GamersHeroes Wednesday, November 27, 2024 8:10 PM Get ready, Trainers: Pokémon GO Tour: Unova is slated for February 21-23 in New Taipei City, Taiwan and Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The post Pokemon GO Tour Returns in 2025 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:10 PM  Nearly every year, Bob's Burgers releases a Thanksgiving-themed episode. And these tend to be some of the best episodes of the year, often pushing Bob—who loves the holiday—to his breaking point and featuring charming moments between all the family members. |
Kotaku Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:00 PM  It's the Thanksgiving holiday week, and that means if you work for a company worth a damn (and some that aren't worth a damn, but I digress), you probably have the next couple of days off. (Apologies to anyone who works retail.) You might be buying some games you missed this year during Black Friday sales, or perhaps… |
Kotaku Wednesday, November 27, 2024 3:15 PM  Look to your left. Look to your right. One of those people is about to discover Balatro for the first time. The other has already been secretly playing it every spare moment they get. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, November 27, 2024 6:19 PM  The Steam Autumn Sale 2024 is now underway, with Valve bringing PC players another huge slate of savings. From old gems that are now just a couple of bucks, to fresher releases with some generous early discounts, there's a lot to sift through. Luckily, we've done some of the legwork for you and picked out our ten favorite deals. Continue reading 10 top games to grab during the Steam Autumn Sale 2024 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Steam FAQ, Steam family sharing, Steam in-home streaming |
PCGamesN Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:40 PM  Tuesday, August 9, 2016. After months of hype, Hello Games' hugely ambitious space adventure No Man's Sky is finally released. And it's a letdown. It's not what anyone hoped it would be. In the past, this would be the entirety of the story. But in the modern gaming world, the end of development is just the beginning. Between updates, overhauls, new versions, patches, and a gradual expansion of the original vision, in eight years, No Man's Sky has finally become the game of which its creators and its players dreamed. Its success is reflected in various metrics, but now, NMS can lay claim to that most coveted of PC gaming status symbols: 'very positive' Steam reviews. Continue reading After eight long years, No Man's Sky Steam reviews are finally great MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPG games, Best open-world games, Best space games |
PCGamesN Wednesday, November 27, 2024 3:19 PM  Warframe 1999 is right around the corner, bringing fans of the live service shooter back to a wild but enticing setting that mixes dark tech fantasy with turn-of-the-millennium vibes. It looks marvelous, and now developer Digital Extremes is being incredibly generous by giving away Dark Sector, its debut game that was a predecessor to what you see in Warframe today, totally free to those on Steam. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Warframe on Steam Deck, Warframe builds, Warframe codes |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:50 PM  Let's face it, nothing important happens in December. I'm scheduling 24 advent calendar posts this week and then spending the rest of the year eating boxes of Cadbury Mini Yule Logs Triple Chocolate. So it's no surprise that Devolver have announced their remaining slate of games aiming for release in 2024 are actually coming out in 2025. The games that slipped are Baby Steps, Skate Story, and Stick It To The Stickman. Devolver released the news with typical style, via the 15th annual Devolver Delayed awards, which you can watch below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:02 PM Solitomb is a demon-fighting prototype which mixes Balatro and solitaire, from the maker of Slipways  Slipways was the best grand strategy game I'd played in years, because it tossed out all the genre's micromanagement in favour of a strategy puzzle where all your exploiting, expanding, et ceteraing could be squeezed into an hour's play. That game began as a PICO-8 prototype by designer Jakub Wasilewski before being polished to a fine shine in its full release. All of which is just lead-in to talking about Solitomb, a solitaire-based dungeon crawler in which you fight demons by building hands of playing cards. It's currently - heywaitaminute - a pay-what-you-want PICO-8 prototype by designer Jakub Wasilewski where "all money earned goes towards making the bigger version possible." Like Slipways, it already seems like a frightfully clever piece of design. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:23 PM  Announced last year, Exo Rally Championship does what the name suggests: takes the rugged, weather-battered terrain of Exo One's interplanetary journey and replaces the ponderous plot and gravitational rise-and-fall spaceship movement with a six-wheel, space buggy rally competition. Or put another way, if Exo One was Christopher Nolan's Tiny Wings, then this is Colin McRae's Interstellar. Now there's a demo, and it's substantial with a tutorial, a 10 stage rally, and three "ever-changing Daily Stages with online Steam leaderboards." |
Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 9:30 PM
Songs from the Oshi no Ko series have appeared for DLC in Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival. This is paid DLC.
The collaboration pack will not only contain songs from the anime, but it'll also have different cosmetics for your game and profile. You'll be able to dress up your Don Wada like Ai, as well as state which character you stan using different nameplates. There are only three variations: Ai, Ruby, and Aqua. The collaboration pack will also contain eleven different mini-characters. As for the songs, you'll be able to play "Idol," "Our Sign Is B," and "Fatal." "Fatal" and "Idol" were both openings for the show.
Here is a trailer for the Oshi no Ko collaboration DLC in Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival:
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival is the latest main entry in the long-running Taiko no Tatsujin rhythm game series. It initially came out for the Nintendo Switch on 2022, though it later appeared on other consoles. Aside from over 70 songs in the base game alone, there are new modes. You can cooperate with players on a song, or activate obstacles to try and disrupt your opponent depending on the mode you play in.
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival is readily available on the PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PC.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 9:00 PM
Mos Burger will release One Piece Lucky Bags containing various goods and coupons. There will only be limited stock of the Lucky Bag, so they're on a first come first serve basis. [Thanks, Game Watch!]
You'll be able to put in your pre-orders for the One Piece Lucky Bag at Mos Burger between December 10 and 25, 2024. Then, they'll ship out on December 28, 2024. The price for a Lucky Bag is 5000 JPY, which converts to around $33. Each individual can pre-order five bags at once. As mentioned earlier, they're on a first come first serve basis, and there's a chance that pre-orders will close early if they run out of stock. So if you're interested, you should try to get in your pre-order as soon as possible.
Here are the items that are available in the One Piece Mos Burger Lucky Bags:
This is not the first time that Mos Burger had a collaboration with One Piece. Earlier this very year, Mos Burger brought back the One Piece kids' meal campaign. During this time, if you ordered a kids' meal, you could get a prize such as a cutlery set or a slap bracelet. This promotion ended in early October 2024.
One Piece is readily available to watch on streaming services like Crunchyroll, whereas Viz Media licensed the manga for an English audience.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 8:00 PM
From January 7, 2025, Aniplex will stream an episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica every week for free. It will only stream each episode once, so it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to catch it via archives if you miss the stream.
The reason why Aniplex will start from January 7, 2025 is to match up with the original broadcast date of the anime. Back when Puella Magi Madoka Magica first started airing in 2011, it started on January 7. You'll be able to catch the streams every Tuesday from 9:00 PM JST. That would convert to 4:00 AM PDT/7:00 AM EDT. Since this will be an Aniplex Japan stream, it's highly unlikely that there will be any subtitles other than Japanese.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a psychological thriller magical girl anime from Shaft and written by Gen Urobuchi, who also worked on Fate/Zero and Song of Saya. The plot follows Madoka Kaname, an ordinary girl, who encounters a bizarre animal named Kyubey while with her best friend Sayaka Miki. Kyubey turns out to be a creature that can form contracts with girls and turn them into magical girls to fight against witches. However, Kyubey's contract is a lot more sinister than it seems. The show was highly popular for its subversive nature and visuals, and the series is still going on today in the form of movies.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica is readily available on streaming services like Crunchyroll, and Aniplex will start streaming it from January 7, 2025.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 7:30 PM
Atlus and Perfect World have posted some guidelines regarding fan content and gameplay uploads for Persona 5: The Phantom X. You can read both guidelines on the official website for the game.
Both guidelines are very similar to ones for other games, such as the streaming rules and restrictions for Persona 5 Royal. When uploading content, you should make sure that you're not posting anything with spoilers, since this could rob other people's opportunity to enjoy the story on their own. Atlus and Perfect World also restrict uploading music and voice clips of the game for the express purpose of simply listening to them. You can't upload anything that may infringe on other companies' copyrights, slander or insult others, or cause damage to Atlus and Perfect World's reputations. Finally, you can't upload mod gameplay.
The following guidelines for fan content only apply to Japan. Outside of ones dealing with money, they're common sense rules that are pretty universal in fandoms though. You can't make anything socially inappropriate, or anything that insults or distresses others. Like with the above rules for social media uploads, you can't post anything damaging to the companies' reputation, or anything implying mod usage. Finally, you can't post or sell anything that uses content directly from the game.
Persona 5: The Phantom X is readily available on mobile devices and Windows PC in China, Taiwan, and South Korea. The Japanese closed beta of the game will run from November 29 to December 5, 2024.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 7:00 PM
After skipping 2024, the Hatsune Miku Japan Live Tour will return for 2025 with "Blooming" as the theme of the year. It will visit more locations than last time as well.
Though there isn't a set list just yet, the official announcement stated that the Vocaloids will perform recent songs, classic pieces, and new ones, as well as songs that had been performed in domestic and international concerts. The concert theme is "Blooming" not only because the concert takes place in spring, but also because Piapro wants to make creativity bloom all across the country. Though the concert is a "Hatsune Miku tour," it will also feature Rin, Len, Luka, Meiko, and Kaito.
Here are the locations and dates for all of the individual concerts:
If the 2025 Blooming tour will be like 2023's Thunderbolt tour, there will be official goods available to purchase as well, both during and after the tour.
The Hatsune Miku Japan Live Tour 2025 Blooming will start in April 2025, and tickets for the concerts will open for purchase from November 29, 2024.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:30 PM
Larian Studios has released the 30th Community Update for Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam. Patch 8, which will be marking the end of major feature-heavy updates for the game, will bring cross-play for all platforms, a photomode, and a new subclass for every major class in the game.
The crossplay functionality, according to Larian will not only allow players on Xbox, PlayStation, Mac and PC to play the game together, but also will introduce full cross-platform progression for Baldur's Gate 3's multiplayer. Lobby functionality will also be introduced to easily join multiplayer games through the Larian network.
Photomode will arrive with Patch 8. This feature will allow you to take pictures of your favorite characters in varieties of scenarios from scenery shots to posed and framed character scenes with a variety of special borders and stickers players can apply.
Lastly, is the subclasses that will be added. There is the College of Glamour for Bard, the Path of Giants for the Barbarian, Death Domain Clerics, the Circle of the Stars for Druid, Oath of the Crown for Paladin, Arcane Archer for Fighter, Drunken Master Monks, Swarmkeeper Rangers, Swashbuckler for Rogues, Shadow Magic Sorcerers, Hexblade Warlocks, and Bladesinging Wizards, along with some narrative and gameplay updates for the Oathbreaker.
Earlier this year, Baldur's Gate 3 received enhancements for PS5 Pro as well as enhanced mod functionality across all platforms, including an in-depth roguelike mod from the community. A playtest will also be headed to players to ensure that the cross-play functionality with an expected arrival in early January 2025. The release date for Patch 8 and its additional content will be revealed sometime in the future.
Baldur's Gate 3 is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, Mac OS, and PC.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:30 PM
Taito announced the release of two new FFXIV plushes based on the Hydaelyn and Zodiark idol minions from the popular MMORPG. The plushes are set to release as crane game prizes at select arcades throughout Japan from November 29, 2024.
The Hydaelyn idol plush is represented in light blue colors with yellow accents, while the Zodiark plush is depicted in various shades of dark purple, with the same light yellow accents. Both plushes appear to have its arms crossed and have halos over their heads. Each plush is approximately 30cm tall (or about 12 inches.)
You can also check out the FFXIV Hydaelyn and Zodiark idol plushes here:
Given the importance and popularity of Hydaelyn and Zodiark in FFXIV, plenty of merchandise goods based on the characters have appeared throughout the years. Some of them include a line of gaming PC rigs with logos featuring both characters, as well as a figure depicting Hydaelyn and Zodiark, both of them revealed on January 2024.
The FFXIV Hydaelyn and Zodiark idol plushes will appear from November 29, 2024 as crane game prizes at arcade centers in Japan. Final Fantasy XIV is readily available on the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.
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Siliconera Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:00 PM
Sony revealed the latest trio of monthly free PlayStation Plus games for December 2024. They will be available for members from December 3, 2024. The three games are It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent and Temtem. These are all for PS4 and PS5, except for Temtem. It is exclusively available for the PS5.
It Takes Two is a co-op platformer from Hazelight Studios, where two players take on the roles of a married couple who have been turned into dolls and tasked with working together to fix their broken relationship. It won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards. Aliens: Dark Descent is a tactics game based on the Alien movie franchise. You guide a team of space marines going up against xenomorphs that are taking over a space station. Temtem is an MMO inspired by Pokemon, where players venture across six islands to capture creatures named Temtem.
Ahead of the release of the December 2024 lineup, November's PlayStation Plus games can still be downloaded. Until December 2, 2024, subscribers still have access to Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged, Ghostwire Tokyo and Death Note: Killer Within. These are all playable on the PS5.
The December 2024 PlayStation Plus lineup will be available from December 3, 2024.
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WGB Wednesday, November 27, 2024 7:03 PM Greeted with a muted cry of "who asked for this?" upon its announcement, Lego Horizon Adventures has faced an uphill battle from the start. So I'm here to inform you that when the question was asked, Lego Horizon Adventures should have said, "Good point," and stopped there. |
WGB Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:05 PM December brings new PlayStation Plus games: It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent, and Temtem. Don't forget November's games expire soon! |
WGB Wednesday, November 27, 2024 3:53 PM Sony is adding Sly 2, Sly 3, and Jak & Daxter to PlayStation Classics on December 10, with emulation and trophy support expected. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Wednesday, November 27, 2024 3:56 PM The game is available on Xbox Game Pass. The post Frostpunk 2 Post-Launch Roadmap Announced appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Wednesday, November 27, 2024 3:25 PM Some offerings for PlayStation Plus Premium Classics for December. The post PlayStation Plus Monthly Games Lineup for December 2024 Announced appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |