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Developers responsible for localization are often unsung heroes of video game development, in that players rarely comment on their efforts unless there is something to complain about. But CD Projekt Red has managed an incredibly impressive technical feat with Cyberpunk 2077 that should help gamers from all over the world feel more at home in Night City. After years of development and numerous delays, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally due to drop on November 19th....

Death Stranding finally has a release date, and it’s a lot earlier than we expected. We’ve been getting teased for years about Hideo Kojima’s next game following his ejection from the Metal Gear franchise. Even after 3 years, we still don’t have a clue as to what this game is truly about, but this latest trailer seems to finally be bringing all these disparate pieces together. It also gave us a release date: November 8th, 2019....

This post contains no spoilers for Crota’s End. While the promise of new gear, story missions, and strikes was enough of a draw to have any player interested in The Dark Below DLC expansion for Destiny, most put their focus squarely on the game’s new raid. Titled Crota’s End, this second 6-player raid would send players into the depths of the Hellmouth on the Moon, and force them to come face to face with the Hive god Crota....

Developer Bungie may have patched the old Faction Rally Lost Sector exploit, which allowed Destiny 2 players to farm nearly 300 Tokens per hour, but there is a new method that players can use to farm Tokens for their favorite faction. This week brings another Faction Rally, the event that goes live in Destiny 2 once per month, allowing players to pledge to a faction (or multiple factions since each character can ally with a different faction) and gain armor and weapons specific to each....

When it comes to Destiny 2, players will want to make sure they have the most powerful weapons possible to succeed in the game’s various activities. Those struggling with the Leviathan raid, for example, may want to seek out some new firepower to give them an edge, and if so, they should consider hunting down the game’s best DPS weapons. Destiny 2 weapons are separated into three categories: Kinetic, Energy, and Power....

Because Destiny 2 developer Bungie likes to create an air of secrecy around its game, players have become obsessed with decoding every little clue. Sometimes they even find info and develop theories and Bungie sets the record straight, like with the Dreadnaught loading screen. But other times those clues hint at the future of the shared world shooter. Even when Bungie doesn’t put clues in front of the player, plenty go digging for them, like one Destiny 2 fan did this week....

With the release of the Warmind DLC and the beginning of Season 3 in Destiny 2, developer Bungie introduced a new pursuit for the hardcore competitive PvP player—a unique and powerful Legendary pulse rifle called Redrix’s Claymore that could only be earned by those who could climb the ranks of the game’s new competitive ranking system. It’s a pretty tough climb to get Redrix’s Claymore, and it looks like in Bungie’s summation, perhaps a bit too tough....

This week’s Destiny weekly reset provides more content than ever due to the recent release of Rise of Iron, and here are all the details you need to know. Before the release of Rise of Iron, weekly resets were pretty straightforward in terms of what was available to experience in Destiny. Hop into the weekly Nightfall, Heroic story mission, or Crucible. Now that the Destiny expansion has released, there is a little bit more to invest in each week to test a Guardian’s mettle....

Cheating in Trials of Osiris has become so pervasive that Bungie has been forced to take serious action. When Trials of Osiris returned earlier in March, Destiny 2 PvPers were excited. Finally, the return of a beloved pinnacle PVP activity for all the Crucible try-hards. In their introductory video, Bungie promised that they’d keep an eye on Trials to ensure that the game mode remains healthy and devoid of cheaters....

At least one Chicago Cubs player’s Pokemon card collection was put on display during a recent televised interview. An observant Redditor spotted the page of Pokemon cards hanging from a locker while watching the broadcast and posted it online. Cubs fans quickly posted their excitement regarding Kris Bryant, the Cubs’ third baseman and interviewee, and their shared hobbies. While it isn’t clear whether the locker with the cards was Bryant’s or another teammate’s, the presence of Pokemon cards in reigning World Series champions’ locker room has to be applauded....

Last week, some video game retailers reduced the price of Remedy Entertainment’s Control, offering 50% off from the game’s standard list price. Now, Sony’s PlayStation Store is offering the game as part of its weekly deals, which reduces Control’s price to its lowest ever for a limited time. Right now, players can snag a copy of Control for a cheap price of $23.99, or 60% off its original price of $59....

Ukrainian Mauris studio announced a new pirate game Corsairs Legacy, the spiritual successor to the Age of Pirates series. The project is coming to PC in 2021, but there’s a catch. Pirate games are something tricky these days. While we certainly have Sea of Thieves, there were not many other notable mentions in the genre for a long time. For example, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag was released back in 2013, and Ubisoft is constantly delaying the mysterious Skull & Bones since its announcement in 2017....

Genshin Impact is full of memorable character designs, and fans have quickly latched onto their own personal favorites. Diluc Ragnvindr is a top tier Genshin Impact character in terms of both power and popularity, so Diluc fans who enjoy cosplay may wonder how to tackle his costume. As a wealthy nobleman, Diluc is indeed dapper, but his costume doesn’t need to break the bank. In order to have a “perfectly” accurate cosplay, one would need to put quite a bit time and money into the endeavor....

Screenshots of Crash Bandicoot 4 have been leaked following the accidental reveal by a ratings board this week, and they include the game’s release date. New life was breathed into the Crash Bandicoot franchise in 2017 thanks to Vicarious Visions. The developer remastered and re-released the game’s original trilogy. The three games the marsupial is still most well known for after all these years. The N’Sane Trilogy has sold more than 10 million copies since then, and a Crash Team Racing remaster released since then has also performed well....

We’re just days away from the hotly anticipated release of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, and now a list of trophies available in the game has been leaked to the web. Intriguingly, the leak seems to indicate that Activision has plans to release DLC in support of the remaster. Two of the trophies available to Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy players are sectioned off into their own subcategory labelled Lost Treasures DLC....

The original animated series, the comic continuation, the M. Night Shyamalan film adaptation, and The Legend of Korra. Long ago, the four installments lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Nickelodeon attacked. Only the Showrunner, master of all four entries, could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they vanished. Three years passed and TheGamer and I discovered twenty crazy pieces of Avatar trivia. And although most of them pertain to the original series, I believe they shine a light on the entire series as a whole....

People have been accusing critics of being paid off for years, so it’s no small wonder that a certain brigade of idiots are up in arms about the media’s treatment of Cyberpunk 2077. But - and I mean this from the bottom of my heart - you are simply wrong if you think that anyone has been paid to write either good or bad things about a video game. That is not how this works, and you need to acknowledge that....

Cyber Shadow looks to take players back to the era of classic NES platformers, capturing the feel of games like Ninja Gaiden in its pixelated aesthetic. The game is being developed by the one-person studio Mechanical Head Games, and the one person who works there is Aarne Hunziker. His work caught the attention of Yacht Club Games, the makers of the hugely successful Shovel Knight, and the company stepped in to help Hunziker with publishing duties....

Cyberpunk 2077 endures as one of the most anticipated games of 2020, even in the face of delays. However, the game still has a few months of development ahead of it. That means that Cyberpunk 2077 could get increasingly different from what players expected when the game rocked E3 2018. Over the past years, several advertised features of the first-person RPG have been removed. This has already caused doubts and frustrations among some potential players, even if the studio claims it’s for the best, but it also seems natural for a game first announced back in May 2012....

When creating your character for the first time in Cyberpunk 2077, you must choose a story background for yourself. There are three different life path options that you can pick. These origin stories are Nomad, Streetkid, and Corpo. Each origin story starts your game off in a different location and introduces you to Night City from a completely different angle. Even afterward, your life path will continue to shape how you experience Cyberpunk....