Details about an expansion for Assassin's Creed Shadows has leaked on the game's Steam page, which has now been scrubbed of this information.According to Insider Gaming, the expansion is called Claws of Awaji and it features an additional 10 hours of gameplay. Players will be able to travel to a new location and unlock a new weapon type, as well as skills, gears, and abilities. Other that that, there's no other info regarding what the expansion's story is.Assassin's Creed Shadows was originally planned for a release date of February 14, but was delayed once again to March 20. The decision was made in order to further improve its gameplay quality and performance.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Publisher Nexon has announced that The First Berserker: Khazan is getting a demo on January 16, and players will be able to spend as much time as they want in it.The game's official Twitter account posted that the demo will go live on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox at 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT with "no end date scheduled." Presumably, this means that the demo will stay up for the foreseeable future for players to check out.The First Berserker: Khazan is an action-RPG and the next entry in the Dungeon & Fighter series. It's set 800 years before the events of the series, and follows Khazan, who is falsely accused of treason and subsequently banished to the snowy mountains before going on a quest for vengeance. The game features Ben Starr, who voiced Final Fantasy XVI's main protagonist Clive Rosfield, as the voice of Khazan.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Due to the massive amount of content and side stories the series has, One Piece has developed an excellent world. Featuring tons of moving parts, various factions, and excellent characters, many consider One Piece to be an amazing example of world-building. Though this level of detail has made the series itself extremely long, in the end, hopefully, it will all pay off in the Final Saga.

Signal Space Lab's Human Within straddles the line between virtual reality games and interactive fiction, smoothly shifting from one format to another in a unique way that has yet to be seen on the platform. Its traditional virtual reality moments contain most of the game's interactivity, while the 360-degree live-action scenes host some thought-provoking decision-making.

When it comes to cozy gaming, Stardew Valley is the holy grail, and Haunted Chocolatier is looking to continue this tradition of excellence. Being developer Eric Barone's second game, audiences can expect Haunted Chocolatier to take some greater risks than its predecessor, sticking to many of its core mechanics while iterating upon them in unique ways.

December wrapped up another fun year of gaming. What did you enjoy most about last months title lineup?How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we will tally your votes, and announce the winner on our social channels and PlayStation.Blog.What is the voting criteria? Thats up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? Note: re-released games dont qualify, but remakes do. We define remakes as ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds such as Resident Evil 4 (2023) and Final Fantasy VII Remake.How are nominees decided? The PlayStation Blog editorial team will gather a list of that months most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll.

Some movie and TV stories, described to someone who hasnt seen them, invariably sound cooler than they are. (Just try to sum up the plot of Disney Plus The Acolyte without sounding like youre trying to sell it.) Others are just never going to sound like good ideas, no matter how well theyre executed. Scott Manns 2022 horror-thriller Fall, newly arrived on Hulu, is one of the latter theres just no way to avoid how cheesy the premise sounds. Two women climb a TV tower and get stuck at the top sounds like an unlikely premise for a heart-stopping adventure movie.But execution is everything. If you can get past that premise and a few early, mild narrative missteps, Fall is surprisingly terrifyinga truly vertiginous, visceral experience designed to bring out the latent acrophobe in everyone.Grace Caroline Currey (Shazam! / Shazam!: Fury of the Gods) stars as Becky Connor, a former free-climbing enthusiast whos still reeling from the death of her husband Dan (Mason Gooding, of the new batch of Scream movies) during a climb. On the one-year anniversary of his death, shes drinking herself into a stupor and contemplating suicide when her best friend Hunter (Virginia Gardner, F*** Marry Kill) shows up to try to lure her out of isolation and drag her back to their hobby.Hunter, an enthusiastic daredevil trying to build a following as a YouTube star, has a new stunt in mind: a climb up a 2,000-foot decommissioned TV antenna, described as the former tallest structure in America. She wants Becky to come along, face her (entirely reasonable!) fears about climbing, and scatter Dans ashes from the top of the tower as a step toward emotional closure.Obviously, things go wrong, and obviously, once the two women get stuck on the tower, they cant get phone reception to call for help. Fall mostly operates along broad, familiar beats, though Mann and co-writer Jonathan Frank use viewers familiarity with those beats to goose the tension: With every step Becky and Hunter take up the dilapidated, fragile-feeling tower, it seems more and more inevitable that theyre putting themselves in lethal danger, with no plausible way out once the crisis hits. A lot of the rest of the films run time plays out like 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Shallows, or other standout small-scale thrillers, where the protagonists have to get inventive about staging their own rescue with minimal resources and a ticking clock.But while Becky and Hunter are resourceful, and come up with some clever ideas, Falls real tension isnt in their escape attempts or even in the personal grievances that emerge once theyre in a life-threatening situation. Its all in Tim Despics queasy cinematography, which makes the danger seem plausible and immersive from the opening sequence on. Stuck on top of a tower just doesnt sound as dangerous as Stranded in shark-infested waters or Locked in a bunker with an unpredictable psychopath, but Despic and Mann make the isolated location, the harsh desert conditions, and the creaky tower feel terrifyingly oppressive. What The Descent did for oppressive depths, Fall does for heights.Falls unlikely premise even winds up working for it. Horror fans have seen plenty of victims stranded in the woods or wilds, stuck at sea or trapped deep underground. But Falls setting feels unique, and it lends itself readily to breathless visuals and heart-stopping plunges. The deep irony is that Becky and Hunter are high enough to see where help might come from, and yet theyre completely isolated: The movie plays with that in a variety of ways, exploring how easy it is to seem beyond other peoples reach even in a populated setting.Fall isnt a perfect little thriller. The setup mixes Beckys real anguish with some questionable plot devices: Shes just starting to take a whole bottle of prescription medicine when Hunter unexpectedly arrives, which seems both melodramatic and in questionable taste. More ridiculous is the conceit that has her calling Dan just to hear his voicemail message again, and pretend shes talking to him (shes still paying for his account after a year?), then dramatically calling him again minutes later after another emotional setback, only to find the numbers suddenly been disconnected. (So she isnt paying for his account but it took a year to disconnect? What exactly is the idea here?)But the film is full of small character touches that make Becky and Hunter realized enough characters for their drama to matter. The same early setup has Hunter cheerfully putting on a ditzy persona for her YouTube followers, then exulting when one of her posts gets 300 likes. The last decade or so of horror movies has been brutal about would-be influencers, making a running joke out of victims who get themselves in deep trouble while pursuing the footage that will launch them to viral fame. Fall follows suit, but has some seeming sympathy for Hunters small-scale ambitions, and the way shes trying to make a business out of adventures she already loves, instead of faking a fandom for clicks.Still, Fall isnt ultimately about the plotting or the characters. Its about the physical sensations it evokes, the effective and startling imagery of great heights and dramatic falls. If you white-knuckled your way through Free Solo or parts of Man on Wire, this ones guaranteed to tap into that same sense of anxiety. Its even a movie designed for streaming, with an immediately grabby opening sequence setting up how the rest of the film will feel. Dont judge it from the plot description, just give it a couple minutes of your streaming time and its likely to lure you in.Fall is streaming on Hulu and Peacock, and is available for digital rental or purchase on Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and other digital platforms.

Recursive Destruction allows you to restore terrain and objects to their original form in Marvel Rivals.Recursive Destruction is a new feature that is unique to the Midtown map, and you must trigger it to complete a mission from the Midnight Features seasonal event. As its a new and unique feature, it can be quite confusing trying to figure out how to prompt it, so well make it a little easier for you.Heres how to trigger Recursive Destruction in Marvel Rivals.How to trigger Recursive Destruction in Marvel RivalsFirst things first, youll need to play on the new map, Midtown, which is only available in quick match. Luckily, there is a limited-time mode that is Midtown only, so, if youre looking to complete the Recursive Destruction mission as fast as possible, make sure to queue for Midtown!While youre playing on Midtown, use your Chrono Vision, which is defaulted to B on PC and right d-pad on console, to see destructible terrain. Usually, youll only see walls and objects highlighted in yellow, but on Midtown, there is terrain highlighted in red.To trigger Recursive Destruction, youll need to deal damage to the objects highlighted in red. Once youve dealt enough damage, the terrain will restore itself through Recursive Destruction.There are two locations to trigger Recursive Destruction on Midtown:The giant pile of rubble inside the station after the first check pointThe collapsed buildings after the second check pointIt is important to note that you can only trigger Recursive Destruction at the designated locations after youve reached their respective check points. If you try to deal damage to the objects before then, nothing will happen, so make sure to push the convoy to each check point!

As multiple wildfires rage around the Los Angeles area, the Final Fantasy 14 team has decided to delay the games automatic housing demolition on North American servers so that players affected by the disaster, and therefore unable to log into the game, wont lose their digital homes.The auto-demolition counter was suspended for the Aether, Crystal, Dynamis, and Primal data centers on Jan. 9 at 8:20 p.m. PT, and the devs plan to monitor the situation in Southern California for the foreseeable future before reactivating it. Under normal circumstances, Final Fantasy 14 players lose their housing after 45 days of not accessing the property due to its high demand within the community.Final Fantasy 14 has previously frozen regional auto-demolition for other natural disasters, including the 2018 Japanese floods, Hurricane Michael, the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes, the 2024 Noto earthquake, and Hurricane Helene.From all of us on the Final Fantasy 14 development and management team, our hearts go out to those who were affected by the mountain fires that occurred around Los Angeles in North America, Square Enixs most recent message reads. It is our sincere hope that recovery is swift, and those of you who were affected will be able to rejoin us in FF14 soon.The Los Angeles Times reports at least 10 people have died, over 100,000 residents have been forced to evacuate, 9,000 structures have been destroyed, and tens of thousands of acres have been burned by the several massive wildfires affecting the area. If youre willing and able to support the affected, the LA Times has also collected a large list of organizations accepting donations here.

CES 2025 is nearing a close, and I couldnt be more excited. Not because I dislike the show floor or meeting face-to-face with people I usually only see online, but because Ive been spending the week in a hotel room with a broken heater. Thats why, when I got to try Razers concept heating and cooling gaming chair today, I was just about ready to stage a heist.Dubbed Project Arielle, the chair isnt confirmed for market yet, instead simply demonstrating an idea Razer is considering. But its an idea I fully support. Using the companys existing Fujin Pro chair as a base, Project Arielle includes a heater and a bladeless fan, turning its mesh back into a temperature control system. Credit: Michelle Ehrhardt The way it works is that the fan draws in air from the bottom of the device, which then gets filtered through vents on the sides of the chairs back and exhausted over your neck. Your butt and arms dont get any climate control, at least for now, but it still felt like a literal breath of fresh air.I was a bit skeptical going in, unsure if the Arielle was really going to be much different from sitting a few feet away from a fan. But the breath of cool air on the nape of my neck was undeniably refreshing after walking around the crowded show floor.For my money, though, I preferred the heating, which plays to the strengths of a mesh back by keeping your back warm without getting it sweaty. It's a little less innovative than the cooling mode, but while heated gaming chairs do exist right now, they rarely have as much coverage as the Arielle, and often use materials that can get stuffy after a while.According to Razer, the chairs heater can warm you up to about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, while its fan can reduce your perceived temperature by nine degrees. Why perceived temperature and not actual temperature? Well, if a fan is blowing right on your neck, you might feel a bit chillier than a thermometer would indicate. Credit: Michelle Ehrhardt As for controls, theres a small panel located on the seat that lets you switch from heating to cooling as well as change fan speeds, but granular temperature settings arent possible for the moment. Theres also orange lighting to indicate when the device is warming and blue for when its cooling, but those are the only colors it can show for now.Anyway, Im about to go bury myself under some blankets, waiting for the day that this thing comes out for real. Last years Razer concept, Project Esther, did eventually make its way to market as the Razer Freyja, so its not out of the question.