New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games’ MMO, is set during the Age of Exploration, on an island where no one can die–but immortality isn’t always a gift. For some, living forever leads to madness, while others lose their souls. Some corpses are long since hollowed out but live on, unable to find peace.That idea gets pretty dark pretty fast, but in the episode of animated anthology series Secret Level that’s based on New World, the focus is on a slightly different take on the material. “[New World: Aeternum is] not quite as light as [the episode] presents it,” said New World: Aeternum narrative director Rob Chestney, during a question-and-answer session with press following a recent screening of Secret Level’s first episode. “We talk about it as grimdark. We talk about it as supernatur…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches later this month, and now Activision has revealed the audio innovations Treyarch has implemented into the game. The publisher claims gameplay audio will be even more dynamic and accurate than ever before. It also includes a new accessibility setting to help people with tinnitus.Activision says Treyarch’s audio team has greatly enhanced the 3D sound for Call of Duty, allowing players to better sense the location, speed, and direction of nearby activity, which are all crucial elements for audio in a competitive shooter game.

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One of Activision’s newest development teams, Elsewhere Entertainment, is continuing to hire and seems to be expanding to a new region, suggesting the team’s mysterious project may be ramping up.Elsewhere is making an “all-new franchise” that is a “narrative-based IP,” but there continue to be no other details available as of yet. But now, Elsewhere is hiring for jobs based in Malmo, Sweden, which is noteworthy because previously the studio was only known to have a presence in Warsaw, Poland.Malmo is also home to Just Cause studio Avalanche and Star Wars Outlaws developer Massive. Hitman developer IO Interactive also has an office in the Swedish city.Elsewhere is actively hiring for a variety of roles currently across a number of disciplines, though the jobs ads don’t give much away. It so…

Following plenty of speculation, leaks, and reports, Sony has officially announced the PlayStation 5 Pro. Revealed by PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny during Sony’s “PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation,” the PS5 Pro is said to be close to “doubling the power of the PS5.” The system costs $700 USD and is not equipped with a disc drive, nor does it come with a vertical stand, which is sold separately. Preorders open on September 26.The system includes 2TB SSD–an increase from the standard PS5–as well as the usual inclusions of a DualSense wireless controller and a copy of Astro’s Playroom (not to be confused with the just-launched Astro Bot). It launches on November 7 through PlayStation Direct and a variety of retailers around the world.Cerny called it the “most powerful console” …

Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Material Ultimania Plus $36 Preorder at Amazon See original at Amazon Preorders are now live for Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Material Ultimania Plus, a hardcover encyclopedic art book centered on the…

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale officially runs October 8-9, but for anyone who wants to fill their book and media shelves, the the most enticing promotion for physical media collector’s started October 6. Amazon’s buy two, get one mix-and-match sale will help you save big on Blu-rays, books, and even some toys and board games. The sale runs through October 12, the same day Target’s B2G1 free sale for Circle Week comes to an end. To help make things a bit easier when shopping for movies and TV series this week, we rounded up noteworthy Blu-ray box sets you can get for significant discounts thanks to the B2G1 free sale. See B2G1 free sale at Amazon

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions has finally delivered fans of the Wizarding World a proper Quidditch sports game, and so it only makes sense that broom customization will be a major factor in the experience. Ideally, you’ll be spending the entirety of every Quidditch match on one, after all. But every broom that’s available to choose from has its pros and cons–there’s no one-size-fits-all choice to be made here. To pick the best broom in Quidditch Champions for you, you’ll have to figure out what works best for your style of play and the positions that your characters are playing.

Best Broom in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions

When you first get started with Quidditch Champions, you’ll have three brooms by default: the Shooting Star, the Cleansweep Read more