Former Dragon Age Director's Eternal Strands Gets PC Demo, Full Specs Revealed
A PC demo for the action-adventure game Eternal Strands is now available for a limited time. The demo covers the game’s “Part 1” and should take between 1-4 hours to complete. Any progress made in it will also carry over to the full game.
In the demo, players will be able to explore two areas of The Envclave and fight up to three types of Epics. Additionally, players have access to the crafting system, three weapon types, and a limited set of magic spells. The three base weapon types are sword & shield, bow & arrow, and two-hander.
While the demo and game aren’t yet Steam Deck verified, developer Yellow Brick Games said that they can be played on the handheld and it’s still working on getting the verification status. The demo will be removed at a later date, but more details will come in the next few days regarding exactly when.
The demo is only available on PC for Steam and Epic Games Store players, but the game will also be launching for PlayStation and X…
Anya Taylor-Joy Talks About Playing Peach In The Mario Movie
In a new interview, Anya Taylor-Joy spoke with MTV News about coming to love video games thanks to her role as Princess Peach in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. The film is slated to hit theaters in April next year.
When asked whether she was into video games growing up, Taylor-Joy explained she wasn’t, “But once I booked the job and my friends were so excited [for it], we bought all of, you know, the Mario Kart world and we really went for it.” Taylor-Joy added, “My favorite way to play is at the arcade, though. I’ve now become, like, a hardcore adult arcade individual.”
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Call Of Duty Is No. 1 In Launch Month For 15 Years In A Row
For many many years now, Call of Duty has been a license to print money for Activision Blizzard as each annual entry in the series has been a blockbuster success story. October’s release kept that tradition alive as analyst firm the NPD Group has reported that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was last month’s best-selling title in the US in dollar sales, making the 2022 release the 15th consecutive year that a Call of Duty release has ranked as the best-selling game during its release month.
While exact details on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s performance on PC and Xbox haven’t been made public just yet, the NPD Group did confirm that the game took first place in the US Xbox charts for November. On PlayStation, Modern Warfare II broke a number of records on the Sony platform and was its biggest game of October as well. Eight of the top 20 best-selling games of October 2022 were new releases, including Gotham Knights, which took second place in US Xbox Series X|S an…