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Assassin’s Creed Shadows leak footage doesn’t “represent the final quality of the game”, Ubisoft says, before doing a funny about delays Surely you can wait just under a month longer to finally see what those clouds are like, right? Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows footage is out there in the wild prematurely, in what’s the latest bad thing to happen to a game we’ve all be waiting to see the nice clouds of for ages....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows The Price of Rice - Kuma location Kuma’s Lookout is supposed to be near a canal in Omi, but it can be tricky to track down - here’s where to look! Image credit:Ubisoft/VG247 As Naoe and Yasuke’s investigation into the Shinbakufu agent known as the Wheel intensifies in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Yasuke is sent to meet up with Lady Oichi’s bodyguard, Kuma, somewhere in the Shimmering Fields of Omi....

Atomfall hands-on: Forget Fallout, sneaking into the shed of a bloke called Alf to nick cornish pasties is a bit more rough and ready Rebellion’s slice of post-apocalyptic Blighty is more our Rob than RobCo. Image credit:Rebellion I’ll start off by telling you a thing you probably shouldn’t do in Atomfall . It’s a bad idea to not bother equipping any weapons, venture out, and immediately end up having to try and beat a gang of druids (who keep saying stuff about soil) to death with your bare hands....

Avengers: Doomsday writer thinks bringing Robert Downey Jr. back as Iron Man would have been “betraying” the character’s ending, but he’s “very excited” by the Doctor Doom angle That makes one of us. Image credit:Marvel Studios The writer behind Avengers: Doomsday says he found the idea of bringing back Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom “electric.” It’s pretty clear that Kevin Feige and the rest of the execs at Marvel Studios are pretty wary about bringing MCU characters back from the dead, despite that being a pretty common thing in the comics themselves....

Baldur’s Gate 3 cross-play is on the way, but there’s no ETA yet At some point, you’ll be able to play with others regardless of platform. Larian Studios has confirmed that cross-play between consoles and PC is on the way for Baldur’s Gate 3 , but the studio isn’t ready to say when it will arrive. In an interview with Eurogamer , Larian’s director of publishing, Michael Douse, said including cross-play was always part of the plan, and it’s in the game’s roadmap....

Baldur’s Gate 3 Goblin Camp guide The Goblin Camp in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a dense area filled with quests and combat - here’s what you need to know! Image credit:Larian/VG247 Much of the opening act of Baldur’s Gate 3 revolves around the Goblin Camp . There’s no greater hive of scum and villainy for miles around, but it’s exactly where your party needs to go if they’re ever going to get out of their predicament....

Baldur’s Gate 3 not realising your quest items exist following hotfix 16? Mods might be the reason why Ah well, your load order was probably due a purge and refresh anyway. Image credit:VG247/Larian Some Baldur’s Gate 3 players have been reporting some fresh issues involving the game not recognising that they’ve got important quest items in their inventories following the release of hotfix 16. Thankfully, it looks like the solution could be as simple as disabling some mods....

Baldur’s Gate 3 players have now downloaded “more than 50 million” mods since patch 7, and you’ve gotta thank the weirdos who call undead camp bloke daddy Seriously, come with me, we’re doing it now, so we can swiftly take a cold shower and forget we did. Image credit:VG247/Larian You know how Baldur’s Gate 3 ’s mods were proving pretty popular since Patch 7 brought them to everyone? Well, that’s not slowed down, as Larian’s just revealed that 50 million have now been downloaded by players across all platforms since that point....

Baldur’s Gate 3’s avian enthusiasts may have found evidence that Larian doesn’t know what a Blue Jay is It’s a real a shame when you come off looking like a right blue tit to some twitchers. Image credit:VG247/Larian Devastatingly, it turns out that Baldur’s Gate 3 might not be entirely accurate in its portrayal of birds, with an avian enthusiast on Reddit having picked out some aspects of Larian’s Blue Jays that don’t add up....

Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode is borrowing some of the worst aspects of Call of Duty: Warzone, but at least its ring of fire instantly kills you Testing for Battlefield 6’s upcoming battle royale mode is finally starting, and we have our first details of what sounds like a mix of BF5’s Firestorm and Warzone. Image credit:Battlefield Studios, EA. Battlefield Studios has officially unveiled the first details of the Battlefield 6 battle royale mode, which was first announced in August at the game’s multiplayer reveal event ....

Best Honkai Star Rail Blade teams Even emo kings need friends. Your Honkai: Star Rail Blade team needs to function a bit differently from what you may be used to. The most important thing to keep in mind about Blade is that he needs to take damage to power up his attack, either damage from enemies or himself. Shielders don’t work with him, so keep Fire Trailblazer, March 7th, and Gepard on the sidelines when Blade is around....

Best Pokemon spin-off games The amount of Pokemon games there are to play is never-ending, so here are some of the best Pokemon spin-offs for you to try. Image credit:The Pokemon Company/VG247 The most popular Pokemon games tend to be the mainline games. They follow a tried and tested formula of catching and battling Pokemon, nurturing them so they can face even tougher battles and so that you can become the best trainer there ever was....

Best Stalker 2 mods to install Here are some of the best Stalker 2 mods to install before you next explore the Zone. Image credit:GSC Game World Stalker 2 has you exploring the perilous Zone, packed with dangerous anomalies, threatening creatures, and hostile humans who aren’t prepared to share their loot. To make this gargantuan game the experience you want it to be, whether that’s with quality of life improvements, cheaper repairs (they’re pricey, right?...

Bethesda knows we have great expectations for Elder Scrolls 6 A picture says a thousand words. Starfield seems to be harbouring a little reference to The Elder Scrolls 6, and it certainly seems that Bethesda thinks we have pretty great expectations for it. As shared on the game’s subreddit, you can find an exhibit in New Homestead that discusses some kind of ancient scroll that has been lost to time. One thing that did remain though is a fancy and quite fantasy looking scroll holder, which certainly looks like it could fit very easily into the world of Elder Scrolls....

Bitlife Lottery Chances If you’re looking to get rich overnight, here’s how the Bitlife Lottery works. Image credit:Candywriter LLC As an adult life simulation game, a lot of the activities you can participate in throughout Bitlife require your character to have some cash. Whether it’s using the job recruiter, taking a trip to the salon, starting a property empire, or paying off tuition fees; money makes the world go round in Bitlife!...

Breath of the Wild: How to Beat Windblight Ganon After soaring in the skies atop Vah Medoh, it’s fitting that you’ll be facing off against Windblight Ganon – seems he finally grasped those winds he coveted… Taking the creature down won’t be easy, but follow this guide to beating Windblight Ganon in Breath of the Wild and you’ll succeed. If you don’t, just keep trying until you do. Or give up, but that would be a bit sad....

Concord comes out guns blazing at PlayStation State of Play with gameplay reveal The multiplayer FPS is set to launch on PC and PS5 this August. We got to see around ten minutes of in-engine footage, captured on PS5. The footage started out with an animated short, which gave us a fairly decent idea of what to expect. There are five characters at the centre of it, also acting as classes we can choose form (though many more exist)....

Connections hints and definitions for October 20, 2023 Today’s Connections puzzle has tons of words that could be in multiple categories <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/connections-hint-tips.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A Connections puzzle, showing the categories “Mild Oaths”, “Fast”, “Falsify” and “TV Shows” - 1”> Image credit:New York Times/VG247 Connections is a tough new word association game from the New York Times, where you have to group a selection of 16 words into 4 groups of 4....

Dauntless and Fae Farm dev Phoenix Labs the latest to be hit by layoffs, cancelling a game mere weeks from its reveal According to reports, over 100 staff have been affected as the company focuses on its live service titles. Yet another video game developer has been hit by layoffs. This time it’s the Dauntless and Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs, which posted its announcement regarding restructuring on LinkedIn late last night....

Dead Island 2 review: a HELL-A zany take on the co-op zombie shooter Drop the poker face, because Dead Island 2 is here, showing the co-op zombie-slaughtering genre how it’s done in 2023. Dead Island 2 starts in the sun-soaked and blood-drenched City of Angels, but there are no angels here. Brain-dead, ravenous zombies govern this city, now casually called HELL-A. You awaken aboard an aeroplane that has succumbed to the plague of zombies, and with merely the clothes on your back and an immunity to the undead’s slavering bites, you need to escape from HELL-A....