This has been a busy fall for Wizards of the Coast's D&D team. Having just released a new campaign in September's Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus and preparing to publish another alongside a new setting expansion in Eberron: Rising From the Last War, the team is also getting ready to launch an adventure and starter set based on the hit TV show (and crossover comic series) Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty.
Nintendo has announced a multiplayer beta for Mario Kart Tour that will be held in December, but you'll need to be a Gold Pass subscriber to get involved.
The beta was announced on Twitter, and will allow players of the mobile racing game to try out the real-time multiplayer mode during an as-yet unspecified time period in December. But players must be subscribed to Mario Kart Tour's Gold Pass to take part, which costs $4.99/£4.99 per month.
A real-time multiplayer beta test is planned for December and will be available to #MarioKartTour Gold Pass subscribers.
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Undertale creator Toby Fox has composed a music track for Pokemon Sword and Shield.
Fox announced the news on Twitter, accompanied by cute sketch of an Eeevee in his signature, Undertale-y style. "I was asked to compose a track for Pokémon Sword & Shield!" he said. "It's a huge honor to be asked to be part of something like this."
Hey, I'm finally allowed to announce this: I was asked to compose a track for Pokémon Sword & Shield! It's a huge honor to be asked to be part of something like this. I hope you enjoy hearing it when the game comes out! pic.twitter.com/VmroEgJWqI
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Death Stranding is making its way to the PS4 on November 8, and alongside it will launch a limited edition PS4 Pro bundle with an exclusive console design.
You can check out that limited edition PS4 Pro in the video unboxing above, in which Max Scoville and I show off the Death Stranding-themed PS4 Pro as well as the limited edition orange translucent DualShock 4 controller.
You can check out IGN's Death Stranding preorder guide to find out where the PS4 Pro special edition may still be available, as well as which other versions of the game you can preorder ahead of its launch.
After the past three years of cryptic and confusing teaser trailers, the question on everyone's lips has been, "What exactly is Death Stranding?" Well, now we know, and the answer is… complicated. The first game from famed designer Hideo Kojima since his dramatic departure from publisher Konami and his long-running Metal Gear franchise is a boldly inventive slab of sci-fi, fastidiously crafted to host to some of the most breathtaking sights I've ever witnessed in any medium – video game or otherwise. It's also a cross-country crawl that frequently finds itself mired in an exhausting amount of inventory management, backtracking, one-note mission design, and unprecedentedly arduous travel. It's evident that Kojima and his team at Kojima Productions have worked extremely hard to build Death Stranding, but it's also painfully clear that they expect us to match their determination in order to fully enjoy it.
For the first time in a few years, it seems like Call of Duty has stopped peeking at other shooters' homework for inspiration. It's not to say it hasn't been successful with taking on trending modes and mechanics, like when Treyarch's Black Ops 4 ditched the campaign and introduced an amazing battle royale mode. This year, though, Infinity Ward pulls from its own history for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. And as a result, it's delivered excellent gunplay to pair with an intense and effective campaign and a fantastic weapon customization system in multiplayer. Something it didn't learn, though, is that even a great arsenal can't make up for poor map design, especially when there's such a limited selection available at launch. Missteps in multiplayer and Spec Ops are like suppression fire that keep Modern Warfare from taking the high ground of its classic namesake, but everything else suggests that the series is now heading in a promising direction.
With production on Netflix's The Witcher now wrapped, it's only a matter of time before this wild world of wonder and weirdness hits the small screen. However, executive producer and showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich's adaptation of this beloved fantasy world isn't tied to the massively successful Witcher game franchise developed by CD Projekt Red and which established its significance in the zeitgeist. Instead, the Netflix show is based on the books by author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Sapkowski has published eight Witcher books since he started writing the series back in the mid-'80s when the illustrious Polish author first submitted Wiedzmín — "The Witcher" — to fantasy magazine Fantastyka.
