Among the bravest risks a game can take is making you play an *********. Afterlove EP's Rama isn't an *********, but he's getting there. He's a grieving indie rockstar who has fallen into self-neglect and hermitude - a gloom-sodden, guitar-cradling burden on friends who believe in and care for him, despite it all. As the player of this visual novel with a pinch of rhythm game, you are essentially one of those long-suffering friends. Your job is to help Rama escape his own labyrinth of bereavement, self-pity and tortured creativity. Your ally and enemy in this is Cinta, Rama's dead girlfriend, who is now a persistent voice in his head. She's his better self, sometimes, and at others, the voice of anguish and fear dragging him deeper into purgatory. I like Afterlove EP's deft writing, and enjoy its splendid and specific recreation of 21st century Jakarta. I also feel for developers Pikselnesia, who have made a game about grief while processing the loss of their own creative director, Coffee Talk creator Mohammad Fahmi. But I do not much like being Rama's friend, at this particular moment in his life. And by extension, I did not enjoy a lot of Afterlove EP, much as I admire it. Read more View the full article
A prominent Fortnite leaker has claimed that players will soon be able to purchase the reboot cards of fallen teammates for gold at one of the game's many reboot vans. Fortnite is constantly bringing new features to the popular battle royale, which helps to keep the game feeling fresh. View the full article
Between PC and mobile, the Epic Games Store is currently giving away four free games for users to add to their digital libraries. Every Thursday at 10:00am CST, the Epic Games Store gives away new free games for PC gamers to add to snag. And since the company has started to more aggressively pursue the mobile gaming market, it has started to give away free games for Android and iOS as well. View the full article
Once Human developer Starry Studio has finally revealed the release date for permanent servers; something that the community has been asking about for quite some time. You've not got long to wait either, as starting March 2025 every single server in the game (apart from private ones) will be converted into an indefinite one, with the new feature being expanded later in the year as well. So if you've been itching to stick to a specific server, there's a lot you need to know. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Once Human codes and how to redeem Survival game Once Human adds a new instrument and another seasonal event All Once Human Twitch drops and how to claim View the full article
Inferno is an ultimate unit on the battlefield, armed with close-range splitters and multiple long-range plasma beams. Unlike most Strikers in Mecha BREAK that you can buy for Matrix Credit, Inferno is available exclusively through Matrix Contract. If you want this ultra-heavy attacker, prepare for a grind, as Inferno isn’t as easy to unlock. Here’s how to get Inferno in Mecha BREAK. View the full article
Skyblivion, the fan-made remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside the engine of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is on track for a 2025 release. The mod team reaffirmed its launch goals in a new developer update stream, showcasing some of the work done so far. Put together by a team of volunteer developers, Skyblivion is essentially a AAA-scale modding endeavor, which has taken years of its makers' time and energy. Despite that, 2025 has been the target, and with its new stream, the Skyblivion team reaffirmed a 2025 release at the latest. "We hope with your support to finish the final steps in completing our dream, maybe even beating our own estimation." Calling it just a one-to-one remake might be underselling the work done here, though. The developers behind Skyblivion are also working on overhauling various areas of the original Elder Scrolls title. The work ranges from ensuring "unique items are actually unique" to helping existing bosses in Oblivion live up to their reputation a bit more, noting Mannimarco as one in particular. The team included the infamous "A Brush with Death" quest in their livestream, and the painted world looks fantastic. All of this would be fascinating in its own right, but there's an extra wrinkle: the long-rumored, official remake of Oblivion. Alleged details of an Oblivion remake surfaced earlier this year, outlining changes that could be made to combat and more. Microsoft declined to comment on the matter to IGN. Even in 2023, an Oblivion remaster was spotted in documents accidentally published during the Activision Blizzard/FTC trial. Some of those games, like an Indiana Jones project, have since been released; others, like the Oblivion remaster and a Fallout 3 remaster, have yet to be confirmed. If Microsoft and Bethesda are looking to relaunch Oblivion in some way, an extensive fan mod like this could find itself in the crosshairs. Bethesda's games have long enjoyed a healthy modding base, from older titles up through Starfield. Hopefully this project doesn't hit rough waters right before launch, as Fallout London did. Eric is a freelance writer for IGN. View the full article
Dave Bautista would really like to be in that upcoming Gears of War Netflix movie, and he's asked all of us to help him out. Read more View the full article
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has a wealth of content spread across two maps in 15th-century Bohemia. Once the Trosky part of the main quest line comes to an end, you will enter the Kuttenberg region with a variety of new sidequests to partake in. One of the trickier side quests to find is Under the Straw Hat. Here is how you can start and finish this particular side quest. Table of contentsHow to start Under the Straw Hat in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2How to complete Under the Straw Hat in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 How to start Under the Straw Hat in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 You will find the quest here. Screenshot by Dot Esports Under the Straw Hat is a side quest you can find when you make it past the main city of Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. The quest location can be found outside Kuttenberg when you take the northern exit and ride north. After you pass a couple of crossroads, you should come across a vineyard with a cross outside it. The exact map location is pictured above. View the full article
The Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves open beta has been cracked, allowing those with the game and some naughty software to bypass the game's intended settings and access features and content otherwise locked away. This includes a training mode, which folks have been using to train before they're meant to. Read more View the full article
The early hours of Monster Hunter Wilds are spent in the more muted colors of its 'Fallow' season. As I choose my starting weapon and the early hunts kickstart that specific flood of endorphins only Capcom's flagship RPG can bring, I can't help but start to miss the brighter tones of World and Rise. But then comes the 'Inclemency' - in this case, a raging sandstorm that floods the desert accompanied by vicious lightning strikes. Then, midway through my tussle with a giant Alpha Doshaguma, the storm clears as quickly as it came, and the world bursts into vibrant, gorgeous life; the 'Plenty' has arrived. It's a stunning moment that is everything I dreamed of and more. In many ways, it feels like an allegory for Monster Hunter as a series. If you can push through the struggle of those early hours, and survive to the 'spark' of finding the weapon that clicks for you, you'll reveal something truly beautiful. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Monster Hunter Wilds' director wants to let players discover its best tricks Monster Hunter Wilds beta start and end times All Monster Hunter Wilds monsters View the full article
Here we go again. One game I was excited about was the upcoming Mecha BREAK, which currently has a playtest demo on Steam but they've added in anti-cheat. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Monster Hunter Wilds is both a return to meat-and-potatoes monster combat and a dramatic revision of the hunting format. It's a more approachable lizard-slaying sandbox, and it's a tangle of multiplayer quirks that still feels like something out of 2007. It's the cleanest Monster Hunter has ever played, and it's a temperamental piece of software that might ****** if you tab back in at the wrong time... Read more.View the full article
Monster Hunter Wilds feels a lot like its predecessor, 2018’s Monster Hunter World. The fifth mainline iteration of the franchise definitely plays like an evolution of its predecessor, which made the jump to serious hardware after the series’ humble beginnings on handhelds, and not so much of a reinvention or revolutionary step forward into something different. But that’s not to say that Wilds is an exact copy of World because there have been several improvements this time around that have made the experience much more satisfying and worth every second. View the full article
Monster Hunter Wilds is very different. Even after playing both of its open betas, I was shocked by how different the final game was from everything I had been expecting. Not that I expected it to be an exact clone of Rise, with its small-but-mighty world and acrobatic combat, or even a direct follow-up to World, which brought mass worldwide appeal to the Monster Hunter franchise at the cost of its characteristic difficulty. Wilds isn't anything like classic Monster Hunter, either - the series has come much too far in the 20-something intervening years to go back. View the full article
Mortal Kombat 1 teases new gameplay of T-1000, showcasing one of his fatalities while also teasing a surprising new Kameo fighter. After a ******* of discontent from fans, Mortal Kombat 1 has been enjoying a ******* of renewed interest from fans, thanks in large part to the most recent Conan update, which also added a secret fight with a new character. View the full article
Do you have a favourite travel destination? Somewhere you just can’t stop going back to, even though you know there’s a whole world out there to see? That’s Monster Hunter, for me. It’s a holiday. A fantastical sabbatical from a real life that is often painful, exhausting, and overwhelming. Even though you’re carving up dragons, covering your ears from earth-rumbling roars, eating thunderbolts on the daily, and getting your nice new armour burned to a crisp with alarming regularity, Monster Hunter is a recess, a break, a sojourn. Read more View the full article
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Yuri Lowenthal, who voices Peter Parker in Insomniac‘s Spider-Man series, has suggested the character won’t play second fiddle to Miles Morales in the next series entry. While Spider-Man 3 has yet to be officially announced, that didn’t stop Lowenthal from teasing Peter Parker’s role in the game during a recent interview. After both characters had their own solo outing, Peter Parker and Miles Morales shared the spotlight in Spider-Man 2 (beware, spoilers follow), with players swapping between the two heroes as they teamed up to save New York from villains including Venom, Lizard and Kraven the Hunter. Read More... View the full article
In recent years, many have proclaimed this the ‘golden age’ of Capcom – and with good reason. The Japanese publisher’s impressive run of form arguably began in 2018 with the release of Monster Hunter World, a game that is now Capcom’s best-selling game ever. Now Capcom is back with its sequel, Monster Hunter Wilds. Wilds is a game that’s not only an absolutely first-rate action experience, it’s also the most approachable the series has been while achieving a spectacle not yet seen in the two-decade-old franchise. Monster Hunter Wilds is frictionless. At least, it’s frictionless for Monster Hunter. It’s probably apocryphal at this point to say that “back in my day” everyone was playing Monster Hunter by clawing their hand around a PSP, but it’s illustrative of just how far the series has come. Read More... View the full article
Remaking an old game in a new engine is a venerable and usually doomed mainstay of the modding scene. Always has been, always will be. They either stay 'in development' forever, get cease-and-desisted, or shrivel up in their incubators. It's the natural order of things... Read more.View the full article
Pentiment, Pillars Of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says there's enthusiasm at Obsidian for a potential tactics game set in the same universe as Avowed and the Pillars RPGs, but he's not sure the audience is there for it. "Pillars Tactics is a thing that a lot of people at the studio would like to work on, and there are a lot of people that like tactics games," he recently said on a livestream, but they'd need to work out "a scope of development where it feels like it could actually make money." (Cheers, GamesRadar) Read more View the full article
Between Civilization 7, Manor Lords, Total War, and relative newcomers like Into The Breach and Tactical Breach Wizards, the strategy genre is as busy and full as it's ever been. But do you ever feel like it's gotten stuck? There are a lot of great games, but also, perhaps, a sense of endless 'iteration' - tweaking, revising, and improving, but not really driving forwards. Perhaps this is why Age of Empires 2, StarCraft 2, and Command and Conquer Remastered remain some of the most popular RTS games on PC. The new stuff doesn't feel that new, so you may as well replay the old stuff, because it's basically the same and at least then you get the nostalgia kick. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
I played Dredge on an eight hour flight to New York. I vividly remember turning into a tight valley in search of resources, only to be set upon by some terrifying Lovecraftian-inspired leviathan that stalked my little tugboat from below. Paranoia began to set in, the once idyllic ocean warping and twisting, eyeballs swimming before my vision, taunting me. I let out a terrified squeak, not only waking up my snoring dad, but also attracting the attention of the flight attendant, who offered me a bag to breathe into. I'm still not sure whether it's funny in hindsight, or absolutely mortifying. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dredge is one of the greatest PC horror games, and now it's free, if you're fast As if Dredge couldn't get any better, there's some slick new DLC One of 2023's best indies finally dates its next big Steam DLC View the full article
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Pokémon Day is right around the corner and expectations are high following a year of secrecy after last year’s celebrations—and I’m praying that a forgotten generation will finally be acknowledged in this year’s slew of announcements. As fans eagerly await news of the Legends: Z-A release date and wonder whether the rumors of a new ****** and White remake are true, I’m on the edge of my seat wishing Johto is revisited for the first time in 16 years. View the full article
The creator of DayZ and Icarus has announced a massive DLC for the latter game, and it's packed with new content. Originally released in 2021 to mostly positive reviews, Icarus is known for its brutally challenging gameplay and unforgiving environments. Since launch, the survival horror title has received numerous patches to fix a variety of bugs that were plaguing the game. Despite the glitches, Icarus serves as a worthy spiritual successor to the apocalyptic zombie chaos of DayZ for many fans. View the full article
Though Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 doesn't pull any punches early on, the game's economy kind of falls apart once you reach the Kuttenberg region. This may well be getting tuned accordingly, as per some recent comments from Daniel Vávra, the creative director of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. A phenomenally deep and complex RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 starts you off with just about nothing in your pocket, effectively forcing Henry to steal his way to success. That's just how it goes sometimes, after all. The thing is, by the time you've reached Kuttenberg, almost every single encounter will have at least one or two heavily armored foes, and armor sells really, really well in this game. So money is no longer a concern, and Warhorse Entertainment is well aware of this fact. More specifically, Vávra recently participated in a Czech charity livestream with streamer Agraelus, where he offered his thoughts on the matter. [Hidden Content] Expect an economy rebalance update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2... eventually Please note that this information comes second-hand from a Redditor who speaks Czech. VincentVanHades gracefully posted a translation of Vávra's comments over at the Kingdom Come 2's biggest subreddit, as featured above. For Czech speakers, the full VOD is now available on YouTube, and it's a neat seven-hour watch if you're intrigued by the prospect and have some time to spare. Back on track, Vávra said that Warhorse knows Kingdom Come 2's combat and economy are the biggest problems the game currently has. Combat will be difficult to balance, as Warhorse appears to be uncertain whether any changes made should be pushed into existing playthroughs, or perhaps as part of the upcoming Hardcore Mode update. Further, it takes weeks for Warhorse's quality assurance team to thoroughly test things out, which also slows down development. The economy is, arguably, the ******* problem of the two. As soon as enemies begin to wear heavy armor, each fallen foe can net you over a thousand Groschen, easily. At the same time, traders only ever have up to 800 Groschen per resupply, which makes it easy to side-step money-earning activities as soon as you're reasonably well-equipped. Vávra appears to think it's very easy to earn money in Kingdom Come 2, mind, which means the likeliest fix is a massive nerf to armor trade pricing. Since this was just a random charity stream, however, expect to hear more about this in due time. Also curious is the fact that Vávra may have hinted at the fact that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 might be on the way. When asked about the possibility of further sequels to Kingdom Come, Vávra did some of the classic smiling and smirking he did back when he was hinting at the existence of Kingdom Come 2, so make of that what you will. Remember, too, that we've got some DLCs for Kingdom Come 2 underway, so there's lots to look forward to if you're a new fan of Henry of Skalitz, too. The post Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s late-game economy may get rebalanced soon-ish appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
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Once Human developer Starry Studio has finally revealed the release date for permanent servers; something that the community has been asking about for quite some time. You've not got long to wait either, as starting March 2025 every single server in the game (apart from private ones) will be converted into an indefinite one, with the new feature being expanded later in the year as well. So if you've been itching to stick to a specific server, there's a lot you need to know. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Once Human codes and how to redeem Survival game Once Human adds a new instrument and another seasonal event All Once Human Twitch drops and how to claim View the full article