Assassin's Creed Valhalla players are dying on purpose to help fellow fans get a bugged achievement

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  756 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Assassin's Creed Valhalla has a tough achievement the game's community is now working together to help everyone unlock. You can help too, by letting yourself get killed in a specific location. The troublesome achievement, named Hall of the Slain, requires you "Avenge the death of 10 players". It's one of many awards accessible via the built-in Ubisoft Connect platform, and also one of many that suffers from bugs. In about 150 hours playing Valhalla, I've only come across the ability to avenge another player twice - and one of those times was last night while testing out the community's new method. [Read More]

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally launches on Nintendo Switch this week

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  284 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally launches on Nintendo Switch on 20th May, Black Isle has announced. The re-release of the 20-year-old console action role-playing game was scheduled to hit the eShop on 7th May alongside PlayStation and Xbox, but suffered a delay at the last minute. Black Isle subsequently tweeted to apologise for the situation. "Due to an unforeseen issue on the Nintendo Switch store, we're going to have to delay the launch for a few days to fix it," [Read More]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 won't have a campaign on Xbox 360, PS3

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  257 words  |  Trudie Dory

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's Xbox 360 and PS3 versions won't have a campaign mode. "The ambitious scope of the 1-4 player co-op Campaign design of the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions could not be faithfully recreated on old generation hardware," publisher Activision explained in a statement on the matter. The previous gen versions, developered by Beenox and Mercenary Technology, will still feature the game's multiplayer and Shadows of Evil zombies mode starring Jeff Goldblum and Ron Perlman. [Read More]

Everything we know about Far Cry 5's map editor

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  11 minutes  |  2314 words  |  Patria Henriques

Since the announcement of Far Cry 5, details of its map editor and multiplayer portions have been surprisingly thin on the ground. I'm a big fan of that kind of stuff though, so during a trip to try out the campaign, I badgered the developers for a bit more info about Far Cry Arcade and in particular, the map editor. You can watch a pretty exhaustive list video below, which covers my findings, but I've also jotted down the main points in the following article. [Read More]

Halo 5's story sees Master Chief team up with Blue Team in single-player and co-op

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  271 words  |  Patria Henriques

Microsoft, via Game Informer, has revealed Halo 5: Guardians story information. In the campaign Master Chief is accompanied by Blue Team in both single-player and four-player co-op. Blue Team is a combat sub-unit within the Spartan-2 division of the UNSC that was led by John-117 during the Human-Covenant war. It's made up of Linda, Fred and Kelly, who, like John, were abducted when they were just six years old to be turned into super soldiers. [Read More]

Harry Potter Wizards Unite Dragons - release date and Dragon region locations explained

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  636 words  |  Trudie Dory

Dragons will be soaring into Harry Potter Wizards Unite on September 7th. Announced alongside the news of the first Harry Potter Wizards Unite Fan Festival in Indianapolis, Dragons will be the first new Oddity to appear since the game's release. Dragons have played important roles in the Harry Potter series - from the ones guarding the Gringotts vaults to Norbert, Hagrid's pet dragon - so it's very exciting to see their inclusion in Wizards Unite. [Read More]

It looks like New World has shed around half its playerbase since launch

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  334 words  |  Trudie Dory

Amazon's new MMO, New World, has reportedly lost more than half its playerbase just a month after its launch on PC. Despite hitting an impressive all-time concurrent peak of just shy of a million players on 3rd October, Forbes spotted that the numbers on SteamCharts have taken something of a dip, with its concurrent rate falling around 135,000 players every week since launch. As of last week, the MMO sported a concurrent player count of 508,000 - roughly half of what it was at the start of the month. [Read More]

Petscop, the internet's favourite haunted video game

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  1225 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Please be advised: this article deals with traumatic real-world events. "The longer we go without a new Petscop video, the further we drift from God," says StableChaos, a user on the Reddit channel r/Petscop, where nearly 20,000 readers congregate. Petscop is the internet's most popular haunted video game, and no-one knows yet what it all means, nor what it's all leading to. Users of r/Petscop - true to Reddit form - seem mostly irreverent and curious, with a smattering of death-cult-esque sentiment in the mix too. [Read More]

Pokémon Sword and Shield Sing Pikachu code: How to download Sing Pikachu explained

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  603 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Sing Pikachu is currently being distributed into Pokémon Sword and Shield via a Mystery Gift code to celebrate the release of P25 Music. Unlike regular Pikachus, Sing Pikachu knows the normal-type attack, Sing. This attack puts your opponent's Pokémon to sleep and Pikachu can't learn it ordinarily, making Sing Pikachu a worthy ally. Below you'll find the code required for Sing Pikachu, along with instructions on how to download it into Pokémon Sword and Shield. [Read More]

Spider-Man Remastered may be coming to the PS Store as a standalone release

 Posted on September 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  328 words  |  Patria Henriques

A page advertising the standalone version of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered has popped up on the official PlayStation website. At the time of writing, the only way to obtain the remastered version of the PS4 game is to buy Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. But now it has its own listing on the PlayStation website, fans are now speculating that it might be teasing an imminent standalone release, particularly as there's no mention in the page's small print that you can only play it if you buy Sony exclusive, Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. [Read More]