Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Players Find Neat Sonia Easter Egg

Japanese Pokemon Scarlet and Violet players have found an Easter egg they believe references Pokemon Sword and Shield's chronology. It may also be a direct nod to the character Sonia, who plays a key role in the earlier Nintendo Switch games. It's rare for Game Freak to acknowledge the chronology of events in the Pokemon franchise, instead preferring an ambiguity that allows for a more malleable timeline. Yet this Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Easter egg is very direct with its implications.
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Diablo 4 Players Are Already Unhappy With Microtransaction Prices

The reviews for Diablo 4 are out, and though the game is set to be a critical success, many players feel the microtransactions of its in-game shop are overpriced for a premium title. With the embargo officially lifted, the Diablo community has a much clearer picture of what to expect in their latest journey in Sanctuary beyond the Fractured Peaks. The open beta and server slam for Diablo 4 have certainly enticed players from a gameplay standpoint, but a major point of contention among fans has been the way Blizzard developed Diablo 4's monetization.
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System Shock Remake review: A foundation for the new generation of immersive sims

It’s difficult to imagine a more daunting proposition for a remake than the original System Shock. It’s arguably the game that truly launched the greatest boom of immersive sims in history – a genre whose fans are notoriously demanding, despite never having really been able to come up with a universally agreed definition of what an 'immersive sim' even is. It’s a genre of such a specific time and place, games that possess intrinsic vibes of fat chunky keyboards, bulky cardboard boxes and 640x480 CRT screens. How do you channel that in an era of ultrawide monitors and digital only games? Does anybody even want it? Warren Spector himself, one of the key creative figures in the heyday of PC games about rifling through shelves and reading emails, couldn’t get a tumultuous System Shock 3 out the doorhttps://www.vg247.com/system-shock-3-tencent before the whole endeavour imploded. This isn’t developer Nightdive Studios first wrangle with the licence – after acquiring the IP in 2015, they promptly released System Shock: Enhanced Edition, a slightly prettied up version of the original optimised for modern systems. At the same time, it started development on what was intended to be a ground-up remake. Here we are, a full seven years of stop-start development, engine changes, shifts in overall direction, and scope bloat later, and it should be considered a miracle that the game has been released at all. Never mind the fact that it’s an absolutely groundbreaking work of visual design that elevates the original in every possible way without losing anything in the process. Read more
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Nintendo Fan Makes Possibly the World's Biggest Fully Functional Wii

Nintendo Wii fan Jon Bringus has created what is possibly the world’s biggest, fully functional Wii. The console was released in 2006 and to this day is upheld as one of the most revolutionary developments by Nintendo.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley Player Discovers Interesting Place to Store Items

A Disney Dreamlight Valley player has discovered a fascinating place to store items, and it's not somewhere most players will be aware of. With this discovery, long gone are the days of building storage rooms in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Tutorial Explains How to Build a Tank

One The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fan has shown the world how far the building mechanics in the game can go by releasing a tutorial on how to build a tank. Building this tank inside Tears of the Kingdom gives the player fully functional driving capabilities, a working tank gun, and even a patrolling trophy system.
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Xbox branded "cheeky" as it highlights 12 PlayStation Showcase titles coming to Xbox

It was a big night for PlayStation last night, huh? Metal Gear Solid, more Metal Gear Solid, cyberpunk-at-home sequel Ghostrunner 2, a release date for Assassin's Creed Mirage, Alan Wake 2 showing a descent into madness, and a massive, unexpected look at the exciting Dragon's Dogma 2. Given this was a massive Sony showcase (and the first one since 2021, no less), you'd be forgiven for thinking all of these games were PlayStation exclusives – or, at least, would come to the PS5 with special features or something. Alas, that's not the case. As pointed out in a cheeky tweet that flew out of the Xbox socials the second the showcase was over, 12 of the games included in the showcase will be coming to Xbox platforms, as well as PlayStation or PC. Read more
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PlayStation Confirms New Handheld Device, But There's a Catch

Sony has finally confirmed its work on a new handheld PlayStation device during the PlayStation Showcase livestream, but it might not be what gamers were expecting. The latest PlayStation Showcase featured a mix of triple-A blockbusters and smaller indie titles, with much of the post-show discussion being centered around the likes of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and the newly-confirmed remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
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EA and DICE veterans, including ex-Battlefield creative director, unite to create a new next-gen shooter

Battlefield fans everywhere are getting some genuinely good news, and it's not out of developer DICE. A new studio revealed itself to the world today, and it's one packing serious talent from the franchise's long history. TTK Games is a Stockholm-based outfit lead by Lars Gustavsson, the 22-year DICE and Battlefield veteran, who left the studio in September 2022 following a major restructuering and leadership change. Studio CEO and creative director, Lars Gustavsson, is accompanied by other heavy-weights from Battlefield's storied history. Having worked across DICE, and DICE LA, their names should be familiar to anyone who's been keeping up with the Battlefield series over the years. Read more
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Tears of the Kingdom received a year long delay just to focus on polish

It turns out that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been done for about a year, with the rest of that time being spent on just polish alone. Back in March of 2022, Nintendo made the decision to delay Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom out of its 2022 release window into spring 2023, where it's obviously now out in the wild (pun not intended). It had always been made clear that 2022 was the target release year for the game, but wasn't a guarantee, so the delay wasn't shocking. Now, according to The Washington Post's Gene Park, the reason for that delay wasn't because the game wasn't technically ready; it was to polish it up. Park recently spoke with Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma as part of an interview with The Washington Post, but shared an anecdote that didn't make it into the final piece. "Eiji Aonuma said when he announced in March 2022 a delay for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, the game was pretty much complete," Park shared in a tweet. "The last year was spent on polish, making sure the wild physics of the game just work." Read more
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Absolutely everybody should play the Final Fantasy 16 demo – hands-on

At a recent hands-on for Final Fantasy 16, we got to play a good six hours of content from across the game. Though all from a work-in-progress build that Square Enix was careful to note had been specifically designed for the media tour, much of what we played appeared to be pretty much the final version of the game. You do this job for long enough and you get pretty good at identifying when something has been stitched together for a hands-on versus when it’s done – and this game appeared to be well and truly finished at this event, almost a full two months from release. There’s an air of confidence around how finished it is, in fact – I’ve been told that there’s no day-one patch to tighten things up, because it’s just not needed. The game is finished, polished, ready. It’s a stark contrast to Final Fantasy 15, which had a messy final preview that was followed by a last-minute polishing delay before the preview embargo even lifted. That’s the first major point I’d make about Final Fantasy 16, in fact. It’s clear that this is the most confident and complete main-line Final Fantasy game at launch since the PS2 era; it’ll match up to the excellent launch state of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. From a fit-and-finish perspective, I’d confidently say that quality is no longer a question. The conversation shifts, then, to the game as a work of art and design – and if people are going to be picking up what it’s putting down. Read more
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Overwatch 2 director shares he wanted the shooter to return to its MMO origins

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has discussed how the shooter series was "born from the ashes" of Project Titan following the cancellation of its Hero Mode. Earlier this week, Blizzard made the surprising announcement that Overwatch 2 would no longer be receiving its PvE Hero Mode, arguably the main thing that even justified having a sequel at all. PvE content is still planned for the game in the form of Story Missions, it's just Hero Mode that has been cut. Following this news, Keller has now shared his latest "Director's Take," a regular series of blog posts he shares covering the state of the game, where he talked about how the Overwatch team together following an MMO called Project Titan being cancelled, with the ultimate goal of developing a shooter MMO. According to Keller, the "Overwatch team, especially at its inception, considered itself an MMO development team," as it was "founded in the wake of a cancelled game at Blizzard called Project Titan… As we transitioned away from that original concept and started creating Overwatch, we included plans to one day return to that scope. We had a crawl, walk, run plan. Overwatch was the crawl, a dedicated version of PvE was the walk, and an MMO was the run. It was built into the DNA of the team early on, and some of us considered that final game a true realisation of the original vision of Project Titan." Read more
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Clever Change Makes the Hogwarts Legacy Opening Even Better

A gamer online has made a small change to the intro of Hogwarts Legacy, improving it with a massive nostalgia hit. Unfortunately, this isn't an official Hogwarts Legacy mod, but it would surely improve the game if it was.
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Gingers? In video games? Who allowed this?

Welcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 52: the best game with a ginger protagonist. Cal Kestis of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is just the latest in a long line of Gaming Redheads, an esteemed group that includes such celebrated characters as Official Femshep, Joanna Dark, and what's-her-face out of Heavenly Sword. And it makes me swell with pride to see this proud tradition continuing. Listen. I'm not even a proper ginger, but my beard has the reddish hue of muddled European stock, and I look a bit auburn with edge lighting, so I think that basically makes me part of the ginger community. Therefore I can confidently say that growing up ginger, especially in the UK, is a mixed bag. As prejudices go, it's a fairly innocuous one to be at the receiving end of: mostly just daft banter, nothing particularly harrowing or sinister. But you are relentlessly considered fair game. Barely a day goes by where you don't hear a joke about gingers on the TV. It's a feature of your genetics that marks you out for endless ribbing, but it so rarely tips over into anything worse that it feels almost petty to complain about it. It's not remotely like living as part of a minority that experiences real prejudice, racism, or persecution. And so, the Ginger Experience is sort of like living with a permanently stuck sneeze: a source of perennial bother that you can't really do anything about. Read more
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Xbox Game Pass gets surprise day one bonus – a cracking 3D Metroidvania sequel

Many of the most exciting games on Xbox’s unbeatable Game Pass service come in the form of the bonus little games that seemingly come out of nowhere. Some of the headline indie games on the service debuted by way of these last-minute surprise additions (Coffee Talk comes to mind). And whilst some games launched in this manner don’t do too well – Generation Zero, we’d like a word – we’re never going to look a bonus addition to the service in the mouth. Today, Supra Games UG dropped Supraland: Six Inches Under, a follow-up to its underdog Metroidvania puzzle game Supraland, as a surprise day-one addition to Xbox Game Pass. And it spins out the formula of the previous game in deeper and more interesting ways. So, what the hell is this game? Supraland: Six Inches Under puts you in the role of a very stressed Blue Plumber, tasked with rescuing and protecting the townsfolk of Supraland after a tragic event that beset the miniature population in the form of “The Rakening”. The (literal) sandbox has been blown wide open, and now your job is to delve into the loamy land beneath to make sure these strange little people can continue on with their tiny lives in peace. Read more
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Destiny 2 Announces New Artifact Mods for Upcoming Season 21

Bungie has officially announced the complete selection of Artifact mods being made available to players in Destiny 2's upcoming Season of the Deep, including newer tools to deal with the game's infamous Champion enemies. While not as deadly as the newly introduced Tormentors, Champions still pose a significant threat to any guardians attempting to test themselves against Destiny 2's aspirational endgame encounters.
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No one can find a Breath of the Wild fan favourite in Tears of the Kingdom

Pretty much every character from Breath of the Wild is back in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but there's one character who is suspiciously absent. Spoilers ahead for the missing character (if an absence of a character counts as a spoiler to you)! When I say that almost every character is back, I mean it. You've got the big ones like Riju from Gerudo Town, Sidon from the Zora's Domain, even Purah is back, though a good bit older now (leading some to be insatiably thirsty). You'll even find NPCs that you almost definitely don't remember the name of, alongside a suite of new characters like Cece the fashionista, and Tauro, the Zonai Survey Team Leader. So where the hell is the best bard in all of Hyrule, the one and only Kass? Read more
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Diablo 4 Devs Are ‘Confident’ the Game’s Launch Will Go According to Plan

The Diablo 4 developers at Blizzard feel good about the game's upcoming launch. Recently, the Diablo 4 devs have shared their recent experiences with the latest beta, further tests, and all the work they've accomplished on the backend of the game.
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Fan Art Imagines Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Version of Barack Obama

Having just released, some The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fans are already creating fan art, with the latest one offering a Nintendo twist on former US President Barack Obama. While The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom offers a lot of creative opportunities through its fusing and building mechanics, some fans continue to express themselves through creative fan art like this.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic

To the surprise of probably no one, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic - and the highest of the year on Metacritic. Well folks, it looks like we have a new champion sitting on the throne of highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic, as Nintendo has stolen the spot from itself with its latest release, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. That title previously belonged to Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo's other big name IP, but Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has managed to snag that top spot, putting the developer in quite the premium position. Tears of the Kingdom only snagged that number one position by a small margin though, coming down to less than one percent in difference, as the Zelda game has a very specific score of 97.233 out of 100, whereas Super Mario Odyssey has 96.811 (thanks, NintendoLife). You probably also won't be surprised to hear that Breath of the Wild is sat in third place, with a score of 95.905. If you want the full top 10 list for games on OpenCritic to compare and contrast, here they are for you: Read more
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Player Accidentally Cheeses the Game's Final Boss

SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR AHEAD
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The Rings Of Power Season 2: Morfydd Clark Teases Galadriel Story

The following contains spoilers for season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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Destiny 2 Reveals First In-Game Glimpse of Season of the Deep

As Destiny 2's current season enters its homestretch, Bungie is beginning to give guardians a glimpse at what is awaiting them in Season of the Deep, with the latest offering the first in-game look at the season. Season of the Deep marks the return of Titan to the game along with its original location vendor, Deputy Commander Sloane, though it appears she is returning with a few new tricks of her own. While the teaser is a relatively short one, it does provide a quick glimpse at guardians returning to Saturn's largest moon in search of a new ally against the Witness.
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God of War Creator Responds After Bloodborne Starts Trending on Twitter

God of War creator David Jaffe has responded to a claim that Bloodborne is coming to PC and PlayStation 5 which cited him as a source. It is seemingly that time of the month again when Bloodborne inexplicably trends on Twitter and the murmurings of a remaster/remake/port surface once more.
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It turns almost half of Hunt: Showdown players haven't even killed another player

It turns out that a pretty large portion of Hunt: Showdown players have actually even killed another player. If you've ever played Hunt: Showdown you'll know that other players aren't necessarily your biggest threat at any given point in time. It's a threatening world to exist in, and that doesn't always work for every player. So much so that it turns out 40% of players haven't even killed another player at all. As reported by PCGamer, who held a roundtable regarding first-person shooters at GDC, general manager for the Hunt franchise at Crytek David Fifield shared that statistic, noting that it's a big issue for new players when facing veteran players. "We have an achievement in Hunt called Debut," Fifield said. "It's 'kill your first enemy Hunter', 40% of our players never get it. We're a PvP game where you come in, you do some things, and 40% of the people trying Hunt have never killed another player." Due to the nature of Hunt: Showdown, which is PvPvE, there's a chance many players won't even encounter one another in a particular match. So it can be tricky for some when they come up against someone who's been playing the game for a while. Read more
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Weird Skyrim Glitch Makes Grass Incredibly Tall

A recent clip shows a strange glitch in Skyrim that makes the grass in the game look incredibly tall. There is a large variety of bizarre Skyrim glitches, but this particular one is definitely going to leave many fans of the game scratching their heads.
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Diablo 4 Might Have Another KFC Promotion Soon

Diablo 4 might be having another promotion with KFC soon. If the recent leak is accurate, players can expect the chance to earn several in-game rewards for Diablo 4 if they visit KFC multiple times during the promotion period.
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Skyrim Player Makes The Cutest Discovery Ever

A Skyrim player has shown off perhaps the cutest discovery ever made in the game. Skyrim has lots of tiny details for players to uncover throughout their multiple playthroughs, but this could be the most adorable one.
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Skywind shines in this stunning gameplay video showcasing the Morrowind mod project

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind recently celebrated its 21st anniversary, and the folks behind the Skywind have released a new gameplay video for the total conversion mod. The 20-minute video shows off the Necromancer in Mawia quest, where you act as an agent of the Tribunal Temple over in Molag Amur. The Morrowind mission showcases re-imagined assets, level design ideas, and more immersive dialogue and scripted sequences. Because the project is still in the works, you may notice gaps, missing dialogue, floating objects, or placeholders from Skyrim included in the video. Read more
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Rev up your engines: LEGO 2K Drive unleashes seasonal fun with limitless playtime

LEGO 2K Drive, the first in a multi-title partnership between 2K Games and LEGO, will feature post-launch content such as a Year 1 Pass. Beginning with the release of Drive Pass Season 1 in June, each Season will have new challenges and 100 levels to play through. With each, you can earn free rewards that change from Season to Season. Season 1 will feature new drivers, stickers, flairs, sounds, and more, with a new biome coming within the first year. Read more
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Destiny 2 Players Call For Reworks to Stasis Fragments

Destiny 2 players are calling for reworks to Stasis subclasses and fragments nearly three years after its introduction in the Beyond Light expansion. Although the Lightfall expansion introduced new Strand subclasses in Destiny 2, existing Stasis subclasses have not been updated with highly-requested changes by fans.
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Overwatch 2 Players Are Upset by Blizzard's Response to Unwarranted Bans

Season 4 of Overwatch 2 has inadvertently brought along some issues in addition to the new hero and cosmetic content, and a recent response from Blizzard has only caused greater frustration among the game's community after the developer claims that unwarranted bans cannot be overturned. Many Overwatch 2 players have experienced frequent matchmaking problems since the start of the game's latest season, with unintentional disconnections from competitive matches costing some fans a season-long suspension from the game.
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MrBeast Claims New YouTube Video Took Over 4,000 Hours of Editing

Prominent YouTube content creator MrBeast has recently teased his newest upcoming project, claiming that his latest video took thousands of hours to edit. MrBeast also shared that his latest YouTube video took months of planning to set up, weeks to film, and millions of dollars.
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Street Fighter 6 – the final preview: World Tour rounds out a genre-defining feature set

Street Fighter 6 may well be one of the greatest turn-arounds in gaming history. Cast your mind back to 2016, to the release of the deeply flawed Street Fighter 5. The bones of that package were pretty strong - but there also wasn’t much meat on them. In fact, if you didn’t want to play multiplayer, you were pretty much out of luck. It was a shocking, sloppy-feeling launch package. SF5 did improve over the years. It’s nowhere near as good as SF4, but I find it to be an enjoyable experience with a good amount of content in all modes. But it took the developers years, and a leadership overhaul, to get there. And perhaps SF5 is what needed to happen to learn a few potent lessons. Those lessons have been fully embraced in Street Fighter 6. Let’s be fair. I’ve talked about all of this before. I gushed about the game at a first limited hands-on, and then again later when the cast expanded. I’m one of only two fighting ame enthusiasts on VG247’s staff, too - and so I haven’t even been alone, with Connor also voicing his extreme excitement for SF6. But this most recent hands-on - the last before we’ll be downloading a final version of the game - is different. Read more
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Sony promises more PC ports, so Bloodborne's only a matter of time, right?

Sony has confirmed that it plans to bring more of its games to PC in the future, notably because its games are doing quite well on computers. Since 2020 Sony has been steadily adding some of its biggest titles to PC, finally catching up with the times in making its games more accessible to a broader range of players. That all started with Horizon Zero Dawn, with games like God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, and The Last of Us Part 1 coming to PC further down the line. As part of Sony's recent FY2022 financial report, Sony also confirmed that it plans to continue releasing its games on PC, which isn't surprising in the slightest because it's making plenty of money through the process (thanks, PCGamer). In the report, Sony notes that it plans to release Marvel's Spider-Man 2 this year, a title currently without a release date, and it also wrote of its plans to continue making new IP, as well as "rolling out catalogue titles for PC." The line does make it sound like it still won't have its games launch simultaneously on console and PC, but it's something I guess. Read more
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Player Discovers Way to Cheese 'Impossible' Boss Battle

A Star Wars Jedi: Survivor player has discovered a perfect way to cheese one of the game's most difficult boss battles. Many of the boss battles in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor can be extremely difficult to overcome, and there's no shame in needing a helping hand to get through it in certain areas.
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