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EA Sports F1 24 preview part three - get ready to hear Max Verstappen’s actual voice convey just how boring winning all the time can be Thanks team, shoutout to everyone back at the factory, I definitely didn’t nearly fall asleep midway through that race. Image credit:VG247/EA You know that thing that happens about 20-something times a year at the moment. Yeah, Max Verstappen winning a race. Well, EA Sports F1 24 is set to simulate that dominance in more realistic fashion than the series ever has - by letting you hear Max’s real voice convey just how bored he is by his success over the radio just after he crosses the finish line....

EA Sports FC 25 includes a pair of brothers, but only one of them’s a footballer, and you might not guess how it’s happened right away No, it’s not one of the ball boy skins or that one fan you see going nuts whenever you concede. Image credit:EA There are a lot of real people in EA Sports FC 25 , with the vast majority being of the kicking a ball for a living, used to kick a ball for a living, or paid to tell other people who how to kick a ball variety....

EA Sports FC 25 Ultimate Team finally has duplicate storage for untradeable items You can then use your untradeable duplicates in SBCs. Image credit:EA SPORTS EA Sports FC 25 Ultimate Team will implement a Duplicate Storage function for untradeable multiples of players pulled from packs, who can then be used in SBCs. The long-requested feature is one of a few quality-of-life updates EA is introducing with EA Sports FC 25 Ultimate Team in an effort to ease common community frustrations with day-to-day play....

Elden Ring DLC seems, yet again, closer than ever thanks to another Steam update A trailer is surely coming any day now, right? FromSoftware should really just go ahead and reveal Elden Ring’s DLC release date, because another Steam backend update is making it seem closer than ever. Back in December, a leak suggested that the upcoming Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Edtree will be releasing sometime this month, i....

Elden Ring loreheads think Miyazaki might have been teasing Shadow of the Erdtree’s setting as early as 2021’s network test Just how long might FromSoft have been telling us a trip to the Land of Shadow is on the cards for the Tarnished? Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware Ever since the first trailer for Elden Ring ’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion dropped last month, there’s naturally been plenty of speculation from FromSoft lore detectives as to what exactly it’ll have in store....

Elden Ring Nightreign Guardian build guide Here’s how to build everybody’s favourite birdman, the Guardian, in Nightreign. Image credit:FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Elden Ring Nightreign currently has eight different Nightfarers to choose from before embarking on an Expedition, and one of these – who quickly became a fan favourite once revealed – is the Guardian . A huge, anthropomorphic bird-man that wields a halberd and can cast whirlwinds using his wing, the Guardian is a tanky character who provides more style points than anything....

Elden Ring Nightreign network test sign-ups open, as FromSoft makes safe bet its maidenless hardcores will battle through site outages to spaff away some of Valentine’s Day Hey, it’s a perfectly romantic way to spend three hours, no doubt falling in love with some big bad bosses. Image credit:FromSoftware You! The Elden Ring Nightreign network test is now open for you to register, as in putting your name down to be considered for a spot in it....

Elden Ring Nightreign’s pre-Deep of Night patch rebalances all characters, tweaks some Everdark Sovereign bosses Elden Ring Nightreign has a new patch that’s easily one of its biggest in a while, and it arrived just in time for tomorrow’s big new game mode. Image credit:FromSoftware. Elden Ring Nightreign will, very soon, get its higher difficulty mode - The Deep of Night . The game is clearly about to have a moment again....

Elden Ring Site of Grace locations Relax while you can with a full map of all 300+ Site of Grace locations across all of Elden Ring! Update: We’ve added an interactive map showing every Site of Grace location throughout the whole of Elden Ring to the first section of this page. As you slog through the unforgiving world of Elden Ring , knowing where to find the next Site of Grace location is often the difference between a moment of sweet safety and losing all your Runes and a chunk of progress....

Elden Ring Varre quest walkthrough: How to get an audience with Mohg Tarnished, are we? Here’s how to complete Varre’s quest in Elden Ring, both online and offline. Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware One of the first NPC’s you’ll encounter in Elden Ring is White Mask Varre , and believe it or not, this mild-mannered fellow is where one of your first quests across The Lands Between begins. Make it to the end of Varre’s rather short quest and you’ll also be able to come face to face with one of the game’s most formidable foes....

Embracer layoffs hit studios 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks Layoffs during this time of year really sting. Embracer Group has issued another round of layoffs across its studios, and this time, redundancies have hit 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks . News of the layoffs were confirmed by various employees at the companies, as well as Scott Miller , the original founder of 3D Realms. The Duke Nukem and Graven developers were acquired by Embracer Group in August 2021 through Saber Interactive....

Even in Starfield’s sci-fi future, NPCs are frustratingly slow Kind of in a hurry here. Starfield seems to be continuing the long standing tradition of your walking speed never quite matching an NPCs, and players aren’t happy about it. You would hope that at this point Bethesda would have walking speeds down pat. It’s been doing this whole game development thing for quite a while now, after all, with Starfield supposedly being the culmination of all its games that came before....

Even Uwe Boll, renowned director of dirt video game movies such as Alone in the Dark, is dunking on Borderlands Who can make the worse video game adaptation? Image credit:Lionsgate Were you brave enough to ignore our review of the Borderlands movie and miss out on learning exactly the kind of thing you were in for when watching it? Well, at least it wasn’t an Uwe Boll-directed video game adaptation. The disgraced director is making fun of the movie on Twitter though....

Fallout 76’s fifth birthday bash is such a big deal that Sheogorath himself will be in attendance What better way to celebrate than with a parade blessed by Wes Johnson’s dulcet tones? Image credit:VG247/Bethesda Fallout 76 turns five this week, and the party organised to celebrate this looks set to be a must-attend affair for veteran vault dwellers. This bash is set to take place at 3PM ET on November 14 and will see a parade travel through the streets of Appalachia live on Bethesda’s Twitch channel....

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ new character is a real life DJ fighting game players haven’t heard of, and fans aren’t too pleased about it Salvatore Ganacci, a DJ who is playing a show in Saudi Arabia on the CoTW release date, has made it in. Image credit:SNK Salvatore Ganacci, a real life DJ, has been announced for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves . Taking the spot of a legacy SNK character, his announcement hasn’t gone down well among fighting game fans, confused as to why he has been added to the game over a selection of popular fighting game characters....

Fear not, Starfield fans, a modder is now working on making its mechs into pilotable vehicles It looks like it may soon be possible to stomp around some planets in a big new toy. Image credit:VG247/Bethesda Bethesda has already said some new ways of getting around are coming to Starfield in 2024, but one modder has still decided to take matters into their own hands and begin developing a means of letting players get behind the controls of the game’s abandoned mechs....

Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood is free to own right now, but there’s a slight catch You will need to spend a bit of money if you don’t own the game already. Final Fantasy 14’s second major expansion, Stormblood , is free to download right now for the next month. As highlighted on the game’s website , players can claim and download Stormblood for free, right through to May 8. There is one slight catch, as you need to be an existing owner of Final Fantasy 14 Starter Edition in order to do so....

Former Ubisoft execs arrested in sexual harassment case ahead of Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s release The five arrests follow a year-long investigation into sexual assault and harassment allegations. Five people formerly employed by French video game company Ubisoft are in police custody. The arrests occurred over the last two days and stem from an investigation into sexual assault and harassment allegations made by staffers. According to a report from French news outlet Liberation , two of the arrestees are Ubisoft’s former chief creative officer Serge Hascoet and ex-vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy Francois....

Fortnite will soon make all user-made content include an age rating The Roblox-ification of Fortnite continues. Pretty soon, anything you make in Fortnite Creative will be assigned an age rating, as Epic is introducing a system that makes it compulsory to have one. Earlier today, Epic announced on its creator portal that it will be working with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to introduce “internationally-recognized age and content ratings for all first and third-party playable content....

Game Freak’s latest game on Nintendo Switch is… Pocket Card Jockey! Congrats to all seven Pocket Card Jockey fans. Image credit:Game Freak Game Freak just made an appearance at today’s Nintendo Direct, not to announce anything to do with Pokemon , but to show off the return of Pocket Card Jockey . Well, a half-return, as Game Freak is finally liberating Pocket Card Jockey : Ride on from Apple Arcade jail, bringing the remake of the 3DS classic to Nintendo Switch for the first time - and it’s available today!...