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Assassin's Creed Valhalla is Finally Getting its New Game+ Mode, Nearly Six Years After Coming Out Ubisoft tilføjer en New Game+-tilstand til Assassin’s Creed Valhalla den 5. november, næsten seks år efter spillets udgivelse. Opdateringen indeholder blandt andet en ny valgfri progression, runer, achievements, et stash-system og materialet Mithril til opgradering af divine gear. Ubisoft har også varslet yderligere oplysninger om kommende opdateringer til nuværende konsoller, men uden at specificere indholdet.

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Apex Legends Update Lets You Dual Wield the Wingman, Brings Back Lifeline Revive Shield Apex Legends-opdateringen Cipher lanceres 3. november med mulighed for at bruge to Wingman-revolvere samtidig, dog med lavere præcision og højere skade. Crypto får en større omarbejdning, mens Revenant og Lifeline modtager forbedringer, herunder Lifelines genoplivningsskjold. Opdateringen introducerer også Strongholds, nye Ranked-regler med legend-bans i Diamond-lobbies og derover samt flere ændringer til spillets evner.

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Assassins Creed Codename Hexe Gets Cryptic Update That Fans Will Surely Decode Ubisoft har delt en kort opdatering om Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe, der ifølge selskabet fortsat er under udvikling. Spillet beskrives som en mørkere oplevelse, men der er stadig få konkrete detaljer om handling og udgivelse. Ubisoft lover en større opdatering i 2027 og har samtidig offentliggjort en kryptisk besked, som fans forsøger at afkode.

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After Shipping 8 Forza Motorsport Games and Building Turn 10 from Scratch, Dan Greenawalt Is Retiring From Microsoft After 27 Years Dan Greenawalt går på pension fra Microsoft efter 27 år i selskabet. Han var med til at grundlægge Turn 10 Studios og stod i spidsen for otte Forza Motorsport-spil på tværs af fire Xbox-generationer. Turn 10 er for nylig blevet lagt sammen med Playground Games, og 2023-spillet Forza Motorsport forventes ikke at få mere nyt indhold.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Reportedly Show the History of the Titular Artifacts En ny rapport hævder, at Bethesdas næste Elder Scrolls-spil får undertitlen Sentinel og foregår i Hammerfell. Ifølge rapporten kan titlen blive offentliggjort allerede næste måned, muligvis i forbindelse med Skyrims 15-års jubilæum eller Xbox’ 25-års jubilæum. Oplysningerne er ikke bekræftet, men spillet ventes tidligst at udkomme omkring 2028.

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'Flattered' to See His Style Live On: Original GTA Artist Explains How His Signature Visual Identity Continues to Shape the Massive GTA 6 Cover Art Stephen Bliss, tidligere kunstner hos Rockstar Games, siger, at han er smigret over at se elementer fra hans visuelle stil videreført på coveret til GTA 6. Det gælder blandt andet det karakteristiske gitterlayout og helikopteren i øverste venstre hjørne. Bliss understreger samtidig, at han ikke selv har bidraget direkte til coveret, men ser referencerne som en fortsættelse af seriens kunstneriske arv.

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How Former Rockstar Senior Artist Stephen Bliss Defined the Iconic Pop Art and Comic Book Visual Style of Grand Theft Auto Stephen Bliss fortæller i et interview med IGN, hvordan han var med til at forme Grand Theft Autos karakteristiske popkunst- og tegneserieudtryk under sin tid hos Rockstar Games. Han beskriver blandt andet arbejdet med seriens ikoniske billedgitter og coverdesign samt sin rolle i den visuelle arv, der stadig kan ses i GTA 6. Bliss arbejder i dag på egne kunstprojekter og intellektuelle ejendomme.

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The Hellraiser Franchise Is Getting Three New Tabletop Adaptations for Halloween 2027 With Clive Barker's Approval Salt Entertainment har indgået en aftale med Clive Barker og Park Ave Ent. om at udgive tre officielle Hellraiser-baserede bordspil. Det første, Hellraiser: Puzzle of Flesh, bliver et terningbaseret spil med escape room- og social deduction-elementer og ventes udgivet omkring Halloween 2027. Der arbejdes også på et Hellraiser-rollespil samt et endnu ikke nærmere beskrevet stort brætspil.

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Minecraft Creator Notch Is Selling His L.A. Mansion for the 'Low' Asking Price of $70 Million — the Same Amount He Paid for It in 2014 Minecraft-skaberen Markus “Notch” Persson har sat sin enorme villa i Beverly Hills til salg for 70 millioner dollar, samme pris som han betalte i 2014. Den 22.300 kvadratmeter store ejendom har blandt andet 15 badeværelser, en slikbutik, privat natklub, biograf, swimmingpool og optagestudie. Persson siger, at han ikke længere tilbringer meget tid i Los Angeles, mens markedet for luksusboliger er kølet af.

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Some People Who Paid for WoW Forever Name Reservation Couldn't Reserve Their Name Due to a Weird Bug Blizzard har rettet en fejl i navnefilteret til World of Warcraft Forever, som fejlagtigt forhindrede mange spillere i at reservere bestemte karakternavne. Filteret markerede blandt andet navne, der indeholdt bogstavkombinationen ”c-o-n”, som begrænsede. Problemet skulle være løst efter en servergenstart, men enkelte spillere rapporterer fortsat vanskeligheder med at reservere navne.

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FromSoftware's Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive The Duskbloods Officially Delayed Into 2027 FromSoftware har udskudt det Nintendo Switch 2-eksklusive spil The Duskbloods fra 2026 til 2027. Studiet begrunder beslutningen med feedback fra den seneste netværkstest og ønsker mere tid til at finjustere kamp, strategisk dybde, spillerudtryk samt spillets regler og balance. Der er endnu ikke meldt en konkret udgivelsesdato ud.

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Want to Play with the Latest Tech But Don’t Have the Specs to Match? Use NVIDIA GeForce NOW to Play with PC-Only Technology - IGN Artiklen beskriver, hvordan NVIDIA GeForce NOW kan give adgang til krævende PC-grafikfunktioner via cloudgaming, selv på enheder uden kraftig hardware. NBA 2K27 fremhæves som det første spil med DLSS 5, der ifølge NVIDIA bruger en AI-model til mere fotorealistisk lys og materialer. Tjenesten tilbyder gratis adgang samt Premium- og Ultimate-abonnementer med forskellige ydelsesniveauer.

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Jacksepticeye Is Hitman's New Elusive Target, and He Told Us All About It Jacksepticeye medvirker som den nye Elusive Target i Hitman, hvor spillere kan forsøge at eliminere hans figur Finn Colton frem til 25. november. Figuren er en satirisk blanding af kontroversielle influencere fra manosfæren. I interviewet fortæller han også om samarbejdet med IO Interactive, sin rolle i 007 First Light og arbejdet på den animerede Bloodborne-film.

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The GTA 6: Original Score Has a Release Date and a Brand New Track You Can Listen to Right Now Rockstar Games har annonceret, at soundtracket til Grand Theft Auto VI udkommer 11. december på streamingtjenester samt på dobbelt-CD og tredobbelt vinyl. Albummet er komponeret af den franske duo Justice og indeholder 30 numre fra spillets musikalske materiale. Samtidig har Justice udgivet nummeret “Pusher”, der er lavet i samarbejde med Gesaffelstein.

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A 'High-Tech' Atari Hotel Is Officially Being Built in Phoenix, Arizona, Complete With an Esports Venue and Creator Studios Atari Hotels har taget første spadestik til et nyt gaming-inspireret hotel i Phoenix, Arizona. Projektet skal blandt andet rumme højteknologiske værelser, creator-studier samt en esport- og koncertarena med plads til over 2.000 gæster. Derudover planlægges restauranter, butikker, immersive oplevelser og en sportsbook. Byggeriet forventes færdigt i slutningen af 2028 eller begyndelsen af 2029.

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Phantom Blade Zero Day-One Update Brings Performance Improvements, Nvidia Driver Warning Phantom Blade Zero har fået en day-one-opdatering på omkring 5 GB til pc og 2 GB på PS5. Opdateringen forbedrer blandt andet ray tracing, path tracing og den almindelige grafik samt retter flere fejl. Udvikleren advarer samtidig om ustabil ydelse med Nvidia-driver 621.01 og anbefaler pc-spillere midlertidigt at rulle tilbage til version 617.42.

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'Emulation Fans Are a Perfect Target' — Scammers Are Taking Advantage of Hype for PS5 Emulators by Tricking Gamers Into Downloading Malware Sikkerhedsforskere advarer om en svindelkampagne, hvor falske PS5-emulatorer på GitHub bruges til at sprede malware. Programmerne udgiver sig for at være emulatorsoftware, men fungerer som infostealere, der forsøger at undgå Windows Defender, stjæle data og slette spor efter infektionen. Kampagnen udnytter den stigende interesse for at køre PS5-spil på pc.

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Phantom Blade Zero Protagonist Voice Actor Revealed as Sonic the Hedgehog's Roger Craig Smith Roger Craig Smith er blevet afsløret som den nye stemmeskuespiller for Soul, hovedpersonen i Phantom Blade Zero. Rollen blev oprindeligt indtalt af Jay Maksenuk i spillets trailere, men han blev udskiftet inden udgivelsen. Smith er blandt andet kendt som stemmen bag Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio Auditore og Batman. Spillet har samtidig fået en stærk lancering på Steam og PlayStation 5.

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Through Checkpointing, Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Make Boss Fights Annoying, and I Hope Other Devs Pay Attention I denne kommentar fremhæver Travis Northup, hvordan Phantom Blade Zero gør bosskampe mindre frustrerende ved at begrænse unødvendig ventetid og gentagelse efter nederlag. Spillet benytter blandt andet checkpoints, så spillere ikke konstant skal gennemføre lange første faser igen. Ifølge skribenten bevarer det udfordringen, men forbedrer tempoet og respekterer spillerens tid.

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Helldivers 2 Review Bombed on Steam Amid Backlash to Mod-Killing Anti-Cheat Helldivers 2 er blevet mødt af negative Steam-anmeldelser, efter Arrowhead har indført Easy Anti-Cheat for at begrænse snyd. Spillere kritiserer systemet for også at blokere harmløse mods, der blandt andet forbedrer styring, klatring og kunstig intelligens. Nogle brugere hævder desuden, at spillet ikke kan startes uden installerede mods, og i Storbritannien er det aktuelt ikke synligt på Steam.

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Asha Sharma Insists There's 'More Demand Than Consoles Available' as Xbox Hardware Sales Continue to Plummet Xbox-chef Asha Sharma siger, at konsolsalget er begrænset af udbuddet, og at efterspørgslen overstiger antallet af tilgængelige konsoller. Microsoft rapporterede samtidig et fald på 14 procent i Xbox-hardwareomsætningen i årets første kvartal, mens den samlede Xbox-omsætning faldt 2 procent. Virksomheden vil blandt andet øge antallet af istandsatte konsoller og fokusere på store spilserier.

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Phantom Blade Zero Gets Off to a Flyer on Steam, Behind Only Counter-Strike 2 as the Most-Played Game Phantom Blade Zero har fået en stærk start på Steam med 448.000 samtidige spillere og en førsteplads på listen over bedst sælgende spil målt på omsætning. Spillet ligger kun efter Counter-Strike 2 i antal aktive spillere på platformen. Actionspillet fra kinesiske S-Game er også udkommet til PlayStation 5 og har Donnie Yen med i rollebesætningen.

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GTA 6 Dog Poop Gameplay Premieres in the Latest Episode of South Park GTA 6 optræder i det nyeste afsnit af South Park, hvor knap 20 sekunders eksklusivt gameplay viser en hund, der efterlader afføring på en strand. En figur samler den op og bruger den i et komisk slagsmål. Scenen fremhæver også spillets tætte NPC-miljøer og kommer, mens Rockstar øger markedsføringen frem mod udgivelsen den 19. november 2026.

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Rockstar Games Has Honored a Beloved GTA 4 Meme With One of GTA 6's Mechanics GTA 6 får en ny mekanik kaldet “Scooter Brothers”, opkaldt efter et populært GTA 4-meme fra en video fra 2008. Spillere kan tilkalde deres bil via en app, hvorefter en NPC leverer køretøjet og kører væk på en scooter. Funktionen gør det lettere at hente bilen i singleplayer, hvor våben og andet udstyr opbevares i bagagerummet.

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GTA 6 Developers Say They Are Still Discovering New Locations in the Game Rockstar Games oplyser, at GTA 6’s verden åbner relativt tidligt i spillet, så spillerne frit kan udforske staten Leonida uden omfattende blokeringer fra historien. Spillets meddirektør fortæller samtidig, at udviklerne stadig opdager nye steder, blandt andet fordi verdenen indeholder langt flere håndlavede interiører end tidligere Rockstar-spil. GTA 6 udkommer 19. november 2026 til Xbox Series X|S og PlayStation 5.

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How Former Rockstar Senior Artist Stephen Bliss Defined the Iconic Pop Art and Comic Book Visual Style of Grand Theft Auto

Stephen Bliss fortæller i et interview med IGN, hvordan han var med til at forme Grand Theft Autos karakteristiske popkunst- og tegneserieudtryk under sin tid hos Rockstar Games. Han beskriver blandt andet arbejdet med seriens ikoniske billedgitter og coverdesign samt sin rolle i den visuelle arv, der stadig kan ses i GTA 6. Bliss arbejder i dag på egne kunstprojekter og intellektuelle ejendomme.

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You might not immediately recognize the name Stephen Bliss, but I guarantee you'll recognize his work on arguably the most influential game franchise of our time. As a senior artist at Rockstar Games from 2001 to 2016, he defined the iconic pop art and comic book feel that has become the visual hallmark for Grand Theft Auto. IGN spoke to him at the Lucca Comics and Games festival about his work with the series, what he's been working on since, and finding the balance between making a name for himself away from the brand and seeing his artistic impact continue even as he works on other projects.

IGN: I was reading an interview with you where you said you didn't want to be known as the GTA guy, but you take it as an affirmation that people know your work and are inspired by that. Is that something that has been tricky to navigate in the past 10 years?

Stephen Bliss: I wanted to make a name for myself away from Rockstar in fine art and to make my own IPs, my own properties, and cartoons. And that's worked to a degree, and it's getting stronger all the time, my career. But I can't ignore what working at Rockstar has done for me. I'm very grateful for getting a job there and working there for such a long time. After GTA 3, Vice City, and Warriors, the team came in, Anthony Macbain [Director of Illustration at Rockstar for 13 years] and Steven Olds [former visualization director at Rockstar Games], who are both amazing artists. So when people tell me that they love my work, I might not completely be overwhelmed with the flattery of that, because other people did the work, and I don't want other people to think that I did all the work. When I said that quote before, what I meant was I don't want to take all the credit.

People have been bringing me GTA 5 covers to sign, and I say sorry, because I didn't work on that. And they look disappointed, but I've got to let people know what I did and what I didn't do. But I did contribute massively to Rockstar. And as I said, I'm grateful for that. And sometimes it can be like people are walking past my stand and they'll see all my personal work, Fear City work, and gig posters I did for bands and comics I've done, but they're really interested in more in the GTA getting that signed, or they're interested in a poster that's inspired by GTA for Lucca. But that's okay, because I did something well.

IGN: What you did, it set a standard; it set a style. I know there were other contributors to that, but as an artist, is that something that you see as an affirmation?

Stephen Bliss: Well, I looked at the GTA 6 cover, for example. I had nothing to do with that, but the fact they still use the box grid and they still put the helicopter in the top left corner, which was something that I developed, I'm flattered by that. It touches me that that heritage continues. And my influence is in the GTA 6 cover, but it's its own language. I just have little references in there. I'm like, 'Oh, that's nice that they used that.' But I'm absolutely not saying I contributed to that massively.

IGN: Is it difficult to convey something that is telling part of a story that sucks people in but isn't telling a whole story? Is that a challenge? Is that a puzzle that you have to solve as an artist?

Stephen Bliss: Yeah. What I'm missing with my work since I left Rockstar, for example, is that there's an emotional connection with people growing up and seeing that GTA work, which has actually been a good lesson for me recently. I realized that whatever I do from now on has to create an emotional connection. And even if I draw the anatomy badly or I'm being anal about getting everything correct, if it doesn't connect with someone emotionally, then that's where there's a disconnection. So I'm trying now to create some kind of emotional connection, which I'm not quite sure how I do that right now.

IGN: Is there a trick to that, or is it just kind of feeling your way through it?

Stephen Bliss: I know I've been trying to do it for 10 years since I left, and even Steroid [a t-shirt company Bliss set up with his brother], my project before I came to New York. I'm trying to revive that. And I've got the Fear City IP [a NFT series on the Ethereum blockchain], and I've got the Looby IP [an art-focused cryptocurrency], and my ambition now is to pull them all together as the Stephen Bliss brand. What I need is someone to finance that and market it. Those are the two major things that are missing. There have been people [who have come in with money], but they're full of shit really. But I'm hoping at some point someone will come in as a decent person and invest in it.

IGN: In an interview that Dan Hauser did with IGN, he mentioned you and the post-9/11 cover update. Is there anything that you remember about that process? Were they all-nighters where you just had to sit there and really lock in and change everything?

Stephen Bliss: Well, it was a lot to ask, to do a nonviolent GTA cover. But I understood because I personally was thinking, “Is entertainment from now on going to be all musicals and comedies and Disney? How are we going to be able to sell something that has a degree of violence in it?” And nobody knew. I was convinced it's all musicals [from- now on]. So when they asked for that, even though the [white] GTA 3 cover took me six months to paint, I'd always had in my head the grid system. “How can I chop these out? Chop out the nonviolent images, and what are you going to do with them?” I put them in a grid system because I grew up with Marvel and DC. I found a picture the other day - that really reminded me of that GTA cover - that I did when I was 10.

So for me it was almost... I mean, it was literally two nights. It wasn't an all-nighter, I don't think. Sometimes I'm pleased with myself; it's like I can get ideas really quickly. I may not be too bright on finance and investments, but I can come up with abstract ideas pretty quickly. And that was one of the big ones.

IGN: Were there any particular series or comics from Marvel or DC that really had a long-lasting impact or major impact with you, either on the GTA covers or your other work?

Stephen Bliss: Looking at the comic collection that I still have from when I was a kid, it was Spider-Man and the Titans. The Hulk and Spider-Man were the [ones] that I still have from when I was a kid. I still love Spider-Man and the Hulk. I still get excited about seeing them in the movies.

IGN: We were talking about Vice City and GTA San Andreas. There’s very obviously a Stephen Bliss style. I know you said other people contributed, but Vice City is obviously very colorful, and then you moved on to something a little bit grittier. Does that require a change in process? Or was it just like, “This is the brief, this is the game, this is how I'm going to take my style and bring it to life in a different environment?"

Stephen Bliss: Well, so after Vice City there was... I did Warriors on my own, and that was a real challenge, because I had to do a style that was completely different from GTA 3 but similar. And I started off doing it as GTA 3 because that's my style, that's my natural style. And then I just had to go completely out of the box and do that really kind of photographic painting. Somehow I had to find a way to do it. And that was always the case; find a way to do it. I still do that now with my freelance work. I say to my agent sometimes, I don't want to do it because I can't do it. And I do it because he always persuades me to do it. And I always feel pretty good about that, that I'm like, "Wow, I did something I didn't think I could do."

IGN: That's what art is, right? I mean, pushing yourself to do things that maybe you didn't know how you were going to do in the past, right?

Stephen Bliss: The challenge we had as a team was, "How can this look similar but different?" So we looked at San Andreas, and what are the colors in California? They're foggy. So that would've been the basis of the direction of the color, but it may take a few weeks to make that differentiation. And then how can we make that outline style, the black outline style, the same but different? I mean, Steven Olds came up with this idea, which was to have the sunlight blended into the face, and then on the other side of the face is a reflective light that's very crisp, kind of abstract, and almost like lightning bolt color. And he taught me that. I didn't know before he taught me that; and it's something I use now, and it's made my art so much better. Steven Olds is an incredible teacher, but the point being is we had the luxury of experimenting, but it always was a hell of a challenge.

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