Reanimal is an upcoming horror-adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios, the same team behind Little Nightmares and Little Nightmares II. It puts you in control of two children trying to survive and uncover the mysteries of a hostile island that was once their home. With its unsettling visuals and cooperative gameplay, Reanimal will hopefully build on Tarsier’s reputation for creating intimate and atmospheric horror.

Reanimal blends puzzle-solving, stealth, and exploration in a world filled with eerie creatures and twisted environments. You play as a brother and sister duo navigating the ruins of a corrupted island, solving environmental puzzles and hiding from monsters that seem to be shaped by their past trauma. The focus isn’t on combat, but survival--the connection between the two siblings is at the heart of the experience.

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• When will Reanimal be released?

When will Reanimal be released?

As of now, no exact release date has been announced. The game is listed on Steam as “coming soon.” The development team has said it wants to emphasize quality and won't rush to a release date. However, a demo recently appeared during Steam Next Fest, which shows the game to be in a state close to fit for release, so we wouldn’t be surprised if it appears within the next few months. Be sure to check out our list of the top survival horror games to play in the meantime.

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Yes, there are stability improvements, but that's not all with the new system updates rolling out for Switch 2 and Switch. The patch notes for version 21.0.0 highlight better visual clarity on the home menu for whether a game is owned physically or digitally, GameChat improvements, and a battery description alteration.

Switch 2 and the original Switch are receiving the new symbols that will "indicate whether the software is a physical or a digital version," according to Nintendo. The icons are now red like the cartridges for physical Switch 2 games, while they're black for physical Switch titles. However, in general, Switch 2 is seeing more changes with this update. For instance, GameChat should now ensure a game doesn't go to sleep while talking online with a friend. Plus, the system setting language for limiting a charge on the console now says, "Stop Charging Around 80-90%."

This is the first Switch 2 system update since version 20.5.0 released in September. That only brought about "stability improvements," something that's expected and joked about constantly in the video game community.

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Sony has confirmed that Destiny 2 has fallen short of expectations, forcing the company to record an estimated $204 million impairment related to Bungie’s assets. During its Q2 FY2025 earnings call, Sony acknowledged that the popular shooter's player engagement and revenue have been weaker than anticipated since the 2022 acquisition of Bungie for $3.6 billion.

"Regarding Destiny 2, partially due to changes in the competitive environment, the level of sales and user engagement has not reached the expectation we had at the time of the acquisition of Bungie," CFO Lin Tao explained (translated via The Game Post).

Tao noted that Sony has "downwardly revised the business projection for the time being and recorded an impairment loss against a portion of the assets at Bungie." The ¥31.5 billion (approximately $204 million) impairment, combined with an additional ¥18.3 billion (about $118 million) expense tied to development cost corrections. Tao said these adjustments were necessary to reflect the game’s current performance, which has been affected by lower player activity and market competition.

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Rue Valley, the isometric, story-driven RPG that looks quite like Disco Elysium, arrives today on PC, last- and current-gen Xbox and PlayStation platforms, and Switch. Though they look quite alike and both deal with some heavy themes, the specifics of Rue Valley help it stand apart.

The game tells the story of a man trapped in a timeloop where each reset changes who he will become and what he can do. Since players can bring their memories and knowledge with them across loops, you'll unlock new dialogue options and other interactions as the story unfolds.

With each loop, the player-character can be quite unlike his past or future self, said the creative team, with him acting like a "cold-hearted loner in one loop and a melodramatic loudmouth in the next." But all the while, a central mystery and the personal lives of other characters become focal points, with the team exploring some of its more serious themes through these characters.

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With the inclusion of Cosmetics in Grow A Garden, you have almost complete freedom to tinker with how your plot of land looks. If you have a theme in mind, chances are that there are enough appropriate items to decorate the surroundings. With each new event, you can purchase or win more and more of these items, each one of which you can find in the designated cosmetics menu.

Of course, given the many trends of Grow A Garden’s mechanics, it’s not just a simple case of being an optional extra that you don’t need to engage with. The rarest of cosmetic items may be required to trigger the abilities of some of the best Grow A Garden pets available. Other, more recent cosmetic items also apply specific Grow A Garden mutations to increase the value of your plants.

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Clicking on a cosmetic item will bring up the UI to allow you to reposition it on your plot.How to move Grow A Garden Cosmetics

To access the Grow A Garden Cosmetics menu, open the game and click or tap the icon that resembles a hammer and spanner crossed together. If you have any unseen cosmetic items, they’ll have a number in red next to their icon. You can use the arrow at the top of the inventory screen that appears to expand the number presented at any time. You can find a specific cosmetic by using the search bar in the Cosmetics menu.

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Take Two sent the internet into a spin last week when it announced that GTA 6--by now one of the most anticipated game releases of all time--would be delayed another six months to November 19, 2026. Insider reports suggest the delay will cost Rockstar as much as $60 million, while other reports claim the game is already "content complete," with the extra time needed for polishing and bug fixes.

Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson revealed the cost of the delay in his November 8 podcast, as reported by Dexerto. "I got a number from a developer on this, and they think this is going to cost Take Two $10 million a month extra now. So, we're talking an extra $60 million." Henderson added that it could be as much as $100 million with additional costs factored in.

While $60 million is a huge chunk of money on its own, it's a fairly insignificant sum in the context of GTA 6's projected $2 billion budget--and the game is expected to be a huge earner, propping up not just Take-Two's profits, but the entire gaming industry's.

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EA has announced a $12 Lead The Way DLC pack to honor Veterans Day in Battlefield 6 and Redsec, designed in collaboration with the National Ranger Association. However, eagle-eyed players have noted fine print in the bundle image that specifies: "no portion of the Lead The Way pack sales is donated."

The DLC pack is named for the "Rangers Lead The Way" slogan and rallying cry, and EA says the pack was created in collaboration with the National Ranger Association to "ensure authenticity." The pack includes the NATO Assault Soldier Skin, Glider 96 Vehicle Skin, a weapon package, a couple of customization items, as well as an XP boost and battle pass tier skip.

While players might have expected that proceeds from the bundle would go back to the non-profit it was created in tandem with, EA instead specified that no portion of sales will be donated. Instead of donating the profits, or even a portion of them, EA made an "independent donation" to the National Ranger Association.

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Flow: The Criterion Collection (4K Blu-ray)

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Flow, this year's surprise winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, is on sale for 50% off as part of The Criterion Collection holiday sale at Amazon. The 2024 animated film joined The Criterion Collection in September with 4K UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD editions. With the 50% discount, you can get Flow for $25 on 4K Blu-ray, $20 on Blu-ray, or $15 on DVD.

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Regardless of which edition you pick, you'll get a remastered edition of Flow director Gints Zilbalodis' first animated movie, the 2019 fantasy adventure Away. It also comes with multiple inserts, two short films, a making-of documentary, feature-length animatic, and more special features.

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Late last month, the superhero work comedy Dispatch was released by AdHoc Studio. Since then the episodic adventure game has sold 1 million copies in its first 10 days, and the fan response has only grown from there. So much so that AdHoc Studio co-founder Pierre Shorette has acknowledged that the game may not be one-and-done after this week's finale.

Shorette and his fellow co-founder Nick Herman were guests on The Friends Per Second podcast (Via Eurogamer) when a question about Dispatch Season 2 came up.

"[I think] that we're going to have to at least think about Season 2 now," said Shorette. "That was a question mark three weeks ago, you know. So, it's a very cool problem to have."

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Next year, Refugium Games is sending players back to school with Agefield High: Rock the School. And you might actually like going to classes at this school, but the real action is off campus in this homage to the teenage sex comedies from the early 2000s. The influence of films like American Pie is very apparent in the first trailer for the game.

The game casts players as Sam Tatum, the new kid at Agefield High who quickly befriends Kale Baines and "wannabe rocker" Axel Philly. Sam and his new crew also a mutual enemy in Seth, one of the school's jocks. From the trailer, it looks like there will be plenty of chances to either pull a prank on Seth or physically fight him for high school dominance.

Now, you could sit in class for lessons in English, math, geography, German, and music; all of which are actually in the game. But you also have the freedom to skip class and explore the game's open world, which expands beyond the campus to include two neighborhoods, the town center, and the country side. Rebellion is encouraged, but adult authority figures like teachers and cops will chase players if they catch them breaking the law or skipping school.

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Nintendo is one of the longest-running and best-known gaming companies on the planet, but just how many games and systems has Nintendo sold over the years?

The company said today that it's now sold more than 870 million systems and in excess of 6 billion games globally. Nintendo did not provide a breakdown by platform, but Nintendo's public investor relations website shows that the original Switch accounts for a whopping 1.452 billion game sales alone and 154.01 million systems sold. In fact, the Switch is just 10,000 units shy of passing the DS (154.02 million) to become Nintendo's best-selling platform ever.

Behind the Switch and DS for hardware sales is the Game Boy (118.69), the Wii (101.63 million), and the Game Boy Advance (81.51 million) to round out the top five best-selling Nintendo platforms.

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EA and developer Full Circle have released a new blog post that speaks to feedback since the early access game Skate launched in September, and the developer is not shying away from owning up to some issues. The developer also outlined free rewards coming to players and how some, but not all, will carry over to the next season.

The studio said "tens of millions" of people have played Skate so far, and it has acknowledged the experience has been bumpy for some. "Things have not gone as smoothly for some of you as we would have liked," the team said.

Full Circle said "a lot more" people than expected turned up to play Skate. "And with that came bugs, glitches, progression locks, and performance issues," the studio said.

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Battlefield 6 and the battle royale game Redsec are getting a new update on November 11, featuring a number of quality-of-life updates and bug fixes. Included in the patch notes is the removal of one of the game's most infamous exploits.

Update 1.1.1.5 launches on Tuesday, November 11 at 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET. The biggest change may be the removal of a bug that allows players to stand on the XFGM-6D Recon Drone and ascend into the air by smashing it with a sledgehammer. Riding on top of a drone in this way allows players to access unintended areas and shoot at people from places where foes wouldn't expect, and it's going away soon.

This has been an ongoing point of frustration for players, who have made their concerns known for a month now in places like Reddit and elsewhere.

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Phasmophobia first exploded onto the scene during the pandemic. The co-op ghost-hunting and investigation game was a hit when many people were spending more time at home but still seeking social experiences, and it's continued to grow and evolve in the years since. Its latest major update adds Nell's Diner, an Americana-infused map that pairs a desolate stretch of highway out front with an eerily familiar greasy-spoon setup inside. I recently took an early tour of the diner, and I was delighted to see how it hints at the future of what is surely one of the best multiplayer horror games.

Nell's Diner, Phasmophobia art director Corey Dixon told me, is full of unique assets, many more interaction points than a typical map in the game, and several Easter eggs. Back when the game was developed by a single person, Daniel Knight, his expertise was in programming, not things like art direction, which is why today Phasmophobia still mostly uses some generic assets for things like furnishings, vehicles, and even the feared ghosts themselves. But as Phasmophobia turns a corner and heads toward its exit from 1.0, the team is looking to overhaul its visual identity. That's been the thinking behind recent map makeovers like the run-down Grafton Farmhouse or its more lavish cousin, the Bleasdale Farmhouse.

In the future, this also means things like character models are getting a re-do and a cosmetics shop is on the way, but before any of that comes Nell's Diner, a brand-new map that looks quite unlike anything else in the game. Out front, the neon sign hazily buzzes through the fog, luring passersby who might've pulled off the road amid a tiring trip. When ghost investigators in Phasmophobia arrive on the scene, it'll be after something has gone on, which Dixon said is intentionally left for players to determine. A police vehicle is left out front with its lights still spinning, and indoors, some kind of ruckus has clearly occurred, with stools overturned and the kitchen left in a messy state.

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Lunar Remastered Collection Physical Edition

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Amazon's exclusive physical edition of Lunar Remastered Collection is discounted for the first time since launching in April. Retro JRPG fans can pick up the great two-game collection for only $44 (was $55) while supplies last. The 20% discount is available for all three console platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.

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If there's a common complaint about Hollow Knight: Silksong, it's that the game can be punishingly hard at times. Team Cherry has previously shared a PC Patch to lower Silksong's difficulty, but the game's newest update goes even further by nerfing the damned Muckmaggots that make things so difficult in Bilewater and the Putrified Ducts.

The Muckmaggots previously ate Hornet's silk with impunity, and even binding these creatures forced players to use what little silk they had to hold them back. The update makes it easier to clear out the Muckmaggots with the Wreath of Purity, which gives Hornet a chance to heal herself by using a second bind.

Silksong's Chinese translation has also been updated with fan-made translation by Team Cart Fit. Team Cherry praised the new translation by calling it "well-versed in the (quite dense) narrative and lore of both Hollow Knight games" and thanked the members of the team for letting the studio use it. The earlier Chinese translation drew criticisms from native Chinese speakers and led to the game being review-bombed.

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Three years after releasing in the West, Diablo 4 is finally coming to China on December 12, but not without some noticeable visual changes that make Blizzard's ARPG less bloody and horrific than usual.

The game finally received approval from China's National Press and Publication Administration earlier this year, and will now officially launch in December with a free trial and some unique cosmetics for those who pre-register. In order to launch in China, Blizzard has had to make some changes to the dark fantasy world of Sanctuary in order to abide by Chinese government regulations regarding the depiction of skeletons and blood.

Considering Diablo 4 is filled to the brim with blood, gore, and bones (including an entire Necromancer class that summons skeleton armies), Blizzard had its work cut out for it. Players in China are now beginning to participate in the game's beta, in the process revealing some of the creative solutions Blizzard has come up with in order to release Diablo 4 in the region.

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Treyarch's latest Dev Talk video explains Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's new endgame campaign content. It also shows one of the mission types and abilities players can expect to play in Black Ops 7's post-campaign content. Here is everything players need to know about how to unlock and play the campaign's endgame.

Treyarch confirmed there are a total of 11 campaign missions, and there will be a conclusion to the story, but completion of the story unlocks a twelfth mission as "endgame content." This is designed to add replayability and post-launch story to Black Ops 7's campaign.

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Nightmare Alley: The Criterion Collection - 4-Disc Special Edition (4K)

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Guillermo del Toro fans can save 50% on all of his Criterion Collection movies, including the new Nightmare Alley Special Edition. Released October 28, the four-disc edition of the 2021 neo-noir film is on sale for only $30 (was $60) at Amazon. Criterion's Nightmare Alley remaster includes two different versions of film on 4K UHD Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray, including a black-and-white extended director's cut.

Fans can also save 50% on 4K Blu-ray editions of del Toro's Pinocchio, The Shape of Water, and Cronos. You can also grab Pan's Labyrinth on Blu-ray for only $20 (was $40).

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Features and Bonus Content:

• 4-Disc Special Edition
• Remastered theatrical edition on 4K Blu-ray (150 minutes)
• Black-and-white director's cut on 4K Blu-ray (159 minutes)
• Dolby Vision HDR
• DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround Sound
• 2 Blu-ray discs with both editions and bonus content
• Director's cut audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro
• Behind-the-scenes documentary
• Introductions by del Toro for both editions
• Conversation between del Toro and Bradley Cooper
• Trailers
• Optional English subtitles
• Essay by true crime author Sarah Weinman

Guillermo del Toro supervised Criterion's remaster and approved the Dolby Vision HDR and DTS HD MA 5.1 surround sound enhancements.

Criterion's Special Edition includes notable new bonus features and premium, display-worthy packaging. The extended cut has a new audio commentary by del Toro, and fans can take a behind-the-scenes look at the production in a new documentary. This edition also has a conversation with del Toro and Bradley Cooper, who starred in and co-produced Nightmare Alley, and new introductions for both editions voiced by del Toro.

Considering Nightmare Alley is a neo-noir psychological thriller that takes place in 1939, the black-and-white director's cut is a fitting inclusion. The director's cut is nine minutes longer than the original theatrical release. The black-and-white edition is officially titled Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light.

Despite bombing at the box office in 2021, Nightmare Alley was a Best Picture nominee at the Academy Awards. Ahead of awards season in 2022, a black-and-white version of the original 150-minute film received a limited theatrical release.

Nightmare Alley has a star-studded cast led by Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, and Willem Dafoe. Cooper plays a carnival worker with big ambitions and a murky past. If you like del Toro's distinct brand of filmmaking, you'd probably like Nightmare Alley.

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Guillermo del Toro: The Criterion Collection

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Considering Nightmare Alley is a neo-noir psychological thriller that takes place in 1939, the black-and-white director's cut is a fitting inclusion. The director's cut is nine minutes longer than the original theatrical release. The black-and-white edition is officially titled Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light.

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Diablo 4 Season 11 is bringing huge changes to Blizzard's ARPG, among them a major departure for how the game's map and Waypoints work.

Since launch, players of Diablo 4 every season have had to unlock most fast-travel Waypoints at the beginning of each new season. This was because discovering Waypoints and uncovering fog of war from the map was tied to Diablo 4's zone-based Renown system, which partially reset each season.

Come Season 11, that will no longer be the case. In an interview with Diablo content creator DuQ, lead live game designer Colin Finer said players who skip the campaign at the start of a new season will have all Waypoints unlocked. Skipping the campaign requires players to have completed it once before.

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