As part of a wide-ranging interview with Lex Fridman, Bethesda's Todd Howard has discussed a number of hot-button topics, including Bethesda's sale to Microsoft, The Elder Scrolls 6, Starfield, the Indiana Jones game, and a lot more. In addition to talking about video games, Howard gets into more personal things like what a day in the life is like for him, his advice to younger people, and the meaning of life.
If you don't have the time or interest to listen to the full interview, it's...
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A new update for Marvel Snap is live now, which lets you purchase specific cards that may be missing from your collection. The update, which was detailed last week, is aimed at resolving the issue of card acquisition feeling too random once you get past a certain collection level. As part of the update, you'll also get a login bonus of Tokens, the new currency used for card purchases.
After downloading the update, a new Token Shop appears below the Daily Offer in the store page. That Token...
Activision is hosting a double XP event for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0, and PlayStation users are getting a first crack at earning the bonus XP.
The double XP event is live now on PlayStation, with Xbox players getting doubly rewarded beginning December 1. The double XP event wraps up December 2 on all platforms. Whether or not this is standard double XP or double weapon XP, or both, isn't immediately clear.
Early access to double XP periods is one of multiple perks...
As the war in Ukraine broke out earlier this year, gameplay footage of the military simulator Arma 3 was passed off as actual videos from the ground of the conflict. Developer Bohemia Interactive has released a statement with the intention of assisting journalists and the general public in identifying fake videos.
Arma 3's nature as a mod-friendly military simulation game lets players simulate or depict a variety of historical and current conflicts. According to a part of the statement from...
Apex Legends' new Wintertide Collection Event doesn't go live until next week, but the game's developers have already begun shaking things up via a new patch that contains bug fixes for Season 15's debut legend, Catalyst, and the new Broken Moon map.
Respawn tweeted the announcement this afternoon, shortly after the patch became available to players. Several changes have been made to the way other legends interact with Catalyst's ferrofluid. For instance, Wraith can now phase through...
Final Fantasy 16 has been rated in Brazil, leading credence to rumors that preorders will go up in early December and that a release date trailer is coming soon.
The rating was first noticed by Gemetsu. The game has been rated as "not recommended for children under 16." According to a translation via Insider Gaming, the game includes *** scenes that are "not fully shown" and plenty of violence including "blood, intentional deaths, torture...victims suffering" and even "hate crimes."...
This year's Black Friday weekend was Amazon's biggest ever, and while gaming items sold well overall, only one made it into the best-selling items: the Nintendo Switch. Yes, more than six years after launch, Nintendo's groundbreaking console continues to do well at retail.
According to Amazon's announcement, the Switch sold well compared to other hot items, including Apple Airbods, Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, and Hasbro Gaming Connect 4. The Meta Quest 2 also did very well for itself, making...
When I spoke to several teams making games in the Left 4 Dead lineage, they each had some unique thoughts on why the game, and its resulting genre, works. But they also each echoed one similar thought: Pacing reigns supreme. Horde shooters, like Warhammer 40K Darktide, can live or die on the flow of its co-op missions. Aided by an AI director, missions must be tuned to reliably challenge, but not necessarily overwhelm the player. Impressively, Darktide gets this aspect of its grimdark...
Cyber Monday deals have largely disappeared, but Best Buy is giving you another chance to score HyperX gear with some of the best prices of 2022. Whether you’re in the market for a new keyboard, headset, gaming mouse, or anything in between, a surprising number of HyperX products are on sale at Best Buy.
Headsets are the main attraction of the HyperX event, as more than a dozen are listed with a price cut. This includes the affordable CloudX Stinger Core Wired Gaming Headset, which is...
Diablo Immortal will introduce changes to make it far easier for players that are falling behind their server's Paragon level to catch up, developer Blizzard has announced.
In a Q&A blog post, Blizzard outlined some of the changes players can expect to see in the free-to-play mobile game in the coming weeks and months. Some of those changes will be to help players catch up who may have taken time away from the game and fallen behind.
Each Diablo Immortal server has a server Paragon Level...
It was recently revealed in an earnings report that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 will start pre-production in 2023.
Thanks to a third-quarter earnings report covered by Tech4gamers, we know CDPR will begin to work on the Cyberpunk sequel after the Phantom Liberty expansion, which is set to release in 2023.
Adam Kiciski, president and joint CEO of CD Projekt Red, says in the earnings report, "We are concentrating on the final stage of the development of Phantom Liberty." He then explains...
Plenty of DLC is on the way for Sonic Frontiers in the future, as Sega has unveiled its roadmap for the game that will see it expand in 2023 with free updates. While there are no concrete release dates for the DLC waves and their contents are subject to change, fans can look forward to the open-zone platformer being more fleshed out throughout next year.
Update 1 will consist of a jukebox that will contain tracks from the excellent soundtrack, a photo mode, and new challenge modes to test...
Capcom apparently plans to bring Monster Hunter Rise to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One next year. Insider Gaming reported that the game will release January 20 on those platforms, as well as become available on Game Pass.
Then, in the spring, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak--the expansion for the base game--will reportedly follow in expanding to the new platforms. Capcom will supposedly unveil these plans at The Game Awards on December 8.
Two reported features...
The last update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla has arrived almost a week early and alongside bug fixes and a final story update, features a tie-in mission with the next game in the series: Assassin's Creed Mirage.
The tie-in quest is called Shared History and features Roshan, the mentor of Mirage's protagonist Basim. In this quest, she will team up with Valhalla protagonist Eivor upon discovering that they have a common foe. The final story update sees Eivor unite with old friends and battle...
The Smash World Tour, a major Super Smash Bros. tournament and competitive circuit, has been unexpectedly shut down. The Smash World Tour championships were set for December 9 in Texas, with many top Smash players buying air fare and travel accommodations ahead of time. Instead, that event will not occur, along with the entirety of the 2023 circuit.
The organizers of the Smash World Tour--a group of fans unaffiliated with Nintendo--say that Nintendo told them "without any warning" that they...
Bethesda's Todd Howard has shed some new light on the upcoming Indiana Jones game in development at Wolfenstein developer Machine Games.
Appearing on Lex Fridman's podcast, Howard started off by saying Machine Games is a "perfect fit" to develop the new Indiana Jones game. Howard originally pitched the game in 2009, but it didn't come together at the time. Now that Disney is ramping up its licensing deals, Bethesda was able to secure a deal and put Machine Games to work on the game.
"If...
The holiday season is quickly approaching--and so is the Winter Express, Apex Legends's popular seasonal LTM. Respawn Entertainment tweeted an announcement this morning confirming that the Winter Express will make its yearly appearance on World's Edge starting next Tuesday, December 6. The mode will go live alongside the Wintertide Collection Event, which also features a new Mythic-tier item: Wraith's Prestige Skin.
The Winter Express LTM pits three teams of three against each other on a...
Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima is presumably busy working on a new game, but he's still finding time to dine with famous friends. The video game auteur shared a photo of himself sitting next to movie directors Guillermo del Toro and Mike Flanagan.
Del Toro is a longtime collaborator with Kojima, on top of being known for his work on films like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water. He was linked to the infamously canceled Silent Hills and appears in Death Stranding.
Meanwhile...
Amazon has announced the next wave of freebies for Amazon Prime members, and there are a total of eight titles up for grabs in December. Prime Gaming's December 2022 lineup of freebies include some very good games, including Brothers: A Tale of two Sons, Quake, and Banners of Ruin.
The others include Rose Riddle 2: Werewolf Shadow, The Amazing American Circus, Spinch, Desert Child, and Doors: Paradox. As usual, subscribers are also getting in-game content bonuses in December, including more...
It's a good year to be a Marvel fan, as between excellent PC ports and an engaging snap-happy mobile game, the house of ideas is ending the year with a walk on its supernatural wild side. Reviews have gone live for Marvel's Midnight Suns, with many outlets praising XCOM developer Firaxis for a game that combines strong turn-based tactical combat with fascinating team-building moments between missions.
"A story about the power of friendship between a bunch of misfits, which is forged and...