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Tickets are now on sale for The Genshin Concert Tour, coming to the UK for one night only at Wembley Arena.

The concert will see music from Genshin Impact performed by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg (conducted by Gast Waltzing), alongside visuals from the game.

Alongside the Wembley show on 29th October, the tour will also arrive in Berlin and Paris in December. Tickets are available to purchase online.

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With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s October launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC inching ever-closer, Activision Blizzard has announced a fresh set of dates for players’ diaries, confirming it’ll be hosting a multiplayer open beta this September, with those eligible for early access (which includes Game Pass subcribers) able to hop in one week prior.

Black Ops 6’s multiplayer open beta – that is, the actually open beta, accessible to all players on all platforms – starts 6pm BST/10am PT, 6th September to 9th September. It’ll let participants check out the game’s Omnimovement system (which basically lets you run in any direction, not just forward), a variety of brand-new Treyarch-built maps across a number of squad-enabled modes, a non-specific selection of weapons,…

If you just can’t get enough of those Epic Games Store freebies, here’re some more for your list; Epic has revealed an upcoming twosome of arcade management action and Welsh folklore horror when its latest batch of free titles arrives next week. And, before that, grid-based, turn-based deckbuilder Floppy Knights is currently available to download and keep for zero pee.

Starting in the present, Rose City Games’ Floppy Knights casts players as Phoebe, a brilliant young inventor with a robotic arm for a best friend, who’s trying to save up enough money to leave home. To meet her goal, Phoebe must smash through armies of monsters using her titular tangible projections, all summoned from floppy disks. The result is a mix of tactical turn-based battling and deckbuild…

As an old person who’s still not over the novelty of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being allowed to be called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK without anyone getting funny about the word “ninja”, it’d be fair to say I’m a little behind on the franchise. So the news there’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game out this October based on a movie I didn’t know existed using an art style I’m totally unfamiliar with has brought a whole succession of revelations.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, as the game is known, was actually announced earlier this year, but developer A Heartful of Games and publisher Outright Games have now released a first trailer, which you can see below. Mutants Unleashed – a “story-driven 3D brawler/platformer” – i…

Vampire Survivors, the minimalist survival RPG from developer Poncle, is joining Apple Arcade in August, along with Temple: Run Legends and Vision Pro update for Castle Crumble.

Vampire Survivors has, of course, been available on iOS as a free-to-play release for some time, but its Apple Arcade version (Apple Arcade being Apple’s £6.99/month game subscription service for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV) will be ad-free and include some paid DLC.

Specifically, Vampire Survivors+ (the ‘+’ being Apple’s way of denoting a game has previously been available on its App Store, usually with in-app purchases) will bundle in its Legacy of the Moonspell and Tides of the Foscari paid expansions. Whether the game’s Emergency Meeting and Operation Guns DLC, both cur…

XDefiant producer Mark Rubin has told players it’s “okay to move on” if the game “isn’t for you”, but disputed claims the game was “rushed out” to avoid releasing at the same time as other big games.
Responding to an X/Twitter post in which a fan suggested the shooter was “rushed out because of GTA 6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 6”, Rubin – who has previously worked on Call of Duty games – was quick to refute the claim, saying: “Rushed out? No”.
“What we have is an engine that has only ever been an MMO,” Rubin said. “And so all of the infrastructure for an FPS has had to be built up from the ground floor. Even CoD started on ID tech which was a shooter engine. Apex started on a shooter engine.

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An issue with Final Fantasy 14 on Xbox is still not resolved, despite maintenance over the weekend.

Director and producer Naoki Yoshida last week offered his “sincere apologies” for issues discovered in new expansion Dawntrail, including transition freezes on Xbox.

On Saturday the game was down for maintenance and, in a follow up post, Square Enix noted it had “taken preliminary steps” to address the issue but it’s still not fixed.

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Following a few early teases last month, EA has formally unveiled The Sims 4’s spooky new Life & Death expansion, which arrives on 31st October, adding everything from new neighbourhoods where the boundaries between the living and the dead are especially thin to a new grim reaper career and the ability for ghosts to WooHoo in objects small and large.

Life & Death looks to be a particularly busy expansion, touching not only on what happens to the living when a loved one is lost – think Wills and more elaborate funerals – but what Sims experience after shuffling off this mortal coil. That includes spectral romances, ghostly powers, the ability to helpfully haunt their old homes as part of the family, even reincarnation.

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FromSoftware has announced a salary increase for its employees of “approximately” 11.8 percent. This increase will begin in April next year.
Along with this salary increase for employees, the Elden Ring developer is also raising the starting salary for new graduates from ¥260k to ¥300k. That’s an increase of 15 percent.

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