https://www.thegamer.com TheGamer's team of news specialists has its finger on the pulse when it comes to triple-A games, bringing you all the announcements, dates, and details of games new and upcoming. Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:38:06 GMT en-US hourly 60 The Brazillian Xbox account just made a Father's Day post. Sounds innocent enough, right? Well, it would be were it not for one crucial detail: Final Fantasy 7 Remake is there.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:38:06 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-on-xbox-port-brazil-twitter-account-fathers-day/ Pokemon Scarlet & Violet turns a year old in November, and performance-wise, there isn't a lot to show for it. We mean in-game performance of course - sales-wise, it broke records. But for anyone hoping that patches would make the game prettier or at least more stable, it's been a disappointing first year.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:27:44 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-players-furious-over-lack-of-graphics-patches/ Eduard Badaluta, the face model for Leon Kennedy in the Resident Evil 2 and 4 remakes, is calling on fan accounts to be deleted. In comments that have since been removed, Badaluta says these fans are running "piece of shit accounts", and says that he "doesn't need" fan accounts in the first place.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:20:50 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/resident-evil-2-4-remake-leon-face-model-eduard-badaluta-harassment-fan-accounts-deleted/ Baldur's Gate 3 is absolutely massive, meaning developer Larian Studios has had plenty of opportunities to sneak in a few fun references and easter eggs to other pieces of media that may have influenced their work at some point. There are the usual suspects included, such as Lord of the Rings, though it seems like there may be a few fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender at Larian as well, as fans have recently discovered what looks to be a cheeky nod to the show.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:00:20 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-references-easter-egg-avatar-the-last-airbender/ If you're still struggling to take down Ganondorf in Tears of the Kingdom, Recent-Marsupial-65 might have a solution--fence him up and wail on him with electric spikes. Basically, torture him 'till he drops dead. Who said the Master Sword was necessary?

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:00:18 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-ganondorf-trapped-tortured/ Dungeons & Dragons parties can be of any size. There's no real limit unless the DM is uncomfortable with eight people wailing on two little goblins. Baldur's Gate 3 is different. You can only have four people in a group, so you have to pick and choose who to bring with you on your adventure. But modders aren't having any of that, as SildurFX has already removed the limit for the full-release version of the game.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:16:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-party-size-limit-remover-mod/ Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's second DLC expansion, the Indigo Disk, will bring back all of the old starter Pokemon. This was just revealed in a new trailer, giving us a better look at the DLC that's expected to launch towards the end of this year.

]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:38:57 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-dlc-part-2-indigo-disk-catch-all-old-starters/ Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's lengthy development might come to an end soon, with its distributor suddenly listing a release date of December 1, 2023. While this hasn't been officially confirmed, this date doesn't seem to be a placeholder being used on the website, so developer GSC Game World could be poised to make an announcement soon.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:50:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-release-date-december-2023/ Baldur's Gate 3 has already amassed an incredibly dedicated modding scene. Even before its full launch, players were modding away in Early Access, tweaking visuals and adding new features. But now, modders have a whole lot more to work with, including the player origins that you choose from in the character creator screen.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:49:01 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-mod-origins-custom-lived-as-a-goat/ We've seen Elden Ring played in some pretty wild ways before, but for those of us watching from home, it doesn't get much more pleasant than this. Twitch streamer Perrikaryal has just figured out how to play FromSoft's latest game with her voice, hitting different notes to perform certain actions.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:17:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-challenge-run-played-with-voice-streamer-perri/ You just finished an arduous and long fight with a huge group of enemies and your entire party is reeling. In Baldur's Gate 3, you have a few options--each person takes a swig of a health potion, a healer gets to work, or you rest. But if you want to save your potions instead of having everyone stockpile and waste their own, you can just throw them at the ground and heal everybody.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:00:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-throw-potions-heal-everybody-aoe/ We're all well-acquainted with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom by now, which means you'll know that the game lets you carve out a little slice of Hyrule just for yourself. If you head on over to Tarrey Town, you'll find that you can build your own dream house by sticking a whole bunch of different blocks together. You can make some truly impressive properties with this ability, though you'll struggle to find a house as grand as this one that someone has managed to lift and suspend in the air.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:00:20 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-totk-player-discover-easy-way-to-make-house-float/ Sony values Call of Duty a lot. So much so that when it was offered four years of continued access to all Activision Blizzard games (should its Microsoft merger go through), it turned it down in favour of ten years of just Call of Duty. PlayStation clearly believes that its players want the latest Call of Duty above all else, so it wouldn't be surprising to see the company get beta exclusivity once again.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:46:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-beta-playstation-first/ Pokemon Scarlet & Violet have a couple of expanions coming out soon, those being The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk, which will make up the Treasures of Area Zero DLC. Nintendo and Game Freak gave us a much better look at what to expect from both of them during its latest Pokemon Presents showcase, including new characters, new features like gym leader rematches and minigames, as well a few new Pokemon reveals. However, one of these Pokemon is drawing a lot more attention than the others.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:01:20 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-fans-bullying-raikou-raging-bolt-new-paradox-form/ Tekken 8 still appears to be quite a ways away, with the game only having just wrapped up its first Closed Network Test earlier this month. That means that we still don't know a lot of the game's base roster, and fans have been unsurprisingly bugging Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada with character requests. Unfortunately, it seems like a some of these requests are a bit more aggressive than Harada would like, as he recently put a fan on blast for a "silly threat" with a detailed explanation on why fans shouldn't do it.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:58:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tekken-8-director-lashes-out-silly-threats-character-additions/ Baldur's Gate 3 has been a huge success since coming out of early access, amassing a whopping 800,000 all-time peak player count on Steam with console ports still to come. Now the game's been out a little while, developer Larian Studios has managed to put together an interesting list of statistics revealing the game's most popular class, race, and other little factoids. It even has a little section dedicated to everyone's romance options, and there seems to be a clear favorite amongst the community.

]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:25:46 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/shadowheart-romance-most-popular-baldurs-gate-3/ THQ Nordic held it's yearly showcase earlier today, showcasing all of the interesting titles they have coming in the near future. A whole bunch of exciting titles were shown off, though the highlight was undoubtedly the first trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. Nickelodeon confirmed the game was in development earlier this year, and now we finally have a trailer officially revealing the title, albeit an extremely brief one.

]]> Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:35:46 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tmnt-the-last-ronin-official-announcement/ Outcast 2: A New Beginning is no more. In a new trailer at the THQ Nordic showcase, it's been officially revealed that the game will now just be known as Outcast: A New Beginning, dropping the two from the title altogether.

]]> Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:08:13 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/outcast-sequel-drops-2-from-title-to-bring-in-new-players/ Baldur's Gate 3 is a hit, but it isn't just its D&D style combat drawing people in. No, there's a whole lot of us that are really hyped to get a new fancy dress-up sim, creating a bunch of pretty characters before we even think about starting the game. It turns out a whole lot of you had the same idea too, because the player stats are unbelievable.

]]> Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:05:57 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-player-time-spent-in-character-creator-88-years-stats/ The long-awaited Lollipop Chainsaw remake finally has a name, officially titled: Lollipop Chainsaw: RePOP. While the suitably silly name certainly captures the spirit of the original game, its unveiling also comes with some disappointing news for fans - RePOP is being pushed back into next year.

]]> Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:41:07 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/lollipop-chainsaw-repop-delayed-to-2024/ Tekken 8 has been rated in South Korea, approved for sale to players aged 15 and above. This has fans hoping that a release date announcement isn't far behind, perhaps revealing that the game will be with us much sooner than anticipated.

]]> Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:33:55 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tekken-8-age-rating-release-date-hype/ Baldur's Gate 3 has been in the hands of fans for a decent while now, yet Larian is still hard at work doling out fixes and tweaking any issues that players find on their travels. A number of hotfixes have been dished out over the past week, though the most recent update has fixed a problem that Larian probably couldn't have forseen no matter how much playtesting it did before the full launch.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:41:22 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-players-save-files-breaking-hotfix/ Despite Mortal Kombat 1 releasing in a little over a month's time, there's still a lot we don't know about it besides the characters that will be included. Most of the game's marketing has been focused on character inclusions, the most recent trailer showcasing Reptile, Havik, and Ashrah. There's been very little information regarding actual content and multiplayer modes, but a new pre-order retail listing in Brazil has given us the name of a new single player mode called "Invasions".

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:57:59 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-new-single-player-mode-invasions/ If you plan on getting every single spell in Baldur's Gate 3 as soon as possible, hold off for now. It turns out that if you spend gold to add scroll spells to your permanent collection, you can run into a bug when levelling up. Part of the process demands you pick a spell, but if you have them all, you can't pick any, so you'll get stuck without a way to follow through or quit the menu, losing all progress since your last save.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:30:53 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-too-many-spells-breaks-levelling-up/ You might've heard that Larian Studios is being sued over Baldur's Gate 3 being too good. It is 2023's highest-rated game, after all. But the lawsuit is a complete fabrication, stemming from a satirical TikTok video.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:56:59 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/larian-studios-lawsuit-baldurs-gate-3-tiktok-satire/ Metro 2033 author and creator Dmitry Glukhovsky has been sentenced to eight years in prison after Russia ruled that he had spread misinformation on its armed forces via social media.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:29:41 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/metro-2033-author-dmitry-glukhovsky-arrested-russia-ukraine-invasion/ Baldur's Gate 3 didn't just hit a peak player count of 800,000 in a week, it dethroned Tears of the Kingdom as 2023's highest-rated game with a Metacritic score of 97.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:14:57 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-overtakes-tears-of-the-kingdom-2023-highest-rated-game/ Ever since Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 was announced during Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour earlier this year, fans have been desperate for even a crumb of information on what the game will look like or a possible release date. Even a new trailer would be enough to satisfy some, though that's looking unlikely now that fans have been let down by Bandai Namco's Anime Expo Summer Showcase. However, it seems like there's hope yet.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:56:18 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/dragon-ball-z-voice-actor-started-recording-english-dub-unnamed-video-game-budokai-tenkaichi-4/ Baldur's Gate 3 is exceeding even developer Larian Studios' expectations at the moment, bringing in a record breaking number of players on Steam, with both PlayStation and Xbox ports still to come. It's mostly down to the game barely putting a foot wrong on the gameplay side, though there is one small controversy that has threatened to derail the game's success somewhat, as it was recently discovered that the localization team for the game's Brazilian Portugese translation has been left out of the final credits.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:09:22 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-demand-names-localizers-left-out-of-credits/ Cast your minds back a few months and you'll remember the big PlayStation Showcase that was meant to amaze and delight everyone, showing us what we can expect to be playing in the near future. In actuality, this showcase was extremely disappointing for a lot of fans, lacking the massive blockbuster exclusive reveals that PlayStation usually reserves for a show of such magnitude. Well, it turns out there may have been a reason for that.

]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:33:54 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/sony-delayed-first-party-playstation-games-out-of-fiscal-year-2023-2024/ Vladimir Makarov is a fan-favourite Call of Duty villain who has not appeared in the campaign since Modern Warfare 3. Fitting then that he's set to return in the rebooted MW3 launching on November 10, with Activision even dropping a dedicated trailer to him.

]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:06:01 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-2023-makarov-reveal-trailer/ In a new Rockstar earnings report, it revealed that it expects "major things" and "new record levels of operating performance" in its next fiscal year. For context, that covers March 2024 to March 2025. It seems likely that the earnings report's expectations are based on the release of GTA 6 and possibly its own Online mode, placing it somewhere in that bracket.

]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:18:22 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/grand-theft-auto-6-2024-rockstar-earnings-report/ Red Dead Redemption publisher Take-Two Interactive lifted the lid on all of the remaster/remake rumors earlier this week, revealing a PS4 and Nintendo Switch port that has gone down like a lead balloon with the fanbase. On top of the general disappointment that the port will be locked to 30fps, will have no graphical improvements, and will have the multiplayer stripped out, the asking price has been a big topic of debate, as Take-Two is asking fans part with $49.99/£39.99 if they want to play Red Dead Redemption on PS4 or Switch.

]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:56:57 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/red-dead-redemption-pricing-commercially-accurate-great-deal-take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick/ Electronic Arts has sneakily revealed that a handful of its classic Xbox 360/PS3 era titles are having their servers shut down later this year, those being Crysis 3, Dead Space 2, and Dante's Inferno.

]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:22:25 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/ea-shutting-down-servers-crysis-3-dead-space-2-dantes-inferno/ Nintendo and Game Freak gave us a look at what the Pokemon series has to offer for the rest of the year with the latest Pokemon Presents showcase, which included a close look at both of Scarlet & Violet's upcoming DLC expansions. The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk will introduce new characters to meet, trainers to battle, and Pokemon to catch, though the quality of the expansions wasn't one of the main talking points now that the dust has settled.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 23:50:47 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-presents-showcase-stolen-fan-made-music/ Today's Pokemon Presents livestream gave us our best look at the upcoming DLC for Scarlet & Violet yet. While we see the obvious features - new Pokemon and characters - the latest trailer also showcased a few minigames, including one that looks pretty familiar.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:31:14 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-dlc-snap-teal-mask-photo-mode/ Nintendo and Game Freak announced that Pokemon Scarlet & Violet will be getting two expansion packs that will launch at some point in 2023 earlier this year, though details surrounding them have been fairly slim since their initial reveal. However, today's new Pokemon Presents showcase has finally given us a release date for the first DLC expansion called The Teal Mask, as well as our first look at the land of Kitakami in which the expansion takes place.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:39:12 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-dlc-the-teal-mask-shell/ Pokemon Go fans will be getting a taste of Paldea pretty soon, as it was announced during the most recent Pokemon Presents showcase that Gen 9 Pokemon will be added to Pokemon Go next month. Unfortunately, a release date for the Paldean 'mons wasn't announced at the same time, though we can probably expect some news on that front in the coming weeks given that September isn't too far away.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:24:40 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-go-gen-9-release-date/ Pokemon Stadium 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch later today, almost a year after the port was announced last September. It joins its predecessor, Pokemon Stadium, which has been available on Switch since April 12.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:24:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-stadium-2-release-date-nintendo-switch-online/ Detective Pikachu Returns was announced back in June, set to launch on October 6. And a new Pokemon Presents stream has given us a better look at gameplay. It turns out you can ride Growlithe... as Pikachu.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:13:51 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/detective-pikachu-returns-new-trailer-gameplay/ CD Projekt Red has already suggested that Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, will overhaul everything. Now, as fans are invited to play the DLC early, we have some more details on the specific changes coming to the game, including the ability to completely rework your character.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:18:33 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-respec-reset-attributes-new-areas-night-city/ A Mortal Kombat 1 leaker called bac736, who revealed Darrius, Sektor, and Cyrax before their announcement, Reptile having a human and lizard form, and Smoke's design, claims that Shujinko is "one of the last Kameos" to be revealed. They sent the Mortal Kombat Leaks subreddit mods pictures to prove the claim, and after viewing the evidence, the mods say "it seems as legit as it can get".

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:57:43 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-shujinko-kameo-leak/ Despite having only been in the hands of players for the best part of a week, talk is already moving on to whether or not Baldur's Gate 3 will possibly get any expansions in the near future. Baldur's Gate and its sequel both got pretty hefty expansions following their release on PC back in 1998 and 2000 respectively, though it seems like it may not be the same case for Baldur's Gate 3.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:19:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-expansion-very-hard-to-make/ Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive unveiled what many believed would be a remaster/remake of Red Dead Redemption earlier today, although it appears early rumors may have hyped up the announcement much more than it needed to be. Instead, it was revealed that the original Red Dead Redemption is simply being ported to both PS4 and Nintendo Switch for the first time, as the PS4 isn't backwards compatible with PS3 titles and the game has never released on a Nintendo console prior.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 23:46:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/red-dead-redemption-fans-angry-over-ps4-switch-port-announcement/ There's an endless stream of games to play regardless of your chosen platform. However, no platform has more choice than your phone. That's why it's arguably harder to be a hit on mobile than anywhere else with so much to choose from, so when something really hits, like Genshin Impact, you know it's probably worth your time. Genshin Impact is also one of those games where if you like it, you really really like it, and you'd probably be interested in learning more about its virtual world.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:04:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/genshin-impact-official-art-book-september-12-pre-order/ Rockstar has finally confirmed the rumoured Red Dead Redemption port. It's set to launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on August 17 with a physical release set to follow on October 13.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:08:26 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/red-dead-redemption-playstation-nintendo-switch/ After multiple delays and years of hype, it's now less than a month until Starfield is finally here. A month that will hopefully fly by since we're all now playing Baldur's Gate 3. Starfield might well require a little bit of your attention as soon as this Wednesday, though. That's because it looks like its preload will be available from August 9, allowing you to install the game so it's ready to go as soon as midnight hits in your part of the world on release day.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:42:58 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/starfield-preload-starts-august-9-according-storefront/ In Baldur's Gate 3, you get inspiration through your deeds and dialogue choices. This comes with a comical title in a pop-up menu. But HGXIV co-creator Dividus spotted something more behind one of these jokes--a Final Fantasy 14 reference.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:41:18 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-final-fantasy-14-haurchefant-reference/ Mortal Kombat 1 made Reptile human again, so, of course, fans are hot for the transforming ninja lizard man (I'm counting myself among 'fans', for the record).

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:44:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-fans-reptile-hot-thirsty/ You can respec at any time in Baldur's Gate 3, but you're stuck with your mug, ugly or not. At least, for now. Fans on the subreddit are calling on Larian Studios to let them change their appearance like they can their stats, rerolling for a better jawline.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:47:56 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-reddit-fans-want-character-appearance-option/ Quan Chi is part of the first Kombat Pack's line-up, which many took to mean he won't be a part of Mortal Kombat 1's story. However, eagle-eyed fans have spotted him slumped over and knocked out in the new Banished trailer.

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:42:28 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-banished-trailer-quan-chi-easter-egg/ After much teasing from Ed Boon, Reptile, Havik, and Ashrah have been confirmed as the latest fighters coming to Mortal Kombat 1 at EVO 2023.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:49:39 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-reptile-havik-ashrah-mortal-kombat-1-reveal/ Baldur's Gate 3 is a hit so far, amassing way more players than Larian Studios was expecting. But as it climbs through the Steam charts, there was no way that it was going to please everyone. Lo and behold, a few days after launch, a group of gamers have come together to share their grievances with the ultra-popular RPG. It just so happens that these grievances are pretty daft.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:54:18 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-male-characters-hit-on-player-gay-lgbtq/ Larian Studios has knocked it out of the park with Baldur's Gate 3, shooting up the Steam charts as soon as it launched and being well-received by fans and critics alike. While this new release has many players hopping on the Baldur's Gate series for the first time, there are a few things thrown in there for older fans, and one of them is Minsc, the loveable ranger, and Boo, his even more lovable companion. But that doesn't mean they haven't made a single appearance elsewhere since Baldur's Gate 2.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:31:18 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-boo-hamster-minsc-mass-effect-shepard/ Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, is going on tour. The first leg of this showcase kicked off yesterday, letting fans in Warsaw try out the new story ahead of its launch. And as early murmurings suggested, it's far more expansive than what you'd usually expect for a story DLC.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:04:00 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-demo-tour-feels-alive-good-improvements-relic/ Elden Ring might be its own thing, but there's no denying the connections to Dark Souls. We awaken in a ruined civilisation where laughing nihilists indifferent to the outcome lead us on paths of destruction where we slaughter gods and get tricked by bald men in caves. And since there are so many obvious nods and references to old Soulsborne games, fans are discussing what they want to see directly return in the DLC.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:00:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-fans-debate-what-old-soulsborne-gear-should-return-in-dlc/ Baldur's Gate 3's character creator is one of the more detailed ones out there, giving you a whole range of customization options that let you create the D&D character of your dreams. It also allows you to customize your character's junk, something that a lot of streamers seemingly didn't know when diving into the game when it launched out of early access earlier this week.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:00:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-streamers-jumpscared-hide-clothes-option/ Baldur's Gate 3 is already a wildly successful RPG, met with near-universal praise by both critics and fans alike. But honestly, it's also a pretty great dress-up game, with its expansive character creator and gorgeous graphics. In fact, there's one area where it's incredibly goddamn expansive, probably way more than it has to be.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:44:56 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-players-cant-get-enough-of-all-the-willy-options/ Just in case you didn't already think that Baldur's Gate 3 was ridiculously detailed, it turns out that every companion has a special message hidden in their underwear.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:16:38 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-hidden-messages-in-companion-underwear-pants/ Baldur's Gate 3 is officially Steam Deck Verified just days after launch, reaching Valve's quality standards on the platform. However, this has only served to confuse and frustrate Xbox owners even further, as they continue to wait for news on their port.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 11:40:36 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-gets-steam-deck-verified-xbox-fans-confused/ Warzone is accused of being pay-to-win by its players after its latest premium battle pass introduced an unkillable dog companion that barks and growls when you're near an enemy.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 11:24:45 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/call-of-duty-warzone-merlin-the-dog-add-on-accused-pay-to-win/ Five Nights at Freddy's Plus has seemingly been cancelled and pulled from Steam following the recent controversies with Phisnom after a livestream of Security Breach's Ruins DLC.

]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:26:23 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/five-nights-at-freddys-plus-seemingly-cancelled-pulled-from-steam/ Baldur's Gate 3's director, Swen Vincke, has suggested that the next game from Larian Studios will be smaller in scope and (hopefully) won't take six years of development time.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:51:42 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/larian-studios-next-game-after-baldurs-gate-3-smaller-in-scale/ Bandai Namco appears to have accidentally confirmed the next two characters coming to Tekken 8's roster, which also might have added evidence for a leak from earlier in the week.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:35:33 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tekken-8-accidental-character-reveals-seemingly-confirm-earlier-roster-leak/ Mortal Kombat 1 players are reporting that the latest build present at EVO 2023 has already fixed some of the big issues revolving around movement speed from previous footage and playtests of the game.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:34:56 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-evo-build-slow-movement-issues-reportedly-fixed-already/ When it comes to particulalry tricky games like the Dark Souls series or Cuphead, you'll find an army of twisted individuals that love to pile on even more challenge by imposing their own rules during their runs. This could be anything from using a certain weapon to not dying a single time. It's the latter that's the subject of today's story, as one Star Wars Jedi: Survivor player tasked themselves with beating the game on Jedi Grand Master difficulty without dying.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:00:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/star-wars-jedi-survivor-player-grinds-all-skills-permadeath-run-immediately-dies/ Climbing in Skyrim is a headache. You can awkwardly jump up the sides of mountains, but odds are, you'll hit a slope and tumble down. With buildings, it's even harder. You need to find the right stack of objects and hope you reach the ledge. Or you can jump out of bounds in Whiterun to see absolutely nothing. You aren't meant to be climbing around like Ezio. But one modder has implemented a way to at least scale ledges.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:00:20 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/skyrim-climbing-mod-nexus/ Baldur's Gate 3 isn't like your typical RPG. Being heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, developer Larian has gone above and beyond to make sure the actions of its players are accounted for, no matter the outcome. As a result, Baldur's Gate 3 is a very unique experience, and one that bucks a lot of the trends and tricks that more standard RPGs typically abide by, meaning RPG lovers might need to unlearn a whole bunch of video game tropes if you want to get the most out of it.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:00:21 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-cheat-sheet-rules-newcomers/ Insomniac's first two Spider-Man titles were chock full of suits, but two games aren't enough to unpack Spider-Man's extensive 60-year history, so there is plenty left for Insomniac to use. That's what fans have been discussing on the subreddit.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:30:21 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/spider-man-2-reddit-fans-debate-what-suits-they-want/ Elden Ring has been on store shelves for well over a year now, giving players the chance to thoroughly explore all the game's nooks and crannies to the fullest. It's widely accepted that the game's legacy dungeons are Elden Ring at its most impressive, large areas spread across the game's open world like Stormveil Castle and Raya Lucaria Academy that deliver the typical Dark Souls-esque experience that we all know and love.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:00:19 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-fans-debate-best-worst-legacy-dungeons/ Baldur's Gate 3 is a hit with most people, giving us an exciting world to explore and a character to customise however we like. While you'll struggle to find anyone with any major problems with the game, there is one thing that quite a lot of people would like to see implemented in a future patch or update, and that's more in-game details surrounding class progression when making a character.

]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:05:14 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-fans-calling-for-in-game-detail-class-progression/ Baldur's Gate 3 is an extremely raunchy game. You'll struggle to find another RPG out there that lets you romance a bear, let alone be proud of it, but Baldur's Gate 3 put it front and center in its pre-release marketing. It has a lot more naughty scenes than just that, so many that developer Larian Studios actually hired a voice actor just for all the sexy noises.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:31:44 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-voice-actor-sex-noises/ A gameplay breakdown for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 has revealed that it's getting rid of the infamous rock-paper-scissors gameplay mechanic and instead adding a super meter.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:17:38 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-2-evo-gameplay-reveal-no-rock-paper-scissors-special-moves-meter/ Plankton has been revealed as one of the new fighters coming to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, which also confirms a roster leak that happened earlier in the week.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:49:20 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-2-plankton-revealed-roster-leak-confirmed/ Baldur's Gate 3 has a hidden mechanic called Karmic Dice that's switched on by default that you're going to want to turn off if you're looking for the true Dungeons & Dragons experience.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:37:52 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-karmic-dice-mechanic-turn-off-true-dungeons-and-dragons-experience/ Mortal Kombat isn't afraid to get a little silly now and then. Hell, in Mortal Kombat 11, you could make RoboCop fight the Joker. But things were even more daft back in the 3D era. Upping the ante from the Friendship finishing moves in the original trilogy, the devs started putting a bunch of joke renders - and even full videos - in the games, and it was great. In fact, it's how we got the iconic "Cooking with Scorpion" video, which everyone needs to see.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:10:14 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-fans-want-joke-krypt-items-back/ Dragon Ball FighterZ still doesn't have a release date or window for its rollback netcode implementation, despite being announced nearly a year ago.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:36:54 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/dragon-ball-fighterz-rollback-netcode-update-still-no-release-date-a-year-later/ Ed Boon is seemingly teasing on Twitter (surprise surprise) that Reptile is going to be the next character announced for Mortal Kombat 1 during EVO.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:31:55 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-1-evo-reptile-hint-ed-boon-twitter/ Matthew Mercer is one of those voice actors that end up in everything, so it's no surprise that he plays one of the companions in Baldur's Gate 3. As the new voice of Minsc - a companion who has made it into all three games so far - it's no surprise that Larian invited him to stream the game on launch day.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:40:28 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-mattew-mercer-playthrough-climb-boxes/ Baldur's Gate 3 players warn others against playing through their first run as the Dark Urge. This comes as fans realise that this origin is entirely different to the others, with less player agency and much, much more horrific acts of violence.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:00:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-the-dark-urge-first-playthrough-murder-unavoidable/ Minecraft obviously isn't the most graphically demanding game out there, and it's often brought up as an example whenever someone is arguing about the everlasting graphics versus gameplay debate. That doesn't mean its fans don't want it to look the best that it possibly can though, and the game's latest preview build has added a bunch of new tools that will let you customize certain graphics options such as lighting, shadows, and a whole lot more.

]]> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 01:50:01 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/minecrafts-preview-build-customize-lighting-shadows-render-dragon/ Baldur's Gate 3's launch out of early access is finally here, and despite it only being available for less than 24 hours at the time of writing, it's already managed to muscle its way into Steam's top five most played games.

]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:22:03 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-steam-top-five-most-played/ Baldur's Gate 3 will only let you play in split-screen co-op on PC if you're using two separate controllers, meaning those who are playing with keyboard and mouse (presumably most of you on PC) are out of luck.

]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:10:45 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-split-screen-co-op-only-works-with-controllers-on-pc/ Starfield is going to be big. Bigger than anything we've seen from Bethesda. While in the past, we've explored singular continents or real-life regions in The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, its newest RPG will take us across the stars to 1,000 planets across 100 star systems. And in anticipation of its launch, fans have eagerly begun to piece together the galaxy to make sense of its gargantuan scale.

]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:53:02 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/starfield-fans-put-together-3d-galactic-world-map/ Assassin's Creed Jade starts its closed beta today, and already footage has leaked online showing that Kassandra and Wei Yu are back. He's the man who assassinated China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang--you probably know him from a statue under the villa in Assassin's Creed 2. Now we can play as him.

]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:14:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-jade-closed-beta-leaked-footage-odyssey-kassandra/ Tekken 8's second Closed Network Test took place last weekend, which unfortunately means that hackers have now had time to crack the beta and play the game during unauthorized hours. It's something that Bandai Namco isn't best pleased about, issuing a warning to players that they may get hit with a ban if they're found to have played a cracked version of the game. That wasn't enough for Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada though, who recently bust into someone's stream and told them off himself.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:36:03 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tekken-8-director-busts-into-stream-threatens-ban-cnt-crack/ Splatoon and Mario Kart 8's Wii U servers abruptly went offline back in March of this year due to a security breach. Since Nintendo has been winding down support for its last-gen console, it may have been assumed the servers for those games might remain offline forever, but thankfully, that will not be the case. However, if they encounter this issue again, Nintendo has warned the servers might be shut down for good.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:33:45 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-might-permanently-shut-down-splatoon-mario-kart-8-wii-u-servers/ Ubisoft has confirmed that David Gasman will return to voice Rayman in the "Rayman in the Phantom Show" expansion for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:51:47 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mario-and-rabbids-sparks-of-hope-bringing-back-rayman-voice-actor-david-gasman/ Classic Call of Duty games are seeing a huge resurgence on Xbox thanks to the servers being fixed, with over 200,000 people playing across Black Ops and Modern Warfare in July. Granted, a big hacking problem ruined the experience for many on Black Ops 2, but that didn't stop fans from jumping back into the originals like no time had passed. But unfortunately, if you're hoping to do the same on your old Wii or DS, you'll find no such luck, as the servers have finally gone offline.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:07:17 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/classic-call-of-duty-servers-shut-down-on-wii-and-ds/ Baldur's Gate 3 is out tomorrow for PC and next month for PS5, but there's no sign of an Xbox release--we might even have to wait until 2024. In the meantime, Game Pass is adding Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 to the service, making the '90s Black Isle Studios classics easier to play than ever.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:34:16 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-game-pass-adds-baldurs-gate-1-2/ The Souls series has a bunch of staples--fog walls, bonfires, poise, Patches, cackling British dickheads, and a hub full of cackling British dickheads. But one of the less noted staples is the giants. There are your actual giants (the species), but also big tall gods and knights like Vendrick and Ornstein. The general rule of thumb is the more powerful you are, the bigger you get. But luckily, we didn't have to contend with any Titan-level threats in Elden Ring, because they're all dead.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:40:41 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-zullie-the-witch-giant-skeleton-erdtree/ Now that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 has finally been officially announced after spending months as one of the industry's worst-kept secrets, you might think that the rumours and leaks might slow down. Sadly, it looks like that's not the case, as the game's full cover art has seemingly leaked online after pre-orders went live on Amazon US.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:16:34 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-2-nasb2-roster-seemingly-leaks-hey-arnold-gertie/ Baldur's Gate 3 is launching on PC in just a matter of days, with the PlayStation 5 release coming a little over a month later on September 6. There's still no sign of an Xbox release date though, and questions are still being raised over when it will actually launch. Developer Larian Studios has explained previously that trying to get split screen working on the Xbox Series S version is the cause of the issue, as Microsoft wants feature parity with the Xbox Series X.

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:49:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-might-not-launch-xbox-2024/ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor publisher Electronic Arts has announced that Respawn is working on a port for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One during an earnings call that took place earlier today. The game launched back in April earlier this year exclusive to the PS5 and Xbox Series X as Respawn wanted to make the title a "true new-gen experience", but it now looks like the developer is making a port for those that don't own current-gen hardware just yet.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:27:16 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/star-wars-jedi-survivor-ps4-xbox-one-port/ At long last, we have a date for when Rayman will join Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. This will end years of the iconic platforming protag sitting out on the sidelines, returning to the Rabbids series that his games initially popularised.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:32:33 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/mario-rabbids-sparks-of-hope-rayman-in-the-phantom-show-dlc-release-date/ Baldur's Gate 3 has generated a lot of hype in its Early Access period, but it got even more widespread attention when, in a livestream, the devs demonstrated that you can do the nasty with a bear. Well, kinda. It's a Druid taking the form of a bear, but still, it's easy to see why it got so much attention. Now, it seems like many of us are looking forward to the romances more than any other part of the game, something Larian Studios has clearly noticed too.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:41:37 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-players-cant-romance-each-other/ Baldur's Gate 3 is a big game, there's no denying that. It's been in the oven for a while now, including a lengthy Early Access period with a bunch of updates. But it's about to get a whole lot bigger, with its full PC launch on August 3, later this week. Just don't get your hopes up about playing it on launch day unless you have a really strong internet connection - and a decent amount of free space on your hard drive.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:28:51 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-file-size-no-preload-time-122gb-uninstall-early-access/ Baldur's Gate 3's launch out of early access is just around the corner and it's going to be an absolute behemoth of a game. With entire TV shows worth of cinematics, over 17,000 ending variations, and a bunch of other impress statistics, many developers have begun to worry in the build up to Baldur's Gate 3's release that it might become the golden standard of RPGs and next to impossible for even studios with big budgets to match.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 03:09:42 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-wont-set-standards-for-rpgs/ Tekken 8's second closed network test took place over the weekend, giving fans of the series the chance to play a little bit of the game well before it actually launches. Bandai Namco made the entire thing available across multiple platforms, though it's probably wishing right now that it stuck to consoles only, as it turns out players have already cracked the closed network test and have been playing the game offline outside of the authorized hours.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:28:36 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/tekken-8-players-cracked-closed-network-test-beta/ Elden Ring has been on store shelves for well over a year now, and during that time, Souls fans have used pretty much everything including dance mats, goldfish, and their own brainwaves to take down the game's toughest obstacles. It all became a competition to see who could beat the game with the most ridiculous peripherals they could, though only now has someone come forward to claim they've done it without being hit.

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:46:14 GMT https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-no-hit-run-electric-saxophone/