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Despite having said a couple of times now that Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is ready to start concentrating on Haunted Chocolatier, he's still working away at improving his baby Stardew Valley. Lots of fixes and new content have been added in the last few months, and Barone has now announced that patch 1.6.4 is now out for PC.

Fallout has been a smash hit for both Amazon and Bethesda, renewing interest in the games itself and turning the series into a widespread cultural phenomenon. Despite all of that success, and the general expectation from fans that the show will be coming back, it hadn't actually been renewed for a second season. Until now, that is.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has officially been announced and is aiming for release on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC at some point later this year.

Spoilers for the Fallout series.

Arcade1Up has been providing us with the chance to have our very own arcades at home for the past six years, whether it's just the one machine we're after for a hit of nostalgia, or we're looking to turn an entire room into our very own retro arcade. A more appealing option than ever before with actual arcades disappearing left and right. While the idea of an in-house arcade is appealing, actually building the cabinets to make that a reality is pretty daunting. That's where TaskRabbit comes in.

Baldur's Gate 3's next patch is underway and it looks to be one of the biggest yet. Larian Studios is bringing us new evil endings with brand-new cutscenes and music, as well as official mod support and a whole boatload of bug fixes.

The second closed beta test for Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link (which is the first chance for Android users to play the game) has been delayed from the end of April to the start of May.

The technical test for Hades 2 has given us a few hints about what happened to Zagreus, Hades, and Persephone in the time between the first game and the second.

The latest issue of V-Jump has confirmed that Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero will feature Beerus, Whis, Gohan, Future Gohan, and Videl as playable characters.

Everyone is flocking back to the Wasteland thanks to the new Fallout TV series, but Bethesda's focus is still squarely on Starfield right now.

Over the past couple of months, a streamer known as Silithur has somehow been beating Elden Ring with nothing but a single button and Morse code, adding his run to the ever-growing list of strange and wonderful items the game has been completed with. He garnered attention back in February, by rather comprehensively beating Margit, and he's been gaining fans on his long and arduous trek to the Elden Beast.

Helldivers 2 has a few different currencies, but the one that everyone wants is the Super Credits. They're the premium currency of Helldivers 2 that you can use to unlock cool armor in the game's store and the premium Warbonds, which are filled with goodies. They can be either be bought or found scattered pretty liberally across pretty much every planet you drop onto, which is unusually generous of a live service title. Unfortunately, some players have been taking advantage of developer Arrowhead's kindness.

It has been announced that Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming president Cynthia Williams will be stepping down at the end of the month, officially leaving her role at both companies on April 26. Williams apparently announced her resignation to Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming on April 15, according to an SEC filing from Hasbro.

If you've been online at all since the Fallout show aired, you'll have seen a wave of angry New Vegas fans claiming the series contradicts the game and that Todd Howard and Bethesda are working to erase Obsidian's work in some machiavellian conspiracy. With the backlash mounting, Howard himself has come forward to clear the air.

Fans of various video game series continue to suffer through a lack of new installments coming anytime soon. Amazon's Fallout adaptation, for example, has reminded us how long we are going to be waiting for Fallout 5. At least Bethesda has confirmed there's something to look forward to on the video game landscape. Rayman fans have had nothing major for more than a decade, and even though a lifeline was thrown their way this week, it isn't a new video game.

You might think after more than a quarter of a century, Pokemon is running out of crossover ideas. You might also think that the out-there crossovers it does come with might not hit as hard as they used to. Wrong on both counts. Pokemon teamed up with the Netherlands' Van Gogh Museum in 2023, and the products available through it, particularly the Grey Felt Hat Pikachu promo card, caused a miniature riot in the museum's gift shop.

While not all of us engage in the eternal console war and lose our minds when PlayStation owners are given the opportunity to play older Xbox exclusives, odds are you have a favorite. Whether it was the console you've decided to hang your hat on this generation, or it was simply what was available and you've grown to love it. There are ways you can rep your favorite outside of talking them up whenever you get the chance, and the latest of those ways is via a new Puma x PlayStation collection.

Larian Studios confirmed earlier this year that it will not be involved in Baldur's Gate 4. The studio is moving away from Dungeons & Dragons to focus on its own projects, whatever they may be. But that doesn't mean the series is over.

Video game subscription services are fantastic for those of us who are fed up with spending $70 on new games, not to mention the opportunity they provide to catch up on your backlog without having to buy even more games. The downside is relying on a service to have the games you want to play, and even worse, as PlayStation Plus has demonstrated this week, games leaving the service with little warning. PlayStation quietly confirmed 25 games will be leaving its PS Plus library next month, and a significant chunk of them are big Final Fantasy titles.

When you think of some of the scariest, most bone-chilling creatures you could potentially face while crossing Fallout's many Wastelands, there aren't many that conjure up more fear than the Deathclaw. They've been the stuff of nightmares for decades, and they're arguably one of the most iconic baddies from across the entire series. That makes their exclusion from the first season of the Fallout TV show all the more perplexing.

Over the months since release, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has been very open and honest about what it left on the cutting room floor during development. We've seen all kinds of plot threads, unused locations, and gameplay mechanics that almost made it into the final version, and Larian recently revealed an alternate recruitment scene for Astarion.

Helldivers 2 is a live service game, and that title comes with a lot of expectations. It seems like every constantly updated online game has to have a series of crossovers these days, whether it be Fortnite teaming up with Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sonic teaming up with Monster Hunter, or Final Fantasy 14 crossing over with itself. Helldivers 2 is an anomaly in the live service space though, and its opinions on crossovers are no exception.

Stellar Blade has invited quite a lot of comparisons to other titles in recent weeks, ever since the game's demo officially dropped. First thought to be a Devil May Cry/Bayonetta inspired hack-and-slash, fans jumped into the game to see that developer Shift Up has actually taken a lot of inspiration from the likes of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Nier Automata.

Millions of Fallout 4 mods were installed this weekend, as fans flock back to the games. In fact, more Fallout 4 mods have been installed this month than ever before, with data from Nexus Mods showing that this is the busiest modding community has ever been.

Helldivers 2's latest patch is here, aiming to fix bugs and improve the overall performance of the game. It also fixes an armour set, giving it the intended passive ability after it launched with the wrong one.

Ubisoft has commented on the controversy surrounding Star Wars Outlaws after it was revealed that one of its missions will be behind a paywall from day one. Ubisoft argues that the mission in question, Jabba's Gambit, is "optional", defending the decision to lock it to a season pass.

During the Fallout TV series, Walter Goggin's character Cooper Howard holds an infomercial all about the vaults, encouraging viewers to call the on-screen number to get a spot for when the apocalypse finally rears its three ugly radioactive heads. Naturally, fans rang the number to see who was waiting on the other end.

People have been thirsting over FromSoftware characters for years, but we rarely see the developer or publisher get in on the action. Today is a very different day.

The year is 2006. PlayStation's first handheld console, the PSP, is a few months old and you want to know what it feels like to play before you buy one. Lucky for you, the PlayStation Experience trailer is in town, and you can pop by to try out the PSP and play the latest games on it and the PS2. Fast forward 18 years and not only is the PlayStation Experience back, but it can be in any town you want it to be, whenever you want, as someone is selling it for $70,000.

It's pretty lonely out there as a Helldiver. Sure, you're surrounded by other Helldivers, and superior officers occasionally give you a pat on the back for collecting your samples and killing bots like a good little soldier, but there are very few NPCs in Helldivers 2 that actually have your back when things get tough. That's probably why so many people have fallen for Eagle-1, a disembodied voice that peppers the battlefield with explosions when asked.

If you've been playing through Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, or have even finished it, you'll know that things can get pretty wild when it comes to alternate timelines, universes, and all sorts of strange, meta mumbo jumbo. It can be difficult to keep track of everything that's happening and being said, especially when Cloud himself is immensely unreliable as a main character and his headaches are a primary source of confusion.

Fallout's release has been a smash hit for Amazon and Bethesda, and with how the show ended, we're all now just sitting here waiting for Season 2 to be confirmed. While we're waiting, fans of the show have been discussing what kind of stats each of the show's main characters would be cruising around the Wasteland with, judging things like their Luck, Strength, Intelligence, and others based on their actions in the show.

Way back in October 2022, it was rather casually announced that Skybound had signed off on some Invincible video games, though it gave us very little info on what they could be. Since then, we've had Fortnite and Mortal Kombat collaborations, and a rather disappointing mobile title in Guarding the Globe by Ubisoft, but it now seems like Skybound is ramping up its ambitions.

For a while now, the identity of Shadow the Hedgehog's voice actor in the upcoming Sonic movie has been a complete mystery, with Paramount and Sega happy to let that mystery sit to drum up excitement around the movie. Actors such as Hayden Christensen, Robert Pattinson, Christian Bale, and many other edgy actors were banded around for the role, but it looks like The Matrix and John Wick star Keanu Reeves has landed the role.

Erik Todd Dellums, the voice actor behind radio host Three Dog in Fallout 3, says he'd be up for appearing in the Fallout show. This would be the first time Dellums has appeared in the series since Fallout 3, where he gave us the iconic Three Dog performance that's still etched into the minds of players all these years later.

Star Wars and Lego have been working together for 25 years, and they've already done a lot to mark the occasion. However, the pair has been sitting on their biggest reveal of all until today, confirming that a new near-2,000 piece Lego Star Wars set inspired by one of the first ever released almost a quarter of a century ago is coming in time for May 4. A Lego TIE Interceptor, based on the design of the ships tasked with protecting the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

Fallout London isn't coming to the console, despite mods being fully supported on Xbox platforms. This is due to the file size being far too large, with the game currently sitting at around "30 to 40" gigabytes.

Nintendo won't be attending Gamescom this year, skipping one of the largest industry events of the summer.

Fallout 76 saw a huge spike in players over the weekend, breaking its concurrent player count record on Steam. At its peak, 39,455 fans were playing at once, and this only accounts for those on PC via Steam.

Earlier today, the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero website added four new pictures from the game before quickly removing them. However, eagle-eyed fans managed to save the images before they were taken down, revealing that Son Gohan will be playable after all.

A tweet from film critic Darren Lucas, asking what people would like to see adapted after the enormous success of Fallout, has been making the rounds, and former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider himself responded.

Uniqlo is on a roll right now. Only a week after it revealed an official Tears of the Kingdom range coming to its Japanese storefront - and almost certainly the rest of the world in the near future - it has announced a Final Fantasy collection will be joining it. Uniqlo's first Final Fantasy designs feature elements and characters from Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 14, and Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.

Vampire Survivors is an indie title that is ripe for collaboration, and developer Poncle clearly thinks so too. Earlier this week, during the first Triple-I Initiative showcase, it was announced that Vampire Survivors is collaborating with none other than Konami to team up with one of the publisher's biggest and most beloved franchises. Yep, you guessed correctly, it's Contra.

When it comes to the game studios known for their level design, you don't get much better than FromSoftware. Over the course of the past two decades, the studio has been responsible for creating some of the most intricate and complex levels in the gaming history, and FromSoftware fans recently went back through the developer's soulslike catalog to name their favorite level from each.

There are plenty of stupid ways to accidentally throw your life away in Helldivers 2. You could stand under a dropship, drown in a lake, or run into an exploding bush, three things that personally killed me during my first few drops. I also accidentally burned my Helldiver alive by running through some ankle high flames, completely unaware of the recent complaints about how quickly fire is killing people after the game's latest patch.

Promotional footage used for the MultiVersus NHL Face-Off match has confirmed that Finn is getting a new skin with his robot arm and Night Sword.

A new piece of merchandise for Mortal Kombat 1 shows an early shot of the base roster that adds evidence to the theory that Ermac was supposed to be playable at launch.

The Fallout show brings back a character from New Vegas, albeit in a very different form than we see him in the game. Given the show's ending, we might even see him appear in more flashbacks in the next season, despite the show largely focussing on original characters.

Controversially, Fallout 4 makes it a little harder to build your own character. If you play as a woman, you were a lawyer before the bombs dropped. If you're a guy, you were part of the US military, fighting in the war against China. Either way, your character got married and had a son before the events of the game, and there's nothing you can do to change that.

Final Fantasy 14 players are logging into the MMO to find that their characters have gotten a makeover, thanks to the Dawntrail benchmark. This optional update lets you see if your system is able to run the upcoming expansion but also lets you preview some of the graphical overhauls that are coming alongside Dawntrail.

The sudden reveal of the release date of Fallout 4's current-gen update has caused Team FOLON to indefinitely delay the Fallout London mod from April 23.

The recently released Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Ultimania confirms that the third game's story has already been written and that it could end up releasing in 2027.

More than 20 years after the original game changed the way many of us see video games, Square Enix revived Final Fantasy 7 via the first part of its remake. Now the game is bigger than ever before as the second installment in the remake trilogy, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, has taken the world by storm. Leaving Midgar and traversing the fictional world beyond, Draculabyte has celebrated Rebirth's success by curating a range of t-shirts that mash-up the game's characters with iconic metal bands.

Dragon's Dogma 2 fans have been sharing some of the things that they think the first game did better than the sequel, such as all items being able to stack to 999 and Pawns more closely following your commands.

Kingdom Hearts fans are discussing whether the first game in the series deserves a remake or not, but it seems that most people don't think it even needs one.

You'd think that with the sheer amount of space there is in Helldivers 2, it would be extremely difficult for two Super Destroyers to collide with each other. Sure, you can see a bunch of ships floating around each other before you drop onto a planet, but you'd have thought that the brave pilots of Super Earth would be well-trained enough to avoid bumping into each other, but apparently not.

Evil Empire, the developers behind The Rogue Prince of Persia, compared notes with Ubisoft Montpellier, the team behind The Lost Crown, since the two were being made around the same time.

Ben Starr, the actor behind Final Fantasy 16's Clive Rosfield (the best Final Fantasy protagonist, if you didn't know) has called out Final Fantasy 12 for having the worst version of Cid in the series.

Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, has suggested that games have a tipping feature. He says he developed this idea after playing games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Baldur's Gate 3, and Elden Ring, and feels that devs deserve more than the standard $60 or $70 price tag.

Star Wars Outlaws won't make players climb towers in the open world to reveal parts of the map, unlike nearly every Ubisoft game since the original Assassin's Creed.

Baldur's Gate 3 actors Samantha Béart and Tracy Wiles, who play Karlach and Jaheira respectively, are open to returning for future games. However, they added that the script has to be up to the same quality that we got with Larian, as the studio won't be working on the next Baldur's Gate entry.

Ben Starr, who plays Clive in Final Fantasy 16, has joined fans in calling for another Final Fantasy Tactics game. Speaking with TheGamer at the BAFTA Games Awards this week, Starr says that the Tactics games are "iconic", and that it's "absolutely time" for another sequel.

Star Wars Outlaws will gatekeep content behind premium editions and a season pass, including a mission centring around Jabba the Hutt. As per the Ubisoft website, you'll have to pay either $109.99 or $129.99 to access Jabba's Gambit on launch day, as the $69.99 base game won't include this season pass-exclusive mission.

If you've finished Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, then you'll know how weird and wonderful the story gets with its multiverse shenanigans. You need a lot of free time and red string to actually follow the events of the latter half of the title, which was delibreately left open to interpretation to get fans theorizing about what exactly could go down in Part 3, whenever it releases.

Now that the Fallout TV show is here, and fans of the series are unsurprisingly ripping each other to bits over it, uranium fever is at an all-time high. It's been over 6 years since we last got a new Fallout game - the less said about Fallout 76's reception at the time the better - but the appetitie for a new title has never been more clear, as several Fallout games have experienced a massive spike in players ever since the show's release.

Fortnite's big collaboration with Avatar: The Last Airbender is underway, bringing with it a series of Mythics (and some pricey skins) that will let players control the elements. Firebending, Waterbending, Airbending, and Earthbending were all added earlier today, adding various new mechanics and abilities for players to mess around with, but Earthbending appears to have already been vaulted by Epic, and the reason why isn't all that clear.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Ultimania, a book on the game's development, is out now in Japan. This reveals a bunch of interesting notes that the devs made while working on the project, including the canonical ages of all the characters - and there's one in particular that fans have found very surprising.

Last month, Larian Studios broke the hearts of every Baldur's Gate fan across the globe by announcing that they have no plans to work with the Dungeons & Dragons license moving forward, and that the studio will instead move onto something new rather than stick around and make Baldur's Gate 4. It was a hammer blow to the hopes and dreams of everyone that fell in love with the characters that Larian created, but it doesn't mean that they're gone forever.

Fortnite has vaulted all of Chapter 5, Season 2's Mythicals until May 3, which means you won't be able to use the Wings of Icarus, Thunderbolt of Zeus, and Chains of Hades for nearly a whole month.

Legendary game developer Tim Cain gives the Fallout show his seal of approval after watching the first two episodes at the premiere. Cain, who created the series with the original game in 1997, says that the show "hit the vibe" of the classics.

The Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie got a new teaser at CinemaCon, revealing a new look for the returning villain, Eggman. While the clip hasn't been made public yet, multiple attendees report that Eggman has put on some weight, putting him more in line with his appearance in the games.

A reliable Persona leaker has claimed that a remake of Persona 4 is planned, but that we'll likely be waiting a while until we actually see it come to fruition.

Fallout: New Vegas fans fear that the fan-favourite game has been made non-canon by the Fallout show. This is due to a new event added to the timeline by the show, which some fans say contradicts New Vegas or even erases it from the series altogether.

Last year, it was announced that the open world racing title The Crew would be delisted from storefronts and have its servers shut down in 2024, as developer Ubisoft claimed it was necessary to do so due to "server infrastructure and licensing constraints." With The Crew being an online-only title, it meant that the game was made completely unplayable when the servers were eventually shut down on March 31.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a great celebration of the original title whilst being its own unique experience. It's constantly paying homage to the game that it's building upon, full of little references, foreshadowing, and adorable moments scattered across the story for OG Final Fantasy 7 fans to point at and appreciate. Some of them are so subtle that they're only just being discovered weeks after launch, which is the case for our topic of discussion today.

Baldur's Gate 3 has been picking up various awards pretty consistently over the past few months, having swept The Game Awards and countless other ceremonies. With only the BAFTAs being the last major awards show left, many were hoping for yet another strong showing for developer Larian Studios. Expectedly, Baldur's Gate 3 has done pretty well, taking home the grand prize for Best Game.

Just in time for the debut of the Fallout TV series, Bethesda has revealed that the long-awaited current-gen update for Fallout 4 will be dropping on April 25.

Displate is the industry leader in metal posters, officially partnering with the likes of Marvel and Star Wars to create artwork fans can proudly display on their walls. Displate has now added a collection to its metal poster options that takes its posters up yet another level. It has been dubbed Textra, and much like the name suggests, it adds texture to some of its pre-existing designs, giving the posters a three-dimensional effect when the light bounces off them as well as adding touch to the senses its products can appeal to.

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year and Wizards of the Coast has really been putting the feelers out when it comes to collaborations. The tabletop game has already marked half a century via the release of its debut Lego set, and a D&D BlackMilk collection went live earlier this week. Now it's Converse's turn. The promised collection, which includes D&D options being added to Converse By You, is all available now, letting you flaunt your love for the world's most famous RPG through Chuck Taylor All Stars and other items.

Ghouls have been part of the Fallout world since the first game in 1997. But despite being a series mainstay, we never learned how a ghoul goes from having all of their senses intact to turning completely feral.