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While speaking at DICE 2016, Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima discusses his ideas for a VR horror game that would deploy different tactics to ‘scare’ the player. Although Hideo Kojima’s most recent foray into the world of horror, the abruptly cancelled Silent Hills, crashed and burned, it appears the developer is still very much interested in the genre. However, while Silent Hills was to be a more traditional console experience, Kojima’s new vision for horror is slightly different....

Hitman 3 unleashes Agent 47 back into the gaming world with a slew of new challenges set across the globe. With the game having so many metrics for measuring the perfect gun-for-hire, speed plays a big factor in determining how good of an assassin Agent 47 is. Add this to an already dedicated Hitman speedrunning community and it should come as no surprise that an incredible world record has been set....

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series, just announced its latest game - Project 007. Yes, there’s a new James Bond game coming and it has every chance of actually being good. IO teased the new game’s reveal yesterday. That reveal ended up being a short clip of a bullet being loaded into a rifle, with the camera following the bullet down the barrel for that iconic James Bond opening shot....

Tons of starry eyed children fell in love with fantasy stories because of Harry Potter. The books and movies might only have been around for about twenty-five years, but they’re already a key piece of media in international culture. In fact, they’re so extensive that they’re spreading out into all sorts of other stories in the Harry Potter universe. While Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is naturally a key example, there’s also media like Hogwarts Legacy, which will explore the setting differently by taking players 100 years into the past from the time of the books....

Just ahead of E3 2017, Ubisoft revealed some early details about Far Cry 5, the latest installment in the wildly popular open-world FPS series. The studio confirmed rumors that the title would take players to middle America and pit them against a group of civilians with ill intentions. We’ve seen quite a lot of the game since then, but now there’s word on just how long it’ll take for players to complete its campaign....

The flurry of rumors around Nvidia’s upcoming Ampere based GeForce RTX 30 series shows no sign of slowing down - if anything they are getting faster. The latest good news for gamers looking to boost their frame rates, is that the rumored performance benchmarks of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti are getting faster too. The newest leak suggests that the RTX 3080 will be around 35% faster than the current generation RTX 2080 Ti, which is even better than the 15-20% increase suggested by past rumors....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is such a massive game that more than a couple of hours of gameplay need to be dedicated before the intro screen even appears. There are a lot of boss fights to look forward to, with the first real challenge appearing in Kjotve the Cruel, the man who took the lives of Eivor’s parents. To gain revenge on Kjotve, check out these essential tips for coming out on top of this boss fight....

How to download Spotify music to Apple Watch Find the music and podcasts you want to download on your watch. Select the playlist, album, or podcast and press the three dots (…) and choose Download to Apple Watch To check on the progress, head over to the Downloads section on the watch. Once playlists, albums, or podcasts in your library are downloaded, you’ll see a little green arrow next to their names....

Fallout 76, Bethesda’s online multiplayer evolution of Fallout 4, is expanding its beta. The limited Fallout 76 beta up to this point has been exclusive to pre-orderers on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, but today that changed, with Bethesda opening up the beta to friends of current beta participants. Each current Fallout 76 beta player should have received three friend codes to share as they please, enabling them to create their own crew of Vault 76 refugees to explore the world together....

This Interview with the Vampire review contains spoilers. Interview with the Vampire Episode 2 Two vampires walk into a church, but the punchline is just the setup, the delivery is the appetizer. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire serves up its second episode, “After the Phantoms of Your Former Self,” as haute cuisine. The installment is, after all, about the story of the first feed. “I serve a god, it is my honor to serve,” Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) is told as a table is readied for two entirely different dining experiences....

One crustacean lover and Dark Souls 3 player uses mods to inexplicably replace all of the textures within From Software’s latest action-RPG with crabs. While there are some Dark Souls 3 fans who are on a mission to “git gud,” like the player who recently beat the game and took no hits, there are others with wildly different goals in mind. Take for instance the modder and YouTuber known as Limit Breakers who recently took it upon themselves to tinker with the visuals of Dark Souls 3 in order to replace every single texture in the title with pictures of crabs for some reason or another....

After a seven year journey, Horizon: Zero Dawn has proven to be a massive success for Guerrilla Games and Sony. The open world action-adventure game represents a complete switch from what fans were used to seeing from the studio, whose roots come from the first person shooter series, Killzone. Hermen Hulst, the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Guerrilla Games, revealed in a recent interview that the studio may not be done with the Killzone series quite yet....

Halycon 6: Starbase Commander may lack the nuances of some of its peers, but it nonetheless delivers a charming and moreish strategy RPG for science fiction fans to enjoy. When people think of the most iconic sci-fi properties, Star Trek is pretty high up the list. The story of exploration and discovery has been loved for generations, and its no surprise to see plenty of games try and emulate that atmosphere with their own projects....

With backing from Patreon, a fan is developing a rogue-lite version of the original Half-Life. Valve is pretty laid back when it comes to community mods and games, unlike a lot of other studios. It even sells them on its own storefront for better or worse as in the case of Black Mesa and Hunt Down the Freeman respectively. This newest venture comes from Daniel Almenara, otherwise known as Pinky, and it’s being worked on in the Unity engine....

Halo, the highly anticipated live-action sci-fi series based on the Halo game franchise, will make its debut in early 2022 on Paramount+. The series, which focuses on the 26th-century war between the United Nations Space Command and the alien Covenant, stars Pablo Schreiber, Natascha McElhone, Charlie Murphy, Jen Taylor, Shabana Azmi and Bokeem Woodbine. Produced by Showtime and Steven Spielberg production company Amblin Television, the show was originally set to be released in 2015....

With Thanksgiving in the rear view mirror and December just a few days away, the holiday season is officially here. That means a lot of Christmas and new year themed in-game events are on the way and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is ready to get into the spirit of the season right from the get go. December 1 marks the start of the two-part moble AR Brilliant Event for the month and this time around things are all about the holidays....

Fall Guys is gearing up for the launch Season 2 today, bringing a host of medieval inspired content to the hilarious battle royale. The full patch notes are now live, which include four new levels, a reworked loading screen, and a couple new features. The four new levels are titled as follows – Knight Fever, Wall Guys, Egg Siege, and Hoopsie Legends. We’ll have to wait until Season 2 officially starts to see each of these in action but, as the season’s expected to kick off later today, it should be a short wait....

While Hitman has carried forward the essential storyline in its games, 2016’s Hitman is the beginning of the “World of Assassination” trilogy, which is a soft reboot of the franchise. For this reason, the first four games are seen as the original series, while Absolution is considered a standalone offering. With Hitman 3 on the horizon, it’s worth a look at the major differences in the original and reboot series. Both of these have delivered the goods when required....

This week, Blizzard officially launched Heroes of the Storm, the company’s free-to-play MOBA designed to combat genre leaders League of Legends and Dota 2. To celebrate its release, the Honest Trailers team have put together a video hyping the game in their own inimitable style. If you’ve seen any of the previous videos in the series, you’ll know that these trailers aren’t afraid of poking fun at the game in question, and Heroes of the Storm is no exception....

The latest patch to hit Horizon Zero Dawn on PC keeps making progress on graphical glitches and crashes, but there’s still work to be done. Last week, we got to see the fruits of Guerilla Games’ ongoing labor. When Horizon Zero Dawn came out on PC, it was a violent mess of crashes, poor performance, and bizarre graphical glitches, but a diagnostic tool released in update 1.02 allowed the developers to get a handle on all of Horizon Zero Dawn’s various issues....