We know that last year's installment was , so it seems the Xbox and Activision teams were on to something when they decided to release two new Black Ops entries back-to-back. This also signals Black Ops 7 might have been in the works for nearly as long as BO6 at Raven Software and Treyarch. No, this new game won't be handled by a different set of lead studio𝕴s. What's new in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, though?

Beyond new weapons to level up and an all-new campaign with the option to play in co-op, what should we expect from this return to BO2's dark future and legacy characters? As its Fall 2025 launch gets closer, we're collecting everything we know here. So read♌ on ⛦for all the information that you need to know about the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release window, trailer, gameplay, and more!

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release date speculation

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is set to launch in late 2025. ♊This big news came our way during Summer Game Fest, and all of us FPS fans couldn't 𒐪be happier.

Xbox and Activision have yet to confirm a release date, and we're expecting to get the full answer at the reveal event coming . If we examine Call of Duty's traditional release window🐟s, it's logical to expect Black Ops 7 to arrive between the late October period and mid-November. ꩲStay tuned for updates.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 platforms

At launch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC via Xbox PC, Battle.net, and Steam. Of course, with Activision now being in the Xbox family, Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers will get it day one. But a potential release on the Switch 2 hasn't been discussed.

Despite the cutting-edge tech involve🗹d in the most recent Call of Duty games (BO6 used the IW 9.0 engine with current-gen-specific optimizations), the powers that be aren't ready to let go of last-gen consoles ඣyet. Don't expect an optimal experience on 12-year-old hardware, though.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 trailer

At this stage, we've only received one look at Black Ops 7. It arrived right at the end of June 2025's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Games Showcase and mostly cꦿonsisted of a CG cutscene establishing the in-universe tech advancements in line with what we saw in 2012's Black Ops 2. It'✤s an intriguing 3-minute teaser, though.

At the very end, we get quick glimpses of what appears to be in-game action, including multiplayer maps, campaign sections, a𓆏nd this year's Zombies mode. Of course, there's a new menace that needs to be taken down, and David Mason is back in action. Watch out for a surprꦍise comeback, too.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 story and setting

Call of Duꦆty: Black Ops 7 is set "more than 40 years" after Black Ops 6, meaning it happens a whole decade after Black Ops 2, which took place in 2025 outside of its late-Cold War sections. If the 'numbers situation' of this sub-fr🐠anchise doesn't make sense to you, know that you're not alone. It's the result of jumping all over the timeline in a very non-linear way and deciding to bring back numbered entries after Black Ops: Cold War.

Before we dive any deeper into Black Ops 7's story and setting, here's a rundown of the chronological order of the Black Ops sub-franchise: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:World at War (yes, it𓄧's connected to the series), 1, Cold War, 6, 2, 7, 4, and 3. Two important notes: If you want to avoid a bunch of spoilers, it's recommended to play 2 before 6 due to its late 1980s flashbacks, which have an impact on what comes after. Second, Black Ops 4 is skippable as it's the fra🐻nchise's only multiplayer-only installment... and just isn't good overall.

With that whole mess out of the way, let's go back to Black Ops 7. Yes, it's set in ꦜ2035, and the world is "on the brink of chaos" yet again. At this point, it's important to bring up that Black Ops 2 offered several endings depending o༺n a couple of player choices and whether the optional Strike Force missions were completed or not before reaching the end of the campaign.

We've yet to receive confirmation on which ending has been chosen as 'canon' to shape the state of the world and the main characters when Black Ops 7's story begins, but the twisted bad guy Raul Menendez is back somehow. Many will instantly say he's not dead, but the Black Ops series is known for loopy twists and a focus on psychological warfare, so he could be back but not alive (think of The Joker's presence in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman: Arkham Knight). Is he alive, dead but living rent-free in David Mason's head, or just 🃏part of an advanced AI system? All the options make sense in the Black Ops universe, so we're not ruling anything out.

Little else is known about the actual plot of the campaign, although the teaser trailer provides some clues: peace has been restored (or is in the process of being restored) thanks to an organization called The Guild. During the events of Black Ops 6, this group is involved in weapon trafficking and smuggling. 40 years later, it's evolved into a seemingly huge global weapons manufacturer led by CEO Emma Kagan. They're♊ offering to protect the world from itself thanks to all sorts of automated weapons, drones, and ro🦩bots.

Needless to say, David Mason and his team will have a hard time believing The๊ Guild, and Raul Menendez might be key to uncovering a new co𝓀nspiracy.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 gameplay

This is Call of Duty we're talking about, so we're not expecting any major shake-ups to the winning first-person shooter formula that's kept the franchi𒐪se at the top of the food chain for so long. However, we must assume a number of additions introduced in 2024's Black Ops 6 – namely, the omni-movement system – are being kept around alongside refreshed mechanics from Black Ops 2 due to the return to its futuristic setting. All the specifics are expected to be revealed when the Black Ops 7 event happens this summer.

What we do know already is the story campaign, developed by Raven Software, will be playable in co-op for the first 🍸time since Black Ops 3 (2015). "Round-based Zombies in the heart of the Dark Aether" are also back, meaning that Activision and Treyarch aren't messing with the core structure for the foreseeable future. Again, we'll be learning more soon.

Can you pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops 7?

Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 aren't available yet and likely won't go live until we have a firm release date.

Expect this to change later this summer. Meanwhile, you can continue to grind through 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Ops 6's seasons or go back and replay every Black Ops game, some of which are in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Call of Duty games list.

For more future outings, read our pages on all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games on the way.

But creator Toby Fox has spent that time well, rewarding us with not just one but two new chapters for the Nintendo Swit🌠ch 2 launch – in a package that also serves as the full-priced sing🐈ularly titled release, with subsequent chapters included as free updates. Deltarune is really here, even if we're only currently able to play four of its chapters.

It's also one of the few indie titles from Nintendo Switch 2's launch line-up, which is perhaps indicative of Fox's star power – as a composer, he has also contributed to the soundtracks of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It's also a perfect fit as, despite Deltarune's PC origins, the game wears its heart on its sleeve as a l꧋ove letter to the classic SNES RPG adventures🔥 of Nintendo's yesteryear. But more than homage, it carves its own path with memorable characters and systems that also means it's not simply a retread of Undertale.

It's not completely essential to have played the 2015 game, since Deltarune isn't a sequel but rather set in a parallel universe to Undertale's, with some familiar characters and references but in a different context. In a subversion to many RPGs where your protagonist is a vessel for thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe player, you play a canonical character called Kris, a human child living in an idyllic town, complete with a church, diner, library and school, almost reminiscent of Earthbound. The difference is that rather than being set in fictionalized Americana, this world is populated by diverse monster races living harmoniously among each other, including Kris' mother Toriel, the same-but-not-the-same ♔version of Toriel from Undertale.

Its strength fortunately doesn't lie in references to its parallel predecessor but rather in the new characters Kris encounters as they stumble from their normal school day into the Da🥀rk World. This includes Susie, the scary school bully who literally threatens to bite your face off, and a mysterious prince named Ralsei. Together, you become an unlikely trio, the Lightners tasked with sealing dark fountains that have started springing up, in order to save both the worlds of the light and the dark. That may sound like your boilerplate JRPG set-up, but Deltarune's delight comes from setting up these conventions before knocking them down.

Acts of kindness

What felt revolutionary about Undertale was that it was an RPG where you were encouraged not to kill enemies but find non-violent solutions to win a battle. Tha📖t's a philosophy which carries over to Deltarune, and while it may not feel as refreshing as it might have a decade ago, it still has some new twists. For starters, rather than fighting alone, you have a party, which also gives the battles the side-on view of classic Final Fantasy turn-based battles. Initially however, you have limited control over the hotheadeꦏd Susie, who would rather go in swinging her axe. For Undertale fans, it sets up a fascinating conundrum of trying to win a battle non-violently by showing mercy to your enemies, but also trying to prevent your reluctant ally from harming anyone (at least in the first chapter).

As someone who had played Undertale's pacifist route, I naturally went 🅰with a playthrough with the intent of non-violence and never chose to 'fight'. Where some games💃 that engage with these kinds of morality choices can often present pacifism as the boring way to play, Deltarune comes up with so many ideas to make this the preferable option.

Defense still plays a pivotal role, which, like in Undertale, takes the form of a bullet hell minigame as you move a heart inside a board while dodging enemy projectile𝕴s. But what becomes more important is getting your fellow party members to 'act'. That however requires a kind of magic gauge called TP that builds up during battles (it also r꧒esets after every encounter so you don't have to hoard it). You can increase this by choosing to defend during your turns but also by narrowly evading incoming projectiles, adding a risk/reward element to the bullet hell sections.

What makes these encounters unique is that both acts and bullet boards are often bespoke and contextual to the bizarre enemies, such as lowering a water cooler's guard by having your party chat while gathered around it. Sometimes, acts can affect an enemy's attack pattern to be easier or harder, but often it's just the excuse for a gag that earns a good belly laugh. The board itself c🉐an also function in some unpredictable ways, becoming a minigame within the minigame or a novel way to further the plot. Given this was a mechanic seen in Undertale, it's a delight how Fox finds numerous ways to make the act of evading projectiles different for virtually every enemy encounter.

It's perhaps because of the novelty and gags that means these encounters are🐼 also often only impactful on the first go, and so if you're not engaging in these battles to gain XP, any repeat encounters tend to feel more repetitive than your typical RPG grind, and fleeing is not an option. There's still an incentive, as once you've spared an enemy enough times, you'll also recruit them, which will see them showing up in your castletown hub in the Dark World. More significant enemies meanwhile will actively help you in your quest to seal the dark fountains.

Occasionally, it feels as if Fox is throwing a bunch of ideas against the wall to see what sticks. A stealth section mostly exists to poke fun at stealth mechanics but remains underwhelming. While you also eventually get to scale some environments, with the ability to leap across gaps, you're still constricted by the frustrating limitations of tile𒁃-based traversal. Nonetheless, these are minor quibbles since these only take up a tiny portion of a chapter, while most mechanics are there to serve the narrative, which is really what you're here for.

Character building

While I shan't be spoiling Deltarune's story, and there's plenty that happens that will no doubt have you searching fan forums for answers, it's less the grand narrative of the lore that compels me than it is the characters. Susie is, for me, the real heart and soul – a proper diamond in the rough. She mi𝓡ght be someone I'd normally cross the street to avoid, but over the course of these four chapters, her arc is one of the best as you learn of her vulnerabilities beneath that tough persona and her capacity for kindness, even if she shows it in her own unapologetically brash way.

That's also largely true about each chapter's villain of the week, such as Lancer in the🤡 first chapter who tries to foil the Lightners from time to time to prevent you reaching his father the tyrant king, or Tenna in the third chapter who wants to keep your party playing their game show forever. It helps that these characters are all memorable, goofy and flawed in their own way, to the point that you come to empathize with them even as you'll eventually have to battle over conflicting goals rather than because they're evil.

Deltarune is just stuffed with personality, which is testament to Fox's laugh-out-loud hilarious writing that's not only conveyed in the text itself but through its delivery of comically timed scrolls and awkward pauses. It's also in the art direction, which retains the crude but charming pixel art established in Undertale but is given a broader palette by main artist and animator Temmie Chang. Even while sticking to a primitive retro look, there's definitely richer use of sprites, color and animations, such as how Kris and Susie change appearances when jumping into the Dark World, which reminds me of crossing into the Metaverse in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Persona 5.

The benefit of Deltarune's episodic structure means each chapter allows the game to explore very different themes on a larger scale than Undertale, all while still being far more digestible than a bloated 3D AAA equivalent (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:looking at you,🥃 Final Fanta♒sy 7 Rebirth). Chapter Two's Cyber City offers more vibrant environments than Chapter One's Card Kingdom, while later chapters take the surprisin🎶g approach of emulating the kind of pseudo-3D effects popular in the latter half of the 16-bit era. Once your party is sitting down playing a N♏ES-style Zelda clone game within a game while your prerendered-CG host observes, you're past trying to fit Deltarune's influences into any neat category and just enjoying all the broad tapestry of references Fox is pulling together.

Speaking of themes, the catchy chiptune soundtrack is nothing short of incredible, from the 🀅battle theme to the main theme that's now permanently stuck in my head. As much as they're enjoyable on loop, so🦩me also evolve across chapters, giving a new twist and freshness that also fits with how the narrative develops.

At just over the halfway point, Deltarune has already eclipsed Undertale in length and scope. Even while it remains an unapologetically weird old-school pixelated JRPG, each chapter is a new canvas to stretch the meaning of a retro-inspired game, which doesn't have to conform to any rigid rules, style, or logic. Th🐟e good news is we only have to wait until 2026 for Chapter 5, which is one mystery I'm glad to have resolved before I hop back online to pore over all the possibi💃lities of where Toby Fox will take this epic tale next.

Deltarune 🍸chapters 1-4 were r🐎eviewed on Nintendo Switch 2, with a code provided by the publisher.

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That big ol' X is a nod to the fact that the game is now 10 years old. With 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rainbow Six Siege marking the anniversary by going free-to-play, there will be a lot of people playing for the first time. The use of the word 'siege' in the title hints at the nature of the core modes that they'll find – both attack and defense centered around an objective or two (an area to defend, a pair of bombs, or a hostage) withi🧜n a building. A prep phase sees the attacker team sending in ground drones to find the objective and identify defenders, while the defenders can reinforce (or blow holes in) walls, set traps, and choose thꦜeir positions. Then, the siege begins.

The game has seen a lot of changes over the years even before Rainbow Six Siege X, but some fundamentals remain the same. For one thing, each character – or, rather, Operator – has a unique ability or gadget, and is permanently assigned to ♔attack or defense. Fuze has a device that can shoot explosives through breakable surfaces, for example, while Castle can block doorways and windows with bulletproof barricades rather than the standard, flimsier, wooden ones. It's also important to note that, a decade on, your bullets and explosives are still just as deadly to your teammates as they are to your enemies.

X Education

Now, could you do me a favor, and play a record scratch sound effect in your head? Thanks. We really need to take some time out to focus on the friendly fire element. The Rainbow Six Siege X refresh will see returning players as well as new ones. Perhaps you, like me, abandoned the original a number of years ago due to the omnipresent toxicity rampaging through the community. One of the most visible elements of this toxicity was intentional teamkills, which would be seen on one or both teams – in my experience, at least – in almost every single match. I'm pleased to rep𝄹ort, therefore, that this behavior now seems to be relatively rare.

Although put into place long before the X refresh, the reputation system will be a powerful reason for many lapsed players to return. It's a transparent system that issues positive or negative points depending on behavior, with rewards and punishments doled out according to your current reputation status (Dishonorable, Disruptive, Respectable, Esteemed, and Exemplary). Don't worry about being punished for the occasional (and inevitable) accidental teamkill, or friendly gadget destruction. It's annoying to pick up negative points for an accident, but the way the system is set up, in order to be demoted you'll have to be going really heavy on the teamkills and nasty chat. It's an imperfec🍸t system, but its p꧃ositive impact is self-evident and very, very important.

There are still, um, enthusiastic members of the community to be encountered, but so far I've found it's just edgy trash talk that can be fixed with muting and hitting the off switch on text chat. The addition of a long-needed communication wheel ensures that you'll still be able to help and warn your team if chat isn't🍸 your thing, too. The core experience blossoms as a result. Now, you're free to concentrate on the fact that caution is key, as it's no exaggeration to say that you can sometimes plummet from maximum health to death within a single second (maybe two if the opponent's aim is a little off). Every match is tense, each kill a thrill. No longer do I fear my teammates as much as (or more than) the players on the opposing team.

Maps get a subtle overhaul too, with tweaked versions of Bank, Clubhouse, Border, Chalet, and Kafe available at launch. Not only do they look a little prettier, new destructible elements have been added. Gas pipes will spit flame before eventually exploding, while damaged fire extinguishers can block visibility. Some pipes are strategically placed so that the jet of flame will temporarily block a window or doorway, though you can simply wait it out.🧸 A more impactful change is that Operators now clearly casꦅt shadows, a new element to keep in mind when sneaking around those tight corners.

Make it rainbow

Clash – the only defender armed with a shield – sees a rework with the launch of Rainbow Six Siege X. Previously, her body-height electro shield was armed with a shock pulse that would slow and damage opponents, and switching to a weapon took a few sec🐲onds that could feel like a few minutes. Most of this is still true, with two significant changes. Firstly, she now has the option of setting the shield down like a portable barricade (which can be charged through), leaving her free to move and shoot behind it, while the shock blast can be activated remotely. The second change is that while the shock still slows enemies, it no longer damages them. This is indicative of a wider change to how electricity works.

Now, electricity treats all players the same. It deals no damage to either team regardless of the source, meaning that electrified barbed wire (for example) can no longer be used to chip away at oppo𒅌nent health. Electrified reinforced walls will still destroy any breaching gadgets applied to them, and electrified barbed wire will still destroy incoming drones that pass through it, but it's no longer an element that can support bullets and ex♈plosions for player damage.

The major addition that Rainbow Six Siege X brings is a brand new mode, Dual Front. This is 6v6 rather than 5v5, takes place in the biggest map to date (District), and – although it's an attack and defense mode – there are respawns. The twist here is that both teams are attacking and defending simultaneously, with victory handed to the side that captures all three opposing sectors in sequence first. The hope seems to be that this new mode will snare players attracted by the free-to-play nature of the X update. In addition to the inclusion of respawns, equipment supplies will slowly regenerate over time, available Operators are a rotating selection of 35 – everybody📖 has the same pool of defenders and attackers – and, while dead, you can spawn a temporary drone on a teammate you're spectating to support with reco▨n.

When in drone

District is an excellent map. The multi-level buildings have the imposing corridors, threatening corners, and destructible walls, floors, and ceilings that you'll find in the core modes. The outside areas offer some limited cover, but are infused with a sense of vulnerability as you make your way from one buildin✱g to the next. As outside areas are now important to both teams, sniping spots have been scattered around. There's even a roof you can get on top of; but, this being Rainbow Six Siege, there are mul🎃tiple angles you could be attacked from yourself up there.

Although each Operator has been deliberately calibrated for play in a claustrophobic environment, they all work excellently in Dual Front. In part, this is due to the fact that the primary task – capturing each of the enemy's three zones in turn while defending your own – still follows the rule of 'static objective within a building'. The ability to select a new Operator on respawn, meanwhile, allows you to adapt to any specific enemy Oper෴ator giving you a hard time, or change tactics when it becomes clear that your team needs more emphasis on attack or defense.

It's a carefully designed experience that mostly works well, but I do think that new players looking for a casual free-to-play experience will bounce off Dual Front with record-breaking velocity. For one thing, the 30 second wait to respawn can be agonizing. The temporary drone gimmick is a great idea that softens the blow, but the speed with which you can be killed can be pretty dispiriting when you've just spent 30 seconds jogging to y🎃our objective.

Movement is another thing. It's fairly slow and heavy, but that's by no means a bad thing; it's an important part of Rainbow Six's identity. So too, however, is the fact that it has The Loudest Footsteps In Gaming. Everybody stomps around like an angry teenager storming up the stairs to their bedroom to play My Chemical Romance at maximum volume. As a result, if you don't ha⭕ve the patienc𝕴e to slowly sneak the greater-than-usual distance to your destination, an enemy lying in wait will hear you coming long before they see you. This is something Rainbow Six veterans will know and accept, but it'll be much harder for new players to spend the time adapting to.

Regardless of the mode, the sh♎eer volume of Operators Rainbow Six Siege X now includes means that new players will have a lot of learning to do. Questions may include "How did they know where I was?", "Why did that window explode?", "Why isn't my device working?", and of course, the classic "What the [expletive removed] just happened?".

Nonetheless, with Rainbow Six Siege X, the game now finds itself in the best position it's ever been in for player onboarding. In addition to challenges 🔴to unlock Operators and modes, there are modes to familiarise yourself with the many maps and weapons outside of PvP, and each Operator now has a page with simple, easy to understand tutorials explaining their unique features to help you decide whether to spend your hard-earned Renown (or hard-purchased Credits) on them. And, of course, now you can start pl💎aying for free.

Rainbow Six Siege X manages to provide something for everyone. Existing players get a new mode, a character rework, and multiple small but meaningful improvements. Lapsed players will find an experience that's instantly familiar, yet noticeably improved in some important ways. New players get the benefit of 10 years worth of development for free… so long as they have the patience for the more hardcore elements, and a willingness to slowly learn what over 70 Operators can do and how they interact with one another. WIth a refined experience and the promise of an expanded playerbase, ꦜRainbow Six Siege X just might keep going for another 10 years.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X was reviewed🐠 on PC with a code provided by the publisher

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The long-awaited Metroidvania sequel did, however, briefly appear via gameplay footage shown on the newly announced 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:ROG Xbox Ally, raising more than one eyebrow among th🍌e faಞtigued Hollow Knight community.

"I hear it's gonna play Silksong when it comes out," Official Xbo♍x Podcast host Jeff Rubenstein tells Spencer , rounding out a discussion on the Xbox Ally reveal.

"That's right, that's✅ right," Spencer begins. "Thank you. That was a good partnership, to kind of feed them in and have them play a role in our hardware lineup."

Spencer stops the Silksong train then and there. Xbox has been burned on Silksong hype before, famousl✱y indicating three years ago that the game would be out within a year, but has grown more reserved as Team Cherry's lips grew tighter and its development pipeline stretched ever lon💞ger.

The Silksong army, burrowing through even the thinnest Steam backend updates like termites through wood, has kept a close record of every tease, trace, and theory around, and a lot of them do orbit Xbox. I can't definitively say that Spencer spoke with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:thඣe expe𒁃ctations of the Skong faithful weighing on his nerves, but he was𝓡 certainly quick to talk about what are now the most commonplace games of all time instead.

"But it is really about playing the Windows games that you wanna play," he says of the Xbox Ally. "So if you'🍸re a big Roblox player, if you're a Fortnite player, if you're a Minecraft player, if you love Game Pass, we want to make sure the way you've built your library as a player, and the games that you want to go play, are available on this device and that they play incredibly well."

ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X "have access to all the games you can play on Windows PCs," so you'll be able to play PlayStation games like The Last of Us and God of War.

What is Supernova Gear in Fortnite?

Supernova Gear in Fortnite is comprised of some of the fresh guns and items that were added for Season 3, as part of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fortnite new weapons drop. Specifically, this g💜ear consists of the superhero equiꦗpment that includes:

• Bass Boost
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• Myst Gauntlets
• Tracking Visor

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Where to get Fortnite Supernova Gear

Fortnite Supernova Gear can generally be found around the island, as both floor loot or in Chests and Hero Caches, as well as purchased from certain 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fortnite characters in exchange for gold bars. However, the easiest way to get it is to head to the Supernova Academy POI, ꦅfound to the north of the island, and search around the buildings. Not only are there Academy Stands that will deposit Supernova Gear when interacted with, but as your Hero Rank increases you can also unlock the secret tech labs in the basement that have even more Supernova Gear for you to claim.

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Speaking to GamesRadar+ at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025, Iizuka admits he hasn't yet had a go of the Switch 2 racer, but "from the videos, it looks like Nintendo did a good job of putti𝓀ng in a lot of fun, so it's more o🌺f like an action game. I see a lot of that coming through."

And to be fair, some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wild tech that players are pulling off in Mario Kart does have the vibes of an action game.

But as for Sonic, the team at Sega is going for a different vibe. "Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds game is different in that it was made by the Sega arcade racing team along 💙with the Sonic Team" Iizuka says, adding "the focus really is on racing and on that competitive play."

He also speaks about the central mechanic of CrossWorlds in which you travel between different realms mid-race, "having the travel rings kind of change up the race every time you race. So even if you're playing the same course, you're going to have a different experience." He adds: "An🌟d there's something really different in the kart racing genre that we think everyone's going to get really excited about."

Iizuka also talked about cross-platform play being important to the team (something that was used as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a dig at "another kart racing game" during its Summer Game Fest reveal). "So cr♉oss p🗹latform play is in there, and you can go ahead and race and have that competitive experience against anyone on any platform. That really makes it exciting."

Plus, Sonic Racing has Ichiban Kasuga from Yakuza and is rumored to be getting SpongeBob down the lin🐼e, so suddenly that Cow isn't looking as cool as before.

Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes.

Zullie the Witch, a popular YouTuber who explores FromSoftware games in-depth, has dug into the Nightfarers (the new action RPG's playable characters) and what each one actually offers you. They start by noting the game's use of letter grades ꧃for character stats, then looking at the overall progression.

During each run of Nightreign, you can grow your character up to 15 levels. On its face, this streamlines Elden Ring's approach where you pick statistics to push during your play-through. But ultimately, the same thing is happening acro🍎ss the two games, since boosts are uneven level to level.

Asﷺ an example, Ironeye's vigor and dexterity grow considerably every time you le🌳vel-up, but almost every other stat is much more staggered. Strength barely moves in the upper levels. In contrast, Raider's strength is always getting buffed, but their dexterity tapers off.

What constitutes each grade varies as well, as Zullie notes an S in intelligence is not the same as an S in dexterity. It's all a bit muddy, but a big takeaway is getting to level 15 isn't as useful as you might think. In a lot of cases, getting as far as 10 may suffice, as tꦦhe overall changes are less dramatic in the later levels. Zullie notes that there seems to be a bit of a soft cap of sorts around level 12.

Even Relics aren't helpi🍎ng you so much. When you're late into🌟 your run and into the teens level-wise, other buffs are considerably more helpful.

Zullie provides stat sheets to help guide you towards what's optimal for your playstyle. A r𝔉eal benefit is not wasting potential buffs in areas you won't really 🧜see a tangible improvement. Defeating the Nightlords is hard work, you need every advantage.

If you're jumping in, have a look at our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign tips and our Elden Ring Nightreign characters tier list.

Proulx has now explained why prices were that high, and he blames a former 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty developer.

"No excuse, of course, I should have b💟een on this," he starts in a video posted to Twitter. "The second I got off that stage, I called Derek, our l♊ead game designer, and I said, 'Derek, did you know we had an $80 bundle? This is news to me, like what the heck? That makes no sense.'"

Now, some of you may be alarmed if a director doesn't༺ know how much players are being charged for bundles in his game🐠. "Our former head of monetization, who happened to come from Call of Duty, was with us for less than a year and was very aggressive on the pricing," Proulx alleges.

Afteꦯr Proulx's comments on the SGF s♒tage about being "tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year," and the Splitgate Twitter account a current CoD developer before deleting the tweet, I would have thought he'd leave CoD out of it.

Proulx then claims that under this former CoD dev's influence, Founder's Packs were originally $100 and Battle Passes were $10, but he and and the lead game designer slashed them down to $60 and $5 respectively. Somehow, the $80 cosmetic bundle that has since been halved to $40, "slipped through the cracks."

He assures us all that "I funda𓂃mentally believe the best way, as a business, truly🎶, to make money, is not to charge the players an egregious amount. It's to be generous, and thoughtful, and listen to feedback. [...] That is our philosophical view with Splitgate 2."

Splitgate 2 launched to "Mixed" reviews on Steam with players calling out the expensive microtransactions and ⭕the hypocrisy in criticizing Call of Duty but then adopting its same strategies and modes. So, while Proulx continues to 💟throw shade at CoD, he has at least listened to players regarding pricing.

Proulx finishes by saying: "I'm sorry about the $80 bundle. It's crazy. It was a shock to me when I found out, and that's no excuse. But you can expect, just like we reduced prices yesterday from $80 to $40, that's going to be our philosophy going forward, is being player friendly, player fℱirst, we want this to be affordable."

In the meantime, catch up on everything that was announced at Summer Game Fest 2025.

To say the Dying Light series has had a complicated relationship with guns isn't an assumption on my part; it's literally the words of the series' franchise director, Tymon Smektała. during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025, Smektała w🅺alked us throughꦍ Dying Light's messy history with guns and pew pewing.

Smektała (half-) joked that "if Dying Light and guns were on Facebook, their relationship status would be, 'it's complic🌟ated'."

He explained that Techland received a lot of feedback from people playing the original Dyinᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚg Light and asking "why did you even bother to have the guns" in such a melee-focused game, and so "in the second one, we didn't." But then, naturally, "the first thing we heard after the release [of Dying Light 2] was 'but, where are the guns?'"

Future Dying Light 2 updates would eventually add guns, even though this presented a unique "lore and narrative challenge" because "we e🌸ven specifically put that in the world building, in the lore, that ther𒁏e are no guns in this world."

Although Techland somehow "managed to squeeze them in," there are still pretty prevalent narr🧜atives online that guns in Dying Light 2 are either or .

You can probably understand then that Techland decided to put a bigger focus on balancing firearm combat in Dying Light: The Beast. "For Dying Light: The Beast, we de🐻cided, 'let's give the players the guns if they want, but also let's focus on the guns so they really feel on par with melee combat in terms of how physical they are, how brutal they are, but also balanced they are, so they don't feel too overpowered."

I genuinely feel for the team at Techland on this, as yes, the Dying Light series is built around fast-paced parkour traversal and, chiefly, the comically gruesome sl🍸icing and dicing of zombies, particularly toward the endgame when you can start crafting wildly silly killing machines that make mincemeat out of the undead.

Guns have always felt a little out of place, but with Techland making this public commitment to improving them, there's reason to be hopef🅠ul for a more balanced assortment of weapons overall.

Techland announced during SGF that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dying Light: The Beast is launওching on August 22 across PS5, 🔜PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, a🧸nd PC.

"For us, it really is Dying Light 3": Techland admits Dying Light 2 "lost the horror, lost the tension," but says The Beast is "the best Dying Light that we have ever made"

Among 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:everything a🉐nnounced at Summer ﷺGame Fest 2025, we learned that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dying Liꦡght: The Beast is launching on August 22 across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. In the wa꧅ke ꦿof that reveal, sat down with Dying Light franchise director Tymon Smektała, who was candid about some of the less-than-favorable comparisons between Dying Light 2 and its acclaimed predecessor.

"Dying Light 1 was a game for our core community. It was a hardcore survival horror, open-world, action adventure with very strong survival aspects," he said. "For Dying Light 2, we forgot about it. The game was a commercial success, but the players who🍬 should be closest to our hearts said we kind of lost the edge, we lost the threat, we lost the horror, we lost the tension."

As someone who gl🎀eefully logged dozens upon dozens of hours in Dying Light 1, but couldn't get into Dying Light 2, it excites me to 𓄧no end that Techland used the original game as a template for The Beast.

Even still, with the new game starting out as Dying Light 2 DLC, it's been hard for me not only to shake that association but also view it as anything more than a standalone e𝓡xpansꦺion. Apparently, that perception is dead wrong, as The Beast has a whole new setting and characters, with Smektała saying it took him around 37 hours to finish his latest playthrough.

"For us, it really is Dying Light 3," he said, later adding that the only reason it isn't a full-fat numbered sequel is bec🍌ause "it doesn't bring this very spectacular breakthrough new feature that maybe you would expect from the next numbered entry in the series," even though it's "a very p🗹roper triple-A game" and "very chunky."

The Beast brings back original Dying Light protagonist Kyle Crane as its main character, and now that he's out of captivity he's thirsty for revenge against the Baron, the scientist who's been experimenting on Crane and giving him supernatural powers. I suppose, in hindsight, that should've been my clue that Te♕chland listened to fans wanting more Dying Light 1 influence in the series' next game. Count me in.

In the meantime, here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games to play tonight.

I always hesitate to put this kind of hyperbole in a preview piece, but Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is simply awesome. Drop in the caveat her🌳e that the full game might have some fatal flaw that drags the whole thing down, but through four levels from across various sections of the game, I've been absolutely hooked.

Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise to say that the devs at The Game Kitchen, the studio behind the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: best Metroidvania games out there in the Blasphemous series, have created an excellent 2D action game. But Ragebound manages the rare achievement of keeping the spirit of the legendarilﷺy tough-as-nails Ninja Gaiden series alive while giving us something that still feels fresh and exciting in 2025.

Pixel perfect

The first thing you'll notice about Ragebound is how good it looks. The game mimics the cinematic cutscene style of the original NES games, but with striking modern pixel art. The 2D action stages are similarly impressive, most of all for the tremendous variety of animations you'll see. Did the tutorial mission need custom art to show longtime serie𝓰s protagonist Ryu Hyabusa opening a letter or viciously piledriving youꦓ into the floor when you fail to defeat him in combat? No, but the sheer spectacle is certainly appreciated.

You play as Kenji Muzo, an apprentice to Ryu who's left behind to deal with a demonic invasion all on his own. The plot likely won't be the main draw here, but snappy dial♍og offers some nice context to the stages – and gives The Game Kitchen opportunity to continue building on the uneasy religious themes the studio💙 keeps coming back to as Kenji builds an uneasy alliance with the assassin Kumori, who can commune with the demon realm.

Kenji has the abilities you'd expect from the protagonist of a 2D Ninja Gaiden game, with wall-climbing, ceiling-crawling, and sword-slashing all on the menu. It all feels excellent, from the sticky wall-jump to the exact reach of your blade, but the best part is the double-jump – which you can only activate by simultaneously attacking a midꩲair enemy, projectile, or object. If you've played The Messenger, an excellent but unlicensed indie take on Ninja Gaiden, you'll feel right at home with this jump mechanic, but it's a bit streamlined and feels even better here.

Kumori serves as a sort of sidekick – the Kazooie to Kenji's Banjo. Once she joins up with Kenji partway through the game, you can use her to send out various subweapon attacks, like straightline throwing knives or big, arcing axe throws. They're very reminiscent of classic Castlevania subweapons꧙, especially in how they're governed by a limited resource bar, which here you refill by killing enemies👍.

Ryu the day

The final big wrinkle here is the hyper charge mechanic. Certain enemies w𓃲ill enter the field encased in a colored light, and if you kill them with an appropriate attack – blue for melee, or purple for ranged – you'll be empowered with a supercharge that can instantly kill even the toughest foes. Most of the monsters go down in one or t♍wo hits, but some big baddies are either armored or can take a good half-dozen strikes to defeat.

You're encouraged, then, to wait a second or two before engaging the enemy, looking for the enemies you can use to build a hyper charge, and chaining between them to slice through the field in seconds. Like the NES games, it rewards you for memorizing the optimal path through each encounter, but if you make a few kills in t❀he wrong order, it's not the end of the world, as it'll just take a little extra effort to cﷺlear the encounter.

Ragebound is challenging, but it's not brutal the way its predecessors could often be. That's largely thanks to the regular checkpoints positioned throughout each stage, which makes retrying the hard parts a snap. If you die, that just means an opportunity to do better next time, and the controls are so precise that locki𒉰ng in that kind of mastery feels incredible.

Take the game's first boss for example, a dragon-like demon creature who kept catching me out after his big charge move, when he'd toss a couple of molten fireballs out that happen to land right at the inconvenient edge of the range of my invincible dodge roll. Every time I got 🅘hit, it was clear what I was doing wrong. I died twice trying to beat him, but on the third attempt I killed him without even taking a hit.

You can play pretty sloppily and still get through a stage, but Ragebound challenges you to do better with bonus objectives for doing things like killing enemies with certain types of attacks or clearing a stage wit🍸hout dying. There are also collectibles to find, and many of these mechanics tie into some so🥃rt of upgrade system that wasn't available in the demo. I can already see myself running these stages over and over to perfect them before moving on once the final game hits, though.

Ragebound's ability to inspire that chase for perfection is probably the greatest illustration of what it's doing right. It's challenging enough that no encounter is a cakewalk, but it always feels downright obvious how you could've done it better. It's the kind of game where you can imওmediately picture how wild the speedruns are going to look – a carefully chor🉐eographed and very violent dance. I can't wait to play more.

As the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest schedule for 2025 rolls on, you can stick with us for complete 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest live coverage.

This was revealed by lead writer Marcin Blacha in a recent , whoꦿ mentions that some of the "biggest changes" made to the game between its development and the final version were related to the titular Wild Hunt. Geralt was once planne🔯d to be "kind of like an insider," and "doing stuff pretending to be one of them."

The scrapped ending sounds particularly interesting, with Blacha upfront in saying that "Mass Effect 2 was a huge inspiration for the game." He continues: "Initially, we had an ending that was kind of inspired by Mass Effect 2… that moment whe𒆙n Geralt gathers a party and goes on a suicide mission.

"It was on a Skelliᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤🔴ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚge drakkar you were sailing into a frozen sea, and you were supposed to fight the Wild Hunt on this drakkar."

In the end, CD Projekt Red "redesigned" the ending "a little bit," having instead "decided to make this more personal ♈ending." Clearly, the idea wasn't scrapped in its entirety, with the whole boat on an icy sea setting carrying forth to the actual ending, when Geralt takes on the King of the Wild Hunt.

No game is without its scrapped ideas, and it makes you wonder in this case how many bits of content that got edited out of The Witcher 3 could make an appearance in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4. A recent Witcher 4 tech demo revealed that Manticores feature in the upcoming RPG, over 10 years since they were apparently cut from the last g🐼ame, so that's just one example.

The Witcher 4 devs are inspired by RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, but "definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did."

Casino Royale's Le Chiffre joining Hitman World of Assassination was one of the surprise reveals from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025. Successfully taking him out will net you a reward in IO Interactive's upcoming J♉ames Bond game 007 First Light, even though Hitman senior level designer Martin Ansdal has since told us "that does not imply a🧜 larg💧er, shared thing" between the two universes.

In the same interview, we asked how IO Interactive approaches designing a level like this when players have so many different ways to tackle it and complete the mission. Ansdal agrees that this is certainly a challenge "after all the updates" that have been added, including "the banana peel," which can be used to make people slip over in true slap𓆏stick fashion. "So that's something we now have to consider,"ꦇ he says.

Beyond that, though, "the hardest part is actually keeping the target alive, because the player has so many ways" to take them out. Ansdal points to the antics of speedrunners and "some of the stuff they do." He explains: "Le Chiffre took likeꦗ five months to make, and some guy will surely do it in like a second or something."

Are any brave speedrunners going to take that on as a challenge? I hope so. When it comes to solutions to the latest level, Ansdal mentions he's "definitely seen some banana peel shenanigans," as ꦐwell as "something that required a very special solution," although he didn't reveal what, teasing that players could "try to figure out the thing" instead.

Mads Mikkelsen says his roles in Death Stranding and Hitman both had "one thing" in common: "I had no idea what was going on."

To catch you up, 1047 CEO, Ian Proulx, kicked things off with his controversial appearance at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest, where he said he made the FPS because "I grew up playing Halo, and I'm tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year, and I wish we could have Titanfall 3." That, and his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new🉐 battle royale is "f***ing aꦇwesome."

It's a cool statement, and could have been one of the highlights of the show, as we also found out Splitgate 2 was launching then and there. But it wasn't. That's partly down to an 澳洲幸运5💟开奖号码历史查询:u𒐪npopular hat he later doubled down on, but also because the game itself was 澳洲🍌幸运5开🎃奖号码历史查询:stuffed with the kind of microtransactions that folk dislike from other FPS games.

Now, Proulx has taken to the account once more to set some things straight, with a four-minute video promising one major change to try and mend 1047's relationship with players: "We hear you loud and clear on the store prices, and so that nano swarm bundle, we're cutting the price in half. Some of the𒀰 other items in the shop, we're reducing prices across the board." This also means that players who have already paid will receive partial refunds in the coming days.

The storefront prices for the free-to-play FPS were only one of the major qualms players had with the game, which has led to mixed reviews on Steam. The battle royale mode is something fans never expected, nor wanted. Players flocked to the original Splitgate because of its unique qualities amongst an oversaturated FPS genre, allowing players to enjoy an array of modes that decidedly did not include battle royale.

Players are loudly voicing their discon💛tent with one negative review for Splitgate 2 on Steam stating, "Yeah, you can keep your Tꦏemu Apex."

While Proulx is clearly taking responsibility for the store prices and implementing active change, he continuꦛes to defend the new battle royale mode and tries to assure fans that it's not taking away from the other modes, claiming it's "additive, it's not here to replace anything."

Proulx attempts to frame Splitgate 2's battle royale mode as one that stands out amongst the crowd, stating, "I never wanted🍃 to make a battle royale unless I thought I could actually add and innovate the genre. And I think we've done that." Proulx claims Splitgate 2 is delivering more of a "battle royale-arena shooter hybrid," pointing out "you'll notice you respawn in it, you have po꧃wer weapons."

The problem is, these features are not new or innovative; Fortnite, the foremost battle royale title out there, provides a r💙eload mode, which allows for respawning, and has plenty of unique and powerful weapons to utilize.

All in all, it's a start. But it remains to be seen if everything can be fully r😼emedied over the coming weeks and mont🥂hs.

Splitgate 2 dev snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, channeling Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford by upsetting fans even when his FPS is looking pretty good

"I had no idea what was going on," he admits, when asked if approaching this role was different at all from Death Stranding, or if he just "jumped right back into it." Apparently, this is th♛e one thing both roles had in common. He initially explained ꦡhow odd it was when recording for Death Stranding to be in a room with no set and wearing the mo-cap gear, which he described as "green tights" and "dots on our faces." Despite being out of his element, Mikkelsen had no problem delivering a solid performance as Unger.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:For his performance in Hitman, Mikkelsen is actually stepping back into some familiar shoes, as he'll be playing his Casino Royale charactᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱♕ᩚᩚᩚer, Le Chiffre.

Ultimately, Mikkelsen answered the question by saying that "there was a difference for sure," before admitting that their core similarity was that he was kind of clueless about what was happening around him. Normally, that wouldn't exactly incite confidence in an actor's performance, but Mikkelsen is the type of person many can agree will deliver regardless of whether he's thrown into an empty studio wearing some tights or is in costume on a set. Besides, this lets the rest of us know that even if we never have any idea what's going on, clearly⭕, we can achieve anything – Mads Mikkelsen is now definitive proof of that.

"I got to shag his wife and kill him, so let's see what happens in the game": 26 years before becoming David Bateson's target in Hitman, Mads Mikkelsen worked with the Agent 47 actor on a Danish short film

We caught up with IO's 007 franchise director Jonathan Lacaille during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025, and we basically asked him for a vibe check. Is 007: First Light the linear, cinematic action game it looks like in its from this week, or can we expect t🌠o see more of the Hitman series' systems-driven design that IO has become known for these days?

"It🎃's neither," he said. "IOI has a pedigree, and that fits really well with the [007] IP, so we are leaning into that, of course. But that would not tell the full story ... we are leaning a lot on what IOI does best."

So, it definitely sounds like IOI diehards won't be left wanting ꧟for the s🌸tudio's signature style, but Lacaille added that, "We had to come up with a lot of new things that IOI had to learn and to reiterate on to really bring the Bond experience."

He mentioned driving as an example of a new gameplay mechanic IOI had to learn, as the Hitman games don't have driving. Shooting guns, likewise, is something you really don't want to do much in Hitman, but naturally in a game like 007: First Light, it's a big part of the experience. Still, Lacaille stressed that "we don't want the game to just go by shooting and shooting and shooting. We w♒ant to give the player a lot of tools to feel as smart as Bond in the game."

After a somewhat conspicuously long period of silence, 007: First Light is slated for launch next year on PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch 2, and PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store.

007: First Light devs chose a James Bond origin story to help be "more relatable" to a "younger audience maybe than the Bond franchise is used to"

Milano's Odd Job Collection has you play as an 11-year-old girl named Milano, who's off on a 40-day summer vacation. You choܫose how to spend your time each day, but you spend a lot of it working various part-time jobs, which take the form of minigames where you do things like deliver pizzas, or milk cows.

Yes, sure, technically this is a game all about child labor, but look… it's just so darn cute. You'll build🌸 up Milano's stats over time, which influences what kind of jobs you can take, and you can spend money on furniture to decorate your little house. You can also choose to es🧔cape the rat race and just spend a day relaxing whenever the mood strikes you, so this isn't purely a capitalism simulator.

The original game was known as Milano no Arbeit Collection – Arbeit being a German loanword used in Japan for part-t🦩ime work – and it was released in 1999 by Westone. If you know Westone's name, it's probably because of the Wonder Boy series it developed for Sega through the '80s and '90s. The company's background in adorable 2D chaꦑracters arguably hit its peak with the beautiful pixel art for Milano.

The game's official English translation is being published by XSEED across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC, but perhaps the more intriguing name attached to the release is Hilltop. This fan translation group has spent the past few years releasing excellent, but unofficial English patches for a wide range of cult classics and genuine obscurities, ranging from a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wild Sega rhythm game to a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:lost Mega Man Legends spin-off and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:utterly wonderfuღl Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.

Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 quickly became a personal favorite of mine when I finally got to play it thanks to Hilltop's translation, and I'm beyond thrilled to see their work recognized to such a degree that they're now working on official localizations of lost𒈔 cult classics. Here's hoping Milano is every bit as endearing as it looks.

For more retro greats, check out our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS1 games.

"What you saw from First Light, it's a completely original Bond and a completely original universe," senior Hitman level designer Martin Ansdal tells me in a Summer Game Fest interview. "I think they want,ꦅ really, to design a Bond for video games, and that has to be a distinct and separate universe. So there's no plans for crossover."

Since Le Chiffre is a character pulled from the Daniel Craig movie universe, he "would not have been able to exist" in the same world as new game 007 Fir🌌st Light, Ansdal continues, "because that creates confusiꦫon about what universe it is."

As IO sees it, "you can have Mads Mikkelsen as a guest star in the World of Ass🅺assination, but it's important to state that does not imply a larger, shared thing."

Regardless, Le Chiffre's appearance in Hitman has given the team room to create something "more ambitious" than previous Elusive Targets, and Ansdal says that's important for the studio, the Hitman brand, and himself as 🎃a designer.

"When I go to work, I don't try to make 'content.' I try to do something special, like something that doesn't exist in other games. An experience you couldn't 🍸have in any other game. [No] other game will have you dress u♔p as a flamingo and kill Le Chiffre with a banana peel he slips on. You cannot get that anywhere else."

Check out everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025 for all you need to know from the kickoff event. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest schedule for 2025 continues to roll on, and we'll have more on all the big games as it goes.

YouTube's copyright strikes are an ongoing issue, as the Google-owned platform has an automated system that is💯 extremely hard to dispute once it's made 🌠its verdict. Fox is still encouraging streamers to fight the good fight, however, as the music in his beloved game is free to use.

According to Fox, "the music has so many streams it hit a threshol𒆙d for increased copyright strike aggression. Not kid▨ding."

He p🐓leads with YouTube streamers, "PLEASE dispute these claims and they should be resolved." Fox isn't the first indie dev to find his internationally acclaimed game to unfairly affect streamers because of its sick in-game music.

Back in 2020, not long after Stardew Valley's 1.5 update, developer Eric Barone – known for his moniker "Concerne🌞dApe" – that any copyright claims made due to the streaming of his game should be brought up to him, as he is the sole owner to the rights of his farming game's music.

"If you're aware of anyone ever getting 'flagged' for using Stardew music please let me know" was Barone's own plea to player𓃲s back then, particularly pertaining to Twitch streamers at the time.

The fact that Barone requested players to report these flags to himself is something F🦄ox may want to consider, as the appeals process on YouTube can feel like talking to a brick wall. According to of their copyright ꦕclaims process, more than a billion content ID claims have been made by their automated detection system between July 2023 and December 2023 – slightly dated information, but you get the gist – and less than 1% of those claims have been disputed.

Well, yes. That's how math works♉; provide a number as big as "more than one billion" and you're most likely going to end up with juxtaposing percentage in the single digits range. Rounding with 1%, that gets you 10 million people disputing those claims – the population size of several major cities. Not exa♉ctly something to pat yourself on the back for.

Now that I've done actual math for this, I think it's safe to say that the onlﷺy thing that's going to help out the hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube streamers getting slapped with copyright claims for both Undertale and Deltar𒅌une, is Toby Fox himself publicly calling it out. YouTube doesn't want to make cool guy Toby Fox mad; that's just a bad look.

"I wish there was some way to not have these claims," Fox says. "However, YouTube's music system forces their existence. And if I try to remove my rights 🅘to the music from the system, bad actors will pretend that they own it to claim videos and make money."

So, for any YouTube streamers out there, if you're in line for a copyright𒆙 claim appeal, STAY IN LINE.

After breaking Steam, Deltarune dev Toby Fox appears to aim to break the internet: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure to load up your save file one more time afterwards"

Dying Light: The Beast launches August 22 across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. The news comes 🔯alongside a new trailer showcasing a load of in-game action featuring everything you've come to expect from Dying Light. Namely rooftop parkour, terrifying undead, and even worse humans.

The Beast was originally set to be DLC for 2022's Dying Light 2, but after the "v𓃲ery eager community" leaked key story details in 2023, the team pivoted to expand the concept into a full, standalone game. It's still a smaller experience, with roughly 18 hours of playtime to complete ꧙the main story, but that sounds heavenly in the modern sea of open-world titles we now find ourse🦋lves immersed in.

The Beast launches at a price of $59.99, according to the game's which is a few steps cheaper than what we've come to expect from the typical AAA launch. $80 games may be upon us, but at least we've got some smaller experiences like this and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mafia: The Old Country to respect our time and money in equal measures.

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How to beat Night Aspect in Elden Ring Nightreign

Beating the Night Aspect Expedition is no easy feat. Of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign bosses. It's the only Nightlord boss that features two health bars – The Shape of Night, followed by Heolstor the Nightlord. That makes it quite the endurance test as you'll need to manage your consumables and flasks effectively.

Here are the essentials you need to know before t🍃aking on the final Nightlord:

• Best characters: Good ranged damage is essential, so Ironeye and Recluse are great choices. Duchess and Executor are great for their high Dexterity (Duchess also has high Intelligence for sorceries) and Wylder, with his high grappling hook mobility, also works well as a melee option.
• Weakness: Holy damage
• Boss attack types: Physical, Fire, Poison, Magic
• Phases: 4 (Shape of Night Phase 1 and 2, Heolstor the Nightlord Phase 1 and 2)

With the Night Aspect Expedition being arguably the toughest in Elden Ring Nightreign, setting yourself up for success early on is important. Make sure you've chosen a good team of the 澳洲꧂꧃幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Elden Ring Nightreign characters and have your best Relics equipped, ideally ones that boost things like Vigor and Endurance and enhance your character's abilities. With Heolstor's main weakness being Holy damage, any Relic perks that increase Holy Attack Power are good to have too but not essential.

When it comes to the Expedition itself, you need to work hard and fast, and I strongly recommend that you focus on getting up to at least level 13 in Days 1 and 2. Having high Vigor and Stamina as a result will help you a lot for this fight, so make sure you're killing evergoal and field bosses to build up runes fast. Grabbing extra flasks from churches goes without saying too!

Obviously, you'll also want to try and get at least one purple-rarity (Rare) Holy-damage weapon for your main source of damage against the Nightlord. Prioritize plundering points of interest with the Holy icon next to them on the map or, at the very least, get some Holy Grease or Holy Water Pots. You can learn about the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Elden Ring Nightreign weapons here so that you know what can help.

I also recommend grabbing as many Warming Stones as you can. Each member of your team should have at least two stones but if one player collects four 🔯for the final fight, it can be a big help. Make sure you spend 💙any leftover runes you have on these sorts of useful items before heading into the final boss arena too.

Elden Ring Nightreign Shape of Night tips

Now that you've h♐opefully made it all the way through to the Night Aspect boss in Elden Ring Nightreign, here are some quick tips for defeating the Shape of Night – the first boss you'll face in this climactic final battle:

• The Shape of Night is easy, but don't use your flasks: The shambling Shape of Night is, overall, quite slow but its sword attacks can still be hard-hitting. If you do get hit, it's best to retreat and drop a Warming Stone instead of using a flask as those should be saved for Heolstor.
• At 70% health, the Shape of Night draws a colossal sword and dagger for Phase 2: While the phase-switch animation is a good opportunity to get some damage in, be a lot more careful around the Shape of Night afterwards. With three weapons drawn, it can become much harder to face head-on and as a group since it's flailing arms can be hard to read, and its sweeping attacks can easily hit multiple players. This is where ranged characters can shine, firing arrows or spells and taking turns drawing its attention.
• Scarlet Rot is a nice damage boost: Since avoiding hits from the Shape of Night is important, you'll want to balance dealing damage without putting yourself in danger and the damage-over-time effect from sufficient Scarlet Rot build-up can be a big help here, if you have a weapon that can apply it. This also works on Heolstor too, who is otherwise immune to most status ailments.

Elden Ring Nightreign Heolstor the Nightlord tips

With the Shape of Night beaten, it'll turn into the substanti🦄ally more powerful Heolstor the Nightlord. You're doing well to get this far, but this boss is quite a lot stronger, so here are some tips:

• Do not group up around the boss and spread out: Heolstor deploys a lot of area-of-effect attacks, so attacking all at once in melee range is a surefire way for everyone to get large chunks ripped out of their health bars.
• Use ranged attacks where possible: With Heolstor's added aggression, it tends to focus almost all its melee attacks on just one player at a time, so the other two should chip away from afar with bows and sorceries if possible.
• Heolstor is quick and will change targets often: I've observed this boss changing its target mid-attack combo a number of times and it can teleport right up to you. Even if you're far away, you aren't necessarily safe, so always be prepared.
• Don't rely on crits for bringing down Heolstor: All of the Nightlords can occasionally be hit with critical attacks after breaking their stances, but Heolstor is much more robust than the other Nightlords. Powerful attacks, such as Ironeye's Single Shot Ultimate Art that are great for stacking up stance damage should instead be used sparingly to stagger Heolstor and potentially cancel some of its most dangerous attacks.

• Run away from Heolstor when Phase 2 starts: The second phase begins when Heolstor reaches about 70%-60% health. You'll know it's happening as it'll rise into the air and open a giant rift in the sky, exposing a colored area which related to a particular damage type (fire, poison, magic, sleep, madness, etc). Run away while this is happening to give yourself the best chance of avoiding the massive exploding fissures he creates when he crashes back down.
• Dodging Heolstor's attacks and constant movement is vital: Yes, this is obvious and applies to literally every boss, but Heolstor's hard-hitting attacks become even deadlier after this phase transition as they can also inflict high-damage status ailments like sleep and madness depending on the rift it opens. Unless you're parrying as Executor, try to evade as much as possible to stay alive and avoid status build-up.

With Heolstor defeated you've essentially completed Elden Ring Nightreign. You'll be separated from your companions for a solo ending sequence which leads into a cutscene, the credits (which you can skip without missing anything) and then another cutscene. After that, you'll appear back in the Roundtable Hold with extra 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign skins to unlock for your characters!

If you've not already completed it, make sure you finish the Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance to get some of her best Relics.

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Although Take-Two's latest update to its terms of service and privacy policy was released in February, concerns were raised among fans only recently, when they were greeted with the agreements upon loading their Borderlands games. These have ranged from concerns about the collection of data, such as acc꧒ounts and telephone numbers, to more extreme allegations that the games could somehow function like "spyware" if users agree to the updated terms.

All this has led to a widespread review bombing of the games on Steam. Right now, Borderlands 2 is being offered for free for a limited time, but the recent reviews have been flooded with complaints about the terms of service. Now, though, two prominent Borderlands modders are trying to reassure the fanbase that there's "nothing new" about the agreement in the first p𝐆lace, and it certainly shouldn't have an impact on any game modding.

"I'm sure with thousands of new players trying Borderlands 2 for the first time, I'm bound to be asked 'What about the TOS?!,'" Borderlands modder Epic (the same person leading the effort to revive the Borderlands Online MMO) writes on Twitter. "I've told people it's nothing𓆏 new❀ many times before. But don't just take my word for it, here is trusted modder Apple's statement on it."

Epic shares a Discord message from Apple1417, who's created a number of mods before for the Borderlands games. "Recently there's been a lot of misinformation and fearmongering concerning the new 2K TOS," they write. "Rest assured, there is nothing different about it compared to what was there previously – the main clause everyone's freaking out about was already there.

"It will not have any effect on Borderlands modding," they continue, adding: "We'll remind you the Gearbox forums used to have a modding section, all the way since [Borderlands 1], they've never even taken any steps agaꦅinst it, let alone legal action. So please, don't worry about it🌟."

Whether this wi☂ll serve to calm down anxious fans is another matter, though. After all, the number of negative reviews on Borderlands 2 has on꧒ly risen since being offered for free, despite the fact that the backlash started weeks ago, and even back then, some fans suggested that people were "overreacting" to the whole thing.

Borderlands 4 might not feature fan-favorite Tiny Tina, as her voice actor says they "haven't heard anything" about returning to the series.

Despite the recent good news that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 is 澳洲幸运5开奖号✨码历史查询:releasing earlier than previously announced, there has been a lot of negativity in the fanbase lately. This follows a controversial comment made by Pitchford, who suggested that "a real fan𒁃" would buy the upcoming game even if costs $80, as well as a change to Gearbox owner Take-Two Interactive's privacy policy and terms of service, which ꩵleft some players worried about the ဣcollection of their personal information.

The latter point is largely to blame for the Borderlands games on Steam getting hit with an♍ onslaught of negative reviews – Borderlands 2, for example, still has an "overwhe🐈lmingly negative" recent rating, despite the ongoing limited-time offer.

"Borderlands 2 is FREE this weekend on Ste꧂am!" Pitchford proclaims on Twitter, sharing the offer. "Free is free, yo! Get it and check it out if you haven't played it. It's an oldie, but a goodie."

Pitchford also shares a "SHiFT code for free loot keys in Borderlands, [The Pre-Seq🌟uel], 2, 3, and Wonderlands," which unlocks three Golden Keys in the games for some loot. "Good luck, and happy looting!" (the code is 96XTT-STHJJ-JJTTT-TBJT3-CBTZX if you're interested).

Have either of these gestures stopped the negativity, though? No. In fact, looking at Steam's recent reviews bar graph, the number of negative reviews was actually larger today and yesterday (when the game was first offered for fre😼e) than it's been for a full month, with complaints sti✨ll focused on the aforementioned privacy policy and terms of service.

At least this time, players don't seem as annoyed about the whole "real fan" debacle as they were when Pitchford announced Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was also temporarily free, while making sure to emphasise that "real fans who may be cost sensitive" might be happy about t꧒hat fact.

Borderlands 2 is free✱ until 8 June,ಌ anyway, so if you want it, be sure to grab it while you can.

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out.

How do I get FC 25 Season 8 Ladder Players?

FC 25 Season 8 got underway on Thursday, June 4 and runs for five weeks – introducing FC 25 Shapeshifters cards, and giving a tease of two FC 25 Path To Glory items too. (PSG midfielder Paulina Dudek, and Arse꧅nal rival Frida Maanum.) You build towards 🧔cards and other rewards by gaining SP across Ultimate Team, Manager Career, Player Career, and Clubs. Each 1,000 SP you collect completes a level on the ladder, and there are 35 levels in total.

What's the deal with the FC 25 Premium Pass?

First introduced for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FC 25 Season 7 Ladder Players list, EA has added a second set of rewards accessible via the Premium Pass. It costs 1,000 FC Points, which is around £8.99 – although you can also get it for 500,000 in-game coins. You can see all the extra treats it rewards you with in Season 8 using our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FC 25 Premium Pass guide.

Who are the best FC 25 Season 8 Ladder Players?

The FC 25 S🥂eason 8 Ladder only lasts 35 days, meaning it has five fewer levels than usual – capping out at 35, rather than the usual 40. The best two players available are AC Milan forward Rafael Leao and Brazilian Icon Kaka, both of whom score an OVR of 97. Leao is the Level 35 standard reward, while you need the Premier Pass for Kaka. Also intriguing are three FC 25 Shapeshifters cards which move goalkeepers to outfield positions: Jan Oblak (CB, Atletico Madrid), Mike Maignan (CM, AC Milan) and Gregor Kobel (ST, ꧒Dortmund). All are rated 96 – but you can only pick one…

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Deltarune's release isn't quite new; Chapter 1 and 2 have been available as free demos since October 2018 and September 2021, respectively. During the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct back in April, eager fans finally received news of a release date for the latest ch🐈apters, as the game would be included as a day-one release for the console. Despite its inclusion as one of the first playable games on the new console, P💟C gamers ran to Steam in droves reaching an all-time player peak of 133,930.

With many having already played the first♔ two chapters at some point over the last few years, there are already fansඣ who have completed the game. In a simple post on Twitter, Fox : "Deltarune Chapter 3+4 have been released." There's a bit more to it, however.

In another earl🏅y this morning, Fox provides some teasing advice to players who have already finished their Deltarune adventure: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure you load up your save file one more time afterwards. There might have been something you missed!"

While some players appreciate Fox's inclusion of a little treat at the end, o♋thers respond💞ed to the post with anguish at his posting of a potential spoiler. "NOOO, I hate shit like this why are you posting spoilers??" one in the comments.

Regardless, the post itself has garnered quite a bit of attentio♓n, and forced players who had completed their journey already to launch the game one more time to see just what Fox is on about.

Undertale's Toby Fox offers "temporary workaround" for a Deltarune bug preventing people from loading demo save files into the full RPG.

According to Burch, she knew it was the role for the lead in a franchise but not much else. After not hearing back for so long, however, she assumed she "didn't get it."ꦬ Then, the audition c😼ame through again, so she gave it one more shot and then before she knew it, Burch was doing a recording session for a short cinematic.

"(At this point) I hadn't seen anything, I hadn't seen any art, I hadn't seen any renders," Burch explains to . "But after bringing me in for this E3 demo, they were like 'do you wanna see what the game looks li෴ke?' and they showed me the gameplay, and my jaw dropped because it's such a gorgeou🍸s game."

Horizon Zero Dawn became a huge success, something that Burch immediately knew was in the cards after seeing the first looks at the game. "It really hit me in that moment, like, 'OH, this is a big deal.' This is ༒gonna 🍌be a really big deal."

Horizon Zero Dawn's titular character, Aloy, has been a point of contention over the years, especially with the sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, and its DLC, Burning Shores, where Aloy's queer identity is explored. Burch is no stranger to playing queer characters, and identifies with the queer community herself𝓀.

Even with the vitriol that having a 💖queer woman as the lead of a game brought, Burch knew long before that development that she would have to step up and make sure she did Aloy justice due to her status as a female protagonist of a massive open-world game as Burch further explained.

"But I think Horꦬizon was one of theꦏ first games of that type of scale where you could only play as Aloy. You can only play as a female character. And I definitely felt the responsibility of that, in that moment, where I was like, okay. I have to do a good job."

It's safe to say Burch did a good job considering that her first performance contributed to major success for Horizon Zero🥀 Dawn, which has led to a long line of follow-up installments for the franchise, including a recent remaster of Zero Dawn. While news is scarce on what's next for the series, fans wi🎶ll hopefully see Burch back in Aloy's shoes again in the coming years.

Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy by pushing for actor protections: "You have to compensate us fairly, and you have to tell us how you're using this AI."

So it was all going horribly, and I was all ready to abandon this edgelord among edgelords. But then 𝕴somebody walked by as I wa✅s trying to parry a pile of slime to disastrous results, and made a casual comment. "Oh – so it's like Sekiro?"

Yes, it is

At that moment, something clicked. On some level I'd always understood that the Executor was an homage to FromSoft's samurai sim, in the same way that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess class feels like a callback to Bloodborne, but perhaps it was more than merely being visual. I started to adjust my thinking accordingly: Stop playing this like it's Nightreign. Stop being aggressive, stop trying to outpace your foes. Try to channel Shadows Die Twice. Counter, dodge, parry. Big emphasis on that last one.

Still learning the ropes, I nonetheless found myself carried by co𓄧mpetent teammates to the game's final boss, a lanky killer from a slasher film and a celestial event trying to meet each other halfway. Reality began to shatter against his blades and panic threatened to overtake me, but I hunkered down and simply continued doing what I'd been doing before: parry. After all, that solved basically everything in Sekiro, so let's assume it solves everything now… Right?

But the last of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nightreign bosses has this move where he basically tears the universe in half. That's barely an exaggeration: the ꦑsky is rent in twain as though a black hole had just punched through from the fifth dimension, a spectacle beyond comprehension, and a wave of raw cosmic power sweeping from that yawning abyss that annihilates everything in its path like a nuclear bl- oh, I just parried it.

I almost didn't believe it had happened at first, that I'd effectively deflected a collapsing star with a flick of my wrist while both my allies were punted into the horizon. But it had happened, it worked, and from that poiܫnt on, I had to seriously reappraise the apparent bla🅠ck sheep of the Nightfarers.

The Executor is by no means perfect, or even tℱhe best of the different Nightreign classes, but I urge those among you who didn't care for the character at first to give him another shot. While there's a few too many bosses that clearly weren't designed with his unique systems in mind, there's a whole different game found within his Cursed Blade ability, to say nothing of rampaging around as an ugly kaiju when enemy numbers threaten to overwhelm you.

More importantly, there's something rich in the idea of FromSoftware folding in whole new gamepla✤y styles with their ne🦩w Nightfarers, not just evoking different builds we remember from Elden Ring. With new characters on the way with DLC, I'd love to see the studio push the boat out and throw in something like a playable mech to stomp around the Lands Between, in true Armored Core style.

No, it doesn't make sense, but neither did the Duke's Dear Freya and Nameless King showing up. Sometimes you have to pu🍷t fun ahead of logic. Otherwise, how could you ever hope to deflect a supernova?

Find out our deeper thoughts in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign review!

Strategy RPG fans are rightfully celebrating tonight after Square Eni💯x officially announced the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster, but Matsuno-san is doing anything but celebrating. Instead, he's reminding fans of the orig♔inal inte♋ntion behind the game and rightly pointing out that it's just as relevant today as in 1997.

I'm sure you'll excuse me for choosing not to paraphrase anyt⭕hing out of respect for Matsuno-san's sentiment and awareness of my own comparative lack of perspective on the matter.

"Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy engulfed the nation's financial institutions in mountains of bad debt, triggering a wave of corporate bankruptcies, a sudden and extreme rise in unemployment rates, and stagnation of Japanese society as a whole," wrote Matsuno-san. "It was an era when many ꦏwere robbed of hope, when dreams were measured by their price tag."

"Against this historical backdrop, I crafted a story. It was the story of Ramza, a young man who fought tirelessly against the entrenched social class system. It was the story of Delta, who sought to take advantage of this confusion and despair to advance his own social position. It was the story of a peculiar destiny, in which friends😼hip and betrayal 🌊intertwine.

"And now, in 2025—a time when ine𒐪quality and 🥂division are still deeply rooted in society—I offer this story once again."

Finally, with a mic drop to make the world shake, Matsuno-san wrote: "The will to resist is♚ in your hands."

Now that is how you announce a freakin' game. in the wake of the news, and 🌠there's nothing wrong with that, but I truly admire how unabashedly Matsuno-san embraced the overtly political nature of his game at a time where political division is as polarizing as ev🐭er. No fucks given, basically, and I'm here for it.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is coming to PS5 and PS4 this September with original and enhanced v✅ersionsღ included.

Final Fantasy Tactics was originally an RTS RPG inspired by the director's cult classic Super Nintendo game, but his boss said "NOT THIS ONE!"

Naturally, the arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3, and 4 are here, but so are the home console ports, with both arcade and console ver𓆏sions offeri🤪ng online play complete with rollback netcode.

On top of that, there are even many handheld ports. Yes, you can play the Ga💫me Boy version of MK1 here, and the utterly reviled Mortal Kombat Advance is even part of the package. This one is for the sickos, and I couldn't be more excited.

Here's the first🎐 batch of announced games, per the🤪 .

• Mortal Kombat – 1992: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear
• Mortal Kombat II -1993: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, 32X
• Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES, Genesis
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES
• Mortal Kombat 4 – 1997: Arcade
• Mortal Kombat Advance – 2001: Game Boy Advance
• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance – 2002: Game Boy Advance
• Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition – 2003: Game Boy Advance

More game announcements are coming in the future.

Digital Eclipse is known for going above and beyond with collections like Atari 50 and Tetris Forever, packaging not just emulated versions of classic games together, but also including robust documentary features telling the stories of how these games got made and their impact on the industrဣy.

Legacy Kollection wi🧸ll be no exception, featuring interviews with series co-creators co-creators Ed Boon and John Tobias and many more alongside piles of other archive materials to tell the full story of e🔜arly MK.

While the collection was announced during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:June 2025 PlayStation State of Play, it's not just coming to PS5 and PS4. You'll also be able to ﷺpick it up on Switch, Switch 2, Xbox, and PC via Steam when it l𝕴aunches in 2025.

Summer Game Fest looks large, but there's always time to check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best fighting games.

Announced for PS5 and PS4 during today's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play live show, Final Fantasy Tactics: The🐼 Ivalice Chronicles updates the 1997 game with enhanced graphics, voiced dialogue, and "refined gameplay."

In , Square Enix conf🎉irmed that The Ivalice Chronicles is also coming to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X, and Steam.

Those miscellaneous gameplay ad🐭justments include a new, evidently easier "Squire" difficulty said to make "the enhanced version an excellent starting point for first-tim🦂e players," .

For a two-in-one, the classic version of the game, 𒐪or a "faithfu💞l recreation" of it, is also included, preemptively dodging concerns that the updated version could lose some of the original's charm.

Final Fantasy remasters have generally been good, but there have also been fair complaints about how some games were brought forward, especially where UI and text was concerned. From t🍃he footage shown today, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles looks bang-on even in its enhan๊ced version.

"This version stays true to the original in almost eve🦩ry aspect, but includes some handy features such as auto save," Squar💧e Enix says.

Last year, Final Fantasy Tactics director Yasumi Matsuno, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:who seemed to unwittingly💟 tea🌌se this remaster before Sony's show, encouraged fans to give Unicorn Overlord their su✃pport, saying "the market for tactical RPGs is small."

Final Fantasy Tactics was originally an RTS RPG inspired by the director's cult classic Super Nintendo game, but his boss said "NOT THIS ONE!"

Before Nightreign even came out, FromSoftware seemed to have been worried about what players would think about the co-op roguelike – it isn't quite like anything else the 39-year-old developer has released up until now. Producer Yasuhiro Kitao even went out of his way to thank players for "bravely" picking up Nightreign, despite the fact that it "has some peculiar aspects to its gamওe design and is different from our recent titles in various ways."

So patch 1.01 self-consciously issued some vague balance changes and bug fixes ahead of Nightreign's release, and, more recently, patch 1.01.1 made it so heroes going solo could revive up to three times per🌠 night-time boss battle run.

This took care of people on Steam grumbling about Nightreign's single-player difficulty (though, it's not like that stopped determined Nightfarers from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:completing the game alone), and FromSoftware also now promises duo sup😼port to those who are, instead, feeling lonely all by themselves.

"We will continue to provide post-launch support, including DLC scheduled for later this year, as well as adding a two-player mode," FromSoftware 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:explained on Twitter. Originally, director 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Junya Ishizaki told IGN that duos were 𝕴"simply something that was overlooked during development [...], so we're very sღorry about that."

Now that FromSoftw🌃are has plans to rectify the situation, everyone must be happy, right? Everyone's getting 🍒their needs met?

"Hardeꦇst boss in the game is called 'Friendless, The Loner Player,'" says with over 1,300 "helpful" ratings as of writing. I'm not sure FromSoftware can help with that.

Elden Ring Nightreign director has soloed every boss "without relics," and he wants fans "to know that this is very possible" despite concerns over difficulty.

You can head over to Steam's global top sellers page if you want to see Deltarune's current success for yourself. As I write this, it's at the top of the charts, beating out the likes of Counter-Strike 2, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Awakening, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign.

That's despite the fact that it was apparently impossible to buy Deltarune – or any other game on Steam – for a few minutes after launch. You'll find numerous reports on social media about Valve's checkout process breaking at Deltarune's♒ launch time, and I can confirm that, yeah, trying to buy something was giving a big ol' error message at the time.

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You'll find , , social media posts from fans joki﷽ngly celebrating their apparent role in the Great Steam Checkou𝄹t Crash of June 4 2025, and I'm not inclined to doubt they had a hand in it.

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Balatro's wild success story can be attributed to a ran🐷ge of factors, not least of which is its engrossing roguelike/poker gameplay loop, but surely its clean, ad-free UI and lack of microtransactions didn't hurt. There's also little doubt that Localthunk could make a pretty penny by opening up Balatro toဣ optional purchases, but thankfully the solo dev hates that sort of thing just as much as the rest of us.

"The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/se❀ason pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans," Localthunk shared in a post on .

"Like I ge♛t why people add those things but you're shooting your UX in the foot ✤if players are having their first impression and also being bombarded with a bunch of nonsense that isn't actually the game."

As a mobile-friendly game, and an extremely successful one at that, it's rare and refreshing that Bal💞atro is such a straightforward buy-and-play experience. As Localthunk said elsewhere, "there's like a 95% chance that if the game is [free-to-play] then the main menu UI is more complicated than the actual game UI."

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You'll be able to construct buildings, upgrade them, add jukebox bars to create your town's very own soundtrack, bring in merchants so you can build custom starships, and you can relax by fishing ponds. Who needs the 🎀infinite frontier of space when you have a nice little pond?

You can also chat with the local⛎s, and as mayor it'll be up to you who joins. You'll also be the arbiter of any arguments that arise between the settlers. These people need defending too, so you'll be able to hire a squad of wingmen who'll leap into action should pirates attack.

It's a far cry from the original planet-hopping adventure No Man's Sk🎃y started out as, but it seems like a cool way to invest more in the planets you fall in love with on your journey.

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A press release reads: "For the last year we've had this secret room with some Switch 2 dev-kits from Nintendo." That year has been well spent, as the upgrade is "a huge leap forward." The frame rate is higher, the density of detail is greater, and the game can render further than it did on t𒐪he original Switch.

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"Actually had a busted run in Nightrei꧟gn earlier today," Peeve writes in 💮a June 2 . "I stacked four separate 'cast while walking' perks at the same time, and it got genuinely stupid lol." In the accompanying clip, Peeve's character – Executor, a class based on parrying, so his blocking stance forces him into a slow walk – saunters with his katana out. Rainbow magic splats around him like sloppy joe mix.

In a longer YouTube video showing off♏ this "insane slow walk build," as Peeve describes it, the streamer equips his level 11 character with what looks like passive "while walking" flame of frenzy, glint storms, create wraiths, and red lightning buffs. As Peeve's Executor trudges forward in his defensive position, these powers pulse across the screen in flashes of never-ending light.

"Vampire Survivors build," Peeve declares, which was also the first thing I thought when I first saw their gameplay clip on Twitter. Like poncle's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:bullet heaven game – in which you can use anything from a barrage of throwing knives to the vanquishing stink of garlic to keep beasts at bay – Peeve's "while walking" bui𝄹ld is goofy, flash🌠y, and overwhelmingly cool.

"This is the first [time] I've seen something this fucking stupid happen," Peeve says. But, with 3,499,999 other Nightreign players in the queue,🀅 it probably won't be the last.

Elden Ring Nightreign director says asset reuse is contentious, but FromSoft doesn't consider it a "one-to-one copy-paste" - it's just "an efficient way to build these games."

The first major challenge is collecting armament maintenance materials for the Wylder, then later on you need to find a letter somewhere out in Limveld, speaking to the Wylder, Raider, and Revenant between all that. Finally, you've then got to venture down to the Hold's crypt, which isn't clearly markedဣ on the map. So, having finished this personal quest myself, I've laid out ♚all the steps below to complete the Duchess Remembrance in Elden Ring Nightreign.

Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance walkthrough

The Duchess Remembrance quest in Elden Ring Nightreign consists of four major parts that unlock at Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 8 in the Duchess' journal.

Obviously you already know 澳洲幸运5开奖号ꦕ码历史查询:how to unlock Duchess in Elden Rin▨g Nightreign, so now you need to 🐠play🌞 any Expeditions as her to unlock memory fragments that reveal more chapters in her journal until you can begin the Remembrance quest. Then, here's what you need to do to complete each chapter of the quest:

Eld💞en Ring Nightreign Du🌺chess Remembrance Chapter 3

🎃For the beginning of the Duchess' Remembrance, you need to first 🅺help a concerned Raider:

1. Speak to the Raider in the main Expedition room of the Roundtable Hold.
2. Speak to the Wylder in the small room adjacent to the journal room.
3. Go back to the Raider and talk to him again.
4. Start any Expedition and follow the red marker towards the southwest corner of the map to find armament maintenance materials. Rather than heading straight to the marker, you should definitely level up a few times first – I recommend being at least level 5.

5. Kill the Guardians of the Dew at the red map marker. This is essentially a minor boss fight against three Erdtree Guardians – nothing too challenging.
6. Collect the glowing Golden Dew plant – this is the armament maintenance material you need.

7. Finish your Expedition, whether that's by dying to a boss or slaying the Nightlord at the end, to get back to the Roundtable Hold.
8. Speak to the Wylder in the same place as before to give him the Golden Dew. He'll give you some Faded Iron Coins in return.
9. Go back to the Raider and exhaust his dialogue.
10. Find the Revenant in the Garden area and exhaust her dialogue.
11. Find the Iron Menial in the library/Visual Codex room, speak to him about the Wylder's condition, then conclude the Remembrance.

For completing this chapter, you'll get the Golden Dew relic as a reward.

Elden🌠 Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance Chapter 5

Now the Iron Menial i🎶s worried the Wylder has gone mi🏅ssing, so it's up to you to find him:

1. Check the pile of rocks next to the Roundtable where Wylder often perches and examine the glowing item.
2. Follow the white powder footsteps into the dining hall and examine the glowing item on top of the chest of drawers with various cooking utensils on top. You'll then see a message that says, "A rich aroma drifts from elsewhere".
3. Head into the garden area and you'll see another message that says: "A rich aroma drifts from somewhere nearby". This adds a marker to your map pointing you to an outside corner of the Roundtable Hold.
4. Go to the marker on your map and examine the plate of bread on the floor next to the Wylder.

5. Eat the bread and then exhaust Wylder's dialogue. You'll be given Pita Bread as a key item at the end.
6. Speak to the Iron Menial in the dressing room about the pita bread (if you've unlocked the dresser, this is where you can change 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign skins for each Nightfarer), then conclude the Remembrance.

After concluding this chapter, you'll unlock Duchess' Chalice, a new vessel for relics.

Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembꦡrance Chജapter 6

After a revelation, the Duchess has doubts about the quest a♒t hand. This is what you need to do to complete this Remembrance chapter:

1. Read the note on the roundtable.
2. Speak to the Raider in the dining hall. Choose the "maybe we shouldn't defeat the Nightlord" conversation option and exhaust all dialogue. While not essential, it's also good to choose the "About Weathervane" option when chatting to the Raider.
3. Start any Expedition and head to the red marker towards the northeast corner of the map.

4. Kill the three Fallen Mercenaries that appear when you approach the gravestone at this map marker. If you're at least level 5, this shouldn't be too difficult.
5. Once the mercenaries are dead, collect the glowing item from the gravestone, Weathervane's Words.

4. Finish your Expedition and get back to the Roundtable Hold.
5. Speak to the Raider in the same place as before and choose the "Share Weathervane's message" option then finish the conversation.
6. Head to the shore area and speak to Revenant. Choosing the "Ready armament" option triggers a boss fight with her, exactly like the one required to unlock Revenant in Elden Ring Nighreign, this time on the Hold's shore. If you die, you can start the fight again as though your death never happened.
7. Defeat Revenant, then exhaust all dialogue when she yields. She'll give you the Crown Medal relic, then you can conclude the Remembrance.

Elden Ring Nightreign Duc🔯hess Re🌊membrance Chapter 8

The Duchess rไenews her resolve. Heꦆre's what you need to do to complete the final Remembrance for the Duchess' Remembrance:

1. Approach the Roundtable and bless the iron coin. You'll receive the Blessed Iron Coin item afterwards.
2. Go down the stairs below the Small Jar Bazaar to reach the crypt.

3. Speak to the Iron Menial in the crypt and give him the blessed iron coin.
4. Speak to the Wylder in the dressing room and choose the "Let us defeat the Nightlord" option.
5. Go back to the crypt and talk to the Iron Menial again, then you can conclude the Remembrance.

With that, you've completed the Duchess Remembrance quest in Elden Ring Nightreign, unlocking the ninth and final chapter of her journal, the Blessed Iron Coin relic, and the Remembrance skin.

Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance lore

I've kept exact plot details out of the above Remembrance walkthrough on purpose, but if youꦐ're still confused as to what transpired in the💛 Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance, here's a summary of the main plot points and revelations:

• The Revenant tells the Duchess that the Wylder is dying and that she must decide whether he should continue fighting or be benched. The Iron Menial says that Wylder can still fight and will surely die anyway when the Nightlord is slain.
• The Duchess and the Wylder are siblings. Upon learning this, she starts to have second thoughts about killing the Nightlord as it means she'll lose him.
• The Raider had an apprentice under his wing called Weathervane who vanished after they had a falling out. It turns out Weathervane died a warrior, fighting mercenaries.
• The Revenant thinks the Duchess is a coward because of her reluctance to finish the fight and challenges her to a duel. In defeat, Revenant reminds Duchess that her immense power also comes with the burden of duty – as the Rountable Hold's custodian, she must see her quest through to the end. Revenant also thinks that the Duchess hates her because of the savage beating she received.
• When the Nightlord is defeated, the Roundtable Hold will disappear from the outside world along with the Duchess as its custodian. Everyone else will be sent back to where they came from.
• The Duchess insists that the Iron Menial goes with Wylder when this is all over to protect him rather than staying with her until the very end.
• The Duchess pickpockets something from the Wylder's armor which she fashions into a barrette hair clip, which explains the different hairstyle seen on her Remembrance skin.

As is normal for Elden Ring, it's qꦫuite a tragic story fo🐈r the Duchess, but at least you got some useful rewards out of it.

Completing runs is vital to unlocking more chapters of this remembrance quest, so make sure you're clued up how to beat the Elden Ring Nightreign Gaping Jaw boss and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Sentient Pest!

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As CEO and Creative Director Guillame Broche explains in a , this process led to a genuine surprise. “It was, yeah, blind auditions, which is v✱ery funny because we got Ben Starr and Jennifer English, but when they sent thei✤r audition, we didn’t even know it was them. So it was just random, and they were just that good.”

Instead of targeting well-known actors, the studio sifted through a pile of anonymous recordings, just voices, with no background information or hint at the person behind each character. It wasn’t until the team picked their favourites that they realised who they had actually chosen. “Yeah, it turned out they were quite big in the voice acting world.” Guill𓄧ame laughs.

If you’re not keeping score, Ben Starr is known for playing the beloved main protagonist, Clive, in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy XVI, and Jennifer English is known for fan favourite and God’s favourite princess, Shadowheart, in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur’s Gate 3, two of the biggest roles in modern RPGs. Both actors la🔯nded roles in Clair Obscur, not because of their reputation, but because their auditions stood out.

Ultimately, the team’s commitment to a fair audition process meant they accidentally stumbled onto top-tier talent. The result? Two stಞandout performers are joining the cast, chosen on merit alone, before the developers even realised they’d recruited some of the most recognisable voices in games right now.

Sometimes, you really do get lucky.

Life imitates art: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copies in 33 days – "Seriously. As of today. We couldn't make that up."

How can he be so sure of that, though? He's done it himself. Speaking to in a recent interview, Ishizaki reveals that he has, in fact, beaten every boss and Nightlord – alone in solo playthroughs as we🎃ll as alongside others in trio runs.

"Yes," starts the lead. "I can hopefully give you reassurance to know that I have beaten all of the game's bosses. I've seen everything it 🍷has to offer, both in multiplayer and as a solo player."

That's why Ishizaki wants the community to know it's not impossible, even if it seems like it. "I want you and players to know that this is very possible," explains th🌄e director, "and I want you to have the confidence to give it a try yourself."

That's not all, however. As if that wasn't enough of a feat in itself, Ishizaki goes on to admit that he's not only beaten all of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign bosses alone, but also "without relics."

For context, that means he's managed to take every boss and Nightlord down without using any passive defensive or offensive advantages. That's seriously impressive – after all, our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign review explores why "playing solo is miserable," as difficulty scaling from trios to solo runs often doesn't feel fair. It's not an unpopular take, either, seeing as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:patch 1.01.1 dr𝄹opped just yesterday with so🐈lo playthrough buffs.

One thing is for certain, though – if Ishizaki could pull off solo runs killing every boss and Nightlord in sight, then it's likely that any player could, too. It would probably just take a whole lot of patience and, of course, a good few healing flasks.

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But that doesn't mean they're unbeatable. Gnoster (does that refer to one bug or both of them?) has weaknesses that can be exploited to great effect, some obvious and some not. Overall this is probably one of the easier 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign bosses, but that's a very relative scale. If you're struggling, we'll show you how to beat Gnoster, the Se🌠ntient Pest: and boy, is it an apt name.

How to beat the Sentient Pest in Nightreign

We'll cov♊er the basics of fighting the Sentient Pest in Elden Ring Nightreign and how to beat i𒆙t here, the core essentials and weaknesses before we go into the deeper strategies and exploitable tactics further down.

• Weaknesses: Fire
• Best Classes/Build: Evasive ranged classes like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Recluse, Ironeye and Revenant, or a Fire-using fighter like the Wylder
• Boss attack types: Physical, Poison and Magic
• Phases: 2 (triggers at 66% health)

With this boss being incredibly tanky and tougher than either the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Tricephalos or the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Gaping Jaw, you'll want to be level 10 minimum, and with an Epic rarity weapon that fits your character's stats. Without them, y🦂ou'll be chipping away tiny slivers of heaꦏlth without much hope of victory, not unless you're incredibly skilled.

Before the Boss Fight

Before the expedition even starts, make sure you pick any of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign characters you're comfortable with, but ideally a mobile, agile character who can fight at range. Any relics you have that can enhance your Faith stat or Fire damage are also 🌳a bonus, as these are what you'll need to 🍷do the most damage.

Once you're in the expedition, make sure you find a Fire Weapon that you're good with. Look for lo𝐆cations marked with the Fire tag, and if you don't find a weapon that works for you, make sure to pick up at least two uses of Fire Grease. At the same time, any buffs that increase stamina (as you'll be dodging a lot), or protective spells and weapon skills that stop projectiles will be very helpful to you.

Fighting the Sentient Pest, Gnoster

In the arena, the boss is quite literally split into two halves: an armored lobster/beetle that tries to stomp and trample players, and a floating moth that hangs out of reach while summoning ranged magic attacks. It's relatively straightforward in concept, the moth is the weak point, but it's muc🍎h harder to hit. Landing🅷 a strike on the beetle is easy, but it's covered in armor that causes your attacks to do very little damage in comparison.

That means it's far better to play as a ranged character who can snipe the moth, and stay agile enough to avoid being attacked from two directions. Ideally, one tanky player distracts the beetle, while the ranged players fire on the moth with spells and arrows. If the beetle goes white and locks down, it basically won't take any real damage for a while. This is your moment to attack th🌄e moth without feꦇar of being flanked.

At about two-thirds health, the boss enters phase 2 as the moth starts riding the beetle. This makes the former incredibly hard to hit without ranged attacks, not to mention that it'll start summoning down pillars of holy energy that do huge damage, and must be avoided at all cost. The combinatioꩵn of magical projectiles and stomping AOE effects mean that it's best to keep your distance. Melee characters should play evasively, weaving between the legs and trying to stay behind the beetle where possible.

Finally, there's the poison parasite. At different points in the game Gnoster will generate toxic clouds that poison the player. However, if you get poisoned, a parasite appears on your neck. From our experiences, this effectively gives you a permanent poison effect that cannot be cured unless another player hits you with fire attacks, effectively burning the parasite away.

Tips and tricks

For those who want general pieces🌼 of advice for fighting the Sentient Pest, Gnoster, Wisdom of Night, here's som𓂃e basic pieces of advice to keep in mind.

• The moth will periodically drop down. The moth descends every so often, your chance to hit it with melee attacks if you're reliant on them. It's not down for long though, so use any weapon skills quickly.
• The pillars of light are larger than you think. Though they don't seem very wide, the actual splash damage they leave is larger than initially appears. Stay far away from them to make sure you don't get caught in these deadly blasts.
• Each beetle leg can hurt you. The beetle's mere act of stomping around causes impact damage from each footfall, so it's better to be near the tail than at the flank.
• Stance damage is a losing game. Even with a stance-breaking character like the Executor, it's incredibly hard to break the poise of this boss, even with heavy hits with all the best 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign two-hand weapons.

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Let Me Solo Her, you may have heard, has spent years dunking on the hardest bosses FromSoftware has ever come up with, all to help other Tarnished in their playthroughs. He previously vanquished a souped-up version of Malenia, named Unalloyed Malenia by the⛦ creator of tha🌼t sadistic mod.

After "600 deaths & 54 hours" spent on Inner Consort, Let Me Solo Her says he "might be harder than Unalloyed Malenia on how long it took me to master this bo🦄ss," but he's "a really satisfying one too."

In a recent video showing his nearly seven-minute fight, Let Me Solo Her demonstr𒐪ates just how deliberately overtuned the Inner Co🌄nsort, lovingly dubbed "lore accurate" Radahn in the video title, really is.

First uploaded in September 2024 and just recently updated for the "final" time, barring potent💝ial minor hotfixes, Inner Consort adjusts the DLC Radahn fight in several ways. , thebluehood35 explains that Radahn now has more health and poise, adjusted and additional attacks, bonus attack effects like Bloodflame, and tweaked AI behavior that churns out those attacks more quickly and with minimal 🧸downtime.

There's more where that came from. Inner Consort recovers much faster if you parry him, and you have to parry more attacks to stagger him. If you apply statuses, which m♍any players rely on in the normal fight, Miquella will not only heal Radah♔n but also make him resistant or outright immune to statuses for the rest of the fight.

Radahn's flashiest attacks are now flashier and more lethal, he's overall "more aggressive than in pre-nerf," and some combos can chain into different attacks. My favorite 💯line in the list of 13 major changes is this:

"Radahn♈ starts Phase 2 at🌳 55% HP instead of 65% HP." Yay!

"At the star🎃t of Phase 2, Miquella heals Radahn before the fight continues." Oh no.

Theblueblood35 also says this of their creation: "Try utilizing some other evasive strategies like jumpi✱ng cause you’ll need it at points of the fight. Trust me."

Let Me Solo Her, who uses an Antspur Rapier specced for bleed damage (because of course it is) throughout the fight, makes all this crap look relatively easy. Just don't thinꦦk about the 600 attempts that came before this run.

If there's anything theblueblood35 undersold, it's the sheer volume of projectiles and particles that this version of Radahn throws at you. There were fair complaints about the normal fight's visual language (and frame rate) at launch, and FromSoftware ultimately toned do𒊎wn its infamous beams of light. This mod has taken things in the opposite direction with long, screen-clearing combos so bright that I'm worried for our jar-headed hero's corneas. That said, it's all impressively legible for something so over-the-top.

Let Me Solo Her st💎ruggles to get a single hit in between lengthy combos with minimal openings, but after several no-doubt white-knuckled minutes, finally manages to poke the big man to death wꦛithout receiving a single hit himself. From his tiny health bar and massive stamina bar, it's pretty clear he went full glass cannon, presumably because a single attack from the Inner Consort even grazing your character would wipe out your entire bloodline.

"GGs," thebluehood35 says in a comment on Let Me Solo Her's video. "You have passed my test. 50 hours w🌠as𓃲 worth the shot huh XD"

Elden Ring Nightreign player channels their inner Sekiro to parry the co-op roguelite's final boss to death – completely solo – just 2 days after launch.

The Gaping Dragon first appeared in 2011 genre gem 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Souls as an optional boss, with a cutscene I can only describe as having catfished me into thinking I'd be up against a little lizard only to reveal the true enemy I'd have to take on – a fearsome dragon with gigantic vertical jaws and wriggling teeth. That dragon is back now in Nightreign, and what's more, players can chop its tail off just as they could over a decade ago in Dark Souls.

As highlighted by Twitch streamer BioticNova in an online , Nightreign players can cut the Gaping Dragon's tail off to get weapon drops. In Dark Souls, fans could do the same f🐷or the Dragon King Greataxe, a rare weapon. While the newer game doesn't reward the same exact item, it's still a fun reference to FromSoftware's older action RPG – one that's not only reminding players of just Dark Souls either, apparently.

In the wake of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monster Hunter Wilds, people also have Capcom's own series in mind – and the tail-chopping mechanic the Gaping Dragon fight features feels a whole lot like the one in Monst🤪er Hunter. As in BioticNova's thread reads, "What in the Monster Hunte𝄹r?" that the "Monster Hunter-ification has begun," while elsewhere, somebody , "So it is Monster Hunter, too?"

One player even how they've "been so cooked from Monster Hunter, I almost got mad you didn't go back to carve the tail" – a relatable reaction, if I do say so myself. Although they're not all as Monster Hunter-aligned as the Gaping Dragon, there are plenty more boss references and throwbacks to be found in-game, too. If nothing else, as our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign review describes them, they're certainly "a genius form of asset re-use."

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The in Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01.1 is that it's about to be much easier to be a solo player. Once per night-time boss battle, players on solo expeditions will be able to take advantage of "Automatic Revival Upon Defeat," granting you a total of three pickups, but only if you'r🐠e downed while playing on your own. You'll also get more runes if you're playing solo.

Confusingly, we'd expected those changes to drop as part of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.02, but that didn't account🧸 for FromSoftware's numbering conventions.

Elsewhere, there's a whole bunch of bug-fixes, which is the kind of thing I'd expect from a game this early in its life-cycle, and a few adjustments to the Steam ver🥂sion of the game, mostly to do with animation and graphics quality bugs.

However, there's also a change I wasn't expecting at all. FromSoftware has been pretty up front with what it's including in Elden Ring Nightreign's patches so far, but this time it's snuck some 'general balance adjustments'⭕ into the proceedings. Those mean that you'll get more high-rarity Relics as a reward once you reach Day 3 of your Expedition. There's also an increased chance of getting those high-rarity Relics from Scenic Flat stones that you buy from the Small Jar Bazaar.

Obviously, you'll have to make proper use of those Relics, but it does seem like FromSoftware is taking some of the feedback about Nightreign's difficulty to heart. These are the kind of tweaks that will only really help you if you're already doing pretty well, but getting ahℱead of the curve at the start of Day 3 🌃does feel like a big boost.

Elden Ring Nightreign's𝓰 reviews have been pretty mixed so fa🌄r, and while that's largely as a result🔜 of a lack of duo support, the difficulty and frantic nature of the game has been a substantial talking point. Ni🉐ghtreign patch 1.01.1 isn't likely to solve every one of the community's notes, but it's a decent starting point.

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Asked about whether the term "roguelike" came up a lot internally when speaking in an interview with GamesRadar+, Elden Ring Nightreign director Junya Ishizaki tells us that while "a lot of our team members and devꦗelopers are familiar with these games and how they work," he doesn't "feel like they are an axis for how we base these projects and how we branch out the gameplay ideas." Rather, this came after "a lot of feeling out the gameplay and the structure."

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A real fixer-upper

Under the sludge of poor monetization was some🐼thing fans genuinely wanted:🌠 the fantasy of being in the middle of a Star Wars warzone. Not just playing as the big names like Darth Vader or Yoda (though, yes, you can), but lining up as a clone trooper with your mates and pushing through tight corridors on Geonosis. Battlefront 2 understood the spectacle, the sounds, the feel of the galaxy far, far away in a way that few other Star Wars games quite managed. DICE, known for the Battlefield series, brought its trademark chaos and visual fidelity to the table – and when it all clicked, it clicked hard.

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Star Wars Battlefront 3 hopefuls pour one out as EA is reportedly “focusing on a small handful of franchises” after cancelling Black Panther: “EA fumbled one of the biggest IPs in existence”

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to say, "interesting, thanks for the info🌺." Which, I like t♛o imagine, probably made this train fan's day.

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It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes.

But, with this dresser installed, you can buy a radiant Dawn and shadowy Darkness skins for every character with Murk. Progress through the game👍 even more and the best skins, based on characters and armor from the Dark Souls trilogy, will reveal themselves - from Solaire and Artorias to Patches and Yuria. If you want to get your hands on these fancy outfits, here's everything you need to know about getting skins in Elden Ring Nightreign.

How to unlock Elden Ring Nightreign skins

To get skins in Elden Ring Nightreign, you first need to unlock the dresser, which happens automatically after defeating two Nightlords. Complete 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring Nightreign Tricephalos and one other Expedition and the Iron Menial will inform you of the dresser upon your return to the Roundtable Hold, letting you access the Change Garbꦯ menu to unlock and change skins.

Every character has five unlockable Elden Ring Nightreign skins on top of their default appearance, though only the Dawn and Darkness skins will be available after unlocking the dresser. To unlock more skins, you need to defeat Nightlords, complete Remembrance quests, and earn enough Murk – the currency you earn at the end o﷽f Expeditions and for selling Relics – to buy them:

• Dawn – 14,000 Murk: Purchasable as soon as you unlock the dresser.
• Darkness – 35,000 Murk: Purchasable as soon as you unlock the dresser.
• Remembrance – Free: Automatically unlocked after completing all Remembrance chapters for the chosen character.
• Dark Souls skin 1 – 7,500 Murk: Purchasable after completing the Night Aspect Expedition.
• Dark Souls skin 2 – 7,500 Murk: Purchasable after completing the Night Aspect Expedition.

It's therefore a lot of work unlocking every Elden Ring Nightreign skin as you need to beat the final boss and must spend 512,000 Murk (64,000 Murk for all skins for one character) to afford them all. Since you also have to complete each Remembrance, unlocking every skin essentially means going for a 100% completion, and that's going to massively increase 澳洲幸运5开奖号🐠ℱ码历史查询:how long it takes to beat Elden Ring Nightreign!

All Elden Ring Nightreign skins

Here's what the skins for ♔澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:all Elden Ring Nightreign characters look like:

Wylder skins

• Dawn: A gleaming, golden re-color of the Wylder's armor, featuring a helmet with more pronounced features and a larger cape.

• Darkness: A duller take on the Wylder's armor with purple tints, a long dark cape, and more sinister helmet.

• Remembrance: A slight change to the Wylder's default look, this skin features a pin on his cape.

• Abysswalker: An armor set inspired by Knight Artorias, the Abysswalker, from Dark Souls 1.

• Lion Knight: A Faraam armor set from Dark Souls 3, famously worn by the spirit summon of Lion Knight Albert.

Guardian skins

• Dawn: A radiant outfit for the Guardian that turns his feathers and beak pale and adds extra cloth over his shoulders.

• Darkness: A shadowy rendition of the Guardian, turning his feathers black, making his beak longer and sharp, and adding a black poncho to his armor.

• Remembrance: An upgrade for his default look that adds a feathered helmet to complete his Pinionfolk armor, mended with the Raider's help.

• Sunlight Knight: The armor of everyone's favorite sun-worshipper, Solaire of Astora from Dark Souls 1. If only the Guardian could be so grossly incandescent.

• Wayfarer: The Alva armor set from Dark Souls 2, worn by Alva the Wayfarer.

Ironeye skins

• Dawn: A golden-brown re-color of Ironeye's default outfit but with a small poncho and pointed hat.

• Darkness: Ironeye wears a long, dark robe and his shouldes, right arm, and helmet are wrapped in black strips of fabric.

• Remembrance: A bloodied look for Ironeye's default outfit.

• Ringfinger: An outfit inspired by the roguish garb of Ringfinger Leonhard from Dark Souls 3.

• Sellsword: This Ironeye skin references two identical armor sets – the Llewellyn armor from Dark Souls 2 and the Drang armor from Dark Souls 3.

Duchess skins

• Dawn: A dark-brown and gold outfit for the Duchess that gives her a more regal coat and a tricorne like hat.

• Darkness: Almost entirely dark-blue attire for the Duchess with a different mask that covers almost half her face.

• Remembrance: The Duchess' default look but with a different hair style.

• Black Leather: An outfit inspired by the Black Leather set from Dark Souls 1, which was the starting armor for the Thief class – fitting for Duchess who was a thief prior to coming to the Roundtable Hold! (It also looks quite similar to Patches' outfit)

• Wraith: An armor set that mimics the Darkwraiths found in Dark Souls 1 and 3.

Raider skins

• Dawn: A golden take on the Raider's armor with a different skull with massive coiling horns and a mane covering his shoulders.

• Darkness: A darker look for the Raider with a massive, hippopotamus-like skull on his head with its spine running down his back and a skeletal hand on his left shoulder.

• Remembrance: The Raider's default skin but lacking his helmet and torso armor, giving him a burly Hoarah Loux warrior look.

• Rock-like: The armor of the hulking knight Havel the Rock from Dark Souls 1.

• Catarina: Another classic, bulky armor set from Dark Souls 1, this one is modelled off Siegmeyer of Catarina's onion-like suit.

Revenant skins

• Dawn: An almost pure white outfit for the Revenant that features an extravagent chainmail headdress with a long cape.

• Darkness: A black dress with a long veil cape that shrouds the Revenant.

• Remembrance: This skin provides a look at Revenant's doll form with minimal damage and her wrist joints are visible with no cuffs.

• The Sister in the Painting: The Ordained clothing set from Dark Souls 3's Ashes of Ariandel DLC, famously worn by Sister Friede in the Painted World.

• Dragon School: The Old Sorcerer clothing set from Dark Souls 3 for student sorcerers at the Vinheim Dragon School.

Recluse skins

• Dawn: A lighter and less ragged golden-brown robe for the Recluse, trading a big hat for a hood.

• Darkness: A flowing black and blue robe with a pristine and ornate pointed hat.

• Remembrance: A burgundy re-color of her robes though this outfit lacks a hat.

• Heretic Sorcerer: This skin is based on the dark, tattered witch's robes worn by Karla in Dark Souls 3.

• Emerald Fate: This Recluse outfit mimics the attire of the Emerald Herald from Dark Souls 2 – an NPC who allows you to level up and provides you with Estus Flasks.

Executor skins

• Dawn: A shining re-color of Executor's crucible-styled armor with a decorated shoulder wrap and new helmet design.

• Darkness: A dark redesign of Executor's armor featuring a dark, shredded loincloth and a ghostly mask with dark, unkempt hair.

• Remembrance: A minor alteration to the default appearance but this skin has a deep gouge in Executor's abdomen.

• Thorns: The Thorns armor set from Dark Souls 1, notably worn by Kirk, Knight of Thorns.

• Sable Church: Executor wears the Black clothing set from Dark Souls 3, mimicking the appearance of Yuria of the Sable Church of Londor.

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