Assassin's Creed Shadows early access officially canceled as Ubisoft drops Collector's Edition price by $50 amid delays and scrapped Season Pass plans - games news - NewsLocker (2025)

The Assassin's Creed Shadows Collector's Edition will no longer offer early access to the game, with the edition's price dropping $50 as a result.In a post on Discord (via IGN), Ubisoft confirmed that several factors, including the Assassin's Creed Shadows delay, the cancellation of its planned Season Pass component, and the removal of the three days of early access planned as part of its original November 15 release date, caused the $280 price tag to drop to $230.While "the content will mostly

One of Amazon's best animated shows is coming back for season 4

Good news, The Legend of Vox Machina fans! More episodes are officially on the way – but given that season 3 has only just finished airing, we're not quite sure when the new chapter will premiere yet.Prime Video, Critical Role, and animation studio Titmouse confirmed the news on October 23, releasing a short video starring actors Sam Riegel, who voices Scanlan, Laura Bailey (Vex), Taliesin Jaffe (Percy), and Marisha Ray (Keyleth)."We've been picked up for a season 4," Riegel sa

World of Warcraft celebrates its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 version of a mount that cost $475 around 6 years ago, knocking the MMO's economy sideways

As part of World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary celebrations, Blizzard is selling a $90 version of a mount that would have cost you $475 around six years ago – and it's causing a bit of a scene.Some MMO history to start: Back in 2018, with the launch of the Battle for Azeroth expansion, we got the colossal Reins of the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur mount. He's big, he's beautiful, and he cost five million in gold from vendors, which amounted to $475 in real-world value at the time, give or take

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been hands-on with Fable and the mysterious Rare survival game that's been AWOL for 4 years

Phil Spencer is maybe one of the few gaming executives who actually plays games - his Vampire Survivors playtime on Xbox is staggering, for what it's worth, not to mention all the times he's been spotted in-game or nuked in Fallout 76. But he's now decided to flex on everyone by sharing that he's played unreleased versions of Fable and Everwild.The Microsoft Gaming CEO appears to have been doing the rounds at Xbox's UK-based studios as he recently posted about visits to Playground Games, the stu

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Before Balatro took over the world, the roguelike's creator considered naming it Fool's Gambit - "obviously not a great name," but it had a killer main menu

Prior to Balatro marking its place among some of the best roguelikes around, solo developer LocalThunk considered calling the game something else - and giving it an interactive menu in which players could rearrange the title's letters to spell "random crap."Balatro is a clever name for a poker-inspired deck builder with unique Joker cards - after all, it translates directly to "clown" or "jester" in Latin. In ancient Rome, a balatro was essentially a professional buffoon paid to jest. Balatro wa

Good Omens will conclude with one, feature-length episode rather than a full season 3

Good Omens season 3 will be just one, feature-length episode of 90 minutes, and creator Neil Gaiman has exited the show, Deadline reports.The news comes after production was previously put on pause following sexual assault allegations against Gaiman, first reported by UK outlet Tortoise. Gaiman denies the allegations. Deadline previously reported that Gaiman "made an offer to Amazon and producers to take a back seat on the latest season so that it can continue amid crisis talks" over the s

Diablo 4 boss admits the Spiritborn is "going to have some issues that need to be addressed," but "some people don't recognize the difference between 'fix' and 'nerf'"

Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class has certainly been making waves since its arrival in the action RPG earlier this month, but as the series' boss tests the waters on whether or not certain things should be fixed, he's reminded players that there's a "difference between 'fix' and 'nerf.'"The Spiritborn was introduced alongside Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred DLC, and since then, players have discovered bugs that allow it to deal quadrillions of damage, as well as a problem where it's possible to break

18 months after it was first announced, Star Wars’ Rey movie has lost another writer – the creator of Peaky Blinders

18 months after it was first announced, Star Wars’ Rey movie has lost another writer.The untitled Rey feature, starring Daisy Ridley as the Jedi in a post-Rise of Skywalker adventure, is reportedly looking for someone else to pen the script. As per Puck, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight won’t be moving forward with the project. That follows the previous departures of Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson.The outlet suggests the Rey movie, which would have likely been penciled in

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Star Wars: Legacy of Vader explores the period between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker with an "angry, frustrated… dangerous" Kylo Ren

Marvel wrapped up many of its ongoing Star Wars comics recently, but they're far from done with the galaxy far, far away... As well as the recently announced Battle of Jakku trilogy and the new Star Wars: Jedi Knights series, Marvel has now announced Legacy of Vader –an ongoing series from the team of writer Charles Soule and artist Luke Ross.Legacy of Vader is set in the largely unexplored gap between the Skywalker saga's final two films, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Kyl

Microsoft Gaming laid off over 2,500 workers this year, but it still found enough spare change to give its CEO a $79 million bonus

Microsoft laid off more than 2,500 people working in its games division this year, but the trillion dollar company still scrounged together enough spare change under the couch to give its CEO an even bigger bonus.In its most recent regulatory filing from last week, Microsoft revealed that CEO Satya Nadella's total compensation for the 2024 fiscal year amounted to $79.1 million. Most of that money comes from performance-based stock awards, however, as the executive's base salary stayed the

Despite its first-person combat, Avowed doesn't want you to get stabbed in the back: "You have to make sure you're giving players full awareness of the area around them"

Combat in Avowed may not be too difficult, thanks to the enemy AI being prevented from swarming you.You know that scene in The Matrix Reloaded where all the Agent Smith clones rush in and pile onto Neo? Well, don't expect the same thing to happen in Avowed. In an interview with Obsidian game director Carrie Patel, she tells Edge magazine about the way combat has been designed to make best use of the first-person camera without overwhelming you."You have to make sure you're giving players full aw

After Death Stranding and Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima wants to create a game that aliens will look at "centuries later" and say "that's awesome"

Hideo Kojima understandably wants his games to impress generations to come, but that's not all - he also thinks his beloved work may possibly reach the eyes of more otherworldly beings one day.Speaking in a recent interview with Anan News (thanks, Automaton), the legend behind smash-hit titles like Death Stranding and Metal Gear explains that, first and foremost, it's important for game developers to create games that they're satisfied with personally. "I cannot put out a game that I don't feel

An ex-Marvel writer says one of the MCU's most common complaints is being addressed: "Some of their series should have been films… they're taking that more into account now"

After Armor Wars' creative overhaul, its former writer says Marvel has learned from its past mistakes and is putting "more thought" into what should be a movie and what should be a Disney Plus series.Ex-Armor Wars head writer Yassir Lester has suggested in an interview with ComicBook.com that the Rhodey-centric project’s shift from a TV show to a movie is thanks to a change in behind-the-scenes thinking at Marvel Studios."I think that Marvel is constantly in a state of ‘What is the m

Hades 2 patch 6 lets us live out our Zelda and Dark Souls fantasies by making pots easier than ever to smash, and nerfs nearly every new enemy

Shortly after dropping a Herculean update last week, developer Supergiant Games has now quickly responded to the boats of fan feedback that washed ashore with Hades 2's sixth patch.The in-progress roguelike took Melinoe to a new region, gave her a new jetpack-gauntlet weapon, and expanded its pantheon of gods further in last week's Olympus Update, but the titular region seems to have kicked everyone's butts a bit too hard as the studio is now walking back some of that challenge. Supergiant Games

Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station may have been dominating our Major Orders for the last month, but Arrowhead still isn't "going into the details" on it yet

Helldivers 2 players may have been contributing to the construction of the Democracy Space Station for over a month now, but Arrowhead still isn't ready to reveal all about what it'll have to offer.Last month, the first in a series of Major Orders to construct the space station (the DSS) began, with the promise of it becoming a "powerful strategic tool for reshaping the Galactic Map" which could ultimately "change the course of the war." Since then, Super Earth's finest have contributed pl

Venom: The Last Dance director talks her "beautiful memory" of filming the ending: "Everybody was super emotional"

Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Venom: The Last Dance! Turn back if you haven't seen the new Marvel movie yet!As you can guess from the title, Venom: The Last Dance is the send-off for the Venom franchise, bringing the adventures of Eddie and his symbiote pal to a close.Now, if you've seen the movie, you'll know the ending is a major tearjerker – Venom chooses to sacrifice himself to prevent big bad Knull from escaping his prison, which leaves Eddie alone. Th

Venom: The Last Dance post-credits scene: Does the Marvel threequel have a post-credits scene?

Does Venom: The Last Dance have a post-credits scene? What if we told you there were two?As with any Marvel movie, there are post-credits scene worth sticking around for. There's also a mid-credits scene, which sets up something of a revenge arc for a newly introduced supervillain...So whether you've already seen the film or if you're just here to skip ahead and be spoiled... you've come to the right place. Scroll on down to find out what Sony and Marvel snuck in just for fans. But be warned, sp

Venom: The Last Dance ending explained

Venom: The Last Dance, the last installment in the Tom Hardy-led Venom trilogy. As with any Marvel movie... there's a lot that happens at the end.Fear not, though, because we've rounded up every major event that takes place in the third act of Venom: The Last Dance. So if you missed something or if you're just masochistic when it comes to spoilers, you've come to the right place.We'll start with a recap and then move onto your burning questions: who dies? Where does this leave Eddie Brock? Scrol

Toxin: Does Venom's symbiote "grandson" appear in Venom: The Last Dance?

Venom: The Last Dance is out now, bringing the Tom Hardy-starring trilogy to a close. In the new film, Eddie and his symbiote are on the run, implicated in the death of Detective Mulligan (Stephen Graham) in the previous movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage. As anyone who watched that film will know, however, Mulligan is not really dead. He survived his encounter with Carnage and now appears to be infected with a symbiote of his own...This development has its roots in Marvel Comics, where Mulligan

Legendary horror dev says the whole time he was making Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, and "a cancelled title, I never had any girlfriends. Coz I had no time for it"

Legendary Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito had to abstain from romantic relationships earlier in his career simply because he didn't have time for them.Ito was art director on Team Silent and served as creature designer for Silent Hill, art director on Silent Hill 2 - a role in which he came up with the iconic Pyramid Head monster - and art director on Silent Hill 3. He also played an active part in the development of the recently released and highly acclaimed Silent Hill 2 Remake.According to It

Marvel reveals its full slate of January 2025 comics and covers featuring the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers and more

Marvel Comics is prepping us for the new year by dropping its full January 2025 solicitations, including a whole slew of new titles across the Marvel Universe.First up, capitalizing on the success of this summer's big blockbuster hit, Marvel is unleashing Deadpool/Wolverine #1, teaming up the two unkillable killing machines in their own ongoing series. Then there's even more Wolverine action dropping in January with Ultimate Wolverine #1, which turns Wolverine into the Winter Soldier.Elsewhere i

Hunt Showdown dev defends Ghostface skin by saying it "fits into the dark, supernatural atmosphere as an ageless, almost mythological figure that transcends eras"

Hunt: Showdown developer Crytek has addressed the criticism surrounding the game's Scream crossover and Ghostface skin.For some context, Hunt: Showdown is a multiplayer first-person shooter set in an alternate history 1890s Colorado, and Scream is a 1996 horror movie slasher set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California. These two very different worlds collided in Hunt: Showdown's Ghostface Rampage DLC, and this prompted some blowback from the community because of the indications for the fu

Overwatch 2 devs say a "world where both 5v5 and 6v6 exist permanently" is on the table as they experiment with a return to 12-player modes

Among all the changes in the switch from Overwatch to Overwatch 2, the biggest - and most controversial - was the move from 6v6 to 5v5 matches. Earlier this year, Blizzard indicated that a return to 6v6 wasn't entirely off the table, and now the devs are laying out some concrete plans toward deciding what that return might look like.Season 14 will see the launch of two different 6v6 test modes. A week into the season, Blizzard is launching what it calls "Min 1, Max 3," where each team must have

Eric Barone confirms Stardew Valley update 1.6.9 for all platforms and reminds fans some new stuff is "better experienced" on a new save

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has assured fans that the massive 1.6 update is still set to launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch on November 4 as previously announced. In doing so, he also confirmed the new 1.6.9 update is coming to all platforms, including PC, on the same day.Stardew Valley 1.6 is a behemoth of an update packed to the brim with gameplay tweaks and quality of life updates big and small, with the addition of the brand new Meadowlands farm type being

A second, secret Predator movie from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg is coming out next year

Not one, but two Predator movies are apparently coming out next year."We’ve actually done two of them. Two are coming out next year," Fox president Steve Asbell told The Hollywood Reporter. "One I can’t talk about yet, but the other one is the live-actionPredatorfilm with Elle Fanning that just wrapped in New Zealand. That’ll be out theatrically sometime next year."Asbell clarified: "There’s a secondPredatormovie that we have different plans for. D

"I'm honored that Stardew is included": Unstoppable roguelike Balatro continues its indie game bucket list with Stardew Valley collab art drawn by Eric Barone himself

Poker roguelike hit Balatro is continuing its ascent to the highest echelons of indie game myth with a new collaboration featuring indie legends Slay the Spire and The Binding of Isaac, yet another CDPR crossover with Cyberpunk 2077, and even Stardew Valley via custom art drawn by creator Eric Barone himself.The latest free update in Balatro's growing Friends of Jimbo line was revealed and released today, October 24. New free card skins inspired by the four featured games are now available on PC

Two of the year's biggest sci-fi hits Alien: Romulus and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes are getting sequels

Alien: Romulus and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes have been greenlit for sequels at Fox."We’re working on a sequel idea now. We haven’t quite closed our deal with Fede [Alvarez], but we are going to, and he has an idea that we’re working on," Fox president Steve Asbell told The Hollywood Reporter. "The two survivors, Rain and Andy, played by Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, were real highlights of the film. And so I always think of it like, 'Wow, where do people want to see

The Croc remaster is ditching the PS1 original's most defining and controversial feature - its Resident Evil-style tank controls

The first Croc Legend of the Gobbos gameplay trailer has arrived, and it confirms the remaster has done away with the PS1 original's Resident Evil-style tank controls.Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a remaster of the beloved PS1 platformer of the same name. It was announced back in August as the debut project coming from the reformation of original developer Argonaut Games, which shut down in 2004.The original game was a big hit on PS1 when it launched back in 1997, but its tank controls ar

The Witcher season 4 confirms another major character has been recast, and the actor has revealed why

Due to scheduling conflicts, The Witcher has recast another character for its fourth season.It was reported last week that while the character of Vesemir is set to return, actor Kim Bodnia is not. "Kim will not return as Vesemir as his current shooting diary didn’t fit in with Netflix’s shooting schedule ofThe Witcher season 4," a spokesperson for Bodnia told The Radio Times.The scheduling conflict reportedly has to do with his involvement in the action drama F1, which was init

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered tech analysis says it's almost more remake than remaster, rivaling the fantastic Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered continues the trend of big first-party PlayStation games getting upgrades they may not actually need - but that's no slight on the work of the devs bringing these upgrades to life. An independent tech analysis of the new version suggests it's a major improvement, and one that almost feels like a proper remake."The changes are significant enough that I'm not even sure the word remaster is the correct one here," according to Digital Foundry's John Linneman. "Horizon Re