(Speed) Running Up That Hill The Games Done Quick (GDQ) team has released ajam-packed schedulefor its next speedrunning event, AGDQ 2023 — Once again, the fastest fingers in gaming will be gathering online to lay waste to a wide variety of new, classic, and debuting games, from a variety of genres, and all for a worthwhile cause. While GDQ had planned to host the AGDQ 2023 extravaganza in a physical capacity, the team decided that Florida does not currently provide a safe enough environment, (from a socialorCOVID-19-related standpoint), for such a community gathering....

Alan Wake 2is still deep in development Today marks the 12th anniversary ofAlan Wake, and Remedy released a little bit of news to celebrate. Alongside updates on Alan’s TV and sequel prospects, Remedy also confirmed thatAlan Wake Remasteredis coming to Nintendo Switch this fall. In anew video, Creative Director Sam Lake confirms the dark adventure is coming to Nintendo’s handheld sometime this fall. No date’s been locked down yet. But in a press release, Remedy saysAlan Wake Remasteredwill be a digital-only release, running natively on the hardware....

Twitch 1080p60 is top of the list Firmware updates are usually revealed by the platform-holder — a list of bullet points about all the tweaks that are coming with the next patch. Not this time.Eurogamer got a hold of the patch notesfor PS4’s upcoming 5.0 update before Sony had a chance to release them. As Eurogamer outlines, the biggest feature in 5.0 is probably that PS4 Pro owners will have the ability to stream from Twitch at 1080p at 60 frames per second....

Chillingo effectively dominated 2010 withAngry Birds, and it seems that 2011 will fail to stem the tide of its ornithological fury. Sony is the latest to feel the rage, with the smash hit gamecoming to the PlayStation Networkthis week. In case you’ve never played the game (what!?),Angry Birdscharges you with the task of catapulting the beaked avengers into increasingly complex structures, with the aim of killing the evil pigs inside. As the game progresses, you unlock new birds with special abilities....

New characters and clothes for your dance troupe In the latest issue of Famitsu, Atlus shared images of more (yes, even more) DLC content headed for the upcomingPersona 3: Dancing Moon NightandPersona 5: Dancing Star Night. We get to see two new characters that will be available for purchase post-release;Sho Minazuki and Labrys, both of whom appeared in fighting gamePersona 4 Arena. These characters will be available to download for either dance title....

Long hair don’t care Boston-boundFallouts acting like they federal. A lot of people were upset thatFallout 4looked more likeFallout 3than, say,The Witcher 3. Bethesda’s Pete Hines has a pretty zen attitude about the whole thing, explaining toMetrothat the negative reaction to the visuals, “Definitely doesn’t upset us.” “As with most forms of entertainment you never get 100 per cent agreement on anything. And so, at the end of the day, whether it’s what the graphics look like or whether the gameplay is what you want or whether you like the setting, or whatever it is, everybody is entitled to their opinion....

Serving up some big savings If Halloween is the in-season for aResident Evilgame, this is the off-season. As of writing big deals are available onResident EvilPC titles in a newseries weekend saleat GamersGate. Steam keys are being sold for a fraction of their usual cost, though pointedly the sale doesn’t even run through the entire weekend. Resident Evil Weekend Deals The key deal in the sale is the lowest price ever on this year’sResident Evil 7....

Chivalry: Medieval Warfarewas alreadyshaping up nicelyin the earlier alpha footage we got to see back in July. Today, Torn Banner Studios is back with another video and the news that this first-person melee game will have its Steam launch on June 08, 2025. There’s a beta running for the title right now, so we’ll be sure to report back onChivalryprior to the full release next month. I can’t wait to hear of Fraser’s exploits, personally....

Call of Duty WWII: Vanguard goes back to the front According toa new report from Eurogamer, Activision’s gabazillion-dollar franchiseCall of Dutywill, once again, return to World War II for this year’s release. In initial rumors printedby community site Modern Warzone, developer Sledgehammer Games will revisit the grim and miserable conflict for the latest entry in theCoDfranchise. The new title is reportedly codenamed “Call of Duty WW2: Vanguard” and is expected to launch later in 2021....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33is a breath of fresh air in the RPG genre, and may change the way gamers feel about turn-based combat forever. The debut game from Sandfall Interactive is full of JRPG tropes and clearly inspired by the games that came before it, but it also does a lot of great things unique to itself. Though it is, in the end, an RPG, and so there are some things we’ve come to expect from titles in the genre....

Outlive your character! [UPDATE: We have a winner! Congrats to whatthefnu, whose dedication to working in their underwear has won them their very own weather station. Thanks to everyone who participated!] If you’re anything like me, you don’t have many buildings named after you. If you’re exactly like me, you don’t haveanybuildings named after you. You now have the chance to rectify that particular wrong! To enter, all you have to do is drop a comment below and tell us what feat you performed to get this building christened in your honor....

For the latecomers If you’re doing last-minute shopping because you were toohungoverovercome with food coma during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday chaos, the good news is deals are still a go with Cyber Week. We’ve rounded up somedecent laptop dealsfor latecomers, from premium (and pricey) Alienware and Razer laptops to the more affordable variants from HP and Lenovo. The cheapest gaming-capable rig below would be theHP Pavilion 17 pricing inat only $580 after coupon and instant savings....

I want to see this one for myself While the first few minutes of this new officialDevil’s Thirdtrailer looks fairly boring, the multiplayer component, which starts at 2:30, actually seems kind of cool. Like Itagaki has said in the past it’s a military-like affair, with factions and different playable characters. Based on the trailer there’s lots of hand-to-hand-fighting, vegetable and fruit grenades, a mode with a chicken icon on it, and a ton of variety in general....