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16  avril     16h05
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is Gen-Z Morrowind and I love it
   Dragon’s Dogma is an early but solid contender for GOTY we said that might be the case during preview, and we’re certain of it now. It’s a game of uncompromised vision, and where the original looked at the likes of Fable and Oblivion and asked what does Capcom’s version of that look like,...
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Witch actor is going to lead the upcoming Jurassic World sequel? Seems like a wicked, but possibly popular choice has been made
   The Jurassic World soft reboot is still underway, and it’s sounding like it might be opting for a cast member that could prove popular. Back in February, Star Wars: Rogue One director Gareth Edwards was tapped to direct the as of yet untitled Jurassic World soft reboot, but it hadn’t quite found...
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Elden Ring’s now been beaten using morse code, and yes, watching it happen will probably make you feel useless at games
   I’m gonna cut to the chase here. A streamer’s just beaten Elden Ring including my buddy and yours Malenia using button operated morse code. As with asll these kinds of challenge runs, it’s an incredibly impressive feat, and will no doubt leave you utterly devastated about how terrible you are...
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I don’t like the Fallout games, but the show might have made me a convert
   Before I get started, I’m going to have to ask you to put your guns down, because here’s the thing: I don’t really like the Fallout games. My first experience of actually playing them was with Fallout, which I do admit isn’t the best way to start things off for a franchise that has run as long as...
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Hopped into Fallout 4 on Xbox after watching the Fallout TV show, but achievements won’t unlock? Don’t worry, Bethesda’s on it
   If you’ve watched all of Amazon’s Fallout TV show by now, odds are you’re either on the verge of or already have hopped back into one of the games in the series. You’re certainly not alone in the regard, but if you’ve picked Fallout on Xbox specifically, you might have run into the small...
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Fallout explained - Amazon’s TV show dissected in less time than it takes for the nuke to drop in Fallout 4’s intro
   Warning: Major spoilers for series one of Amazon’s Fallout TV show lie ahead.Ok, so most of us have all had a little bit of time to watch Amazon’s Fallout TV show now.But what if you maybe watched it in bits, rather than all in one go, or felt like certain things weren’t quite made clear enough ...
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Are we finally going to see Hollow Knight: Silksong at tomorrow’s Indie World Nintendo Direct?
   A Nintendo Indie World has been set for tomorrow, so of course it begs the question, as it does everytime a games company hosts a presentation: will Silksong be there The next Nintendo Indie World is taking place tomorrow, pm BST am ET, as announced by the game developer earlier today, and...
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The best game where your family DITCHES you? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 95
   Inspired by the frankly excellent Fallout TV show, this week on VG ’s Best Games Ever podcast I’ve tasked my colleagues with finding the best game where a family member ditches you. With the prerequisite understanding that none of them are allowed to pick Fallout, the quintessential dad’s...
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Best Games Ever Podcast - Extended Edition Info Page
   Hello there. If you can see all of this page then we thank you for being a member. You can now enjoy The Best Games Ever Podcast created by VG with a cheeky extra section on the end in both audio and video form How smashing. If you can’t see all of this article, then, boo, hiss, etc, as you...
    12h20
Good news, Helldivers 2’s latest patch ensures the Ground Breaker armour’s no longer a victim of accidental false advertising
   It’s another day, so here’s news of another Helldivers patch that does things. What are those things Well, a lot of the usual kinds of fixes, plus a passive swap that stops one of the latest warbond’s armours from accidentally being a magnet for buyer’s confusion, if not buyer’s remorse.If you...
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Disney is reportedly tuning into the 1930s for its next new feature
   Remember No Well, it seems like Disney is reinventing them anyway, as it apparently looks set to introduce scheduled content. A lot of you younger readers will likely be a lot more familiar with streaming services as opposed to traditional, cable television, meaning you won’t be so...
    10h37
Smite 2 shoots to the top of Steam’s top sellers entirely through pre-order founder packs
   Smite has just popped up on Steam, and has already soared all the way up to the platform’s Top Sellers list. The game has yet to get its initial release date. It doesn’t even have an open beta available. This surge of interest comes entirely through pre ordered founders packs.There are three of...
    10h17
Love it or hate it, Velma season 2 gets its first trailer
   Velma season finally has a trailer ahead of its premiere later this month, showing that the titular character is leading a new life a popular one. When the first season of Velma released last year, it didn’t exactly go down well with... well, anyone, to be honest. Clearly it was popular...
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Looking for the next RPG to sink your teeth into? The Metaphor: ReFantazio development stream is a must-watch
   If you’ve got a hunger top find the next big RPG that might blow you away, then you’ve absolutely got to mark your calendar for the upcoming Metaphor: ReFantasio development livestream. Dedicated to the upcoming ATLAS game, it’ll be the first in depth dive into the title since its reveal. You can...
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Sonic 3 reportedly nets the ultimate life form, Keanu Reeves, as Shadow the Hedgehog
   After months of rumours, speculation, and fan castings, it finally seems like the one and only Keanu Reeves has been cast as Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic . Many loved the idea of The Batman’s Robert Pattinson as Shadow, others hoped that rumour about Anakin Skywalker himself Hayden Christensen...
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Remember Fallout 3’s Three Dog? You might get to hear a darker DJ voiced by his actor in future Fallout TV series episodes
   While Amazon’s Fallout TV show crammed in more than enough references, easter eggs, and cameos to the extent that a lot of us are still digging through them nearly a week on there’s still plenty left on the table for future episodes. Assuming a second series does go ahead, as we expect, you...
15  avril     17h37
In a post-Armored Core 6 world, can Mechabreak smash the mecha curse?
   A team based rd person mech PvP game sounds like the exact kind of high octane action the people want. Who doesn’t like big robots, armed with a variety of distinct and powerful weapons, duking it out Point me to someone who detests the idea and you’d be pointing at a rube and a coward. Yet, even...
    16h03
Yes, you can call that Vault-Tec number from Amazon’s Fallout, but you might not like what you hear
   There’s a number from Amazon’s Fallout series that can actually be called, only the person that picks up doesn’t send all that pleased to hear from you. Light spoilers ahead for the Fallout show. Whenever there’s a phone number clearly shown in a piece of media, the first question should...
    15h35
Keen to see Dragon Age get a Fallout-style TV series? Well, its former lead writer would rather watch an Animal Crossing political thriller
   Now we’re all basking in the radioactive glow of success coming from Amazon’s Fallout TV show, a lot of people are naturally wondering which video game series they might like to see get the Hollywood treatment next. Interestingly, for Dragon Age’s former lead writer, the answer isn’t, er, Dragon...
    11h08
Arrowhead knows how ridiculous Helldivers 2’s fire damage is, working on a fix
   Helldivers players are getting frustrated by the game’s overly zealous fire damage, but developer Arrowhead has promised a fix is in the works. Earlier this month, as part of Helldivers ’s update that added in blizzards and sandstorms, the damage that fire caused also received a tweak....
    10h13
Sony’s live-action One Punch Man movie is getting a rewrite from... Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon?
   Sony is still developing its live action adaptation of One Punch Man, and it’s brought on Rick and Morty writers Dan Harmon and Heather Anne Campbell. With superhero movies not being as popular as they used to be, the two next big things that Hollywood is trying to tackle are video game and...
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The Fallout TV show’s got a big vault map, and it’s now been turned into an interactive Google Earth overlay
   Warning: Spoilers for series one of Amazon’s Fallout TV show lie ahead.So, unless you delibrately taking this slowly or have been really busy, odds are you’ve had a chance to sit down and watch Amazon’s Fallout TV show by this point. As you’d expect, it’s got a lot to offer in terms of cool...
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Everybody is playing Fallout 4 and New Vegas, and it’s all thanks to Amazon’s Fallout
   Turns out that the Fallout show has gotten everyone in the mood to play the games, as pretty much every title in the series has seen their player count skyrocket. Last week, Prime Video finally released its live action adaptation of Fallout, which was quickly met with positive reviews all around...
14  avril     15h26
Final Fantasy 7 Remake part 3 might be out sooner than you’d think
   Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Remake project has one more entry on the way, and it might not take as long to make as you might think. These days, we’re lucky if we get a sequel to a game once every four or five years, with development times and budgets ballooning in recent years. Final Fantasy ...
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EA’s Black Panther game might be open world, according to a recent job listing
   EA’s upcoming Black Panther game sounds like it will be an open world title, based on a recently posted job listing. Right now, we know pretty much nothing about EA and Cliffhanger Games’ Black Panther game. We know that it exists, that Cliffhanger Games is a new team led by Kevin Stephens, the...
    14h08
Content Warning proves you can give away a game for free and still make people want to buy it as it hits 1 million copies sold
   Turns out that you can give away a game to . million people, and still sell a ton of copies too, as that’s exactly what Landfall has done with Content Warning. Right at the start of the month, Landfall released Content Warning, a Lethal Company style game about filming your friends getting...
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Done watching the Fallout series? You should hop on Fallout 76
   A complete disaster at launch, Fallout had to earn players’ trust back over the years. Has it succeeded I’d say it’s been in pretty good shape for around three years or so now. In fact, I already rambled about how you should’ve played it ahead of Starfield last year. Now, with the shockingly...
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Persona 1 and 2 are getting remakes, or at least an updated form, a prominent Atlus leaker has claimed
   It seems like remakes of the first two Persona games could be on the way, though they might not be outright remakes. There’s been a number of prominent leakers over the years, but more recently the one with the most consistent track record appears to be one that goes by the name Midori. She...
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Former Blizzard president thinks you should be able to leave a tip after beating 70 games, but my 10 years in the hospitality industry knows that’s an awful idea
   Mike Ybarra, former president of Blizzard, has some up with the slightly baffling idea that players should be able to tip developers after beating games. In today’s episode of how do we let these people run massive companies, the now former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, who left the...
    10h40
Discord is seemingly banning Nintendo Switch emulator devs following Yuzu’s shutdown
   After Nintendo essentially had the Switch emulator Yuzu shut down last month, Discord is seemingly banning creators of other emulators and their servers. Last month, Nintendo and the creator of Yuzu, an emulator specifically for Switch games, settled the former’s lawsuit with the latter agreeing...
    09h56
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s annoying final boss retry menu has been fixed, so no one has to waste their time like I did
   Final Fantasy Rebirth has received a small patch fixing the menu for the final boss’ death screen, and I am overwhelmed with joy and jealousy. Slight spoilers ahead for the final boss of Final Fantasy Rebirth. It’s a bit of a staple for a Final Fantasy game to have a multi phase final boss...
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Don’t worry, Fallout: New Vegas is still canon, despite what the show might make you think
   Prime Video’s Fallout show has mostly gone down well with fans, though there are some that are wondering if New Vegas is still canon. The Fallout show finally released earlier this week, and in general it’s been received very positively by both critics and fans our own Alex enjoyed the show so...
12  avril     16h03
The good, the bad, and John the fire dancer - as Fallout gets a TV show, here’s how the series’ community is doing
   When I think of the fanbase, I do think of those early days when we first announced Fallout, ex Bethesda artist Jonah Lobe tells me, We got a lot of hate. A lot of those older players felt protective of the franchise which I can certainly understand, as the IP is immensely unique and special...
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Amazon’s Fallout TV show might include even more classic Fallout references than its creators intended, thanks to some improv
   Some of the folks who’ve been dedicating a good chunk of the week to watching some or a lot of Amazon’s Fallout TV show, just as fans like you and me have, are people who’ve actually worked on the games. In fact, one of them, original Fallout co creator Tim Cain, might have spotted a reference...
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EA wants its own Call of Duty salt mines with Battlefield, and it doesn’t make sense
   The road EA is taking with the next Battlefield has been slowly coming into view in the months since the company began to right the Battlefield ship. That may not necessarily be evident, if all you’ve been really following is ’s constantly evolving state. Behind the scenes, however, EA and...
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Diablo 4’s Season 4 PTR somehow attracted players who never played past seasons, probably because of how big the changes were
   Blizzard wrapped up the Diablo Season PTR Public Test Realm earlier this week after about a week of testing. Not only was this the first time Diablo players were able to test out content well ahead of its launch, it was also necessary considering the magnitude of what was being proposed.The...
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Love Lucy’s unique pistol from Amazon’s Fallout TV show? There’s already a cool mod that adds it to Fallout 4
   Odds are if you’re a Fallout fan, you’ve either already blazed through Amazon’s Fallout TV show, or are dilligently working your way through the episodes when life allows. No matter how far you are in, one of the things you’ll definitely seen is the cool tranqiliser pistol being wielded by Lucy. If...
    09h08
Naraka: Bladepoint’s Season 12 Potential revamp streamlines the game for new players without dumbing it down before new character arrival
   Season of Naraka: Bladepoint is now live, bringing with it a new timed event, game mode, new progression system, and eventually a new character, Lyam Liu.The new Naraka season is called Tenacity , and looks to offer a good mix of casual whimsy and competitive focused changes to shake up the...
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UPDATE: Fallout 4’s next-gen update will affect Fallout: London, the massive mod’s release has had to be pushed back again
   So, we finally got news of Fallout ’s long awaited next gen update yesterday, following plenty of silence on the subject from Bethesda. Since it’s set to drop on April , just two days after Fallout: London’s release on April , one of the big questions right away was how the update might affect...
11  avril     17h00
Yup, Fallout is the final push that video game adaptations needed to become Hollywood’s next big thing
   With comic book projects self regulating and becoming just another genre with some exceptions , monster brawls becoming a thing in the West, and star studded originals regaining lost ground, the post pandemic Hollywood landscape, both in theaters and on TV, looks nothing like the pre tug of...
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Wahey, Fallout 4’s next-gen update is finally set to arrive later this month
   Boo After eons of silence, Bethesda has finally provided us with an update on Fallout ’s long awaited next gen update. It’s coming later this month on April , an it’s got some stuff in it, which I’ll explain below.As outlined in a new blog post, the update is actually coming as serveal versions...
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Stellar Blade’s combat takes a lot from Sekiro, so why does it feel different?
   I know exactly what you’re thinking after reading this headline. Why would you go into one game expecting it to play like some other one you like After all, it doesn’t make sense to burden it with the expectations we have from playing another, especially if it never explicitly positioned itself as...
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Is an Elder Scrolls TV show going to follow Fallout? Bethesda doesn’t seem to be in any rush
   Amazon’s Fallout TV Show is here now, but before it was, the show had a swanky Hollywood premiere that I’m sure my invite for got lost in the post. At that premiere, snazzily dressed Todd Howard said some things, and some of these things were about the potential idea of an Elder Scrolls adaptation....
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Helldivers 2 just got new ship modules and one will, er, let you pay a lot to teach your crew to pack boxes
   Hola Helldivers people. Arrowhead’s just dropped some nice new ship module upgrades for you to contemplate purchasing and ultimately chicken out because you’re too stingy. Seriously, these are aimed at hardened vets looking to take their craft to the next level, so you’ll have to fork over a lot...
    11h39
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 locked in at Universal, will likely dominate Halloween 2025 regardless of quality
   Blumhouse Productions is rather busy at the moment and looking at the future with big bets such as a new Blair Witch movie and Todd McFarlane’s long in the works Spawn reboot. Now, it’s got another surefire winner on its hands: Five Nights at Freddy’s .In year full so far of surprising horror...
    10h58
From Barbie Land to Landlord: Margot Robbie doubles down on recognizable IPs and sets her sights on Monopoly
   Look, Barbie was great and all, but maybe we made a mistake giving it so much of our hard earned money. After Mattel unleashed IP hell, actor producer Margot Robbie has been on a rampage, first securing an adaptation of The Sims probably a good fit and now turning her sights to... Monopoly, which...
    10h36
Dead Space appears to be dead... again
   Brace yourself. Dead Space, well, it appears to be dead again. Yep, EA’s reportedly put the series on hold for the second time, though, it does at least seem like some ideas for a new entry were briefly considered early last year, though none of them were actually given permission to become a...
    10h12
A new Blair Witch movie is coming, because it’s easy horror money waiting to be made
   Blumhouse is one of the busiest Hollywood studios at the moment, and it all comes down to its approach to keeping budgets under control and always being open to surprising collaborations. This has allowed the studio to reimagine a number of iconic horror properties, and The Blair Witch series might...
    09h12
Mega spoiler warning, Amazon’s Fallout TV Show rather unsubtly teases a potential setting for season two
   Warning: Major spoilers for the first series of Amazon’s Fallout TV Show lie ahead.Ok, so, Amazon’s Fallout TV Show is finally here, having dropped either on the evening on April , or in the middle of the night early on April , depending on where you live. Since all of the episodes dropped at...
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28 Years Later hasn’t even been shot yet, but Candyman’s Nia DaCosta is already circling its follow-up
   One of the most unexpected new big screen projects announced in and there have been quite a few so far is Years Later, the long awaited follow up to Days Later and Weeks Later. Original screenwriter Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle are back on board, but surprise, surprise...