Borderlands 3 shoots onto PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 13, and ahead of its release, the looter-shooter got a new rocking trailer showing the Vault Hunters jamming out to some Queen.

The new trailer shows the four Vault Hunters–Amara the Siren, FL4K the Beastmaster, Moze the Gunner, and Zane the Operative–wreaking havoc and causing mayhem as they attempt to thwart Troy and Tyreen Calypso’s evil plans. It’s a dazzling display of lights and explosions and chaos, all soundtracked to Queen’s “Seven Seas of Rhye” from the band’s 1973 debut album Queen and the 1974 follow-up Queen II.

The critics have spoken and we’ve compiled a roundup of Borderlands 3 reviews from various publications. In our Borderlands 3 review we said, “The game’s character-driven narrative acts as a satisfying finale for the loot-shooter franchise, and the new mechanics and features–especially the reworked skill trees and weapon manufacturer effects–give you plenty of agency in how you want to play through it. If you’ve never been a fan of the franchise, it’s unlikely Borderlands 3 does enough things differently to change your mind, as the game best excels at continuing what the series has always done: deliver a humorous tall tale of misfits looting and shooting their way to heroism.”

Borderlands 3 may be just on the horizon, but developer Gearbox already has plans for the game’s first wave of post-release content. These include a Halloween-themed limited-time event called Bloody Harvest, a much larger update called Maliwan Takedown, and the first of its major DLC expansions all launching before the end of 2019, with more content likely to come in 2020.

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Free new content updates are on their way to Remnant: From the Ashes. The flawed but fun third-person action-adventure sees a new mode and dungeon arrive later this month, whether you’re fighting alone or with friends in tow.

Adventure Mode releases on September 12. This is a new game mode that allows players to re-roll individual worlds and play altered versions of previous campaign missions. You’ll be able to embark on an adventure through the dynamically generated worlds of Earth, Rhom, and Yaesha, beginning at a single bonfire-esque World Stone and ending once you’ve defeated the world’s final boss. Enemy spawns, points of interest, dungeon locations, and more may be different from the main campaign to throw a spanner into the works. All you have to do is select Adventure Mode from World Settings to begin. This won’t affect your current campaign progress either, and any items or traits gained along the way are free to keep.

Another free update is out on September 19, introducing a new dungeon called Leto’s Lab. You’ll have to fight your way through Research Station Alpha, exploring the lab of head researcher Leto Apostolakis. He theorized that the mysterious red crystals spread throughout Remnant could be used to bridge space-time for near-instantaneous travel, eventually unlocking the World Stone on Ward 16 and allowing mankind to travel to other worlds. Leto’s experiments quickly diverged, however, and the lab was forced to evacuate when one of his dubious experiments went awry.

Leto’s Lab will dynamically spawn on Earth after its release. This new dungeon differs from the others in Remnant by revealing more backstory about the world while mixing in light puzzles with its usual combat.

You can check out GameSpot’s Remnant: From the Ashes review. “For the most part, the experiment is a success, resulting in deeply satisfying combat against creative and challenging enemies,” said Alessandro Barbosa. “Remnant struggles to effectively transfer that success over to an engaging loot system and an interesting story to wrap it all up, but when you’re blasting away foes with weapons crafted from the remains of your latest boss kill, it’s hard not to do so with a wide smile on your face.”

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Dying Light took place in the fictional Middle-Eastern city of Harran. The sun-soaked streets and dilapidated buildings made up a sprawling playground that was split into two distinct zones. Since using parkour to get around by climbing, jumping–and generally doing anything to avoid the zombie hordes–was the only form of traversal, the city felt a lot bigger than it actually was.

In Dying Light 2, the sequel’s fictional European metropolis is four times larger than all of the maps in its predecessor combined–including The Following DLC’s expansive farmland. “We are witnessing a lot of changes in the technology side,” said Pawel Rohleder, chief technology officer at developer Techland, in an interview on the Nvidia GeForce YouTube channel. “The game world will be four times bigger than the whole game before,” he continued. “Streaming technology allows us to make really huge worlds.”

On top of the sheer breadth of the map, Dying Light 2 will also be implementing ray tracing tech, too. “This is like the holy grail in computer graphics and photorealism,” Rohleder explained. Beyond this, Dying Light 2 places a large emphasis on story and the choices you make. Writer and designer Chris Avellon–who’s known for his work on the likes of Fallout 2, Pillars of Eternity, and Prey–is collaborating with Techland as a narrative designer. “This is one of the biggest challenges for us; every choice that you make may impact the world. For example, we have to have different versions of the map, and the map is huge so the challenge is even bigger,” Rohleder said. “The world combinations are a really huge number of possibilities.”

Techland recently released a 26-minute gameplay video showcasing how Dying Light 2’s map can change depending on the choices you make. After the player opts to turn on some water pumps, an underground city emerges from beneath the waves, giving you a new area to explore that also changes the direction of the narrative.

Dying Light 2 is due out Spring 2020 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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P.T. achieved legendary status in 2015 after Konami cancelled Silent Hills and subsequently delisted the experimental demo from the PlayStation Store. It was already incredibly popular–as evidenced by over a million downloads–and is widely regarded as one of the best horror games ever made. Throw in the involvement of Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro, and Norman Reedus; the fact it’s still unavailable to download; and the incredible notion that people are still finding secrets within it, and P.T.’s legacy is easy to understand.

After all these years it’s also still finding ways to terrify us. Modder Lance McDonald, who’s responsible for a number of cool hacks in games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls, and Sekiro over on his YouTube channel, has now turned his considerable expertise to P.T., gleaning some horrifying new information about what was lurking just outside of view. By hacking and managing to unlock the camera, McDonald was able to move the player character forward while keeping the camera still, revealing that evil ghost Lisa is creeping behind you at nearly all times.

“I’ve been slowly working on looking for useful bits of code in P.T. for months, usually just messing around for a few hours a week and having no luck at all,” McDonald told VG247. “I finally found all the code that handles the ‘zoom in’ when the player clicks the R3 button. I removed all the code that adjusts the camera and replaced it with my own, and then patched the game so that it thinks you’re always holding R3, so it constantly injects my custom camera axis.”

His discovery is haunting, but there’s even more P.T. content on the way. “I only tweeted what I did because I’m confident I have enough other awesome stuff to save for a full video,” McDonald said. The prospect of seeing between more of P.T.’s seams is an exciting one and should lead to some intriguing footage. Kojima’s Silent Hills teaser may be gone from the PlayStation Store forever, but it’s still finding ways to infiltrate our nightmares all these years later.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pt-still-finds-new-ways-to-scare-us-years-after-be/1100-6469710/