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"Legends are almost always beautiful. The reality often leaves a lot to be desired." The witcher's remark is aimed at the Elves, who have strained out the grit of life, love and loss before writing down their history, leaving only romantic, idealistic odes to the past. But it could just as easily be applied to the role-playing game: video game memories that sit warm and pretty in the heart, the reality of their original awkwardness so often lost to time and nostalgia. [Read More]

Back 4 Blood has passed the 10 million player mark, developer Turtle Rock Studios trumpeted today. The spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead released back in October last year for PC, PlayStation and Xbox. By the end of that month, it had six million players already - no doubt boosted by its arrival via Xbox Game Pass. Today also brings word of Tunnels of Terror, a "major" expansion set to arrive on 12th April as part of the game's Annual Pass. [Read More]

BioWare has announced Mass Effect 3: Citadel, the final single-player expansion for the game, and the final multiplayer expansion, Reckoning. Citadel will be released on 5th March for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, priced $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points. Reckoning comes a week sooner - 26th February. Like all other multiplayer expansions, it will be free. European PlayStation versions will likely launch a day later. There's no mention of a Wii U version for either. [Read More]

Call of Duty: Warzone's upcoming nuke event doesn't officially begin for another two weeks, but some players have seen the missiles launch and land early - with hilarious results. Redditor AmedeeO10 uploaded footage of a King Slayer Trios match of the battle royale in which the nukes launched into the sky then fell back to earth with no accompanying graphical effect. Talk about an anti-climax. [SPOILER] Game glitched and showed part of the upcoming nuke event (w/ voice lines) from r/CODWarzone To see this content please enable targeting cookies. [Read More]

Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt will play Mario in Nintendo's upcoming animated Super Mario movie, which will release in cinemas during "holiday 2022". Nintendo announced the casting of numerous Mushroom Kingdom names tonight in its latest Nintendo Direct, including Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach and Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Charlie Day as Luigi. Jack Black will voice Bowser. Keegan-Michael Key will play Toad. [Read More]

The writer and creative director of Days Gone says that players shouldn't "complain if a game doesn't get a sequel" if they didn't buy it "at f-cking full price". In an interview on David Jaffe's YouTube channel, John Garvin was asked if the game's debut on Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription service had sparked new interest in the title. "I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off," [Read More]

Early on in Destiny 2 Shadowkeep there is a progress-blocking bug you can encounter. After you have completed the opening mission, A Mysterious Disturbance, you'll unlock the Moon destination. From here, you have to visit the destination's vendor, Eris, who will give you the second mission. However, if you were like us, it's possible to not receive this properly due to a missing quest bug. If so, here's how to continue playing. [Read More]

The best FIFA Defenders are the backbone of the finest teams in the game, with your centre backs the last line of defence and full backs playing an ever more important role in modern football. Here on this page, we'll be listing FIFA 21's best defenders - which includes the best FIFA CB, the best FIFA LB, the best FIFA RB and the best wing backs, too, ranked in order of their overall rating. [Read More]

UPDATE 4/4/22: Fortnite's fundraising period for Ukraine has now ended, with an astonishing $144m raised. The final total, shared via Twitter, was raised from two weeks' worth of profits from Fortnite, plus all of Microsoft's proceeds it would normally take via Xbox. It's an enormous amount - by far the largest of any video game company, and many countries. It also goes to show just how much money Fortnite makes at the start of its new seasons. [Read More]

Romance samurai in this meticulous visual novel. I've long been in the market for a game that contains the following: a female protagonist an involved, well-paced narrative excellent, convincing voice acting characters not given to incongruous outbursts at convenient plot junctures a whole cast of men who are clearly designed to be fantasised about at least one male character showing way too much skin said fantasy men have bodies that are lithe, beautiful said fantasy men have better hair than I ever could the protagonist can romance said fantasy men some of the fantasy men are also hot vampire-demons the fantasy men have huge swords all of the above characters are samurais in the Bakumatsu period of feudal Japan. [Read More]