This year's Gamescom Opening Night Live was filled with a plethora of exciting reveals, from indies like Devolver Digital's Cult of the Lamb to confirmation that Splitgate has entered Season 0. But what was most surprising--or more aptly, confusing--about the two-hour-long presentation was Elden Ring winning an award.Awards presenter Natascha Becker was sprinkled throughout to announce the winners for various categories, including Best Action Adventure, Indie, and Simulation Game. Elden Ring was nominated for five of the 22 categories, and it walked away with the award for Best Sony PlayStation Game--despite not revealing any new details or gameplay.It's puzzling given how little we've seen of Elden Ring, though industry events often feature awards going to as-of-yet-unreleased games. And when the dust settled, the only glimpse we got of From Software's action-RPG was a brief five-second clip during each nomination. Even the two other titles nominated for Best Sony PlayStation Game, Tales of Arise and The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, had dedicated segments.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Another key cast member has been added to the Interview with the Vampire TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jacob Anderson will play the ancient vampire Louis in the upcoming adaptation of Ann Rice's classic 1976 novel.Anderson is best known for playing the Unsullied commander Grey Worm on Game of Thrones, from Season 3 through to Season 8. He also appeared in the JJ Abrams-produced World War II horror movie Overlord and as a musician has released two albums under the name Raleigh Ritchie.Jacob Anderson in Game of ThronesInterview with the Vampire focuses on Louis, as he tells a writer about his experiences with the fearsome vampire Lestat over the course of several centuries. The role of Louis was previously played by Brad Pitt in the 1994 movie adaptation. Anderson's casting follows the announcement that Australian actor Sam Reid will play Lestat in the show, the character Tom Cruise portrayed in the film.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

At Gamescom Opening Night Live, Valheim developer Iron Gate revealed that the game's Hearth & Home update will launch on September 16. The first major update for Valheim, Hearth & Home adds a bunch of new features and reworks existing systems such as health and stamina.To celebrate the launch date reveal, a new animated trailer for Valheim also debuted at Opening Night Live, which you can see below:Iron Gate had previously mentioned in an update that Hearth & Home will have some big changes for how food works in the game. While the current build allows for health and stamina to be restored after food has been eaten, the update will make most food items restore only one of these gameplay elements. Some food items will restore both stamina and health, but with mixed results. The food bar will be replaced with timers to provide a more accurate indicator of how empty your avatar's stomach is, as the food icons will still start blinking when they're halfway depleted.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Aloy is coming to Genshin Impact for PS4 and PS5 players on September 1, but MiHoYo and PlayStation have shared a gameplay trailer. Aloy uses a bow and an ice grenade to fight enemies in the trailer that premiered at Gamescom Opening Night Live.Aloy is going to be a five-star ice-powered character and will be free to all players who have reached adventure level 20. Aloy will be available on September 1 for PlayStation players and will come later to the mobile and PC. It was also announced that Genshin Impact will have a concert celebrating its one-year anniversary on October 3.Horizon Forbidden West also made an appearance at Gamescom, where the game's director revealed that it will be releasing on February 18, 2022. It was also announced that a 60fps patch for Horizon Zero Dawn on PS5 is available now.Info from Gamespot.com

Saints Row has had quite a journey from an off-brand Grand Theft Auto to a pure silly spectacle, as its parody grew more and more outrageous with each passing entry. By the time the story wrapped up, the 3rd Street Saints crew had become the President of the United States and staff, gained superpowers, fought aliens, watched the Earth explode, took over the universe, and met a time-kidnapped Jane Austin. The question hanging over the series since has been: How the hell do you follow that?The answer is, you don't.The new Saints Row, announced at Gamescom as part of the Opening Night Live event, is a total reboot for the series--not just in setting and characters but in tone. While it looks primed to carry forward the same playfully zany spirit as its predecessors, the new game--simply called Saints Row--is clearly taking a step back and allowing developer Volition some breathing room without having to constantly top itself with ever-expanding wacky hijinks.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Sloclap has revealed that Sifu is now scheduled to launch on February 22, 2022. Yes, that means you can technically write the date as 22/02/2022. Everyone give a slow clap to Sloclap for its cleverness.Sloclap also revealed a new trailer for Sifu at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The trailer shows off additional gameplay for the upcoming action game, revealing several cool-looking combos across Sifu's diverse environments.The trailer also gives us another look at Sifu's aging mechanic, one of the defining features of the game. In Sifu, you play as a warrior who grows more skilled with every death, but this comes at the cost of your youth. Die enough times and you'll become a highly skilled master fighter, but you'll inch ever closer to just dying forever.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

est Buy has announced a major restock of Nvidia's RTX 30 GPU graphics cards coming Thursday, August 26--aka tomorrow--for those looking to supercharge their PC gaming rigs.The retailer posted information about the restock on its website. Multiple stories will be receiving more Nvidia cards overnight, making them available for purchase tomorrow morning. Best Buy says that store employees will begin handing out tickets for the cards at 7:30AM local time, and anyone who has a ticket will be able to purchase a card. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

For protecting your online presence, one of your best options is NordVPN . With a subscription to NordVPN, you can ensure that your connection to the internet is secure. You can get a one-year membership for the discounted rate of $59 for a limited time. Rated 5/5 stars on PC Mag and CNET, NordVPN is as acclaimed as VPNs come.Your activity won't be recorded, meaning your frantic health-related searches won't lead to weeks of ads that just make you more anxious. Plus, you can bypass content restrictions: A lot of websites, such as Netflix and other streaming platforms, use location tracking to limit what you're able to watch if you're in a certain place. That's because of licensing agreements that companies sign to restrict specific shows or movies from certain markets. NordVPN allows you to get past that by giving you 3,521 server locations in 61 countries that you can log onto. And you can do that from any place, public or private connections alike, with the security provided through the double encrypted double data SSL-based 2048-bit encryption.You can get a one-year subscription to NordVPN at the discounted price of $60 . You'll feel better about your time online before you know it, especially once you stop getting so many annoying tracking ads.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If there was one theme of Gamescom's 2021 Opening Night Live ceremony, it was this: There sure are a lot of games coming out in February 2022.Many of those games, like Horizon Forbidden West, The King of Fighters XV, and Sifu, were all originally slated to release in 2021, only to be delayed due to various reasons, chief among them the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused developers to adapt their workflow to working from home.Now, all those games and more will be released within days of one another. It's becoming an increasingly crowded few weeks, so much so that companies looking to release their latest and greatest titles might want to try and steer clear of it, as publisher Annapurna Interactive humorously pointed out on Twitter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go will be returning the interaction radius of PokeStops and Gyms to 80m following an outcry from fans. Developer Niantic announced the change on Twitter, adding that the interaction distance would remain 80m "from now on."Trainers - we’re looking forward to sharing our plans as a result of the task force on September 1, but one thing does not have to wait! From now on, 80 meters will be the base interaction radius for PokéStops and Gyms globally. (1/2) — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) August 25, 2021"Thank you to everyone who made your voices heard. We've heard you and understand that this has been a welcome benefit to many players. We’ll share more next week," Niantic wrote in a follow-up tweet.Niantic had previously announced that it was putting together an internal task force to address fans' concerns about the reduced interaction distance. It said that it will announce more changes and findings from the task force on September 1. The interaction distance in Pokemon Go was originally 40m, however that distance had been doubled in response to COVID, making it easier for players to interact with PokeStops and Gyms without having to physically interact with other people.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Folks who have played Rainbow Six Siege since day one may remember that the game launched with a counter-terrorism narrative, one that has been largely phased out since February 2019. Developer Ubisoft Montreal did this to better parallel players' experiences playing Siege."We started with a counter-terrorism narrative which transitioned into a more competitive and sportive fantasy in the context of a 'military simulation' in order to parallel the player experience," narrative director Alex Lima told GameSpot."Moving forward, it's important to extract key elements from both fantasies to establish our narrative identity. A story that can be both competitive and combative to maximize the heroic potential of our Operators. We need to get that recipe right. Siege isn't going anywhere so we need to make sure the story is comprehensive and scalable."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the more vague Tales you'll encounter during your time on Iki Island is A Helping Hand. This Tale has you assisting a peasant who's trying to build a new house after the Mongols burned down his home. Unlike other Tales in the game, A Helping Hand isn't marked on the map, so it's a bit tricky to find, and you might not even know it exists. And even when you trigger it, you may not know where to find the peasant next to continue the quest. To help you complete the Tale, we've compiled a guide detailing all the steps. It's worth noting that if the peasant doesn't appear in the locations we describe after starting the quest, then try checking back at those spots later.For more about Ghost of Tsushima's Iki Island expansion, be sure to read our full review. Otherwise, be sure to check out our other Iki Island guides roundup and our guides roundup for the base game.Table of Contents [hide]Where To Find The PeasantWhere To Find The PeasantGallery The peasant can be found north of Tatsu's Ladder on the northeastern side of Iki Island. He's just up a path near a campfire and a tree stump; you'll see smoke from a distance marking his location. Talk to him, and he'll ask if you have three pieces of wood to spare. If you have the resources on hand, then hand them over, but if you need to find some more, you can always bid him farewell for now and return once you've got the goods. Regardless, the peasant will be grateful for your contribution.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ambitious in the scope and meticulous in the detail of its genre reinvention, Humankind is a 4X strategy game that steps out from the shadow of Sid Meier's Civilization series. In parts, it does so boldly, both confident that probing questions were asked of the most tired genre assumptions and ready to respond with enlightening answers. But oftentimes it feels ill-prepared for the task at hand, and for all its spirited enthusiasm, Humankind struggles for coherence.Departing furthest from 4X tradition is the way in which you're able to alter your empire's abilities over the course of the game rather than having them defined by a selection at the outset. Typically, in a Civ-style 4X, when you opt to play as Cleopatra, you'll be the Egyptians for the whole game, with her handful of leader abilities set in stone and providing the same bonuses whether you're in the Classical or Industrial Age. Similarly, when you encounter Teddy Roosevelt leading the neighbouring American empire, you know what to expect. It makes for a consistent, readable experience.In Humankind, you choose a generic, blank slate leader at the start of a new game. Then, as your empire advances from one historical era to the next, you are able to pick a new culture to adopt for that era. So you might choose to be the Egyptians in the Ancient Era, switch to the Romans for the Classical Era, then the Khmer, the Ottomans, and so on. Cultures come with abilities that emphasise different play styles, allowing you a deal of flexibility to change tack mid-game as new circumstances arise. They also carry over certain legacy bonuses so that the effects of your previous cultural choices are still felt in later eras.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During The Witch Queen showcase, Bungie displayed the Bungie 30th Anniversary Celebration for Destiny 2 that will bring new in-game content and rewards. The star of this segment was the debut of Gjallarhorn, the beloved Destiny 1 Exotic rocket launcher that comes in the Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack. It's updated to fit into the Destiny 2 sandbox and players can strengthen it with its Exotic catalyst.Players will need to purchase the 30th Anniversary Pack to unlock the Gjallarhorn quest and to access other activities. Purchasing the Anniversary Pack opens up plenty of other treasures to earn, such as the new Thorn armor set rewarded in the brand new pirate-themed dungeon. This upcoming three-player dungeon is inspired by the infamous loot cave from Destiny 1, located in the Cosmodrome. While not much detail was given about this dungeon, the image on Bungie's website reveals Xur's reflection.Bungie's 30th Anniversary Dungeon with Xur's reflection on the leftThe Anniversary Pack also contains popular Destiny 1 Legendary weapons such as the Eyasluna hand cannon and 1000-Yard Stare sniper rifle. Additionally, there will also be a shotgun and Claymore sword inspired by Bungie games from the 90's such as Marathon and Myth. Players can also get the Marathon and Bungie Anniversary streetwear-inspired ornament sets. Additional rewards include an Exotic sparrow, Exotic ship, emblems, shaders, Ghost shells, four new emotes, and helmet ornaments.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The next downloadable expansion for Wasteland 3 has been unveiled, and it will send players to war against a dangerous new group, The Cult of the Holy Detonation.The expansion was revealed during Xbox's Gamescom livestream, and it takes place in a top secret military base built deep inside Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain. Two warring factions are fighting over a massive ball of radiation, known to the groups as the Holy Detonation, and the players must navigate through the base in order to survive.The expansion was built as a "Wasteland-style dungeon crawler" according to the stream, focusing more on completing objectives and less on simply engaging enemies in combat. New friendly characters will be introduced as well, including a giant hulking mutant called Proteus who is actually quite approachable.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com