A Dutch filmmaker has accused Capcom of plagiarising a monster design featured in Resident Evil Village. Richard Raaphorst published aLinkedIn postthis weekend claiming that the Japanese publisher had used a design featured in his 2013 horror film “without authorization”. [Note:Resident EvilVillage monster spoilers follow] The monster in question is Sturm, a boss whoappears mid-way through Village’s storywith a giant propeller attached to its torso. As pointed out by Raaphorst, the Resident Evil boss is visually similar to a creature featured in Frankenstein’s Army, his film which sees Soviet troops invading Germany encounter undead mechanical soldiers created by a mad scientist....

Latest update17th Dec 2024 / 11:00 pm The two-step Santa’s Quest is live in Fisch and we have a complete guide on how to complete it down below. Take part in the limited-timeFisch Winter update‘Fischmas’ event to score a bunch of unique catches, rods, and skins you might never see again. The main leg of Fischmas 2024 is here, bringing a whole new world complete with limited-time items galore, teleporters, rods, bobbers, mutations, limited-time fish, and rod skins....

Square Enix has announced five new Dragon Quest games, including the twelfth main game in the series. The games were announced during a special Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary livestream last night, during which Dragon Quest designer Yuji Horii revealed the projectsSquare Enixwas working on. The announcements included the first details of Dragon Quest XII, including its full title of Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate. Although Horii didn’t give much information on the game, he did say that the game’s turn-based battle system will see some changes, that the game will be darker in tone and it will have a simultaneous worldwide release....

Gamescom Opening Night Live will include new game announcements, as well as updates on previously revealed titles. That’s according to show host and producerGeoff Keighley, who used X on Tuesday to tease plans for next week’s event. Some of the previously announced games set to be featured includeCall of Duty: Black Ops 6,Monster Hunter Wilds,Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,Sid Meier’s Civilization VII,Marvel Rivalsand Dune Awakening,” he said. “Yes, there will be new game announcements,” Keighley confirmed in a follow-up post....

US retailer GameStop has launched its Black Friday sale. ItsBlack Friday dealsinclude discounts of up to 60% off a range ofNintendo Switch,PlayStationandXbox games, a few of which we’ve listed below. Headline offers include first-partySwitchgames for $26.99, such asThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,Splatoon 2,Astral Chainand Xenoblade Chronicles. This comfortably beats the $20 Black Friday discountsNintendo is offering on a selection of its games, including the aforementioned titles....

Nvidia has announced the latest generation of its graphics cards, headlined by the Nvidia RTX 4090. The card, which it’s claimed runsMicrosoftFlight Simulatorat two to four times the speed of the highest tier 3090 card, will retail for $1599. The card will be released on October 12. The RTX 4080will release in November in two SKUs, a 16GB GDDR6X which will retail for $1,199 and a 12GB GDDR6X which will cost $899....

CD Projekt Red has discussed its plans for The Witcher 4 on the Xbox Series S, and has said getting the game to run at 60 FPS will be “extremely challenging.” Earlier this monnthCD Projektdebuted a tech demo which it said was representative of whatThe Witcher 4will look like onPS5, but not the game itself. “This is a tech demo, and a first look at the cutting-edge technology powering The Witcher 4 – but not The Witcher 4 itself,” a spokesperson told VGC following the demo’s debut....

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are finally here, bringing with it a huge new world, a ton of new Pokemon, and plenty of new mysteries to uncover. Some of the newPokemonalso bring with them totally new evolution mechanics, some of which might not be too obvious at first. One of those new Pokemon is Gimmighoul, the coin-loving Pokemon that you’ll find across the Paldea region. The Pokemon, which debuted in Pokemon GO, is difficult to evolve, and you’re going to want to know about Gimmighoul Evolution early in the game....

Gran Turismo 7 has been largely unplayable for almost half a day due to an extended server maintenance period. Because of an issue found inthe game’s latest update, its servers have been down for over 10 hours at the time of publication, leaving fans eager to play the racer frustrated. Gran Turismo 7ishighly dependent on players having an online connection. The only part of it that is accessible without being connected to the internet is its arcade mode....

Guilty Gear Strive has already reached a higher concurrent player count on Steam than the PC versions of Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 ever managed. Arc System Works‘ fighting game was released today and thePCversion, at the time of writing, has 26,193 concurrent players onSteam. In their histories,Tekken 7andStreet Fighter Vhave only hit concurrent PC users of 18,766 and 13,807 respectively. It’s also possible that, as the day progresses and the weekend arrives, Strive could eventually overtakeMortal Kombat 11, which reached a peak of 27,301 when it launched in April 2019....

Here are the first retail Cyberpunk 2077 images showing how the much-anticipated open-world game compares on consoles to a high-end PC. The console images shown on this page were captured from thePlayStation 4version of the game – which VGC received on Tuesday – running on aPS5via backwards compatibility mode. ThePCimages were captured on a machine running a GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Core i7-8086K @ 4.00GHz and 16GB of RAM, with all visual settings set to max and medium level ray-tracing....

PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst is the latest company executive to publicly express Sony’s commitment to creating Japanese games. Sony Interactive Entertainmenthas moved to emphasise its support for Japanese games multiple times in the past year, following its controversial decision to close its historicJapan Studio–PlayStation’s first ever studio – and the departure of dozens of key creators. Sony reorganised Japan Studio into “a new organisation” on April 1, and the vast majority of its development staff was let go,VGC exclusively reported in February....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has “decided and delayed” Horizon Forbidden West into next year, another report has claimed. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier wrote in a new article on Friday that he could corroborate claimsmade earlier by GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb, who had suggested the game would likely slip into 2022. “SonyCorp. has delayed the upcomingPlayStationgameHorizon Forbidden Westto the first quarter of 2022, according to a person familiar with the matter,” Schreierwrote, adding onTwitter: “I am telling you it is decided and delayed....