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Summary Listen up Knights, the Layers of The Abyss await inKill Knightand it’s a tough fight to get to the bottom. There are tons of monsters in your way and whilst your starter gear is pretty strong, you’ll definitely want to swap it out whenever you can. There’s more powerful stuff waiting in the wings and some of it is substantially game-changing in the right hands. You can unlock the gear for free, or just buy it with credits earned after runs if you’re stuck on the requirements....

Working in tandem with the game industry can be pretty awful sometimes. With the resurgence of Gamergaters, it feels like everything becomes a target for diatribes against wokeness and baseless accusations that developers and journalists are ‘taking’ something away from gamers. I still love my job, but all this bizarre online discourse has bled out into my real life – when I meet someone new and tell them what I do, I hold my breath, because I’ve forgotten that most people are actually very normal about video games....

Life is Strange’s Max Caulfield has been pissing me off since 2015. I understand her, and I even respect her as a character – lots of teenagers are stupid, even when they’re doing their absolute best with the resources they have on hand. I think of Max like a friend who keeps doing stuff that actively makes their life worse and cries to me about it after. I love her, but I want to smack her on the head till she snaps out of it and starts making good decisions for once in her life....

Summary Magic: The Gatheringhas unveiled the first full set in its multi-year crossover with Marvel, and it’s focused on everybody’s favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. As part of the Universes Beyond crossover umbrella brand for Magic, Spider-Man will be bringing his biggest and baddest villains, allies, and probably alternate versions to the TCG when it launches in 2025. Announced back in October 2023, we knew Marvel would enjoy a full booster set treatment like what we saw for Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth....

Summary This week is going to be a big one for Monster Hunter fans.An open beta for Monster Hunter Wildsstarts for PS Plus members on Tuesday and then opens up to everyone else on Thursday. There’s more than just an open beta for Monster Hunter fans to get excited about, though. The series' plush collection has grown yet again withchibi versions of Palico and Seikret now available on Amazon. Capcom made its intentions clear at the start of 2024 byopening pre-orders for a lot of Monster Hunter plushesthroughout the year, but spacing out their release dates so fans could buy them gradually rather than all at once....

Summary It would be easy forPalworlddeveloper Pocketpair to get carried away with its success. It didsell three million copies in its first two daysand garnerover two million concurrent players on Steamat its peak, after all. But while many companies would be setting their sites on sequels, Pocketpair confirmed to TheGamer at this year’sTokyo Game Showthat it would be doing the opposite, doubling down on its support for the original, slightly controversial title....

I burst into tears when I finishedPhoenix Springs, but I wasn’t quite sure why. Even now, days later, I still have no idea what precisely it was that moved me so much. I know that I felt a profound sense of loss, like I was grieving something, but what was it? I guess that’s in keeping with Phoenix Springs’ motif of forgetting – knowing that something is gone but not knowing what....

Echoes of Wisdomis a lot less linear than other 2D Zelda games, with plenty of optional content you can do in any order. This means that no two playthroughs of this new Zelda title will be identical. While you can approach Echoes of Wisdom however you’d like to have a play experience tailored to your style, there are also some key pieces of advice to follow to ensure you’re having a more effective and efficient playthrough....

Secret Levelis an upcoming anthology series based on various video game franchises that was first announced at this year’s Gamescom. The show is produced by Tim Miller’s Blur Studio (Love, Death & Robots) for Prime Video. A new leaked trailer for Secret Level is now doing the rounds online. The leak reportedly originated from a chat on the messaging app Telegram (thanks,MP1st). As you’d expect, the trailer features various shots from each of the featured series with an accompanying voiceover....

InLife is Strange: Double Exposure’s third chapter, Max Caulfield has discovered that a student named Maya Okada may somehow be linked to the mystery of Safi’s death. Throughout this episode, Max is intent on tracking down any lead that can reveal the details of their relationship. One of those leads… uh… leads Max to Yasmin, Safi’s mother and the president of Caledon University. While speaking with her in the Fine Arts Building’s cafe in the Living World, Yasmin lies to you, saying that Safi didn’t even know Maya....

How does a studio follow a game likeThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim? After the industry-changing launch ofBethesda’s RPG, its next few titles weren’t quite at the same level. Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 weren’t exactly what fans of the post-nuclear apocalyptic series hoped for, and Starfield unfortunately never became the “Skyrim in space”. You’d think that the creators of Skyrim would have a hard time moving on from such a beloved title, which still had a lot of scope for additional expansions....

Summary It’s almost been a year since the release ofMarvel’s Spider-Man 2. I know, it feels likeInsomniac’s fantastic sequel has been in our lives a lot longer. Unfortunately, there’sstill no indication that the sequel will be getting any DLC. There’s a silver lining though, particularly if you likeFunko Pops.Six more figures tied to characters and suitsfeatured in the game have been shown off, and all of them will be available to buy this week ahead of the sequel’s first anniversary....

Baldur’s Gate 3offers a variety of outfit choices, so your Tav walks around Faerun in style. While the armor you wear, while you explore, has protective benefits, you may want to look stylish while lounging comfortably around camp, especially if you plan to romance one of your companions. Each party member has unique camp clothing; your character should be no different. All casual clothes available can be further customized, as various dyes can change the color of your chosen attire....