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MutliVersus recently revealed that Banana Guard is the game's second new character coming to the game following the relaunch, but the reception has been a little more mixed this time around.

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has explained his feelings about his next big project, Haunted Chocolatier, saying that he's "not too concerned" about the pressure of following up on Stardew Valley.

It may have taken 167 hours and more than 1,700 deaths, but Kai Cenat has finally managed to beat Elden Ring and put an end to his marathon Twitch stream.

A new video has been released for Minecraft's 15th anniversary starring both Jason Momoa and Jack Black, both of whom are wielding what appear to be props from the upcoming movie.

Whenever we cover Fallout: London, we get a few readers who, understandably, believe that it’s an official Bethesda release that escaped their notice. It’s easy to see why - the various screenshots and trailers certainly look the part, with a team of passionate devs using Fallout 4 as the foundation for a unique story, complete with new characters, items, textures, voice acting, and much more.

Arkane Austin is working on a final update for its live service, Redfall. This is ahead of the studio's closure, as part of Xbox's recent wave of layoffs.

Fallout is one of the next big collaborations coming to Fortnite, which seemingly confirms the rumours that Chapter 5, Season 3 will have an apocalypse theme.

According to SteamDB, Helldivers 2 has been put back up for sale on Steam in certain countries, which hopefully means that those affected by its delisting can get back into the action.

A new enemy was just revealed for Elden Ring's upcoming DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, and it has an... interesting design, to say the least. Just revealed on social media, the new enemy unmistakably resembles a uterus, and fans can't get enough of it.

Microsoft has reportedly decided that 2024's Call of Duty (which is widely believed to be a new Black Ops game) will launch on Xbox Game Pass.

PlayStation followed up on the success of 2023's Game of the Year contender Spider-Man 2 by turning some of its main characters into Funko Pops. Kraven, Venom, and of course, Peter and Miles all have their own figures, and most of the ones that haven't been made available yet will finally be up for grabs later today. Miles, Kraven, Venom, and a Funko Pop recreation of Peter in his Symbiote suit will all drop on Funko's official site at 12:30 pm EST today (May 17, 2024).

A Total War game based on Star Wars is reportedly in development. Creative Assembly is said to be working on the Star Wars game alongside two other Total War titles, although it's not said which one of these will launch first.

The Monster Hunter release wheel is starting to turn again as Capcom prepares for the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, confirmed to be here in 2025. Let's hope that's by this time next year and not closer to a holiday release. Other than dipping back into Monster Hunter World, there are other ways to keep your love of the series ticking over in the meantime. Especially now that its set of desktop figures is finally easy to find and buy in the US.

Amazon started canceling pre-orders for upcoming Nintendo Switch games last month without explanation. Those games have remained unavailable on Amazon ever since, and now Walmart has followed suit. Online pre-orders for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door at the big box store have been canceled, just like they were on Amazon a month ago. Walmart has been emailing apologies to those affected to let them know the game will be available in store when it's released on May 23.

Screenshots of a hero shooter said to be in development at Valve, have leaked. This comes shortly after the first details on the game were shared online, potentially revealing its name: Deadlock.

PlayStation has revealed that it has managed to shift just over 59 million PS5s over the course of the system's first four years, but the platform's active user base of 118 million people implies that there are quite a lot of people still playing on PS4.

We've had the MCU, the DCEU and even the Dark Universe. Hell, we're potentially getting the NCU, or the Nintendo Cinematic Universe. But have you prepared yourself for the JU... the Jason Universe? No, we're not being facetious. This is a real thing.

Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive has narrowed down the title's release window, revealing in an earnings call that GTA 6 will launch at some point in Fall 2025.

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida has revealed that players will be gifted a free Fantasia upon the release of update 7.0, giving us the chance to alter their character's appearance following the release of the Dawntrail's graphics update.

The Pokemon TCG's march through Paldea continues today as the first details about the next Scarlet & Violet set were confirmed. Dubbed Shrouded Fable, almost everything in the new collection, including mini tins and special illustration collections booster bundles, will be released on August 2, 2024, with the exception of its booster bundles which will follow on September 6. If the excitement of new cards is too much to handle, Shrouded Fable's elite trainer box is already available for pre-order at the Pokemon Center.

The latest issue of V-Jump has revealed that Goten, Kid Trunks, Kale, Caulifla, and their respective fusions are all going to be playable in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero.

Leaked set photos have allegedly given us our first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in Season 4 of Netflix's The Witcher, just days after images of a stunt double emerged.

Minecraft is one of the most successful games of all time, but over a decade after launching, it still isn't available on the biggest PC gaming platform. In the years since, spin-offs like Dungeons and Legends have been released on Valve's storefront, but the original is still nowhere to be seen. That might finally be changing.

Last week, Helldivers 2 players were given a Major Order to kill a staggering two billion bots, and expectedly, they failed. On the surface, that means they didn't unlock the Anti-Tank Mines, but community manager Katherine 'Baskinator' Baskin revealed that there are much worse ramifications unfolding behind the scenes.

Danny DeVito has revealed in a recent interview that he'd be up for playing the role of Wario in a future Super Mario Bros. Movie project, something that fans have been wanting ever since the movie was first announced.

Controllers have evolved and changed constantly throughout video game history, and everyone reading this right now will have their favorites. However, despite that evolution, aside from a couple of Nintendo anomalies, controllers have been the same basic shape and had the same default layout. That shape and layout doesn't work for everyone, particularly gamers with certain disabilities. Enter the Proteus, a brand new controller created by ByoWave that can effectively be any shape the user wants it to be.

According to well-known leaker Midori, Nintendo has been calling its new console the 'Switch 2' and 'New Switch' behind closed doors, but it might not be the actual name when it's finally unveiled to the public (outside of a random tweet on a Tuesday, that is).

Ubisoft's recently announced Assassin's Creed Shadows will reportedly have "mini battle passes" called Projects, though they are primarily used to unlock cosmetics.

It's been explained by Sony general manager Sadahiko Hayakawa that PlayStation has become much more concerned about "platform playtime" over the past couple of console generations, rather than software sales.

The CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has said that he wants the game to go on "forever", even when the team eventually stops working on new updates.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is already being labeled as "woke" and "disrespectful" following its announcement trailer, primarily due to main characters Naoe and Yasuke, the latter of whom is historically considered Japan's first black samurai.

A new update on the Toys For Bob website has Crash Bandicoot fans in a frenzy, as the site has shed its former appearance and is now displaying a purple tiki mask on a black background.

Marvel has spent the last 16 years bringing some of its most iconic comic book characters to life, introducing them to millions more people than ever knew of them in the comics through the MCU's movies and TV shows. Odds are you'd not heard much, if anything, about characters like Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, and Drax before the MCU. Particularly Drax and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy who shot to stardom thanks to their first movie. Fast forward a decade and Groot is now well-loved enough to have an entire range of his own Funko Pops drop all at the same time.

Just like Star Wars: Outlaws, physical copies of Assassin's Creed Shadows will require an internet connection for installation, a move that seems to be becoming the norm for Ubisoft titles.

Ubisoft just announced that it has cancelled the upcoming free-to-play shooter The Division Heartland three years after having been announced.

HBO has revealed the first official images from the second season of The Last of Us, which shows Ellie and Joel looking a lot older. Well, Joel certainly looks older, at least.

Last month, a Helldivers 2 update made it so that the fewer players you had in your party, the more enemy patrols would spawn. Playing the game solo became significantly harder, but thankfully, developer Arrowhead is rolling it back.

The second Mortal Kombat movie has reportedly been given a release date of October 24, 2025, meaning that we'll be waiting more than a year to see Karl Urban as Johnny Cage.

After what has probably felt like the longest week ever for Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, we saw the release of the Polar Patriots Warbond. Unfortunately for Arrowhead, that's brought forth a wave of entirely different problems, as satisfaction with this month's Warbond is at an all-time low.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has been officially rated in Singapore, with a potential release window of 2024 attached alongside it.

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC isn't too far away right now, releasing in just over a month's time on June 21. There's still quite a lot of time to get theorizing about the game's big bad guy, story, characters and everything else inbetween, but one of the more interesting fan theories that has surfaced recently is all about the game's setting.

Fallout 4 fans have started desperately hoping that Bethesda doesn't release any more updates for the title, following the release of the new graphics update that appears to have broken mods yet again and left previously reported unfixed.

PlayStation overhauled PS Plus in 2022, splitting the service into three tiers. If you're subscribed to the highest tier, PS Plus Premium, then you currently have access to a library of trials. Tasters of mostly new games that you can play for a few hours before deciding whether to buy the full versions. Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 are among them, and now The Last Of Us 2 Remastered has joined them.

Dead by Daylight's 8th Anniversary stream has revealed a truck load of exciting content coming to the title over the next year, including crossovers with Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania.

Valheim's latest patch is here, adding the all-new Ashlands biome. Ashlands comes with a whole lot of new content, ranging from new weapons, creatures, buildable items, locations, and events.

Two former Firaxis developers have founded a new studio, Midsummer. The former director of the XCOM series, Jake Soloman, is CEO of the new studio, having left Firaxis last year.

Helldivers 2's latest update adds PSN support to PC, letting players on Steam link their accounts. However, unlike the initial proposition, the update makes this optional, so you can keep playing on PC without PSN if you don't want to make an account.

Fallout 4 launched its long-awaited next-gen update last month, but it went down about as well as a nuke in Boston. Not only did it break most mods, players immediately ran into a slew of old bugs.

When Helldivers 2 introduces sweeping balancing changes or new stratagems, it does so on the live build. So, if nerfs are too harsh or buffs too strong, the community has to wait for the next patch to address concerns.

Pokemon sidestepped its regularly scheduled slate of Funko Pops to release a Cresselia figure at C2E2 this year. It now looks set to do something similar during this year's San Diego Comic-Con, taking place at the end of July, as another rare Pokemon will seemingly be getting the Funko Pop treatment at the event. Cresselia and the many other Pokemon to have already been turned into Pops will be joined by Arceus, and a first look at the figure has already been shared online.

A PlayStation Showcase could be happening before the end of the month. At least, that's what it sounds like based on a letter from Hiroki Totoki, who took over as Chairman of PlayStation after Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino were named CEOs.

Magic: The Gathering's scheduled ban announcement took place earlier today, and while no one really expected Wizards of the Coast to make any big changes, it did just that by declaring that both Stickers and Attractions are now banned in Legacy and Vintage formats.

Before the Fallout 3 as we know it was released, original developer Black Isle Studios was working on its own sequel, codenamed Van Buren. Like the first two games, it was an isometric RPG, but it was cancelled after Interplay sold the IP to Bethesda.

The Witcher star Freya Allen, who plays Geralt's adopted daughter Ciri, has explained in a recent interview that she was relieved to find out that the show would finally be ending after Season 5, saying that she was "kind of finished with it mentally."

Ron Gilbert is developing another game, and its premise is extremely exciting. Gilbert, who most famously created Monkey Island, is working on a retro RPG that he describes as "Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park."

It looks like Red Dead Redemption is finally headed to the PC, as a new update for Rockstar's launcher has included a file with a description of the title, as well as its zombie DLC, Undead Nightmare.

Two and a half years on from its exclusive release on Nintendo Switch, your chance to buy Shin Megami Tensei 5 through the eShop is about to come to an end. Atlus has confirmed that the base game and all of its DLC will be removed from the eShop at 11:59 pm on June 13, 2024. After that point, you will no longer be able to buy the game directly through Nintendo, but if you own Shin Megami Tensei 5 and its DLC, you will still be able to play it, and presumably re-download it if you've bought it in the past.

Longtime Resident Evil protagonist Leon Kennedy will reportedly return for the ninth instalment in the series. Multiple leakers claim that Leon will once again be a main character, and at this point in the story, will be 48 years old.

Assassin's Creed Codename Red finally has a proper name. As just revealed on the Assassin's Creed Twitter page, this upcoming instalment is officially called Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and we're about to see a whole lot more of it very soon.

Capcom is reportedly working on a remake of the first Resident Evil game, just in time for the series' 30th anniversary. If it launches in time for the big day, that would make it a 2026 release, meaning we might have a bit of a wait in between remake projects this time around.

The Mysterious Artefact is pivotal in helping stave off the tentacle cravings in Baldur's Gate 3, but what if was also an Xbox controller?

Disney Villainous is a wildly popular board game that has expanded into the worlds of Marvel and Star Wars in recent years. As the name of the game suggests, the traditional Disney way of always rooting for the heroes is turned on its head as players are given the chance to assume the roles of some of their favorite villains instead. In an attempt to get even more people playing Villainous, Ravensburger announced plans to start releasing something it has dubbed expandalones, and the first of those on the Disney side of things, Sugar and Spite, is now available to pre-order.

MutliVersus just dropped a gameplay trailer for the Joker, showing off how he'll fight when the game relaunches later this month. However, the clown prince of crime has been upstaged in his own reveal, as the trailer also seems to confirm that another new fighter is joining the roster soon.

It's been a minute since we've heard anything about Sony and Haven Studios' live-service PvPvE heist shooter Fairgame$. However, a new survey being sent out to PlayStation players might mean we're due for some updated news soon.

The Marvel Rivals team has issued a statement on the recent controversy surrounding its content creator program. This comes after the contract that creators were asked to sign to access the game leaked, revealing that it prevented them from providing "subjective negative reviews", and even from comparing Marvel Rivals to its competitors.

Last week, I sat down with Fallout 2 designer John Deiley to discuss all things talking deathclaws, and he revealed a terrifying idea that never came to fruition.

Lego returned to Middle-earth for the first time in a decade last year when it debuted its Rivendell set. A part of Lego's Icons range, the toy brick recreation of the iconic Lord of the Rings location is made up of more than 6,000 pieces and costs $500. It makes sense that there'd be a wait for anything more following the release of a set that size, but it seems the wait is almost over. Lego has teased a new Lord of the Rings set is coming, and the Eye of Sauron will be at its center.

When it comes to games like Minecraft, pretty much anything is on the table when it comes to making whatever pops into your mind. Whether that be a ridiculously large maze built solely to torture other players, or a working version of the first Legend of Zelda game, you constantly see impressive creations coming out of the game's community. Terraria is a little less concerned with limitless creativity, but that doesn't stop some people from building some truly ridiculous stuff.

Who would've thought that in a galaxy far, far away that there would also be a war for democracy? Not us, that's for sure. But if a recent mod for Helldivers 2 is any indication, then it turns out the Clone Wars are being fought right inside one of this year's most popular games.

Hades 2 features a range of incantations and recipes for Melinoe to use, including an extremely helpful one that lets you craft your own Nectar to gift to characters.

A reliable gaming leaker has suggested that PlayStation's Horizon series might soon be collaborating with Lego again, although it's not clear if it's going to be a new set or a video game.

A reliable horror leaker has shared details about Silent Hill: The Short Message's development, confirming that it was once called Project Sakura and went through some big changes.

Kai Cenat is currently trying to beat Elden Ring in one long Twitch stream, but it's not exactly going smoothly as he's already been driven to tears due to the game's infamous difficulty.

Helldivers 2 lead Johan Pilestedt has given us our first look at an upcoming cape - one which references the most controversial moment in the game's short history. As we can see in the screenshot, the red lines on the cape mirror the review bombing Helldivers 2 received on Steam last week, as thousands of players hit the game with negative ratings.

In Fallout 2, we meet a cabal of intelligent deathclaws hiding inside Vault 13, a result of the Enclave experimenting with the FEV virus in an attempt to create subservient supersoldiers. But they escaped, deciding that they wanted to live peaceful lives and coexist with humanity.

Marvel Rivals dataminers have managed to find evidence within the closed beta test's files that suggest it'll be released on PS5 and Xbox Series in the future.

Industry insider Jeff Grubb once again reaffirms his claim that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is launching this year. This is despite recent information from EA indicating that it could be with us as late as March 2025, sparking fears that we're still almost a year away from the long-awaited sequel.

Content creators who were offered access to Marvel Rivals were reportedly made to sign a contract forbidding them from making "subjective negative reviews of the game". The contract also says that the creator cannot "engage in discussions that are detrimental to the reputation of the game", or compare it to its competitors.

It can be difficult for developers to maintain live service titles these days, with fans expecting more and more content each month to avoid the risk of being labeled a "dead game." Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has been treading that particular tightrope rather well since launch, delivering new armor, weapons, and emotes via the Premium Warbonds system that has been serving them well up until now.

From the very start of Fallout: New Vegas, the titular city is dangled in front of you. However, while you look close enough to Vegas on the world map, heading there right away will only result in your death. Instead, you're expected to take the long way around - and one fan has worked out exactly how long that road is.