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Fresh Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 trailer offers the first proper look at gameplay Yes, it looks like a game with vampires in it. Image credit:VG247/Paradox Interactive Good news, people who were around in 2004, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has finally given you and the rest of us a proper look at what its gameplay looks like. After it was originally announced back in 2019 and reannounced at PAX last year , people who’ve been waiting for a sequel to Troika Games’s classic RPG about dark and gritty vampires doing dark and gritty things in dark and gritty Los Angeles have been chomping at the bit to see more of what The Chinese Room has been cooking....

Future Stars have arrived in EA FC 24’s UT, and of course ‘young’ Wayne Rooney looks about 35 Accurate or a bit too harsh on poor Wazza? Image credit:VG247/EA Some fresh cards arrived in EA Sports FC 24 ’s Ultimate Team over the weekend, and they’re all players who either are or were once wonderkids - Future Stars, if you will. Naturally, Wayne Rooney’s one of the Icons that’s come with the event, and players can’t quite decide whether the fact his supposedly younger in-game model looks about 35 is accurate....

Genshin Impact Eula materials for ascension and talents Frozen food Picking up Genshin Impact Eula materials takes a bit of extra effort thanks to Eula’s boss drop. Most of her items are standard things you can grab across Mondstadt. The boss drop, however, comes from the Cryo Hypostasis in Dragonspine, a tricky boss that makes you balance body temperature with fighting. Eula is the only character aside from Aloy who actually uses the item as well, so you won’t really get anything else that’s useful for leveling other characters....

Ghostwire: Tokyo was one of the most under-rated Game Pass additions of the year Though met with middling reviews on release, Ghostwire’s quiet persistence has won some hearts. Image credit:Tango Gameworks / Bethesda Softworks Until we worked in the games industry, many of us almost never played a video game in the year it was released: they’re expensive, there’s a lot of them, and they can be very time-consuming, so there are plenty of good reasons to leave it a while — even, potentially, a few years — before checking a game out!...

God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla is free DLC coming December 12 A repayable adventure. Sony announced free DLC for God of War: Ragnarok at The Game Awards . It’s titled Valhalla, it’s free, and it’s out next week. Coming December 12, Valhalla is an epilogue to the events of God of War Ragnarok and is set after the battle against Odin and Atreus’ departure. God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla - Reveal Trailer | PS5 & PS4 GamesWatch on YouTube...

Good job, Helldivers 2 players, as it’s thanks to you that the composer of the game’s banging soundtrack didn’t give up making orchestral music all together “For a traditionally-orchestral score, what I thought was impossible came true.” Image credit:Arrowhead Apart from the gameplay itself, a lot of players’ favourite thing about Helldivers 2 is its soundtrack, but its composer almost gave up on orchestral music. I’d argue that one of the most important aspects of any game is its soundtrack....

Good news, Tarnished, it looks like FromSoftware is now the sole owner of the Elden Ring IP And, has been for a little while now, if this recently spotted trademark update is anything to go by. Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware When FromSoftware originally delivered the wonderful, twisted baby Elden Ring , it did so with some help from Bandai Namco, which served as a co-publisher and, at that point, was a co-holder of the game’s IP....

Got high hopes for Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel? CD Projekt wants it to put the games on a Witcher-esque trajectory Ever heard the phrase ‘underpromise and overdeliver’, folks? Image credit:VG247/CD Projekt CD Projekt is aiming to try and mirror the incredible transformation seen across its Witcher games with its follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 . This is according to CD Projekt Red narrative director Igor Sarzyński, who told PC Gamer that, when it comes to working on Cyberpunk’s sequel, the studio’s collective aim is to emulate the kind of progression that’s visible across the fantasy series that put it on the map....

GTA 3’s litter proved so divisive among devs that San Andreas’ streets were cleaned up after a tiff about trash, but the code for it still snuck into Manhunt Rectangle in the wind. Image credit:Rockstar Games Apparently the bits of litter you can find blowing down streets and being pulled along by cars in GTA 3 were a bit of a controversial topic back in the day. Like, to the point where the developer that added these rogue newspapers and leaves to Liberty City ended up having to take them out of GTA San Andreas after losing a detritus debate within the Rockstar team....

HBO’s cancelled Game of Thrones prequel gets a behind the scenes reveal, but don’t expect a revival Only a pilot was made, and it cost a hefty $30 million to make. Image credit:HBO Before House of the Dragon , HBO was working on a different Game of Thrones prequel, and there’s now been a first look at the cancelled show. Codenamed Blood Moon, the HBO show was originally planned to serve as a prequel series set around 5000 years before the main show, but the network ultimately decided to cancel it after several production issues and an internally poorly received pilot....

Heartopia Fish locations Here are the fishing spots we’ve found so far in Heartopia! Image credit:XD/VG247 Update 5th February: We added details of some new fish we found in Heartopia today! Life sims and fishing go together like cod and chips, so it’s no surprise that Heartopia’s rivers and seas are teeming with fresh and saltwater fish, crustaceans and even deep sea fish for you to catch and collect. With your trusty fishing rod in-hand, you can fish just about anywhere in Heartopia, from the fast-flowing rivers around the Central Town to off the side of your privately-chartered trawler as you comb the seas....

Helldivers 2 cheaters might want to check on their pet fish, because Arrowhead has a humorously brutal punishment for those that hack the game That’ll teach you a lesson. Image credit:Arrowhead It turns out some Helldivers 2 players cheated in order to help complete the latest Major Order, and as a result their, uh, pet fish have been killed. Helldivers 2 isn’t exactly the hardest game in the world, but it’s not like there isn’t a good challenge to it either....

Helldivers 2’s Automatons are now the major threat, and everyone is asked to quell their invasion Helldivers 2 players are being asked to divert their attention from fighting Terminids to deal with a new Automaton invasion. Image credit:Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Helldivers 2 is proving yet again that it has more than a few clever ideas to turn what are otherwise mundane concepts in live service games into exciting, and maybe even unexpected developments....

Helldivers 2’s latest Major Order is finally letting its armchair General Brasches see if their battle plans would make Sun Tzu facepalm “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance by posting a diagram made with MS Paint on Reddit.” - Mr Tzu, probably. Image credit:Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Yep, there’s already another Helldivers 2 Major Order, because, if you missed it, the last one got blown through quicker than you can say ‘oh boy, I sure can’t wait to stomp some bugs’ ....

Hey Monster Hunter fans, a new Capcom Spotlight stream will have a few more crumbs of Wilds for you ahead of launch With the release date just around the corner, a few more teases are planned before we can finally play Wilds. Image credit:Capcom If you’re absolutely fiending for Monster Hunter Wilds , you’ll likely know that the game is set to release on February 28. But, if the wait is just too unbearable, a hot new Capcom Spotlight stream might be exactly what you need to tide you over....

Hoarders rejoice - this Baldur’s Gate 3 mod makes inventory management easy Created by Liareth on Nexusmods, Bags Bags Bags adds… more bags! Image credit:Larian/VG247 Like all great RPGs, Baldur’s Gate 3 allows players to give in to their base instinct to pick up everything and anything they come across. Shinies, food, swords they’ll never use and more. The problem is that doing so is sure to clog up your inventory, making it hard to find stuff that’s actually useful when you need it....

Honkai Star Rail Archer build and teams How to get Archer ready for battle with the right Light Cone and Relics Image credit:HoYoverse A good Honkai Star Rail Archer build is like Archer himself – free. You can opt for his signature Light Cone, sure, but you don’t have to. One of HSR’s free Light Cones works very well with him, as does the 3.X battle pass Light Cone. Things get a bit tricker with Archer’s best teams, though, and without a certain support unit, you’ll have to manage your skill rotations more tightly than usual....

Hopetown’s latest ex-Disco Elysium recruit reveals he’s “had to leave” another of the kinda Disco Elysium successor studios, but says it’s on “friendly terms” “I have only good words to say about the work that we did together; I wish them all the best.” Image credit:ZA/UM Earlier today, around the same time Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM announced its next game , one of the many would-be Disco spiritual successors in the works - Longdue - revealed the first teaser for its game and news of some new team members....

How the Final Fantasy Tactics-like Sword of Convallaria won players over to become one of Steam’s best gacha games From ‘mixed’ to ‘mostly positive’, XD’s journey from sketchy launch to Steam stalwart hasn’t been easy - but at least it’s been educational. Image credit:VG247 Y’know, every game became Chinese so gradually, I didn’t even notice. Between studios wholly owned by mega-publishers like Tencent and NetEase , their sub-labels like Level Infinite , and now various independent studios like Sword of Convallaria developer XD, the Chinese games industry is investing heavily in triple-A games of all kinds....

How to assassinate Fazil the Great Scholar in Assassin’s Creed: Mirage Fazil the Great Scholar has been up to no good. Image credit:Ubisoft/VG247 During your time with the House of Wisdom in Assassin’s Creed: Mirage , you’ll learn many things, and not all of them are to do with poetry. You’ll primarily find yourself learning of Fazil the Great Scholar , who also happens to be the leader of the Order with Abbasiyah, often referred to as ‘Al-Rabisu’....