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When the first Death Stranding launched in 2019, some thought that the enemies you occasionally faced obsessed with stealing packages from one of the few remaining delivery drivers in a post-apocalyptic America was a bit over the top. Then a pandemic hit in 2020, retroactively making the game an incredibly prescient one. So despite Kojima having had the story written prior to the pandemic, he had to completely change it once he experienced it....

According to a new GamesBeat report, Hideo Kojima has signed a letter of intent with Microsoft, as a first step in an agreement that would see the legendary designer’s next project published by Xbox. Neither Microsoft nor Kojima have publicly announced they’re talking to one another, of course, but this signing indicates that things are moving forward. The next step is for lawyers on both sides to negotiate the details, and work out the specifics....

But this may be about to change, as Guerrilla is looking to fill some roles within the studio that will help it get back in the multiplayer game. A number of job postings, spotted by Resetera, do not directly say what project the studio is hiring for, but strongly suggest it will have a big multiplayer focus. This job ad for a senior social systems designer is looking for someone to build engaging social features, and create interesting ways for players to connect with one another....

Horizon Forbidden West Tallnecks Aloy is a capable climber, but making it to the top of these Tallnecks isn’t as straightforward as scaling a cliff. Really, Tallnecks in Horizon Forbidden West are platforming puzzles where you have to figure out the perfect path to reach the summit. Reaching the top is worth it, though, as you’ll remove the fog that’s covering the map around their location. Some of them can be tough to get to, so we’ve gathered the solution to dealing with every Tallneck below....

Guerrilla Games has dropped a new patch for Horizon Zero Dawn on PC this morning. Patch 1.02 follows on from Friday’s 1.01 release, and mostly addresses causes for crashing. There are two specific crashes caused by the game’s shader optimisation process, which the patch fixes. One address a crash that occurs during the optimisation process, upon first launch, whereas the other targets a similar crash that happens after installing new GPU drivers post-optimisation....

The system for how to two hand weapons in Elden Ring isn’t exactly intuitive if you don’t already know the key or button combination, so we’ve listed the command on console and PC below. How do you two hand weapons in Elden Ring? To two hand weapons in Elden Ring, hold the ‘Event Action’ button and press attack. On PC you two hand by holding ‘E’ and left-clicking your mouse On PlayStation you two hand by holding ‘Triangle’ and pressing ‘R1’ On Xbox you two hand by holding ‘Y’ and pressing ‘RB’...

I’ve played Skyrim an embarrassing amount of times. Despite how many peers and friends insist Morrowind and Oblivion are the better games, it’s Skyrim that continually has me crawling back. No matter how many game-breaking bugs I encounter, or how many times I simply forget to save at a pivotal moment and end up frustrated, I have a never-ending toxic relationship with Tamriel. I’m okay with this. My last full play through of the title was on the Nintendo Switch (excluding the time I spent hours modding Skyrim in VR to realise that actually, I should probably play Blade & Sorcery instead)....

QTEs (or their Sunday name, ‘Quick Time Events’) revolve around bombarding the player with split-second button prompts. Their first well-known usages are commonly traced back to classic laserdisc games like Dragon’s Lair and Road Blaster. Said laserdisc games were more reminiscent of movies with button prompts than a games, mind you. It would be another 10-or-so years until QTEs would fully cross-over to more traditional games like Sega’s Die Hard Arcade or Shenmue (with Shenmue’s director Yu Suzuki being credited with coining the actual term “Quick Time Event”)....

With the Season 5 patch for Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare, developer Infinity Ward buffed the often neglected FR.556 (FAMAS) assault rifle by extending its effective range. Unfortunately, it appears this also boosted the effectiveness off the under-barrel shotgun when attached to an FR.556. In Warzone, a single shot is capable of downing a player with full armour at around 15 meters, a distance that would normally take you more than three shots to down someone....

Insurgency: Sandstorm developer New World Interactive announced today that the game’s long-awaited console release is happening this summer. Sandstorm will be available August 25 on PS4 and Xbox One. The console version brings the same content currently available on PC to players on PS4 and Xbox One. This includes competitive multiplayer with its various modes, as well as Sandstorm’s co-op modes. Player customisation will also make the transition. This is New World’s first console game, so we expect to hear more about the console version soon....

The Hitman series has recently became known for its ridiculous, over-the-top deaths and sometimes zany assassination tools. With Hitman 3, IO Interactive wants to tell a darker story, without abandoning all the jokes and goofing around. Speaking to VG247, communication manager Travis Barbour explained that some of that reputation was accidental. “In Hitman 2, it sort of took us by surprise. The first trailer had somebody getting hit with a fish, and everybody went nuts for this fish,” he said....

Insomniac Games has delivered on its promise to allow Spider-Man Remastered players on PS5 to use their existing saves from the original PS4 game. Both Spider-Man on PS4 and Spider-Man Remastered on PS5 received an update on Sunday that made exporting saves possible, and brought with it a few fixes and even some new content. How to export Spider-Man PS4 saves to Spider-Man Remastered PS5 Patch 1.19 will first need to be installed on the PS4 version....

That’s according to a job ad for the company’s Frankfurt studio – as spotted by WCCFTech – which is hiring for an “unannounced AAA project” at the moment. One of the requirements for a game designer role the company is looking to fill is “Deep passion for gaming, preferably FPS sandbox games.” Beyond the fact it’s working on a first-person shooter, there’s little else to go on. It’s possible that Crytek is working on a brand new IP, but the studio could also be working on a new entry in the Crysis series....

Journey to the Savage Planet is a game for everybody who watched that scene and wanted to stay there. It’s developed by veterans of the open-world shooter genre, people used to building scorched lands soundtracked by the crack of machine gun fire. But instead they’ve put their heads together to invent a colourful new world defined not by the invaders coming into it, but the ecosystem already there. You can see the toolset of contemporary action games replicated in Savage Planet: the double-jump, grappling hook, mantling and crouched stealth practically standardised across the FPS genre....

Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed all the way until fall 2021 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Publisher Take-Two was the first to break the news on its Q4 earnings call last night, and the developer later reiterated it on Twitter. The reason, as you may have already guessed, has to do with the coronavirus pandemic. “As you all know, we’ve been working hard to make the best and most authentic KSP sequel possible,” a developer statement reads....

During a panel at BrownGirlGamerCode, Ashley Reed (senior writer on Respawn’s premier battle royale title) suggested that the EA studio has plans to “to integrate Titanfall” into the game’s ninth Season, and reiterated that “Titanfall [is] very much a part of the [Apex Legends] universe”. Thanks, Dexerto. These comments were expanded upon by game director Chad Grenier, who noted that fans who have been waiting patiently to see more of the Titanfall series rear its head more directly in the game certainly have something to look forward to in the coming weeks and months....

The CMOB issue was discovered back in April of this year, and it has taken a while for Sony to address the issue. Luckily, it finally listened to PS4 users, and the issue has been fixed. The issue was addressed with the release of firmware 9.0.0 which is good news, considering if the console’s battery died, it would reset the clock back to zero and render both physical and digital games unplayable....

Rudric hits hard, though you have plenty of space to formulate a plan to take him down. Where to find Rudric in Lost Ark Rudric calls the graveyard in Rethramis Border his home, as befits a fallen priest engulfed by darkness. He’s in the southwest portion of the graveyard, as shown on the image below. Or he may not be. If you show up and Rudric isn’t there, it’s not a bug....

Available to all players, it adds a custom item selection for select multiplayer modes and offline versus races. You can also give some items out in Team Races and Battles. Blue shells, anyone? The update arrives alongside Booster Course Pass Wave 3, which includes eight new courses and two Cups. With the addition of the Wave 3 courses, 24 of the 48 courses in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass are now available for play....

It’s important to go into Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit with some expectations. This isn’t the next ’true’ Mario Kart, for instance - but it is nevertheless a ‘proper’ Mario Kart, fully-featured in its own way. From an unkind perspective, one might consider it an expensive gimmick; from another, you could argue it’s a thrilling and unique distraction. In its own way, both of these things are true. It’s a typically Nintendo thing, in truth....