Month: March 2021

Monster Hunter Rise, which until now had only been announced for the Nintendo Switch, was said to be coming to other platforms in documents that were part of a massive Capcom data leak late last year. Now, thanks to reporting by Fanbyte, Rise is confirmed to be coming to the PC in 2022.

The new information was revealed in an interview with Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Yasunori Ichinose. The developers said that Monster Hunter Rise was very much made for the Switch, saying that the team “were aware of [the console’s] shortcomings and abilities” while developing the game.

This may explain the long wait for the PC version of the game, due out next year, which the developers cautioned was “still very much in development.” It’ll be interesting to see how the PC port stacks up against the version made for Nintendo’s less powerful hybrid console, though it’s unlikely we’ll see footage of the port until the Switch version has released.

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Despite Bugsnax‘s adorable art style, cute characters, and catchy theme song, the whole game has a mild undercurrent of body horror, as you transform characters’ body parts by feeding them Bugsnax. An early concept posted by developer Young Horses shows the studio almost leaned right into that horror element, requiring players to peel and prepare the adorable Bugsnax before feeding them to characters.

The video is more than a little alarming, showing the player pulling the wings off a pair of flying olives and yanking out the creature’s long tongue in order to plate it up. The video also shows the capture of a Pinkle, with preparation requiring the player to pluck off its pickle legs one by one.

It’s not surprising that the developers decided to can this mechanic, as reviewers would have been far less likely to recommend the game for kids with dismemberment as a core part of the gameplay.

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To celebrate 21 years of The Sims, players are getting gifts of 21 new items for The Sims 4, including delicious new dishes, chic new furniture items, and a whole lot of new clothing and makeup styles. All the new items were created by members of the Sims community, who submitted creations that were meaningful to them, and useful to the wider community.

The new furniture items include a dining table and kitchen set designed to fit in with any décor style, as well as a Mid-Century inspired trio including a console with drawers, bright red wardrobe, and a funky wall mirror. New makeup has been added including a new set of natural brows, a highlighter designed to complement all skin tones, a new style of dark, matte lipstick, and even a cosmetic item that will add crow’s feet for ageing Sims.

New outfits include a cute, knitted fox beanie, a simple pairing of jeans with a cheery yellow crop top, and even a new outfit for toddlers. Last but not least, a handful of delicious new dishes have been added including butter chicken, palak paneer with naan, and a delicious chocolate mousse because, according to creator icemunmun, “what can be a more appropriate creation than good food for something as monumental as a 21st birthday?”

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Mihoyo has confirmed that the final character banner for Genshin Impact‘s update 1.3 will feature 5-star Hu Tao, a pyro polearm user who is the director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor. While Hu Tao was expected to arrive during update 1.3 after being revealed by dataminers, her character banner wasn’t announced with the others when the update was released.

Update 1.3, Mihoyo’s latest big content drop for Genshin Impact, hasn’t followed the formula players have come to expect from the game. Instead of two character banners it featured three, shorter ones, and the last one has been kept a mystery until now, only a few days before it’s due to launch.

Hu Tao has mostly been mentioned as part of other characters’ voice lines until now, though her artwork, character model, and idle animation had already been unearthed by dataminers. Hu Tao’s abilities include a HP-consuming stance that converts all her damage to pyro damage and marks enemies to deal extra damage, while her Elemental Burst restores HP based on the number of enemies hit by its AOE attack.

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