As Fallout 4’s massive Fallout: London mod nears its release, distributor GOG has moved to clear up some compatibility questions. The company has confirmed Fallout: London will work with versions of Fallout 4 bought on GOG and Steam, but not those purchased on the Epic Games Store, as the latter doesn’t currently support a key feature needed to get it running.

If you’re not up to date on its progress, Fallout: London – which, as its name suggests, enables players to quest around a post-apocalyptic open-world version of the UK’s capital – has hit a few snags on the road to its release. Specifically, developer Team Folon has run into issues getting it to work with Fallout 4’s recently released next-gen update.

Team Folon made the decision to delay Fallout: Lond…

In a talk at Brighton’s Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance scene in Baldur’s Gate 3 “a watershed moment in game history”. They said it was an unprecedented example of a developer recognising and validating the fanfiction community surrounding a game by realising something they wanted in it.
Welch was responsible for overseeing the companion romances in the game, and wrote the Dark Urge storyline, but didn’t join the team until partway through development. The game had already come out in early access at that point, in autumn 2020, which meant considerable work had already been done – companion romances included. But there was still a lot of work to do, and some characters weren’t yet romanceable – Halsin …

Assassin’s Creed Shadows developer Ubisoft has owned up to including a historical re-enactment group’s logo in artwork for its upcoming feudal Japan stabathon, and apologised for its use without permission.

Fans spotted the flag of the Sekigahara Teppo-tai infantryman reenactment group in concept art on Ubisoft’s website, and flagged (sorry) the matter to the group itself (thanks, Siliconera).

Writing on social media, the re-enactment group’s cannon chief said they contacted Ubisoft last month about the issue. Ubisoft later responded, and told them that the online version of the artwork had been removed.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Official Gameplay – Combat and Stealth Evolved | Ubisoft Forward

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The success of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC was only possible due to the base game’s “negative reception”.
That’s according to senior quest designer Paweł Sasko, who acknowledged that if the original game’s 2020 release hadn’t been “as negative as it was”, “it couldn’t have been possible” for expansion Phantom Liberty to have “worked significantly better at launch”.

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Ahead of new California legislation requiring storefronts to make it clear customers are only buying a license for digital content rather than outright owning it, Steam has implemented a message at the point of purchase doing just that.

California’s new legislation, which was signed into law by governor Gavin Newsom at the end of September, is intended to make consumers more aware of the sometimes-temporary nature of digital ownership. It explicitly prohibits sellers from using the words “buy, purchase, or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good” – instead requiring them to display a “clear and conspicuous statement” explaining the nature of their transaction.

And while the leg…

A new AAA action-RPG based on the popular animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is on the way.
Though still early in development, it’s being made by Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive in “close collaboration” with Avatar Studios to tell a new story that’s set to be “the biggest video game in franchise history”.
Players will take on the role of an “all-new, never-before-seen Avatar”, reports IGN, and will take place thousands of years in the past. The development team promises a vibrant world in which to master all four elements, dynamic combat alongside companions, and “the challenges and decisions that come with being the keeper of balance in the world”.

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UPDATE 2.47pm: Those previously reported and rather pesky Xbox network issues have been resolved.
“Users should no longer be experiencing issues with sign-in, launching games, and joining parties,” the Xbox support team shared a moment ago. “Thank you for all your patience, reports, and happy gaming!”
Users should no longer be experiencing issues with sign-in, launching games, and joining parties. Thank you for all your patience, reports, and happy gaming! https://t.co/ISfMQBj1Gb— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) October 2, 2024…

Pokémon Unite, the hugely popular free-to-play MOBA from Tencent’s TiMi Studios, is being yanked offline in Belgium and Netherlands from November next year, amid the countries’ ongoing crackdown on loot boxes in games.

All versions of Pokémon Unite – that is, on Android, iOS, and Switch – will be pulled from digital stores on 30th November 2025, but subscriptions and in-game items will cease to be available much earlier. They’ll no longer be purchasable from 31st October this year.

“We’d like to thank our players in Belgium and Netherlands for their support,” The Pokémon Company wrote in an announcement on its website, “and we apologise for any inconvenience.”

UK: Pokémon UNITE is coming this summer!

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Shirley Curry, the 88-year-old YouTuber better known as the Skyrim Grandma, has announced her retirement, saying she’s “bored to death” of making gaming videos.

Curry uploaded her first Skyrim gameplay video to YouTube in 2015, and had amassed over 1m subscribers by 2021. Despite suffering a stroke that same year, Curry soon returned to her gaming chair and has continued to post videos of her adventures in Tamriel since then.

But now, Curry’s Skyrim journey has finally reached its end. In a vlog titled ‘No More Gaming Videos’ shared over the weekend, Curry told fans, “It seems I spend most of my time sitting in here at this computer, and lately – probably for the last month – I walk in here and look at my computer, and think ‘I’ve got to make a video today’. …

If you, like me, are a fan of Guerrilla’s Horizon series, you are going to want to have a Grazer at this.
During this evening’s State of Play, PlayStation announced that Lego Horizon Adventures – which is described as a “playful and light-hearted” take on Guerrilla’s franchise – will launch on 14th November across platforms.
In addition, the team gave us another look at the bricky chaos we can get up to on the game’s release. You can check out the latest trailer below.

LEGO Horizon Adventures – Pre-Order Trailer | PS5 Games

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