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Alan Wake 2 release times on PC and console

The Alan Wake 2 release times on PC, PS5, and Xbox are just about here, and you can preload the survival horror game on console soon

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The Alan Wake 2 release times are just about here, as Remedy continues the troubled writer’s tale after 13 years of the poor man rattling around in The Dark Space. The survival horror game is Remedy’s first whack at the genre, and half a year after the studio announced its release date, Alan Wake 2 is finally launching on Oct. 27, 2023. The release times are more uniform than usual with multiplatform games, and if you’re really eager to get Alan on your rig as soon as possible, you can preload and save yourself a long download time.

Ranking the 15 best Spider-Man villains, including Green Goblin

Here are Spider-Man’s best villains with the release of the new exciting PS5 video game.

Any time a new Spider-Man story releases — be it in comic book, movie, television, or video game form — the world often waits with breathless anticipation. There is nothing like watching the morally pure Peter Parker swing and fumble about New York City while trying to balance a flawed (but relatable) life on the side.

That got me thinking.

With the release of the highly-anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 5, who enhances Spider-Man’s stories the most? I’m talking, of course, about his villains — the people who give flavor, spice, and conflict to an absolutely beloved character’s story. Below is an unscientific rating of the cream of the crop, the finest rogues in a gallery mostly unmatched by any other famous fictional hero.

If you’re perhaps preparing to swing around a virtual New York City again, you’ll appreciate the quick refresher on all-time classics.

Discord is changing the way safety works on the platform

At the Discord keynote event, company executives outlined plans for the future, including safety features and more tools for developers

At the Discord keynote event, company executives outlined plans for the platform’s future, including smarter safety features. Discord also aims to add more value for app developers and a better experience on mobile devices.

On the safety front, Discord is changing how bans and warnings work for all accounts. If a user breaches a rule, they get an automated message from Discord that explains what rule they broke. The message includes links to a modal that explains the issue and what account restrictions will apply as a result. The idea is to hopefully help people improve their behavior by explaining why the action was problematic, though some offenses, including violent extremism, will still end in bans. Sharing high-security government documents probably will too.

“These touchpoints provide more transparency into Discord interventions, letting users know how their violation may impact their overall account standing and gives information for them to learn from to be better digital citizens in the future,” Savannah Badalich, Discord’s head of policy, told GLHF during a media briefing.

Teen Safety Assist is the other major new feature, one that implements an automatic media filter for all images with potentially sensitive content in DMs, group chats, and servers. Users can click the image to remove the censor, similar to how the current spoiler filter works, and they can click again to re-apply. Adult users can toggle the same filter on or off in their account settings.

Teen users will receive safety alerts when an unknown person sends a message or friend request that prompts them to review the safety options available to them and respond, block, or mute.

Discord said the features are just one example of how the platform will use AI in new ways, though it’s essentially an extension of Discord’s current safety features. Users can toggle settings to block sensitive material in messages. The feature doesn’t always work well and frequently blocks safe material, so how astute the AI-powered improvements are remains to be seen.

Discord is also rolling out updates that let users integrate apps outside of voice channels, launch them more easily, and add them without admin permissions. App developers can add subscription fees and earn money from their creations, and all of this should run more smoothly on mobile devices. Discord on mobile should launch more quickly and handle media uploads more efficiently, and there’s an improved search function for mobile users as well.

These features and others are rolling out over the coming weeks and months, with some new changes and shop items already available for Nitro subscribers.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

The best Halloween games for horror fans and the scare-averse alike

Our best Halloween games list includes picks for scary games, psychological horror, and a few for the less fright-tolerant among us

The best Halloween games look a bit different depending on what your scare tolerance is. There’s plenty of jumps, frights, zombies, and bloodshed if you’re into that sort of thing, with the likes of Resident Evil and System Shock. If you’d rather have a more cerebral experience, you might want to consider the video game equivalent of telling scary stories by the fire and, depending on the game, probably going to bed with the lights on. If scares aren’t really your thing, though, you’ve got plenty of choices for games that go heavy on atmosphere and leave the creepy stuff behind. Mostly.

We’ve included picks for all those tastes and more in our roundup of the best Halloween games.

The 13 best NFL players in Wild Card Football

Of the 500 players in Saber Interactive’s new arcade sports game, these are the best NFL players in Wild Card Football

There are over 500 players in Saber Interactive’s new arcade sports game, but the best NFL players in Wild Card Football let you reach greater heights. Wild Card works a bit differently from other sports games. It doesn’t have player ratings like we see in Madden and NBA 2K. Instead, each player has a skill ceiling that determines just how well they perform in a certain stat. These stats improve the more you play as a certain team, so it’s worth finding a favorite, sticking with them, and seeing just how far you can go.

You can take the field with any team, of course, but these 13 players are the best of the best.

NISA to publish Kuro no Kiseki as Trails through Daybreak in 2024

NIS America announced the official Kuro no Kiseki localization as Trails through Daybreak and said the RPG will launch in summer 2024

NIS America is bringing Kuro no Kiseki to the U.S. and Europe in summer 2024 for PS5, PC, Switch, and PS4, and the RPG‘s official localized name is Trails through Daybreak. NISA made the announcement during a brief stream event and debuted the game’s first English trailer as well.

Trails through Daybreak first launched in Japan in 2021. Its sequel, Crimson Sin is already available in Japan as well, but NIS America had a bit of a backlog to get through before work could start in Daybreak – and a decades-old problem to solve. That problem involved localizing and publishing two games that originally released on PSP so international audiences could catch up on a story that continued in Falcom’s 2020 game, Trails into Reverie.

It’s one of those RPG series, a dense, complex network of interconnected storylines and recurring characters, but Daybreak functions as a sort of fresh start for newcomers and longtime fans. It takes place in Calvard, a technologically advanced country with a barely functioning democracy grappling with the fallout of a recent continental war that left it as the sole superpower and a swirling mix of cultures coalescing in the capital city.

In this mix is protagonist Van, a spriggan – a fixer, in other words – who takes on odd jobs big and small from anyone willing to pay. He’s a backstreet kind of guy, willing to accept commissions from desperate, morally dubious, and upright clients alike. Daybreak starts when a young girl approaches Van with a request: find a family heirloom that belonged to her grandfather.

This is an RPG, though, so the quest to find this relic inevitably leads to a crisis that threatens the entire nation and exposes the rank underside of Calvard’s government.

Daybreak is a big shift for the series on a few levels. Your choices during certain quests change how Van interacts with some people and what quests open later in the game, and the combat switches between real-time action and turn-based battles at the press of a button. Your character’s abilities change depending on how you customize them with dozens of options for magic, support, physical attacks, and more.

Best of all if you don’t feel like playing 10 other RPGs before summer 2024, you can play this one without knowing what happened before.

There’s no firm release date yet, but expect more Trails through Daybreak news in the coming months.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Baldur’s Gate 3 spells ranked by if they’re worth your spell slots

The best Baldur’s Gate 3 spells help as much in the RPG’s battles as they do outside, manipulating characters and the environment alike

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Everyone’s list of Baldur’s Gate 3 spells ranked will look wildly different thanks to the delicious suite of magic options available. You can explode your foes, throw them in a hole, turn them into a sheep and then throw them into a hole, summon raging thunderstorms, and envelop an area in deep silence while you commit crimes. Unless you stack a party with movement and debuff spells, there’s really no bad spell setup in the PC game. There are, however, some spells that work better than others and should always be a candidate for one or more of your spell slots.

For more Baldur’s Gate 3, check out our ranking of each Baldur’s Gate 3 class.

5 most exciting games we played at Gamescom 2023

Here are the five games we’re most excited about after playing them at Gamescom 2023.

For us at GLHF Gamescom 2023 was a frantic few days of running from booth to booth trying the most exciting upcoming games and then hurriedly running to our next appointment. Over the three press days, we were able to try out around 50 games, and so many of them were exceedingly impressive. Now that the show is over and we’ve had time to reflect, a few of them have stayed with us

Here are the five games we’re most excited about after playing them at Gamescom 2023.

5 most unexpected things we saw at Gamescom 2023

Here’s five things we didn’t expect to see at Gamescom 2023 in Cologne.

Gamescom is Europe’s largest gaming convention, where hundreds of thousands of people gather to hear all the biggest gaming announcements, get their hands on the most long-awaited games, and have the chance to play some games before they are even announced. With more than 10 halls packed with games over three different floors, it can be intimidating. Even with it being open to the public for four days, there is absolutely no way you could see everything. This year was different to others if only because of how it has panned out so far. It’s not a stretch to say that 2023 has been the best year in gaming so far, and everyone wanted to prove themselves at the convention.

GLHF were out there at Gamescom, taking in the atmosphere, talking to developers, and getting a first look at some of the best games still to come. Here’s five things I didn’t expect to see while I was at Gamescom 2023 in Cologne, Germany.