No Return Trailer Shows Off the Roguelike Survival Mode Coming in The Last of Us Part II Remastered

Honor Mode is the new permadeath one-save mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, and players are failing it in some pretty hilarious ways.

Lego discovered gamers want their favorite characters and backdrops to be turned into toy bricks when it released its first wave of Super Mario items. Mario Lego gets new sets all the time, and in March, the first Animal Crossing sets will join them. Sonic has quickly become the video game character with the most sets after his plumbing rival, though. What started as a Lego Ideas submission has turned into an entire collection, and next month, Knuckles and Rouge will join that collection.

It turns out we could have had more Obsidian games of Bethesda’s properties, if Bethesda had only said yes.

Samsung will be launching a slew of new devices next year, and all eyes are going to be on the Galaxy S24 series. We simply cannot forget the Galax A35 and Galaxy A55 devices that will be coming shortly after. These new phones are going to bring the new Exynos 1480 chipset, and today, we have some scores of the chipset, which proves that Samsung might be onto something.

In a new blog published to the game’s official site, Andy Tsen, co-founder of Ramen VR, fully officially discussed the prospects of Zenith: The Last City’s 2.0 version. The blog also acknowledges that alpha playtests will be enacted soon. 

Swen Vincke, Baldur’s Gate 3 director and CEO of Larian Studios, recently offered his condolences to the massive group of Wizards of the Coast workers affected by Hasbro’s latest round of layoffs, drawing specific attention to the fact that nearly everyone at the company who was part of early discussions about the Dungeons & Dragons-based game is now gone.

Today, Angela Games released a new trailer and plenty of details to show off the upcoming 1.0 launch of Myth of Empires. As you might recall from our previous coverage, following a solid early access debut in November 2021, the game was delisted from Steam in early December 2021 following a copyright claim issued by Snail Games subsidiary Studio Wildcard.

As a storytelling medium, games are strange. In my day job, I tell students that the medium-specific dimension of games is that they respond to our choices in real time: you press a button, Mario jumps. You choose a line of dialogue, and a scene can suddenly turn violent or comedic. This means that games, especially narrative-focused ones, are simultaneously a way for us to tell a story and a way for us to be told a story. Clara Fernández-Vara and Matthew Weise, in talking about world-building, call the world of a game a “story engine”: by creating a fleshed-out and engaging world, the designer builds story potential, which the player then “actualizes” through their play.

A new video reel showing off upcoming games created within the PlayStation China Hero Project program has been shared today by Gematsu.

Last night was The Game Awards, and how good it was or wasn’t will vary depending on who you talk to. On the one hand, there were good reveals that had people excited. For example, some people are playing the latest adventures of Kratos because of the free DLC that was dropped last night, and the same goes for those who are fans of Clive Rosfield. There were also some fun awards moments, like Baldur’s Gate 3 winning Game of the Year. But for many online, they’re talking about Geoff Keighley and how he handled the show last night; not all of it is positive mentions.

The Game Awards last night had many different appearances, but one that only had a smaller showing was Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Many people expected a full-on trailer to be shown because the game was only a few months away, but we only got a partial trailer in conjunction with the orchestra playing the game’s official theme song in “No Promises To Keep.” But, thankfully, Square Enix was willing to pick up the slack for that and released a more complete trailer showing off not only the footage from The Game Awards but also more in-depth cutscenes with new characters and teases of the future.

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