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Legendary adventure game designer and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert had waited years for this. By “this” he’s not just talking about the chance to finally make his own Monkey Island 3 – officially titled Return to Monkey Island – but also about the opportunity to announce it. “Announcing this game on April 1 has been a dream of mine for years,” he told IGN, referencing the April Fool’s-but-not-really post on his personal blog. “That was the big thrill to me.” The official reveal , along with a teaser trailer, came the following Monday, shocking the gaming world. Gilbert had been noodling on a project by himself when Monkey Island unexpectedly came back into his life . “I was working on a little RPG game that I was just doing solo, just me,” he said. “That was kind of a hobby project more than anything.” And then came PAX 2019. “The whole thing started at PAX 2019,” he explained. “I got together with Nigel [Lowrie], who runs Devolver, and he said, ‘Hey, we’re interested in doing...

Elden Ring modders are currently adding a ton of pop culture franchises into the game, including clever (and bizarre) mods to add elements from Star Wars, One Piece, Hollow Knight, and even Life Is Strange. The mods range from adding simple costumes – Zelda's Dark Link for example – that let players cosplay their favourite characters, to weapons that allow you wield spells using Harry Potter's Elder Wand. The Nexus Mods community has been hard at work bringing just about every franchise imaginable to Elden Ring, and as it was released only two months ago, there are sure to be plenty more on the way. Here are some of our favorites so far: Star Wars Elden Ring Mods Arriving from a galaxy far, far away, this Star Wars mod adds Darth Vader to Elden Ring complete with a flowing cape and flashing lights atop his life support unit. No Star Wars character would be complete without a lightsaber, of course and, since all the rules have been broken already, why not equip Vader...

Back in the early 90s, a young Kazunori Yamauchi was working at Sony Music Entertainment Japan, publishing 2D Super Nintendo platformers, when he was drafted by the original PlayStation development team’s Shuhei Yoshida. Yoshida needed software for Sony’s first-ever games console and it turned out Yamauchi was overflowing with ideas. One of those ideas would be a true game changer; a racing game like no other made before. A realistic, 3D, home console driving simulator, packed with largely attainable, licensed cars, and bigger than any car nerd could’ve imagined. It would completely reinvent the genre. It would be the crown jewel of the original PlayStation; in the company’s words: the greatest racing game of all time . It would be Gran Turismo. However, the first time Yamauchi floated it, the idea sank. Sony simply wasn’t interested. However, Yamauchi had suspected his realistic racer pitch might be a little too radical and he was already prepared to pivot to a different proje...

Xbox has revealed a new set of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in May . This includes Day One launch games on the service such as Trek to Yomi, Sniper Elite 5, and Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Other games hitting the service this month include Loot River, NHL 22, Danganronpa 2, Floppy Knights, Pacman Museum+, and more. But, this is just the first wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in May, with another selection expected to be revealed around halfway through the month. For now, here's everything so far coming to Game Pass this month. Trek to Yomi is Available on Game Pass from May 5 Trek to Yomi is a cinematic action-adventure game that takes inspiration from legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It's releasing on May 5, and will be available at launch on Xbox Game Pass for console, cloud, and PC. Loot River is Available on Xbox Game Pass Now The first game to hit Xbox Game Pass this month is Loot River, a procedurally generated dungeon crawler that combines real-ti...

It’s been a tough time to make a Souls-like action RPG these days. The market is stuffed to the brim with them, and standing out from the pack gets tougher and tougher every year. After six hours with Thymesia, the dark fantasy hack-and-slasher by OverBorder Studio, I’m not quite sure it will be the one to make waves. There are a handful of differences, both aesthetically and mechanically, that make it more than just a carbon copy of genre staples like Bloodborne, but they require patience and a lot of trial and error to truly discover in earnest. As an agent codenamed “Corvus” you slice, claw, and stab your way through your own scattered memories of a kingdom that has fallen to calamity due to an alchemical plague. The location I explored, the plague infested Sea of Trees, was interesting if not a little familiar. The forest covered in boils and noxious gas made a striking first impression, but the winding tree paths rarely revealed anything new outside of its initial introduction....

Cross-platform play is finally arriving in FIFA 22 "in the near future" for players on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Google Stadia – but it'll just be a test for now. The feature, which allows players to play together online regardless of platform, will only be introduced in a testing stage, however, and will only available for Online Seasons and Online Friendlies. EA hasn't said when the test will begin, or how long it might last for. It's unclear if other cross-play modes or platforms will be added, as EA said in a blog post that feedback from the test "will help inform how cross-play could be further implemented in future titles", not saying anything about adding more to FIFA 22. It also limited the feature to current-gen hardware and these two modes "with the aim of reducing the chance for introducing new issues into the game." A cross-play menu will appear in FIFA 22 when testing begins, which allows players to add friends on oth...

A possibly major plot detail for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 has seemingly leaked from Daruk's Italian voice actor Pietro Ubaldi. This article contains Breath of the Wild and possible Breath of the Wild 2 spoilers going forward. As spotted by ResetEra user Alexander_Wand , Zelda-focused YouTube channel Lega Hyrule shared an interview with Ubaldi, who said he not only voiced Daruk in the sequel but also the Goron character's ancestor. Daruk himself passes into the afterlife at the end of Breath of the Wild, meaning his appearance is a little odd in itself, but the apparent ancestor character is also a complete mystery. Time is at the centre of Breath of the Wild's story - with Link waking up 100 years after Ganondorf ruined everything during the Great Calamity - and several flashbacks occur throughout the game. This ancestor could indicates that Link will once again have to address the past, with some fans theorising that they're from the "an...