The Epic Games Store has officially revealed Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel as its free game for December 18. Unlike the storefront's usual freebies, Epic Games Store users have only 24 hours to claim this title, which will immediately be replaced by another such limited-time offer. View the full article
Whether you've played Horizon Zero Dawnor not, you could probably recognize its influence on Light of Motiramat a glance. Tencent revealed the latter late last year, showing off a survival crafting game with giant mechanical beasts, rolling landscapes, and a player character model with more than a passing resemblance to Aloy. Sony quickly took legal action, and it looks like a conclusion to the saga may have already been reached. View the full article
After over 1000 hours of gameplay, a Red Dead Redemption 2 player uncovered an “amazing detail” they were unaware of, showing just how much attention to detail Rockstar Games put into the open-world action-adventure title. Even though the game is well over seven years old, players are still encountering secrets in Red Dead Redemption 2, such as what happens when you jump off your horse during a cutscene in which Arthur Morgan is riding one. View the full article
Dune: Awakening from Funcom is getting a big free Chapter 3 update early next year, with the details of it now being revealed along with a paid DLC. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
PlayStation Plus is one of the highest-value video game subscription services out there, giving players access to hundreds of incredible games, free monthly games, a try-before-you-buy feature, and more. One of PS Plus' biggest and most popular open-world games just got a massive update, and you can download it now for free. View the full article
The popular Cult of the Lamb franchise has taken on new life on the printed page, already spawning a graphic novel adaptation called Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse and the follow-up one-shot Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special. Now Oni Press is back again with another sequel dubbed Cult of the Lamb: Last ********** Special #1. Last ********** Special reunites writer Alex Paknadel and artist Troy Little for a new 48-page adventure. This issue is again a collaboration between comic book publisher Oni Press, game publisher Devolver Digital, and development studio Massive Monster. Here's Oni's official description of the special: Following the events of CULT OF THE LAMB: THE FIRST VERSE and October’s CULT OF THE LAMB: SCHISM SPECIAL #1, the cult is decimated and its faith shaken in the wake of a shocking and bloody betrayal. Power, duty, and determination will all be tested as Lamb must reckon with the remaining threats of the Old Faith. Meanwhile, Ratau—still firm in his faith in the Red Crown—tries to protect and guide Lamb’s remaining followers and undermine the blasphemy of the rival camp. As The One Who Waits prepares their return, great sacrifices must be weighed for the future of the Cult of the Lamb. Cult of the Lamb: Last ********** Special #1 will be released on March 4, 2026. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop. In other comic book news, Oni's Flux House imprint is getting a FCBD 2026 special, and we've got the full scoop on the huge twist in TMNT #13. Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on BlueSky. View the full article
Судебное противостояние Sony и Tencent из-за экшена с открытым миром и элементами выживания Light of Motiram, подозрительно похожего на Horizon Zero Dawn, подошло к концу. Победу одержал японский платформодержатель.View the full article
Just like they promised after adding some classic Total War games to GOG, another has arrived with Total War: THREE KINGDOMS now on the DRM-free store. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
In 2009, I was an office drone pretending I gave a toss about insurance premiums, at least by day. By night I was carving up the world, fiddling with firing lines and worrying about getting hundreds of men blown up by cannons. At least when I wasn't dealing with bugs. I was playing Empire: Total War, now known as Total War: Empire... Read more.View the full article
One missed from earlier this month is Neath, a roguelike tactical RPG set in a decaying world shadowed by an irradiated, inverted tower. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
One of my favourite games released in 2025, BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun and Friends / Devolver Digital has sold well enough that it's getting free upgrades. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The Elder Scrolls will seemingly unravel until the end of time, as Bethesda's golden goose has an infinite number of eggs to give. This round, The Elder Scrolls 6 is taking a long time to hatch. View the full article
The highly rated co-op zombie horde shooter World War Z is set for a big addition with a DLC featuring the The Walking Dead. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
2025 has been a roller-coaster ride for Grand Theft Auto 6 fans, with multiple delays, controversies over at Rockstar Games, and fatigue setting in after waiting years to finally be able to play. However, there's another beloved Rockstar IP that will make you forget about GTA 6 altogether, Bully, which just got a massive new online multiplayer option. View the full article
A new set of Winterfest quests is live in Fortnite, and there are two tasks currently available that require you to collect and hand over a Perfect Gift. The Perfect Gift is a special item that has been added to Fortnite as part of the Winterfest 2025 celebrations. While their locations are random, you can get plenty of special items from them. Alternatively, you can also hand one over to an NPC of your liking to complete two separate quests. This guide will provide you with all the necessary information. Table of contentsHow to get a Perfect Gift in FortniteHow to bring a Perfect Gift to an NPC in FortniteHow to get a Perfect Gift in Fortnite Perfect Gifts are small gift boxes that can be found inside chests. They have a pink wrap around them and can spawn at random. Sadly, there's no guaranteed way of finding a Perfect Gift for completing the Winterfest quest. It all boils down to your luck. What you can do, however, is to prioritize opening as many chests as possible. Doing so will raise the odds in your favor. I have completed a couple of rounds and opened over 20 chests combined. I managed to get just one Perfect Gift, which tells everything that you need to know. Image via Epic Games Store Ideally, you'll want to look for chests that are at the base of Christmas Trees. Then again, you're not guaranteed to find them from every chest that you open. Once you find one, you'll be able to pick up to complete the seasonal quest. How to bring a Perfect Gift to an NPC in Fortnite This is a pretty easy task to complete. Once you find a Perfect Gift, it will be present in your inventory. Go to any NPC of your liking, and you'll get the option to hand it over to them. Finish the round, and it will complete the task and reward you with extra XP for Chapter Seven, Season One. If you're yet to find the location of all the NPCs, this guide will help to clear your doubts. The post How to collect and bring a Perfect Gift in Fortnite Winterfest 2025 appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
The Fortnite Winterfest 2025 celebrations have begun, and there's a new boss in town in the form of the Yule Trooper. The latest boss has been added as part of the Winterfest 2025 quests, and eliminating him will allow you to transform into Yule Tropper yourself. Moreover, you can also get a new Legendary item by taking down the boss. This guide will provide you with all the necessary information required to take down the new boss. Table of contentsHow to find the Yule Trooper in FortniteAll Yule Trooper loot in FortniteHow to find the Yule Trooper in Fortnite The Yule Trooper doesn't have a fixed location. Epic Games Store has been following this pattern since the Simpsons season, and it's also applicable for the three other bosses in Chapter Seven, Season One. I have completed three rounds and managed to locate him only once. I spotted the Yule Trooper in the western part of the map at the Bumpy Bay location. However, you can try looking for the entire northern part of the map that's covered in Snow. The Yule Trooper can spawn at any of the POIs in the snow-covered parts of the map. The final location, as I mentioned above, will be random. Screenshot and Remix by Destructoid All Yule Trooper loot in Fortnite The Yule Trooper will reward you with two legendary items, which include the medallion required to transform into the new boss. Once transformed, you can activate the Jolly Sprint ability. This ability rewards you with extra stamina and life. However, you'll always be marked on the map, making you an easy target. Taking down the Yule Trooper also rewards you with his signature Holo Rush SMG. While you can find more common versions of this SMG from chests, the Mythic version is significantly better. You'll also get a few minor rewards after taking down the Yule Trooper. The post Yule Trooper boss location and loot in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1 (Winterfest 2025) appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Tencent's upcoming post-apocalyptic open-world adventure Light of Motiram, widely-criticized for being a "clone" of Horizon Zero Dawn, has disappeared from Steam and the Epic Games Store. You may recall that Sony was suing Tencent over the project, which it had officially dubbed a "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn copy, via a copyright lawsuit filed in a California court at the end of July. Sony's argument outlined numerous similarities and compared various marketing screenshots from both games, as well as their descriptions. Just like Horizon, Light of Motiram takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by giant robot dinosaurs who roam large, natural environments such as tropical forests, deserts, and snowy mountains. Both games even feature red-haired women protagonists that wear very similar outfits and styles, and devices similar to Aloy's "Focus" earpiece. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, Sony formally accused Tencent of developing a "knock-off game" and asked the court for a preliminary injunction against Light of Motiram to stop the ******** megacorp from commencing pre-release promotion of its upcoming version. Just days after Sony filed its lawsuit, Tencent quietly updated its Light of Motiram Steam page and swapped out a number of screenshots, including its cover image, before responding to Sony's lawsuit by claiming it was only making use of "well-trodden" tropes and suggesting the PlayStation maker's own game was too similar to Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Indeed, Tencent hit back by describing Sony's lawsuit as an overreach, highlighting other game franchises with similar elements such as The Legend of Zelda and Far Cry. It was "startling," Tencent said, that Sony was now attempting to claim Horizon's concept was original, rather than an idea based on "ubiquitous genre ingredients." The bitter battle now seems to have come to an end, however. As spotted by The Verge, new court papers filed yesterday, December 17, show both parties have reached a "confidential settlement" that appears to have ended Sony's lawsuit, and Tencent's counter-suit, too. All parties are reportedly responsible for their own fees and costs. Without publicly sharing the terms of the deal, it's not possible to know how it all ended, although the disappearance of Light of Motiram is a fairly significant clue. The original URLs to both storefronts now redirect to each site's respective landing pages, and there's been no formal update from Tencent on the game's date. It seems unlikely we'll see it again, and almost certainly not in its present form. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article
Yes, it's true — Microsoft is bringing two of its hottest gaming franchises together for a Fallout Season 2 and Call of Duty: ****** Ops 7 crossover event. If you're wondering how, exactly, that may work, the official Call of Duty X/Twitter account has shared a brief video teaser which shows silhouettes of Fallout TV series characters The Ghoul, Lucy, and Maximus in the smoke of war, with bullets whizzing by in the background. "Okie dokie — stay focused, stay alive," the text on the post reads. "[Fallout TV show] is coming to Call of Duty in Season 01 Reloaded." Okie dokie - stay focused, stay alive @FalloutonPrime is coming to Call of Duty in Season 01 Reloaded [Hidden Content] — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) December 17, 2025 The implication here certainly seems to be that Call of Duty fans will see skins of those characters, which may or may not be tied to a premium event pass. Without further details — let alone a release date — it's hard to say for sure, though. We'll keep you posted, as always. It's an opportune time to unite these two blockbuster games, of course. Battlefield 6 now looks "extremely likely" to beat ****** Ops 7 to be crowned 2025's best-selling game, with the latter seemingly not only struggling against Battlefield's sales, but also that of its predecessor, ****** Ops 6. Fallout, however, has never been more popular, and its highly anticipated second season premiered on Amazon Prime yesterday (December 17). The new Fallout season picks up in the aftermath of Season 1’s finale and travels through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Fans of Obsidian's much-loved video game will be interested to hear that Season 2 takes a "fog of war" approach (which sure does match the video we see above) to how it juggles Fallout: New Vegas' various endings. We gave the opening episode of Season 2 a Good 7/10 but if you've yet to watch the first season, don't forget that Bethesda and Xbox recently teamed up with Amazon and Samsung so fans watching via Samsung TV Plus can stream Fallout Season 1 for free. This means Season 1 is available subscription-free on Samsung TV Plus from now through to December 25. Samsung TV Plus is a free, ad-supported streaming service available on Samsung TV, Galaxy, Smart Monitor, and Family Hubs devices. The team behind Amazon'****** show are gearing up to film Season 3 "next summer," with the hope that there won't be a huge gap between the end of Season 2 and what's next. As for the games? Fallout 5 will indeed take into account the canon events of the TV series, Bethesda development chief Todd Howard has confirmed. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article
Publisher Another Indie and developer Sailike Game have announced the release date for Philna Fantasy. The pixel art RPG will be available on PC through Steam on January 15, 2026. View the full article
Following Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, the series' second entry is set to be remade next year with a simultaneous worldwide release. View the full article
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The Epic Games Store has officially revealed Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel as its free game for December 18. Unlike the storefront's usual freebies, Epic Games Store users have only 24 hours to claim this title, which will immediately be replaced by another such limited-time offer. View the full article