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One of Mario Kart World‘s big novelties is a open world map of race coursers that connect to one another. Instead of isolated tracks, racing to the next course across open highways is part of competing. This has made for some mixed results in traditional Grand Prix mode where old-school fans prefer the “purity” of traditional closed circuit loops but it’s also highlighted what’s so fun about the game’s new Knockout Tour mode. A new free update is doubling-down on that by introducing team battles as well. The way Knockout Tour works is that the bottom group of performers get…

When I first sat down with Bowen “Monsoon” Fuller, we were both out of breath. Moments earlier, he and his teammates on team Oblivion had just pulled off the unthinkable: winning the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Year 5 Championship in Sapporo, Japan. On the fourth and final day of the competition, Fuller and his team had miraculously beat out Philip “ImperialHal” Dosen’s Team Falcons, who were highly favored to win and had maintained their number-one spot throughout the first three days of the event, but lost to Oblivion in a shocking ninth and final match on the last day.…

Return to Silent Hill, a live-action film adaptation of Konami’s beloved Silent Hill 2, hits theaters later this week. Early reviews for the horror flick are as scary as any monster from the games. First announced in 2022, Return to Silent Hill releases on January 23. It isn’t connected to the past two Silent Hill movies, even though it was directed by the first film’s Christophe Gans, and is instead a loose adaptation of the PS2-era survival horror classic Silent Hill 2. Marketing for this film has been minimal to say the least, partially because it seems the executives involved…

Just about all Silksong players can agree on one thing, whether or not they played the original Hollow Knight: The game is pretty freakin’ hard. Developer Team Cherry addressed the game’s difficulty at the September opening of a gaming exhibition at Australia’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) museum, sharing insight into just why the new game is proving so challenging. “Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight — so even the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent,” Silksong co-director Ari Gibson said (via Dexerto). Co-director William Pellen added, “In contrast to…

JBL Tune 770NC Headphones are wireless over-the-ear headphones featuring adaptive noise cancellation, smart ambient features, and a lightweight foldable design ideal for watching video, making phone calls, and listening to music. They provide an over-the-ear fit that encloses your ears, Bluetooth 5.3 for a steady wireless connection, and JBL Pure Bass sound that delivers much more bass to your music. Plus, with up to 70 hours of battery life, you can listen to music all day (or longer) without needing to find a power source. Go to Amazon to purchase the JBL Tune 770NC Headphones for only $80, down from…

I’m nearing the climactic finale of TR-49, a puzzling narrative deduction game from Expelled developer Inkle. My brain has reached a state of overdrive as all those cryptic notes unearthed on a glitching computer are starting to make sense. Or, at least, I think they are. By the five-hour mark, It feels like I’m speaking another language altogether, one I can only understand in fragments. My mind now thinks in four-digit codes, but the one I need to put an end to everything still eludes me. It’s as I’m frantically flipping through a database, like a tourist searching their pocket…

Battlefield 6’s promised, season-extending update has been officially detailed. The patch, version 1.1.3.5, arrives tomorrow, January 20 right when Season 1 was supposed to end. Part of the update’s goal is to extend the current season, until Season 2 kicks off in the middle of February. Update 1.1.3.5 does, of course, have a change log of its own that goes beyond just the season’s extension, but the changes fall somewhere between not very exciting, and a bit puzzling. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Patch 1.1.3.5 is, for all intents and purposes, a smaller update.…

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a fantastic single-player open-world RPG. One of the best ever made. And yet the incredibly detailed and lively world of the game would make for the perfect place to hang out with some friends. And thanks to a new mod, that dream can now be made real on PC. As spotted by Polygon, Witcher Online is a new free mod for the PC version of The Witcher 3 that adds online multiplayer for up to five players. The mod launched earlier this month and is available now on Nexus Mods and was created by…

In 28 Years Later and its sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple films, the eccentric recluse Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) spends his days building a colossal ossuary as a memorial to all those who have died since the outbreak of the Rage virus. But by night, he relaxes in his modest bunker and listens to music. His treasured record collection proves key to the best scene in The Bone Temple, following a long tradition of post-apocalyptic stories fascinated with what pieces of pop culture will survive the collapse of civilization, and what that art will mean to the…

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The numbers are inEach week, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shares data that reveals the top 10 titles in the US ranked by total weekly active users across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam. (Circana used to released the top 15 but it changed to the top 10 recently).The lists come from Circana’s Player Engagement Tracker, and to be sure, this tracks weekly active users, not concurrent users.Which games were the most popular for the week that ended January 10? Fortnite ranked No.…