Bleach Rebirth of Souls for PS5 $40 - We expect this to change to $60 soon Preorder at Amazon Bleach Rebirth of Souls for Xbox $40 - We expect this to change to $60 soon Preorder at Amazon Update: Bleach Rebirth of Souls is no longer available to preorder at Amazon or GameStop for $40. When preorders open again, they will be priced at $60.Bleach Rebirth of Souls preorders are now live at Amazon, seemingly for the wrong price. The PS5 and Xbox Series X editions of the upcoming 3D fighting game are available to preorder for $40 from Amazon. The digital version costs $60 on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, and Steam, so Amazon's $40 price likely won't be available for long. Of course, there's a chance Amazon will cancel preorders placed at the $40 price.Bleach Rebirth of Souls releases March 21, 2025, on PS5, Xbox Series X |S, and PC. Based on the popular anime, this latest entry in the Bleach series is a fast-paced 3D fighting game with swordfighting combat.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Each new entry in the Dragon Age series is always transformative, so it's not uncommon for a fan to really love one of the entries but feel lukewarm about another. 2009's Origins played like a spiritual successor to 1998's Baldur's Gate, while its 2011 sequel took the series in a more third-person-action-game direction, and then 2014's Inquisition opted for gameplay that felt like a single-player MMO. If anything, the one constant to a Dragon Age game is that you can expect that each new game will be different from the last. At first, it looked like Dragon Age: The Veilguard was not going to surpass my enjoyment of past games, existing as no more than a safe return to form for developer BioWare instead of a bold step forward for the franchise. But inch by inch, The Veilguard has wormed its way into my Inquisition-loving heart. Is The Veilguard as complex and nuanced as past Dragon Age games? No, not at all. Instead, it delivers an action-packed romp through a fantastical setting with good friends.The Veilguard leans into real-time action-based combat, building on the formulas already established and iterated on in Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem to push Dragon Age toward something more frenetic. Utilizing a system of setups and detonations to pull off explosive combos, The Veilguard encourages you to lean into strategically utilizing weapon attacks and magical abilities to pull off deadly dance-like patterns. It's tricky to find the rhythm at first but figuring out the pattern rewards you with an incredible sense of flow. Large skill trees and three specializations per class let you curate the experience to your satisfaction, and I never grew tired of pulling off clutch counters and delivering severe magical beatdowns despite The Veilguard's massive story length and large assortment of optional side missions, most of which see you fighting even more enemies.The mage is the one true outlier here. Early on, the class is easy enough to play, but as the story goes on, enemies get both more numerous and hardy. Your own attacks become grander and more explosive in response, leading to the screen filling with visual clutter. As a result, it can be frustratingly tricky to see the indicator for parries (which is already harder for the mage in comparison to the rogue and warrior), and oftentimes dulls the combat to a repetitive slog of flinging magical explosions, running away, locking back onto a target, and repeating--a step down from the far more satisfyingly strategic means by which the glass-cannon mage operated in past Dragon Age games.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Citadelle des Morts is a new Zombies map arriving in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on December 5, and Treyarch has released a short video to give players a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the French-inspired location. The video discusses the design choices and gives a better glimpse at the new Doppelghast enemy type.Citadelle des Morts is a castle in France overrun with the undead. Treyarch says Zombies mode has plenty of maps "grounded in science fiction," and for this map, it wanted to lean more into magic. Citadelle des Morts also features elemental sword Wonder Weapons. This sounds similar to Black Ops 3's Der Eisendrache map, which was a snowy castle map with elemental bows. However, Treyarch says it has never featured a castle like Citadelle des Morts, as this new design lets players travel further into the claustrophobic bowels of the castle. Treyarch also pulls back the curtain on the making of the Doppelghast, which is the map's unique special enemy. This creature has two heads and tentacle-like appendages instead of arms, and the developer says it wanted to design the enemy to be as unsettling as possible. The Doppelghast is also described as being "super fast and in your face," and the creature's hasty movement can be seen in the video above.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since the last mainline Batman Arkham game. Since then, we've seen several Arkham-adjacent projects come out, only to feel hamstrung or otherwise lacking. 2016's Batman Arkham VR was a neat tech demo, but it encompassed only the series' investigative elements. Both traditional Arkham studios, Rocksteady and WB Montreal, launched Batman-esque co-op games in recent years, but each struggled for several, sometimes similar reasons. Batman: Arkham Shadow stops the tailspin by authentically recapturing the essence of the Arkham series in ways other recent Batmanverse games disappointingly and intentionally avoided, making this the best Batman game since Arkham Knight, even if it doesn't soar to the same heights as the series' finest moments.Batman: Arkham Shadow is a VR-only, direct sequel to Arkham Origins, taking place roughly a year later. That means this version of Batman--once again played by Roger Craig Smith doing a solid Kevin Conroy impression--is still relatively untested and ornery. He's learning how to become the unflappable Batman we typically know him to be, so his temper can still get the best of him, and his uncanny ability to stay 10 steps ahead of his enemies isn't guaranteed. Played in first-person, you'll explore some enclosed sections of Gotham before ultimately landing in Blackgate Prison for the bulk of the game, giving this game a structure very much like the metroidvania-style design of 2009's Arkham Asylum.The Dark Knight's mission is to identify and stop The Rat King--a new enemy in the Batman mythology--who's thought to be hiding out in the prison just days before his catastrophic strike on Gotham unfolds. This sees Shadow's story unfold over the course of an in-game week rather than the usual overnight structure of Arkham plots, and sometimes, it shows.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Microsoft has shared that the Xbox Year in Review website tool for 2024 is now live. That means you can discover your most-played game of the year, how many hours you spent gaming, and more.To access your stats, just visit this Xbox website to get started. From there, you will see your most-played game, highlights of the year, and how you stacked up to other players around the world. Microsoft added that there are a few new features for Year in Review, too, including a customized look from your most-played game as well as a Game Pass breakdown. There is also a special video message from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. The Xbox head honcho says that he played Diablo IV and Fallout 76 the most this year, adding that his friends got reinvested in the latter after the Prime Video TV series premiered. They weren't alone, either. The Fallout games saw a massive boost in player numbers in April after the show's success.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You wouldn't know just from looking at it--with its vivid, comic book-esque art style and irreverent punk-rock tone--but Redacted (officially styled as [REDACTED]) actually takes place in the same sci-fi universe as 2022's The Callisto Protocol. While that was a third-person survival-horror game trying to capture the same magic that Dead Space bottled up over a decade and a half ago, Striking Distance Studios has taken a wildly different approach with this spin-off, repurposing various elements from its debut game to create an isometric roguelike dungeon crawler.It's a drastic shift for the young series, ditching the grisly melodrama and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em combat of The Callisto Protocol by pivoting to referential humor and twin-stick shooting. It still feels immediately familiar thanks to how loudly it wears its Hades inspiration on its sleeve--even the title is seemingly a nod to Supergiant Games' seminal roguelike. This isn't inherently negative, and Redacted has some impactful ideas of its own. Yet, looking past the game's derivative design can often be difficult when it struggles to reach the same heights as its primary influence.Much like The Callisto Protocol, Redacted takes place within the icey, industrial walls of Black Iron Prison. With mutated biophages running amok--turning prisoners and staff into hostile, zombie-like creatures--you're cast as a modest prison guard attempting to reach the penitentiary's final escape pod and get the hell out of dodge. Unfortunately for you, other survivors--made up of coworkers and inmates called Rivals--are trying to do the same thing, forcing you into conflict with biophages and humans alike.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Dancing is a fun way to show your personality and flair in Fortnite, but if you do it in certain locations with the game's newest update, you could pay a serious price. Fortnite's new Chapter 6, Season 1 update brings back "No Emoting" signs, and anyone who breaks the rule near the sign will get eliminated.Fortnite had these signs in the game before, but previously they didn't do anything (via TheGamer) and were part of mission objectives. As you can see in the video below, however, the rules have changed. Reddit user S4HAND whipped out their trombone and began to dance when they were catapulted off a cliff to their death. Remember, rules are rules!This particular sign is located near Foxy Floodgates, and it's surrounded cones informing players they are entering a restricted space.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There's an argument to be made that speed is what makes Call of Duty multiplayer feel so good. As a franchise, the CoD games are great about getting you into the action as quickly as possible. When you shoot opponents, they tend to go down fast; when you die, you can be back in the fight in about a second. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Treyarch leans into the speed of the franchise in just about every respect, starting with some meaningful adjustments to movement systems and ending with map designs that make sure you're never far from your next hail of bullets. Most of the time, those fast and intense battles are a lot of fun--but the design changes also result in Black Ops 6 feeling limited in the kinds of fights you're likely to face.The major adjustment Black Ops 6 brings to the series is the Omni-movement system, and at least in terms of how the game feels to play, it's an excellent one. Omni-movement does away with the pesky natural limitations of a pair of human legs. You can run, sprint, slide, and dive in any direction, regardless of where you're facing or where your momentum would take you. It's kind of akin to the freedom a tank turret has from the vehicle beneath it, able to turn in any direction to address threats, but much faster and much cooler.Omni-movement creates a really high degree of fluidity. The ability to move at full speed in any direction at any time makes it easy to quickly navigate maps and turn to address threats. The game never holds you back when it comes to movement, and paired with how fast you might gun down an enemy if you react quickly enough, or the speed with which they can shut you down, Omni-movement is an excellent improvement to your overall reactivity. This is a game that's about twitch reactions and sharp aim, and Omni-movement amplifies that twitchiness by giving you more freedom of motion in all cases.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Lego Star Wars: Darth Vader Helmet (834 Pieces) $49 (was $80) See at Walmart Lego Star Wars: Clone Commander Cody Helmet (766 Pieces) $48.79 (was $70) See at Target See at Best Buy Lego Star Wars: Captain Rex Helmet (854 Pieces) $56 (was $70) See at Amazon See at Target See at Best Buy Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Helmet (584 Pieces) $59 (was $70) See at Amazon See at Target See at Best Buy Walmart still has several of its best Cyber Monday Lego deals discounted to the same price, including the awesome 834-piece Darth Vader Helmet Lego model kit for only $49, which saves you $31 off its $80 list price. At this point, there's really no telling when this Star Wars Lego set deal will disappear. That said, most of Walmart's deals from Black Friday and Cyber Monday are sold out or expired as of December 4. Other notable Lego deals still available at Walmart include the Lego Technic Batcycle from The Batman for only $30 and Lego Minecraft's The Sword Outpost for $30. Meanwhile, you can save on three other Star Wars helmet Lego sets at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. You can check out all of those Lego deals below.Lego Star Wars - Darth Vader Helmet (834 pieces) -- $49 ($80)Lego Technic - The Batman Batcycle (641 pieces) -- $30 ($50)Lego Minecraft - The Sword Outpost (427 pieces) -- $30 ($45)Lego Disney: Stitch Figure (730 pieces) -- $52 ($65)Lego City - Space Explorers 3-in-1 Super Pack (426 pieces) -- $20 ($32) See all Lego deals at Walmart Lego Star Wars: Darth Vader Helmet (834 Pieces) $49 (was $80) This Darth Vader Lego set recreates the Dark Lord of the Sith's iconic helmet out of 834 pieces. This is arguably the coolest helmet Lego has designed for the Star Wars franchise. Before the all-black armor is in place, you get to piece together Vader's life-support system. It is admittedly quite impressive that Vader can live without a body.Darth Vader Helmet (834 pieces) -- $49 ($80)The Darth Vader Helmet includes a display stand and nameplate. The completed build measures 8 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches.Clone Commander Cody Helmet (766 pieces) -- $48.79 ($70)Captain Rex Helmet (854 pieces) -- $56 ($70)The Mandalorian Helmet (584 pieces) -- $59 ($70) See at Walmart Lego Star Wars: Clone Commander Cody Helmet (766 Pieces) $48.79 (was $70) Three other Star Wars Helmet Lego model kits are on sale after Cyber Monday, albeit for not as substantial of discounts as Darth Vader. Clone Commander Cody from Clone Wars and Bad Batch is discounted practically the same price as Darth Vader at Target, but it normally retails for $70.Still, a $21 discount for this cool 766-piece set is still a great deal. Amazon is sold out, but you can still snag the Clone Commander Cody Lego set for $48.79 at Target. This deal is available at Best Buy as well, but only if you're a My Best Buy Plus/Total subscriber.The Clone Commander Cody Helmet measures 8 x 5 x 5.5 inches.Darth Vader Helmet (834 pieces) -- $50 ($70)Clone Commander Cody Helmet (766 pieces) -- $48.79 ($70)Captain Rex Helmet (854 pieces) -- $56 ($70)The Mandalorian Helmet (584 pieces) -- $59 ($70) See at Target See at Best Buy Lego Star Wars: Captain Rex Helmet (854 Pieces) $56 (was $70) Clone Wars fans Can also save on the replica Captain Rex Helmet. Normally $70, Captain Rex is discounted by 20% at multiple major retailers, including Amazon, Target, and Best Buy (for subscribers).Out of the four helmets on this list, the Captain Rex build has the highest piece count, with 20 more bricks than Darth Vader. With the display stand, Captain Rex's helmet is 8 x 5 x 5 inches. See at Amazon See at Target See at Best Buy Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Helmet (584 Pieces) $59 (was $70) The Mandalorian Helmet is on sale for $59 at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. This helmet is a bit smaller than others both in terms of piece count, 584, and overall measurements, 7 x 4 x 4.5 inches. Lego did a great job recreating Mando's Beskar plate armor. See at Amazon See at Target See at Best Buy Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The best part of any Call of Duty game's Zombies mode is how it facilitates panic. The longer you play the round-based horde mode, in which the undead stream toward you from all directions, the tougher it becomes, and before long, you're sprinting around the map, trying desperately to stay alive as crowds of corpses shamble after you. Your only chance is to stop and fire away to thin out the approaching wave of undeath, hoping you don't run into any huge mutated monstrosity while your back is turned. Black Ops 6 is great at these moments.Zombies in Black Ops 6 is a return to the best-known and best-enjoyed form of the four-player cooperative mode, which developer Treyarch originated back in Call of Duty: World at War and has been iterating on ever since. Gone is the approach from last year's Modern Warfare 3, a messy take that bolted Zombies mechanics onto elements of CoD's battle royale game, Warzone. What Black Ops 6 offers feels like classic Zombies but enhanced, with a bunch of small elements old and new added together to build out the experience in fun, engaging, and challenging ways.The most notable change, and the one that works best with Zombies, is Omni-movement, Black Ops 6's adjustment to how you get around in the game. Omni-movement lets you move at the same speed in any direction, including sprinting, diving, and sliding, so you're able to change direction on a dime without losing momentum. It's a great addition to Zombies, where you will inevitably find yourself kiting a horde around the map as you fight to stay alive, only to suddenly realize that the path you're backpedaling down isn't as clear as you thought.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Although he stepped down from his position as Chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2019, Shawn Layden hasn't been shy about sharing his views about the future of the gaming industry. And the former PlayStation boss believes that that the ongoing conflict of rival consoles between Sony and Microsoft should come to a close.During an interview with Eurogamer, Layden likens the PlayStation and Xbox competition to the format wars between VHS and Sony's Betamax decades earlier, which was won by the former before both formats became obsolete."With Xbox versus PlayStation, the Ali versus Frazier fight... Frankly, we have to start interrogating what the purpose is of a proprietary console, and whether that can continue to be true," said Layden. "When you have competing formats, competing platforms, competing technologies, there comes a time when we all declare the war is over... But the real competition will be on its content. And content should be the competition for publishers, not which hardware you get behind. I think we're at a point where the console becomes irrelevant in the next... if not the next generation then the next next generation definitely."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

SaGa stands as one of Square Enix's longest-running series, but it's also had a rough time outside of Japan. If you pick up a random SaGa game, you'll probably understand why: SaGa games are JRPGs that don't do things in the way most overseas players would expect. SaGa tends to focus more on complex, interweaving systems of combat, character growth, and questing. And that's supplemented by narratives that tend to act more as connective tissue that link locations and objectives together instead of the sprawling, character-driven stories the genre has become known for. Wandering around blindly and piecing out what to do and how things work in a SaGa game can be incredibly compelling, but some entries in the franchise lean toward immensely frustrating. Romancing SaGa 2 is more the former than the latter, but its earlier releases were still an acquired taste.Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven is a full-on remake of a game many fans consider the series' apex--if not among the greatest RPGs of all time. If there's any game in the series that could reach out and capture a new audience in a way no other SaGa game has before, this is the one that could do it.Romancing SaGa 2's story begins ages prior to the modern day, when seven heroes fought to rid the land of evil forces. Their deeds have become the subject of myth and legend, and as times have grown ever more troubled, the people have yearned for their return. In the recent past, Emperor Leon and his two sons hear rumblings of the heroes' revival, but soon learn the horrible truth--the heroes have themselves become agents of evil, and they slay both Leon and his son Victor in a vicious attack. Despite this loss, there is still hope: Inheritance Magic, which allows an Emperor to pass memories, abilities, and strength down to an appointed successor, beginning with young prince Gerard.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl--the long-awaited sequel to developer GSC Game World's 2007 classic--was delayed several times during development, with an initial announcement in 2010 and a launch date planned for 2012. 14 years after its announcement, the sequel is finally here, and although the game has sold well, its condition at launch wasn't exactly perfect. Now, GSC Game Worlds CEO Ievgen Grygorovych wants players to know why."You're so tired that you would just die if you say, 'Let's run an additional [development] marathon,'" Grygorovych said in a recent interview. "We didn't have a chance to say, 'Let's do it more.' We just had a chance of, 'Let's do until this moment--the release date--as much as we can.'" Grygorovych added that additional patches (and potentially story expansions) could always be implemented in the future, but the team decided it was best to stick to the 2024 release date. The decision was influenced in part by the sheer level of exhaustion experienced by the game's developers, who endured multiple "marathon" crunch sessions to make sure the game was the best it could be, without resorting to another delay.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Third-person action game Slitterhead often presents a pretty compelling front. At first, it sounds like an out-there horror game with an inventive approach to gameplay. You play as a formless spirit that can possess humans, hunting vicious monsters capable of imitating normal people. Those creatures explode from the heads of their human bodies to reveal their true forms when discovered.As cool as all those words clearly are, Slitterhead never reaches the promise of its premise, apart from a few gorgeous cutscenes where a human twists and mutates into a disgusting, multi-armed abomination. Instead, it's usually frustrating and repetitive, with its interesting ideas turning to gimmicks that wear themselves thin after the first few hours.Those gimmicks feel like they have potential, at least at first. Slitterhead opens with you taking on the role of the Hyoki: a floating spirit that can zip into the brains of random humans populating the dense city of Kowlong, briefly taking control of their bodies. The Hyoki can't remember anything about itself or what it's doing, until it encounters its first slitterhead--which, after eating the brains of an unsuspecting victim, bursts from the skull of its host and chases you down alleys as you zap from one hapless soul to another to stay just ahead of it. The concept is weird, changing the way you think about characterization and physical gameplay space, and slitterheads are scary--it's a great way to start the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel Rivals won't ever charge for access to its huge roster of playable superheroes and villains, developer NetEase reaffirmed, as it detailed what players can expect from the game's monetization systems.NetEase outlined how it is approaching monetization for the upcoming free-to-play hero shooter in a new "Dev Talk" blog post. In short: Only cosmetics will be for sale, which can be bought with the game's premium currency, Latice, or a free currency, Units. Various cosmetic bundles will be offered, and while players can buy individual costumes for specific characters, bundles including costumes as well as MVP animations, emotes, a spray, and nameplate will be offered at discounted rates. "The team has poured immense effort into designing and crafting these in-game cosmetics, many of which draw inspiration from Marvel's iconic comics, films, and other works," NetEase said. "These items are not only a tribute to Marvel's artistic legacy but also a way for us to reinterpret and capture different facets of the Marvel universe."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com