Monthly Archives: October 2017

Elder Scrolls Online Clockwork City Release Date Revealed

The Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC, Clockwork City, is coming out in just a few weeks.

The Clockwork City DLC game pack releases October 23 for PC and Mac, and a few weeks later for PS4 and Xbox One on November 7. The add-on content is free to all Elder Scrolls Online Plus members, and available for 2,000 crowns for everyone else via the in-game Crown Store.

It's important to note that you do not need to own Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind in order to play Clockwork City.

The Clockwork City Collector’s Edition will also be available for 4,000 crowns. Along with the base DLC pack, the collector's edition comes with the Clockwork Skeevaton pet, the Kagouti Fabricant mount, and Five Crown Experience Scrolls.

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Watch 12 Minutes of New The Hunt: Showdown Gameplay

Watch 12 minutes of new Hunt: Showdown gameplay in the video up above, as the developers guide you through a match.

Banishing giant spiders and hulking pig men back to their respective circles of hell can be an absolute nightmare, let me tell you.

And it certainly isn’t helped when opposing hunting parties block your exit routes with barbed wire or lob flares in through the windows, making it impossible to see what you’re doing. That’s the thing about Hunt: Showdown. While ostensibly you’re tracking down and slaughtering hideous monsters, in truth, you’re the one that’s being hunted.

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Did Kylo Ren Try to Kill Luke?

"I've seen this raw strength only once before. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now."

When Luke Skywalker utters the above line in the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson trains his camera on two different things -- the "present day" where an aged Luke is clearly frightened by this strength he mentions, and the past where he falls to his knees, no doubt in horror, watching his new Jedi Academy burn. This is, of course, a return to the flashback of carnage glimpsed oh so briefly in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but this time around Johnson appears to be offering us a new clue about that event as well: It seems Kylo Ren also tried to murder Luke during that attack.

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Tamagotchi Is Returning With a 20th Anniversary Line

It's time to hatch, feed, and clean-up after your virtual pets yet again — Tamagotchi is back in honor of the toy's 20th anniversary.

Bandai America has officially announced that a new set of Tamagotchi toys — smaller at about 60 percent the size of the toys you may remember playing with in the '90s — will be available in limited qualities on November 5 for $14.99. Check out the device below.

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Yes, the new Tamagotchi looks very much like the original, including the device's egg shape, with six different designs pulled from the original Japanese launch. To further evoke nostalgia, the original Tamagtochi's packaging design has been replicated for the new line, and the toys themselves feature the original characters players could care for from the original game.

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Star Wars Battlefront 2 Beta Extended

The Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta has been extended for all players across PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

An amendment has appeared on the Star Wars Battlefront 2 Beta event page, showing the beta now closes Wednesday October 12 at 3:00 AM AEDT.

The beta was originally scheduled to finish yesterday after being available as an early access for preorder customers since October 4 and has been open to all as of October 6.

While fun to play, the beta also features a loot box system, which has given us cause to worry about the potential pay-to-win nature of the full game.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Brings First Official Glimpse of Snoke

Today’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has brought with it the first proper glimpse of Andy Serkis’ mysterious villain, Supreme Leader Snoke.

Snoke appeared in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an immense hologram, and we’ve since seen his likeness revealed via a figurine and a set of official Star Wars postage stamps and trading cards, but this marks the first time we’ve officially seen the real, horribly-disfigured Snoke in action, albeit briefly.

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16 Force-Fuelled Shots From the New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

Disney and LucasFilm have unleashed the hugely-anticipated first full-length trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi today, and alongside that a string of high-res stills directly from it.

You can check them all out in the gallery below.

Our initial thoughts on the trailer, which seems packed to the brim with misdirection, can be found and discussed here.

The arrival of the trailer follows the unveiling of a new theatrical poster for the film, as well as confirmation advance tickets have gone on sale in the US. Tickets are also on sale in Australia and, according to Star Wars UK on Twitter, will be available in just a few hours in the United Kingdom (7AM BST)

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