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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town offers an expansion pass for players who want even more fun on the farm. The expansion pass is comprised of five different parts that will release periodically over the next few months. Additionally, players also receive some bonus outfits that are available immediately for owning the pass. For everything you need to know about when each part is set to release and what it will entail, we have a full schedule right here as well as links to any guides for content that has already released....

The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on basically every industry in the world, and video games are no exception. The pandemic has caused E3 2020 to be canceled, with game companies now looking for alternative ways to showcase all of their upcoming titles. The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has attempted to collect all these different presentations into what he calls the Summer Game Fest. The Summer Game Fest kicked off with the recent Inside Xbox presentation, which saw the announcement of some Xbox Series X console exclusives and showed some brief snippets of Xbox Series X gameplay for the first time....

When the idea of graphical advancement is discussed in video games, all too often talk turns to the AAA scene, and to such well-trod topics as photorealism. However, some of the most impressive-looking games in recent years have instead come from much more low-key releases, with games such as Journey proving that designers can achieve great things from a small budget. This is certainly the case with Jotun developer Thunder Lotus Games, a studio that has just returned with another game called Sundered....

We recently reported that Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu & Let’s Go Eevee had the biggest-selling first week of any game on the Nintendo Switch, with three million copies being sold worldwide. These sales numbers instantly entered the Let’s Go games into the top five best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch and set to swiftly scale to top once the 2018 holiday numbers start to come in. It seems that Pikachu & Eevee will be facing stiff competition from another game that they appear in, as Nintendo’s Twitter page is reporting that Super Smash Bros....

The Minecraft World stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will have selectable Biomes, but you will need to input special button command to access them all. Steve from Minecraft is the next DLC fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The people who purchase Steve (or receive him as part of the second Fighters Pass) will also receive skins based on Alex, a Zombie, and Enderman, as well as the Minecraft World stage and several songs from the franchise....

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick believes consumers are “ready” to pay $69.99 for next-gen games like NBA 2K21. At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this week, Zelnick said the price point offers “an array of extraordinary experiences, lots of replayability.” Zelnick also noted that prices have barely increased since 2005, though he refrained from saying that all future games would be priced at $70. Instead, he suggested that games need to include a level of content that warrants the price hike....

E3 2021 is rolling into its third day, and things are not slowing down yet. In addition to seeing brand stuff from Capcom and Razer, we should expect a big blowout from Take-Two Interactive, the game publisher which brings you games from Rockstar, 2K, Gearbox, and Private Division. In recent years you’ll recognise the likes of Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, Borderlands, and The Outer Worlds coming from those publishing teams, and that means there are potentially loads of announcements waiting for us on the other side of this stream....

Bad news for Nioh fans: Team Ninja has announced that Nioh 2 will be the final game in the series. When Nioh originally launched back in 2017, it was praised for bringing something new to the table, and was tipped as a potential rival to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls series. While that didn’t quite pan out, Team Ninja went on to release a sequel to Nioh - aptly named Nioh 2 - at the beginning of 2020....

Welcome… to Jurassic Park (the game). Jurassic Park: The Game puts players back into the park and will serve as a compliment to the original movie. The story continues past the events of the film, telling the story of Nedry’s shaving cream can filled with various dinosaur DNA. Players will explore the park and try to solve a mystery that audiences of the original film never got to see. With less than two weeks to go until the release of Jurassic Park: The Game, TellTale Games has unveiled the title’s deluxe edition, complete with several unique bonus features....

Some players might think that a pet fairy is the end-all, be-all of the game, but accessories are the make or break of a successful Terraria build. There are also literally hundreds to choose from – especially now that Terraria has reached its final form: 1.4, Journey’s End. Which accessories you take really depends on which build you’ve gone for: magic build, a Yoyo build, a ranged build, etc. However, there are also a few accessories that should make their way into any build....

Bethesda’s Dishonored 2 arrives Friday and we’ve rounded up all the best deals you can find from PC Steam discount to console pre-purchase bonuses. In less than one day Dishonored 2 will arrive on all major platform. In fact, Bethesda’s latest game is already available on Steam for those who have pre-purchased. Current reviews are actually a bit of a mixed bag due to performance issue on the PC version, though if you look past the unoptimized game you’ll find that gamers are all raving about the title....

The Division 2’s first raid, Operation Dark Hours, is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. After its launch, the World’s First clear took approximately 5 hours on PC, with players working consistently to improve those numbers over the past few days. This is in direct contrast with the console experience, as the final Razorback Boss reportedly took the first Division 2 team to beat it on console 20 hours itself....

Steam’s top sellers of the week have been unveiled and two games have been pushed out of that top ten rankings: The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited and Cyberpunk 2077. New games are becoming fairly sparse with the slew of delays due to many developers working under quarantine in the pandemic, so it’s no shock that when new games do release, they tend to top the charts. Outriders is no different at number one, and neither is the hit co-op game It Takes Two which, funnily enough, took spot number two....

The Elder Scrolls games are known for giving their players the freedom to explore the world as whoever they want. While many players go down the traditional heroic route, there’s nothing to stop them from becoming a monster if they see fit. Some players, however, take this more literally than others. Players have been able to become vampires and werewolves in The Elder Scrolls games since Daggerfall, taking on a curse which grants them unique abilities as well as some significant disadvantages depending on the game....

This review of The Expanse contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 6 Episode 5 No matter how explosive the coming finale might be, The Expanse season 6 will best be known as the most well written set of episodes where not much happened. There is no argument that “Why We Fight” is thematically very rich and filled with amazing dialogue, but aside from satisfying our need to have Drummer front and center for the final battle, this penultimate episode doesn’t scratch many itches....

Sony surprised a lot of fans by unveiling a lot of new trailers for a lot of its upcoming high profile games during the normally quiet Paris Games Week. Games shown off include new gameplay for God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Sucker Punch’s new IP Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us Part 2. Naughty Dog has been fairly quiet regarding the state of its upcoming Last of Us sequel, and while the trailer didn’t convey much in terms of new information, it didn’t stop Reddit users from potentially unlocking a few mysteries....

While watching The Mitchells vs. the Machines, I was reminded of a recent trend in animated movies, which is the growing need to make environments look realistic. Technology has increased to the point that animation can almost appear photorealistic. Even if an animated film has characters with exaggerated features, the “realness” of the rest of the film’s production design is often touted as a selling point. Both Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 leaned into a grounded aesthetic, and many others wear “realism” as a badge of pride in their animation....

The gaming industry is still buzzing from Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase and its numerous reveals. One of the biggest surprises was the reveal of STALKER 2 coming to the Xbox Series X and Game Pass. It turns out that despite the heavy hitters of Microsoft’s library being present at the show, it is STALKER 2 that is getting all the attention. Just a day after the Xbox Games Showcase, many fans are taking the chance to watch the plethora of trailers that were revealed at the event....

The development of Star Citizen remains a complicated story. Years after the space MMO’s development started, the project continues to grow in size and scale. The latest example comes in the form of a new studio joining Star Citizen’s development. It’s not a new Cloud Imperium Games studio, however, it’s a new subsidiary of Turbulent, one of several partner studios helping to co-develop Star Citizen. Turbulent made the announcement of its expansion recently, confirming the opening of a new studio in Montreal that will focus on work related to Star Citizen....

Star Trek has always strived to represent a more hopeful and healthy future for our society. However, because it is being made in our present, with all of its strengths and struggles, it hasn’t always done the best job depicting mental illness or how a utopian future might contextualize it. (Sorry, Counselor Troi. You tried.) As contemporary culture gets better at discussing and destigmatizing mental illness, so do our stories (and vice versa), which gives Star Trek: Discovery a potential advantage....