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Kotaku Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:25 PM  Resident Evil 4, inarguably one of the greatest games of all time, is now playable with full high-definition textures, enhanced 3D models, and revamped lighting courtesy of the Resident Evil 4 HD Project. |
Kotaku Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:30 PM  EA Sports have removed Manchester United and England striker Mason Greenwood from FIFA 22 after his arrest earlier this week on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, assault and "making threats to kill". |
Kotaku Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:15 PM  Yacht Club Games is working on a new project which, for the first time in the indie studio's history, has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. It's called Mina the Hollower, it's a retro-homage to Game Boy classics like Link's Awakening, and in a weird twist, Yacht Club is going back to Kickstarter to help fund… |
Kotaku Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:45 PM  The new animated movie Belle is a marvel. The latest from Mamoru Hosoda, director of 2018's acclaimed Mirai, Belle features skilled art direction that remains coherent and focused in even the busiest scenes, and I loved the English soundtrack for its haunting beauty, which never strays from its Disney inspiration. It… |
Kotaku Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:25 PM  Paul "Ice Poseidon" Denino, a former Twitch star who now streams on YouTube after the Amazon-owned platform banned him in 2017, was caught in a flagrant crypto scheme in which he took some $500,000 from his fans…and kept most of it. Crypto bros are the worst. This scam, uncovered by YouTuber Coffeezilla and first… |
PCGamesN Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:33 PM  Link's Awakening is still the best 2D Zelda game. (Don't at me.) Yacht Club Games, the studio behind the megahit indie game Shovel Knight, clearly has strong feelings about it too, as their next game keeps the spirit of Game Boy Zelda alive. Mina the Hollower is a top-down action-adventure game with a cartoonish gothic horror aesthetic, and it already looks fantastic. The titular Mina is an anthropomorphic mouse equipped with a whip and able to quickly burrow underground. Those are your two primary actions, mimicking the two-button restrictions of a proper Game Boy. (Even the colour choices are built to imitate the palette restrictions of the GBC.) You'll also pick up Castlevania-style side weapons, like a throwable ax or boomerang. There's also a levelling system that will let you increase various stats over time. The devs say that the game's still early in production and that ideas are still "taking form", so they're soliciting feedback as part of a newly-launched Kickstarter. The final game is estimated for delivery in December 2023. |
PCGamesN Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:01 PM  Halo Infinite's Cyber Showdown event has come to a close, and with it, so has the limited-time Attrition mode. But players really like Attrition. Like, really. The developers at 343 Industries are aware of that, and are currently deciding just how best to bring the mode back into regular rotation - perhaps with an Attrition-only playlist. "The team is going to bring back Attrition in a more consistent manner such as its own playlist or part of a new one down the road," multiplayer designer Andrew Witts says on Twitter. "Thanks for playing and providing feedback on its debut. We love the mode too and we're happy to see such a positive response to it." Attrition is effectively a much more intense version of the traditional Slayer team deathmatch. You kill your opponents until the other team runs out of lives, but on the final set of lives you don't immediately die when you get taken down - instead, your teammates can revive you. That keeps the comeback potential strong, and the entire match feeling high-stakes. RELATED LINKS: Halo Infinite release date, Halo Infinite system requirements, Halo Infinite ranks |
PCGamesN Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:35 PM  This month's Humble Choice bundle includes another healthy selection of games that range from quirky indie games to one of the biggest FPS games of the past few years. Borderlands 3 is the headliner for February's bundle, and it comes with the Director's Cut expansion for even more co-op mayhem. The Director's Cut is, as you might expect, even more Borderlands 3. It also adds a whole new tier of loot rewards. With the Director's Cut, you can pick up special diamond keys that open an entire loot armoury, located beneath the bridge of your ship, the Sanctuary III. Once inside, you have a limited time to pick an exceptional piece of gear off each wall. February's Humble Choice bundle also includes Martian city-builder Per Aspera, which casts you as a lone AI charged with making the Red Planet habitable for human beings. You'll eventually have to manage the entire planet, while also keeping an eye on the state of your AI - who gradually starts to feel a creeping anxiety about the scale of the task before her. Check out our Per Aspera review to learn more. RELATED LINKS: Borderlands 3 Shift codes, Borderlands 3 legendary weapons, Play Borderlands 3 |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:38 PM  Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a 2D adventure in which you swing between treetops and slide down branches like Disney's Tarzan or an arboreal skateboarder. It's Gibbon's Pro Skater. GibbonGibbon World. It's from the creators of Old Man's Journey and looks similarly gorgeous, and it's due out in early 2022. Watch the announce trailer below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:00 PM .jpg/BROK/resize/1920x1920%3E/format/jpg/quality/80/battlefield-2042-m5a3-(1).jpg) Battlefield 2042's first season of post-release content is being delayed so that its developers can focus on implementing "extensive fixes to the game." Voice comms, a revised scoreboard and better player profiles are all on the way before season one arrives early summer, among other changes designed to improve the dev team's communication with players. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:18 PM  World Of Warcraft is downplaying the "War" bit and planning to let Alliance and Horde players play together. It'll be an opt-in feature for those who want it, but it'll let you form cross-faction parties for running dungeons, raids and rated PvP when it launches. |
Twinfinite Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:13 PM During Electronic Arts' quarterly financial conference call executives commented on the possibility of making TV series and acquiring new studios. The post Electronic Arts Discusses Possibility of TV Series from its Gaming IP & Acquisitions appeared first on Twinfinite. |
Twinfinite Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:21 PM During EA's quarterly financial conference call for analysts and investors, CEO Andrew Wilson discussed the performance of Battlefield 2042. The post Electronic Arts Admits Battlefield 2042 Did Not Meet Expectations; Commits to "Realize its Full Potential" appeared first on Twinfinite. |
Siliconera Tuesday, February 1, 2022 11:15 PM
It's almost time to learn more about the Genshin Impact 2.5 update, as its Special Program stream will be held on February 4, 2022. MiHoYo announced that the presentation will show up on Twitch that day. It will be held at 4am PT/7am ET/1pm CET. The announcement image for it involved three familiar characters. One is Aether, the male version of the Traveler. The other are the Raiden Shogun and Yae Miko. This hints at characters who will feature prominently in the Genshin Impact 2.5 update. Raiden Shogun is the Electro Archon for the Inazuma region. She appeared as a playable character during the 2.1 update and showed up in September 2021. She's a five-star character. Yae Miko appeared in the Inazuma Archon Quests, but isn't playable yet. MiHoYo teased her debut at the end of December 2021. She will also be an Electro unit.
The current banners are rerun ones featuring Ganyu and Zhongli. Those are available until February 15, 2022. Genshin Impact is available for the PS4, PS5, PC, and mobile devices. It will also come to the Nintendo Switch eventually. The Genshin Impact 2.5 Special Program stream will go over the update at 4am PT/7am ET/1pm CET on February 4, 2022. The post Genshin Impact Special Program 2.5 Stream Will Be Held This Week appeared first on Siliconera. |
Siliconera Tuesday, February 1, 2022 10:35 PM
The Fire Emblem Heroes 5th Anniversary celebration will bring with it a number of events and freebies for players. Among them? Log-in bonuses, new heroes and 2022's A Hero Rises competition. Fire Emblem Heroes 5th Anniversary log-in bonuses, which run through the first half of February 2022, include a total of 10 Orbs, 55 Trait Fruit and 555 Heroic Grails. Along the way, players will also grab 55 of each type of Dragonflower, a Celestial Stone and 55 Sacred Coins. An accompanying set of quests will include more Orbs, Coins, Dragonflowers, Summon Tickets and other materials. A 5th Anniversary Grand Hero Party event will allow players to earn five-star versions of 14 Grand Hero Battle units through daily quests. Also happening again this year is a Special Hero Summon. With this, players can get a free Special Hero released in the past year by selecting a color and summoning a random one of that type. Also included in the Feh Channel video were the new units added for the 2022 Fire Emblem Heroes Day of Devotion event. This year's participants hail from Fire Emblem: Awakening. The roster includes Lucina, Owain, Female Robin, and a Duo Hero that pairs Chrom and Male Robin. Lissa will also join as a free Tempest Trials reward unit. Held as a seasonal Special Heroes update every February, Day of Devotion is the game's Valentine's Day equivalent. It often includes family members and canonical pairings. A limited-time Hero Fest summoning event will include Three Houses' Yuri, Mythic Plumeria, Legendary Dimitri and Harmonized Catria & Thea. Legendary Hrid and Mythic Eir are the latest additions to the game's Remix banners, earning new skills and upgraded special abilities. Finally, Special Heroes from the game's early days are joining Special Hero summoning sessions as part of a new "four-star special" rate. You can check out the full Feh Channel video presentation below. It includes a better look at the new units and more details on the anniversary event. https://youtu.be/xBmfbVOhEiY In the A Hero Rises 2022 competition, fan votes determine which existing units are part of a Voting Gauntlet event. Intelligent Systems will gift the winner of the in-game Gauntlet to all players. Players can vote once a day through February 8, 2022 at the A Hero Rises site. The Feh Channel presentation also revealed the Choose Your Legends Round 6 winners: Chrom, Tiki, Seliph and Byleth. Fire Emblem Heroes is available for Android and iOS devices. The post Fire Emblem Heroes 5th Anniversary, A Hero Rises Headline February 2022 Feh Channel appeared first on Siliconera. |
Siliconera Tuesday, February 1, 2022 10:10 PM
Fire Emblem Heroes' Choose Your Legends Round 6 voting results are here, and Chrom, Tiki, Seliph and female Byleth are this year's winners. The announcement, part of the February 1, 2022 Feh Channel video, means the four characters will appear in the game with special outfits later in 2022. Chrom, a main character in Fire Emblem Awakening, topped the men's division after years of increasing fan support. Chrom fans voted for him 42,134 times to get him to the winning spot. The character, who also made it into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, is a descendant of Marth. Joining him at the top is franchise-favorite dragon Tiki. Specifically the Fire Emblem Awakening version of the character, Tiki's win means Awakening heroes top both categories. Receiving 39,705 votes, she'll be the first non-human recipient of the honor. While the younger version of Tiki has made frequent appearances in Heroes, this adult version has been absent since 2017. Also earning new alternate versions in the Choose Your Legends competition are Seliph and Byleth. A protagonist of the Japan-only Genealogy of the Holy War, Seliph received 26,301 votes to place second in the men's division. Byleth, after falling from second in the back half of last year's voting, held onto her spot in the women's division and earned 20,855 votes. The full listing of results can be found at the official Choose Your Legends site. Fire Emblem Heroes is available on iOS and Android. Intelligent Systems will add the Choose Your Legends winners to the game later in 2022. The post Chrom, Tiki Top Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends Round 6 Results appeared first on Siliconera. |
Destructoid Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:00 PM Swinging hasn't looked this fun since Spider-Man These days, I'm just as excited for new indie games as I am for... The post Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a new title coming from Old Man's Journey devs appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:00 PM Also, a remake Apparently, it's the 30th anniversary of Viccom, a South Korean game developer that I've just heard of.... The post Eye of Typhoon gets North American release on PC and… 3DO appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:15 PM A 60 FPS Game Boy Color homage Today as part of the G4 'megaton' announcement tease, Yacht Club Games has... The post Mina the Hollower is the Yacht Club Games megaton announcement appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:30 PM After both public pushback and developer response, the publisher is stepping back from NFTs The MetaWorms have been shelved. Following... The post Team17 calls off plans for Worms NFT project appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:00 PM A community blog by Alphadeus [Talented composer and long-time community member Alphadeus released a new album, with each and every... The post Alphadeus' ANTHEMS is an album inspired by the Destructoid community appeared first on Destructoid. |
PC Invasion - FeedDDD Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:00 PM  Supermassive Games have been a titanic force in horror games recently, ever since the release of Until Dawn. The developer's spooky resume has granted it the approval of the eight-game anthology with Bandai Namco Entertainment — a series of games known as The Dark Pictures. The official website for the anthology only includes three of the first games: Man of Medan, Little Hope, and House of Ashes. But a new trademark filing shows that the world of The Dark Pictures is much more vast, with five other games on the way. These games have been revealed as listings on the European Union Intellectual Property Office page. The official listings show some trademarked titles, which are as follows: The Dark Pictures: The Craven Man, The Dark Pictures Presents: O Death, The Dark Pictures: Directive 8020, The Dark Pictures: Intercession, and The Dark Pictures: Winterfold. These five games will join the other three listed above in the non-linear anthology. Branching paths Presu... |
PC Invasion - FeedDDD Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:18 PM  The original Life is Strange is a bit of a modern classic, beloved by many who were enamored by its fun time rewinding concept and grounded story. Life is Strange: Remastered wasn't all that necessary, as the original game has held up fairly well. That being said, this new version offers some undeniable improvements that make the game look more modern than before. However, it might not be enough that people who own the original should necessarily scramble to upgrade. Before the Storm also received a remastered version, but since there are more changes in the original (and it's an older game), I thought it better to focus on the first. As for what's different about the visuals in Life is Strange: Remastered, the largest difference is that the facial animations have been mocapped to make things less stilted. Faces animate differently now, but they're still constrained some by the character models, so this doesn't make the biggest difference in the world. ... |
PC Invasion - FeedDDD Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:15 PM  Microsoft Flight Simulator is taking its players to the great "Land Down Under" in the form of World Update 7. This latest update brings a laundry list of enhancements to the country that doubles as its own continent. This marks World Update for the sim in 2022, which is one of several other updates that will be rolled out throughout the rest of the year. Four airports have been handcrafted by ORBX, a team of flight simulation add-on makers that have been churning out high-quality scenery enhancements and standalone aircraft for several years. Over 100 smaller airports across Australia have also received some high-res improvements by this team. Huge swath of new satellite and geographical data went into the creation of the update. There are 11 major settlements around Australia that have received a full photogrammetry upgrade, allowing for proper 3D cityscapes and buildings. Additionally, there are several dozens of new properly modeled points of interest, includi... |
PC Invasion - FeedDDD Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:00 PM  Yacht Club Games, creator of the delectable Shovel Knight games, promised some big news this week. Earlier on the Xplay Live show hosted by G4, the company revealed Mina the Hollower, a retro, Zelda-like game now on Kickstarter. The game stars Mina, a little mouse taking on a dangerous world. Shovel Knight felt like a celebration of classic, action platformers of yore, and Mina looks to do that same with Zelda-likes. Yacht Club's Kickstarter page for the game makes it pretty clear just exactly what kind of influence spurned Mina the Hollower's creation. It takes cues from Castlevania, Bloodborne, and the best Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. The result of these various ingredients is a colorful action game with dark themes, monsters, and of course, plenty of pots to chuck at enemies. "Smooth 60fps action combat, a world full of mystery and horror, and top-down adventuring combine in a mix that may remind you of classic titles like Cas... |
PC Invasion - FeedDDD Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:30 PM  People know American actor Danny Trejo best for his film and television roles, but he has also dabbled into the video game sphere on occasion. Back in the 2000s, he voiced the character Umberto Robina in both Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and its prequel, Vice City Stories. In 2010, he played the role of Raul Alfonso Tejada in Fallout: New Vegas. He even made a recent guest appearance in Far Cry 6 as a companion in two free missions added after launch. And now, it looks like Danny Trejo will make his latest guest appearance in OlliOlli World, the anticipated skateboarding game that will finally see a release next week. According to a press release, Trejo will appear as an in-game character that will host a special sidequest for players to partake in. Although the press release does not mention any specifics regarding what this sidequest will entail, it does say that players will earn a secret cosmetic item if they manage to complete it. Once again, details regarding this cosmetic item... |
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Player Assist | Game Guides & Walkthroughs Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:11 PM One of the Shrines in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the Lakna Rokee Shrine or Lakna Rokee's Blessing. The Shrine itself is no challenge at all. As you enter the Lakna Rokee Shrine, Link will be able to access the Shrine's chest, and he will be able to access the altar […] |
Gaming on PC Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:00 PM Devolver Digital and Flying Wild Hog revealed this week that Shadow Warrior 3 will hit PC and consoles on March 1, 2022. Read more after the jump. |