Ayesha's Chaos Prospector to f... 
Blue Reflection entered the JRPG scene in 2017. The consensus? It was okay, but clearly flawed. It showed a lot of the typical signs of a budget JRPG, especially due to its lack of polish. But the potential was there and if the feedback was acted upon, a well-made sequel could elevate the series to another level. Judgment day has now arrived with Koei Tecmo and Gust releasing Blue Reflection: Second Light. Truthfully, it's surprising we even have a sequel to play. The original achieved reasonable sales but hardly took the JRPG scene by storm. Many had assumed that Blue Reflection was set to become yet another ambitious, but forgettable, JRPG. And yet, it turns out that Koei Tecmo has not given up on this series. If my time playing Second Light is anything to go by, then that is a fantastic thing. Delving into the Heartscape The protagonist Ao Hoshizaki and the other girls are tasked with exploring the Heartscape. The Heartscape is a mysterious world that is created base... 
Among Us isn't going away just yet, as the social deduction game sleuths its way into one of the largest free-to-play games out there. Riot Games is on a roll with its collaborations, recently crossing over with another free-to-play behemoth Fortnite. Now, Riot's Arcane is taking part in a collaboration with Among Us, as some League of Legend skins will be available to use in the murder mystery spree. It's time to murder your friends, but as League of Legends cosplayers this time. We get only a brief glimpse of the collaboration between the two games in the official trailer, (or more accurately, an Arcane and Among Us collaboration). What we do see is a couple Among Us characters dressed up in LoL fashion. At the 38-second mark, we see an Enforcer walking upon the engineer yordle Heimerdinger hovering over a dead body. I'm guessing Among Us will receive some more skins from that, including more characters from the cast of Arcane. But regardless, it's ce... 
News on Lies of P, a Souls-like retelling of Pinocchio (of sorts), has been scarce since the game's reveal in May. The "baroque action RPG" made waves when it was unveiled, hinting at an even darker version of Carlo Collodi's story than what Disney could ever dream. Needless to say, a macabre, steampunk version of the classic work was intriguing, and I wanted to know more. Today, at last, Neowiz and Round8 Studio has revealed some early gameplay of Lies of P in a alpha teaser trailer. And it looks even better than what I imagined. If you mash up Bloodborne and Pinocchio while sprinkling in a dash of BioShock, Lies of P would be the result. The Lies of P gameplay trailer shows an unsettling world populated by staggering automatons, ready to attack with a variety of weapons. You play as Pinocchio, equipped with a left arm that functions as an all-in-one tool system. In one moment, he uses it as a flamethrower, and in another, a grappling hook shoots out to drag... 
Ask and you shall receive (eventually): Back 4 Blood is getting a solo offline mode along with campaign progression in December. Granted, it's a bit late in the making. But solo players of the Left 4 Dead successor will no doubt feel rejoiced over the news. Back 4 Blood is an excellent co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead, but it wasn't perfect. The game had some balance issues that needed to be ironed out, and the team at Turtle Rock Studios is working on it. In a bizarre move, the game seemingly punished those who wanted to play the campaign solo. While you could do it, and get matched up with bots, you couldn't earn progression points. No doubt the decision was made to funnel players into multiplayer matchmaking, the meat and potatoes of the game. However, not everyone wanted to team up, and they were left baffled as to why they couldn't progress on their own. The developer did respond to this back in October, and soon it will implement the ... Hopefully, they will be back soon.
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If you need GTA with you wherever you go.
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