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The year is wrapping up but the gaming news keeps coming. This week, tales of hurt feelings and anger among some developers and fans of Black Myth: Wukong emerged after it failed to take home Game of the Year honors at this year’s Game Awards. Additionally, the announcement that pricey Killzone skins were coming to Helldivers 2, a game that already costs $40 to purchase, did not go over well with fans. Also, Day of the Devs...

“You can’t see it on [the device this interview was recorded using], but my smile is very big,” lead producer Bill LaCoste says, when I ask him how he feels about the year Fallout 76 has had, in what’s generally been pretty historic 12 months for the Fallout series as a whole. He shouts out a whole bunch of the things the Zenimax/Bethesda team has brought to Appalachia in 2024, from June’s Skyline Valley map...

I emerge from the dodgy pool filled with dodgy barrels, geiger counter screaming like a white noise machine, and take it all in. My skin and clothes are literally pulsating with a rather cartoonish lime green glow. My health bar has a sheathe of built-up radioactive energy instead of being 90% red. I pull out my gun, and I start blasting. After tanking some hits from the Scorched I’m battling, my healthy glow dissipates, leaving...

One of the most interesting things happening with Fallout right now, as we close out what’s been a very newsworthy year for the franchise, is Fallout 76 taking a crack at letting players turn their wasteland wanderers into ghouls for the first time. It’s something Fallout fans have been asking about for years, and it’s been implemented in an interesting way that involves sometimes letting you glow bright green. Speaking of green things in Fallout,...

The generous teaser trailer for Superman, written and directed by James Gunn, has finally arrived, and you can bet that everyone has strong opinions about it, good and bad. Here’s a quick rundown of the current buzz online. As far as first looks go, this one, from my personal point of view, feels quite classical and uplifting. It’s also the rare sort of trailer that doesn’t reveal a lot about the actual plot and character...

Since Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead deployed the opening bit of the game’s Killzone crossover, the prices players are being asked to pay for this new stuff have been causing some serious backlash. Now, after working to respond to unhappy players, the studio’s made the decision to give away the gear coming as second part of the collab for free. As we reported yesterday, the big bugbear players have about this Killzone gear is the fact...

2024 was a big year for folk with a never-ending affinity towards all things survival-horror, largely due to the fact that the Silent Hill 2 Remake finally released. A game that, after its initial announcement, I was truly dreading. I love Silent Hill 2, so much, and for the longest time, all I ever really wanted was for the original trio of games to be ported to modern platforms exactly as they are. Nothing more,...

Just before we all check out of 2024 and prepare for the new year, Capcom hosted one final community update to address pretty much all the major topics the recent beta of Monster Hunter Wilds generated. The livestream touched on a number of key topics, including some that have caused some controversies amongst the Monster Hunter community. It was full of good news, and even the promise of another chance with the beta. To see...

It’s been easy to forget that Helldivers 2 has still had an Illuminate invasion going on over the past couple of days, as everyone’s been distracted by the pricing backlash against the game’s Killzone crossover gear. But, the aliens are still doing their thing in-game, and the next step in their warpath could delay yopu getting your hands on a new ride. Remember the Omens of Tyranny update’s announcement mentioning Helldivers 2’s first driveable car,...

Yep, it’s time to talk about video game boxes again. And the future. I know, I’m scared too. Anyway, a reasrach firm has had a go aty predicting what the next generation of console hardware will look like, and its verdict is this – one of PlayStation and Xbox will be able to achieve the kind of success it craves by avoiding landing in third place, while Nintendo’ll be just fine. This is according to...