The sun-soaked streets of Brilehaven are bustling with the sea breeze and the buzz of vigorous discussions about who will be the next king of Euchronia. The nobility prepare for a grandiose soirée held by Count Louis Guiabern, the runner-up for the throne. And I’m going to stop him. Twist a thing or two, and this scenario in Metaphor: ReFantazio might as well be an assignment for the Phantom Thieves in Persona 5. That’s hardly a surprise: Atlus’ latest RPG proudly hails from the creative minds of Persona 3, 4, and 5, with tons of shared DNA and themes between the two franchises. View the full article
Graham asked me if I'd discovered what the metaphor in Metaphor: ReFantazio might be, and I replied, "I don't know haha", or something along those lines. Having given it more thought, I think there are two metaphors: 1) It plays quite like Persona. 2) Its story is like a commentary on our society… or something to that effect. Metaphors aside, though, the game is a gigantic fantasy RPG that's technically better than Persona 5 in a lot of ways. Structurally, it feels less repetitive. It has more animated cutscenes that elevate those key story moments. You can brush aside weaker enemies in real-time combat, rather than face them in tiresome turn-based tangoes. And overall, I think it's the best game Persona or Persona-like Atlus have put out - it really is brilliant. But there's a part of me that feels like it's missing something that'll leave it less ingrained in the memory than Persona 5 once its final chapter has closed. Read more View the full article
It's been three years since we last saw the series in action, but MXGP 24 The Official Game is finally bringing back a digital incarnation of motocross' premier championship. Now in the hands of French studio KT Racing and published by Nacon, MGXP 24 aims to offer an unparalleled level of depth and realism for bike fans, packing in official licensing and tracks that deform and evolve over the course of a race. At Gamescom 2024, I met with the team to take a look at the game and find out how it's progressing. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
Have you ever seen ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch? It’s a messed up little curio of a piece, painted across three panels and representing the breadth of humanity’s foibles, from the Garden of Eden to a frigid hellscape of our own making. Created in the early 1500s, the work was controversial; it depicted potentially blasphemous ideas about humanity, and projected a bleak sense of ***** - not the pious optimism of other religious works of the era. Read more View the full article
I don't think there's an IP out there as experienced in celebrating itself as Dragon Ball. We've seen game after game look back fondly at the Frieza Saga, the Cell Saga... We've seen recreation after recreation, retelling after retelling. I will admit that it got tiring after a while, and I was worried at first that Sparking! Zero would amount to the same. I was, it seems, quite wrong. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is less of a narrow nostalgia trap, and more of a festival dedicated to the series' earliest moments and recent climaxes. Read more View the full article
Metaphor: ReFantazio. | Image: Atlus Persona 5 helped the roleplaying franchise break out with mainstream audiences, and it’s also a game that was in the works for a long time. Early work began in 2008, just after Persona 4 came out, with full development kicking off three years later. So, just ahead of the game’s launch in 2016, director Katsura Hashino — steward of the franchise since Persona 3 — asked the team what they wanted to do next. “Everyone said fantasy,” he tells The Verge. That game would turn out to be Metaphor: ReFantazio, an epic RPG that launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on October 11th. In a lot of ways, it’s reminiscent of Persona, with slick menus, turn-based combat, and gameplay systems forged through making meaningful connections with characters.... Continue reading… View the full article
Specter’s Abyss is the first co-op dungeon in Throne and Liberty that unlocks at level 20. The dungeon introduces you to the general co-op gameplay and boss fighting mechanics that can make or break your party. This dungeon also lets you get your hands on some of the first blue gear in the game, so here’s everything you need to know to clear the Specter’s Abyss dungeon in Throne and Liberty, including mechanics, attacks, and tips to avoid unnecessary deaths. View the full article
The GungHo Online Entertainment developed Disney Pixel RPG is now available on iOS and Android following its pre-installation going live yesterday. View the full article
In this live service era, it's not that strange to spend years playing a single game, but alongside my various online timesinks there has been one anomaly: a staunchly singleplayer, offline horror game. Alien: Isolation just turned 10, and for this entire time I've been trying very hard to muster up the courage to finish it. After a decade of sweating and yelling I finally did it, only a couple of weeks ahead of Sunday's anniversary... Read more.View the full article
In one way or another, Ubisoft had been working towards Skull and Bones ever since 2012, and the launch of *********'s Creed 3. The sailing and naval combat sequences of Connor Kenway's adventure were easily the strongest, and made even better in AC4 ****** Flag, which ******** to this day the best entry in the entire stealth RPG series. It was only natural that a full, sea-based pirate game would arrive from Ubisoft eventually, but Skull and Bones - at launch, at least - wasn't quite what players wanted. Some middling review scores and troubling player numbers have threatened to demote the swashbuckling epic to the depths of gaming history. But if you've stayed away from Skull and Bones so far, thanks to a generous Steam *****, now is the time to give it a swing. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Skull and Bones sinks on Steam, has fewer players than AC ****** Flag After six months, Skull and Bones is freed from Ubisoft Connect Skull and Bones is free to play, but not for long View the full article
Nobody likes a delay. There's no two ways about it - both the creatives behind a project and the fans eagerly waiting to get their hands on it are left disappointed. If you've been waiting for the fantasy business sim Tavern Keeper I've got some bad news. Giving you control of where every great DnD adventure starts, with a dash of Stardew Valley and a Baldur's Gate 3-like setting, you're going to have to wait a little longer for this one, but with good reason. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Build your own fantasy pub in Tavern Keeper with new demo coming soon Stardew Valley style business sim Tavern Keeper comes to PC this year View the full article
Head's up! You - yes you - have only a few hours left to jump on a turn-based RPG ***** featuring loads of super good games for you to grab on the cheap. This includes Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, which is getting a wild discount of 40% days before its next major DLC update. Read more View the full article
First released in 2021, Overreign is a mod that converts Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition into a first-person experience. Though it's been around for a while it launched in quite a buggy state, but creator Spriteblood kept plugging away and now it's looking much more stable: it came to my attention thanks to a video from YouTuber T90Official, who specialises in AoE2 content, and ably demonstrates just what first-person PvP looks like in a 1999 RTS... Read more.View the full article
There’s a genre of lesser fun that only makes itself known to me once I’ve completely given up on enjoying a game in any traditional sense, lurking under the surface like a silly icon on a losing scratchcard. I’ll call it ‘system tourism’ in lieu of something better. It’s not like the actually fulfilling virtual tourism you might do in something like Yakuza’s Kamurocho, where you’re scarfing down deep fried whiskeys, entranced by the lights. It’s more like doing a Google street view tour of Venice’s canals to see if you can spot someone taking a ***** off the side of a gondola - hunting for anarchic anomalies because, honestly, the sights just aren’t grabbing you. At the risk of sounding like some sort of horrible joy-mathematician: My experience with open world zombie survival game Dread Dawn involved precisely two and half discrete instances of fun, plus some additional appreciation for a few genuinely good ambient bits I’ll get into shortly. With a significant overhaul of basically every player interaction Dread Dawn offers - from the abysmally tedious looting to the rusty combat - it might some day be worth your time. It harbours some incredible ambition, though it’s surrounded by murk and detritus, like a dictatorial rat in a ******* bowl. Mostly, though, I can only give you advance warning to avoid it. Read more View the full article
***** Is Us is the surreal new title from developer Rogue Factor, and it's looking to shake up the gaming industry, potentially in the same ways that BOTW and Elden Ring did for their respective genres. While Rogue Factor has previously only developed strategy games set in the Warhammer universe, it is flexing its talents a bit by jumping into the third-person action genre with ***** Is Us. While the trailers have certainly done a good job of showcasing its weird vibes and atmosphere, a gameplay deep-***** revealed how it's fixing one of gaming's worst trends. View the full article
The cables come courtesy of Elecom, which just became the first company to have its USB4 2.0 cables officially certified, as reported by PC Watch. The ********* company is set to launch two varieties in mid-December: one offering a transfer rate of 80Gbps with 60W power delivery, and another cranking... Read Entire Article View the full article
Original Studios just launched The Last Plague: Blight, an uncompromising wilderness survival game based on a more realistic set of game mechanics. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Vegetables are a key component in many exquisite dishes. The “Root veggies in borscht” clue on the Oct. 7 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle challenges you to name a specific one that’s integral to this meal. if you’re not familiar with borscht, solving this one can be rather tricky. This dish also includes many different vegetables, so picking the right one can be tough. Here are some hints and the answer to help you complete the “Root veggies in borscht” clue on the Oct. 7 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle. View the full article
My default movement mode in horror games that actually scare me is: meandering. I seek to approach without approaching, scooting back and forth across the path like a stray hamster, worrying at the corners and avoiding clear perspectives of the route ahead, while keeping the route behind me in my peripheral vision. I have been trained to do this especially by Amnesia, where tilting your gaze too decisively at anything ****** drives your character nuts. Lurks Within Walls has no time for my hamstery antics. Developed by Here Be Monsters, it's a grid- and turn-based first-person dungeon crawler - a long-lost cousin of Etrian Odyssey that has wound up in an asylum jammed with internet cryptids, reminiscent in cinematic texture of F.E.A.R. In keeping with other grid-based dungeon crawlers, it only lets you turn the view by 90 degree angles and travel in straight lines. Going by the demo, it's a promising restraint for a horror game, though they really do need to expand on the combat, which is currently a slight waste of some terrific creature art. Read more View the full article
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Only with the Guild Owner’s Seal one has the power to reunite their people and rebuild the Guild’s former glory. The Qualification of being a Guild Owner is a part of the Sandworm’s Lair Exploration Codex in Throne and Liberty, and here’s everything you need to know to complete it. How to complete Qualification of being a Guild Owner in Throne and Liberty Find an Ornate Chest in the Sandworm Lair Right under the region’s name. Screenshot by Dot Esports Look out for the blue marker. Screenshot by Dot Esports To start the Qualification of being a Guild Owner quest in Throne and Liberty, you must find the Ornate Chest near the center of the Sandworm Lair. Teleport to the Sandworm Lair Waypoint and follow the canyon into the region’s depths. The Ornate Chest is in the canyon under the Sandworm Lair region name marker on the map. Use the grappling ***** to reach and open it. Return to the Sandworm Lair Waypoint, then follow the road west to find the Overzealous Merchant in the camp. View the full article
Ubisoft has been targeted by a class action lawsuit revolving around unauthorized data sharing practices. The complaint alleges that Ubisoft shared personally identifiable information with Meta Platforms in violation of several U.S. laws. View the full article
Intel is raising eyebrows in the server processor market with pricing for its latest flagship Xeon 6980P CPU, part of Intel's new Granite Rapids family. Listed at $17,800, it is the most expensive modern CPU in history. In fact, Intel's pricing for the Granite Rapids lineup is notably higher than... Read Entire Article View the full article
Playing Phoenix Springs feels like David ****** spliced together the ripped pages of a pulpy sci-fi comic with the storyboards of a broody noir. Its visuals are stark and foreboding, its dialogue delivered in riddles, and its haunting choral music sounds like it's been recorded in a wind tunnel. It’s a point-and-click that calls back to early 90’s Lucas Arts adventure games, and while it shares the same frustrations, the presentation makes it feel entirely contemporary. What begins as a standard detective game - chatting to strangers, rummaging through junk, finding addresses found on the net - soon spirals into something else entirely. I’ve finished it twice and I’m still not sure I totally understand what it all means. Read more View the full article
Having to go out to purchase everything you need can sometimes be tough to fit into your schedule, but luckily you can use “Online shopping” as needed to make things a bit easier. This clue is an essential one to solve on today’s NYT Mini Crossword. There are plenty of different websites you can order from and lots of different ways to refer to “Online shopping.” You’ve got loads of options, so solving this clue can be rather tough. If you’re stuck, here are some hints and the official solution for the Oct. 7 “Online shopping” NYT Mini Crossword clue. View the full article
After a year in Early Access, These Doomed Isles is finally ready to launch its big 1.0 upgrade. The city builder will now offer players two new game modes, as well as fresh rewards to boost your godly characters, giving you more options when it comes to protecting (or destroying) the civilizations within your dominion. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
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The sun-soaked streets of Brilehaven are bustling with the sea breeze and the buzz of vigorous discussions about who will be the next king of Euchronia. The nobility prepare for a grandiose soirée held by Count Louis Guiabern, the runner-up for the throne. And I’m going to stop him. Twist a thing or two, and this scenario in Metaphor: ReFantazio might as well be an assignment for the Phantom Thieves in Persona 5. That’s hardly a surprise: Atlus’ latest RPG proudly hails from the creative minds of Persona 3, 4, and 5, with tons of shared DNA and themes between the two franchises. View the full article