PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 1:36 PM  Fans will know that during the many attempts required to take down some of the more deadly Elden Ring bosses, some of their distinctive voice lines will often get stuck in your head. Now, a fan-made Elden Ring animation makes fun of one of the RPG game's most memorable moments by twisting it into a rather goofy but funny scene featuring a gargantuan runebear. Warning: spoilers for an early-game Elden Ring boss fight follow. Godrick the Grafted is one of the first major boss fights most Elden Ring players will find themselves tackling. He is also responsible for one of the more notable mid-fight moments to occur in the mammoth open-world game. Halfway through the fight, Godrick slams his giant axe down upon one of his many arms, slicing half of it clean off. He then grafts a nearby dragon head to the limb, bringing it to life and raising it into the air. RELATED LINKS: The best Elden Ring builds, Elden Ring bosses, The best Elden Ring classes |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 12:54 PM  The open beta release of the Warner Smash Bros fighting game MultiVersus is imminent and there haven't been any leaks or announcements since the alpha in May. Now, it looks like the next MultiVersus fighter - or crossover - is either being teased or has leaked, and it's none other than the Lord of the Rings himself. Before MultiVersus was even confirmed, initial leaks reported that Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings would be a part of a new Smash Bros-style fighter from Warner Bros. More recent datamines from May's alpha test confirmed Gandalf and also reported Legolas as an unannounced new fighter too. Tolkien characters still haven't been announced for MultiVersus, but a new tweet has seemingly either leaked the Lord of the Rings crossover - or deliberately teased it. The tweet shows two pictures of a stage from the game, but as user @dwonkt points out, one of them clearly shows the glowing Eye of Sauron reflected in the water. In the alpha, the stage itself clearly features a sinister black tower in the background. |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 12:36 PM  Bethesda is partnering with a number of The Elder Scrolls Online streamers for a charity event aiming to raise money for No Kid Hungry, a charity that works to prevent childhood hunger in the United States. The event is running from July 10-17, and features ten notable streamers from the MMORPG's community who will be taking it in turns to host special charity shows with a selection of giveaways. The Give A Sweetroll 2022 charity drive is being run in partnership with No Kid Hungry's own streaming initiative, Stream NKH. Bethesda will be hosting the featured streamers on their main Twitch channel, so you can go there at any point during the campaign period to see which of the community members from the official Elder Scrolls Online stream team is currently live. Donations are being collected through the Give a Sweetroll Tiltify page, which includes the individual campaigns for each of the streamers - so you can choose to donate directly to a specific one if you'd like or just give your money to the overall campaign. At the time of writing, the campaign is closing in on $3,000 dollars raised in its first day as it works towards a goal of $30,000. RELATED LINKS: ESO Elsweyr release date, ESO Necromancer skills, ESO Elsweyr Skyshard locations |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 11:54 AM  V Rising is a fantastic vampire game but a possible sticking point for some players is the Diablo-style top-down camera angle. This updated V Rising mod can easily change that by adding seamless first-person and third-person camera options - essentially creating a survival game version of Skyrim or Elden Ring. The V Rising camera has been around for a little while but it's undergone a lot of revisions, improvements, and bug fixes since its initial release - to the point where it's now pretty seamless, and incredibly easy to install. Grab the BepInExPack and paste the contents of the folder there into the main V Rising Steam folder, then put the .dll files for the Modern Camera mod into a new 'plugins' folder within the BepInEx folder. Then load V Rising, play any server apart from an official one, then scroll with the mouse wheel to zoom in the camera. You can either stop at an MMO-style third-person or head straight to Ark: Survival Evolved first-person. RELATED LINKS: V Rising server settings, V Rising tips, The best V Rising base locations |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 11:25 AM  If you felt a little disappointed that Skyrim's College of Winterhold quest line skipped over the opportunity to do any actual studying in favour of high drama, a new Skyrim mod might be the perfect solution for you. The mod aims to make your first few hours at the snowy school feel a little more like you're actually attending lessons and learning about spells, rather than just being hurled immediately into the deep end with the RPG game's original trip to Saarthal. The College of Winterhold Quest Expansion mod, created by JaySerpa, adds seven new quests that players will be given once they complete the first quest to join the college. JaySerpa explains that "these quests are not your 'save the world' epic questlines, but basic entry-level apprentice lessons." Once all of the lessons are complete, the fantasy game's usual college quests will pick back up again, allowing the pace of action to ramp up once more. The lessons are split up across the five major schools of Skyrim magic - alteration, destruction, illusion, conjuration, and restoration - as well as one lesson on enchanting and another that aims to improve your studying prowess, an essential skill for any budding mage. Each lesson starts with an introductory lecture teaching you the importance of the skill, followed by a task where applying your newfound knowledge would be useful. RELATED LINKS: Skyrim mods, Play Skyrim, Games like Skyrim |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 1:34 PM  The only Assassin's Creed game with a black female protagonist has been pulled from Steam. Ubisoft has delisted the Assassin's Creed Liberation Steam edition, so the action-adventure game can no longer be bought - and what's worse, even if you own it already, it looks like from September you won't be able to play it. Assassin's Creed Liberation HD, the remastered version of the PSP game that ties into the events of Assassin's Creed III, was released in 2014 and is unlikely to be anyone's favourite Assassin's Creed game. Ubisoft didn't include it in the list of games it's pulling support from in 2022, but it has now been delisted from Steam "at the request of the publisher." Now, normally when a game gets pulled from sale, you can still play it if you already own it. Rockstar's GTA trilogy, for example, can be downloaded and played by anyone who bought them. The Assassin's Creed Liberation HD Steam page, on the other hand, states that the game "will not be accessible following September 1st, 2022." |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 11:12 AM  Few things give us faith in humanity like a spot of good sportsmanship, and fans are celebrating Apex Legends pro Phillip 'ImperialHal' Dosen after his spur-of-the-moment call not to shoot an opponent that had disconnected during the battle royale game's ongoing ALGS championship. Dosen spotted the enemy standing motionless on the field, but decided not to shoot them, realising that they had likely lost connection or crashed. The Apex Legends Global Series 2022 championship runs from July 7 - 10 with a total prize pool of $2 million USD, and Dosen's team TSM was looking a little shaky in its bracket positioning - so the players needed every point they could get. Nevertheless, upon spotting the stationary foe, Dosen places his sights over them for a second before declaring, "This guy crashed!" He pauses for a moment, then continues, telling his teammates, "Don't shoot him, don't shoot him bro, he crashed." In a clip of the moment shared by AlphaIntel, the TSM players look around nervously for his teammates, trying to determine what they should do. But Dosen remains adamant: "He 100 percent tabbed out or crashed or something. Don't shoot them - it's Scarz," referring to one of TSM's notable rival organisations. In the end, TSM decide to back off, with Dosen sliding into a nearby building as some shots start pinging his way. RELATED LINKS: Apex Legends characters guide, Apex Legends skins, Apex Legends map guide |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:06 AM  A Halo Infinite prequel story is coming in August, which is set to explain some of the events that happened in the six months before Master Chief reawakened and arrived on Zeta Halo - but it's not new Halo Infinite DLC for the FPS game, and fans are upset and confused by this. Halo: The Rubicon Protocol is actually a new Halo novel by author Kelly Gay, who wrote the Rion Forge/Ace of Spades Halo books, and it's the first official tie-in story for Halo Infinite. It explains what happens to the Spartans on Zeta Halo and goes further into the Banished invasion before Master Chief was revived. It releases on August 9 and you can check out a preview here. Interesting stuff, but fans are upset and even confused that such a vital story is being left as a tie-in novel rather than campaign DLC. The Halo Infinite campaign only explains what happened in those six months via audio logs, and it seemed a natural fit for an expansion. While campaign co-op is coming, no additional story DLC for Halo Infinite single-player has been announced. RELATED LINKS: Halo Infinite system requirements, Halo Infinite Bosses, Halo Infinite ranks |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:11 AM  A Diablo Immortal Shadow War bug described as "game-breaking" is affecting some of the RPG game's top player guilds, causing them to miss out on the chance to take on Immortals in the Rite of Exile. A Blizzard community lead has acknowledged the issue, saying that it "appears to have impacted a good majority of servers" where Shadow Wars have been active across Asia, EU, and Oceania. Blizzard says that a hotfix was deployed prior to the event taking place on the free-to-play game's North American and South American servers. The issue was first raised by several threads on the Diablo Immortal subreddit claiming that players who had won their group bracket in the Shadow War were not being placed into the top ten Dark Clans list on their server. This is the ranking which determines the ten groups who will take place in the Rite of Exile to take on the server's highest-ranked Immortals for a chance to replace them as the new ruling clan of the server. According to several player reports in the threads, it appears that both teams in the finals were either rematched against a clan they had already beaten in the bracket earlier in the week, or appeared to go up against a no-show opponent, only to be told they had lost as the other clan had also "won" their respective match (which also didn't take place against the correct intended opponent). RELATED LINKS: Diablo Immortal tier list, Diablo Immortal system requirements, Best Diablo Immortal builds |
PCGamesN Sunday, July 10, 2022 6:45 AM  It seems that Fortnite weapon charms may become a new customisation option for the phenomenal battle royale game, as prominent leakers have again uncovered evidence that Epic is working on gun bling - but will they actually arrive in the current Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3? While it seems like the majority of multiplayer games on PC seem to feature optional weapon charms as slightly annoying customization options, such as Apex Legends, Fortnite does not. There have been rumours over the years that Epic was working on little cosmetic charms for Fortnite's weapons, and even seemed to be teasing it for Chapter 2 Season 7, but the feature still isn't here. Dataminers have discovered that Epic is working on a cosmetic archiving feature, presumably to tidy up the in-game locker. Among the data strings listed for archiving includes items, emotes, and... weapon charms, it seems. RELATED LINKS: Fortnite V-Bucks, Fortnite Skins, Fortnite Creative Codes |
Twinfinite Sunday, July 10, 2022 1:51 PM Mages released another trailer of its upcoming game Alice Gear Aegis CS: Concerto of Simulatrix, showing customization and gameplay. |
Twinfinite Sunday, July 10, 2022 1:12 PM Today Japan held the election for the House of Councillors of the National Diet, and popular mangaka Ken Akamatsu managed to win a seat. |
Twinfinite Sunday, July 10, 2022 12:12 PM PMDG is one of the most well-known and popular third-party developers for Microsoft Flight Simulator and its CEO talked about the future. |
Siliconera Sunday, July 10, 2022 10:00 AM
Kojima Productions, the studio headed by Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima, publicly denounced "fake news and rumors" in a statement on social media. The statement comes after Hideo Kojima was falsely identified as the alleged assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The statement was delivered by the official Twitter account of Kojima productions in Japanese and English. They do not reference the misidentification incident directly, but state that "[Kojima Productions] do not tolerate such libel and will consider taking legal action in some cases." Kojima himself did not comment directly on the incident, but shared the Tweet via his personal Twitter account. https://twitter.com/KojiPro2015_EN/status/1545751079685484544 The original allegations Kojima Productions may be responding to were publicized by French far-right politician Damien Rieu on July 8, 2022. He shared a Tweet that falsely claimed the "far-left" perpetrated the assassination of Shinzo Abe. The false claim included three photos of Hideo Kojima. One photo showed Kojima wearing a Soviet-style Ushanka hat, and two showed him with images and art of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara. The accusation spread, going as far as Greek news channel ANT1 TV Greece, which shared the same images and falsely identified Kojima as the alleged assassin in a report. ANT1 removed the video, and Rieu deleted the tweet and apologized. Rieu admitted (in French) that he was at fault "for not fact-checking before sharing." The alleged killer is actually Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41 year-old resident of Nara city. He was arrested at the scene after using what looked to be a homemade firearm to shoot Shinzo Abe. Abe was in Nara campaigning for a local political candidate. The post Kojima Productions Decries Fake News After Misidentification Incident appeared first on Siliconera. |
Siliconera Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:00 AM
Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom is coming in 2022. To promote the release Bandai Namco uploaded a new trailer that shows off its second Doraemon-themed take on farming. This follows the initial Doraemon Story of Seasons announcement at the June 28, 2022 Nintendo Mini-Direct. Check out out below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyelIfpvO1E The Doraemon Story of Seasons trailer sets up the game's peaceful premise. As it's the second farming sim based on the long-running anime and manga franchise Doraemon, the game brings its cast to a new locale. Noby, Doraemon, and their friends continue their pastoral existence on an unfamiliar fantasy planet. They'll set up their farm, harvest crops, tend to their animals, and go fishing. The sequel promises additional gameplay courtesy of Doraemon's famed gadgets. These gadgets include items like the Time Kerchief, which can speed up the hatching of an egg. Other gadgets allow Noby to move planted trees or harvest unusual crops. Other new tools like a "Mini Raincloud" and a "Farm Restaurant" expand the homestead management options available to Doraemon and crew. Further, the trailer showed scenes of the gang sharing a meal, enjoying seasonal events, and doing what looked to be some underwater exploration. The first Doraemon Story of Seasons game launched in 2019 and 2020 on Switch, PC, and PS4. Based on the trailer, Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom launches in 2022 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The post Doraemon Story of Seasons Trailer Add Gadgets to Gameplay appeared first on Siliconera. |
Siliconera Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:00 AM
Powerpyx has revealed the full list of trophies and accomplishments that you will be able to obtain in Stray. The upcoming indie game will have you take on the role of a nameless cat in its journey through a post-apocalyptic world, with a robot as your only companion. In total, there are a total of 25 trophies for Stray. You will be able to obtain 7 Gold, 9 Silver, and 8 Bronze trophies in Stray. There will also be, of course, the one Platinum trophy after you finish collecting everything else. You will be able to obtain trophies by completing missions in a certain way. For example, 'Can't Cat-ch Me' is the accomplishment for completing the first Zurk pursuit without being caught. The description did not elaborate on what a Zurk actually is, though. However, there are also trophies you can get for completing mundane tasks a certain amount of times. Meowing for 100 times, jumping for 500 times, and sleeping for more than one hour will each net you a Silver trophy. You can get trophies for dying a certain amount of times, or completing the game for under 2 hours. As a reminder, the Stray developers have said in the past that it would take 8 hours to finish the game. Stray will come out on July 19, 2022 for the Windows PC, PS4, and PS5. The post Stray Will Have a Total of 25 Trophies to Collect appeared first on Siliconera. |
