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The release of the upcoming JRPG is just over a week away, July 29, but earlier today the Nintendo UK Twitter account put out a notice to confirm that the collector’s edition is seeing a delay to some time in autumn, with pre-orders going up in September. “Due to unforeseen logistical challenges, we are unable to open pre-orders for the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector’s Edition before the game launches on July 29,” reads the notice....

According to a new listing published over at Trademark247 (no relation to VG247, we assure you), it looks like Bungie has applied for the term ‘BungieCon’ to be trademarked (thanks, Resetera). There’s a lot going on in the description for the trademark – including a field for jewelry, interestingly enough – but for the most part, it seems the filing will relate to media and products ‘in the fields of video games, science fiction, fantasy and action-adventure stories’....

Earlier this week, critics from a variety of different publications got to preview Cyberpunk 2077 for four hours - you can read our impressions here. Between this and Night City Wire, tons of new details were revealed about CD Projekt Red’s upcoming blockbuster. We learned about its replacement for Geralt’s Witcher senses in The Witcher 3, its life-path origins, and even got to see some footage from its prologue. Most importantly, however, we learned that you can pet the cat in Cyberpunk 2077....

Players that want to back up their game saves for PlayStation 5 titles will need an active subscription to Sony’s premium PS Plus service in order to ensure their saved data is copied to the cloud. Back on the PlayStation 4, you could either back up saves by copying data to a USB storage device or uploading to the cloud, meaning players that don’t pay for the subscription service had an alternative to using PS Plus....

If you have been keeping up with the Forerunner trilogy though - i.e. Halo 4 and Halo 5 - then there will be parts of Halo Infinite designed to reward that knowledge. Same with the original trilogy - if you’re in the know, you’ll be able to spot a whole lot of references to Master Chief’s story so far. In a recent interview published by IGN, 343 Industries developer Paul Crocker noted that Halo Infinite’s new enemy faction - the Banished - are from Halo Wars 2, but that it’s “not required reading” for those looking to dive into Infinite....

The writer and creative director of Days Gone took to David Gaffe’s podcast to state that players shouldn’t “complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel” if they didn’t buy it “at fucking full price”. “I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off,” Garvin said on the podcast (thanks, VGC). “If you love a game, buy it at fucking full price....

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and a lot of that was down to the testers experiencing a strong sense of nostalgia. This was “perhaps the biggest” reason why Valve decided to make a prequel instead of a sequel. “Almost unanimously we put people in [the prototype], and they would come out saying, ‘Wow, it was really cool to be in a place that was very recognisable to me. I’ve been in that world so many times, I’ve heard those sounds, I’ve seen those textures....

Nintendo will host its first Nintendo Direct of the year tomorrow, and the firm states to expect 50 minutes worth of news on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and other titles coming to Switch in the first half of 2021. We fully expect the firm to drop news on the next character to be added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as there are three left to reveal for the fighting game....

Lilith Games routinely adds new AFK Arena codes that give you free goods ranging from diamonds to gold and, less commonly, hero’s scrolls and essence. These tend to go live once a new month rolls around, though some linger past month’s end. Our comprehensive list will show you all of the currently active codes and the rewards you can gain from redeeming them. Make sure to check back here regularly to see what’s new!...

This is due to expired deals, according to a PR representative for the game speaking to ScreenRant. In the adverts’ place, there will be generic in-universe branding. For those who didn’t play the 2010 original, it featured quite a few real-life brands, and some even factored into gameplay. The product placement wasn’t too in your face, as Remedy did its best to help make the game world feel a bit more real with the in-game adverts....

Apptopia, which collects data from Google Play and the App Store, has compiled a report on the most-downloaded games worldwide and in the US during 2020. The data finds Among Us was the most-downloaded game both worldwide and in the US. Worldwide, the game saw 264 million downloads and in the US the number is 41 million. Among Us is currently available on PC, iOS, Switch and Android, and is coming to Xbox Game Pass for console this year....

To broaden the knowledge of the arts on your island home, here’s how to unlock Jolly Redd’s Treasure Trawler, as well as tell whether the paintings and statues for sale in his gallery are fake or real. Redd is one of nine NPCs who randomly visit your island on weekdays — meaning you might in theory see him as often as once a week, though in practice he’ll more likely take two or even three weeks between appearances....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons How to get Rusted Parts Rusted Parts in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are linked to the down-on-his-luck seabird who lands, washed up, on your beach every now and then. We have a full page on how to help Gulliver retrieve his communicator parts if you’ve not done it before, here. Next, you need to check your Recycling Box. If I had to speculate, I’d say that some leftover communicator parts get left in the sand after Gulliver leaves....

The higher levels of your island will be something of a tease when you first see them. There they are, with trees, fruit, rarer flowers and plenty of weeds to pull up - frustratingly out of your reach. The game forces the vaulting pole which lets you cross rivers into your hands pretty early - within the first hour or two - but the ladder, the item needed to mount the ledges to the higher levels of your island, remains out of reach for longer....

The new update, update 1.1.1, strips out a game-breaking bug that could be exploited to cheat. Animal Crossing game servers went down for a little while overnight, but they should be active again by the time you’re reading this news story. The downtime was used to deliver update 1.1.1, a quick patch with very simple patch notes. The patch notes keep it very simple, stating that the patch “Fixed a serious bug affecting game balance....

These Anime Fighting Simulator codes give you one of two things, Chikara Shards, or Yen. Both are vital for powering up your character, though the codes tend to favor Chikara Shards. That’s not a bad thing either - Chikara Shards give you a better chance of powering up your hero and coming out on top in any fight. As you would do with other Roblox promo codes, make sure you check back here regularly to see what’s new....

To recap, the games you’ll be able to download from July 5 are: Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (PS4, PS5), The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (PS4), and Arcadegeddon for (PS4, PS5). You have until July 4 to grab June’s line-up of games. Is Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time any good? Crash Bandicoot wowed many critics when it launched in October 2020, and left only a few feeling slightly disappointed with the marsupials resurrection on modern platforms....

In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, there are 6 Lost Drengr scattered throughout Norway and medieval England. These ultimate soldiers are bannermen of a great King Ragnar Lothbrok, who dispersed after their liege was executed in a pit of snakes by King Ella of Northumbria. However, to reach Valhalla, a Drengr must die in battle, and so the great fighters ask Eivor to do them the honor of a glorious death. But they’re not going to go lightly....

It will come to Xbox Game Pass on day one. “Three years ago, we started talking with our partners at Xbox Game Studios about what a co-op smuggler’s paradise would look like and how we could bring it to life together,” says a post on Xbox Wire. “Today, at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, we finally announced what our team has been working on, Contraband.” “Contraband is a co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan, and our most ambitious and spectacular game to date....

Ahead of today’s Battlefield 2042 reveal, DICE invited VG247 and members of the press to a private event where we got to learn so much about DICE’s vision for the upcoming game. One of the earliest revelations the developer made at the event was confirming that Battlefield 2042 will not have a traditional single-player campaign. The game is instead going to infuse narrative into its various multiplayer modes. Specifics about how this is going to manifest weren’t shared, but the developer said the story of the game’s world will evolve with every new season....