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Disney Dreamlight Valley’s A Rift in Time introduces a bunch of new characters, among which are Beauty and The Beast’s Gaston. Through The Wanderer of the Dunes, you’ll get to know a side of Gaston you have never seen before.

We review Subastral, a set collection board game published by Renegade Games. In Subastral, you are collecting cards and placing them into your tableau to score points.

Baldur's Gate 3's new difficulty setting is so tough that even Tactician veterans are having a tough time getting anywhere with it. 

Inkle are hands down one of the most interesting developers in terms of their treatment of narrative. From their most famous title, 80 Days, to my personal favourite, Heaven’s Vault, they have a knack for telling incredible stories in innovative ways. It’s no surprise, then, to hear that I was hugely excited to get my hands on their newest title. A Highland Song is a departure for Inkle in terms of genre and style but very much continues their impressive track record.

London is looking absolutely amazing in this new AC Syndicate graphical showcase, showing Ubisoft's title from 2015 running with ReShade Ray Tracing.

Rockstar has officially announced GTA VI but the official press release only mentions a 2025 launch for consoles and lacks any mention of the PC version.

Some games have you fight AI, some have you fight other players, and then, there are these games that can have you fight both!

BioWare has dropped a new teaser for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, offering fans a brief glimpse at some of the realms they'll travel to in the upcoming RPG—some of them familiar, and some that have never been seen (or even heard of) before.

BioWare has announced its intention to fully reveal Dragon Age: Dreadwolf in the summer of 2024.

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The year 2023 has given stargazers some breathtaking views of the night sky with northern lights, meteor showers, comets, and more. However, the year has not ended and there is still more to come. The Geminid meteor shower has finally begun and it will reach its peak soon, enabling skygazers to witness the cosmic event up close. The meteor shower is expected to peak in mid-December. Know the date and how to catch the meteor shower among other details below:

So there you are, slaughtering innocent bears, and one of them drops an item called Waylaid Supplies: Copper Bars. What could this be? I'm glad you asked. As the conflicts wage on, both the Horde and the Alliance have established supply networks to get their troops what they need when they need them. But there is a problem; it's not just bears and Copper Bars, shipments of all types keep getting waylaid and supplies are going missing. Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde) and the Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) will pay good money to get their shipments back. But there is more. When you find these shipments, inevitably there is stuff missing. So here is what you do: you can return that shipment to a DS&L or ACA representative as-is, and get a reward, or you can make up the missing goods from your own supplies and turn it in for a better reward. It's your choice, but don't underestimate the power of the good will of these organizations. Durotar Supply and Logistics Guide Azeroth Commerce Authority Guide In return for these shipments you get a little silver, some experience, and Reputation. That last item is what you are after. Once you reach Friendly with these factions, they will allow you to buy from them. And when you reach Honored, you can buy Runes, including Rune of Teasing which is necessary for Rogue Tanks. These little beauties will only cost you apiece:

If you haven't played co-op survival game Icarus, this is the weekend to give it a shot. To celebrate two years since launch, developer RocketWerkz is inviting everyone to visit their beautiful but extremely deadly alien planet: Icarus is free to play for the weekend.

The next entry in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto franchise is returning to the Miami-inspired locale of Vice City. That means a new, high-fidelity version of the city, and if Grand Theft Auto 5’s San Andreas was any indication, it will be packed with references to the metropolis that inspired it.

Remember when the Barbie movie caused a world shortage of pink paint? Yeah, well, it looks like that never actually happened, but rather the world simply didn't have enough pink paint to begin with. 

Songs of Silence, the very nice looking 4X strategy game, has a release window of Spring 2024. The announcement came from Chimera Entertainment, along with a new trailer that revealed the factions of the game. Those three factions are the Firstborn, the Starborn, and the Crusade. The trailer gives a look of each of those factions.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

We're counting down the most anticipated PC games coming in 2024 and beyond during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, but not everything in the show is yet to come. Featured during today's livestream was Sands of Aura, a top-down action RPG that hit 1.0 in October. Developed by 12-person studio Chasu Entertainment, Sands of Aura didn't ping my radar until recently.

«This is a labour of love,» says Atari CEO Wade Rosen, gazing lovingly at the Atari 2600+ retro console on the table in front of him. (You can see this moment and many other highlights from this interview in the video embedded above!)

In Bethesda’s expansive role-playing game Starfield, not even the sky is the limit. When you decide to become one of its spacefaring inhabitants, you may quickly start to feel like there are infinite planets and potatoes to conquer. It could take a lifetime to do it all. Could you ever want for more?

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We already knew a remaster of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse was on its way from Skunkape Games, but now we have a release window. It will arrive Spring 2024.

Throughout our childhood we often read books about folktale stories such as The Three Little Pigs or Red Riding Hood, but how often do we hear these kinds of stories in video games? I had the chance to play and check out a game from Publisher Astragon Entertainment developed by Mi’pu’mi Games Howl a puzzle tactical strategy game that is filled with beautiful vibrant watercolor art style and storytelling. This is a game that surprised me, because of the puzzle concept that was mixed with strategy elements and with a unique art style called “Living Ink”.

In case you hadn't noticed, the holiday run-up has officially begun, and it's the time of year when every company begins its relentless assault on your newsfeed and email inboxes with as much whimsy and good cheer as it can muster. While for many this is something of an unwelcome barrage of forced bon-homie, there is the occasional bit of holiday marketing that elicits a genuine smile. 

A funny thing happened when I sent questions over to Alan Wake 2 composer Petri Alanko. After he sent over his responses, I had the uncanny experience of realizing they sounded like something Alan Wake himself would write.

Lethal Company is a surprise hit, but not because it is the most fun walk in the park one can have. It is an invitation to a scavenger hunt in Hellish moons, a game where even a great team shouldn’t have too high hopes of surviving the hardest levels with no casualties.

When Horizon Forbidden West launched, Sony embarked on an environmentalist project to match the game’s themes. Recently, we got an update concerning what the project has achieved.

We review Caper: Europe, a two player card game published by Keymaster Games. In Caper: Europe, you are traveling around Europe trying to steal the best things.

November is just about in the books, and we’ve got a nice group of Kickstarter board games for you to check out. Hopefully, you find something here that catches your eye.

Note: This preview uses pre-release components and rules. What you see here may be different from the final, published game. This post was a paid preview; you can find out more information here.

In the PC Gamer hardware office, we've been looking forward to Ayaneo's sweet looking Retro Mini PC for a while now. The portable and handheld computer maker has been promoting it on its site but initially kept the hardware specifications under wraps. Once it went live with its crowdsourced funding project, though, the mysterious innards were no longer…well…mysterious. Powering the PC is one of two APUs and they're both kinda meh: AMD's Ryzen 3 3200U and Ryzen 7 5700U.

The final chapter of the Emerald Dream's storyline, New Beginnings, has several interesting conversations can be heard by those who stay a while and listen....Thank you to Lyna for running the best pug I've ever been in, allowing me to get the Fyrakk kill and this quest line!

Land Above Sea Below is a puzzle game about building up islands above a rising tide. Players need to carefully place various tiles to keep their island above water, all while steadily building a beautiful waterside place that defies the tides that aim to constantly drag it down.

Developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox have released a blog post revealing the system requirements for Homeworld 3. The third installment of the popular sci-fi space RTS has pretty generous minimum requirements. For those looking to enable raytracing, Homeworld 3 will understandably require a beefier machine.

The upcoming Fallout TV series will launch on April 12, 2024, and backer Amazon Prime has now shared a first look behind-the-scenes with Vanity Fair. The game's retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic aesthetic does seem like a natural fit for a TV show and the choice of creative leads couldn't be better: the husband and wife team Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, best-known for the Westworld series (which I thought was excellent, albeit I didn't watch beyond the first season). The show's main characters include Lucy (played by Yellowjackets star Ella Purnell), who much like the player characters has spent her entire life in a vault, and her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) who's the vault overseer. Some sort of crisis sees Lucy leave the vault and enter the wasteland we know and love. «The games are about the culture of division and haves and have-nots that, unfortunately, have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around the world over the last decades,» says Nolan, who directed the show's opening three episodes. «We get to talk about that in a wonderful, speculative-fiction way.» The basic setup seems to be that Lucy is a nice but naive person whose vault-coddled existence has ill-prepared her for what lies above. Nolan points out the nature of virtue in such a setting as «circumstantial… it's a luxury virtue. You have your point of view because you never ran out of food, right?» Todd Howard also chimes in on the show, on which he serves as executive producer. «We had a lot of conversations over the style of humor, the level of violence, the style of violence,» says Howard, which is quite amusing coming from a guy who directed the Fallouts that gave us the VATs targeting system and its beautifully glitchy slow-mo gibfests. «Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and postapocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink…. I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show.» Howard discusses various previous approaches to such a project, and why they were turned down, saying that when people wanted to make a movie of Fallout 3 his thoughts were basically, «Yeah, we told that story.» The Fallout TV show is set within the games' universe with its own tale, and one that Howard says is canon: which is an interesting detail, and an approach I wouldn't be too surprised to see other shows based on games take.

I'm not totally yet sold on the idea of “social commerce.” The concept, already big in Asia, takes what was previously the role of the grinning influencer class and scales it out to just about everyone. Buy a product, make a video convincing your friends to buy it, make money, repeat. Icky, I think. The future, analysts say, is a $100 billion market by 2025.

There's a very disturbing detail about Beauty and the Beast that will change the way you watch the Disney classic, and it basically turns the film into a horror movie. 

Remnant 2 looks like a pretty standard souls-y game on the face of it. Which is a fair assumption if you've only played the first few hours, which slow-burn you into its wider build variety. You start off with just one archetype, and it takes a while before even the most basic of builds start to form.

A wave of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim players are getting a little sentimental and booting up their old Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s to "retire" their original characters.

Ubisoft is giving away free copies of Assassin's Creed Syndicate to PC players for a short time only. 

I rise and study the land before me. The waves of the ocean behind are a soundtrack, a salty rhythm accompanying my own heavy breathing. Running was not on my agenda today.

These Animal Crossing Cyber Monday deals might be just the thing you need as the sale weekend draws to a close. What better way to enjoy a game about the simple things in life than, to buy something as uncomplicated and pleasing as a mug or a T-shirt? 

The Cyber Monday beacons have been lit, so it's my duty to inform you that right now, you can get one of my favorite pieces of Lord of the Rings merch for $50 cheaper.

Should you be in need of a gaming laptop this year, but somehow remain empty-lapped after the Black Friday bonanza, don't fret. There are still plenty of gaming laptop deals to be had over Cyber Monday. That even includes gaming laptops with current-gen CPUs and GPUs. Sometimes both, if you're lucky.

While Baldur’s Gate 3 has already won many awards and is up for Game of the Year at The Game Awards, it’s been nearly four months since the full release and players are still rightfully complaining that Act 3 is still riddled with bugs.

There's still time to get one of the best budget gaming laptops under $1000 in the Cyber Monday sales. Even after days of deals, there's still some great options up for grabs – including a nice discount on what we believe is one of the best gaming laptops around, the Acer Nitro 5.  

Best Buy has an exclusive line of Disney 100 4K Blu-ray discs in Steelbook cases, and it has put them all on offer for Cyber Monday, down to $16.99 from $29.99.

Cyber Monday deals: If you have been waiting to snag a new phone all year, your patience is about to pay off big time as Cyber Monday deals are raining al around. There are fantastic deals on popular and latest smartphones including iPhone 15 series, Google Pixels, and Samsung Galaxies, with many selling for way less than their regular prices. Even if you got a new phone recently, it's the perfect time to grab some cool accessories too. And don't forget to explore other top-notch Cyber Monday deals on your favorite smartphones. Here we list a few Cyber Monday leas including on iPhone 15, Google Pixel 8 Pro and more.

Redmi 13C has been talked about for a long time now and the fans are eagerly waiting for the smartphone to be launched soon. The company has finally announced the Redmi 13C launch date in India and it is scheduled for December 6, 2023. Redmi has teased its upcoming smartphone with a new star shine design and two color variants. Excited to know what's coming? Check out what the Redmi 13C may feature.

The Steam Autumn Sale is still live until November 28, which means there’s still plenty of time to scroll through never-ending discounts and find a hidden gem stuck between Steam’s algorithm. Surprisingly, the digital discount fest has been an absolute goldmine for some of the best JRPGs, so let’s run down our favorite discounts from the genre. 

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom players have built many, many odd contraptions using the Ultrahand ability that delight and surprise - but another fanmade vehicle has caught our eye for its apparent disdain for horses and its similarities to an iconic Star Wars scene.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit comic series by studio Science Saru, premiered on Netflix last friday. Produced and written by O’Malley and co-creator BenDavid Grabinski, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off diverges significantly from the source material, morphing into an adaptation that at once functions as both a sequel and a remake of O’Malley’s original comic.

 At a whopping $9.8 bn, Black Friday shoppers have created an online spending record, Adobe Analytics reported, offering a positive sign for retailers facing lackluster sales forecasts for the holiday season.

RTX 4080 gaming laptops entered the marketplace at around the $2,399.99 mark, reaching all the way up to $2,699.99 on some occasions. Eluktronics’ Prometheus XVI G2 was not easy on the wallet either, reaching an eye-watering price of $2,499.99 on Amazon. Fortunately, these Black Friday 2023 deals are a godsend because now, the exact same machine with its dedicated external liquid cooler is available for $1,949.99. Granted, that is still a decent chunk of change, but compared to what these models were available for before, we have to say that these are insanely attractive offers.

The Final Fantasy franchise has always been a magnet for cosplay and merchandise gifts, and Final Fantasy 16 is no exception. Just a quick search on Google will net thousands of results. However, picking the perfect one takes a little knowledge, and that’s why I’m here.

Dungeons & Dragons can be quite an expensive hobby. If you're meeting up at a friend's house and the Dungeon Master has created elaborate set pieces and maps, they've probably spent a pretty penny. If they provide the Player's Handbook and any other literature you might need and design the perfect encounters with mini figures and more, chances are none of that was cheap.

I legitimately feel bad for anyone who bought a Steam Deck right before Valve’s surprise reveal of the new and improved OLED model. The announcement came out of nowhere and the Steam Deck OLED is a better version of the LCD original, at roughly the same price point. So, I understand why the r/SteamDeck forum was immediately flooded with new owners lamenting their life choices. To these people, and to anyone with the debut hardware, I want to make it perfectly clear: The Steam Deck LCD is one of the best handheld PCs on the market.

The Baseus 6-in-1 Docking Station is one of our favorite Steam Deck accessories, and if you're in the market for a docking station for your new handheld gaming PC, there aren't many better options out there.

If you’re planning to walk into Mordor, a map might help. There’s a beautifully illustrated one — drawn by the man himself, J.R.R. Tolkien — within the illustrated version of The Lord of the Rings. It’s available for its lowest price ever as part of Amazon’s Black Friday sale. Normally $74.99, this tome can come to your home for just $27.22.

The perfect combination for Lord of the Rings and tabletop game fans is Magic: The Gathering. The Universes Beyond crossover from Magic introduces the world of Tolkien to the universe of Magic, bringing new artwork and new character versions and breathing new life into both Magic and Lord of the Rings.

How’s this for a perfect gift for… well, just about anyone. Including yourself. Here we have a beautiful, four-volume paperback edition of the complete Calvin and Hobbes, perhaps the greatest strip cartoon of all time, on sale for Black Friday.

As Black Friday 2023 rages on and the pandemic and supply-chain induced price spike for all things PC related all but fades from memory, I can't help but notice some good deals on gaming monitors. Some very good deals, indeed.

On Thanksgiving, it was announced that over 20 million players have played DON’T NOD’s Life is Strange.

Gone are the days when you had to watch your photos videos or any other content just on your smartphone. Most aspects of the beauty of the photos, or videos, and even audio, were lost on the small screen. Now, advanced technologies have made it possible to watch any content on a bigger screen with the help of mirroring your phone's screen on a TV or a laptop. So, if you have an Apple iPhone 15 and other Apple devices then your streaming journey is sorted. With The Airplay feature on iPhone 15. This feature allows seamless streaming of videos and screen mirroring from your iPhone or iPad to compatible devices. Whether you want to enjoy your favorite content on a larger screen or share your device's display with others, AirPlay has you covered. AirPlay allows you to share videos, photos, music, and more from Apple devices to your Apple TV, speakers, and smart TVs. Check here to know how you can use Apple AirPlay on your iPhone 15:

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Alienware x14 R2 | 14-inch | QHD+ 165Hz | RTX 4060 |Core i7 13620H  | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB | $1,899.99$1,399.99 at Alienware (save $500) The world's thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop they say. It's certainly far cheaper than Razer's 14-inch Blade, with comes in $600 higher with the same GPU. A very slick little machine for portable gaming action.

Acer Nitro XV322QK | 32-inch | 4k | 144Hz | IPS | USB-C 65W PD | $699.99$349.99 at Newegg (save $350) This is nothing less than the cheapest gaming monitor we've ever seen that hits that critical combo of 32 inches, 4K, 144Hz and IPS panel tech. Heck, it even throws in USB-C connectivity with 65W of power delivery. What an absolute steal of a deal. Use Promo Code: BFCY2Z739 at NewEgg or hit the checkbox on Amazon for the right price.

Horizon Zero Dawn does not support ray tracing natively, but it would look unreal if it did, as showcased in a new video shared online.

Yeyian Yumi | Core i5 12400F | Nvidia RTX 4060 | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB SSD | $1,199.99$829.99 at Newegg (save $370)This is a good deal for a mid-tier gaming PC, especially when many rigs around this price are delivering you an RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti. The Core i5 is still a solid CPU today, and RTX 4060 is probably the mainstream GPU of Nvidia's current generation of cards you'd expect in a budget build, comfortably beating both those RTX 30-series mainstays, and with the added panacea of DLSS 3.5 and Frame Generation. You also get a full 16GB RAM and a full 1TB NVMe SSD.

Destiny 2’s final season, Season of the Wish, is nearly here.

One of the goofiest glitches of all time is alive and kicking once again in a Call of Duty game.

Fancy a new MMORPG on your phone? Well, you can do a lot worse than Nine Chronicles M. This anime-themed adventure sees you create your own character, then send them out into battle against various nasties within the world.

MSI Vector | RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 12900HX | 16GB DDR5-4800 | 1TB SSD | 1200p | 144Hz | $2,099$1,599 at Newegg (save $500)This is the most affordable RTX 4080-based gaming laptop I've found, possibly at any time this year. It's not some hobbled GPU implementation either, using a 175W design of the graphics card to give you the full gaming performance. It's certainly not the most beautiful laptop you will see, nor the slimmest (though that helps keep it cool), and I'd rather a higher refresh rate panel and a bit more RAM, but it's a great price for an otherwise high-spec gaming machine.

Thinking of buying yourself a little treat this Black Friday? Struggling to find a gift for a friend or family member who has already read every book? We’re here to help.

City of Titans is back with a new update, and it’s a big one. You can now explore Titan City.

One of the beautiful things about fandom, regardless of whether it’s video games, movies, TV shows, comics, anime, or something in between, is that fans really go the extra mile sometimes to showcase just how much they love certain properties. Fan art is easily one of the biggest and easiest ways to show that kind of love, as fans will make fantastic pieces that showcase their favorite characters or worlds in ways beyond what people were expecting. In the case of one YouTuber, RwanLink, he decided to take his love of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time to Unreal Engine 5 and do something no one had done before.

Larian says you don't have to worry about the Baldur's Gate 3 Deluxe Edition selling out, and as such suggests you avoid scalpers trying to sell it at a higher price than retail.

Atomic Heart  certainly had gained quite a following upon its release. Fans who enjoyed the game were also pleased to know that the developers over at Mundfish were not just dropping the game after its launch into the marketplace. Instead, they would continue seeing content added to the mix through DLC. We already had the first DLC,  Annihilation Instinct , back in August of this year. But now, during winter, we will receive the next major DLC release,  Limbo . It’s another step back into this bizarre area, and if you had fun with Limbo during the base game, then get ready for another serving. 

The launch of The Jackbox Party Pack 10 last month marks a milestone for the Chicago-based Jackbox Games, having released a multi-platform party pack containing five games every year since 2014.