It must be a little frustrating to be a player of The First Descendant when it seems like all anyone’s talking about are the game’s well-endowed female characters, their skimpy outfits, and the jiggle physics that are applied to more bodyparts than necessary.
But how could you fight back against that tide? Well, a few players have an idea, and it involves admiring something else about the way characters are designed in the game.
If you’re looking forward to digging into Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this month, you’re in luck, as Bethesda’s just put out a fresh deep-dive video that sees some of the DLC’s developers talk you through what you’ll be in for when you head off to discover what on Earth’s up with…
Netflix has dropped a brand new teaser trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne season 2, and it sure does seem like everyone’s favourite vampiric blonde boy will play a big part. It’s Netflix Geeked Week, which means that the streamer has a whole bunch of announcements coming including things like Arcane, Black Mirror, and Avatar: The Last…
Much like Premier League football clubs signing new players on ridiculous length contracts to (here comes a simplified and likely incorrect statement) spread the cost and avoid coming foul of financial fair play rules, I’ve started to look at the PS5 Pro as a cost/reward per year-type situation. In the end, it all comes down…
Not long after Larian released its official modding toolkit for Baldur’s Gate 3, it took next to no time for one modder to find out how to unlock a developer mode in it that gives folks to do things like creating custom levels. Now, almost as quickly, the early looks at the first few levels…
You’ve probably never played Professor Layton and the Mansion of the Deathly Mirror, but thanks to some dedicated fans, you might soon be able to. Prior to the advent of smartphones, Japan was very ahead of the game when it came to mobile phones. They could do things that are commonplace these days like email,…
Helldivers 2’s much-hyped next patch drops tomorrow, September 17, and Arrowhead’s saved something fairly special for the patch note reveal that’ll likely round out the list of major changes it’s letting us know about ahead of time. You know the 500KG bomb? It sounds like everyone’s longstanding gripe with it has been sorted. If you…
In an open world game, clouds take up a quarter of the screen at all times. They’re massive, important, and – all too often – completely overlooked. I can list a few of my all-time favourite in-game worlds (Destiny, The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, to name a few), and you know what they all have in…
As expected, The Witcher 3’s REDkit modding tools have given modders a chance to have a go at doing a lot of complex stuff they couldn’t beforehand. The latest of these looks to be the first ever proper attempt at giving the whole map full-blown seasons, and its creator says they’re planning to see if…
Diablo 4 has brought in a lot of money. This isn’t in itself surprising, of course, the game made $666 million in sales at its launch last year, setting a new record for Blizzard. But. has that momentum continued over 15 months later? According to someone who’s in a position to know, the answer is…
Alan Wake 2 has one more piece of DLC due out this October, and working on the soundtrack has left the game’s composer a bit moist. When Remedy announced that it would be releasing a couple of pieces of DLC for Alan Wake 2, I was ecstatic considering just how good that game was. The…
As many fans assumed, Splatoon 3’s Grand Festival was its final Splatfest, so regular updates for the game are coming to an end. Over the weekend, Splatoon 3 held a big Grand Festival, heavily implied to be the finale of the last two years of Splatfests. Now, as announced on the official North America Splatoon…
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Arrowhead added a couple of extra bullet points to the list of changes we know are coming as part of Helldivers 2’s big patch tomorrow over the weekend. The big one? The eruptor’s finally getting its shrapnel back, and hopefully in a form that should make you less likely to accidentally do yourself in when…
If you’ve been playing Space Marine 2 as of late, you may find yourself among the many keen to see more Chaos space marine content. Be it customisation options for the PvP multiplayer mode, or even some PvE missions to help flesh out the antagonistic faction, there’s a real hunger for some more love for…
There are constant questions over whether GTA 6 will be delayed, but one former Rockstar dev thinks any announcement of a delay won’t come until next year. Earlier this month, some rumours started to spread that GTA 6 had been delayed, but Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier (known for his strong reputation when it comes to insider…
Warhammer 40K: Darktide – one of the best Warhammer games in recent years and a very good co-op shooter – may be popping up on the PS5 according to a Taiwanese game rating. This rating, spotted by Gematsu, has seemingly listed the game as incoming to the Sony platform, though there hasn’t been any official…
Deadlock is still early in development, so some players have been able to play however they like without any kind of punishment – but the newest update should stop that. Valve is working on a brand new shooter, one of the hero variety, if you hadn’t heard, but it being still in the testing phase…
The classic mobile game Flappy Bird was announced to be making a return this week, except it’s not quite the comeback you think it is. I’m not going to ask you if you remember Flappy Bird, because of course you do, everyone does. It was a very OK mobile game that went viral about a…
Blizzard is celebrating World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary this year, and to do so it’s… collaborating with itself by putting some WoW skins in Overwatch 2. Collabs are all the rage these days for live-service games, but it can be a bit funny when a developer does it with itself – which is exactly what…
It turns out the Watch Dogs movie is in production, and in fact has already wrapped on filming. Much like the Minecraft movie and the Borderlands movie, the Watch Dogs movie has been in the works for about a decade now, though unlike the Minecraft movie which finally received a trailer last week, and the…
Those of you hoping to go into The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might want to be careful, as the ROM appears to have been leaked. It seems like you just can’t spend any amount of time on the internet without being wary of spoilers these days, and as leak culture just continues to…
Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025. While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You get to…
It’s still a bit unclear how Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will end, and the game’s producer hasn’t made that much clearer in a recent interview. When Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out back in 2020, players who hadn’t been spoiled by Square Enix’s spoilerific trailers quickly discovered that the game actually wasn’t a…
Those of you worried that Palworld will go the full live-service route likely don’t need to be, as developer Pocketpair has no plans to make it free-to-play. Palworld is the kind of game that’s pretty perfectly poised to go free-to-play if it wanted to, as all those sales certainly put it in a strong position…
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Like many children, I grew up playing whatever video games I could get my hands on, my early choices dictated largely by parental preference and what the owner of the sole computer shop in my rural hometown chose to stock. The original Sims was the first game I ever successfully lobbied to own: actively seeking…
Forget all about the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, for now at least. Hollowbody is the latest survival horror game on the scene, and when VG247 previously described it as one of our most anticipated horror games, we had good reason to do so. Hollowbody is an exceptional experience that pays homage to many cult…
Absurd Ventures, the company formed by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a few years ago, has announced that it’s formed a fresh studio under its umbrella. The studio, called Absurd Marin, comes with a starting staff of several former developers of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum. Yep, that’s the Immortals of Aveum that came…
Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, published back in the day by Humble Games, was a ‘strategy-shooter’ roguelike I enjoyed enough to grab twice, one DRM-free and another on Steam. More than five years later after its launch, Wild Bastards is taking things in a new direction I haven’t been vibing with. I was really excited to…
We already know Helldivers 2‘s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the weapons you can wield as a diver, but Arrowhead’s also taking on the task of makinbg certain enemies easier to fight. With that in mind, rocket devastators and gunships are having some extra limits put on their…
Yesterday, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead revealed the next Warbond that’ll be arriving in the game, Chemical Agents, which is set to kick up a stink when it drops on September 19. Part of this latest Warbond are a couple of stratagem variants – the TX-41 Sterilizer and the AX/TX-13 ‘Guard Dog’ Dog Breath – with…
