Our flame-headed friends joins forces with Richter Belmont & Alucard Looks likeDead Cellsis honoring its gaming ancestors in its next DLC titled Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania. Hell yeah, it’s a Castlevania crossover. Announced atThe Game Awardsthis evening, developers Motion Twin announced the DLC with a lavishly animated trailer in which our flame-headed Dead Cells protagonist finds a gateway to a mysterious castle where they meet Castlevania’s Alucard, Richter Belmont, and of course the big bad boy himself, Dracula....

Kojima Productions is back with more Sam and Fragile Death Strandingis getting a sequel, folks, and the BB Boys are BACK, baybeeeee. Holy moly, I am so excited, I cannot even. And they’re joined by honorary BB Girl Fragile, who seems to have both an actual child of her own to shepherd about, and… a BB Octopus? Come and help me decipher the reveal trailer forDeath Stranding 2below (and yes, the return of my BB Boys photo diary is 100% confirmed)....

You’ll not catch me again, Bungie, but dang I wish you could A new trailer forDestiny 2: Lightfallhot and fresh out of The Geoffries tonight certainly makes the next expansion for Bungie’s MMOFPS look cool. Neomuna, the neon capital megacity of Neptune, is very pretty. The new ‘Strand’ powers of grappling hooks and rope darts look dead cool. Bungie always have good trailers. It doesn’t show any of the mindnumbing grind you’ll be forced through to play the best bits but hey, that’s trailers....

According to thedetailed report by the Post, Blizzard have “not explicitly required employees to work overtime in most cases,” but are incentivising it in different ways including profit-sharing and offers to cover meals. Publisher Activision Blizzard are currently the subject of a number oflegal actions,labour disputesand allegations ofworkplace harassment. Some of these disputes relate specifically to alleged conditions within Activision Blizzard subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment. Earlier this evening, the US Federal Trade Commission opted to file suit toblock Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzardfor $69 billion....

Hey, that’s 6/6! Hot on the heels ofa reportclaiming thatDiablo 4developers are likely facing painful overtime to meet a then-unconfirmed release date of June 6th, a new trailer at the Geoffries tonight confirmed that yeahDiablo IV’s release date is June 6th. Well. Alrighty. Still, this CGI trailer is nice and fancy. That’s a swish cinematic showdown between Inarius, Archangel of The High Heavens, and Lilith, Daughter of Hatred. I do still adore those blazing tendril wings of Diablo angels....

A grand overview of what’s in store for PC games next year On the off-chance that you missed the live show, fear not. We’ve sacrificed our sleep to round up every little thing that was trailered or announced at this year’s Game Awards. Take a look at everything that’s on the games horizon, and let us know what you’re looking forward to the most in the comments below! All the Game Awards trailers and announcements for PC...

A holiday-appropriate performance raising money for charity On December 6th, fourteen players performed a 60-minute version of the show in-game in Fallout 76. Some were there as actors, positioning their characters and providing VO. The rest of the group included crew members such as a lighting technician and a security guard, because a Deathclaw ambush wouldn’t be very Christmassy. The live show was followed by a slightly shorter TV production of A Christmas Carol, with various camera angles and other adjustments to fit the medium - this production was broadcast through a Fallout 76 TV, of course....

Final Fantasy is back at the top of its game, baybeee Cor, I just watched it again and it’s looking a bit good, innit?Final Fantasy gameshave always been technical showcases for the cutting edge in years past, but I don’t know, somehow it hasn’t quite felt like that in recent years. Maybe because it’s been so long between entries. By the timeFinal Fantasy16 comes out next June, it will be seven years since the release of boys-stag-do-roadtripFinal Fantasy 15, and 14 years since Lightning and pals appeared inFinal Fantasy 13....

Well of course the Dark Souls studio need fires Those really are some cool mechs. All shapes and sizes, bristling with greebles and gadgets and pistons and flaps and spinning bits and gatling guns. I like to think those “feed the fire” and “let the last cinders burn” cards were intentional fakeouts for viewers expecting the surprise announcement to be a new Dark Souls game. Although, in the extremely unlikely event that these are hints connecting Armored Core to Dark Souls in some wild Drakengard/Nier-style history, I will lose my chuffing mind....

It’s a 1-4 player co-op action game made in collaboration with Hasbro Right, here’s where I have to stay objective and professional. I’ve been a card-carrying Transformers fan since Generation 1, so I’m somewhat confused by the trailer shown at The Game Awards tonight for Gears studio Splash Damage’s upcoming co-op action gameTransformers: Reactivate. Yes, theoretically any rather large robot that changes shape counts as a Transformer. Possibly a GoBot, I’m not going to judge anyone on their lifestyle....

Down to £40 at Amazon UK after a £25 Black Friday discount. Logitech’s MX Master line of office-friendly, gaming-capable mice are normally quite premium propositions. However, today on Amazon UK the recent MX Master 2S is on sale for only £40, around a £25 reduction from its usual price point. This is a good deal for a mouse loved for its high-tech scroll wheel, wide and comfortable shape and long-ass battery life....

Fresh evidence for the emancipation order in that Game Awards announcement trailer Last night atThe Game Awards, we learned that not only will there be aHades 2, but it will be making the absolutely correct choice of letting Zagreus step aside to make way for a new protagonist. This time around we’ll be playing as Melinoë, modelled after the Greek goddess of nightmares and madness. She’s also Zag’s half-sister — yet another of the dozens of children, step-children, and foster-children of Hades knocking about the place — which brings me to my main take-away from the newly-confirmed existence of aHadessequel: the title character is a really bad dad....

A big surprise from The Game Awards Supergiant isn’t one for sequels which was why this is such a surprise.Hades 2will stay firmly in the Underworld of Greek myth and will follow the same structure as its predecessor. You’ll receive boons from fully voice-acted Gods (new and old Supergiant says, so look out for some familiar faces) and fight your way through monster-filled dungeons. There are no major story details yet, but from the trailer, it looks like the princess of the Underworld has a major chip on her shoulder, probably because of her father’s current imprisonment, and so sets off to put an end to Kronos and presumably free her old man....