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After roughly 940 million kilometres, the Earth has reached the point on its 12-month celestial march around the sun where it’s time for another Formula 1 game. Fitting, perhaps, considering I feel like I’ve driven roughly 940 million kilometres in this series over the past decade-and-change. Jokes aside, it’s a testament to the incredible robustness of Codemasters’ brand of open-wheel motorsport magic that climbing back into the cockpit each year remains a pleasure, and F1 23 is no exception. Alongside noticeably improved handling for the new-era cars, F1 23 also adds the next chapter of the Braking Point story mode introduced in F1 2021 – plus a new reward-based progression system with daily, weekly, and seasonal goals. The result is plenty to keep us busy, even if your personal mileage may vary substantially depending on your taste in both curated, solo campaigns and live service-style game modes. Last season’s sweeping regulation changes ushered in a field full of brand-new F1 ...

Diablo 4 is full of more demons than ever before, and its expansive regions can be both dangerous and confusing to explore. Whether you’re looking to tweak the difficulty, get help in combat, or understand its various mechanics, materials, and currencies, we’ve compiled the biggest things Diablo 4 doesn’t always tell you outright. See the full Diablo 4 Interactive Map with locations of Dungeons, Collectibles, Strongholds and more! 1 - When Can I Get That Mount? As soon as you finish the Prologue tutorial and arrive in the main city of Kyovashad, you can try to interact with the stables where Lorath got a horse, only to find you aren’t able to purchase one as well. Even if you’ve bought special editions of the game or purchased cosmetics from the in-game store, you still won’t be able to have a mount of your own just yet. Instead, you’ll need to progress through the Main Story’s multiple Acts for quite a bit of time. Though you’re welcome to undertake Act 1 , Act 2 , and ...

Of course, the developers themselves are players and fans of the Final Fantasy series too, and finding out their favorite Final Fantasy games may offer a few hints as to the inspirations behind the new game. So during a visit to Square Enix’s Tokyo HQ, we asked six members of the dev team to tell us their Top 3 Final Fantasy games. Let’s take a look! Naoki Yoshida (Producer) “I’ve been a player since the NES days, so for me the original Final Fantasy was a huge deal. Partly because of (Yoshitaka) Amano’s illustrations, I was mesmerized by the game's strong sense of fantasy. Above all, the timing of where the game’s title logo appears had a great impact on me. It only appears after you finish the first part of the story: While the characters are crossing a bridge, the title logo finally appears. It made me feel like I had just watched the prologue of a movie. The game’s cinematic approach to storytelling and presentation was very inspiring. It’s still a huge milestone that indic...

Persona 3 Reload is coming out on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 as well as PC via Steam, Atlus has announced. The confirmation comes after Reload was announced as launching on Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and PC via Windows during Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase . However, Reload is not coming out on Nintendo Switch, with the console absent from Atlus’ list of additional platforms. Persona 3 Reload, due out early 2024 and available on Xbox Game Pass at launch, is a remake of the beloved Persona 3. It features combat and graphics updated to resemble Persona 5, and enhanced audio with new English voiceover. However, Reload does not include additional content from Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable, including the female protagonist. In an interview with IGN , producer Ryota Niitsuma and chief director Kazuhisa Wada confirmed Reload only features content present in the original Persona 3. "So first I'd like to mention that since the basic concept of the Persona 3 rem...

The Last of Us Part 1 on PC is now Steam Deck Verified thanks to the game's latest update that also focuses on performance improvements, fixing various crashes, and more. The news arrives via The Last of Us Part 1's v1.1.0 patch notes for PC, and the Steam Deck verification is a welcome addition, especially after Naughty Dog confirmed it wasn't a priority for the team around the game's launch earlier this year. It should be a good sign that many of the issues The Last of Us Part 1's PC players have been experiencing have been addressed since this lower-priority item has now been checked off Naughty Dog's list. The Last of Us Part 1 arrived on PC on March 28 and was almost immediately slammed on Steam for a various number of its performance issues. Naughty Dog was quick to respond and offer fixes, and a note at the bottom of this latest update confirms the studio and its partners at Iron Galaxy are "closely watching player reports to support future ...

McDonald's has released a Game Boy Color game in honor of Grimace's 52nd birthday called... well, Grimace's Birthday. This isn't an acid dream, we promise. Krool Toys, who developed Grimace's Birthday, launched the game on its own website , and you can play it right now on your browser or on your phone. If you still have a Game Boy Color lying around somewhere in your house, you can also download the ROM file for it since it was designed to run on the 25-year-old hardware. In Grimace's Birthday, Grimace throws a birthday party at a McDonald's restaurant, but none of his McDonaldland friends — Birdie the Early Bird, the Hamburglar, and the McNugget Buddies — have shown up. With 30 minutes to midnight, he has to round them up before it's time to blow out the candles. You have to help Grimace collect 40 milkshakes through four levels of the game, and reach the goal before time runs out. The first two levels see the purple mascot skateboarding, while ...

If you’ve managed to do all of the story content that Cyberpunk 2077 had to offer and have been wanting an excuse to hop back on and do some netrunning or samurai sword slashing, I’m happy to say that Phantom Liberty is going to offer you a lot to chase and then some. I was dropped into Dogtown, the new location you’ll explore in Phantom Liberty, and it’s filled with a new story, new gigs, airdrops that’ll include some coveted loot, new Cyberware upgrades in the form of Relics, new perks, and a lot more I’m probably going to discover when I return in September. To kick things off, when diving back into Night City, you’ll receive a message and a mission from Songbird: Save the President of the New United States. She has crashed and you’ll need to get her out from behind enemy lines before Hansen’s people do. Hansen, the big bad of Dogtown, doesn’t seem to like President Myers very much, and it’ll be up to you to pull her out of the fire. In terms of the story, the overall feeling I ...