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Tears of Themis debate guide: Logic vs Empathy vs Intuition attributes explained How to rock-paper-scissors your way through the legal system of HoYoverse’s romantic detective visual novel. Image credit:HoYoverse Forget about the romantic drama side of Tears of Themis for a moment, and what you have sitting alongside it is a detective visual novel quite obviously inspired by the Ace Attorney series. The main character and her allies, including all four potential love interests – a fellow lawyer, a private detective, a criminal psychologist, and the heir apparent to a wealthy but shady local businessman – find themselves investigating a series of criminal cases linked by an overarching conspiracy, with the resolution to each episode being the day the case comes to court....

Tekken 8 gets a massive offline PS5 demo this week, Xbox and PC coming soon You want more Tekken 8? You got it; a huge new demo will be playable for the game from Thursday, December 14 on PS5. Image credit:Bandai Namco Get ready for the next battle: Tekken 8 is getting a massive new demo, and it is landing soon. Today, Bandai Namco has revealed that Tekken 8 is getting an offline demo that’ll let you play around with the game’s massive roster, dip your beak into the cinematic Story Mode, see what all the Arcade Quest fuss is about, and check out some fancy elements of the Gallery, to boot....

Tekken 8 reneges on its controversial DLC rollout, but is it too little too late? It’s a nice gesture, but perhaps the consequences of this debacle will linger on. Image credit:VG247 Tekken 8 faced some serious criticism due to Bandai Namco’s decision to sell Heihachi’s new stage seperately from the season 1 DLC pass. Now, following community uproar, Bandai Namco has reneged on its original decision, giving the stage out to season pass owners alongside some in-game currency to help sweaten the deal....

That Balatro still has a grip on my very soul is proof it’s the best game of 2024 150-odd hours in, I’m still not done with Balatro, and when I am, I will mourn. Image credit:VG247/PlayStack There’s one particular feeling I associate with a game being an all-time great. It’s a feeling that comes after you already know that it’s a classic, to be fair - after putting tens or possibly hundreds of hours into something....

The 20 best Nintendo Wii games to play in 2025 Time to head down motion control memory lane. The Nintendo Wii was a mainstream sensation from the moment it released, and likely still sits underneath the TV in many households that had never bought a games console before and haven’t since. As the first major motion control system to hit the market back in 2006, the Wii had an intoxicating mix of accessibility and wow-factor that most of us couldn’t get enough of....

The Best Games Ever Show 100th Episode Quiz: PART TWO Who wins? Who loses? Who kicks off about the rules? Find out in the second part of our enormous buzzer episode. Image credit:VG247 To recap: for the 100th episode we decided to come up with 100 episode topics and blow them all on one huge quiz round, with individual buzzers and everything. Inviting some favourite guests to return (Owen, Richie, and Burns) with the promise that, yes, however many points you score in this mammoth episode will be added to your overall total for the series....

The Boys season 4 release date, trailer and more Get the lowdown on everything you need for the upcoming season. Image credit:Prime Video/ Amazon MGM Studios It’s been a couple of years since we last saw The Boys in action, but we finally have a season 4 release date: the edgier take on superheroes is set to return June 13, 2024 on Prime Video. The release date was confirmed in February with an announcement Billy Butcher would surely approve of, telling fans to “Break out the f**kin confetti....

The chicken jockey who sold the world: talks around another Minecraft movie are happening after the film’s scorching performance in cinemas After breaking all box office records, such talks probably include laughter and counting money. Image credit:Warner Bros/ Mojang After the Minecraft movie broke all the box office records and grossed 1.3 billion dollars, it should come as no surprise that there’s talk of a sequel, and according to director, Jared Ness, those talks certainly are happening....

The cool-sounding Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is now the much less cool-sounding Dragon Age: The Veilguard The player’s companions are now the main focus of the game. Image credit:VG247/EA Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (aka the fourth Dragon Age ) is now Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and we’re getting a gameplay reveal next week, plus BioWare is finally opening up about the overall direction for the game. The announcement, along with some details plus an explanation of why ‘Dreadwolf’ was dropped, came via the official BioWare blog ....

The FTC has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft following the Activision Blizzard acquisition, letting the tech giant loose After years of legal debate and courthouse clashes, the FTC x Microsoft saga is at an end. Image credit:Activision, Treyarch, Raven. The FTC has officially dropped its legal case against Microsoft following the American tech giant’s aquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023. Microsoft is now free from scrutiny, and can now proceed with all manner of business shenanigans with Activision Blizzard in tow without worrying about the courts....

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is coming to PlayStation 5 in January The “definitive way” to experience the game. Image credit:Sony / Naughty Dog The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered has been announced for PlayStation 5, and it’s releasing in January. Sony and Naughty Dog announced the news overnight, a day after the rumored remastered version showed up in the PlayStation Network database . The remastered game features technological improvements, new modes, and behind-the-scenes features....

The Last of Us TV show is doing one thing very differently from the games – and I love it In moving from game to television, HBO had to make some things more realistic – and it benefits the show a lot. If you’ve played even the first few hours of The Last of Us – you know, like you can do totally for free on PlayStation right now – then you’ll know one thing about Joel....

The Nintendo Switch 2 circus continues to get weirder, as Genki reportedly says its mockups weren’t actually based on having seen a real Switch 2 Despite previously having suggested that they were. Image credit:Nintendo Remember those Nintendo Switch 2 dummy models from CES, which everyone did a whole bunch of analysing of, and have since been part of prompting Nintendo to finally say something about the whole situation regarding the unrevealed console?...

The Witcher 3: A Tome Entombed walkthrough Venture into an ancient crypt to assist a stubbornly persistent researcher. The Witcher 3 sees Geralt meeting - and beating up - all manner of men and beasts, but during the A Tome Entombed quest, we see him come face to face with a slumbering vampire who has been rudely awoken. Uh, oh. And while you have opportunity to leave the vampire undisturbed, and even let him return to resting after disturbing him, you can’t complete the quest without forcing him from his pit....

The Witcher 3: Fencing Lessons walkthrough Teach Rosa Var Attre to fence, witcher-style. Geralt meets his fair share of people throughout The Witcher 3 . Some friendly, some not so friendly, and some that are just a downright nuisance. There’s a lot of those, actually. During the Fencing Lessons quest, Geralt winds up accompanying Rosa to a fencing lesson (surprise), but it appears she has other ideas. If you need help dealing with Rosa and the drunkards she ultimately runs into, here’s how to complete the Fencing Lessons quest in The Witcher 3 ....

The Witcher 3: Temerian Valuables walkthrough Get your hands on plenty of loot with this Treasure Hunt. One of many Treasure Hunt quests to be found throughout The Witcher 3 , there’s plenty of loot for completing this little task: Temerian Valuables . What’s better is that you can also receive the loot from another Treasure Hunt while you’re at it, though you will miss out on some minor EXP....

This is a great way to re-watch all of Diablo 4’s campaign dialogue and cutscenes Did you miss any cutscene, dialogue or combat chatter while playing Diablo 4’s campaign? These videos got you covered! Although Blizzard didn’t hype it up too much ahead of release, Diablo 4 ’s narrative ended up being one of the best things about it . The plot may have been predictable, but characters (especially Lorath, our new Deckard Cain ), story, side-quests, and many random NPC chatter were all incredibly engaging....

This Starfield mod offers a bunch of useful, better rewards for slaying Starborn No more feeling like you deserve a refund after battling one of Starfield’s masked artifact hunters. Image credit:VG247 If you’re dissatisfied with the loot you’ve been getting from Starfield ’s Starborn, a new mod is well worth giving a look. Assuming you’ve gotten a decent way into the game’s main quest, odds are you’ve run into the Starborn, who serve as Constellation’s main competition in the mad rush to claim the mysterious artefacts strewn throughout the cosmos....

Those About to Die may be about gladiators and chariot races, but its most ferocious battle is between historical record and artistic licence Ancient Rome has never looked as good as this on the small screen, or the big one, but did any of it really happen? Image credit:VG247, Peacock, Adobe Stock Those About to Die recently joined the esteemed pantheon of Ancient Rome based drama, joining the likes of I, Claudius and HBO’s Rome but, refreshingly, telling the story of a less celebrated (and raked over) dynasty than the Julio-Claudians: that of the Flavians....

Those freshly announced Halloween games? Turns out one of them is a pixel art, side scrolling platformer, and the devs behind Shantae are helping out on it And there’s a new Evil Dead game on the way too! Image credit:Boss Team Games/ WayForward Two new games based on the Halloween series were announced yesterday, and one of them, a pixel art platformer, has already been revealed. That isn’t the only game Boss Team Games announced either, as the RetroRealms branding is covering a second game, the other also being a 16-bit pixel art platformer, once again adapting Evil Dead....