Fortnite has already nerfed its new season's big gimmick, and players can't decide whether that's a good thing or not - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

If you've played any Fortnite at all since the latest season, Wrecked, began, I'm sure it comes as little surprise to find out that the fancy boss cars have already been nerfed. The change was pretty much inevitable, but despite this, fans can't decide whether it was actually a good decision.Chapter 5 Season 3 has been very chaotic so far, allowing players to fight bosses across the map in order to steal their powerful cars. Driving around in a car in Fortnite was already a good way to boost you

Bloodborne was a no-show at this week's State of Play, but hey, Bloodborne Kart - I mean Nightmare Kart - is out today

The same group of vocal FromSoftware fans desperate for PlayStation to reveal something, anything Bloodborne related were once again let down this week when the State of Play was completely absent of any such thing.If I'm hearing the FromSoftware community right, it seems they really, really want Bloodborne on PC or a Bloodborne remake/remaster, neither of which were revealed during the May 2024 State of Play. However, if there's a remedy for that beyond simply replaying Bloodborne for the

26 years after it debuted on PS1, veteran Resident Evil developer's cult classic "open world" platformer is returning on modern platforms

Forget everything you saw at State of Play last night - the true bombshell PlayStation announcement of the week is the return of Tomba, the Sony-published platformer that's spent the past few decades gaining a cult following.Tomba: Special Edition is officially set to hit PS5, Switch, and PC on August 1, with a PS4 version to follow some time later. The new edition will offer analog control options, a rewind feature, the ability to save anywhere, and a robust museum section filled with old adver

Gearbox bought the IP for roguelike icon Risk of Rain, planned a free-to-play mobile spinoff with a new dev, and has now canceled it before it's even out

Gearbox Publishing is ending development on its mobile Risk of Rain spinoff before its official launch.The Borderlands studio acquired the rights to the Risk of Rain IP back in November and immediately revealed plans for a free-to-play mobile gacha game called Risk of Rain: Hostile Worlds. The game spent about six months in regional Early Access on various mobile platforms but failed to make much of a splash in the general gaming market. Now, Gearbox Publishing has announced it's ceasing develop

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New One Piece spin-off puts heroines Nami, Robin, Vivi, and Perona in the spotlight

One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda is lending his creative juices to a new spin-off featuring the women of the beloved adventure manga/anime. The spin-off, titled One Piece: Heroines, is a collection of prose short stories accompanied by illustrations, and was announced by publisher Viz Media through social media.While Oda is listed as "creator" of One Piece: Heroines, it will actually be written by Jun Esaka, with art by Sayaka Suwa. It's unclear exactly how Oda fits in, but he's definitely putting

After 13 years and at least 6 final updates, Terraria devs let you return to the "final update" that started it all

Beloved sandbox game Terraria is now 13 years old, and as we approach the launch of the game's sixth final update, the devs are inviting you to "check out the first final update."In the latest State of the Game blog, developer Re-Logic billed a recently added Steam beta branch as the "first final update." If you have Terraria installed on Steam, you can hop into the game properties, go to the betas page, and opt in to v1.1.2. That'll take you back to a version of Terraria where, as the devs put

Silent Hill 2 remake will "expand this world" and show "new elements that were previously inaccessible" by ditching the original's fixed camera

A senior developer working on Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake says the loss of the original game's fixed-camera perspective will open up new elements for fans to explore for the first time.Like the Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes, Silent Hill 2 is being modernized with a more traditional (nowadays) over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, and although I'll miss the tension-building merits of a fixed camera, I'm excited to explore the game's iconic locations without those restraints. Dur

A 300 TV show is in the works - and Zack Snyder might be back to direct

It's been 17 years since the film's release, but that's not stopping Warner Bros. from developing a TV show based on the historical action pic 300.Per Variety, the show would serve as a prequel to the 2007 film – and director and co-writer Zack Snyder is in early talks to helm and executive produce, with the series produced under his Stone Quarry banner.300, based on the 1998 comic book series of the same name, hit North American theaters in 2007 and grossed $456 million against a budget o

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Arkane Austin goes out with a tribute to its roots as Redfall's final update references the 30-year-old imm sim genre it championed with Prey and Dishonored

Bowing out with Redfall's final update, Arkane Austin is flexing its immersive sim heritage one last time.Arkane Austin was sadly closed as part of Xbox's brutal studio closures earlier this month, with Redfall's final update marking a bittersweet end to the team behind genre-defining immersive sims like Dishonored and Prey. And rather fittingly, the update itself pays tribute to Arkane's own history as a modern champion of the immersive sim genre as well as Looking Glass Studios' System Shock,

Spyro remake devs are officially "partnering with Xbox" on their next game, and the teaser already has fans convinced it's a new Spyro game

The rumored partnership between Xbox and Toys for Bob is now official, and fans of Spyro are already latching onto the tiniest clues in hopes that a new entry in the beloved platformer series is on the way."We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering with Xbox to publish our next new game," Toys for Bob says in a tweet. "We're still very early in development, so you might not hear from us for a bit - but know that we're working hard on an experience we're so sooo inspired about! Can't wai

Looking to save $707 on Pathfinder 2e? Humble has you covered

It seems like the unbelievable discounts on Pathfinder sourcebooks just don’t stop coming, thanks to the TTRPG’s continual appearance in Humble’s mega bundles. This time around though, the savings have really been kicked into overdrive.
The new limited-time ‘Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Grounds Experience’ bundle is jam-packed with $737 worth of content for just $30. You won’t just get access to some of Pathfinder’s most essential sourcebooks and

A cyborg samurai saga set in post-apocalyptic Japan is set to get its first English translation

Writer/artist Sylvain Repos' cyber-samurai adventure Yojimbot will be published in English for the first time this December. The series, which first launched back in 2021, will be collected into a new 160-page trade paperback by Dark Horse with coloring by Noiry and translation by Matt Maden.Yojimbot is set in a post-apocalyptic future Japan overrun by robots that re-enact old samurai rituals. A father and son are fleeing some murderous fellow humans when they encounter one such robo-ronin - a "

The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira praises co-star after big death scene in The Ones Who Live episode 5

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode 5. If you're not yet up to date with the show, and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!In The Walking Dead universe, main characters dying isn't something that's out of the ordinary, so it should come as no surprise to fans that the latest spin-off The Ones Who Live sees a longtime figure from the franchise kick the bucket.In episode 5 of the Rick and Michonne-centered series, Pollya

CEO of Rockstar owner sizes up GTA 6: "The world's in a different place than it was when we launched GTA 5," and the sequel could be "unmatched in the industry"

Grand Theft Auto 6 will likely be a juggernaut success if GTA 5's historic run is any indication, and the series' parent company reckons the long-awaited sequel could be "unmatched in the industry."During an interview at TD Cowen's 52nd Annual Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference yesterday, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick - head of the company that owns Rockstar Games and GTA - discussed how much the gaming industry has ballooned since the last GTA release, and how there's now the capacity to

The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira on introducing rom-com fantasy to the zombie horror franchise in latest spin-off The Ones Who Live

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live delivers all the action and zombie horror we've come to expect from the franchise over the last 14 years, while also going hard on romance. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, who play Rick and Michonne, have made no secret of the fact that they wanted the spin-off to feel like a love story as well as an apocalyptic adventure – and one way they established that tone was through an imagined meet-cute between their characters.In the show's early episode

Valve trademarks Deadlock, the Overwatch-style hero shooter it won't acknowledge but is making no efforts to hide

Valve's long-rumored hero shooter Deadlock is seemingly becoming more and more of an open secret with each passing day. In the closest thing to an official acknowledgement we've gotten yet, Valve has apparently filed a trademark application for the game's name."Deadlock trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, providing online video games," according to US Patent and Trademark Office filings dug up by Gabe Follower on Twitter. The trademark ha

After 20 years, Monster Hunter Wilds gives players two weapon slots for the first time, and veteran hunters already know what to do with them: "Two Charge Blades"

Monster Hunter Wilds will let players take two weapons out into the field with them for the first time in Capcom's series, and obviously the Charge Blade wishing has already begun.Yesterday saw a brand new Monster Hunter Wilds trailer for Capcom at the PlayStation State of Play showcase. As we reported on shortly afterwards, the new game is introducing the new Seikret mount, which can surprisingly seek out objectives like monsters around the map by utilizing its sense of smell. It can also carry

Manor Lords dev "really stressed" after the hit city builder's first official patch, which buffs archers, adds mourning, and cuts back on ale

The mastermind "solo" developer behind Manor Lords has shared concerns that his first official patch isn't quite ready for its release just yet.Today saw the arrival of a big Manor Lords update - an event normally exciting for both devs and players. However, Slavic Magic founder Greg Styczeń says that he feels "really stressed" after launching the city builder's long-awaited patch. After revealing the new content in a post on Twitter, the dev explains some of his honest thoughts regarding t

The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira talks that intense Rick and Michonne reunion in The Ones Who Live episode 1

Ever since an injured Rick Grimes was carried off in a Civic Republic Military helicopter as an unknowing, devastated Michonne bawled her eyes out over his suspected death, The Walking Dead fans have been itching for the apocalypse-surviving lovers to reunite. New spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live finally sees that happen – and actor Danai Gurira was just as desperate for it as longtime viewers.As the show releases in the UK today (May 31), the Black Panther star recalls t

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson "always" reaches out to new superhero actors to give them advice

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson makes a habit of giving new superhero actors advice.Larson has played Carol Danvers in the MCU since 2019's Captain Marvel movie (with a quick cameo in the Avengers: Infinity War post-credits scene before that)."I'm the first person to email everybody because it's very specific and very strange," Larson revealed during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable. "People are like, 'I don't know how to do this.' Yeah, no one does. Why would you? I'll say, 'Train, b

6 years after its release, a beloved Batman anime movie is getting a surprise sequel

Six years after its release, beloved anime movie Batman Ninja is getting a surprise sequel.Per Crunchyroll, Koichi Yamadera will reprise his role as Batman in Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League, with Junpei Mizusaki returning to direct. Shinji Takagi will co-direct, with a screenplay by Kazuki Nakashima and character design from Takashi Okazaki.Batman Ninja was released digitally in the United States and theatrically in Japan, with each release containing two different scripts and making for two "ve

Silent Hill 2 veterans debate Angela and Maria's redesigned looks for the horror remake: "They just made Angela look her age"

Two supporting characters in Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake have had their redesigned looks unveiled, and fans are a little split on them.Yesterday brought a terrifying new Silent Hill 2 remake trailer during the PlayStation State of Play showcase, unveiling an October 8 release date. Outside of the release date, combat, and protagonist James Sunderland, the trailer also gave us a new look at returning characters Angela and Maria.You can see Maria's redesigned look just below, the fir

A Helldivers 2 hotfix is dropping "as soon as possible" to squash a bug that's making the Meridia Major Order unnaturally difficult

Helldivers 2's ongoing Major Order has deployed soldiers to the supercolony of Meridia to quite literally destroy the planet using Dark Fluid, the substance that "spaghettified" people last week. Abnormally aggressive Terminid swarms were expected, seeing as this is a supercolony and the bugs are sadly facing extermination, but divers are contending with an even more severe type of bug here.Meridia missions follow a somewhat unique structure, with our squads calling in Dark Fluid backpacks that

GTA 6's fate on PC isn't "set in stone" says CEO of Rockstar Games owner, but "the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is"

As the world patiently waits for the launch of GTA 6, one big question remains: is it coming to PC? Back when we got our first trailer for GTA 6 in December 2023, it was confirmed that it'd be releasing on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2025, but there was no mention of PC at all.Well, according to Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive (AKA the owner of Rockstar), this isn't something that's confirmed either way right now. As spotted by VGC, during an interview at TD Cowen's 52nd An

14 years later, one of the '90s best sci-fi TV shows returns to comics

Cult sci-fi TV show Farscape turns 25 in 2024. The much-loved Australian series, which ran for four full seasons and a miniseries, first star-burst onto TV screens in 1999 and offered a very different approach to deep space adventuring than the then dominant Star Trek franchise. Where those shows focused on deep space professionals embarking on quests for peace and diplomacy, Farscape was about a crew of reprobates and outlaws. Entire episodes were devoted to lost astronaut John Crichton and chu

Fallout's burst of popularity following the TV show is "beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of doing this," says Todd Howard

Todd Howard reveals how the recent Fallout TV show's booming success has had a massive impact on Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPGs.In an interview with Variety discussing the Amazon Prime series, Howard explains that while the Fallout franchise has "kind of been sneaky popular for a while," it hadn't reached "this level" of activity before the TV show's monumental premiere in April. Less than two months have passed since then but the number of active daily players across all Fallout games has mor

Deadpool 3 popcorn bucket is finally here in all of its gross glory and fans are absolutely loving it

The battle of the most inappropriate popcorn bucket is back in full force as Deadpool 3 unveils its official one - and it's questionable-looking, to say the least.After months of teasing the bucket, star Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter posting a video revealing the long-awaited popcorn holder in all of its gross glory, modeled after Wolverine’s head featuring a comically oversized and suggestive mouth which is presumably where you reach in for your deliciously sweet snack, ew.In

The Dungeons and Dragons TV show isn’t coming to Paramount Plus and will instead be given a "creative update" before being sold elsewhere

Own up, you forgot the Dungeons and Dragons TV show was happening, didn’t you? In fairness, you haven’t missed much. The project, announced in 2023, isn’t going anywhere fast – and there’s a concerning new development.According to Deadline, the D&D live-action series will no longer be released on Paramount Plus. Instead, the show will undergo a “creative update” and then be shopped to other interested parties.The D&D series was created by Red Not

Former Blizzard boss says PlayStation probably can't convert PC players using single-player exclusives alone

Blizzard Entertainment's former president Mike Ybarra has given his own take on PlayStation's PC strategy.PlayStation's new co-CEO Hermen Hulst recently discussed the publisher's philosophy on PC ports, explaining that live service games reliant on big communities would come to both platforms on the same day, while single-player "tentpole titles" would see a staggered release and launch exclusively on PS5. The strategy would attempt to bring PC gamers over to PS5 using exclusive sequels as bait.

The First Descendant: Nexon Aims For The West With New RPG Shooter

Revealed during The Game Awards 2023 last December, The First Descendant is an upcoming looter-shooter RPG from Nexon and one of the South Korean company's first forays into the console market space. Due out this year, this free-to-play third-person multiplayer shooter is hoping to attract players within the Destiny 2 and Warframe community and newcomers alike. And after playing the game for a couple of hours, we're inclined to believe Nexon is on to something here.Ahead of the game's rele