Assassin's Creed Valhalla extends current festival, adds new sword

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  393 words  |  Trudie Dory

Assassin's Creed fans are keenly waiting for news on Valhalla's upcoming second year of additions - but will have to wait just a little longer. With Valhalla's one-year anniversary now passed, Ubisoft is still to say exactly what the next year will bring. In the meantime, the game's current Oskoreia Festival event has been extended a week until 9th December. This is good news for anyone still grinding festival tokens for the last few rewards (the werewolf combat challenge is your fastest route to the most tokens, I've found), such as Eivor's headdress made out of bones, or the rather spooky skeleton raven. [Read More]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Season 6 battle pass comes to an end with no sign of a Season 7

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  925 words  |  Trudie Dory

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Season 6 battle pass has come to an end - and there's no sign of a Season 7. Infinity Ward's first-person shooter launched on 25th October 2019. Since then, it's seen the launch of free-to-play battle royale Warzone, Treyarch and Raven's Black Ops Cold War, and six seasons' worth of new content and battle passes. But it looks like the focus from Activision's point of view is now squarely on Warzone and Black Ops Cold War. [Read More]

Eye of the Beholder Trilogy is free on GOG as part of their classic D&D sale

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  299 words  |  Patria Henriques

GOG must be in a very generous mood right now. Following on from Tuesday's Witcher 3 giveaway to owners of the game on other platforms, they're now handing out the classic D&D RPG Eye of the Beholder Trilogy for free. Originally released back in 1991, the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy includes a set of first-person real-time RPGs based on the Advanced Dungeon & Dragons 2nd Edition's game rules. Your band of adventurers will root around the Waterdeep Sewers, Temple Darkmoon and Myth Drannor across all three games - and, in a neat move, you can bring the same party with you in each entry. [Read More]

Forza Horizon 3 review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  10 minutes  |  1994 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Playground Games' series has never been a more triumphant standard-bearer for racing games as pure, escapist entertainment. The Fiat Dino coupé was produced for a few years in the late 1960s and early 70s. It wasn't particularly fast, didn't star in any cool movies, and didn't have a motorsport career. Classic car enthusiasts remember it now for its crisp and elegant Bertone body, and the fact that it had a Ferrari-made engine, the same V6 found in its more famous and voluptuous namesake, the Ferrari Dino. [Read More]

Here's a first look at the just-announced classic RTS sequel Men of War 2

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  682 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Men of War 2, the sequel to the original cult RTS Men of War, has been announced. It's coming in 2022, and being developed by Ukrainian studio Best Way, the same studio behind the originals in the series: Men of War, which came out in 2009, and the proper first game in the series, 2004's Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. We've seen some extended gameplay in action and had a walkthrough of some of the key features, and were pretty impressed with what we saw. [Read More]

How to leave Los Santos and fully explore the map in GTA San Andreas

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  579 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Leaving Los Santos is probably one of your first major goals - allowing you to see more of what GTA San Andreas has to offer. Unlike previous GTA games, there are three cities and vast amounts of countryside to explore - but initially, you can only see Los Santos until a certain point. By completing certain story missions, more will become available to you, including the region of Las Venturas in time. [Read More]

Just one Animal Crossing: New Horizons island per Switch, Nintendo confirms

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  486 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Only one Animal Crossing: New Horizons island can exist per Nintendo Switch console no matter how many accounts are registered or copies of the game owned, Nintendo has confirmed. The Nintendo of Australia website carries fine print, spotted by GamesRadar, that makes it clear: "Please note: only one island can exist per Nintendo Switch console, irrespective of the number of user accounts registered to or copies of the game used on one console. [Read More]

Metroid Dread now looks to be series' best-selling game

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  332 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Nintendo's critically-acclaimed Nintendo Switch adventure Metroid Dread looks to have become the series' best-selling game. The original Metroid Prime on GameCube had previously been the series' biggest seller, which Dread has now dethroned. Metroid Dread has now shifted 2.9m copies worldwide since its launch in October last year. Metroid Prime was previously reported to have sold 2.8m. While positive news for Metroid fans, it's worth putting in perspective alongside recent launches in other Nintendo franchises. [Read More]

Saudi-backed group buys ESL for $1bn

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  436 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The Savvy Gaming Group, which is backed by Saudi Arabia's controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF), has bought the ESL for $1bn. The group has also snapped up popular esports platform Faceit for $500m, and will now merge the two. Purchases by the PIF have regularly hit the headlines, as it is widely-seen as a positive PR-creating front for the Saudi Arabian regime - and a lucrative plan to help the country continue to grow as the world transitions away from oil. [Read More]

Shadow of War: Lost Artifacts and Web of Fate locations - how to get the Prospector and Cluster of Spiders skill upgrades

 Posted on January 23, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  546 words  |  Trudie Dory

Lost Artifacts and Web of Fate markers are two of Shadow of War's customary array of collectable items that are revealed on your map when you purify Haedir Towers. Collecting a full set of each collectable within a region will earn you a Skill Point, and collecting all of each type in every region will earn you an additional bonus. A complete set of Lost Artifacts will earn you the Prospector skill upgrade, whilst Cluster of Spiders is the skill upgrade reward for finding all Webs of Fate. [Read More]