They’re also the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world. Keep in mind the world ‘trafficked’ here, though. America eats as many cows in a year as pangolins were poached in the ten years between 2004 and 2014, so unless you’re working on some scale of morality that scores animals that look like Pokemon more, it’s spurious and lazy to fling accusations of rampant carnism outside the West. It’s partly those same accusations, and partly fact, that have led the pangolin to being labelled patient-zero as the source of Covid-19....

Playing Frontiers over the last few days both on Steam Deck and on a high-spec PC rocking an Nvidia RTX 4090, I absolutely understand why Sega pulled the classic protectionist PR move of telling VG247 it didn’t have any early review code left for the game even though we knew colleagues had enjoyed access to the game for a good week. It’s natural PR stuff: look at the outlet, look at who might be reviewing, and if you anticipate that you might get a kicking maybe quietly not send them the game....

Its key features include high customisable physical components and software, as well as collaboration options with other devices so players can set up their controller in a unique fashion that works best for them. Starting with physical customisation, Project Leonardo allows you to swap out analog stick caps and buttons on each controller, as well as replace those buttons with alternates of different sizes to make the experience of using them more physically comfortable for players....

While the PS5 website is sparse at the moment, it’s a least live. Hopefully, more information will be added to it soon. In the meantime, it contains the following blurb which suggests you sign up for the newsletter (via reddit). We’ve begun to share some of the incredible features you can expect from PlayStation 5, but we’re not quite ready to fully unveil the next generation of PlayStation. Sign up below to be among the first to receive updates as we announce them, including news on the PS5 release date, PS5 price and the upcoming roster of PS5 launch games....

Tencent invests in and owns a growing portfolio of games developers and publishers including Riot Games, Epic Games, Blizzard, Supercell, Platinum and Ubisoft. “Tencent is not only the world’s leading games company but also a prolific investor with a stellar track record: We’re humbled to join the line-up of Tencent partners which reads like a games industry Who’s Who”, said Timo Ullmann, CEO of Yager. We played The Cycle recently and found it to be a fresh take on the battle royale subgenre....

Come September 9, you will visit the Splatlands desert and engage in ink-soaked battles with other Inklings and Octolings. You will also discover new features, weapons such as the stringer, a new bow-shaped weapon type, and new gear. In the game, you will participate in 4v4 Turf War battles across a mix of new and returning stages. Here, teams of four face off on stages such as Eeltail Alley. As well as multiplayer matches, the game also features a single-player campaign and the next iteration of the co-op Salmon Run mode....

EA has announced one bit of DLC coming Star Wars: Squadrons tomorrow, October 28. The pack is themed after The Mandalorian Disney+ TV series, but it’s not actually a ship or a Mandalorian outfit for your pilot. Instead, this is a pack of eight light cosmetic items, all of which can be earned in-game like all the other cosmetics in Squadrons. The biggest item is, of course, the Baby Yoda bobblehead, which can sit on any New Republic ship dashboard....

The Sci-fi FPS RPG, hotly anticipated ever since its announcement way back in 2018, has had scarce gameplay or meaningful information released as of late, with the most recent substantial update being a short trailer released all the way back in June of last year. The game is still set to release in the first half of this year. In ducking this month’s showcase, it’s leaving a pretty stacked line-up of games including Redfall, Elder Scrolls Online, Forza and Minecraft Legends to get some attention outside of the shadow it very well may have cast of the whole affair....

This time, the rumor comes from industry veteran and VentureBeat reporter Jeff Grubb, who has got a history of spilling the beans about unannounced projects. During a Dealer Gaming stream, Grubb noted that he believes there is a ‘90% chance’ the game will be revealed around E3, and then subsequently launched sometime around November. It stands to reason, then, that Bethesda could be be revealing the game around E3 time at its own event....

After your time in Midtown and at the Neco Corp factory, you’ll have finally powered up the subway and been able to make it to the Control Room. Once again, the atmosphere changes when you reach here. B-12 collects their final memory, and there’s only a few things left to do. But what exactly do you do once in the Control Room? We’ve put together a brief - as spoiler free as possible - walk through for Stray’s Control Room below....

In The Slums, Morusque is a musician with no music to play. We can’t let that remain the case, and there are eight pieces of Sheet Music around the area to collect and gift to the musician. Once you do, they’ll play the tune and you can curl up right beside them to appreciate it. You may prefer jumping around or stealthing through action sequences, but hanging with Morusque and delivering Sheet Music to them is one of the smaller, yet more rewarding tasks in Stray that I wish we had more of!...

Organizers for Summer Games Done Quick 2020 have announced due to the situation surrounding COVID-19, the charity event will be held online. The charity event was originally scheduled to be a live event in Minnesota. It will now be broadcasted from the studio with participants performing speedruns from home. This year’s event is benefiting Doctors Without Borders and will take place August 16-23 starting at 11:30am EDT, 4:30pm BST on Twitch....

As noted in Famitsu and spotted by Gematsu, Tales of Arise will be released on September 10 in the west and in Japan on September 9. Along with the date it was also announced the game is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S alongside the previously announced PS4, Xbox One, and Steam PC versions. The PS4 and Xbox One versions will include a free upgrade to the new-gen versions....

Since its release back in 2018, Smash Bros. Ultimate has seen many new fighters arrive via DLC, from Persona 5’s Joker to Final Fantasy 7’s Sephiroth. Tekken’s Kazuya is the penultimate Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character and will be available in the game as part of Fighters Pass Vol. 2. Aside from the trailer above, there’s not too much information about the character and his moveset available at the moment, but Sakurai has promised to update us soon....

CremaGames announced the figure today for Temtem, also noting it is currently working on the game’s roadmap. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Thank you for supporting Temtem! Happy taming!? — Temtem (@PlayTemtem) February 21, 2020 Currently, in early access, the game has very positive user reviews on Steam, and Alex feels the game is a “solid run at the critter-capturing subgenre with unique and exciting ideas....

Whether you see the Upright or Reversed ending for your phone-game paramour is down to the choices you make throughout your story together. Help them to be a better person and you’ll see the Upright ending. But give in to their worst impulses and you’ll see the Reversed ending. Generally speaking, you can consider the Upright ending for each character the “good” ending, where everything is rosy and warm. While the Reversed ending is the “bad” ending, where things don’t quite go to plan - but at least you have love....

You’ll unlock camp upgrades after you make contact with one of Yara’s other revolutionary groups on the mainland and have the option to spend materials, such as metal, to enhance Libertad’s capabilities. All Far Cry 6 camp facilities and what they do Once you’ve established a camp, you automatically get access to the construction counter. The upgrade types are the same regardless of which region you’re in, but you can only choose two facilities per camp....

How do I get the Dendro Traveler? Like changing to other versions of the Traveler, you only need to interact with a Statue of the Seven in Sumeru to acquire their Dendro form, which you can do as soon as you enter Sumeru in Genshin Impact 3.0. Choose to “Resonante with Dendro,” and the Traveler will automatically change their elemental affiliation. This option will remain even after Genshin Impact 3....

Coming to PS4, PS5, and Switch as The Falconeer: Warrior Edition, the game will be released for all three consoles on August 5. The Warrior Edition includes all updates, free and paid. This means you can look forward to the DLC packs The Kraken, The Hunter, and Atun’s Folly rolled into this edition, as well as the upcoming expansion, Edge of the World on launch day. Further additions also include the re-recording of significant voice-over work and a streamlined prologue tutorial....

The long-awaited furniture item was teased some 11 minutes into the free update section of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing Direct, nonchalantly placed in the corner of the room, grinning serenely, as if its mere existence wasn’t rocking thousands of people around the world to their very core. The froggy chair is a lot more than a cute little seat to the Animal Crossing community, who have memed relentlessly on its absence since the game’s March 2020 release....