As with all character event Banners, the Arataki Itto Banner, Oni’s Royale, also features 4-Star characters who receive boosted pull rates, including the new 4-Star Electo character, Kuki Shinobu. Below, you can find the Arataki Itto Banner end date in Genshin Impact, all the boosted 4-Star characters, and all character and weapon pull rates. On this page: Genshin Impact Arataki Itto Banner boosted 4 Stars characters The Arataki Itto Banner has three 4-Star characters with boosted pull rates:...

The mod in question comes from Speclizer, who is famous for their boundary breaking videos of games such as The Last of Us Part 2. Their latest video, however, shows young Atreus being an even more adept fighter than usual, as he takes on Baldur, the fire troll Brenna Doudi and more. You check it out for yourself below. In its current state, the mod is still not ready to be released....

For those of you out of the loop, I highly recommend you give Digital Foundry’s explainer a read, where Alex Battaglia explains it much more eloquently than I ever could. In short, FSR 2.0 is a suite of image upscaling technologies which let your PC run the game at a lower internal resolution, which is then reconstructed to be close to indistinguishable from its native resolution. The upside to this is you are then able to run the same game at a higher framerate or with better visuals than you otherwise could at native 4K or 1440p....

According to ZDnet, Buser - who takes up the new post from tomorrow, 13th September - will report to VP of industry solutions Lori Mitchell-Keller, and hints at a renewed focus at Google to publish third-party titles and strengthen its position in the gaming space. “Google Cloud sees incredible momentum across all industries, and gaming is one of the key verticals we are investing in,” a Google spokesperson told ZDNet....

Let’s get straight to the headline feature with this particular A15 model - its AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor. As an eight-core, sixteen-thread option, it should be well up to the task of offering some beefy performance for both intense gaming and productivity workloads like photo or video editing. When it cames to both pursuits, you’ll be aided by the inclusion of a laptop RTX 3060 graphics card, which should offer excellent performance at the laptop’s native 1440p resolution....

Humble Ultimate Racing Sim Bundle for £10.65 (although you can pay more!) from Humble Bundle The Humble Ultimate Racing Sim Bundle is a collection of seven racing titles, with a good blend of the more hardcore sim titles to more arcade-based ones too - with that minimum spend, it works out that you’re paying just over £1.50 per game, which for reference, barely gets you any DLC for Assetto Corsa. I’ll run you through what’s included now....

For that price, you’re getting a rapid PCIe 4.0 SSD that should provide excellent speeds of up to 5150MB/s reads and 4900MB/s writes. In addition, the quoted 740,000/800,000 random read/write IOPS should also aid in allowing those load times to be especially rapid. Western Digital also says this model is 20 percent more power efficient than the previous model, which could translate into longer battery life when you use it in a laptop - a neat side effect of its PCIe 4....

At the time of this article’s publication, the trailer has 25,000 dislikes to 14,000 likes. In contrast, every other trailer featured in the showcase has a positive like to dislike ratio. The feeling among some within the GTA community is the trailer is underwhelming. Some have compared the footage shown to existing PC gameplay, arguing little has changed. The stated upgrades, including seamless character switching, “enhanced gameplay” and “improved graphics” are seen as vague....

As detailed in Rockstar’s announcement post, GTA+ will launch next Tuesday, 29th March, and claims to provide subscribers with “easy access to a range of valuable benefits for both new and long-standing players on the latest generation consoles.” Those benefits will include a recurring monthly deposit of GTA$500,000 into subscribers’ in-game bank accounts, plus GTA$ and RP bonuses, special vehicle upgrades, members-only discounts, and the opportunity to claim property in and around Los Santos that will “unlock gameplay updates you may have missed out on”....

Starting in autumn, Grand Theft Auto Online will introduce a “cavalcade” of special in-game gear to celebrate GTA 3’s 20th anniversary - including commemorative clothing and liveries - all set to be made available as part of a series of still-to-be-announced events. Then there’s the aforementioned “exciting new adventure”, due to arrive later this year, which Rockstar teases will usher in some “well-known contacts and familiar friends” needing help to expand their almost certainly criminal enterprise....

“We haven’t announced a date but that is being worked on,” 343 Industries associate creative director Paul Crocker told The Verge. “We want to have replay that works well, and when you have a more open game, it gets a lot trickier. “We made a decision to improve the quality of the single-player campaign to ensure that, as a foundation, that it’s as strong as it possibly could be so that we could then add the other features back in....

This free update will add the long-awaited campaign network co-op mode, as well as the official launch of the game’s Forge beta (in case you missed it, some have already got their hands on it and have been creating some truly impressive reimaginings of games such as Ocarina of Time and PT within). In the campaign’s upcoming co-op mode, you will be able to have a whirl around Halo Infinite’s story with up to three other fellow Spartans....

Fuser, which styles itself as a “non-stop digital music festival”, delivers an evolution of the mixing mechanics introduced in Harmonix’s 2017 card game DropMix, giving players access to over 100 songs - from artists including Sia, Imagine Dragons, 50 Cent, The Clash, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and Billie Eilish - that can be mixed and matched from different set lists in order to complete their musical creations. Songs are broken down into drum, bass, lead instrument, and vocal parts, and these elements can be placed into four available slots, with players able to create their own loops, and tweak the likes of key and tempo along the way....

Increasing your Wizard Level not only allows you to take on higher level Treats with ease and unlocks features such as Potion brewing (level 3) and Professions (level 6), but gives you a trickle of reward items as you play, too. These range from Baruffio’s Brain Elixirs, Healing Potions through to the in-game currency Coins, all of which are useful as you continue to complete other things - including the many Harry Potter Wizards Unite’s SOS Assignments....

Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....

Axiom Verge 2 Developer Thomas Happ’s Axiom Verge 2, the sequel to his acclaimed 2005 retro-styled Metroid-a-like, returned with brand-new gameplay, highlighting some of the abilities new protagonist Indra - a melee-based character, in contrast to her gun-focussed predecessor - will wield, such as hacking. Additionally, there are granular difficulty settings and you can even skip bosses altogether. Happ also dropped the news that Axiom Verge 2 will be coming to PS4 and PS5 alongside the previously announced Switch and Epic Games Store versions....

ORIGINAL STORY 6/5/22: Nintendo has released an extended look at gameplay from the upcoming Mario Strikers Battle League, the next entry in the Mushroom Kingdom-based football series. For now, the trailer has only been released in Japanese, but it’s still fairly clear what’s going on. Characters shown off include Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Rosalina, Toad, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario and Waluigi. Mario Strikers Battle League was announced a couple of months back with a launch date set for Nintendo Switch on 10th June, though we’ve heard little about it since....

Where to buy the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Nintendo Switch OLED model UK US Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Nintendo Switch OLED console release date The Pokémon-themed console will release on 4th November 2022 - that’s two weeks before the game’s release on 18th November. Nintendo Switch OLED model Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Edition price It will RRP for £319.99 in the UK and $359.99 in the US- that’s £10/$10 more than the RRP of the standard Switch OLED console....

Dead Island 2 is the sequel to the original Dead Island released way back in 2011, and is a role-playing game in which you kill a bunch of zombies in increasingly devastating ways, utilising a variety of weapons and tools at your disposal, either alone or with friends. Despite how many zombie games there may have been over the years since the original game, Dead Island 2 is arguably one of the most anticipated, particularly in regards to the time between its announcement and release....

Kutsuna is best known for her role as Yukio in Deadpool 2, and has also had roles in Murder Mystery and The Outsider. This news came in true Kojima style. As with the earlier reveals of Elle Fanning’s participation in this new game, Kutsuna’s role was shared on Kojima’s website. However, while Fanning had the words “Who am I?” adorning her visage, Kutsuna’s face has “Where am I?” written across her image....