Destiny 2's Season of the Splicer is wrapping up, and Bungie is preparing to reveal the new season next week. While we know very little about the next season's content right now, Bungie has given us a taste of some of the changes to come to gameplay with tuning notes about all of the big (and little) tweaks to the game's weapons.Perhaps the most immediately obvious change will be to primary weapons. In an effort to eliminate the frustration that can currently come from running out of ammo in a PvP or PvE encounter, Bungie is implementing infinite ammo for all primary weapons. Alongside this, Bungie is also buffing the Inertia Override perk to compensate for fewer ammo bricks on the ground. Destiny fans have speculated that this change was on its way, such as in this post which correctly guessed the change two weeks ahead of time.The developer is also rolling out its second attempt to correct some issues that arose from its implementation of max power levels on some weapons. Last year, Bungie rolled out this power cap in order to give it a tool to both restrain the total number of usable PvE weapons and to refresh the relevant arsenal of guns in any given season. Some deprecated weapons were "reissued" with higher power limits, but many players chafed at having to seek their favorite perk combinations all over again. Bungie's original solution was to replace all of the perks on the reissued weapons, but this also didn't work, as some sets of perks had become strongly identified with particular weapons. The studio's new solution is to deprecate the 2-3 least useful perks and roll out 2-3 new ones whenever it reissues guns.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Bethesda has announced that it will be holding a special concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the release of Skyrim: Anniversary Edition.The concert will take place at the Alexandra Palace Theatre in the United Kingdom on November 11 at 5 PM PT / 2 PM ET. The London Symphony Orchestra and the London Voices Choir will pay tribute to the anthems, soundscapes, and songs of Skyrim. Viewers can watch the concert on Bethesda's official YouTube or Twitch channels.That's a wrap on our #Skyrim10 dev panel for @QuakeCon!Check out https://t.co/FksAK33IwU for more exclusive content as well as this article to learn more about our upcoming anniversary celebration: https://t.co/o5PvhgjOEsWe'll see you tomorrow for more Skyrim ft. @Gusbuckets! pic.twitter.com/QUwwWAiMg6 — The Elder Scrolls (@ElderScrolls) August 19, 2021Additionally, Bethesda is working on a special project that will be revealed later this year for Skyrim's 10th anniversary and wants players to be a part of it. Bethesda wants fans to submit short video clips about stories, original artwork, cosplays, or other creations related to Skyrim.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Over the past few seasons of content, one of the big focuses in Destiny 2 has been the addition of Stasis abilities and weapons to players' arsenals. In the upcoming Season 15, Bungie is dramatically expanding the collection of Darkness-powered weapons with the addition of Stasis Legendary guns.In its weekly update, the developer revealed how Stasis weapons will work when they roll out next week. You can expect a variety of different types, and while Stasis Power weapons will go in your Power weapon slot, all others will be in the Kinetic slot. This is because Bungie doesn't want to clutter up the Energy Weapons slot any more, and because Stasis guns don't inherently work differently than other weapons.Salvation's Grip is an Exotic Stasis weapon that's already in the game. Stasis Legendaries are coming next week.The core distinguishing feature of the Stasis arsenal is that the guns can have Stasis perks. These are weapons perks based on the same powers that you might be familiar with from the Stasis class abilities: Namely, slowing enemies down or freezing them completely. In the post, Bungie states that these perks can allow the player to sometimes land a kill shot on the enemy they have frozen or slowed.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Disney Gallery series, now into Season 2, gives us behind-the-scenes looks at Disney productions, with the current season focusing on The Mandalorian Season 2. Ahead of an upcoming installment titled "Making of the Season 2 Finale," Disney has released a clip to prime us for the episode, featuring Mark Hamill himself.The clip features Mark Hamill entering through the ship doors, lightsaber lit, cut with clips of Filoni talking.One of the best parts of making Star Wars, says Lucasfilm Executive Creative Director Dave Filoni, is "standing on the side and watching somebody, again, I saw the child inside Jon [Favreau] that he experienced Star Wars, I saw that with Peyton [Reed, director of the Mandalorian Season 2 finale], you see your crew just staring at Mark, and you realize they're remembering what it meant to them, and you realize that you've been a part of constructing something that's giving that experience to people, this good feeling, and fundamentally Star Wars should deliver a good feeling, an uplifting feeling in you, your family, your kids, whatever."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2's upcoming Season 15 is ushering in a bunch of big changes to gameplay, including an array of balance updates to its weapons. Alongside these tweaks, Bungie is rolling out overhauls to a handful of Exotics--including nerfs to a couple of fan favorites.The biggest nerf is coming to the Anarchy grenade launcher, a weapon that's been a permanent part of many players' raid loadouts. While Bungie wants to keep the gun powerful, the studio has tweaked it so that it can't be as good for both boss damage and clearing minor enemies. Total ammunition is being dropped from 26 to 16 shots, while its boss damage is getting cut by 30%.The Anarchy Exotic Grenade Launcher.Anarchy's not the only raid favorite to get a bit of a nerf. Bungie's also rolling out changes to tone down Xenophage, the extremely popular Exotic machine gun. However, these tweaks are in response to Bungie's planned buff to all machine guns, and they are designed to keep Xenophage close to its current effectiveness. Xenophage's rate of fire will be cut from 120 rounds-per-minute to 90 RPM, and it won't receive as much of the machine gun buff as other machine guns. Bungie states that its damage-per-second will be lower, but its burst and sustained damage will be improved.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A free demo of WarioWare: Get It Together is now available on the Nintendo eShop. The demo lets you sample a selection of microgames from the upcoming title ahead of its release on Switch next month.Like previous WarioWare games, Get It Together features a collection of short, zany rapid-fire challenges, ranging from shooing flies away from a cake to plucking armpit hair. Unlike past games, however, you'll be playing as Wario and other staple characters like Mona, Orbulon, and Young Cricket, each of whom has a different playstyle and ability that you'll need to master to clear the microgames.WAH! A free demo for #WarioWareGetItTogether is now available on the #NintendoSwitch #eShop! Download now and try out a selection of microgames before the game’s release on 9/10!https://t.co/I7Edx50qJd pic.twitter.com/g7aKOai1Fr — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 20, 2021While the free Get It Together demo doesn't carry over any progress to the full game, it gives you a chance to play a handful of microgames and try out six different characters. The demo also supports up to two players locally.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Splitgate now has a second competitive mode: Ranked 2v2. So if you only want to play ranked with your friends but can't pull together a full team for Ranked 4v4 or Ranked 3v3 Takedown, you now have the option of playing competitively with a single partner.The update that added Ranked 2v2 also improved server capacity and implemented, according to developer 1047 Games, "minor bug fixes."Servers are back online and update is now live! This is a small update that contains:- Ranked 2v2s (Yay!) - Server Capacity Improvements- Minor bug fixes — Splitgate - Beta Fish 🐠 (@Splitgate) August 19, 2021This is wonderful news, given that the Splitgate beta just hit 10 million downloads. If you're one of those 10 million, it's now a bit easier to squeeze into the servers and get into a match. And if you haven't yet downloaded the game, you should change that--you need to play Splitgate.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Blu-ray has been the dominant movie format for well over a decade, but iconic mecha anime Neon Genesis Evangelion hasn't taken advantage of the format--until now. Thanks to distributor GKids, Neon Genesis Evangelion is getting a massive Blu-ray release and you can pre-order it right now (via Polygon).Neon Genesis Evangelion Ultimate Edition is limited to 5,000 units and is available to pre-order through the GKids store for $279, a price available only for pre-orders. If you pick it up after December 7, it'll cost you an even-more-eye-watering $349. The set includes the original 26-episode anime series and two follow-up films, Evangelion: Death (True)² and The End of Evangelion. Notably, the Rebuild of Evangelion quadrilogy is not part of this edition.The Ultimate Edition includes not one but two sets of English dub and sub tracks--the "Classic' ones from the original release and the "Official" ones used in the Netflix release. Like the Netflix release, GKids says that the original ending theme, "Fly Me To The Moon," will not be included in this release.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rather than being shoehorned into an already complete experience, Ghost of Tsushima's Iki Island expansion feels remarkably integral to Sucker Punch's open-world action game; it might be something newly added to the game, but it feels like it could have been there all along. Its inclusion brings new depth to protagonist Jin Sakai, while providing even more of what made the vanilla game fun and compelling.If Ghost of Tsushima was about Jin failing to live up to the expectations of his father figure, Lord Shimura, his adventure to Iki Island is about Jin's biological father, Kasumasa Sakai, failing to live up to his son's expectations. The vanilla game dedicated a lot of time in Jin's character arc to his feelings and regrets about his father's death, and with Iki Island, Sucker Punch finds ways to explore that event and their relationship in a lot more depth. Whether you're playing the expansion after having finished Ghost of Tsushima when it launched on PS4, or you're venturing to the island midway through a full playthrough of the game, it's notable how much the Iki Island diversion feels like an important part of Jin's journey.Gallery Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon fans have a new special-edition Nintendo Switch console to pick up this fall. To celebrate the upcoming release of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Nintendo is releasing a limited-edition Dialga and Palkia Nintendo Switch Lite. The Nintendo Switch Lite Dialga and Palkia Edition releases November 5, two weeks before Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl arrive on November 19. It's not available to preorder just yet, but we will update this article with links to major retailers as soon as listings go live.The Nintendo Switch Lite Dialga and Palkia Edition doesn't come with either of the upcoming games, but it's also being sold at the standard Nintendo Switch Lite list price of $200. If the new console looks familiar, that's because it uses the design of the special-edition Nintendo DS Lite that was released alongside Diamond and Pearl. The console is gray and black with images of Dialga and Palkia, the two cover Pokemon, on the back.Nintendo Switch Lite Dialga and Palkia EditionGallery This is the second Pokemon-themed Switch Lite. In 2019, Nintendo released a Zacian and Zamazenta Edition alongside Sword and Shield. While that console was available to purchase post-launch (at times), we haven't seen it for list price in quite a while. If you want the Dialga and Palkia Edition, which was announced during the Pokemon Presents, it would be smart to get it as soon as possible.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Unite, the MOBA-style free-to-play Pokemon game, will launch for mobile devices next month through iOS and Google Play. As part of the Pokemon Presents broadcast, The Pokemon Company announced that Unite will be released for iOS and Android devices on September 22 and also confirmed the next two playable Pokemon that will be introduced.Preregistration begins today, August 18, for both platforms, and you can earn in-game rewards for doing so. The company also confirmed that cross-play is supported. You can preregister for Unite on mobile through these links: iOS, Google Play.The Pokemon Company also announced the next two Pokemon that will come to Unite, presumably on both mobile and in the previously released Nintendo Switch edition. These Pokemon are Mamoswine and Sylveon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

So far most of what we've known about Pokemon Legends: Arceus were scant details from a single event. As the January release date approaches, though, The Pokemon Company shared more details during its Pokemon Presents stream.The trailer showed off a variety of environments including a beach, forest, and snowy mountains of the Hisui region--which ultimately later becomes the Sinnoh region. Exploration was a big focus of the footage, including using a Pokemon as transportation like a glider, boat, and mount. We also saw sneaking around the tall grass and a quick transition into combat. The trailer showed Pokemon turning aggressive with glowing red eyes as part of the story, making them especially dangerous. It seems as if once they're turned aggressive this way they'll attack you, the player, rather than just your Pokemon as in normal combat.In a subsequent detailed talk about Arceus, the studio explained that the game revolves around the Galaxy Expedition Team. You meet up with Professor Laventon who studies Pokemon ecology, Captain Cyllene of the Survey Corps, and Commander Kamado from the expedition team. You'll go out on the expedition and make a base camp, and prepare for outings by buying or crafting items.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Open-world games have only grown more popular with time, with many series even shifting away from linear design to give players more freedom and bigger areas to explore. Not every open-world game is created equal, however, with classics such as Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild standing out against alternatives that rely too much on "stuff to do" and ever-bigger worlds than making the open world suit the experience. That can make it difficult to find the best open-world games, especially on newer consoles that have so many to choose from. We rounded up some of the very best ones in an unranked list, accounting for the world itself being a big reason for their inclusion--games with tremendous stories that happen to have open worlds, such as Nier: Automata, were left off for this reason. We've also geared this mostly toward newer games that are easily accessible today.For more games to check out on the current consoles, check out the best PS5 games, best PS4 games, best Xbox Series X|S games, best Xbox One games, and the best Nintendo Switch games. You can also check out the best PC games if you want to game with a mouse and keyboard. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Arguably the greatest game in the Assassin's Creed series may only be tangentially related to the Assassins vs. Templars storyline, but that also means it's much less tied down by its baggage. A Mediterranean pirate adventure with a heavy focus on sea exploration via ship and tracking down buried treasure, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a tremendous adventure with a world you'll actually want to explore rather than just head to the next waypoint on your map. Tracking down a powerful enemy ship and tearing it to shreds with your cannons before moving in to take out the captain is a rush every time, as is trying to take on a well-defended fortress while avoiding a barrage of incoming shrapnel and explosives. It's also the perfect game for those who haven't been drawn to other Assassin's Creed games, as it wastes no time throwing you into the action.See our Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag review. See at Amazon Batman: Arkham City Rocksteady set a new standard for superhero games with Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the studio somehow surpassed it with its sequel, Batman: Arkham City. The open-world Caped Crusader game features an oft-copied mixture of 3D brawling action and stealth, along with incredibly fun traversal via Batman's cape and various gadgets. There are tons of collectibles and side missions to find and complete, as you'd expect given Batman's many enemies, and getting from Point A to Point B is just as entertaining as whatever it is Batman actually has to do when he gets there. It's the type of open world that never gets in the way, something that lesser games often mess up in the ever-important drive for more "content."See our Batman: Arkham City review. See at Amazon Death Stranding Hideo Kojima managed to get two different games on this list, and they couldn't be more different. After parting ways with Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami, the director relaunched Kojima Productions and created Death Stranding, a game focused on creating connections--literal and figurative--between people at a time when society is just short of collapse. This mostly involves delivering packages as you climb, drive, and hike across the wasteland and work to avoid mysterious creatures and other dangerous scavengers. And while that may not seem like video game material, the gorgeous, tranquil environments and breathtaking music and sound design make such a simple task feel monumental. By creating your own bridges, you can even make the journey back easier--and even maybe help out another player or two.See our Death Stranding review. See at GameStop The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim When a game is available on everything from Xbox 360 to Amazon Echo devices, you know it's doing something right. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim didn't need to revolutionize the formula Bethesda Game Studios established in its previous games, but it did refine it with an emphasis on discovery and freedom as well as a gorgeous and varied open world. Heading off in a random direction in other games usually just leads to a lot of wasted time. In Skyrim, however, it may lead to a new dungeon to explore, a new city to enter, or a new dangerous dragon to slay. No two players' experiences are ever exactly the same, and with a classless leveling system that lets you customize your character exactly how you see fit, you can keep experimenting and finding new things to do for years.See our The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim review. See at Amazon Far Cry 3 Ubisoft knocked it out of the park with Far Cry 3, sending a group of privileged students into a gorgeous tropical setting filled with dangerous enemies to hunt, outposts to capture, and towers to climb--yes, the towers from so many Ubisoft games made an appearance here, but they functioned more as mini-puzzles than simple busywork. The chaos you can cause in Far Cry 3 is nearly unparalleled, whether it's by speeding into a group of enemies and firing an explosive at them or luring wildlife out of the woods to attack your targets. Far Cry 4 arguably included a better-paced story, but Far Cry 3 is still discussed nearly a decade after its launch for a reason.See our Far Cry 3 review. See at GameStop Forza Horizon 4 There hasn't been a more consistent developer for Xbox over the past decade than Playground Games, with each Forza Horizon game topping the previous one. Forza Horizon 4 takes the open-world racing series to rural England, sending supercars barreling across the rolling countryside and through tiny villages as residents just try to enjoy their morning tea. As with the other Horizon games, it's a perfect choice for those who usually don't enjoy racing because of its excellent rewind system and tons of stunts and non-race events to try out. Forza Horizon 4 also added a seasons system, changing areas and even making some of them accessible such as frozen lakes during the winter. In a game with tons of sleek, sexy cars, the world remains the star.See our Forza Horizon 4 review. See at Amazon Ghost of Tsushima Already experts in open-world design from their time working on the Infamous series, the developers at Sucker Punch went in a completely different direction with Ghost of Tsushima. A (mostly) realistic take on samurai combat in feudal Japan, the game's environments are absolutely breathtaking, with flowing fields of bright red flowers and trees rustling in the wind. Traveling it, whether on foot or horseback, is a joy, especially when you come across another samurai who wants to engage in an all-or-nothing duel that ends in a single sword slash. Depending on your preference, you can opt for a direct and honorable style or an Assassin's Creed-in-Japan stealth approach, and Ghost of Tsushima gives you plenty of tools and abilities to keep it fresh the entire time.See our Ghost of Tsushima review. See at GameStop Grand Theft Auto V It's a video game unicorn we're unlikely to ever see again, selling over 150 million units across two console generations--and it soon comes to a third. Grand Theft Auto 5 delivers a bright, vibrant satirical Los Angeles--dubbed Los Santos--and lets you use it as your playground. Even if you never want to play through the main story, you can sink dozens or even hundreds of hours into GTA 5 by just exploring the city, causing chaos and making bank. Or you could play tennis. And once you've had your fill of offline play, GTA Online provides an always-evolving place to take over Los Santos with your friends, even eight years since it launched.See our Grand Theft Auto 5 review. See at GameStop Horizon: Zero Dawn While The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild revolutionized open-world design when it launched in 2017, another game--Horizon: Zero Dawn--took more of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach, and it saw nearly as much acclaim as Zelda. Set in a post-apocalyptic North America that has been overtaken by dinosaur-like robots, Horizon features some of the familiar tropes of other open-world games, including unlocking areas via towers, but it's paced so well and there is so little filler to get through that the familiarity doesn't feel like uninspired design. Tremendous combat and the ability to ride on the back of a robot dinosaur as you plan your next move help to make it a thrill until the closing credits.See our Horizon: Zero Dawn review. See at Amazon The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The open-world game that would define open-world games for years to come--as in, it's still doing it--The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild doesn't have "no" in its vocabulary. In a radical departure from the other games in the series, Breath of the Wild ditches traditional dungeons and progression in favor of a truly free-form structure that lets you take on the final boss 20 minutes in, if you so choose. Getting there in fighting shape is quite a bit harder, but the steps you take to get there are up to you--even if that means solving a puzzle in a way the designers didn't intend or leaping over the entirety of a castle to skip to the final boss.See our The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild review. See at Amazon Marvel's Spider-Man One of the biggest games to release on PS4--and PS5, along with the standalone adventure Miles Morales--Marvel's Spider-Man is the webslinger's most impressive outing ever. For the first time since Spider-Man 2 a few generations ago, it actually feels good to soar around New York City and save helpless citizens from ne'er-do-wells, and with a flashy, acrobatic combat system that blends some elements from a… more caped superhero game with the flair and goofiness we expect from Spider-Man. Collectibles, random open-world events, and plenty of unlockable goodies make Spider-Man a ton of fun to play once the story has finished, and it's even more stunning on the PS5 with its visual enhancements.See our Marvel's Spider-Man review. See at Amazon Metal Gear Solid 5 Metal Gear Solid 5 is one of the most immersive and compelling open-world games of all time. It's actually a few different open worlds, with one in Afghanistan and one in Angola, and each is yours to explore and free-roam on many of the missions. Aside from completing main objectives, Venom Snake can sneak into various areas to scout for information, learn interesting details on the enemies he encounters via his reconnaissance technology, and use a Fulton recovery system to send supplies and people back to Mother Base. Metal Gear Solid 5's biggest surprise is that it delivered near-perfect open-world stealth gameplay from a series that often prioritized story above all else, but it sure is fun to sneak around!See our Metal Gear Solid 5 review. See at Amazon Microsoft Flight Simulator It's a series that has been around for decades, but the 2020 iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator is on another level. Exploring the entire world in your airplane--with many of the airports and buildings being bespoke rather than data-generated--is an experience you simply cannot get in another game. It truly is an open world, as checking out your ideal tourist destination is as simple as setting coordinates and heading in that direction. It's a relaxing and refreshingly goal-free game that is perfect if you're looking for something to just unwind with in the evenings, even if you have no interest in ever actually flying a plane or traveling the globe.See our Microsoft Flight Simulator review. See at Microsoft Store Middle-earth: Shadow of War Monolith's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Shadow of War, clearly got inspiration from the Assassin's Creed and Batman: Arkham games when crafting its dark Tolkien world, but the studio didn't just make a copycat game. Shadow of War in particular makes fantastic use of the Nemesis System, a feature that lets unique enemies remember past encounters and evolve based on them, coming back to find you while you're out exploring and potentially throwing all your plans into disarray. You can also use this to your advantage in order to move an enemy further up the food chain and then mind-control them, gaining a tactical foothold among the Uruks and Orcs. Special spectral abilities also let you move across the vast plains in a flash, often culminating in a brutal takedown of an unsuspecting enemy.See our Middle-earth: Shadow of War review. See at Amazon Minecraft One of the biggest games of all time at this point, Minecraft's open world is unlike most of the games on our list because it's different for every player--it's procedurally generated when you start a new game, ensuring you'll never run into the same resources, environments, or enemy clusters on two different saves. Several times bigger than the actual planet Earth, the world isn't just a huge part of the game; it is the game. From digging underground for rare minerals to finding the perfect place for your shelter, Minecraft's fun is in seeing what your own unique world has to offer, all while fending off hunger and the occasional Creeper. It's an inventive person's dream game, with endless opportunities for custom building designs, as well as Creative mode for those who just want to make some cool stuff.See our Minecraft review. See at Minecraft No Man's Sky No, not the version of No Man's Sky that released back in 2016. That game was suffering from an identity crisis and was undercooked in several key areas, but developer Hello Games has drastically improved the space exploration game since then. The "open world" is so big that it's not feasible to see the whole thing, letting you stop suffering from completionist stress and actually enjoy the unique animals and flora you find. With base-building, multiplayer, and a steady stream of updates adding more to do and see, No Man's Sky is a remarkable turnaround for a game that very well could have been on a "biggest disappointments" list before. We've even re-reviewed it a few times to account for these changes.See our No Man's Sky Beyond review. See at GameStop Red Dead Redemption 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 arrived about eight years after the original game, which was released when open-world design wasn't nearly as emergent or player-driven. Rockstar Games didn't just deliver "another Red Dead Redemption" with the prequel, however, offering an unparalleled Western filled with shootouts, chases, armed robbery, and general drunken debauchery alongside a plethora of other activities. Its take on the dying age of the outlaw emphasizes exploration rather than just telling you where to go, leading to lots of fun anecdotes as you venture into the wilderness to hunt a rare animal or take back a bounty target.See our Red Dead Redemption 2 review. See at Amazon Sunset Overdrive Ratchet & Clank, Tony Hawk, and Jet Set Radio all came together, formed a delicious cosmic gumbo, and turned into Sunset Overdrive. Initially an Xbox One exclusive, the open-world third-person shooter is incredibly self-aware and satirical, even making use of the game's UI for jokes, and it plays fast and loose with the laws of physics to great effect. Surfaces are bouncier than trampolines and you can grind on edges and rails at will, all while blasting mutated energy drink creatures with ridiculous weapons. In fact, moving constantly actually increases your score, and Sunset City is a blast to navigate. Unlike many other open-world settings, it's also not all that huge, keeping you from feeling overwhelmed as you search every nook and cranny.See our Sunset Overdrive review. See at Amazon The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt One problem with big open-world games can be inconsistency in writing quality--the smaller side quests can sometimes have a "this is filler content" feel to them, but that isn't the case with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. CD Projekt Red's enormous open world is host to a ton of different missions ranging from slaying powerful monsters to helping an old lady locate a lost cast iron pan. And despite the superficial premise of some of these, they're all given the same care and attention, which only helps to further immerse you into the world and Geralt's complicated role. The fact that a game about using magical abilities to fend off terrifying creatures can still be entertaining when you're addressing someone's familial troubles or lost cookware is a testament to its quality.See our The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review. See at Amazon Yakuza: Like a Dragon Turning a long-running open-world series known for goofy brawling combat into a role-playing game sounded like a very weird decision, but "very weird" is part of the Yakuza games' DNA. With the seventh main entry, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Sega made the radical decision to shift to role-playing combat similar to games like Dragon Quest in order to fit the protagonist Ichiban Kasuga's obsessive otaku interests. But this shift--a surprisingly welcome one--doesn't stop Like a Dragon from continuing the series' famous… eccentricities. All the weird open-world stuff you expect to see in Yakuza remains in Like a Dragon, including plenty of optional mini-games and a sub-story involving a group of adult men in diapers.See our Yakuza: Like a Dragon review. See at Amazon Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As the new Ryan Reynolds video game movie Free Guy performs ahead of expectations at the box office, the actor has now shared some behind-the-scenes images from some of his A-list celebrity friends who had cameos in the film.Spoilers for Free Guy follow belowPosting on Instagram, Reynolds says the main theme of Free Guy is friendship. "And friendship is at its simplest, just showing up," he said. Reynolds was able to wrangle a bunch of big names to appear in Free Guy in small cameo roles, and he thanked them in his post. "While I don't have photos of everyone, here's to all the incredible pals who showed up for this," he wrote.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During today's Pokemon Presents showcase, Nintendo revealed more details on its upcoming remakes of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. While Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl don't stray too far from the traditional pocket monster formula, they do have a few modern updates pulled from more recent games in the series like Pokemon Sword and Shield.Customization appears to play a big part in the game, as Poke Balls can be tweaked to feature new effects whenever you summon Pokemon, and trainers can don fashionable gear during their journey.Another touch of customization allows for a Pokemon to be let out of its Poke Ball and follow a player around as they explore Sinnoh's various locations. One example of this was seen in the trailer when Riolu kept pace with a player by doing a Naruto-style ninja run.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com