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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Is a Great Expansion Full of Interesting Characters, Vibrant Enemies, and a Deep New Area to Explore - Review IGN giver udvidelsen Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen karakteren 8 ud af 10. Anmeldelsen fremhæver den tætte, frosne Norgan-region, interessante figurer, stemningsfulde omgivelser og udforskning, der i højere grad minder om Zelda eller Metroid. Historien og de mange sideopgaver er solide, men ujævne, mens det nye udstyrssystem med tilfældige Spoils ikke altid føles meningsfuldt.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation: First Impressions of an Early Slice of Gameplay from an FF7 Veteran | IGN Preview IGN har prøvet en tidlig, lineær sektion af Final Fantasy VII Revelation, som foregår ved North Crater og fokuserer på historien frem for spillets åbne verden. Demoen introducerer Materia-fragmenter til hurtigere opgradering, forbedret automatisk opsamling og nye kampmuligheder gennem Cid, Vincent og FITS-systemet. Sværhedsgraden virkede lav i demoens første kapitel, men kan ændre sig inden udgivelsen.

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Konami Planning 'Second and Third Waves' of New Silent Hill Games as It Looks Into 'A Number of Projects' Konami planlægger flere nye Silent Hill-spil efter en succesfuld første bølge, oplyser producer Motoi Okamoto i et interview med Famitsu. Selskabet vil endnu ikke afsløre konkrete detaljer, men arbejder allerede på en række projekter. Den første bølge omfattede blandt andet genindspilningen af Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f og Silent Hill: Townfall, mens Bloober Team også arbejder på en genindspilning af det originale Silent Hill.

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'We're Moving Fast' — Blumhouse Partners With MatPat to Make Amanda the Adventurer Movie, Confirms More Indie Horror Game Adaptations Are Coming Blumhouse har indgået et samarbejde med YouTube-profilen Matthew “MatPat” Patrick om at filmatisere virale indie-horrorspil. Den første planlagte film bliver Amanda the Adventurer, som følger et mysterium omkring et uhyggeligt animeret børneprogram. Projektet er stadig i udvikling, men parterne forhandler allerede med manuskriptforfattere og instruktører om at få filmen realiseret.

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Magic: The Gathering at NYCC Live Blog – Get Ready for Darkhold Destiny Wizards of the Coast har annonceret Darkhold Destiny, et nyt Marvel-sæt til Magic: The Gathering under Universes Beyond-brandet. Afsløringen fandt sted i forbindelse med New York Comic Con, men kortene og sættets konkrete mekanikker er endnu ikke offentliggjort. IGN beskriver sættet som en mere original fortolkning af Marvel-universet, der passer bedre til Magic-verdenen end tidligere crossover-sæt.

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Gears of War: E-Day Sales Start Soft as Analyst Warns Game Pass Is 'Cannibalizing' Premium Revenue on Xbox En analyse fra Alinea Analytics anslår, at Gears of War: E-Day solgte omkring 230.000 eksemplarer på PC og Xbox i den første uge. Tallet er ikke bekræftet af Microsoft og omfatter 168.000 Steam-salg samt 62.000 salg i Xbox-økosystemet. Samtidig skulle cirka 1,7 millioner have spillet via Game Pass, hvilket ifølge analysen har flyttet interessen fra køb til abonnementer.

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'Scrib Doon!' — LucasFilm Games Producer Responds after Galactic Racer Character Biddy Blas Goes Viral Figuren Biddy Blas fra Star Wars: Galactic Racer er blevet viral på sociale medier på grund af sin overdrevne stemmeskuespil og komiske dialog. Lucasfilm Games-producent Craig Derrick har reageret på den store opmærksomhed og takket fans for interessen. Figuren kan blandt andet narre spillere med en eksplosiv gave, mens spillets multiplayer-grænse snart bliver udvidet.

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'We Are Not Against Creativity' — Skate Developer Addresses Community Mods After ReSkate Goes Viral Skate-udvikleren Full Circle anerkender fan-modifikationer efter den store interesse for ReSkate, en uofficiel platform med offline-spil, private servere og brugerskabte baner. Studiet vil dog slå ned på mods, der omgår betalt indhold eller udnytter uudgivne funktioner. Samtidig arbejder Full Circle på officielle værktøjer, der skal give spillerne større frihed til at skabe indhold.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launch Rollout Adds DMZ Early Access Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 giver forudbestillere tidlig adgang til både kampagnen og den genarbejdede DMZ-spiltilstand. Kampagnen åbner 16. oktober, DMZ følger 20. oktober, mens den fulde lancering finder sted 23. oktober på pc og konsoller. Infinity Ward beskriver DMZ som en mere omfattende extraction shooter med vedvarende progression i det åbne område Hajin Exclusion Zone.

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October’s Humble Choice Lineup Is Officially Live, Featuring Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Psychonauts 2, and 6 More Games Humble Choice’ens oktoberudvalg 2026 er lanceret med otte pc-spil til 14,99 dollar om måneden. Pakken inkluderer blandt andet Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Psychonauts 2 og Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Medlemskabet giver også en gratis måned med IGN Plus, rabatter i Humble-butikken og et bidrag til velgørenhedsorganisationen Hilarity for Charity.

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'It's Not an Industry Secret' — Wardogs Dev Holding Back Certain Features Because of Xbox Series S, but Working to 'Very Low-End Hardware' Has Its Benefits Udvikleren Bulkhead siger, at Xbox Series S begrænser, hvilke funktioner der kan tilføjes til Wardogs, blandt andet dynamisk vejr, fordi konsollens ydeevne sætter en nedre grænse. Samtidig har arbejdet med den svagere hardware gjort det lettere at optimere spillet til mindre kraftige pc’er. Wardogs kommer først til konsoller i 2028, mens sæson 2 lanceres 15. oktober.

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Wardogs Season 2 Adds a New Gambling Mechanic That Lets You Bet on Yourself — Here's How It Works Wardogs Season 2 lanceres 15. oktober med blandt andet et nyt vejrsystem og regn i kampene. En ny Wager Vendor-mekanik lader spillere satse på egne præstationer, eksempelvis et bestemt antal drab eller genoplivninger, med mulighed for store gevinster eller tab. Funktionen bliver dog først tilgængelig, når spillerne har opbygget nok penge i spillet.

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'It Should Just Be More Performance' — Wardogs Dev Says PS6 and Xbox Project Helix Ports Should Be Relatively Straightforward Udvikleren Bulkhead forventer, at Wardogs relativt enkelt kan bringes til Sonys kommende PlayStation 6 og Microsofts Project Helix. Studiet planlægger en konsoludgave af spillet til 2028 og er allerede i dialog med platformsejerne. Wardogs er i øjeblikket tilgængeligt på PC i early access, mens sæson 2 lanceres i næste uge med blandt andet regn som ny gameplayfunktion.

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'There Is a Genuine PR Issue With Lonestar' — Wardogs Dev Explains Why Blue Team Loses More, Confirms Plan to Address the Balance in Season 2 Udvikleren Bulkhead erkender, at det blå hold Lonestar i Wardogs taber markant oftere end de øvrige hold. Holdets sejrsrate er dog steget fra cirka 10 procent i alfaen til omkring 20 procent efter lanceringen. I sæson 2 flyttes alle holds spawnområder på Bakurani, mens Lonestar også får blandt andet erfarings- og pengebonusser. Sæsonen lanceres 15. oktober.

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'It Completely Changes the Game' — Wardogs' New Rain System Will Have a Major Effect on Gameplay in Season 2 Wardogs’ anden sæson lanceres 15. oktober og introducerer regnvejr som en fast del af udvalgte kampe. Regnen reducerer sigtbarheden, gør kortet mørkere, dugger vinduer til og kan med torden maskere skud og andre lyde. Udvikleren Bulkhead forventer, at ændringerne vil påvirke spillestile markant, mens yderligere vejrtyper som sne og nattemørke fortsat overvejes.

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Wizards of the Coast Announces Dungeons & Dragons: Star Wars Tyro Squadron With First Look at Official Art Wizards of the Coast har annonceret Dungeons & Dragons-eventyret Star Wars: Tyro Squadron samt en større regeludvidelse baseret på Star Wars-universet. Kampagnen foregår under den originale trilogi og lader spillerne slutte sig til en hemmelig oprørscelle, udføre missioner og udforske nye dele af galaksen. Flere detaljer ventes afsløret ved Star Wars Celebration i april 2027.

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'A Celebration of Everything Dead Space' — New Battlefield 6 Event Has Players Storming Area 51 Battlefield 6 får et ikke-kanonisk Halloween-event med Dead Space-tema, hvor spillerne skal kæmpe mod Necromorphs omkring Area 51. Eventet begynder 20. oktober og giver adgang til særlige kosmetiske genstande frem til 7. november. Samtidig lanceres spillets femte sæson med nye Las Vegas-baner, en Area 51-bane og den hurtigere battle royale-tilstand Rapid Royale.

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'It's Every Motherf***er for Himself!' — The San Andreas Mission You Need to Play to Understand What's Great About GTA 6 IGN fremhæver missionen “Reuniting the Families” fra GTA: San Andreas som et vigtigt eksempel på Rockstar Games’ filmiske spildesign. Missionen fører spilleren gennem et motel fyldt med skudvekslinger, scripted events og intense biljagter, hvor det åbne bymiljø afløses af en mere lineær oplevelse. Artiklen sætter missionens dramatiske stil i relation til forventningerne til GTA 6.

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GTA 6 on Switch 2? 'That's a Conversation for Take-Two and Rockstar,' Nintendo Says Nintendo of Americas direktør, Devon Pritchard, siger, at en mulig Switch 2-version af GTA 6 må drøftes mellem Take-Two og Rockstar Games. Der er derfor endnu ingen annoncering om spillet til Nintendos nye konsol. Switch 2 er kraftigere end forgængeren og kan allerede køre krævende spil som Cyberpunk 2077 og The Witcher 3.

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Militsioner Is a Roguelike Where You Need to Escape from (or Befriend) a Giant Cop IGN har prøvespillet Militsioner, et usædvanligt indiespil hvor spilleren forsøger at undslippe en by, mens en gigantisk politimand overvåger området. Spillet giver stor frihed til at udforske, løse problemer og påvirke politimandens humør, blandt andet ved at skaffe ham en doughnut. Previewet afslører også roguelike-elementer, oversvømmelser og en række ubesvarede mysterier.

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'I'm Losing 10 Years of Hard Work' — YouTuber's Channel Permanently Banned Over Censored Hellraiser: Revival Gameplay Video Den franske YouTuber J0nathan har fået sin kanal permanent lukket efter en gameplayvideo fra Hellraiser: Revival, selv om nøgenheden i spillets åbningsscene var dækket med sorte bokse. YouTube henviser til reglerne om seksuelt indhold, mens skaberen siger, at andre videoer med den samme scene stadig er tilgængelige. Kanalen havde omkring 190.000 abonnenter og over 3.000 videoer.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever on Nintendo Switch 2 — No Amazon Prime Membership Required Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade til Nintendo Switch 2 er sat ned til 25 dollar hos Amazon, hvilket ifølge IGN er spillets laveste pris nogensinde. Tilbuddet kræver ikke længere et Amazon Prime-abonnement. Den fysiske udgave leveres som et Game-Key Card, så hele spillet skal downloades fra internettet, og den inkluderer både hovedspillet og Yuffie-episoden INTERmission.

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Everything To Know About the PUBG MOBILE Brainrot Royale Pumpkin-themed Update - IGN PUBG Mobile har lanceret version 4.6 med en græskarpræget opdatering til spiltypen Brainrot Royale. Opdateringen tilføjer blandt andet den tidsbegrænsede Ghost Ship-begivenhed, Pirate Coins, nye genstande som en magisk kost og et system til at fusionere Brainrots til stærkere versioner. Spillere får også flere sociale funktioner, større basekapacitet og forbedringer af lagerstyringen.

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Pokemon TCG's Delta Reign Expansion Is Finally Up For Preorder On Amazon and Target — And One Box Is Already Under Market Price Forudbestillingerne til Pokémon TCG-udvidelsen Mega Evolution—Delta Reign er åbnet hos Amazon og Target via tredjepartssælgere. Booster Bundles, Elite Trainer Boxes og 36-pak displaybokse kan bestilles til priser tæt på eller under markedsniveau. Udvidelsen udkommer 6. november, mens de omtalte Amazon-leverancer foreløbig er sat til 10. november.

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NieR Creator Yoko Taro Says He Would Retire From Making Video Games but Fear of Dementia Keeps Him Working NieR-skaberen Yoko Taro siger, at han egentlig gerne ville gå på pension, men fortsætter med at arbejde af frygt for at udvikle demens efter pensioneringen. Ved en japansk spilkulturfestival fortalte han også, at flere af hans projekter er blevet aflyst, selv om han har arbejdet på dem. Taro mener samtidig, at nye teknologier som AI giver yngre spilskabere flere muligheder, men også skærper konkurrencen.

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Silver Pines Is the Silent Hill Metroidvania Mash-Up I Never Knew I Needed IGN fremhæver Silver Pines som en vellykket blanding af survival horror og metroidvania. Spillet kombinerer 2,5D-udforskning med begrænset inventar, klodset kamp, gåder og værktøjer, der åbner nye områder. Anmeldelsen roser især den trykkende stemning, de gennemtænkte mekanikker og atmosfæren, men understreger, at vurderingen stadig er foreløbig efter cirka fem timers spilletid.

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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Is a Great Expansion Full of Interesting Characters, Vibrant Enemies, and a Deep New Area to Explore - Review

IGN giver udvidelsen Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen karakteren 8 ud af 10. Anmeldelsen fremhæver den tætte, frosne Norgan-region, interessante figurer, stemningsfulde omgivelser og udforskning, der i højere grad minder om Zelda eller Metroid. Historien og de mange sideopgaver er solide, men ujævne, mens det nye udstyrssystem med tilfældige Spoils ikke altid føles meningsfuldt.

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The first Dark Arisen expansion for the original Dragon’s Dogma has a well-lauded place in video game history as the expansion that “fixed” the base game, sanding down the rough technical edges and tweaking things to make the notoriously obtuse RPG more approachable. It also added hours of new content, spiraling an already heady story directly into the heavens on the back of dragon wings. Dark Arisen 2 isn’t as transformational as the first one was, primarily because many of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s biggest issues have been fixed through incremental patching since it came out in 2024. But the new content here definitely flies in the same ambitious skies as its predecessor, pushing the story and world design to new heights, even if some of the new progression options get left behind.

As with Dragon’s Dogma 2’s base campaign, Dark Arisen 2’s story remixes themes from the first game without being a simple retelling. Like in the first, another Arisen has been rumored to exist, something that shouldn’t be possible and demands your immediate attention. This takes you north to the frozen mountains of Norgan, a place that is largely abandoned save for the single settlement at its border (and the steady stream of visitors coming from other lands to investigate what’s been lost under all that ice besides you).

What I said about Dragon's Dogma 2 (2024)

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a strange and wonderful game that seems haunted by some of yesteryear’s bugaboos. It is a retelling and reimplementation of all of those wonderful ideas from the 2012 cult-classic, including an awesome dynamic world and some of the best combat in the genre that integrates a subtle but amazingly complex physics system. On the other hand, its finicky ally AI, clunky climbing, choppy frame rate, and camera with a habit of going haywire at the worst times are all “features” I wish hadn’t been brought back for another round. Even so, there’s an action-RPG here that’s richly rewarding and incomparable to its contemporaries if you can be patient with its quirks and open to embracing its hands-off open-world and quest designs. - Jarrett Green, March 20, 2024

Review: 8

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The expansion’s story also meanders in similar ways to the base game, with plot points getting sidetracked by little tasks or other happenings, but it didn’t feel as distracting since a lot of the “help me and I’ll help you” quests are relegated to side stories. As a whole, this roughly 20-hour main quest is solid, lacking in nuanced writing or ground breaking storytelling but bursting with a tangibly broody mood, big moments, and some genuinely interesting lore. It’s meditation on how a hero of destiny chooses their fate (if they get a choice at all) is unsubtle, and spends far too long at the end really sending the message home, but it sticks it.

For those who don’t mind a lot of filler with their killer, there are plenty of people with tasks thoroughly less vital to the survival of reality that need doing. A couple of those quest lines stand out – one where you help the son of the village’s leader become brave and tough enough to follow in his footsteps, for example – but most are just a flimsy excuse to run around the world and beat up enemies.

The frigid Norgan region is delightfully dense with things to find and see even if its smaller than most other regions in Dragon’s Dogma 2. What it lacks in square footage on a map, it gains in a sprawling sense of height that stretches from it’s jagged icy peaks down to winding underground caverns that spread wide and interconnect. Navigating up and down the rocks is a treacherous and daunting road at first, but climbing hooks can be used on specific poles scattered throughout to bridge elevations without the fuss.

It feels almost like a Zelda or Metroid game in ways this series never has before.

Combined with how dungeons and caves tended to loop back on themselves, revealing exits or opening doors that served as their own shortcuts into and out of zones, and Dark Arisen 2 felt almost like a Zelda or Metroid game in ways this series never has before. The abundance of portcrystals scattered around the map is another navigational relief. There are more in Norgan than there are in Vermund and Bathall combined, making travelling to different zones far more reasonable than it was in the base game.

Note that reasonable doesn’t necessarily mean easier. The portcrystal’s abundance is a practical matter, as ox carts wouldn’t last long in the harsh environments. Norgan’s wintry winds often pick up, turning snowfall into blinding whiteouts that threaten to freeze you to death if you aren’t protected by special winterized gear or new consumables designed to stave off these frost effects for a limited time. These came in abundance pretty regularly so I never felt like my life was in danger out there, but the scrambling effect it has on the minimap and how generally hard it is to see or navigate in real time made them a threat worth waiting out at camp.

Norgan’s crumbling castles and snowcapped cliffs are a welcome change of pace from the rolling hills and dense hinterlands of Vermund and he craggy deserts of Bathall. It’s also not all snowy wastes. I was surprised to see a break in the snow drifts when I came across a festering poisonous swamp. It matches thematically in that everything in it is dead (or maybe wishes it was), but areas like that and the crystal caves deep below the mountains subverted my expectations for the region in a welcome way.

The bulk of what you’ll find hidden in the snow are Spoils, a new gear type that appears in generic shapes (long weapon, aegis, etc.) at first, but is revealed to be a usable piece of equipment when appraised by one of the new NPCs. Rolling the dice for new gear was not particularly exciting, and it further isolated me from having any real attachment to my equipment in a game that already had an abundance of junk to constantly ignore. There are at least things outside of raw stats to consider, as each piece of gear can potentially have special attributes that grant passive abilities or enhance specific weapon skills – but no single piece of gear stayed in rotation long enough to be something I relied on much, with the deluge of experience points I received strapping a rocket to my leveling almost immediately. I can see how these could fit into an endgame grind, but participating in a lottery in hopes to get incrementally stronger as my levels reaches the mid 100s is the sort of loop that I, like The Arisen, simply don’t have the heart for.

New skills and abilities for every vocation can be learned from obelisks that dot the ridges and tundra in Norgan. Each have multiple tiers of offerings, and while the first are available for purchase with rift points immediately, the rest need to be unlocked with offering flames, earned in Dark Arisen 2’s second big campaign: the repeatable 12 Lost Rites dungeons scattered across Vermund and Bathall. Each skill is welcome, though outside some of the powerful new spells available to casters, I don’t think many of them change the balance of vocations in any significant way. Trickster is more active now that you can do additional things with your incense clone, like possess enemies and have them attack their kin. But if you have a favorite class, I’m not sure these new offerings will change the tier list already in your mind.

The Last Rites dungeons range from short gauntlets of monster battles to sizable delves deep into danger. Some have unique designs that lean on a particular mechanic or require specific prerequisites before you can enter them – one where your Arisen must be an Archer/Magick Archer and whose rooms are filled with shootable support pillars to help collapse terrain onto enemies stands out. I haven't finished them all, as some only appear during the last act of the original story, but I haven’t found any of the ones I have completed to be a significant challenge, especially with the enormous power spike granted from grinding through Norgan first. The new recurring boss from them, a giant Beholder-like eyeball monster, is a fun fight, though.

Norgan’s new slate of monsters can be pretty gnarly early on. Some are just stronger versions of baddies you’ve seen in the past, like the barbarous beocarns who are essentially just bigger bandits. But the brand new foes, like that baphomet-shaped lesser demons who sling spells and enhance their own physical attacks with elemental boons, can be pretty intense dance partners. Giant yetis with gaping mouths that stretch the length of their bodies might be some of the most grotesque and memorable enemies in the series. I really loved the little freaks hiding out in the tundra.

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