Month: November 2024

This has been a decent Gamescom so far for Diablo 4. We got our first look at AI companions, the Mercenaries, as part of Opening Night Live, and anyone in attendance in Cologne can try the new Vessel of Hatred feature alongside the Spiritborn class.Blizzard wanted to include those of us staying at home, too, so the developer announced a new Mother’s Blessing event that runs alongside Gamescom week. It was supposed to start yesterday with the show’s kick-off, but that sadly didn’t happen.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Mother’s Blessing, if you’re unfamiliar, is Diablo 4’s version of the double XP events you’re used in many other games. You don’t quite earn double the amount of XP, but it’s a ma…

Yakuza Kiwami, the remaster of the first game in the series, is set to arrive on Nintendo Switch this October, allowing you to experience the opening tale of Kazuma Kiryu’s story – depending on whether you fancy playing prequel Yakuza 0 beforehand – on the handheld.As revealed during today’s Nintendo Direct, a Switch port of RGG Studio’s game about big Kaz battling his bro Akira Nishkiyama and first getting to grips with the idea that Goro Majima’s going to haunt him for the rest of his days by popping up all over the shop and asking for a scrap is on the way.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings It’s set to release on October 24, 2024, giving you a couple of months to prepare yourself for a trip to Kamurocho with both it and the TV adaptation Like a Dr…

Deadlock is doing ridiculously well despite not being officially out yet, and now a much earlier look at the game has been shared online.Well done Valve, your gambit paid off – despite pretending for the longest time that Deadlock wasn’t real, while allowing people to invite literally any of their friends to play it, the game is doing incredibly well. Word of mouth has clearly helped it travel far, as over the weekend the game hit a concurrent player count peak of 164,855 players on Steam, according to SteamDB, a wildly impressive figure that puts it in the top 100 most played games on Steam. One can only imagine how well it will do once it’s actually out and everyone can play it without needing an invite.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Before the…