In a recent developer commentary trailer uploaded to YouTube, creative director Ashraf Ismail and narrative director Darby McDevitt broke down what players could expect from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla raids. While combat will be visceral when it occurs - to the extent that you can dual-wield almost anything, including shields - there will also be quieter moments embedded in the settling process, as well as a real sense of actively seeking a home....

In a new update over on the PlayStation Blog, Nicolas Doucet (studio director and creative director of Team Asobi) noted that the studio will be expanding and moving on to “bigger” projects in the future, given the success of the last two games. “Following the release of Astro’s Playroom for PlayStation 5, Team Asobi is now spreading its wings and growing bigger!” Doucet revealed. “This is a very exciting time for the team, and we are very much looking forward to this next chapter....

For most, the last half decade has been a steady decline – if you’d told me five years ago that was the GOOD BIT then I’d have hit you – but for the Little Guys That Could, CD Projekt Red, it’s been an incredible ascent. A studio that always made good games, but never made a world-changing game. Until it did. Video games are the silver lining to all this lockdown stuff, for me....

At the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase, we got treated to a fresh trailer for indie retro-future shooter Atomic Heart. Atomic Heart is a first-person shooter taking place in an alternate-future Soviet Union. The world looks like it’s the 1950s, but it has the equivalent of modern technologies like robots, holograms and even the internet. P-3, the game’s protagonist, is a government agent sent to investigate a industrial facility gone quiet....

3.3 is the update that delivers the first iteration of the game’s scoreboard. The scoreboard, first shown off in January, has been updated slightly. Chiefly, the design now includes player deaths, which was somehow among players’ most requested additions. The existing match overview panel continues to exist, but has now found a new, more condensed home on the left side of the page. DICE said that further updates to the scoreboard are in the works, including making it available during the end of round screen....

The maps you are getting a look at today are Renewal, set in the Egyptian desert; Breakaway, set in Antarctica; and Discarded, located on India’s west coast. The maps have been created to allow for verticality, both close quarters and long-range combat, vehicular assault, and dynamic destruction across the modes All-Out Warfare, Battlefield Portal, and Hazard Zone. Mode All-Out Warfare houses Conquest and Breakthrough, supports 128 players, and exists on seven maps at launch....

The full cut of what could be - or may have been at one point - Battlefield 6’s reveal trailer, has made its way online. Today’s drop comes just a few days after we got a glimpse of in-game footage. This is the trailer that produced all of the leaked screengrabs we’ve been seeing over the past couple of weeks. It seems whoever has access to the full thing seemingly got bored from holding it over people and decided to just publish the full cut....

Battlefield Portal’s whole idea of an evolving suite of modding tools, and a browser that allows the community to share and discover content, is revolutionary for the Battlefield series. As Battlefield continued to innovate, some of the classic experiences either evolved into something else, or became dormant, waiting for the right moment to bounce back. Rush is one such beloved mode that has changed significantly over the years, eventually giving us Breakthrough - one of two modes in Battlefield 2042’s All-Out Warfare....

Scalebound’s former lead producer, Jean Pierre Kellams, has given some insight into how developer PlatinumGames is recycling elements of the doomed game and making them relevant again in Bayonetta 3. The former PlatinumGames employee noted in a tweet that Bayonetta 3’s director, Yusuke Miyata, was the design lead on Scalebound back in the day, and the summoning mechanic seemingly was a big part of how you controlled your dragon, Thuban, in the title that never made it to release....

This largely comes down to what must have been a gargantuan task of adding voice acting to the entire cast. I’m not one to shy away from extensive reading, but the charisma provided by the VO cast really helps keep you totally hooked to what’s happening at any given moment. Special shoutout to Mikee W Goodman, whose performance as a vast and bizarre range of characters stood out to me as especially appealing after my first playthrough....

You can check out the whole range of sprites over at ResetEra, or have a look at the ones posted below. I personally love the one of Monferno sitting down. He’s absolutely fed up of battling and is flat out refusing to evolve into Infernape. Also, look how nuts Garchomp looks. I never really liked its design anyway, but at least what we got is significantly better than this....

Much like the rest of the puzzles in Biomutant, the Microwave Puzzles are Rotation Puzzles where you’ll need to complete a pattern. In this guide, we’ll be looking at where to find all five of the Microwave Puzzles across the map as well as how to solve them. If you need more help with puzzles, you can check out our Rotation Puzzle and Toilet Puzzle guides here. Biomutant: Where to find the Fry-Sparkers There are five Microwave Puzzles to find and solve in Biomutant, though in-game they’ll be called Fry-Sparkers....

According to a new Bloomberg report, EA is finally ready to decide what to do with Anthem, or more specifically, the in-development complete overhaul dubbed Anthem Next. A year ago, BioWare revealed that it had assigned a small team in its Austin offices the task of “substantially reinventing” Anthem. Reports at the time said that work had been ongoing for a while before the news broke. Since then, the team tackling this challenge has been posting somewhat regular updates showing a re-designed UI, improved loot and discussing more besides....

Several Mass Effect veterans are currently working on the latest entry in BioWare’s sci-fi RPG franchise. In a series of Tweets (spotted by Game Informer), project director Michael Gamble confirmed that a number of big names have returned to work on the upcoming game, including Dusty Everman, Parish Ley, Brenon Holmes, and Derek Watts. Everman returned to BioWare in October, having previously worked at the studio between 2003 and 2015 in level design roles, before leaving to set up and run his own indie studio, Dirty Sky Games....

Former Blizzard president, J. Allen Brack, who left the developer this week, is not the only senior to depart the storied studio. Activision Blizzard has confirmed to Bloomberg that HR executive, Jesse Meschuk, also left this week. Meschuk was Blizzard’s top HR person, having recently served as the studio’s SVP of global human resources. Meschuk spent 12 years at Blizzard. Just as news of Meschuk’s departure started making the rounds, Axios published a report painting a grim picture of the company’s HR department, which a number of current and former staff said helped cover up cases of harassment and workplace misconduct, and undermined employee reports brought to it....

Gearbox is kicking off another mini-event for Borderlands 3, and this time out all Rare Chests will drop loot at an increased rate. During the Rare Chest Richies event, every time you open a chest you will have a better chance to receive Legendary items. This increased drop rate will also apply when you watch a Twitch streamer open a Rare Chest, assuming both of you have the ECHOcast Twitch Extension enabled....

Borderlands 3 players can enjoy the latest event and jump into Mayhem 2.0 with today’s update. Alongside the event and update to Mayhem comes the first week of the Loot the Universe mini-event. The Loot the Universe mini-event takes you across the game’s solar system to loot specific types of Legendary Loot for the next four weeks. Each week, one of the planets in the game will have an increased chance of dropping their own dedicated Legendary weapon types....

Update: Some time after the publication of the original story, Gamereactor deleted the article. The link now returns an error, but we grabbed a screenshot via its web cache version. The original story can be found below in full. Original story: According a report from Gamereactor, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s Giancarlo Esposito is playing a role in the upcoming Far Cry 6. Far Cry 6 has yet to be officially announced, of course, but the same outlet said last month that it would be officially unveiled at Ubisoft Forward this month....

The limited, first session of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta kicks off this Thursday. This initial phase is available only to pre-order players on PS4, but some may not even have to pre-order. Assuming you don’t want to wait until the open beta, Comcast is offering Xfinity customers in the US the chance to get a beta code. The codes open up access to all of the beta’s weekends, the ones available on your chosen platform, at any rate....

Just as we got done downloading the recent Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War patch, Treyarch is already here with another one. Today’s update is, of course, the one that brings Nuketown ’84 to the game as its first free map. The update arrives on all platforms today at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT - the usual reset time for Call of Duty. This is also when double XP and double weapon XP kick off, and will continue to be available all the way until Monday, November 30....