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It’s been several years since the Stranger Things gang appeared in Dead by Daylight, and after being removed from the marketplace, players previously believed these would not be obtainable. However, announced today, the Stranger Things characters return to Dead by Daylight.

Bloober Team and Konami's forthcoming Silent Hill 2 remake will feature a playable origin story for Pyramid Head, according to a Best Buy listing. Specifically it says "fan favourite character, Pyramid Head, makes a return along with a special origin story for fans to play through." That's pretty much all she wrote, where the much vaunted "news-reporting" aspect of this news article is concerned. Now to spend several hundred words whining about why this is probably a terrible idea.

Building a robot that's both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical, looking better in staged performances than in real life. That hasn't stopped a handful of startups from keeping at it.

The Open Combat Missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 encourage you to find any weapon while on the map, and use it to your advantage. You’ll need to track down every weapon and item scattered throughout the Highrise mission, adding them to your collection to use them later.

The Open Combat Missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gives you the freedom to grab a variety of weapons and items to use throughout your mission. You’ll need to track them all down, especially for the Oligarch mission.

When tackling the Open Combat Missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, it’s all about tracking the many items and weapons scattered throughout the map. These are hidden all over the area, and you need to discover each one during the Crash Site mission.

The co-op RTS Dwarfheim came to the table back in 2020 with some interesting ideas. Unlike most games in the genre, in which one player controls one base and does battle with all comers, Dwarfheim enabled groups of up to three to run their show together, each with a unique role: Builder, Miner, or Warrior. But it never really caught fire through its early access period or after its full release in September 2021, and the team maintaining it has announced that it will close up shop for good at the end of November.

2023 has been a great year for games, no doubt — but it’s a lot, isn’t it? There are so many brilliant games clamoring for our attention, and a lot of them are quite busy, noisy, or complex in themselves. Alan Wake 2 is an intense, fractured, and scary psychotropic horror game. Spider-Man 2 is a whole, bustling city full of slick distractions. Super Mario Bros. Wonder is an ever-shifting psychedelic fever dream of a platformer. Or maybe you’re considering resuming one of this year’s weighty role-playing games mid-playthrough — Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, or Baldur’s Gate 3. Somehow, Diablo 4 is already deep into its second season. It’s all a bit overwhelming.

The Fortnite OG Season will have several returning assets and features returning to the game that hasn’t been around since Chapter 1. One thing some players are curious about is the return of B.R.U.T.E. Mechs and bringing them back to the Battle Royale.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign will be the first wave of content for eager players, dropping a week ahead of the full release. However, a few issues are cropping up, such as the Minot Hawthorne Error.

The Open Combat Missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 give you the freedom to locate several weapons and items you can find hidden throughout the map. Tracking these items can be challenging, and there are 21 weapons and items for you to find during the Precious Cargo mission.

Fortnite’s OG Season will be a massive throwback to the many features, items, and content that haven’t been seen since Chapter 1. Back then, there wasn’t as much content as there is now, such as no NPC Vendors or Bounty Boards.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign gives you to play through a series of action-packed missions. During the first mission, Makarov will ask a direct question to your character, and you’ll need to answer Guards, Prisoners, or Neither before time runs out.

Xbox Series X/S has outsold PS5 in Japan for only the fourth time on a weekly basis since both consoles launched in November 2020.

The Manuscript Pages in Alan Wake 2 allow you to look deeper into the larger story happening in the game. These pages are scattered throughout the narrative, but some are well-hidden and hard to find in Watery.

Alan Wake 2 is a tale about the outrageous horror story Alan is writing, and much of it comes to life in Bright Falls because of the Dark Place. There are Manuscript Pages that you can find that detail significant parts of the story, and several appear in Bright Falls.

Fortnite is releasing a heavy season called Fortnite OG, where they’re bringing many of their fan-favorite weapons, items, and locations from Chapter 1. It’s called the OG Season, and many are curious about what this means for Fortnite Chapter 4.

The way Epic Games adds Fortnite’s OG Season seems a bit weird, as it’s being added close to the end of 2023. The OG Season doesn’t follow the traditional name of the Fortnite seasons, leaving some players wondering if it’s in Chapter 4 or Chapter 5.

Eight new games and over 50 updates are due on the platform before year's end.

The Fortnite OG is a huge event, welcoming the return of many classic weapons for players to use and several remixed versions of vintage skins. On top of them is a reworked OG Map, which will bring back several notable locations from Fortnite’s Chapter 1.

The Cult Stashes you find in Alan Wake 2 can be extremely helpful in keeping your supplies high throughout the course of your playthrough. There are several you can find while exploring Bright Falls.

Emotes are a fun way for your character to show off a range of emotions in Final Fantasy XIV, and there are several you can unlock. Many are obtained via special activities you can complete, such as the Ballroom Etiquette – Humble Triumph emote.

Halloween meant one thing and one thing only in my childhood home: The Angry Beavers. That is to say, the overlooked Nicktoon’s one and only two-part episode, “The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up,” in which the beaver brothers go trick-or-treating and wind up at the home of their favorite B-movie actor, Oxnard Montalvo, whereupon an alien attacks and an actual B-movie plot occurs.

The BlizzCon 2023 schedule is locked ahead of Blizzard Entertainment's two-day global gaming convention. Whether you plan on attending in-person in Anaheim, California, or will be joining panels from the comfort of your own home, there's plenty to get involved in. After four years away, BlizzCon 2023 is being treated as an opportunity to celebrate some of the best Blizzard games, with a particular focus on the Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch franchises. 

The franchise is returning with , an upcoming game for iOS and Android that explores new corners of the story. games stand out from other Action RPGs with crossover elements from Disney films and Square Enix's franchise, although its increasingly plentiful helping of original narrative and characters have helped it grow into a complex work of its own. is far from the first title to act as a spinoff to the numbered games, but it is the first action RPG since 2019's

Fortnite is bringing things back to Chapter 1, where it all began. They’ll do it in an update called Fortnite OG, bringing back to the original map with several returning skins and challenges.

Alan Wake 2 has multiple locked doors that require you to solve a riddle or use a special item to unlock as you progress through the game. One of these rooms is Blum’s Workshop, inside the Wellness Center, which contains a rifle inside it.

Like many of the collectibles in Alan Wake 2, the lunch boxes are crucial to the larger story. There are several that you can find scattered throughout the Watery area, and you’ll want to track them all down.

Cult Stashes are small, locked containers in Alan Wake 2. These were left by the Cult of the Tree, and you can find several of them in Watery, aiding you in your journey to defeat Mr. Scratch.

Rare’s Perfect Dark is a spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007, one of the most influential shooters of the Nintendo 64 era. If you’ve never played the original capers of special agent Joanna Dark, you can now check it out on PC.

You’ll discover multiple biomes and regions for you to explore in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. After you’ve made it into the Western Halls, it’s time to reach the lower depths of Moria: the Lower Deeps.

Bronze is one of the many resources you’ll have the chance to track down while playing Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. It’s a helfpul resource that you can use to make a variety of buildings, tools, and even weapons.

Resin is a helpful resource while playing Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. It can be tricky to track down, though, and you’ll need it for several crafting projects at your camp.

Ubasama Wood is a crucial resource you need to find while exploring Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. Tracking it down is not easy, and you’ll have to explore some of the most dangerous regions to the game to find it.

You’ll be exploring multiple locations in Alan Wake 2, each with unique maps and collectibles to find in those areas. A larger area you’ll explore is Bright Falls, the main city close to Cauldron Lake, and you need to find a map to navigate it.

Words of Power are how you can enhance Alan Wake’s abilities and arsenal while he’s in the Dark Place in Alan Wake 2. They’re scattered throughout the game, and there are places you can explore in the Subway with Words of Power.

There are a handful of locations you’ll be exploring as you progress through Alan Wake 2. When playing as Alan, you’ll be diving deeper into the Dark Place, and you’ll find yourself exploring an abandoned subway.

The Dark Place manifests Alan’s worst nightmares and thoughts, and he finds himself stuck in it in Alan Wake 2. One of the tougher objectives you need to solve is getting a light inside Caldera St. Station.

Alan Wake has a unique power in the Dark Place, and that’s the use of his words. In Alan Wake 2, while exploring the Dark Place, you can track down Words of Power to enhance Alan’s abilities.

Although light is the greatest weapon you can use against the Taken and the Dark Place in Alan Wake 2, it doesn’t hurt to have a powerful gun at your side. A helpful gun you can unlock early is the sawed-off shotgun.

Collectibles are a big deal in Alan Wake 2, like the Cult Stashes you can find scattered throughout the game. There are several Cult Stashes for you to track down while exploring the area of Cauldron Lake.

Gyarados is a powerful Pokemon in Pokemon Go, but what is the best moveset for it to use in battle? As a Water/Flying-type Pokemon, a few choices will make Gyarados more effective in combat.

The Phasmophobia Halloween 2023 event has begun, and this year, you’ll be creating a unique potion. To make this potion, you’ll have the track down the ingredients, and these are scattered throughout the various maps.

KingsIsle Entertainment recently announced the soft launch of their new mobile game, Pirate101: Plunder Hunt, on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. This announcement came via their Discord with an accompanying article on their website, and it will undoubtedly stir up some excitement among the Pirate101 and Wizard101 communities, who have long cherished the characters, stories, and mysteries of the Spiral universe, and are looking to take them with them on their mobile devices.

The Risk of Rain team has been quiet these past few months, but they’ve finally come forward with more information. We have new, confirmed details of the final survivor, the Pilot, and we now have an official release date for the game.

Oregon State University (OSU) is home to quite a few food delivery robots from Starship Technologies, which ferry meals to hungry students. This week, however, deliveries were halted after a bomb threat, and one person has now been arrested for the hoax.

There are several resources you have to find while exploring the mines of Moria in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. One of the more crucial resources is Black Diamond, and it can be challenging to come by.

Resident Evil's board game is a spooky exploration of the Spencer Mansion and on sale over at Amazon.

You’re going to be able to track down several resources and helpful crafting materials while exploring the mines of Moria in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. One of the more exotic items you’ll find are the Hero’s Tokens.

Good news, Black Clover fans. The upcoming mobile gacha game that takes place in the same universe as the anime series will still launch across the globe in 2023, publisher Garena has confirmed.

It's hard to say whether one of 's greatest missed opportunities is an oversight or an intentional exclusion. The gamedoes its best to ease players into its lore. They can learn all the basics of the wider galaxy, right up to the nature of the ancient mysteries only solved at the ending of , from the first time they set foot in New Atlantis. However, since most are likely to revisit this major city multiple times across the course of the campaign, players can decide to pace exposition more slowly if they so choose.

Night Stones had me at "inspired by the classics like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Final Fantasy 7." The upcoming open world indie adventure game from the solo developer at Advance Nine has reached half of its funding goal on Kickstarter in just 48 hours, and it's easy to see why.

There’s a lot to love about the Nintendo Switch, not least of which is the abundance of titles with local multiplayer features, making it a great console for game night with friends or a casual play session with a roommate. We’ve collected some of our favorite titles that allow for good old-fashioned local play.

The nature of celebrity has drastically changed. The seismic shift of the digital age means I can go into a room and bring up Hasan Piker’s name to a group of people. Half will know who he is and their eyes will light up. The other half will falter and look clueless.

For years, Amazon has used robots to help fulfill customer orders. But now the e-commerce giant is testing the use of humanoid-looking bots to work at its warehouses. 

It's Super Mario Bros. Wonder week. It's also Marvel's Spider-Man 2 week and Sonic Superstars week in what might well be the busiest few days for big releases in video game history. If the review scores are anything to go by, Wonder is the game people are most excited about. Makes sense as it's the first major Mario game hitting Nintendo Switch since the plumber's movie grossed more than $1 billion. It will also introduce Elephant Mario to the Mushroom Kingdom, and Nintendo has already confirmed the main character's new look will be turned into a plush.

The PlayStation VR2 isn’t natively compatible with PCs, which is a disappointment to some players. Since the headset launched, modders have been attempting to change this, and it appears that a significant breakthrough has been made.

Almost ten years ago, the online phenomenon “Twitch Plays Pokémon” convened over a million people to play Pokémon Red at the same time, with each player’s keystrokes registering as commands for the one pixelated avatar. Now, like a Magikarp growing into a Gyarados, the evolution of technology begs a new question: can AI play Pokémon?

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series is known for having incredible boss fights. Whether the gameplay itself was fun or the character just stuck in our mind as particularly awesome, here are the top 10 Metal Gear Solid bosses.

Though this was the year "everything changed," Gartner Fellow Leigh McMullen was looking to the future at this week's Gartner Symposium, laying out the company's strategic predictions for 2024.

Twitch has today launched its new Stories feature on the platform's mobile app.

Yet another wireless service jumped into the US market last month, but while the pricing on World Mobile’s lineup of travel eSIMs doesn’t stand out from the growing selection targeting new smartphones without traditional SIM card slots, the business model does.

The indie RPG scene is basically solely responsible for keeping the torch of the old-school isometric RPG burning. The spirit of that those old games inherited from tabletop roleplaying—do whatever, be someone weird, have your choices truly matter, nobody's immortal—aren't very feasible to implement in the fully voiced, richly animated world of modern AAA RPGs. (Not that Baldur's Gate 3 didn't do almost all of it it anyway—at massive time and expense, mind you.)

Skygazers across the Americas are in for a celestial treat on Saturday: an annular solar eclipse.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Now that Total War: Pharaoh is out in the world, it feels like the perfect time to share our interview with game director Todor Nikolov, which was filmed back in August at the Gamescom 2023 conference.

Star Trek and the 4X genre seem like a match so perfect it’s a fantasy you’d just have to create on a Holodeck. A grand universe to explore, tons of interesting species and factions to meet, and some very cool spaceships; what’s not to like? With so much promise, Star Trek: Infinite could have been – should have been – a slam dunk. But while I really wanted to like Star Trek: Infinite, it didn’t seem to like me back. It has some neat and unique ideas, but after dealing with more than a few off design choices and seeing several playthroughs blown up dozens of hours in by bugs that prevented me from performing major actions, I’m happy to explore strange new worlds elsewhere.

If you’re looking forward to Lords of the Fallen, you should definitely give a shot at this new giveaway. CI Games, publishers of Lords of the Fallen, just announced an Alienware giveaway in partnership with Lords of the Fallen. This Souls-like dark fantasy action RPG releases on October 13, but before purchasing it yourself, you could earn it for free, alongside an Alienware laptop!

Popular online payments service Klarna is tapping AI to let us "snap, search, and shop" for items identified in a photograph.

As of update 1.5 for, there are 25 Secret Notes, collectibles that can give you directions to secret locations, gifts certain characters would Love, or solutions to puzzles. To start finding Secret Notes in, you need to obtain a Magnifying Glass, which can only be done during certain times of day during the winter. Then, you will be able to find various notes from cutting weeds, defeating monsters, and a variety of other tasks.

With the announcement of Activision and Blizzard joining the Microsoft family, you might wonder where many of the larger games will be headed. One of the many larger franchises set to join Microsoft is the Call of Duty series, alongside every game that has released for it, and future installments.

Massive multiplayer warfighting game Foxhole is expanding big time, taking its huge wars to the high seas for the first time by adding major naval vessels like submarines, battleships, destroyers, and more that will take dozens of players to crew and operate across duty stations like command, piloting, engineering, guns, sonar, depth charges, and sea mines. It'll also bring a huge overhaul to the mechanics of naval invasions, introducing sea-based headquarters vessels where players can spawn. Foxhole's Naval Warfare update will launch on October 26, 2023.

Season 2 of Diablo 4 will introduce the first faction to Blizzard's ARPG, the Hunter's Acclaim. Players will be able to increase their reputation with the vampire hunter Erys by helping their cause to fight the vampiric threat invading Sanctuary. During their Season 2 Developer Update livestream, Diablo 4's development team provided a first look at the Hunter's Acclaim faction. Diablo 4 Season 2 Developer Update Liveblog Players Will Gain 40% More Experience in Season 2

The many tools and equipment you can use in Minecraft come in a wide variety of materials. The stronger the material and more challenging to find, the more use the tool has – and you can expect it to be extremely useful when harvesting resources. That’s why you have a lot of Diamond armor and tools, it’s time to start thinking about upgrading it to Netherite.

I've decided to base part of my personality around liking Cyberpunk 2077. I thought I was long-since past the point when it was possible to construct my identity around liking a piece of media, but here I am, aged 38, researching tattoos.

There are several dungeons and raids for you to complete in Destiny 2, each offering unique loot that can’t be obtained anywhere else. While these are actively engaging pieces of content, what makes them stand out from the other activities in this massive game is the widely enticing rewards you can earn by the end, such as the Grasp of Avarice.

Spotify Technology SA is giving its premium subscribers in the UK and Australia 15 free hours of audiobook listening per month in a broader push into that market.

The next Mob to come to Minecraft is being decided by the players. The development team has created a large vote where players can submit to select which mob they want to see in the upcoming update. There are only a handful of choices to pick from, and these are slowly being revealed by the team.

Detective Pikachu is making another appearance in Pokemon Go, and you’ll have a chance to catch it during the Detective Pikachu Returns event. The event is occurring at the start of October 2023, ahead of the official release of Nintendo Switch game, Detective Pikachu Returns.

The first round of tasks and rewards have arrived for Pokemon Go’s Ticket of Treats, a month-long Timed Research that players can purchase to earn various rewards. Each week in Pokemon Go, a new series of tasks will drop for this ticket, providing a heap of tasks and rewards for anyone who purchased this Timed Research to celebrate October 2023.