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Sony announces the next free PlayStation Plus games on the last Wednesday of every month, and so as expected, it’s now revealed February offerings. But instead of just offering PlayStation Plus subscribers two free games, Sony has decided to throw in a third game as an added bonus. The free PS Plus games for February 2020 are BioShock: The Collection, The Sims 4, and Firewall: Zero Hour. BioShock: The Collection is an especially notable inclusion as it is technically three separate games all in one package....

Hello, and welcome to Geeks Vs Loneliness, our regular spot for discussing the trials and tribulations of being human. This week, I’m thinking about ageing, Batman and dancing like there’s no-one watching. It’s a truth universally ignored that humans age. That the clock ticks round, the hair thins and the ovaries stop popping. My generation is sometimes referred to as the squeezed middle. Well, my middle is right now squeezing its way out of my skin in new and unwelcome directions....

During the Hangout Event Series 1, Barbara will ask you to collect 5 Red Wolfhooks. Even though you might have trouble finding more than 3 of these berries, it actually easy to find a whole 5 of them. The berries can be collected from the same area where Barbara gives you the task. The only issue is that the area is covered by other types of berries also. So here’s how to find Red Wolfhooks for Barbara Hangout Event in Genshin Impact....

Elden Ring marked a huge departure of the style From Software usually opts for. Moving the tight corridors and small open dioramas of Dark Souls into a true open world could have resulted in some growing pains. Instead, it gave us one of the best games of this decade. If you’re looking to get it cheap, Walmart has you covered this Black Friday. Over at Walmart right now, you can find Elden Ring for just $35....

Ghostwire: Tokyo is an open-world game with a lot to see and consider. Some aspects of it won’t be completely clear immediately, so we put together this handy quick tips guide to help you get your spirit journey in Ghostwire: Tokyo off to a good start. After all, you can never have too much help when it comes to saving the world. Blue and green are plentiful When you defeat enemies and break floating objects in the environment, little shards are left behind....

Earlier today, developer Tango Gameworks and publisher Bethesda Softworks released the full soundtrack to their upcoming ghost-exorcizing action-adventure title, Ghostwire: Tokyo. Go ahead and give the creepy music a listen… if you dare! Clocking in at almost three hours long, the game’s soundtrack is composed by Masatoshi Yanagi, the audio designer behind The Evil Within series. Of course, the music is understandably very atmospheric and eerie, and reminiscent of the works of Akira Yamaoka, the composer behind the Silent Hill series....

With Bethesda and Tango Gameworks preparing to unleash their latest horror creation, Ghostwire Tokyo, onto the masses, there will definitely be plenty of discussions over the various elements that make up the game. For Achievement and Trophy hunters, however, knowing the key information ahead of time will help smoothen the hunt, and if you are wondering if there is a Ghostwire Tokyo difficulty trophy or achievement, read on. Is There a Difficulty Achievement & Trophy in Ghostwire Tokyo?...

We’re doing a mass giveaway of beta keys for new turn-based action strategy game, BATALJ. Looking to try your hand at a new type of PvP action game? Of course you are — that’s why you’re here. A former founder of DICE branched out on his own to form a new development team with other industry veterans, resulting in Fall Damage. Their newest game, BATALJ, just entered a beta period, and they’ve given Dtoid/Enthusiast Gaming 15,000 keys to distribute....

How to Dodge and Evade in God of War As usual, Kratos makes more than a few enemies in the newest entry in the God of War franchise, and they are keen to do him some serious harm. Learning how to block is crucial to protecting yourself, but sometimes even the mighty Kratos needs to get out of the way if he hopes to avoid a swift and painful death. Here’s what you need to know to dodge and evade incoming attacks in God of War....

The ending of God of War 3 may not have been something everyone agreed on and you wouldn’t be alone. In fact, each of the series’ directors had different thoughts on where the series would go and what Kratos would be doing afterwards. GoW3’s director, Stig Asmussen talked with GamePro about where previous series directors David Jaffe and Cory Barlog imagined the series would be going: Jaffe’s idea sounds like it can be doing awesome things, especially putting Kratos in the Norse world where all gods die in Ragnarok, he’s practically made to fill that role....

God of War Ragnarok will finally arrive in gamers’ hands this week, with many chomping at the bit to get on Kratos and Aterus’ latest adventure. Those who are getting the game before it launches on Wednesday can look forward to some extra goodies for their trouble. But you may be asking yourself what’s on offer? NOW BUY: Boost your PS5’s storage with the Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe 2TB SSD now $229....

GOG is now looking to get a slice of the Halloween action with a sale it launched today on many seasonally appropriate titles. You can get your gaming tricks and treats here at scary discounts so as not to make your wallet look like a ghost town. Then again, the people on your cash are likely long passed, so maybe your pockets need an un-haunting. If that’s the case, you can feel treated to a new library of sweet games to tide you over for the near future....

An enhanced version of GoldenEye 007 is making its way to Xbox Game Pass with some big improvements. This updated version will include achievements, and support up to 4K resolution (16:9 aspect ratio), and offer a much smoother framerate than the original. This improved framerate will affect every part of GoldenEye 007. Yes, this includes the fan-favorite split-screen local multiplayer which can be tricky to play on the original version. On the Nintendo 64, GoldenEye 007 regularly dipped as low as 12 frames per second, which is far from ideal....

Well, that didn’t last very long. Less than three weeks after Gone with the Wind was taken off HBO Max following criticism for its lack of context about the movie’s depiction of slavery and People of Color, the sweeping Hollywood epic is back. And along with it comes several warnings and special features that add welcome perspective on a movie that’s inception and legacy is complicated—to say the least. If you go to HBO Max right now and click on Gone with the Wind, you’ll be greeted by a four-minute introduction from film historian Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies....

An eerie energy has taken over GTA Online this week, as Rockstar Games has added a handful of tricks and treats to delight fans just in time for Halloween. That includes a new vehicle, rare outfits and masks, and plenty of rewards and incentives. To be exact, players will get 2x the GTA$ and RP on events like Halloween Bunker Series, Judgement Day, Alien Survivals, Slasher, and Beast vs. Slasher, just to name a few....

Destiny. That fantastic first-person space shooter from Bungie and Activision that we all picked up and loved to hate because of the general lack of a clear storyline and post campaign content that trickled out in the form of smaller scale DLC. And yet, we kept playing because something about the game kept pulling us back in. Now, we’re coming up on the impending release of the long awaited Destiny 2, yet as gamers, a lot of us find ourselves asking the question we were asking from the very beginning: exactly what was Destiny all about?...

Half-Life: Alyx is the newest entry to the critically-acclaimed Half-Life series, and will release for all VR platforms in March, 2020 (via IGN). This game will be set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2 and expectedly follows the exploits of Alyx Vance and her father Eli when they resist the evil alien Combine invasion. “We didn’t set out to make a Half-Life game,” said programmer Robin Walker to IGN. “Like many game developers, we often use our previous games to experiment with new design ideas....

In an effort to curb player frustration in Halo: Reach’s multiplayer matches, Bungie is planning on penalizing habitual match quitters. Citing the fact that quitters often create a negative experience for players, Bungie insists that creating a leave penalty will improve overall player satisfaction. Here’s the quote from Bungie Community Director Brian Jarrard: While the exact penalty isn’t clearly defined, the statement about removing people from the population makes it very clear that bans, temporary or otherwise, are likely to be used....

At one point in time, the battle royale genre was a little thing, something that was popular among a bunch of PC players. But now it’s become one of the biggest in the world, thanks to two particularly big titles. Both PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite‘s battle royale mode surfaced in 2017, and they immediately drew millions of players across the board. These titles have since gone on to make millions — even billions — of dollars in the industry....

As part of last night’s Ubisoft Forward presentation, Ubisoft has revealed the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming The Division game, The Division Heartland. A standalone, free-to-play addition to the The Division series, Heartland is a survival-action multiplayer shooter “set in small-town America within the Division universe”. While initially it was expected to release in “2021-22”, we’re now looking at 2022-2023 on PC, consoles, and cloud. “This standalone free-to-play The Division game introduces new playable characters in a rural setting, far from the events in New York and Washington D....