The Division 2 adding 100-floor tower block endgame activity

 Posted on April 22, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  245 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is getting a new endgame mode set in a 100-story skyscraper. Summit will task players with clearing all 100 floors of the building from the ground up. Levels will vary each time you play, and be punctuated by a boss fight on every 10th floor. The mode was revealed in developer Massive's latest State of the Game livestream, below, (thanks Kotaku) and should roll out to PC test servers tomorrow, before other platforms in the near future, for all players with this year's Warlords of New York expansion. [Read More]

The Switch might be the best console for shmups since the Sega Saturn

 Posted on April 22, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1531 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

"There are only three sports," Hemingway once said, before handily providing a list. "Bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." It's funny, because I sometimes feel the same way about my own personal preferences when it comes to games. There are only really three genres that matter: puzzlers, driving and good old-fashioned 2D shooting. Everything else is mere frippery. And, quite honestly, when I'm in the embrace of a shmup, smothered by floating clouds of bullets and twitching a tiny ship through impossibly large alien armadas, I could boil that down to one. [Read More]

You can play as a pigeon in Battlefield 1

 Posted on April 22, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  346 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

You can play as a pigeon in Battlefield 1. The moment occurs during Battlefield 1's story campaign - and you can watch it below. For context, the short section takes place at a tense moment where the game's human heroes are pinned down in a wrecked tank. Their only hope is to release the message-carrying bird and call for aid. Players then control the pigeon as he/she swoops across the battlefield and over all the carnage going on below. [Read More]

Apex Legends Double XP Weekend start time, end date and details

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  483 words  |  Trudie Dory

Apex Legends' Double XP Weekend is a great chance to pump up your Battle Pass level, as well as your own base level, before the end of Season 1. Details are fairly thin - it is, ultimately, just a Double XP Weekend - but below we'll detail all the essential info like the Double XP Weekend start time and end date, as well as anything else you should bear in mind. [Read More]

Apex Legends Legendary Hunt: challenges, rewards list, end time and end date

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  810 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Apex Legends' Legendary Hunt event is a new, fully-fledged in-game event, and is the first of its kind for Respawn's battle royale shooter. It brings with it a set of Legendary Hunt challenges and rewards for those who play while it's active, as well as some other general bonuses, too. Here, we'll detail all of the challenges and Legendary Hunt rewards involved, as well as highlight the Legendary Hunt end time and end date in case you were wondering, and anything else worth bearing in mind. [Read More]

Capcom, I hope you realise what Resident Evil Village's photo mode is about to unleash

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  324 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Resident Evil Village has a photo mode, new footage has confirmed. IGN published our first look at the promising horror game running on a PlayStation 4 Pro, and in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen we see you can press the Options button for skip / photo mode (Resident Evil 7 does not have either feature). The cutscene in question stars Lady Dimitrescu. Unless you've been living under a rock this year you'll know the internet is. [Read More]

Days Gone director discusses sequel ideas

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  558 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Days Gone director Jeff Ross recently called Sony's decision not to greenlight a sequel "weird" after its sales success. Now, in a new interview with USA Today, Ross has offered a glimpse of what that sequel may have looked like. Admitting some flaws from the first game, Ross says a sequel would have allowed him to "create the definitive version" where he "didn't have to necessarily apologise for so much" [Read More]

Dying Light 2 gets new armour and axe as its first bit of free DLC

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Barely two weeks have gone by since Dying Light 2's arrival, and already developer Techland is embarking on the first steps in its purported five-year journey of post-launch DLC. Things begin with the new Authority Pack, part one of which is available on all platforms from today. The Authority DLC, as its loosely name implies, brings some new options for those enamoured with Dying Light 2's Peacekeeper faction. This group of former soldiers are sticklers for law and order, and the Authority Pack gives players new armour and a new weapon inspired by their outlook, enabling them to wield some righteous, bludgeoning justice. [Read More]

Final Fantasy 13-2 Steam release date announced

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  287 words  |  Fernande Dalal

UPDATE 11/11/2014 7.42pm: Final Fantasy 13-2 will launch with "custom resolutions" and run at 60 fps, Square Enix has confirmed on Steam. It will also come with both English and Japanese voice options. On the downside, the price has gone up a bit since Final Fantasy 13, and this sequel will cost £12.99, though pre-orders are 10 per cent off at £11.69. ORIGINAL STORY 11/11/2014 1.41pm: Final Fantasy 13-2 launches on Steam on 11th December 2014. [Read More]

Grab the Nintendo Switch OLED with Metroid Dread for £339

 Posted on April 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  418 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The Nintendo Switch OLED hasn't been the easiest console to find this Black Friday, but more stock is appearing in the wild and there are some impressive discounts on bundles, namely a Nintendo Switch OLED bundle with Metroid Dread for just £339.99 from Very. If Metroid ain't your thing or you've already got a copy, you can grab the console for £319.99 from GAME with Pikmin 3 or Paper Mario: The Origami King instead. [Read More]