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For all its faults, 2020 has been a great year for roguelike games. The last few months have seen the release of Supergiant Games’ Hades, Hopoo Games’ Risk of Rain 2, and Derek “Mossmouth” Yu’s Spelunky 2, as well as Early Access launches like Cellar Door Games’ Rogue Legacy 2. ScourgeBringer, primarily the brainchild of two-person development team Flying Oak Games, is hoping to stand out amongst the crowd with a focus on “fast-paced, free-moving platforming” and high-octane combat....

Sources within the SEC told Bloomberg News that the Commission is investigating GameStop’s stock price for manipulation. Specifically, they’re looking into social media posts–including those on the WallStreetBets subreddit–“to assess whether such posts were part of a manipulative effort to drive up share prices.” GameStop has become the center of a bizarre battle between amateur day traders and the Wall Street establishment. Short sellers betting that GameStop’s stock price would fall shorted more than all of GameStop’s outstanding shares....

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster is an HD remake of a game that was originally released for the PlayStation 2. Nocturne is set during the end of the world when demons and monsters return and the planet is turned inside out. The main character is a human teenager who is granted the power of the demons, becoming the Demi-Fiend. It’s up to the Demi-Fiend to choose the fate of this new world....

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim did a lot of things for the franchise and turned a popular role-playing fantasy series into a cultural mainstay. The game sold an incredible amount, which was aided by the fact that Bethesda ported the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series to anything and everything. You might not remember your first time through the game, and chances are you missed a lot of what the game had to offer in its many nooks and crannies....

While there are many unique weapons in the Elder Scrolls series, with many of them being found in Skyrim, one that is far older than many players realize is the unique greatsword called Stormfang. It has a powerful enchantment and it’s fairly easy to obtain for even early-game characters, so there’s no reason why players shouldn’t grab this sword over the course of their adventures. In order to obtain this sword, players need to first travel to Solstheim, the island that borders Skyrim and Morrowind....

Sonos Sub Mini release date and price Announced 13 September 2022 Available from 6 October 2022 £429/$429/€499 Sonos Sub Mini design 305 x 230mm (12 x 9.1-inches), 6.35kg (14lb) Cylindrical design Black and White colour options Sonos Sub Mini specs Less powerful hardware than Sonos Sub Center Tunnel Dual 6-inch force-canceling woofers Sonos Sub Mini features Trueplay tuning Automatic equalisation Sonos Sub Mini rumours: What happened? 11 August 2022: Sonos Sub Mini appears to have been delayed 3 June 2022: Sonos Sub Mini pops up at FCC: Is a budget subwoofer coming soon?...

Sony has been synonymous with television hardware for as long as we can remember and is often at the forefront of new technologies. That includes 8K, OLED, Mini LED and, what it terms, Full Array LED TVs. We’re looking at its current line-up to help you choose between them. And, while we’re not covering all available Sony TVs here - just its highlights - this list should help you choose your next set if you want to go Sony....

When Sony took the stage for their E3 press conference, they featured the biggest games coming exclusively to PS4 and PlayStation VR. However, Sony left fans wanting more by having a conference that was shorter than normal and had a noticeable lack of smaller games. Fans might have missed the PlayStation E3 Pre-Show, which had several important announcements that deserve more attention. Here are the announcements that went under the radar....

Sony encourages fans to put forward their picks for PS2 emulation on PS4, with iconic franchises such as TimeSplitters and Tekken proving to be the most popular. Last month, Sony confirmed that PS2 emulation would be available on PS4, much to fans’ delight. Instead of just being a cut and dry port to Sony’s current-gen console, the PS4’s PS2 emulation tech bumps up the visuals on those aging games and lets fans play them in HD and the titles also get trophy support too....

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Success in Space Engineers means crafting a variety of ships and stations for progressions and survival. A big component of that is working out the thrust and power requirements of any given build. There are a lot of factors that need to be considered for your ships to exit and enter an atmosphere, give large stations mobility, produce high speeds while still being able to turn and steer, and more....

As Insomniac’s Spider-Man has gone gold, many fans are clamoring to learn more about how the upcoming superhero game will handle a wide variety of topics. One fan reached out to Insomniac via Twitter regarding enemy level scaling, and Insomniac confirmed that enemies will not scale as players progress, but rather the threats will grow over the course of the game. Games like Destiny 2 and The Division have forms of enemy scaling that ramp up enemy health and damage as players level up, essentially making the enemies seem more threatening when in reality they are the same foes that players take on earlier in the game....

Splinter Cell has been missing in action for years now, leaving a night vision-sized hole in the hearts of fans. Although it could be a while until we see Sam Fisher lurking around in the shadows again, Symbiosis Games might be giving us the next best thing – Spectre. Heavily influenced by the “Spies vs Mercenaries” multiplayer mode in Splinter Cell, Spectre pits two asymmetrical teams against each other. One team is composed of Spectres and plays from a third-person view, while the other is dubbed Reapers and plays from a first-person view....

The highly-anticipated Resident Evil: Village will make you put in more hours than the previous Resident Evil 7, Capcom confirmed in an official statement. However, the exact time for Resident Evil: Village’s completion has not yet been announced. In the recent Official PlayStation Magazine UK, which, of course, has vampire Lady Dimitrescu on its cover, Capcom’s Peter Fabiano emphasized that the game is “much larger” than what players experienced before. The producer avoided voicing approximate figures for a full game playthrough, but this is not the first time such info has been heard regarding Resident Evil: Village....

The Resident Evil 2 demo may only allow players to enjoy it for half an hour (unless they mess with the files and reset the timer) but this is long enough for fans to have discovered some of its secrets. Specifically, players have figured out how to make the game’s graphics look a whole lot worse than they were designed. By reducing the game’s settings, players can reduce the Resident Evil 2 demo’s graphics back to the pixellated and not very detailed visuals of the original PlayStation 1 game....

Although Resident Evil 2’s 20th anniversary came and went yesterday with little to no new information about the survival-horror title’s forthcoming remake, that doesn’t mean fans should lose all hope for the project. As a matter of fact, the original game’s director, Hideki Kamiya, took to Twitter yesterday to say that fans should “trust” in the new director’s vision for the remake and reserve judgment until “new information” comes to light....

Paul Haddad, who provided the English voice work for Leon S. Kennedy in the original Resident Evil 2, has died at the age of 56. The news came from a post released by Invader Studios, who is the developer behind the Resident Evil-inspired survival horror game, Daymare 1998. Ever since his work in Resident Evil 2, Haddad has been an icon among many Resident Evil fans despite him not returning to provide voice work for Leon in subsequent Resident Evil games....

Capcom unveils the healing items players will use in Resident Evil 7 — but in-keeping with the game’s mysterious demo, the information raises more questions than it answers. From its initial reveal onwards, it’s clear that Capcom is trying something different with Resident Evil 7. The franchise has been floundering ever since the enormous critical success of Resident Evil 4, and the disappointing Resident Evil 6 did little to endear itself to fans....

The return of Resident Evil to its mainline entries is welcome news. Still, it doesn’t mean that a new addition will automatically be a winner. Throughout the long history of the series, there are mistakes that are noticeable. These are sometimes fixed in follow-up entries, only to come back in the games released after that. With Resident Evil 7: Biohazard being the recent entry, its shortcomings are currently most memorable. In order for Resident Evil Village to be something special, these mistakes need to be avoided....

On March 19, one week ago, Capcom released the Raccoon City demo for Resident Evil 3 At the time, Capcom also announced plans for an open beta for Resident Evil Resistance planned to start on March 27. Resident Evil Resistance is a multiplayer mode that will be bundled with Resident Evil 3 at launch. Unfortunately, plans have gone awry. Due to technical issues with the open beta as it launched, Capcom has been forced to delay it on both PC and PS4....