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With its official release date just a month away, Sony and Guerilla Games have now released a new trailer for Horizon Forbidden West, giving fans a closer look at the upcoming game’s storyline. Featured above, the new clip explains the premise of why returning hero Aloy decides to venture out into the Pacific Coast, the sequel’s main setting. “The land is dying. People are suffering. Soon, they’ll starve,” she explains. “The machines, meant to help us, are out of control. I have to find a way to fix it all. The answer is somewhere out in the Forbidden West.” We quickly learn that the Forbidden West is a warring region full of tribes and guilds, with one of Aloy’s main threats being a group of rebels ruled by Regalla, portrayed by Black Panther‘s Angela Bassett. According to the traile...

Over the two and a half decades since the Pokémon franchise originally launched, there’s been a myriad of different games created around the beloved creatures, from the traditional turn-based strategy game or pinball to Niantic‘s popular augmented reality mobile title or even a photo-snapping experience, but one genre that hasn’t been done is the first-person shooter – until now. The new build comes from Reddit user Dragon_GameDev, who spent a month creating an FPS game using the Unreal Engine where you’re able to shoot and combat various Pokémon instead of catching them. All the Pokémon were imported from Sun and Moon, and there are even boss fights against legendary ones like Mewtwo. Dragon_GameDev has since uploaded links to all the assets he used for the build. Check out...

Nintendo has finally confirmed the release date for the Kingdom Hearts trilogy on the Switch. Arriving later next month, the new bundle will be accessible through the handheld console’s cloud streaming service and include Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts III, and the ReMind DLC as well. All the titles will be available from February 10, and pre-orders are now open already. The entire collection will set you back $72 USD for now, but the price is going to hike up to $90 USD once the release date arrives. Those who are looking to get individual installments will also be able to do so right now, with pre-order prices set at $33 USD to $40 USD depending on the game. To learn more, you can head over to ...

Thanks to Nintendo, retro gaming fans will be able to relive yet another classic: 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie. Available through the Nintendo Switch Online service, the iconic N64 title has now been ported for the Japanese gaming giant’s beloved handheld console starting tomorrow. For those unfamiliar, Banjo-Kazooie is a vibrant action game featuring the two titular characters Banjo, a Honey Bear, and Kazooie, a Breegull. The two are tasked with rescuing Banjo’s younger sister Tooty, who was kidnapped by a wicked witch named Gruntilda. Throughout the levels, you’ll journey through magical environments from Spiral Mountain and Treasure Trove Cove to Freezeezy Peak and more. For fans of the original Banjo-Kazooie, check out the new trailer above while you wait for the port’s release ...

Tilted Towers, Fortnite‘s famed location that first appeared in the second season of the game, has officially returned. The Epic Games title has brought back the high-rising cityscape in an updated format that includes slight cosmetic changes, though the location still includes the legendary clock tower, restaurants and other nostalgic components. Prior to the beginning of Chapter 3, the Fortnite map was covered in ice, though there had been speculation that Tilted Towers would make a return. The location arrived as part of V19.10 update on January 18, the same day that Tilted Towers first landed in the game in 2018. Over the past several years, Fortnite has introduced several iterations of the iconic location, including the cyberpunk Neo Tilted, Tilted Town based on Gotham ...

Retro fans rejoice: you can now run the original Tomb Raider PlayStation 1 game on a Game Boy Advance. As part of the OpenLara project — an open-source program revolving around Tomb Raider — modder and hacker XProger spent a whole year working on the port, which is the latest to join a series of other platforms you can run the classic 1996 title on including the original Xbox, the 3DO, an iPhone, and the Nintendo 3DS. For the time being, given optimization and hardware limitations, XProger has only managed to get the first three levels to work, but he hopes to finish the rest of the game in the near future. “There are many further improvements,” he explains, “as well as optimization of content and video to fit the entire Tomb Raider game in a 32 MB cartridge.” If you’re a fa...

Activision Blizzard has released more than 30 employees and disciplined more than 40 due to workplace misconduct allegations. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has received approximately 700 reports from employees regarding workplace misconduct since July 2021. Activision spokeswoman Helaine Klasky confirmed that 37 staff members have “exited” the company, while 44 more received disciplinary actions after the company’s investigation. She added that the comments from employees included their statement on social media, which encompassed “benign workplace concerns” and “a small number” of more serious accusations that Activision Blizzard has reportedly investigated. Klasky also explained that “the assertion regarding Mr. Kotick is untrue” — referring to the claim that the long...