The Wind Waker's missing dungeons were reused in other Zelda games
Posted on September 8, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
The mystery of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker's missing dungeons can now be solved - almost. It's been known for years that more than one dungeon was cut from the GameCube game, giving its latter half some rather awkward pacing. With the HD Wii U version due for release in October this year, it's natural to wonder: will they be reinstated?
I asked Eiji Aonuma - the producer who oversees the Zelda series at Nintendo - this question when I met him yesterday in a quiet suite on Nintendo's E3 stand.
[Read More]This dataminer has uncovered a deleted NPC quest in Elden Ring
Posted on September 8, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
Prolific dataminer Lance McDonald has discovered a deleted NPC questline in Elden Ring. According to McDonald, if you visited Stormhill Shack - which had previously been known as Scavenger's Shack and is today the location where you'll meet Roderika - during the network test, it was empty. Before that test, however, it looks like it was the home to an unknown NPC called Monk Jigo. As spotted by PC Gamer, Jigo had been "
[Read More]Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Atlas travel: How to get to England, return to Norway and travel to other regions explained
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
The Atlas in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla allows you to travel between different regions of the game - something which comes in useful when you arrive in England early in the story.
Though getting to England is a monumental step for our cast of characters, for the players themselves it doesn't have to be - with the Atlas allowing you to return to Norway whenever you feel like it.
This is useful if you want to tick off any side-quests or explore any locations you missed in the early game - and since there are some high-game areas in Norway you cannot access yet, it's important to know for the end game, too.
[Read More]Divinity Original Sin 2 is getting a revamped Arena Mode for turn-based battling
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Developer Larian has announced that its majestic RPG Divinity Original Sin 2 will include a revamped Arena Mode when it comes to Xbox One and PS4 in its thoroughly reworked Definitive Edition guise at the end of August.
Arena mode, as you might imagine, ditches the narrative of the core game to concentrate on letting players run around and bop things (and each other) on the head via the splendours of turn-based combat.
[Read More]Elden Ring will feature poison swamps because Miyazaki loves making them
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
Hidetaka Miyazaki loves poison swamps, even if you don't.
The Souls games are notorious for including dark, dank swamp areas filled with toxic enemies: the nightmarish Valley of Defilement in Demon's Souls, or the endless depths of Blighttown in Dark Souls.
Elden Ring is set to also include poison areas, of course. That's because Miyazaki loves them - he just can't help himself.
"In terms of how the player feels when they encounter this area that is a different story,"
[Read More]Face-Off: Batman: Return to Arkham
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
At the very least, the Batman: Return to Arkham remasters are an interesting technical exercise, bringing the newer features of Unreal Engine 4 to two older classics - Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City. Each were originally built on a modified Unreal Engine 3, but developer Virtuos (best known for the Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD remaster) chooses to revamp its character models, overhaul its lighting, and add higher resolution effects across both.
[Read More]FF11 is the most profitable Final Fantasy ever
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
MMO Final Fantasy 11 is the most profitable Final Fantasy game ever, Square Enix has announced. Over a decade after the game's launch, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada told an audience at the Vana Fest 2012 event over the weekend (reported by Famitsu and translated by Andriasang) that if you add up the total play time of all currently active FF11 players you reach a figure of over 200,000 years.
[Read More]Moonshining is Red Dead Online's best update yet, but the cost of content is starting to hurt
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Since we last spoke, Red Dead Online has made the move to PC, and with the Moonshiners update has finally caught up to its console counterpart, wrangling it into submission with its 4K 60FPS lasso. This fancy new patch grafts in the second season of the much-loved Outlaw Pass, a new wardrobe worth of cosmetics and a brand new Frontier Pursuit to pursue in Moonshining, which introduces property ownership and a separate five-mission narrative.
[Read More]New Sony patent for mobile controller discovered
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Sony has reportedly patented a new controller for use with mobile devices.
The patent was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment's Japanese division and shows a PS4-esque controller with a screen in the centre.
Only the controller is part of the patent, suggesting it would be used to slot a mobile screen in the centre.
According to VGC, the patent describes "a left side grip portion and a right side grip portion gripped by the left and right hands of the user"
[Read More]Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 review
Posted on September 7, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
UPDATE 23/2/15 9:40am: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 is currently the subject of much controversy owing to the firm marketing the card with incorrect specs - a state of affairs that has led to a lawsuit. For a deep-dive explanation of the issue, we recommend this article. We are re-evaluating the GTX 970, but our current findings suggest that at 1080p and 1440p this remains an exceptional product. You can find more recent testing of the GTX 970 across a wider range of more modern games in our graphics card upgrade guide.
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