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Thymesia reviews round-up - all the scores

If you're done with Elden Ring, Thymesia might be the homage to a different flavour of FromSoft game you need.

Thymesia review: A bargain bin Bloodborne, for better and for worse

There’s something special about Thymesia, but don’t expect greatness.

Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds codes

Make your Ni no Kuni adventure even more fun with these codes.

God of War's story recap reminds you why everyone’s so excited about this year’s biggest PlayStation game

Felicia Day refreshes us on what everyone loved about the first game.

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.12: Best game that you hated for a very specific reason

We can't help it when something rubs us the wrong way.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 showed us the potential of Minecraft clones – so where's Dragon Quest Builders 3?

It's been four years since the best Minecraft clone hit the market, and the genre still goes largely unloved. What gives?

Elden Ring patch 1.06 brings gifts for heavy weapon users, and White Mask Varre fans who don't care for PvP

It's been a while since Elden Ring has been updated, and this new one is good.

This Elden Ring mod understands that a hunter must hunt with Bloodborne-style gun parries

Plus, a mod for some new Torrent skins, and another that reimagines some weapons.

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak stream to provide news on Title Update 1 next week

Tune in to find out more on the August update.

Krafton's on a hiring spree for its game based on Korean fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears

The firm is aggressively recruiting the world’s top development talent to help create the game.

Diablo Immortal: How to solve the 9 Lamps and Mirror Puzzles in the Lost Runes quest

Light the way to a perfect reflection

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.11: Best game that you were ridiculously hyped for as a teen

Teenage independence brought with it the chance to shape our own gaming futures.

This Lord of the Rings Unreal Engine 5 game trailer is outstanding

While just a concept trailer, it gets the imagination working!

Elden Ring's Malenia used to slice and dice you a whole lot more

The infamous boss used to be a lot tougher in the 1.0 version of the game.

The 25 Best Game Pass Games on Xbox and PC [August 2022]

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.10: Best game that is really bad

We all love things we shouldn't love. Video games are no different.

Like it or not, Diablo Immortal has raked in $100 million in 8 weeks

Blizzard may be a hotbed of controversy right now, but its latest mobile game, Diablo Immortal, is raking it in.

Ico is awkward, unsettling, and weird – but it's still an essential PS Plus game everyone needs to play

Before Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, there was Ico – and it's still essential, some 21 years later.

I can't decide if Indiana Jones is loving or hating the world of Elden Ring

Indiana Jones in Elden Ring is the crossover you didn't know you needed.

Atlus knows how badly you want to see Persona 2 and Persona 3 remakes

The Atlus Survey 2022 Special Program livestream made it clear that the publisher understands what its fans want to see: old games on new platforms.

I hated Elden Ring, but in trying to find something to love I accidentally platinumed it

Completing Elden Ring entirely – mostly by accident – probably should have taught me something about myself. But I think it just wasted my time.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 review: A slow burn, but the best in the series so far

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a confident, self-assured RPG – and possibly Monolith Soft’s best game to date.

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.9: Best game with balls that isn't a sports game

When this topic was decided, we overestimated our ability to ignore the obvious crude options.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands player gets lucky, finds rare item with one in 85 billion drop rate

The drop rate is even lower than our chances of winning the lottery.

Star Ocean turns 26 today, and I’m so glad Square Enix’s spacefaring B-movie RPG is still going strong

Star Ocean isn’t Final Fantasy, nor is it Dragon Quest. But it still has that ambition, with a vastly smaller budget. That’s what makes it brilliant.

Elden Ring's stone gargoyles are actually made of people

Gargoyles are pretty much a staple in FromSoftware games, but Elden Ring had to make them more grotesque.

Elden Ring player receives thoughtful gift inspired by dog meme

The only gift I got out of Elden Ring was sleepless nights.

Final Fantasy 16 stuck with action combat over turn-based to appeal to a younger crowd

Producer Naoki Yoshida explains why Final Fantasy 16 didn't go back to its turn-based roots.

Digital Extremes announces Soulframe and indie publishing during TennoCon 2022

A new fantasy MMO is in the works, as well as another MMO from Airship Syndicate

Please, FromSoftware, don’t let Elden Ring 2 exacerbate the hoarding problem that you created

Having an infinite inventory is all well and good until you spend all of Elden Ring hoarding every single item you collect until the end of the game.

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.8: Best game that journos love but most people think is a bit naff

Look, we know this is pushing the term "most," but just go with it.

Stranger of Paradise DLC trailer asks that you embrace chaos with Bahamut and The Warrior of Light

Final Fantasy Origin is getting more content soon, and it's all a lovely throwback to the first Final Fantasy game.

Most Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC is now free on PC through Origin

So long, BioWare Points.

Elden Ring's roaming cavalry is an enemy design FromSoft has been trying to make happen since Demon's Souls

For over 13 years, FromSoftware has been refining a particular idea it had all the way back in Demon's Souls, and Elden Ring contains the latest iteration.

Elden Ring players turn in-game quotes into "sexy" pillow talk and it's... something

In the absence of any real Elden Ring news, the community is making... liberal use of certain parts of the game.

Elden Ring player makes improvisational jazz by beating the game with a piano

There's more than one way to beat FromSoftware's latest.

It sure looks like MultiVersus is teasing something from The Lord of the Rings

A suspicious tweet has people wondering if they've spotted the Eye of Sauron.

Baldur's Gate 3 update lets you become a Gnome Bard with fabulous hair

Sing a song of sixpence.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum gameplay trailer shows how stealth will keep you safe

Stealth your way through the world and find your Precious.

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.7: Best game you wanted as a child but never got

It's hard being a kid. There are so many games but rarely do you have the cash to get them all.

Elden Ring chad Let Me Solo Her gets an actual sword for being a bro

The legend of Let Me Solo Her has been recognised by the makers of Elden Ring.

God of War: Ragnarok release date finally confirmed, coming November 9

The highly-anticipated sequel to God of War's 2018 reboot arrives this November

Following Xbox Game Pass July games announcement, another game is sneaking out

Garden Story is coming to Game Pass for Xbox and PC on July 12 – even though it wasn't announced in the big monthly update.

20% of Monster Hunter Rise players have already bought Sunbreak DLC

Capcom's latest Monster Hunter expansion proves that there's endless appetite for one of gaming's most enduring series.

Elden Ring: The Convergence is a massive overhaul mod that “doesn’t want to feel like a mod”

Elden Ring: The Convergence mod aims to “honour” and expand FromSoftware’s open-world title.

The best bit of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is a hilarious, throwaway side quest

CD Projekt Red hates bureaucracy as much as the rest of us, and made sure to include that in Blood and Wine by honoring a side-splitting animated film.

You get to body the Warrior of Light in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s first DLC

Fight Bahamut and the Warrior of Light in the upcoming Stranger of Paradise DLC.

Radahn's scrawny horse is the key to how this boss lands on your ass every time in Elden Ring

Radahn's bombastic meteor attack in Elden Ring is effective, in part, because a homing beacon is involved.

Elden Ring's Leyndell looked unusually different before the day one patch

The Leyndell that shipped on Elden Ring's disc is different from the one we have today.

Elden Ring modder mounts Blaidd the Half-Wolf to demonstrate cut rider content

FromSoftware has evidently envisioned a more ambitious rider and mount system for Elden Ring during development.