The holiday season is usually filled with triple-A games fans have been looking forward to for years, and this year’s season is very much following that trend. This year,EA’sownBattlefield 2042is a part of that catalog, packed in withinsane graphics, and with a focus on multiplayer, there’s something for new and old fans. RELATED:Every Battlefield Game, Ranked According To Metacritic (& How Long They Take To Beat) Making it multiplayer-only may feel like it’s taking away from the campaign aspect of it, but because there’s so much to do inBattlefield 2042,fans won’t miss it that much....

Summary Enshrouded, released in early 2024, is an action roleplaying game thatincorporates survival, crafting, and base-building aspects as well. It released to mostly positive reviews, and has been praised for the level of detail given to developing a large open-world map for players to explore. Playing as a Ranger inEnshroudedisn’t one of the easier early-game builds, especiallyfor solo players. The Ranger archetype inEnshroudedonly comes into its own once the player has geared up a little, and has been able to loot a good bow....

Summary Fighting the Mongol forces that haveinvaded Tsushimais going to take more than the honor of a samurai. If Jin Sakai is to liberate his island, he must become something darker inGhost of Tsushima, and embrace the legend of the ghost that will have Mongols fear him, and the samurai resent him. Ghost of Tsushimaprovides a path for players to fight head-on, or through stealth, and these ghost techniques will be essential for what is to come....

Capcom’s been building momentum forStreet Fighter 6by showing off all the neat content it’ll have in advance. The open-world maps, create-a-fighter, arcade hubs, and party modes have all been tantalizing. That’s not to mention the standout new characters and gameplay that’s been exciting the casual and hardcore markets. Related:Street Fighter 6: Characters Unlikely to Return Capcom’s also showcased the character’s musical themes, taking things in a jazzy, RnB direction that’s quite catchy....

A new Nintendo Switch is reportedly heading into production, while $70 AAA games may become the norm, in this week’s recap of games industry news. Game Rant has compiled some of the biggest gaming news stories from this past week together into a concise post for fans and enthusiasts to stay up to date on the most important events in the industry per week. Highlighting the most relevant stories, this list is not inherently and totally objective, and will not contain every news story this week....

Along withSonic the Hedgehogand Robert Downey, Jr.’sDolittle,Birds of Preywas one of the last major Hollywood releases before movie theaters were indefinitely closed to accommodate the spread of coronavirus. While the virus is obviously a big factor in the movie’s failure to break even at the box office,Sonicmanaged to pull in blockbuster numbers in the same release window. Audiences were skeptical aboutBirds of Preybecause it was a direct sequel toSuicide Squadand they’d beenlet down by the DCEU a bunch of times before....

Fans just keep getting more and more exciting new information forCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. It’s now been confirmed that the Gamescom Opening Night Live stream will give an even closer look at the upcoming game that players haven’t gotten to see before. Host Geoff Keighley is really drumming up the excitement for anall-digital two-hour-long Gamescom eventthat is promised to feature more than twenty games with never-before-seen content.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Waris the perfect game to be featured at ONL, given how much hype it’s been getting online....

With the success ofThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, it makes sense that Nintendo might want to continue this endeavor to adapt their games into a film format. Many of their titles are incredibly popular, and so there is likely a large audience for any potential movie version of their IP that they might want to release. Illumination has recently denied rumors of aLegend of Zeldamovie in the works at the studio, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t ever touch another Nintendo property again in the future....

Cyberpunk 2077may very well be one of the most anticipated and sought after video games of the year. After all, CD Projekt Red, along with a significant portion of the gaming community, have been hypingCyberpunk 2077up as one of the most wanted games of 2020. Though, many in the gaming community have rightfully had doubts as to whether the game will actually release on the intended date. Back in late October,Cyberpunk 2077’srelease date was delayeduntil December, which upset quite a number of people considering that the game had already been delayed twice in this year alone....

Summary InDark Souls 3,Undead Bone Shardsgrant players a boost to an Estus Flask’s recovery amount, permanently increasing the number of hit points (HP) recovered from a regular Estus Flask and/or focus points (FP) recovered from an Ashen Estus Flask. TheDark Soulsuniverse has aplethora of itemsthat provide buffs and benefits to the player, but these are arguably among the most important of them. Given how imperative an Estus Flask is to ensure that players don’t have to chug multiple valuable healing items at a time, it only makes sense to grab as many of these rare items as possible to make the trek through this grueling game as manageable as possible....

In the lead up to Hideo Kojima’s latest game, the game director had often mentioned what he believed was the start of a new subgenre. Affectionately dubbed a “strand” game, much ofDeath Stranding’s marketing was bolstered by what Kojima believed was an innovative new concept for games. Obviously, stating that a game is starting a new genre before it’s even released is short-sighted, something Kojima addressed by immediately doubling down. Kojima had essentially stated that the full potential of an “action strand game” genre would not be met without a few sequels to present the scope of his new subgenre of video games....

Fallout 76has seen its players exploring every inch of post-apocalyptic Appalachia since it released in 2018. Now, thanks to information found by a data miner, it looks likeFallout 76may use its upcoming Expeditions feature to let players return to Washington, D.C. Washington, DC holds a special place in the hearts of manyFalloutfans as it was the setting for the first entry in the series developed by Bethesda Studios,Fallout 3, so many players would love the opportunity to return there many years before that game was set....

Summary Players have discovered an entire quest inFallout: Londonthat seemingly references the long-running British sci-fi TV seriesDoctor Who. The ambitiousFallout 4mod boasts around 200 quests, 20 factions, and 15 boroughs built from the ground up, according to its development team. Fallout: Londonis a massive total conversion mod forFallout 4that lets players explore a post-apocalyptic version of the United Kingdom’s historic capital. After its launch was delayed in April, Team FOLON, the independent group behind the project,quietly releasedFallout: Londonon July 25, and some gamers have quickly made an interesting discovery during their adventures....