Though there’s currently no best video game category, as per the World Science Fiction Convention, a one-off category was created for this year, and a permanent award is under consideration. Hades beat off competition from The Last of Us 2, Spiritfarer, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Blaseball. “Wish I could have attended the Hugo Awards in person,” tweeted Supergiant Games’ creative director, Greg Kasavin (thanks, NME)....

Season 8 of MCC is called Mythic and showcases Halo “in a deliberately divergent way”, 343 franchise and narrative writer at 343, Jeff Easterling, said in a post on Halo Waypoint. He’s not kidding. Each of the new armour sets for use in Halo 3 multiplayer within MCC is focused on “reimagining the core Mjolnir armour as alternate universe amalgams based on legendary ancient warriors”, including Greek and Norse mythology....

The truth is, Halo Infinite serves up two distinct style of play that have very difficult implications in how the console hardware is put through its paces. The initial brace of missions - along with ‘dungeon’ style levels later on - is what you might call classic Halo. Interior-based in nature and more linear, albeit delivered with a profound improvement in graphical features and fidelity, these missions tend to be less of a stress test for the engine....

Campaign co-op isn’t available in Halo Infinite right now, but developer 343 Industries has confirmed it is coming - and has given us an estimated release date and a beta release date to work from. This means - eventually - you and a friend to play the campaign in co-op, and not just rely on regular multiplayer to save the galaxy together. On this page: Yes, we agree that this is a bit of a bummer....

First up, the video. Microsoft showed off Halo Infinite’s multiplayer season 1 cinematic intro, which reveals Commander Agryna. Here’s the official blurb: “Humanity’s forces are scattered. Desperate resistance efforts have continued to fall short on multiple fronts, from Cortana’s relentless martial law to the expanding power and ambition of Atriox and the Banished. But there is hope: a new generation of Spartans, training in secret to become unstoppable. In this cinematic introduction to Season 1 of Halo Infinite multiplayer, get a glimpse into the Academy Commander’s own heroic journey and what it truly means to be a Spartan....

I managed around four hours of play last night, and found myself on the receiving end of the new grappling hook more times than I would have liked. But it’s the new repulsor equipment that I think may be one of the best additions across the entire game. Trigger the repulsor and your spartan holds out their arm for a brief moment to deflect oncoming grenades and rockets. The idea is you can bat enemy grenades back at their sender, hopefully for a kill....

A new Bloomberg report details the rough journey developer 343 Industries took, leading up to the release of Halo Infinite this week. The game was originally inspired by Nintendo’s series, as the developers aimed to create an open-world version of Halo. However, a number of issues meant the entire game had to be considerably stripped back. Those issues include staff attrition rates at 343 Industries, conflicting creative decisions, and the developer’s game engine (named Faber) being difficult to use - so much so that a move to Unreal was considered for months, according to journalist Jason Schreier....

You begin Harvestella as an amnesiac who’s found near Lethe Village after being outside during the Season of Death and, somehow, surviving. Unsure at what to do with you and most likely wanting to keep the medical miracle close to hand, the Mayor and local doctor give you a nearby farm. Peace, however, is short lived as you’re soon cohabiting with the time travelling Aria and start investigating the Sealights - crystal-like structures which affect the seasons....

It Takes Two - which released for PC and consoles last March, and featured in many a Game of the Year list as 2021 drew to a close - follows the adventures of Cody and May, a human couple preparing to divorce, who are forced to work together after being turned into living dolls. According to Variety, Hazelight has partnered with dj2 Entertainment - which also has adaptations of Tomb Raider, Disco Elysium, and Sleeping Dogs in the works - in order to bring its acclaimed title to both film and television....

Hints of the mysterious project first appeared on Cavill’s Instagram page, where, beneath a black and white shot of himself enjoying some quality hair and makeup time on the set of The Witcher, he wrote, “Secret project? Or just a handful of paper with random words on it…. Guess you’ll have to wait and see.” The papers in question loitered in the corner of the frame, with just a couple of dozen extremely blurry words visible - none of which appeared to reveal very much at all at first glance....

As you can see in the video below, it’s an immediate feast for the eyes, beginning as Aloy scrambles through dense jungle foliage before stumbling out onto a oceanside settlement, all sandy beaches, deep blue water, and vast rock spires on the horizon, shrouded in clouds. These, Guerrilla later confirms, are the remnants of San Francisco, millennia into the future, and it’s here that Aloy encounters machine-riding raiders, immediately embarking on some nimble combat, firing arrows and hurtling acrobatically around the environment to escape their attack....

The video below shows off the video game version of Dune’s famous sand world, Arrakis, unit movement as well as the user interface. You can rally villages or force them into submission, and, as you’d expect, set up the spice harvesting process. The idea is to build a foothold to start your conquest, pulling back the camera for a more strategic overview of Arrakis’ dusty dunes. There’s a brief glimpse at combat, as well as the spying and diplomacy mechanics....

Today brings the game’s first post-launch patch, bringing the game to version 1.05, though this update is largely filled with quest bug fixes. Still, today’s update does address some visual issues, such as over-sharpening in HDR mode, an issue where the HUD would flicker when interacting with loot, as well as graphical anomalies when “rapidly opening and closing the map”. “Several streaming issues and unintended loading screens,” have also been sorted, Guerrilla wrote in the full patch notes, available below....

Nemona is a talented trainer when it comes to Pokémon battle, but, don’t worry, she will go easy on you. For a while. Due to this, you can expect her to change and train her team, along with Terastallizing her Pokémon. Below you’ll learn how to defeat Nemona when she challenges you to a battle in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. On this page: If you’d like to learn more about your Paldea adventure, visit our Pokémon Scarlet and Violet walkthrough....

Though easy on paper, in practice, pulling this off is difficult - but there is a method which can help you get this faster, especially for those struggling when playing solo. If you complete this, and other Indiana Jones challenges, you’ll unlock the skin and other associated cosmetics. Remember you have until the end of Chapter 3 Season 3 to complete this! How to damage opponents while riding in or standing on a vehicle in Fortnite For this challenge, you must ride on or stand on a vehicle and damage opponents for a total of 500 points of damage - this doesn’t have to be in a single match, of course, meaning you can chip away at it over time....

You can clear this challenge quickly by finding tank locations before an enemy player or IO Guard gets in one. Completing this challenge will reward you with 20k XP, which will help you unlock skins from the new battle pass. For even more ways to get fast XP in Fortnite, make sure to visit our May the 4th challenge guide. On this page: Note this particular challenge is no longer able to be completed....

Released during the Mythic Blade event in Pokémon Go, Crabrawler is a fighting-type Pokémon, but, once evolved into Crabominable, you’ll have a fighting and ice-type on your hands. Below you’ll learn how to get Crabrawler and evolve it into Crabominable in Pokémon Go. On this page: Crabrawler will be appearing more frequently in the wild throughout the Mythic Blade event. Since this is currently the only way to catch Crabrawler, we highly recommend going out and tracking one down before the event ends on Sunday, 11th December at 8pm (local time)....

You can make it as a gift, as part of orders in Remy’s restaurant, and for certain questlines and Dreamlight Duties. To help with your cooking needs, we’ve detailed exactly how to make yule log in Disney Dreamlight Valley below. For more help navigating the holiday update, we’ve got pages on how to get Stitch, festive fish, and how to make fruitcake, boba tea, and a gingerbread house. On this page:...

I quickly fell in love with this brand new VR survival adventure game thanks to its incredibly gorgeous visuals and simple-to-grasp yet satisfyingly speedy movement schemes. Oh, and also the weirdly penis-y rope-bridge things that made me laugh until I cried. Unfortunately it’s not all sunshine and roses though. The gorgeous visuals of the games’ opening section are soon replaced by standard, gloomy, sci-fi corridor interiors, and this robs the game of its ‘wow’ factor quite significantly....

Anyway: do not worry about that. Four Travellers, a free, 1920s point-and-click mystery created by Laura Hunt and Thomas Möhring, is full of things that are probably references - recurring classical music, quoted novels, recited poetry - or maybe not! The point is it helps to be an ignoramus here. All the heady literary-ness of the Proust and Satie piling up and congealing into a kind of fog, the same kind that clouds the minds of its three-ish main characters....