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Fans that have been following the development of Days Gone will be well familiar with some of the more frightening aspects of the game, namely the zombie-esque “freakers” that populate its world. However, horror is not all that is going on in Bend Studio’s upcoming title, and some recently released screenshots focus on the game’s softer side. By visiting a new page on the PlayStation website, players will encounter an invitation to the wedding of Sarah Whitaker and Deacon St....

The Bell of Conquest appeared with Destiny 2’s Season of the Chosen as the update’s seasonal artifact, and it comes with some fairly interesting new mods for players to take advantage of. However, the most exciting among these would have to be the Sundering Glare, a mod with a description stating: “Rapid precision hits versus distant targets weaken them for a short duration.” In other words, it debuffs enemies that players manage to land rapid, consecutive headshots against....

Fallout 4’s malleable Boston Commonwealth setting has been the dream of modders everywhere in terms of creating new aesthetics, and one of the latest – and most visually impressive – mods sees the region being overhauled into a ghastly place that will rival any Hollywood horror film. Titled Pilgrim and inspired by the critically-acclaimed 2015 American horror film The Witch, this new Fallout 4 mod transforms the Boston Commonwealth into a gray and overcast land by tweaking the game’s weather system while incorporating various things like “lens emulation, film grain, adjustable letter-boxing, optional sharpening, and a lift shadows function”....

There’s no doubt that the PS4 has had some great exclusives come out in the last few years, from titles like Uncharted 4 and Horizon: Zero Dawn to this year’s God of War. Those who may have missed out on games like these may want to check out the PlayStation Store, as a huge sale is now live. The promotion, which is being called the Attack of the Blockbuster sale, has a large selection of AAA titles all marked down significantly....

A new report by VPNpro sheds light on the vast differences in the costs imposed on consumers around the world for content and gaming. By gathering data on the prices of ten online entertainment platforms across 156 countries, a comprehensive public database on price discrimination in digital entertainment is now easily observable to everyone. Expensive In Europe, Cheap In South America By a staggering margin, Brazil, Argentina, and India are the cheapest countries for most services....

I will admit it–I’m not a good Warzone player. I’ve never been good at battle royale games, but PUBG, Warzone, and Apex Legends I’m particularly bad at. And if you’re bad at these games too, you’ll probably find me thanks to skill-based matchmaking. Only now you might also run into some professional Warzone player that’s trying to rack up an insane kill count. It’s all thanks to a new cheat that’s going around that lets players manipulate the game’s skill-based matchmaker to gain access to low-skill game lobbies....

With Comic-Con 2013 (and the Assassin’s Creed IV party pirate ship!) now under our wings, it’s time to play catch-up on a few key news items. PS4’s PlanetSide 2 aims to offer the best PC gameplay; Joss Whedon’s Firefly finall gets a game; Borderlands 2 DLC goes beyond the season pass; Torchlight II & SimCity sell two million each; Dragon Age saves somehow carry to next-gen consoles (we think); Disney’s Toy Box gets showcased; Prince of Persia 2 returns; David Jaffe’s name doesn’t help one Kickstarter campaign, and more!...

About a month ago, Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya thanked fellow developer Yoko Taro for his work on Nier: Automata, as Kamiya-san went so far as to say that the title’s success effectively saved the studio. Now, the good times continue to roll for the company in addition to the team behind the action-RPG, as its publisher Square Enix has announced that the release has managed to sell over 2 million copies worldwide....

When No Man’s Sky does launch for Xbox One this summer, it will be interesting to see how people react to it. After all, the game’s initial launch on PC and PS4 was met with widespread criticism and disappointment, with many people accusing game director Sean Murray of misleading them about some of its features. However, the launch of No Man’s Sky on Xbox One is Hello Games’ chance at a second first impression....

Since its release in 1998, Banjo-Kazooie has become widely regarded as one of the best and most influential 3D-platformers of all time. Both it and its sequel Banjo-Tooie were critical and commercial successes, and are widely loved by fans of the genre. The titles always come up whenever discussing the Nintendo 64, as the system is synonymous with the characters at this point. So why exactly, in the age of remakes, remasters, and reboots, have these titles not been given the remake treatment?...

Oculus’ parent company Facebook has announced that it will restructure the virtual reality developer’s teams as a part of a larger reorganization. In a move that will like concern longtime fans of the popular VR headsets, the social media titan will be rebranding and merging Oculus’ AR and VR teams into a new division under the Facebook banner. This decision comes on the heels of another deeply unpopular announcement, where Oculus announced that it would force users to create a Facebook account to continue using its headsets....

If gamers, or even casual consumers, weren’t paying attention to Virtual Reality prior to Oculus VR’s sale to Facebook, they certainly were after. The sale was not only a surprise to us who had been covering Oculus and VR’s growth over the past few years, but it also proved that there was some weight to this new technology. However, with the $2 billion sale also came a lot of unwanted attention for Oculus VR, specifically from game publisher ZeniMax Media....

The game hasn’t even come out yet, but someone is already hard at work remaking Halo Infinite in Dreams. Media Molecule might be tired of remakes and memes, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from using their brilliant game-within-a-game maker to recreate their favorite games. You can already play Final Fantasy VII Remake, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, and Fallout 4 in Dreams, although the Nintendo remakes have all been taken down because Nintendo couldn’t take a joke....

Starbreeze Studios has postponed the release of Overkill’s The Walking Dead on PS4 and Xbox One. Originally, the cooperative zombie shooter was set to hit consoles in February but some rough spots for its developer and poor reception to the PC version have seemingly delayed any future releases indefinitely. According to a press release issued by Starbreeze, the company is “currently evaluating and reviewing the performance of the game” on consoles....

Overkill has released a brand new trailer for its upcoming shooter, The Walking Dead, which confirms the game’s final release date. There have been a few delays since The Walking Dead was initially announced in 2014, but fans’ patience is about to be rewarded. Players can pick up Overkill’s The Walking Dead starting November 6. The trailer that Overkill decided to share during the E3 2018 PC Gaming Show consists entirely of in-engine footage....

Following the announcement that permabans could be coming to Overwatch’s Competitive Play, it appears that this wasn’t the only penalty that Blizzard plans on implementing into is massively-popular multiplayer shooter. In response to a thread about smurfing over at the Blizzard Forums, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has stated that penalties for Competitive Play players who manipulate their Skill Rating via boosting or throwing are about to increase dramatically. For those who are unaware, boosting is where someone pays another player to play Overwatch’s Competitive Mode for them in order to increase their Skill Rating, whereas throwing is the complete opposite scenario where players purposely lose matches in an attempt to drop their Skill Rating as low as possible....

Despite its players being forced to stay at home, early indications suggest Pokémon GO is on track to have its best year yet. Chances are more people than ever will have turned to video games over the last few months. When stuck inside for four months, there’s only so much stuff people can watch on Netflix. People who already played video games will have been playing them even more, lapsed gamers will have returned to the fray, and people who previously didn’t game at all may have dipped their toe to see what all the fuss is about....

If you’re hunting for precious materials and completing Side Quests in Monster Hunter Rise, you will inevitably come across the need for Divine Rhino. In general the few Rhino Beetle type materials and creatures in MH Rise are very rare, and that’s because the Gathering Nodes for it are very hard to find, and only in one area. In this guide we’re going to instruct you on how to find each and every gathering node where you can find the Divine Rhino, and break down all of the requirements you need to keep in mind in order to find it....

It’s hard to explain Marvel’s Moon Knight on the best of days. The former mercenary-turned-vigilante can mostly be found after dark on the streets of New York City, protecting those who travel by night as the earthly avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. But the man behind the mask, Marc Spector, also has Dissociative Identity Disorder, which means that he can flip between alternate identities like that of ‘Steven Grant’ and ‘Jake Lockley’....

Tattoos have a long and rich history in many cultures around the world. Some societies used them to brand criminals or outsiders, some used them to mark spiritual leaders, some used them as a rite of passage or to show stories of the wearer’s life. Tattoos in video games are often used to communicate character backstory in a visual way, rather than just lore dumping on the player. There are loads of games with tattooed protagonists out there, but I still want more because they add a tremendous amount of depth to their wearers....