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Diablo 4’s Helltides will be as good as Blood Harvest in Season 3 Blizzard is already looking ahead, promising some exciting changes coming to Diablo 4 with the next season. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment It’s clear Diablo 4 ’s Season of Blood has been a success, both thanks to the many quality of life, wide-reaching changes it brought to the game, as well as the new content itself . We may be deep into Season 2, but Blizzard is already sharing some tiny details about its broad goals for Season 3, as well as a few specifics....

Diablo 4’s long-awaited Tower and its Leaderboards enter beta today, and there’s no PTR funny business this time Diablo 4’s first big moment of 2026 is nearly upon us, and it’s one feature many have been looking forward to for actual years. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo 4 is about to deliver on Blizzard’s years-old promise to add a challenging, leaderboard-driven experience to the action RPG. The beta for The Tower, and its associated Leaderboards are about to kick off....

Better get ready to start forking over some cash every month. Image credit:Disney+ Those of you in the US using your friend’s Disney Plus account will soon have to get your own account, as plans to crackdown on password sharing have been set in motion. “You agree not to impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, including using another person’s username, password or other account information, or another person’s name or likeness, or provide false details for a parent or guardian,” the new agreement terms read....

Disneyland might have outed Star Wars Outlaw’s release window, but Ubisoft is playing coy It’s still planned for 2024 at the very least. Image credit:Ubisoft/ Massive Entertainment A Disney Parks blog post has possibly given us a more precise release window for Star Wars Outlaws , though the post has since been changed. Yesterday, a post covering 24 Disney Experiences , mostly related to the Disney Parks, noted that " Star Wars Outlaws , the open-world Star Wars game, is set to release late this year" (thanks, VGC )....

Dot and Bubble brings Black Mirror-style social commentary to Doctor Who with thought-provoking results - Review Doctor Who toys with heavy social commentary with a new episode that doesn’t actually feature the Doctor all that much. But don’t worry - the lead is, like, so charismatic. Image credit:Lindy, played by Callie Cooke // Credit: BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/James Pardon There is one key thing you need to know about this week’s Doctor Who : the titular character isn’t in it very much....

EA Sports FC 25 adds Eden Hazard, Jamie Carragher, Tim Howard and 10 more as Ultimate Team Heroes Maicon, Ze Roberto and Blaise Matuidi feature as some slightly deeper cuts. Image credit:EA Sports EA Sports FC 25 is adding 13 brand-new Heroes to its roster of niche and cult legends in Ultimate Team including Real Madrid hipster-favourite Guti, TV’s Jamie Carragher, and England’s all-time leader appearance maker, Fara Williams. Coming in as more accessible options than Icons, who’re pitched as true greats of the game, Ultimate Team Heroes are fan-favourites, players who had slightly shorter careers at the very top, or, in some cases, players who built up a cult following because of how overpowered they were in-game (we’re looking at you Ramires)....

EAFC 24 review-in-progress: New franchise, same results Fundamentally, EA Sports FC 24 is not a new franchise. And that’s not a bad (or good) thing. Update: We’ve updated our EAFC 24 review with a full and new text about Ultimate Team. Fundamentally, EA Sports FC 24 is not a new franchise. It’s built on the bones of what would have been FIFA 24 , so as much as it’s billed as a new era for EA Sports football, like every yearly update it’s an iterative step with a few showpiece features....

Elden Ring Nightreign Revenant Remembrance quest walkthrough Here’s how to wrap up the Revenant’s very interesting - and very dark - Remembrance quest in Nightreign. Image credit:Bandai Namco/VG247 Elden Ring Nightreign has eight different Nightfarers of varying backgrounds to choose from when embarking on an Expedition, all of which have their own Remembrance quests to progress. These give you an insight into how each Nightfarer came to be there – striving to beat the Nightlords – and also line your pockets with valuable, character-specific Relics and Vessels....

Elden Ring Reforged mod’s latest update might just be what you need to play the masterpiece again We’re coming up on the first anniversary of Elden Ring, so you may understandably have the itch to go back to The Lands Between. Elden Ring is almost one year old. It overtook the zeitgeist when it came out, and the depth of content found within its open world kept most of us entertained until the end of 2022....

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree’s mute final boss appears to have cut dialogue that’d have seen it break its eerie silence No, it’s not “Oi, Tarnished, I’m about to batter you for three hours straight!” Image credit:FromSoftware Warning, spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree lie ahead. A dataminer looks to have found some dialogue for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree’s famously mute final boss that was cut by FromSoftware, leaving you to be battered without at least getting a nice hello before the deadly meteor showers start....

Even Alan Wake 2’s directors had to rely on fan wikis to keep track of some details Looks like you’re not alone. Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Alan Wake 2’s pair of directors have thanked fan wikis for helping them keep track of all the small details from the original games. You might think you’re a big fan of something, you may even be the creator of a beloved text, but no one will know more about a piece of media than a fan wiki....

Fable meets Stardew Valley meets Rimworld in the RPG life sim adventure Mirthwood A new adventure awaits. Mirthwood is a new medieval fantasy RPG and life-sim adventure in the works, and it sounds right up our alley. So much so, we are a bit disappointed we’ll have to wait until next year to get our hands on it. Mirthwood - an immersive medieval fantasy world that allows you to choose who you want to be....

Far Cry PEGI rating might be signalling the arrival of a new spin-off of a spin-off We might soon be heading back to the world of Blood Dragon. A recent rating from European ratings board PEGI seems to suggest a new Far Cry game is on the way. As spotted by GameRant , a listing for a game titled Captain Laserhawk Niji Warrior recently appeared on PEGI’s website, though the page has since been taken down....

February PlayStation Plus: Horizon, RE7, Borderlands 3 and Scarlet Nexus coming to game catalogue A decent selection of PS Plus games in February. Sony has confirmed Horizon Forbidden West , Borderlands 3 , Scarlet Nexus and Resident Evil 7 are coming to the PlayStation Plus games catalogue, after news leaked earlier today. The orginal information came from Billbil-kun , who has previously released accurate lists of upcoming PS Plus titles....

FIFA 24 is dead, long live EA Sports FC 24 – preview Can positive gameplay impressions and nerdy additions make EA’s new wonderkid a FIFA successor to be reckoned with? Image credit:VG247 I never thought I’d be impressed by arms in a video game, but here we are. Realistically, EA Sports FC 24 was always going to be the same sort of iterative step as if it was called FIFA 24 , building on and balancing the showpiece features of its predecessor while tentatively introducing its own....

Final Fantasy 16 is a firm reminder that with RPG elements, sometimes less is more Let me propose this simple question: should Final Fantasy 16 be an RPG? Image credit:VG247 The weeks following the release of a new Final Fantasy game are always fraught with endless, grating debate and social media in-fighting. And Final Fantasy 16 , naturally, is no different. But I’d argue that this time around, people are asking the wrong questions....

Final Fantasy 16 patch finally lets you get rid of that aggressive motion blur There’s a lot to like in the new Final Fantasy 16 patch, but being able to turn off two of its most aggressive settings is the big win. Final Fantasy 16 may not have needed a big day one patch like most games (only a small one ), but it launched with a host of annoying settings turned on by default, with no way to turn them off....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth development advancing smoothly, staying true to the plan On track and flourishing. Square Enix has provided a short update on the development of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth . According to Square, development is “progressing smoothly and according to plan.” The firm is also working on nailing down a release date, per a statement from producer Yoshinori Kitase . Rebirth is the follow-up to 2020’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the second in a planned trilogy of games remaking the 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy 7....

Final Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak update coming tomorrow, June 8 Prepare to face Primordial Malzeno. Capcom has announced the next free bonus update for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak will be the final content release for the game. Arriving on June 8, the update will feature the final monster coming to the massive expansion, Primordial Malzeno, along with a number of changes to armor augmentations and decorations, and new Event Quests with greater challenges and more rewards will continue to release until releasing through July 27....

Finally, Game Pass lets us experience Kazuma Kiryu’s version of hell - and it’s absolutely essential You can take the man out of Kamurocho, but you can’t take the existential dread out of the man. Image credit:VG247 Renowned philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a play based around a version of hell that consists solely of a plain room which three sinners are set to be trapped within together for eternity. There’s no lava, no torture, and no Homer Simpson being fed more doughnuts than anyone could reasonably eat....