A blog post earlier this week incorrectly said that you won’t be able to ride a mount in Diablo 4 until you finish the main questline, a mistake that confused players and press alike.

Mounts have been a major feature in Diablo 4 from the beginning—they’re even a pre-order bonus—but leaked footage from the alpha and the endgame beta, as well as some datamined info, suggest that the requirement to unlock them was changed a few times before the action RPG recently went gold.

Maybe that’s why the official post said you had to complete the main questline with one character to permanently unlock mounts for your account. Blizzard revised that paragraph after news outlets and players started asking it to clarify, but not until after Kotaku had reported on it, which led t…

Our initial impression of Redfall, the next game from Dishonored studio Arkane, was that it’s a Left 4 Dead-style shooter that swaps out zombies for vampires. In a new interview with GamesRadar, however, creative director Ricardo Bare and studio director Harvey Smith said that’s really not an accurate assessment.

“It’s totally understandable for somebody to come to that conclusion,” Bare said. “There are four playable characters, you can play together cooperatively, and you’re going against the undead. But, in terms of the way that you play and experience Redfall, it’s not like those games at all. Redfall is more like loading into Far Cry.”

At its core, Left 4 Dead and other games like it—Warhammer 40K: Darktide, Deep Rock Galactic, and Turtle Rock Studios’ L4D spiritu…

From a pure comedy standpoint, like a kind of farcical slapstick angle, Vampire Survivors really is the gift that keeps on giving. What started as a dude’s side project to develop over time and fool around with some game mechanics ideas turned into a huge, huge hit. It didn’t have a story. The soundtrack was 

Now a professional symphony orchestra recorded fully scored, composed, and conducted soundtrack music for its second DLC, Tides of the Foscari, complete with conductor and soloist credits. You can watch a video of it happening.

All for a $2 game about vampires where the joke is that there are absolutely no vampires present. If you own Vampire Survivors on Steam, well, you own all these tracks too, as they’re part of the soundtrack there.

As many of you who ha…

Elden Ring has scored a win at the Nebula awards this week, netting the Best Game Writing award for George R.R. Martin, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and FromSoftware. The Nebulas are awarded by the Science Fictions & Fantasy Writers Association, known as the SFWA, and are one of the highest profile awards in English-language speculative fiction writing.

It’s the third prestigious Nebula win for Martin, but the first for Miyazaki and FromSoftware. Martin has been nominated for the awards more than a dozen times over his decades-long career, for the first time in 1973, while he won in 1979 and 1985 for novelettes. Martin’s contribution to Elden Ring has been a bit confusing for some. See What did George R.R. Martin do for Elden Ring anyway? for details on why, yes, his name deserves to be…

I’m really not much of a platformer guy but I’ve been an unapologetic fan of Trine since the debut of the original all the way back in 2009. (Time flies, eh?) And so it pleases me greatly that Frozenbyte has announced another addition to the series, Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy, which is set to come out later this year.

One of the things I like most about the Trine games is how little they’ve changed over the years, so if you’re familiar with the series, you’ll know what to expect. If not, it’s pretty simple stuff: With the exception of the poorly-received Trine 3, which opted for a 3D perspective, the Trine games are 2.5D sidescrolling puzzle-platformers starring a wizard, a knight, and a thief, each with unique abilities and personalities, who embark upon various heroic adven…

Have you ever looked at a space marine’s legs? Like, properly looked at how their thighs connect to their hips and wondered what’s going on inside that armor? Their stance is so wide it’s impossible to imagine a normal man being able to stand like that, which is fine because space marines aren’t normal men. They’re genetically engineered transhuman supersoldiers and part of the surgical modification that makes them space marines is apparently letting them stand like their legs are bolted to the sides of their waist.

On the tabletop, this is fine. In fact, it’s great. The space marines have a powerful silhouette and are easy to paint. The gigantic shoulderpads give you a focus when you’re looking down at them from above, and their armor makes them pop in a way that, even with exagg…

Razer’s kicking off the new year in style with two world’s firsts when it comes to gaming laptops. In a collab with Samsung, its new Blade laptops are going to sport two new panels, a 16-inch 240Hz OLED and an 18-inch 165Hz 4K LCD. The full details of Razer’s new 2024 Blade gaming laptop lineup are getting a proper announcement early next week, in line with other manufacturers’ embargos.

But today it’s just talking about the screens going into two of those new Blade machines. The first is arguably the one I’m most interested in, especially considering how much I liked looking at last year’s Razer Blade 16 model. That UHD+ panel wasn’t without its faults—chiefly the weird dual-mode thing which only worked as a marketing bullet point—but the 3840 x 2400 mini-LED display …

With just a touch of bravado, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (or Europol) has announced “a major blow” to the Ragnar Locker ransomware group. To you and me, that name is mostly familiar because of the organisation’s 2020 attack on Capcom, which saw it demand $11 million and affect around 400,000 people’s data. 

To Europol, Ragnar Locker was more notable for its attacks on “critical infrastructure” around the world, most recently “against the Portuguese national carrier and a hospital in Israel.”

A “key target” of police agencies investigating Ragnar Locker was arrested in Paris on the 16th of October following an “international police swoop” that also saw ransomware infrastructure seized in the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden. 

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We’re always keeping our eye on the ever-shifting fortunes of Steam’s most-wishlisted games, and there have been some interesting developments lately. A few weeks ago there was the whole The Day Before debacle, where one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam abruptly vanished due to a trademark dispute, a story that managed to only get weirder from there.

And this week horror survival sandbox Sons of the Forest took over the top wishlist spot from Starfield, Bethesda’s intensely-anticipated RPG. It looks like more Steam users are now interested in exploring a single creepy island than they are in visiting 1,000 planets in outer space.

‘Course, there are few explanations for why an indie survival game just trumped Bethesda’s next RPG on players’ shopping …