With the chapter officially closed on the Dark Souls series, it seems FromSoftware are ready to move onto their next project. As Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki’s latest project, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the company’s return to feudal Japan, after years of not making another Tenchu game. It’s different from anything FromSoftware have developed since Demon’s Souls. So here’s everything we know so far on Sekiro, including snippets from what others have seen behind closed doors and clues from the shown footage.

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BioWare have shown their newest game to a select view people that signed up to the recent closed alpha, but off the back of this, EA have outlined some details regarding the open beta next year. Therefore, it seemed more than appropriate to update our page with everything we know about Anthem. Below you will find all the information about the beta, as well as details on the game’s release date, the small number of trailers that have been released so far, and everything about the. Let’s dive right into the murky depths of Anthem. (more…)

Over four years in the making, ZeniMax Media’s legal rumble with Oculus and Facebook over Oculus Rift VR cybergoggles has finally ended in a settlement. They had gone through the courts, where a jury initially ruled that Facebook owed ZeniMax $500 million dollars, then a judge later reduced that, and the bickering continued. Their related battle with John Carmack ended in October, and now the war with Facebook seems to finally be over. ZeniMax say the terms of the settlement are confidential, though they seem chuffed so they might have got a wodge of wonga.

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A group of hardcore number fans have kept Warframe‘s Fortuna 69 instance alive for over a month now, and developers Digital Extremes are lending a hand. Instance 69 of the Fortuna hub area has become a bit of a party zone with dedicated digitheads loitering round the clock to prevent the free-to-play action-RPG’s server instance from automatically shutting down. Digital Extremes even guided players through keeping the instance alive after a patch launch. Though I admire their commitment, I don’t ‘get’ the fad. As kids we all liked the number 7 best, then we got calculators in maths lessons and suddenly everyone was thrilled with 58008, then they were into 420, and now they can’t stop it with the 69… I can’t keep up.

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As of today, we’re halfway through 2018’s RPS Advent Calendar. That seems like the perfect time for a rest, yes? Come, close your eyes, and drift away…

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Delightful and contemplative pet rock simulator Mountain is looking better than ever in version 2.0, launched yesterday. David OReilly and co. have added new mountain types with new flora, new clouds, HDR rendering, new special effects, new clutter to rain down from space upon the mountain, and other general fanciness. “MOUNTAIIN 2 FURIOUS 2.0 RELOADED”, OReilly jokes, and I’m on board with that. I particularly enjoy the dramatic new dawns and sunsets. Time for me to once again become mountain.

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Runnin down to Cuba with a loooad of sugar! Weigh me boys to Cuba! Take a– Whoa whoa, hold your throat flutes boys, there s something on the horizon. Let me see. Yep. That s a delay to windward. Looks like Atlas, the peg-legged MMO from the makers of Ark: Survival Evolved, has had its release date pushed back. It was supposed to come out tomorrow but it looks like she s in irons for another week. Let me read the flags to see why. Hmmm. Looks like they’re saying: to give the team more time to run through this massive game’s extensive content . Well, that’s it. Stow your bellyaching, you squeezers. You ll just have to wait until Wednesday December 19 to dance some hearty jigs, play some hearty rigs, down among the pigs with the water round you bubbling, one-two-three-four-five!

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Borimaus was on his last legs. The Appalachian wilds had always been harsh, and a recent patch had stripped back how quickly he could gain XP. Starvation loomed. He grimaced, fixing the scarred landscape with one last look as his fingers fumbled towards the disconnect button. Then: a can of stew descended from the heavens, an altruistic spark in the irradiated darkness. Someone else had finished a quest, granting every player on the Fallout 76 server with an XP-enhancing brew.

Then Bethesda declared that was actually a bug, and the stew flowed no more.

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In Jagged Alliance: Rage, I pause before taking the final shot in each mission. If you were to examine my face during these moments, noting the hollow look in my eyes as my cursor hovers over a button labelled Do it , you might suspect some crisis of conscience. Perhaps I ve started to doubt the cause my small team of mercenaries has been fighting for? Maybe killing hundreds of nameless soldiers in exchange for cash is part of the problem? Nope. That s not it. Far from it.

What holds my trigger finger is the knowledge of what comes after I ve taken the shot. Just like its predecessors from the 90s, JA: Rage is a game of two halves. It s a turn-based strategy affair in which your small team of elite, grizzled mercenaries trudges through a hot jungle. They take on entire armies of laughably evil bad guys while making quips about how good they are at doing exactly that. But it s also a game about ensuring your mercs remain armed to the teeth over the course of what will be a long and trying campaign.

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Battle Chef Brigade is really >good. You should play it, especially if you like JRPGs or cooking or food in general. If tossing ingredients into a pot in something like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild scorched your Bokoblin horns(?) then this game is for you.

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