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MultiVersus has been removed from all digital storefronts as Warner Bros and developer Player First Games prepare to relaunch it next year. Last month it was announced thatthe game was set to be taken offline, and that it would return in early 2024. On Tuesday community manager Cory Taylor posted a message on the game’s official Discord server informing players that the game has now been pulled from stores and its premium currency, Gleamium, is no longer available to purchase....

Gears Tactics(console andAndroid) joinedXboxGame Pass today, ahead ofDestiny2: Beyond Light (console and Android), Planet Coaster: Console Edition (console and Android) andTetris Effect: Connected(console andPC) on November 10. Starting tomorrow, the following EA games will be available onAndroid via cloud gaming: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Madden NFL 20, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, The Sims 4 and Unravel 2. Final Fantasy VIII Remastered (console and PC), Gonner2 (Android) and Streets of Rogue (PC) will join Game Pass on November 12, ahead of Ark: Survival Evolved: Explorer’s Edition (console, PC and Android) andHaloMCC: Halo 4 (PC) on November 17, and River City Girls (console, PC and Android) and Star Renegades (console and Android) on November 19....

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has said the company expects Mario Kart Tour to achieve “remarkable results”. Mario Kart Tourlaunched on September 25 and reportedly surpassed123 million downloads in its first month, making it by farNintendo’s most successful mobile title in terms of first month installs. “I think that Mario Kart Tour has gotten off to a very good start, even compared to our previous mobile applications,” Furukawa said during Nintendo’s six-month financial results briefing....

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered was the best-selling game in the US last month. The news was posted on Bluesky byMat Piscatella, executive director and video game industry analyst at Circana (formerly NPD), which tracks US games retail data, including both physical sales and digital sales. According to Circana’s data, Oblivion: Remastered was April’s best-selling game onXbox, best-selling game onPlayStation, fifth best-selling game onSteamand best-selling game overall across all formats....

Outer Wilds will be released for Nintendo Switch in the summer of 2021. Developed byMobius Digitaland inspired by films including Apollo 13 and 2001: A Space Odyssey,Outer Wildsis described as an “open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop”. The alpha build of the space exploration game won the Grand Prize and Excellence in Design award at 2015’s Independent Games Festival awards, and Mobius raised over $126,000 through crowdfunding site Fig to help develop it....

A Louis Vuitton fashion show, debuting a new collection by Pharrell Williams, has used one of Final Fantasy’s most famous compositions as its opening music. The show, which can be viewed below, took place in Paris this week. To open the show, models walked the circular catwalk to One Winged Angel, Sephiroth’s theme from Final Fantasy 7. The song was originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu. This performance of the song was arranged and orchestrated by Thomas Roussel....

PlatinumGames’ CEO has commented for the first time since confirmation that its live service game Babylon’s Fall is to be closed by publisher Square Enix. Online brawlerBabylon’s Fallwaswidely panned by criticswhen it launched in March andstruggled to attract an audienceever since. Last monthSquare Enixconfirmed the gamewill officially end servicein February 2023, less than a year after its original release. Speaking to VGC in a new interview,PlatinumGamesCEOAtsushi Inabacommented publicly for the first time since the closure news, stating that the developer was “extremely sorry” for any disappointment it might have caused its fans....

PlatinumGames has officially announced Project G.G. (working title) with a trailer and letter from director Hideki Kamiya. The new title,which was first mentioned overnight in a Japanese magazine, is described asPlatinumGames’ “first fully owned and self-published title.” As part of the project’s development Platinum will be conducting “a wide-scale recruitment drive” for its new Tokyo studio. It was suggested in Famitsu that Platinum is looking to growProject G.G.’s team from 15 to 100 people....

Here’s how Mass Outbreaks work in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, your best, and easiest way of finding shiny Pokemon in the game. While finding the exact species ofPokemonyou’re looking to hunt may take some time, once the Pokemon you want appears in theMass Outbreaksspot on the map, getting that Pokemon as a Shiny becomes much easier. So read on below to find out how to use theMass Outbreaks Shiny Oddssystem to get almost any Shiny Pokemon you want in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet....

Rachael Lillis, the voice actor best known for her wide-ranging work on the Pokémon franchise, has passed away. Lillis died on Saturday at the age of 46, following a battle with breast cancer. Among numerous roles across films, games and other media, American-born Lillis was the original English voice actor forPokémonanime characters including Jessie and Misty. News of her passing was shared by fellow voice actor Veronica Taylor, who previously voiced Pokémon protagonist Ash Ketchum, and paid tribute to Lillis in a post onX....

A peripheral company selling custom PS5 faceplates has had to rebrand following a trademark dispute from Sony. PlateStation5.com has been forced to rebrand toCustomizeMyPlates.comfollowing the complaint fromSony, and all imagery showing thePlayStation 5console has been removed from its website. The UK-based company, which now claims to be trading under the name ‘Custom Plates LTD’, emphasised in a statement sent to VGC that it is a third-party selling unofficial accessories that are in no way affiliated with Sony....

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is a strangely self-reflective game. It’s seemingly an admission fromUbisoftthat theAssassin’s Creedseries, once the yearly breadwinner for the French giant, has become somewhat overstuffed. Speak to players who’ve tried out the last few entries in the series and you’ll soon be met with stories about how massive the maps are, how seemingly endless the main quests are, and mixed emotions about the series’ sharp turn toward RPG....

While the incredible visual flair and genuinely weird eccentricities of Ghostwire: Tokyo remain a marvel from minute one until you wrap up the story, some gameplay repetitiveness and an abrupt ending make for a game that’s enjoyable but feels like it could have been so much more. Ghostwire: Tokyois the story of Akito, one of the few people left in Tokyo after almost all of the other citizens vanish. He’s soon inhabited by KK, a mysterious figure with his own agenda, who also happens to grant Akito special abilities, harnessing various elements to combat the spirits that walk the streets of Tokyo....