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Bandai Namco Reveals Surprise 10th Anniversary Update Plans for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Bandai Namco fejrer 10-årsdagen for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 med to gratis opdateringer den 27. og 30. oktober. De tilføjer blandt andet login-belønninger, særlige kostumer, nye galleriindhold og en festival med sjældne genstande samt bonusser. Begivenheden kommer, mens fans venter på Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, der nu forventes lanceret i 2027.

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'Hold the Line' — Mass Effect Petition Rockets Past 200,000 Signatures as Commander Shepard Actors Post Support Videos, Destiny Community Joins Movement En fanpetition for at redde Mass Effect har passeret 200.000 verificerede underskrifter efter BioWares lukning og den angivelige aflysning af udviklingen på Mass Effect 5. Skuespillerne Jennifer Hale og Mark Meer, der lagde stemmer til Commander Shepard, har opfordret fans til at støtte kampagnen. Også Destiny-fællesskabet og udvikleren Owlcat Games har bidraget til at sprede budskabet.

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Phantom Blade Zero Review: An Unbelievably Smooth Action Game Filled With Memorable Boss Fights, Compelling Combat, and Limitless Swagger IGN anmelder Phantom Blade Zero som et actionspil med præcise parader, undvigelser og et stort udvalg af våben og evner. Spillet byder også på udforskning, sideopgaver og skjulte områder på tværs af otte baner. Anmeldelsen fremhæver kampene som spillets stærkeste side, mens den komplekse fortælling og enkelte problemer med ydeevnen trækker ned.

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The Best Deals Today: Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Persona 3 Reload, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, and More - IGN IGN samler dagens tilbud på en række spil og filmudgivelser. Blandt tilbuddene er Xenoblade Chronicles 2 med udvidelsespakke, Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Star Wars Zero Company og Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Der er også rabatter på 4K-udgivelser som James Bond-samlingen og Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete samt forudbestilling af en Clayface-steelbook.

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'You Have No F**king Idea How Great It Was' — BioWare's Canceled Mass Effect Game Plans Included Option to Carry Story Choices From Previous Games, Allowed Players to 'Generate Timelines' Nye oplysninger om BioWares aflyste Mass Effect-spil afslører, at projektet skulle tage højde for alle valg fra Commander Shepard-trilogien. Tidligere teknisk direktør Romain Toutain beskriver et system med parallelle tidslinjer, hvor spillets historie kunne tilpasses komplekse og modstridende beslutninger. Spillet, der arbejdede under navnet Mass Effect: Universe, blev aflyst, efter EA lukkede BioWare-studiet.

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'A Lot of People Want to Get to Know Me' — GTA 6 Fans Swarm Rumored Lucia Actress Manni L. Perez's Livestream Skuespilleren Manni L. Perez er igen blevet genstand for spekulationer om rollen som Lucia i GTA 6 efter en Instagram-livestream. Hun svarede ikke på de mange kommentarer om spillet, hvilket fans tolker som et muligt resultat af en fortrolighedsaftale. Rockstar Games har endnu ikke officielt bekræftet størstedelen af spillets rolleliste, mens GTA 6 efter planen udkommer 19. november 2026.

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From Draconic Domination to Food and Fellowship, These Are the 12 Most Powerful Magic: The Gathering Commander Preconstructed Decks Ever Made IGN gennemgår 12 af de stærkeste forudbyggede Commander-dæk i Magic: The Gathering. Listen omfatter blandt andet Draconic Domination, Counter Blitz fra Final Fantasy-samarbejdet, Necron Dynasties fra Warhammer 40K og Mutant Menace fra Fallout. Artiklen vurderer dækkenes strategier, centrale kort, genoptryk og mulighederne for at opgradere dem, samtidig med at flere populære Commander-udgivelser fremhæves.

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The Best Deals Today: Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, and More - IGN IGN samler en række aktuelle tilbud på spil og underholdning denne weekend. Blandt tilbuddene er Persona 3 Reload til Nintendo Switch 2, Pikmin 4, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth og Star Wars Zero Company, mens The Adventures of Elliot for første gang er sat ned. Der er også rabatter på Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Mouse: P.I. For Hire og en forudbestilling af en Clayface-Steelbook.

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'Hold a License Challenge: Impossible' — Chucky Is Leaving Dead by Daylight Just Months After Fans Accepted the Loss of Michael Myers Behaviour Interactive fjerner Chucky-kapitlet fra Dead by Daylight-butikkerne den 24. november 2026. Spillere, der allerede har købt indholdet, kan fortsat bruge det, mens nye køb ikke længere bliver mulige. En 50 procent rabat på Chucky-relaterede genstande kører fra 26. oktober til fjernelsen. Udvikleren har ikke oplyst den konkrete årsag, men licensproblemer formodes at være bag beslutningen.

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The iPhone Duo Can Be a Tiny Mac, a Toaster, and a Nintendo DS Udviklere har lanceret en række apps, der udnytter iPhone Duos foldbare design og forskellige positioner. Telefonen kan blandt andet forvandles til en miniature-Mac, en Nintendo DS, en notesbog, en toaster eller et musikinstrument. Artiklen gennemgår også apps til afslapning, tegning, vejr og små spil, som bruger hængslet og de forskellige skærmtilstande kreativt.

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The First 500-Piece Dungeon Crawler Carl Jigsaw Puzzle Is Now Available at Barnes & Noble Et nyt officielt puslespil baseret på bogserien Dungeon Crawler Carl kan nu købes hos Barnes & Noble. Puslespillet, der hedder “Meet the Crawlers”, består af 500 brikker og viser figurer som Carl og Donut. Det er seriens tredje tilgængelige puslespil, mens et rollespil og et brætspil baseret på universet efter planen udkommer 1. december 2026.

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'We Have to Do Something' — Mass Effect Fans Call for EA Boycott as Petition to Save BioWare's Canceled Game Garners More than 75,000 Signatures Mass Effect-fans opfordrer til boykot af EA, efter selskabet har meddelt, at BioWare lukkes, og det næste Mass Effect-spil er aflyst. En fanoprettet underskriftsindsamling kræver enten, at EA genoptager udviklingen, eller sælger rettighederne til et andet studie, og har passeret 76.500 underskrifter. Et lækket trailerklip har samtidig øget fansenes frustration.

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Fart Together, Emberville, ArcheAge Chronicles Lead List of Most-Played Steam Next Fest Demos So Far Valve har offentliggjort en liste over de 20 mest spillede demoer under den aktuelle udgave af Steam Next Fest. Listen rummer blandt andet Fart Together, Emberville og ArcheAge Chronicles samt en blanding af samarbejds-, action- og overlevelsesspil. Festivalen fortsætter frem til 26. oktober, hvor demoerne ikke længere er en del af arrangementet.

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'I'm Holding Hope' — FemShep Voice Actor Jennifer Hale Speaks Out After EA Shuts Down BioWare and Mass Effect 5 Trailer Leaks Online Jennifer Hale, stemmeskuespilleren bag den kvindelige Commander Shepard, har reageret på et lækket trailerklip fra det kommende Mass Effect-spil. Spillet skulle angiveligt være blevet aflyst, efter EA lukkede BioWare, men Hale håber fortsat, at projektet eller seriens rettigheder kan finde en ny udvikler. Brancheanalytikere vurderer dog, at et salg af BioWares spiluniverser er usandsynligt.

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Amazon Slashes Magic: The Gathering's The Hobbit Gift Bundle, but We Crunched the Numbers on Its Collector Booster and You Should Wait for Black Friday to Buy Magic: The Gathering – The Hobbit Gift Bundle kan lige nu købes hos Amazon for 99,99 dollar, svarende til en rabat på 9 procent. Pakken indeholder blandt andet ni Play Boosters, landkort, en promokortvariant og en Collector Booster. IGN vurderer dog, at tilbuddet næppe giver en væsentlig besparelse sammenlignet med at købe delene separat, og anbefaler at vente på Black Friday.

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Mass Effect 5 Would've Featured 'Hitman-Style Freedom' in Missions, 'Brutal Executions,' and Romance That 'Wasn't Being Sanitized' Nye oplysninger om det aflyste Mass Effect 5 beskriver et rollespil med håndlavede missioner og stor frihed i stil med Hitman. Spillet skulle foregå mere end 600 år efter Reaper-krigen og have fraktioner, der kæmpede i en galaktisk kold krig. Liara skulle vende tilbage, mens BioWare nu er lukket, og projektet er annulleret.

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IGN Is Partnering with Best Buy for 3 Weeks of Giveaways Leading Up to GTA VI’s Release - IGN IGN og Best Buy arrangerer tre ugers konkurrencer op til udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto VI den 19. november 2026. Fra 26. oktober til 13. november kan amerikanske deltagere vinde blandt andet PlayStation Portal, tv’er, headsets, controllere og soundbars. Kampagnen afsluttes med et arrangement i Best Buy-butikken i Torrance, Californien, den 14. november.

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BioWare May Be Gone, But Its Spirit Lives On in These Games BioWare blev lukket af EA tidligere på ugen efter en længere periode uden et nyt stort hit. Artiklen ser tilbage på studiets betydning for rollespil med titler som Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins og Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Den fremhæver også nyere spil som Baldur’s Gate 3, The Outer Worlds og The Witcher 3 som værker, der viderefører BioWares fokus på relationer og konsekvensfulde valg.

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Get Marathon and 7 More Steam Games for $25 in Humble's New Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle Humble Bundle fejrer sit 15-års jubilæum med en Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle, der samler otte pc-spil til Steam for mindst 25 dollar. Pakken indeholder blandt andet Bungies Marathon, tre Crysis Remastered-spil, RoboCop: Rogue City - Collection samt Ghostrunner og Ghostrunner 2. Tilbuddet kan købes i omkring 20 dage, og en del af betalingen kan doneres til velgørenhed.

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'I Feel Incredibly Awkward but Truly Honored' — Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto Is the First Game Developer to Receive Japan's Order of Culture Nintendo-designeren Shigeru Miyamoto modtager Japans Order of Culture ved en ceremoni den 3. november. Han bliver den første spiludvikler, der får den prestigefyldte hæder, som gives for fremragende bidrag til landets kultur. Miyamoto har spillet en central rolle i udviklingen af Mario, The Legend of Zelda og Star Fox og har arbejdet hos Nintendo siden 1977.

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Planned Mass Effect Content Disappears from Battlefield 6 Store After BioWare Shutdown EA ser ud til stille at have fjernet planlagt Mass Effect-indhold fra Battlefield 6, efter at BioWare blev lukket og Mass Effect 5 angiveligt blev aflyst. Indholdet omfattede blandt andet N7-mærkede genstande, våben og en Normandy-inspireret våbenpynt. Fjernelsen kommer kort før N7 Day og har vakt yderligere utilfredshed blandt fans af den populære science fiction-serie.

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More Than 50,000 Mass Effect Fans Have Flocked to a Petition to Try and Save the Franchise Following BioWare's Closure En fanpetition for at redde Mass Effect har rundet 52.000 underskrifter, få dage efter at EA lukkede BioWare og aflyste det kommende Mass Effect-spil. Initiativet opfordrer EA til enten at lade et andet studie fortsætte udviklingen eller licensere serien videre. Det vurderes dog som usandsynligt, at petitionen alene får selskabet til at ændre beslutningen.

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Marvel's Blade Is Reportedly Still in Development at Arkane Lyon Despite Xbox Closure Threat Arkane Lyon kan blive lukket i november, hvis Microsoft ikke finder en køber til studiet, der beskæftiger 217 medarbejdere. Fagforeningen forsøger at forlænge forhandlingerne om en overtagelse og en plan for de berørte ansatte. Studiets lukning kan også bringe udviklingen af Marvel's Blade i fare, selv om spillet fortsat er under udvikling.

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Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With Apple har gemt et interaktivt påskeæg i webversionen af Apple Music. Ved at åbne en ikke-eksisterende side vises en fungerende førstegenerations-iPod, hvor man kan afspille korte musikeksempler. I iPod’ens indstillinger findes endnu et påskeæg, nemlig det klassiske spil Breakout. Funktionen kan kun opleves i en webbrowser og markerer 25-året for den oprindelige iPod.

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Grand Theft Auto V – The Legacy Review IGN ser tilbage på Grand Theft Auto V som led i en gennemgang af seriens centrale spil før udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto 6. Artiklen fremhæver spillets langvarige succes, det detaljerede og varierede San Andreas-kort samt systemet med tre spilbare hovedpersoner. GTA V beskrives som et spil, der fortsat imponerer 13 år efter lanceringen og har sat standarden for moderne open world-actionspil.

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Phantom Blade Zero Review: An Unbelievably Smooth Action Game Filled With Memorable Boss Fights, Compelling Combat, and Limitless Swagger

IGN anmelder Phantom Blade Zero som et actionspil med præcise parader, undvigelser og et stort udvalg af våben og evner. Spillet byder også på udforskning, sideopgaver og skjulte områder på tværs af otte baner. Anmeldelsen fremhæver kampene som spillets stærkeste side, mens den komplekse fortælling og enkelte problemer med ydeevnen trækker ned.

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Phantom Blade Zero has spent years looking almost too good to be true, especially coming from a studio that's best known for its mobile games. That’s why it's just about the biggest compliment I can pay it that after 50 hours performing picture-perfect kung fu, it's exactly as fun to play as it looks. This effortlessly smooth action game has some of the most satisfying and well-tuned combat I’ve played in a long time, a surprising number of secrets to discover and quests to complete in each of its beautiful levels, and a neverending supply of clever encounters full of unbelievably awesome moments. Its convoluted story and occasional performance issues may not live up to that incredible action, but it nails just about everything else, and there were only a handful of moments where I wasn’t absolutely thrilled to be slicing my way through the ranks of the Wulin.

Phantom Blade Zero plays like something straight out of a wuxia epic. As a metal-as-hell martial artist of mysterious origins with only 66 days left alive to exact your revenge, you set out on an odyssey across the ruined lands of the Phantom World, facing off against all manner of beast and badass along the way. The story here isn’t Phantom Blade Zero’s strong suit as it tries to do a bit too much, shoving in a whole bunch of mystical jargon, dozens of characters, and a needlessly complex timeline, very little of which ultimately pays off anyway. In the first couple hours alone, so much time is spent toggling back and forth between present day, several years ago, several months ago, and several days ago that I was exhausted by all the exposition before I’d even faced my first real boss fight. That said, there are enough likeable characters along the way, especially your unflappable hero named Soul, that I was usually able to forgive it for occasionally wasting my time with unnecessary flashbacks and lengthy explanations.

Besides, you’ll be spending most of your time exploring the world and squaring off against enemies big and small, and it’s pretty clear that Phantom Blade Zero wants you to spend most of your attention on this part of the adventure. And that’s a good thing, too, because by God is it good. It only took a couple minutes for the precise parry and dodge mechanics to feel natural, and the nuanced but not-overly-complex system of weapons, combos, special abilities, and upgrades are rolled out at an extremely smart pace, all of which are easy enough to slip into like a tailored set of flowing wuxia robes. I’m a complete snob when it comes to the feel and pacing of combat in these types of games, so the fact that this immediately felt like reuniting with an old friend made it instantly compelling, and it’s one of those intangible things that’s very hard to get right.

Even more impressive is that not only does the combat feel good right away, it does so across dozens of weapons, each with their own unique moveset. This game that doesn’t just encourage you to change up your weapon loadout at regular intervals, it actually requires you to mix things up since swapping your active melee weapon is one of the ways you can restore your posture meter with a single button press. And since many enemies, particularly bosses, can instantly drain your posture with certain attacks, you’ll be swapping between different options with regularity, forcing you to commit multiple movesets and special abilities to memory. Conveniently, Phantom Blade Zero makes it extremely easy for you to reclaim and reallocate points invested in leveling up weapons, so there’s rarely any reason to stick with a set loadout anyway – especially since you always seem to find the exact tool you need right before entering an area or encountering a boss where it would come in handy. For example, I noticed that I found a water cannon weapon only a few feet away from an area that led to a fire-based boss. Nice.

Combat feels good right away, even across dozens of unique weapons.

Beyond that, you’ll unlock a bunch of additional tools like grappling hooks and bows, which have utility both in combat encounters and outside of them since you can use them to reach certain parts of the map or break through barriers that are otherwise impassable. There are also trinkets that offer interesting buffs, like a significant damage increase when you’re at full health, and a skill tree with perks that let you do things like execute a dodge while in mid-air or increase the number of healing items you can carry. There’s a surprising amount of depth to the things you can upgrade and the ways to customize exactly how your Wulin warrior does his thing, and I spent much more time than I typically do in these kinds of games just testing out different weapons and swapping my equipment around as a result. At the very least, it’s worth doing so just to see the unique execution animations when you finish off trash enemies.

You’ll have plenty of time to try them all out as you get your steps in across Phantom Blade Zero’s eight maps, too. Each one is filled with foes to take down, side quests to complete, chests to loot, and secrets to discover. A surprising amount of the places to go and people to meet are completely missable, including the entirety of a very cool questline that sees you getting trained by none other than Donnie Yen as the mysterious gold-masked man (which is actually one of PBZ’s strongest subplots). While most of the side quests are pretty straightforward missions to go somewhere and collect some stuff for a small reward, they gave me more reasons to spend time exploring every nook and cranny, which I was happy to do. And unlike lots of modern games filled with icons on the screen telling you exactly where to go and what to do, Phantom Blade Zero instead makes use of hand-drawn maps that only give you a vague idea of your location in relation to key landmarks, allowing you to explore and fill in the gaps on your own.

If there’s one thing that consistently mucks up this journey, it’s that Phantom Blade Zero suffers from some pretty bad geometry. Soul gets caught on surfaces all the time, and even the tiniest bumps in the road can stop him dead in his tracks, which is pretty hilarious for a guy who can jump 40 feet in the air while doing 19 backflips. Not only that, there are invisible borders all over the place that make exploration janky at times, especially when platforming sections ask you to get to a specific ledge, only for you to discover there’s an invisible wall and you fall to your death. I died nearly 200 times over the course of my playthrough, and roughly half of those deaths were me falling into a pit or getting caught in the environment until I was able to get myself killed or reload my save file. In one case, I even lost about 20 minutes of progress when my supposed martial master couldn’t escape from some bushes. Oh, and enemies occasionally get stuck in the environment too, which just makes fights where it happens feel so lame.

Despite that, Phantom Blade Zero’s superpower – the magic trick it performs time and time again – is its way of making you feel like you’re the only person in the world badass enough to withstand its utterly insane flurry of swords against godlike monsters like it’s nothing. The truth is that the melee dance of combat encounters is just so finely tuned, with every attack telegraphed just enough to give you exactly the time you need to react, aided by an almost imperceptible musical rhythm that grants you a certain level of precognition for what’s going to happen next. Once I synced up with its tempo, I started anticipating attacks before I consciously registered them, leading me to perfectly block some lightning-quick attack I hadn’t seen before. There’s nothing specifically special about my reaction time or skill with action games – rather it's a testament to how incredibly well-balanced and smartly designed these unbelievably sick fights are. It’s without question the thing Phantom Blade Zero does best, and it’s an illusion I fell for repeatedly, from the opening sequence all the way to the final battle.

I played on the hardest difficulty, and the tuning consistently felt exactly right.

Something I admire about Phantom Blade Zero’s difficulty is how consistently it feels exactly right – not too unforgiving, but it rarely lets you feel like you aren’t in danger of getting your butt kicked. I’m typically someone who relishes a challenge from games like this and so played Phantom Blade Zero on its hardest difficulty exclusively, but found myself beating just about every major boss fight in two or three tries, plus a good chunk that I cleared in one go – and I didn’t mind that one bit! It meant that I rarely saw enough of a boss to know every tool in their murder belt, and refreshingly made me feel like the one to be feared rather than the other way around. It’s pretty damn cool to enter a room and watch a 10-foot-tall badass with an eight-pack swing around a blade and think, “oh, man. This guy’s totally screwed.”

Part of the way this Goldilocks level of difficulty is achieved is due to the interesting decision to not make you repeat phases of a boss fight that you’ve already cleared. If you get through a first phase that just makes the bad guy mad and then get killed after he turns into an even more hulked-out psycho, you’ll pick back up at the top of that second phase. I’ve been known to get annoyed at having to replay the first phase of a boss fight a dozen times just to get another run at the more challenging part, to the point where multi-phase boss fights in general can get on my nerves these days. By removing this annoyance entirely, it got rid of a lot of potential friction with some of these encounters

It also allows for more freedom in how these encounters are designed, like moments where a boss uses a cheap move that one-shots you instantly if you get hit by it. Normally, including insta-kill moves like that is a good way to send me into a rage, but because my progress was almost never set back far enough to bother getting mad about, I felt a lot more lenient toward that kind of thing. I mean, let’s face it, that crazy attack where you get impaled on a giant spear, then set on fire and smashed face-first into the floor probably should kill you right away, so it’s pretty neat that Phantom Blade Zero found a way to make a devastating moment like that exciting rather than irritating.

It’s also incredibly impressive that throughout the 50 hours it took me to reach credits, as I fought dozens and dozens of bosses, I was continually surprised by the creative enemies it threw at me. Sure, there’s the occasional big-guy-with-a-big-axe or dude-with-sword-you-swear-you-fought-already, but these are by far the exception, not the rule. At one point I found myself wearing a lion dancer mask, jumping around on poles to collect heads of lettuce to power up my fire blast, and in another section I fought a posse of warriors who worked together as one unit to throw preposterously intricate attacks my way – the main threat to my life there was getting caught with my guard down because I was too busy cackling. The boss fights are so consistently interesting, memorable, and numerous that I felt utterly compelled to seek out each and every one of them, which led me to turn this first playthrough into a full-on completionist run to avoid FOMO.

When I previewed Phantom Blade Zero a little over a month ago, one of my primary concerns was how it would perform, and thankfully the version I played for this review had a far more consistent performance. The framerate was much steadier, with only a few times I can recall ever noticing issues during combat. That said, there’s one map in particular where the framerate was consistently pretty terrible, specifically on a part of the map where something seems to not be working right. This feels like the type of thing that could pretty easily be identified and fixed, so I’d be surprised if a patch doesn’t arrive at or shortly after launch, but it’s worth shouting out since I suspect there are other lingering issues hiding about.

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Phantom Blade Zero Review: An Unbelievably Smooth Action Game Filled With Memorable Boss Fights, Compelling Combat, and Limitless Swagger

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