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Sea of Thieves Season 12 raises the Jolly Roger: Prepare for zipline adventures, loot, new weapons, pets, and a PS5 premiere Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen! Image credit:Rare / Microsoft Sea of Thieves is now available on PlayStation 5 as a digital download and supports cross-play between PC, PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox. The release coincides with the launch of Season 12 , a free update to players across all platforms, and it brings a host of game-changing features....

Sega is teasing a “new era, new energy,” for The Game Awards, whatever that means Could this be a first look at the Sonic developer’s super game? Image credit:VG247/SEGA Sega appears to have sent letters to numerous content creators where it’s been teasing a “new era, new energy,” at next week’s The Game Awards. Earlier this week, Twitch streamer CuriousJoi shared a video showing a letter she received from Sega saying that she should “make sure to tune in to The Game Awards December 7th....

Silent Hill 2 Lake View Hotel guide At long last, James has finally reached the Lake View Hotel in Silent Hill 2. Image credit:Bloober Team/VG247 James Sunderland has been on quite the journey so far in Silent Hill 2 , but we’re finally nearing a close. That said, we still have a few more things to do before James finally reaches some conclusion about all of the goings-on in Silent Hill , and we’ll be wrapping these up at the Lake View Hotel ....

Silent Hill 2 remake Coin Cabinet puzzle solution Here’s how to make sense of the poems involved in Silent Hill 2’s Coin Cabinet puzzle. Image credit:Bloober Team/VG247 One of the first and most memorable puzzles of the Silent Hill 2 remake is the Coin Cabinet found in the Reception Office of Wood Side Apartments . While you can’t do much here to begin with, you will be able to collect three different coins from around the apartments that will aid you with solving the Coin Cabinet puzzle ....

Sons of the Forest releases in Early Access today, here’s what you need to know The long-awaited sequel to The Forest is almost here. Sons of the Forest , the long-awaited sequel to Endnight Games’ The Forest , is almost here. Albeit, in Early Access. It’s been almost nine years since The Forest first launched, so for those among us who have been patiently waiting to explore a perilous island with friends again, it’s been a long time coming....

Soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers delivers on its promise, shows some hot boss fight action Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated Soulslike games, and it had one of its biggest moments today. Image credit:Leenzee, 505 Games. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers was one of few titles confirmed ahead of time to be shown at tonight’s Xbox Partner Showcase. Well, the game’s big moment just took place at the show, and it was everything we hoped for....

Squid Game season 2 arrives this Christmas, and Netflix has confirmed the series will end in 2025 Capitalism is bad, but it won’t make this one last forever. Image credit:Netflix We now live in a world where TV shows might go three full years without a new season in the name of being ‘prestige’ or whatever. Anyway, Squid Game season 2 is finally arriving this Christmas, and the surprise here is that Netflix will be wrapping it all up by 2025....

Starfield animated videos introduce you to three cities in the Settled Systems Take some time and watch these three videos. Bethesda Game Studios has released a trio of animated Starfield videos, offering a glimpse into three of the game’s major cities. In the videos, you will follow a delivery pilot in New Atlantis seeking the life of the elite; a stranded orphan looking for a way out of Akila City; and two “street rats” struggling to survive in Neon....

Starfield helped Xbox achieve record-breaking gaming revenue for Q1, but it’s not all good news Bethesda’s RPG and Xbox Game Pass did well, hardware not so much. Image credit:VG247/Bethesda Microsoft has shared its financial results for the opening segment of the 2024 fiscal year, with the numbers pointing to record gaming revenue across the quarter for Xbox, though hardware sales have seen a slight drop. According to the data (thanks, Eurogamer ) published by the company behind Xbox, its gaming arm generated just over $3....

Starfield topped 230,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it’s not officially out yet Starfield is very hot on Steam right now, and it’s not technically been released yet. Starfield doesn’t officially release until September 6. But, if you paid for the expensive, Premium Edition of the game , you would be able to play right now. Despite the game being a day one Game Pass release, thousands of players couldn’t wait and decided to jump in early....

State of Decay 3 finally re-emerges from a four year hiatus, and it’s looking rad Undead Labs is back with a new look, and a fresh trailer for its upcoming threequel. Image credit:? After first being revealed four years ago, State of Decay 3 finally received a new trailer at today’s Xbox Games Showcase. It’s been quite a while since we last saw anything of State of Decay 3, as the announcement trailer back in 2020 is the only thing that’s been shown for it, and that was just a CG trailer....

Steam breaks its records for most concurrent and active users, again That’s a lot of gaming. Image credit:Valve It’s a new year, and a new opportunity for Steam to break some records, which it did when it had over 10 million active players over the weekend. As spotted by Eurogamer , Steam once again set another record of concurrent users, hitting its latest peak of 33,078,963 players all logged in at once, according to SteamDB stats yesterday (January 8)....

Steel Hunters has an open beta kicking off later today, for all you noble mech lovers out there Players can unlock some rewards for the main game, as well as some special goodies for the very best. Image credit:Wargaming If you’ve been looking for a new mecha game to mess around in, or consider yourself a fan of more strategic-focused multiplayer shooters, an beta play test for Steel Hunters may just be what you’ve been looking for....

Stellar Blade Wisdom puzzle solution Another math puzzle? Oh no. Anyway, here’s the solution and how to figure it out. Image credit:VG247 Stellar Blade is garnished with a varied collection of side quests that may prove brain-bruising for those more interested in fighting monsters than math papers. There’s no shame in that, we all have our strengths. If you’re struggling with the Widsom Puzzle mission, we have the solution. So without further ado, here’s the Wisdom Puzzle solution....

Still Wakes the Deep review: This is perfect Game Pass fodder - great but flawed, perfectly paced, and exactly the right length. This six-hour disaster movie keeps the tension up, but it has entirely the wrong focus. Image credit:VG247 First of all, Still Wakes the Deep is an incredible artistic achievement. It may be The Chinese Room’s best ever game, blending the tense creeping horror of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs with the evocative, beautifully researched world-building of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture ....

By wasting Rocksteady’s pedigree and talent on live service guff, the quest to fatten dividends may have robbed us of a good Arkham follow-up. What on earth happened to Suicide Squad ? Alex and I discuss in the video above how Rocksteady’s long-awaited return to the Arkhamverse strays disappointingly far from the formula that made them a success story. We had some good times. Yeah, that’s Marvel, but people are, if anything, even more weary of DC, whose abortive and fractured film universe has been floundering from the start....

Super Mario Bros. Movie Post-Credits scene revealed - and how it teases the sequel It wouldn’t be a big-budget Hollywood vehicle if it didn’t also include a teaser for what’s next - so here’s what the post-credits scenes mean for Mario 2. Stand-alone movies are rare now, with every studio looking for a story and world they can serialize and expand with ease. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a refreshingly simple one-shot self-enclosed story - but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t also indulge in a little post-credits teasing....

Sure, gaming in 2024 had some killer underrated gems, but it was really the year of the mod And not just the rude ones either, though obviously they did their bit. Image credit:VG247 Last year, around this time, I wrote a feature arguing that Starfield , with its perfectly OK, but a bit synthetic and cold universe, was 2023’s actual game of the year . Not because it was the best game of 2023, but because the feeling of playing it, the short bursts of fun within a meander through the galaxy that often lacked much meaning or wonder, best mirrored the experience of living and working in and around the games industry last year....

Switch 2 reportedly demoed with Unreal Engine 5 next-gen tech showpiece A pair of tech demos were also apparently shown to developers. According to a recent report, Nintendo has shown off the Switch 2, or whatever its successor might be called, to developers at Gamescom. This comes from VGC , who said that behind closed doors select developers were shown presentations for the Switch 2. These presentations apparently included tech demos showing off how well the system will supposedly run....

Sword of Convallaria Flare Build and Team Compositions Flare is a DPS unit capable of healing and supporting her team with this build in Sword of Convallaria. Image credit:VG247/XD Entertainment Sword of Convallaria has an abundance of characters for you to unlock and experiment with, and many of them — even at lower rarities — have great utility that can be used in battle. Flare is just one of many epic characters you can get your hands on that are surprisingly good, capable of boosting her team’s survivability massively while dishing out attacks....