What a time it is to be a LEGO Video game fan! After the recent trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker SAGA, it looks like we’ll be able to get our hands on another crossover between gaming and brick-building. Whilst it isn’t a new game, this set looks like we’ll be able to have plenty of fun with it.

The latest collaboration will be with Guerrilla Games on a Horizon Forbidden West set. How cool is that? We’ve seen LEGO versions of major movie franchises such as Harry Potter, LOTR and Batman. However, do any of these have giant robotic dinosaurs to ride on? I don’t think so.

The 1,222 piece set comes with an Aloy minifigure as well as a brick-built version of the velociraptor-like Watcher robots. Not only this, but the set contains a Tallneck machine too! Check out the set for yourself down below:

Horizon Zero Dawn West Translates Nicely To LEGO

Horizon offers up quite an innovative design for LEGO to take control of. The armour-covered robots blend well into LEGO-form (as expected) so we really cannot wait to get our hands on this one! At the moment, the crossover is limited to only have model but who knows what could be in store for the future?

The Horizon Forbidden West set marks Lego’s latest foray into video game-inspired projects, which also include its interactive Super Mario sets, its recent Green Hill Zone set from Sonic the Hedgehog, a (currently on pause) Overwatch collaboration, and  a team up with the similarly blocky Minecraft. What more could you ask for really?

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Sony have officially confirmed that a sequel headset to the PSVR is on the way, unsurprisingly dubbed the PSVR2 (personally I was holding out for the PSVitR… geddit? Like… like Ps Vita… god I need to be shot). 

Probably the bigger news is that the Headset will launch alongside the PSVR2 Sense Controller, which is a big deal. The original PSVR was a fine headset, but its biggest holdback was that it lacked a specific controller to play games with. Every other major headset has their own controllers which work with motion controles to simulate your hands in VR, however the PSVR chose instead to just use the Dualshock 4 controller. This limited the kinds of games that could be put on the platform, and also lowered the immersion of the experience. The PSVR2 Sense controllers, however, are much more inline with the kinds of controllers you get with something like an Oculus Quest or Valve Index.

The Sense controller will have some legs up on most of the competition, however. With it featuring Haptic Feedback and adaptive triggers, the Controller will be comparable in many ways to the Valve Index Controller, which is the Gold standard of VR controllers right now (along with, honestly, the entire Valve index just being the best VR headset out there)

While its unlikely the PSVR2 will top the Valve Index in pure power, it doesn’t need to as it is a proprietary addon to the PlayStation and doesn’t have to compete with other companies like Valve does on PC with HTC’s Vive headset and Metas Oculus Platform.

Alongside this, PlayStation also Unveiled Horizon call of the mountain, a VR spinoff to the hugely popular Horizon Franchise.

While the actual headset has not been shown off yet, Sony did unveil some specs for the headset, including that it would feature OLED screens with a resolution of 2000 X2040 per eye, and also that the device would be capable of a 90Hz to 120Hz refresh rate, allowing for Higher FPS and deeper immersion. He headset will use IR cameras for tracking rather than Base stations and lasers, which will keep costs down for people looking to get into the product, as well as the headset featuring six-axis Motion sensing.

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A new update has been released for Horizon Zero dawn on PC, which has added support for NVidia and AMD’s Ai upscaling tech. The version 1.11 patch includes support for NVidia DLSS Upscaling and AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution, as well as fixing a couple of bugs and tweaking a few things, including the game’s shader management system. Developer Guerilla Games Claims that this will reduce stutters during gameplay.
You can only use DLSS or Fidelity if you have a NVidia or AMD graphics card respectively. They work by using AI to upscale the resolution of PC games, allowing players to reach higher levels of graphical Fidelity while maintaining framerates.

Guerrilla Games said earlier this year that they would be offering fewer updates to the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn as it shifts more resources to the games Sequel, Horizon Forbidden west.

The full patch notes are as follows:

HORIZON ZERO DAWN FOR PC – VERSION 1.11 PATCH NOTES

GRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS

• • Added Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology.
  • Added AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution, replacing FidelityFX CAS.

UI CHANGES

• • Adjusted settings screen to facilitate the addition of DLSS and FSR.
    • Render Scale option has been removed but same result can now be accomplished by adjusting setting Upscale Method to Simple and adjusting Upscale Quality.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

• • Improvement to the shader management system. This will result in a few noticeable differences:
    • There is no longer a shader pre-compilation step on startup. The game will always compile shaders during loading and in the background.
    • Stutters during gameplay that used to occur due to background shader compilation have now been significantly reduced.
    • Because shader compilation is still happening in the background you may notice the game having a higher CPU utilization while that is happening.
    • Loading screens will wait for the required shaders to be fully compiled. This may cause loading screens to take somewhat longer on certain systems.
    • On higher spec machines with faster CPUs the loading screens will typically be shorter, due to more efficient shader compilation that better leverages high-end CPUs.

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No One Expects The Spanish Exposition: Horizon Forbidden West is the upcoming sequel to hit action-adventure narrative game Horizon: Zero Dawn. Developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, who have definitely not engaged in any attempts at unfair threats of legal action to maintain a monopoly on console-customizing skins, ever, not in the slightest, you’ll just have to trust me on that. Horizon Forbidden West launches for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on February 18.

Nadie espera el juego: In addition to Aloy being more realistic-looking and reactive than in the first game, which is no mean feat, Horizon Forbidden West will see a more expansive world. Lead Living World Designer Espen Sogn has claimed players will “encounter a world that feels more alive and more real than ever”. 

In a recent official PlayStation blog post, Bo De Vries (Community Leader at Guerrilla Games) details the game’s design intentions and features. Bo De Vries goes into a level of detail far too girthy for little ol me to squeeze into 600 words or less, but I can summarise some highlights!

The game will explore the cultures between two different in-game tribes, Espen mentioning the tribes’ different customs will play a role in communicating the player’s status in the world.

“The Oseram are a social and historically patriarchal tribe, so their animations are more about shoulder punches and high fives. The Utaru, on the other hand, are laid back, so they will often sit down together and be a bit more touchy-feely”.

In addition to touching on weapon upgrades (you can carry up to 6, including your trusty spear), Senior designer Steven Lumpkin claimed that different clothes you equip have different effects on your interactions between tribes. Clothing will mostly effect what items you can get in places alongside giving unique gameplay buffs, so I think it will mostly function similarly to Ghost of Tsushima (psst! Which we have!). Which is to say, you get to unlock various clothes that offer unique gameplay advantages depending on how sneaky or trigger-happy you want to get!

“Clothing reflects a unique style, as well as the materials a tribe has access to and knows how to use […] Hunters from the Nora tend to favor ranged combat and stealthy hunting. Carja excel at the use of traps and tripwires. The boisterous Oseram love fighting up close and personal with a hammer. The Tenakth and Utaru have their own preferences as well — and the outfits Aloy can acquire from each culture tend to reflect and support these unique approaches to combat” – Steven Lumpkin.

कोई भी मेरे हिंदी पाठकों को तीन चीयर्स की उम्मीद नहीं कर रहा है। यह बिट कहानी पर है: Don’t worry my fellow mono-lingual friends, just run the headings through Google translate and you’ll live! Senior writer Annie Kitain has reiterated this new Horizon world will see you “meet many interesting characters, trade for cool new gear” and prepare for challenges ahead. “When you’re out in the Forbidden West, our hope is that the story is reflected in every detail of the world”.

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In an official post by PlayStation on it’s blog site featuring comments from Blake Politeski (principal machine designer) and Maxim Fleury (asset art lead), the developers at Guerrilla Games confirmed some details of the upcoming enemies from everybody’s favourite dinocybaurg hunting series… Actually, if you’ll let me indulge my inner CJ The X, I’d pay good money to see a Cyborg Transhumanist (not about trans humans, though transhumanism has been added to the pride flag this year) reading of the Horizon series. I’m only a little ways in, so can’t comment too much, but the infusing of the natural resources with mechanical beings shtick sounds like there’s a lot of philosophical meat to chew over on that. And who knows, maybe I’ll do it myself, maybe I’ll make a 5-hour long documentary on Hedy Lamar The Ultimate Girlboss! Maybe I’ll become so famous that I could afford to follow up Endgame with F**KING DOCTOR DOLITTLE!

Blake and Maxim confirmed some returning enemies from Horizon Zero Dawn, specifically, the Watcher and the Snapmaw. They’ll appear alongside Forbidden West’s new enemies, Clawstriders and Tremortusks aplenty which you can see in the Horizon Forbidden West gameplay trailer here.

“It was interesting to figure out what type of machines would live in different ecological zones, and how they would interact with each other, their environment, and, of course, humans” – Blake Politeski.

The game’s development has involved a lot of careful consideration about interesting scenarios players can find themselves in when fighting monsters. For a breakdown of the primary traversal and combat tools, click here. I’m talking grappling hooks, resonator blasts and gliding-galore! Pullcasters, stab-masters, spike launchers and more!

“We recommend using traps, as well as the Pullcaster. Though slow, they can reach a speed that will easily trample Aloy, so get ready to dodge” – Politeski and Fleury on combating the Tremortusk, based on the use of war elephants in real life history.

Because not everything from Horizon Zero Dawn’s concept art could make it to the game, Politeski also confirmed that some of the new enemies would be adapted from those past extra art pieces, so if any of you managed to get your hands on the Complete Edition (which you probably did since we sold out of it), scroll over the enemy designs there, you may find something that’ll come up in the next big trailer or gameplay reveal. And while we may not have Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West (at time of writing), in the spirit of all things Horizon themed, have a butcher’s hook at… *checks notes* Horizon Shift for Nintendo Switch… Sometimes you just gotta lean into the awkwardness of an advert to pay the bills-

Horizon Zero Dawn had a whopping 25 different enemy types, so needless to say, the devs at Guerrilla Games seem very attentive to the idea of making multiple unique enemies leading to combat encounters that put new spins on Horizon gameplay.

Horizon Forbidden West is set to drop February 18, 2022, for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

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If you missed out on the free download period for Horizon Zero Dawn, fear not, we at Go2Games HAD it on the store, but now it’s gone, oops.

Horizon Forbidden West is being developed by Guerrilla Games, who have recently made some statements regarding gameplay, tools, weapons and skills. For a little deep dive into other news on the game and rumblings of a new multiplayer game or mode, check my last article here. Here’s a 14 minute gameplay preview if, like me, you’re more a visual learner.

David McMullen, lead systems designer at Guerrilla, made some statements regarding the game in PlayStation’s official blog site: First, expanding on the 14 minute preview’s use of Alloy’s new Pullcaster, ‘a mechanical wrist-mounted device with two separate functions […] a grapple mechanic, allowing the player to swiftly and easily ascend the environment and providing a dynamic traversal/escape option to the player toolkit’. McMullen also describes that it’s possible to channel your inner Errol Flynn by going swing-swang from your dangalang while firing your bow off at enemies from using the Pullcaster to launch yourself into the air before giving a high-up location the good ol’ grapple-dapple… I’m exaggerating, but not by much.

Furthermore, the Pullcaster also has a winch function, allowing you to go full Nathan Brake on the environment to pull up hidden treasures large objects, like in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which we DO just so happen to have!

We also have more updates on the Shieldwing glider and if I didn’t know any better, I’d say that based on the naming, maybe the Shieldwing will have more than one basic function.

Slightly borrowing from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (which we also have, wink wink), Horizon Forbidden West will also include a “shooting from above” skill, which, based on a similar skill in Zero Dawn, slowed down time briefly as you aim while in the air. That plus some new skill tree additions, including freeclimbing abilities so you can more easily scale the fatta the land.

New weapons mentioned in the skilltree that will have relevant effects includes the Spike Thrower: Presumably a harpoon-like weapon, specialized for fighting “larger targets”, coming with various elemental ammo types.

Dennis Zopfi, Guerrilla’s lead combat designer for the game has also made statements regarding character-accurate gameplay mechanics – “Aloy is not a character who deals with brute force, so we were looking for ways to have the player go back and forth between melee and range, where she could use her precise bow skills to work towards a big payoff moment”

“a (new) skill that does this is the Resonator Blast, where you charge up the spear with melee hits and when fully powered up, the energy can be placed on enemies (humans and machines alike) and followed up with a projectile – resulting in a big damaging explosion”! In addition, the article states that the open world will include encounters that mix up both human and non-human enemies, whereas the first game mostly had the bad robo boys and the bad human boys in separate contextual arenas most of the time, so that’ll lead to some interesting scenarios. Kinda like how in The Last of Us Left Behind DLC, you could stealth your way around and throw a bottle near a bloke with a gun so that you can go Napoleon on their ass to divide and conquer!

Sony has announced the game will be delayed till February 18, 2022. They have also decided to backpedal on its previous offer of free PlayStation 5 graphics updates to those who bought the Playstation 4 standard edition, mild downer but hey, at least that means more time to improve the main game.

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The Ultimate Gamer’s Magazine: A Profound Waste Of Time, Finally Back on Kickstarter

A lot of the time, most people feel as though they only get a hold of the end product when it comes to a game, we hardly see the in-between. Yes, here and there we’ll see the development, but we never truly hear about what it’s like to create a game or participate in the production of one. Whether they are a designer, programmer, artist, writer, engineer…you name it. The point is, this magazine gives us a glimpse of that and from different people. However, they also touch on everyday gamers like you and me, YouTubers and more.

APWOT’s magazine, A profound Waste of Time, received strong demand for a reprint and reached its Kickstarter goal of £40,000 in less than 24 hours, exceeding up to 43,000 as of recent times and counting. Anyone who missed the campaign can get a second chance at buying the magazine WITH the special items that can only be obtained through the Kickstarter Campaign, add-ons such as enamel pins, a game themed tarot card set, digital wallpapers and more.

Issue 1

As described on their Kickstarter page In Issue 1 has two editions, the standard edition and the glow in the dark edition. They have also listed what the magazine includes and who they include, which I’ve listed from their page in the following:

•  “Yacht Club Games – Shovel Knight, Cyber Shadow” 
•  “Jonathan Holmes – Destructoid, Nintendo Force, Sup Holmes”
•  “Toby Fox – Undertale, Deltarune”
•  “Ashly Burch – Life is Strange, Horizon: Zero Dawn”
•  “Ojiro Fumoto – Downwell”
•  “Dennis Wedin – Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number”
•  “Adrian Bauer – Owlboy, Savant Ascent, D-Pad Studios”
•  “John ‘JJ’ James – 2064:Read Only Memories, Midboss”
•  “Temmie Chang – Undertale, Dweller’s Empty Path”
• ” Adam Heart – Killer Instinct, Iron Galaxy”
•  “Rami Ismail – Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Vlambeer”
•  “Hannah Nicklin – RPS, Twisted Tree Games”
•  “Kat Brewster – The Guardian”
•  “Adam Tierney – WayForward”
•  “Dant Rambo – Bit.Trip Runner, Choice Provisions”
• “Jake Kaufman – Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Shovel Knight”

Issue 2

A fantastic follow-up to our debut issue, Issue 2 is filled with art and words from an incredible line-up of people, including Keita Takahashi, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Jenny Jiao Hsia and many more. This issue has an interview with Team Cherry, creators of beloved indie metroidvania Hollow Knight, along with a visual essay by internationally renowned photographer Liam Wong, exploring the parts of Tokyo that have inspired videogames.

Issue 2 also has two editions, the standard edition and the iridescence edition, which is a shiny rainbow glimmering type cover, the colours change as the reader moves the magazine around. Once again they have also listed what the magazine includes the people involved, which I’ve listed (originally from the kickstarter) below:

•  “Keita Takahashi – Wattam, Katamari Damacy, Noby Noby Boy”
•  “Laura E Hall – Boss Fight Books, Meridian Adventure Co.”
•  “Tetsuya Mizuguchi – Tetris Effect, Rez, Space Channel 5″
•  “Simon Parkin – New Yorker, Observer”
•  “Jenny Jiao Hsia – Consume Me”
•  “John Ricciardi – 8-4 Play, NeiR: Automata, EGM, NOM UK”
•  “Holly Nielsen – The Guardian, Royal Holloway”
•  “Joakim ‘Konjak’ Sandberg – Iconoclasts”
•  “Kris Piotrowski – Superbrothers Swords and Sworcery EP, Below”
•  “Chella Ramanan – Assemble with Care, PoC in Play”
•  “Ben Bertoli – Memory Card, Polygon, Kotaku”
•  “John ‘JJSignal’ James – 2064: Read Only Memories, Neurodiver”
•  “Liam Wong – TO:KY:OO, After Dark, Ubisoft”
•  “Team Cherry – Hollow Knight, Hollow Knight Silksong”
•  “Joe Sparrow – Amphibia, Homunculus”
•  “Camille Young – Fangamer”
•  “Keith Stuart – A Boy Made of Blocks, The Guardian”

And for both Issue 1 & 2, it doesn’t end there. The magazine is filled with much more to get your teeth stuck into. There’s a lot going and it’s for sure increasing in popularity, so you better get your hands on one while you can, the estimated shipping time is December, so if you miss your chance now, you may not get one until 2022. Why wait for something so amazing?

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The upgrade will, in fact, be free.

Sony sparked controversy last week when it announced that the Standard and Special editions of their upcoming title Horizon Forbidden West would not feature a free upgrade to a PS5 version for those who purchased it on PS4.

Many developers have been providing a free upgrade as of late, partly because of the supply shortage of the next-gen consoles; hence, fans were outraged to hear they would have to purchase the title a second time when upgrading consoles. Originally, if players wanted to obtain both generation’s versions of the game, they would have to purchase the Digital Deluxe or Collectors’ editions, which come to a whopping £79.99. Thankfully, amidst the backlash, Sony has done a U-turn on the idea, announcing that there will be a free upgrade path for players purchasing Horizon Forbidden West on PS4.

PlayStation boss Jim Ryan clarified the decision in a statement to the Washington Post, saying: “No one should be disappointed. The PS5 versions of those games are built from the ground up to take advantage of the PS5 feature set, and we have an upgrade path for PS4 users to get the PS5 versions for free. It’s about people having a choice. I’m really quite pleased about the situation.”

Ryan also announced, via the official PlayStation blog, that future cross-gen titles will have an affordable upgrade path available: “moving forward, PlayStation first-party exclusive cross-gen titles (newly releasing on PS4 & PS5) – both digital and physical – will offer a $10 digital upgrade option from PS4 to PS5. This will apply to the next God of War and Gran Turismo 7, and any other exclusive cross-gen PS4 & PS5 title published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.”

Regardless of which side you have aligned yourself with, it is undeniable that Microsoft is handling consumer-friendliness far more effectively than its rival. Not only does Xbox offer new triple-A titles via their Xbox Game Pass subscription service on the day of release, but Xbox’s approach to current-gen upgrades has also been much more agreeable for consumers.

Whether you own an Xbox One or a Series X, your version of a game will update accordingly and automatically, thanks to Xbox’s Smart Delivery feature. This means that whenever you buy an Xbox game physically or digitally, your console will install the correct version for you at no extra cost.

We don’t expect Sony to upend its entire business model, though. What Microsoft is doing with features like Game Pass and Smart Delivery is unprecedented. But players shouldn’t have to re-purchase titles they already own just to play the version appropriate for their console.

As Sony are obviously aware, there is a major PS5 supply shortage. Therefore, if players would have to upgrade every new title coming out in the next few months out of their own pocket, they would potentially be forking out more than the console price itself, and believe me, the next few months are packed with big releases. Ultimately, Sony made the right choice going back on their decision; hopefully, their policy remains this way with all future upgrades.

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While gamers around the world mourn the end of E3, were here to bring you some of the best trailers: 

Final Fantasy VII –

Super Mario Maker –

FIFA 16 –

ReCore –

Star Wars Battlefront –

The Last Guardian –

Halo 5: Guardians

Horizon Zero Dawn –

South Park: The Fractured but Whole –

Call of Duty: Black Ops III –

Only 359 days till the start of E3 2016!

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