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Black Ops 6 launch guide: pre-load, release times and PC specs It’s the middle of October and wouldn’t you believe it, we’re just days away now from the release of this year’s Call of Duty, Black Ops 6. Image credit:Treyarch, Raven Software, Activision. It’s almost time to get our hands on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 , the highly-anticipated return of developer Treyarch, with everything that entails. Treyarch is known for its distinct take on Call of Duty campaigns and characters, as well as its unmatched mastery of round-based Zombies....

Blizzard’s cancelled survival game, Odyssey, reportedly killed due to its engine With the cancellation of Blizzard’s Odyssey, we seemingly missed out on a good survival game that died because of its engine. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment This has not been a good week for game developers in general, but that’s especially true for the 1,900 staff (8%) Microsoft laid off from its video games division . The cuts affected several studios and labels, including Activision Blizzard, which is only three months into the Microsoft group following a lengthy acquisition journey....

BlizzCon 2023 Day 2 - WoW, Diablo 4, Overwatch 2 sessions, and more Watch to find out what’s next and check out some deep dives. BlizzCon 2023 kicked off yesterday and you can watch Day 2 right here. It all starts with a deep dive into World of Warcraft , followed by a session on Overwatch 2 , the Diablo 4 campfire chat, and then community night. BlizzCon 2023 Day 2: Deep Dives, What’s Next sessions, and more....

Breath of the Wild: How to Find Impa in Kakariko Village Finding Impa can actually be a pretty tricky business in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild . In this Breath of the Wild story guide , we’ll be walking you through completing one of the central story quests in the game. On this page: How to Find Impa in Zelda Breath of the Wild Find and Climb Duelling Peaks Tower to Draw in the Map Head to Kakariko Village to Find Impa How to Find Impa in Zelda Breath of the Wild To find Impa, head to the east of the Great Plateau, sneaking past the Guardians surrounding the Ja Baij Shrine....

Castlevania: Nocturne fans, rejoice! Season 2 is officially in production No word on when we can expect it to drop, though. It’s time to celebrate, Castlevania: Nocturne fans, as Netflix confirmed that season two of the anime adaptation is now in production. Earlier this week, Netflix shared a very brief teaser video offering the words that everyone wanted to hear in the trailer’s description: “Castlevania: Nocturne will return for a season 2....

Chris Pratt as a Bile Titan in the Helldivers movie? Helldivers 2 studio’s CEO seems ok with that, so long as he and other A-listers “all get killed violently immediately” Hey, helldiving’s a dangerous profession, even if you’ve already survived several blockbusters with big action sequences. Image credit:Arrowhead Specifically, he was responding to someone alluding to the fantasy casting of Super Mario Movie star Chris Pratt as a Bile Titan that players were joking about on the game’s subreddit pretty much the moment the film was confirmed to be a thing ....

Christopher Nolan “flirted” with the James Bond franchise at some point, but do we really want him to make one of those? He’s already made juiced-up espionage movies, so what’s the gain here? Image credit:Warner Bros. Pictures As Christopher Nolan prepares his next movie at Universal, more has been revealed about his post-Tenet relationship with Warner Bros. and whether he’s had serious talks about James Bond in the past. The latter feels like a given, but do we really want that from him?...

Could an Elden Ring or Dark Souls movie be in our future? Miyazaki isn’t opposed to it, he’d just rather someone else handle it “There are many others who can make a much better linear format content than we can.” Image credit:Bandai Namco/FromSoftware Movie and TV adaptations of games are all the rage these days, and Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki has shared his thoughts on potential FromSoftware adaptations. While DC is still trying to work towards its own cinematic universe, post Avengers: Endgame, it’s seeming like the days of superhero movies dominating the box office might be slightly behind us....

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty DLC PSA: don’t refuse to work with Idris Elba It’s suprisingly easy to lock yourself out of most of the DLC. Image credit:CD Projekt RED If you want to see Cyberpunk 2077 ’s Phantom Liberty all the way through to the end, you should be careful about which work you say no to. Phantom Liberty is a big expansion, with the main quests taking up to 20 hours to beat on their own, making it the size of its own game....

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty has a sneaky, musical reference to The Witcher 3 Just a phone call away. Turns out that Cyberpunk 2077 : Phantom Liberty is hiding a little reference to The Witcher 3 , and one that should be music to your ears. Some mild, fairly early spoilers for Phantom Liberty ahead! It just seems like CD Projekt Red can’t help but reference itself. There’s already a Witcher reference in Cyberpunk in the form of an arcade game called Roach Race, but that one’s in the base game....

Daisy Ridley says new Star Wars movie’s story is “cool as sh**t” A new hope. Image credit:Lucasfilm Another week, another new tease about the upcoming Rey-centric Star Wars movie from star Daisy Ridley, and her excitement is reaching new levels. As work on the script progresses slowly, Star Wars sequel protagonist Ridley isn’t dodging questions about her future as Rey Skywalker. Only less than two weeks ago, she teased the “different direction” for the franchise that her movie would represent, and now she’s starting use more colorful language to help illustrate how excited she truly is about the pitch....

Dead Space New Game Plus explained | How to start NG+ and what carries over Planning to give Dead Space another shot? Here’s everything you need to know about New Game Plus. Dead Space is one of those games that you’ll no doubt return to. After all, Motive Studio pulled this remake of the 2008 survival-horror classic for a reason, right? Whether you’re returning to the USG Ishimura for the first time since 2008, or only just hopped off it recently, there’s a pretty high chance you’ll be eager to hop into New Game Plus ....

Destiny 2 developer Bungie the latest games studio to suffer layoffs, CEO says it’s “a sad day” Image credit:VG247/Bungie Bungie, the studio behind Destiny 2 and the upcoming Marathon reboot, has been hit by layoffs, the exact scope of which currently remains unclear. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier was the first to report the news, stating on social media that: “CEO Pete Parsons emailed the company this morning to say they’ll be having a team meeting today to talk about ‘some news today coming out of Bungie’ as staff are informed”....

Destiny 2 servers go offline as players get booted from instances a day before raid release All appears to be fine now, but will things improve with The Root of Nightmares? Destiny 2: Lightfall servers suddenly went down last night, as players were experiencing huge login queues, connectivity issues, and abrupt booting into orbit. This comes only a day before The Root of Nightmares raid . Announced via the official BungieHelp Twitter account , the game was brought down temporarily to “assist in investigations into error codes, inability to log in, and login queues....

Diablo 4: How to craft sigils and get sigil powder It’s grind time How to craft sigils in Diablo 4 is something you’ll be doing a lot of in the endgame. These Nightmare Sigils are the only way to upgrade dungeons from their standard, campaign form to their Nightmare form. Nightmare dungeons are filled with stronger enemies who drop better loot, so they’re an excellent way to level up quickly and move on to tougher challenges....

Does Diablo 4 beta progression carry across to the full game? Was it all for naught? Image credit:Blizzard Diablo 4 fans are getting their first chance to experience the highly anticipated new RPG from Blizzard this month. Closed and open beta tests are taking place right now which let players venture into the Sanctuary and take on the Burning Hells ahead of the game’s full launch. A closed beta test for Diablo 4 launched on Friday 17 Match 2023 for players that pre-ordered the game, with an open beta arriving next week....

Does Spider-Man 2 have New Game Plus? Because nobody wants to tackle the Ultimate challenge mode without their cool unlocks, here’s everything we know about when New Game Plus will come to Spider-Man 2. New Game Plus is increasingly becoming something of a standard in games that pride themselves on their replayability, and since Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 definitely wants you to take more than one trip around its lovingly rendered vision of New York City, it’s for sure a feature many players want to see....

Don’t count on getting guest characters like Akuma and Noctis in Tekken 8 anytime soon Responding to fans on Twitter, Harada tells folks to forget about guest characters for now. Don’t expect any guest characters like Noctis or Akuma to pop up in a shiny new Tekken 8 trailer any time soon. According to Harada on Twitter, the team are focused on the other core Tekken characters for now. This came in response to a request from a user, who asked the director of Bandai Namco’s revered fighting game series for Leon Kennedy and Albert Wesker of Resident Evil fame to be brought into the game....

Don’t panic, but Halo is the latest Xbox exclusive series that may have hinted at a multiplatform future You probably won’t want to read a listing for a job you’re not applying for as closely as this ever again. Image credit:VG247/Bioware I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a bit of chatter going on at the moment about Xbox and exclusivity, with a recent job listing at 343 Industries that might - depending on how you interpret it - suggest that the next Halo game could be available across multiple platforms being the latest thing to get people talking....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Nameless Village quest walkthrough Pitfalls literal and metaphorical block your path to completing the Nameless Village quest in DD2, so here’s a complete walkthrough to help you get there. <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dragons-dogma-2-nameless-village-title-card.jpg?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 stone cottage with a thatched roof, with a simple wooden fence in the foreground and a similarly constructed inn building to the left. Text reads: “Nameless Village: A Mysterious Settlement”. - 1”> Image credit:VG247 / Capcom...