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Paradox Interactive has announced a further delay for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. The Chinese-Room-developed action-RPG sequel will no longer meet its previously announced "first half of 2025" release window and is instead now aiming to launch in October this year.

OpenAI just announced that all users will soon be able to generate images directly inside of ChatGPT. It’s rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Team and, most importantly, Free users. This will be the default image generation tool in 4o, so there will be no need to open Dall-E whenever you want to whip up a picture of a cat in space eating lasagna or whatever. The feature’s also coming to Sora. The company says that the platform will "generate high-quality images based on your prompt, conversation ...

I'm absolutely naff when it comes to geography, whether it be the version in school which is actually more about rocks and rivers than places, or said places themselves and where they are. I just don't know where things are! And that's fine. Even still, like many others I partook in a good few games of GeoGuessr during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and found it to be good fun, particularly with some friends. And now, five years on since that whole thing happened, the geography guessing gam...

“The Kabukimono” is a quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows that you can pick up once you reach Amagasaki in western Settsu. You can technically (accidentally) start the quest and board on your Objectives menu before you officially pick up the quest if you bump into any of the Kabukimono. The actual quest starts when you...

Makino Kurumakuka Kofun is a kofun in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, located in the northern tip of the Izumi Settsu province. Like all kofun in Shadows, it’s a poorly lit series of tunnels that’s extremely easy to get lost in, but if you navigate it successfully, you’ll get rare gear. In this Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide,...

Life's pretty rad now.

What's the ETA on those ETBs? Yesterday, the Pokémon Company launched its latest Trading Card Game expansion, Destined Rivals, via its online store. As was predicted, the set proved to be massively popular, and many of those hoping to pick up one of the sought-after Elite Trainer Boxes were hit with site crashes and multiple hour-long wait times. If that wasn't rough enough, we've today learnt that even those who managed to place an order may not actually be able to get their hands on the elusiv...

AirPods Pro 2 users in Australia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Colombia will soon have access to the hearing health feature set that Apple has been rolling out for the last several months. In these countries, ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 owners can take a Hearing Test to check for any hearing loss, and then turn on a clinical-grade Hearing Aid feature to enhance sound if there is indeed hearing loss detected. The Hearing Aid option adjusts voices and sounds around the user to improve hearing, and it can also tw...

The Fortnite found quest “Someone is planning a joyride” requires you to steal Fletcher Kane’s car and take it for a spin. The found quest can be a little tricky to start as only one player attempt the quest at a time. If you see a player drive off with Cassidy Quinn in their car...

New life sim InZOI is about to launch into early access, and comparisons to The Sims are inevitable. The EA behemoth remains by far the dominant presence in the genre, and InZOI game director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim regularly cites the series as a central inspiration. As its release date finally rounds the corner, I spoke to Kjun about how he feels being positioned alongside the games that he’s loved for so long, how InZOI hopes to stand out, and whether the absence of a Sims 5 feels like an advanta...

Fortnite assets discovered in the game on March 24 appear to indicate Sabrina Carpenter will be the next Fortnite Festival artist. While the pop star herself has yet to be found in-game, her signature bedazzled microphone and a guitar bearing the lipstick kiss mark from the cover of her Short n’ Sweet album have been...

And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch.

Apple announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference will be on June 9-13. The company is usually consistent with its event timing, so Tim Cook will probably take the stage to start the keynote on June 9 at 10AM PT/1PM ET. We've already heard that iOS 19 and macOS 16 will be sporting new looks, so expect a focus on the latest software changes. And there's no way we won't be getting more Apple Intelligence updates. It was a core part of the iOS 18.3 update that rolled out at the start of the ...

Nacon just revealed its brand new microphone for gamers and content creators, the RIG M2 Streamstar. Also known as the M2 HD Pro, this microphone is the first USB mic to also have a built-in Bluetooth audio gateway, meaning you can connect your headset or earbuds directly to the mic for low-latency audio monitoring. On paper, Nacon has put together one of the best gaming microphones, not only with the new feature, but also in part thanks to its 24-bit depth and 192kHz sampling rate, which it cla...

Worried that your gaming space isn’t smelling as heavenly as you’d like? This scented AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT from Yeston might be the answer. You can mask the stench of defeat (or victory) and instead enjoy a “fragrance experience” that will boost your mood while the 9070 XT works to boost frame rates during those hard-fought gaming sessions. AMD has stormed to a surprising lead with the RX 9070 XT, which is now the best graphics card for most gamers to buy. It’s a GPU that gets the balance right...

When it arrived back in 2014, Outlast felt raw and nasty, a horror game with a distinctive aesthetic and a fantastic gimmick. The game doesn’t make you, but armed with a handheld camera, you feel responsible for documenting the terrors of Mount Massive - as well as staying alive, there’s this implicit pressure to capture every monstrous twist. Though it’s extremely different in terms of structure, The Outlast Trials, which even after 53,000 player reviews boasts a ‘very positive’ rating on Steam...

"Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025," Graham wrote in August last year. Today I write: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the second half of 2025. Going by Bloodlines 2's career to date, I strongly suspect that in the second half of 2025, I or some other lost soul will be writing: "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2026." Le...

As part of a quest in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2, you must use Henchman walkie talkies to eavesdrop on Kane. The story quest doesn’t have any markers, so you’re left on your own to find all seven walkie talkies. Unfortunately, they’re spread around the map, so you’ll need to hunt down each walkie talkie...

A YouTuber has demonstrated what a real version of SteamOS looks and plays like on their Asus ROG Ally, and it works surprisingly well. There are, however, some quirks that are holding back performance, and TDP settings are inaccessible, which is expected to be fixed when SteamOS officially rolls out to more devices. The Steam Deck is still the best handheld gaming PC, in large part due to SteamOS. Valve rolling out its secret weapon to more powerful gaming handhelds is a bold move, but it also ...

Great if you have the room and time.

Apple today announced that its 36th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will begin on Monday, June 9, and end on Friday, June 13. As with WWDC events since 2020, WWDC 2025 will primarily be an online event that is open to all developers, with no associated cost. Every WWDC begins with a keynote that happens on the first day of the event, and this year's keynote will take place on June 9. Apple will unveil iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, tvOS 19, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3. ‌WWDC 2025‌ will featu...

Sighing at the slop.

You would think that with a game that is pretty much all about driving like Pacific Drive, the prospect of an update that promises "endless" driving wouldn't be all that exciting or interesting. In this case you'd be wrong, though, as the game's upcoming Endless Expeditions patch sounds like a pretty solid one. Developer Ironwood Studios revealed the update with a new trailer yesterday, showing off all the changes and additions coming to the game, the most notable one being expeditions, describe...

Scooby who? Late last month, Warner Bros. announced that it was shutting down three studios including Player First, the team behind the soon-to-be-defunct Smash Bros-style brawler MultiVersus. Before things went south, however, it seems that the publisher was looking to another Nintendo franchise for inspiration, this time with WB San Diego behind the wheel (thanks, VGC). According to Sacred Symbols podcast host Colin Moriarty (via "someone once associated with WB San Diego"), the studio was wor...

Movie theaters: Who needs ’em? If you’ve already got even a decent TV in your house, you may be looking to augment your home theater setup with a 4K Blu-ray player, which will unlock a markedly better viewing experience than streaming movies from Netflix. In that case, look no further than the Panasonic DP-UB820, which...

Dungeons & Dragons’ Open Gaming License, also known as the OGL, allows creators to build on top of a portion of the existing 5th edition ruleset. Even after the debacle from a few years ago, that carve-out continues to pay dividends for fans — especially in the actual play space. There are other benefits, of...

The last couple of years have seen me finally get the long-awaited sequels to videogames I love. Diablo 4, Space Marine 2, even Dragon Age: The Veilguard - I've been eating well recently. Perhaps at the top of my 'most-anticipated' list, however, is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 which, while I remain hopeful, has been met with a somewhat lukewarm response. Having already been delayed once, the sequel to one of the best PC games ever made has been hit with yet another pushback, but at le...

Not quite micro-priced, but not bad. Storage. It isn't sexy and it isn't cheap, but it's essential if you want to keep your digital games with you. If you're anything like us, our bulging Switch libraries demand much more than our original 256GB card can offer after eight long years of those eShop sales! Amazon has its Spring sale on right now, and we've spotted some decent deals on the larger micro SD cards in the SanDisk range. Right now, the 1TB card is down to £68 / $75.29 (from £81.13 / $10...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed once again, this time to October, but World of Darkness head Marco Behrmann says the game is "done".

Blizzard announced on March 24 its intentions to revive hardcore World of Warcraft Classic characters lost in a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a malicious flooding of the game’s servers with request data by outside entities that caused widespread lag and, in some cases, even disconnections. “Unlike the many other ways characters can die in...

Even old undead monsters need some warmth.

The second season of HBO's The Last of Us is almost upon us, and finally more about Catherine O'Hara's new character has been revealed.

You won’t want to miss the inaugural discount on the 8Bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller at Amazon. Priced at $59.99 at launch back in February, you can pick up the Ultimate 2 for just $47.99 during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. Thanks to its relatively low price point and extensive features, the original 8Bitdo Ultimate controller...

GeoGuessr is coming to Steam, so it won't be long before you can challenge a friend to completely fail to guess a location via Valve's platform.

Waymo is continuing to expand its foothold across the US, having recently started offering paid robotaxi services in more parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Next up are Atlanta and Miami, and now the company has revealed plans to offer its driverless Waymo One service in the nation's capital in 2026. Before that can happen, though, Waymo will need to get approval from regulators. The company says it will "continue to work closely with policymakers to formalize the regulations needed to operate...