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Total War Warhammer 3 teases its upcoming Tides of Torment, as well as a new legendary lord Also new units, mechanics, and free content coming alongside it. Nice! Image credit:SEGA Total War Warhammer 3 has just released a neat little teaser trailer during the Warhammer Skulls event just now, hinting towards some exciting new additions to the Immortal Empires campaign. This update, titled “Tides of Torment”, is established with this short teaser....

Twenty years on, a cancelled Daredevil PS2 game is now playable Welcome back to the land of the living. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear , originally meant to release in 2003 but never saw the light of day, is now playable for the first time. There are plenty of games that get announced, have all the right ingredients, but still get cancelled for one reason or another. You would think that a character like Daredevil, who was receiving a film starring Ben Affleck of all people in 2003, might be a guaranteed success for a video game, but unfortunately The Man Without Fear was left on the cutting room floor....

Two games companies made it into Time100’s latest influential brands list – and, weirdly, you may never have heard of one of them Well, unless you’re big into the board game where you can play as the lil hat. Image credit:Scopely If you haven’t spent 600 hours of your life playing mobile games on the toilet, you might not be familiar with Scopely, the company behind Monopoly Go . However, it’s one of just two game development companies to have made Time Magazine’s annual list of the most influential companies....

Under the Waves is a narrative-driven adventure game about grief Travel to to the depths of the ocean as struggling diver Sam. Quantic Dream has announced Under the Waves from Parallel Studio. Described as a narrative-driven adventure game about the “engulfing power of grief,” the game is set in the depths of the North Sea in a techno-futuristic 1970s. Explore the depths in Under the Waves.Watch on YouTube In it, professional diver Stan is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss and embrace a new future, and the isloation of the deep sea seems a fitting manifestation of his state of mind....

UPDATE: Good news, Helldivers 2 players, galactic war progress tracking is now up and running again, following a “minor outage” Democracy’s waited, and now it should be back on track! Image credit:VG247/Arrowhead UPDATE (22/04/24, 09:35 AM GMT): In a post to Helldivers 2’s official Discord server, community manager Twinbeard has provided an update, writing: “Helldivers! The galactic war and liberation [progress] is up and running again!” “We’re awaiting possibly more detailed information,” they added, “but for now, we have a go for liberation!...

Valheim is getting a hardcore mode along with customizable difficulty You’re getting six preset difficulty options. Valheim is about to get a bit harder, if you want it to, thanks to a new hardcore difficulty mode . When this mode is used, and the death slider is maxed, you will lose all progress and items forever should you die. Also, not only is combat harder, but monsters will raid your base more often, and you won’t have a map and can’t use portals....

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Romance Options Guide Here’s how to woo every romanceable character in VTMB2, including Safia, Onda, Niko, and more. Image credit:VG247 / The Chinese Room / Paradox Interactive Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 does feature romance options, presumably because no TTRPG-to-video game adaptation would dare leave them out these days. However, don’t go in expecting romance side-stories with lasting implications for the main characters like those found in Baldur’s Gate 3 , or even the self-contained but still significant romantic sub-plots of Cyberpunk 2077 ....

Warcraft Rumble brings the chaos to mobile on November 3 Collect your favorite Warcraft heroes and wage battles on the go. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Warcraft Rumble , the mobile action strategy game set within the Warcraft universe, is set to release on November 3 during BlizzCon 2023. Announced in 2022 , the game has you controlling over 65 collectible Minis to battle in frantic melee skirmishes. Play in multiple modes, including the single player campaign, going head-to-head in epic PvP battles, and more....

Warner Bros exec reportedly cites need to “regain our credibility and swagger at producing great games”, as company shutters Shadow of Mordor studio and cancels Wonder Woman Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games San Diego were also closed as part of the “strategic change in direction”. Image credit:Monolith Productions Warner Bros. has confirmed that it’s cancelled the Wonder Woman game that’d long been in the works at Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions....

Was making the PS5 Pro so expensive a mistake? It’s probably still too early to tell, but the pace of sales have apparently fallen behind the PS4 Pro’s Not an ideal start for the mid-gen upgrade. Image credit:VG247 The PS5 Pro was seemingly off to a good start, but recent sales data has apparently put its pace behind the PS4 Pro around the same time after launch. I originally got my PS5 about two years after everybody else, primarily because, well, I write about games for a living so figured I should catch up, and despite thinking the platform didn’t have many exclusives to help make it worth it, I figured they’d come down the line....

Watch today’s PlayStation State of Play here, and if you even whisper the word Bloodborne, we’ll cut you with a weird gothic sword Ok, we can’t really blame you given those recent DMCAs. Image credit:PlayStation UPDATE (12/02/25, 9:00 AM GMT): The State of Play stream is now scheduled and visible on PlayStation’s YouTube channel, so we’ve embedded it below. That way you can just click play on the video here when the time rolls around, and boom - the video games will be beamed right at you....

We can’t believe we missed Green Day’s Dookie being remastered for Nintendo Game Boy That’s one way to do a re-release. Image credit:Green Day It’s been more than 30 years since Dookie, the album that put Green Day on the map, was released, and to celebrate, the band has… demastered it? In the world of video games, we know all about remasters, in fact these days we maybe know too much about them....

What are you playing this weekend? On Saturdays the world is a better place again. Every day may not be a good day, but there is little bad to say about a weekend day. Because it’s not a Monday. Or a Tuesday. Or a Wednesday. Or a Thursday. Or a Friday. Well, Friday is okay. That’s because the following day is Saturday. Fridays are also great for folks with four-day workweeks that end on Thursday at 5pm....

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s comes Peter Cottontail. It’s a holiday weekend in most of the world, and VG247 is celebrating by taking a long weekend off and playing games. Of course, some of us will also be gorging on Easter chocolates and colored eggs and eating a large meal consisting of ham, potato salad, corn pudding, baked beans, yeast rolls, and some coconut cake for dessert. Other than the food, there will likely be some festivities....

What’s the best game that shipped on multiple discs? The Best Games Ever Podcast Most games shipped on multiple discs, if you think about it… Image credit:VG247, Square Enix The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as “Best game with a named horse”, or “Best game with a terrible British accent”. They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who then decides the winner....

Where to find Dragonite Ore in Monster Hunter Wilds Dragonite is a valuable crafting resource, here’s how you get it! Image credit:Capcom Dragonite Ore in Monster Hunter Wilds is a mining resource you’ll start to need a decent way through the story, in order to craft stronger weapons and whatnot. But, like previous ores, it’s not made entirely clear where to get it. This may have led you to the question: Where do you find Dragonite Ore in Monster Hunter Wilds?...

Where to get Golden Vow in Elden Ring Here’s where you’ll find the powerful Golden Vow Incantation in Elden Ring. Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware Elden Ring boasts a bunch of powerful Spells and Incantations that are perfect for both Intelligence builds and Faith builds to sling across The Lands Between. But, while many of them are focused on dealing damage, some instead focus on buffing your character, coming in clutch during tough battles or enabling incredibly cheesy builds....

Where to get the Carian Regal Scepter in Elden Ring Here’s how to claim Rennala’s weapon for yourself. Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware After you’ve defeated some of the strongest foes in the game, Elden Ring actually lets you try out their unique weapons and see for yourself just how powerful boss weapons are; and they don’t disappoint. The Blasphemous Blade and Marais Executioner’s Sword are definitely proof of that. One more unsuspecting weapon, however, is Rennala’s Carian Regal Scepter ....

Will Smith set to join sci-fi thriller Resistor following Bad Boys: Ride or Die’s breakout success The Smith-naissance is upon us. Image credit:Paramount Pictures Audiences haven’t turned their back on Will Smith, who’s just had a huge comeback with Bad Boys: Ride or Die earning over $220 million during the two first weeks following its release. Now, he’s joining another high-profile sci-fi thriller at Sony Pictures. The news was dropped on June 18 by Deadline , which also pointed out that the project, currently titled Resistor, is adapting Daniel Suarez’s book Influx....

Will the Stardew Valley Baldur’s Gate 3 mod let you bone a pixelated bear? Well, its lead dev is “certain” that Halsin’s romance arc will “stay true to his character” The Baldur’s Village team is approaching its upcoming druid courtship “with care”. Image credit:Larian/VG247/The Baldur’s Village team If you’re like me, you’ve spent 90% of your waking hours since you learned that Baldur’s Village - the Stardew Valley mod which adds a town full of Baldur’s Gate 3 characters to the chill farming game - had come out wondering one thing....