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A UK man was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail after getting caught with a six-inch Master Sword replica. He asserted that it was purchased as a fidget toy.

According to VGC, 48-year-old Anthony Bray was arrested and jailed. Of course, it appears this is far from his first run in with the law, with a couple of burglary charges on his record. The replica Master Sword boasts a six-inch blade, which can be unsheathed with just a press of a button.

Bray alleged the replica weapon from the Legend of Zelda franchise was a mere fidget toy and that he’d never use it as a weapon. This fell on deaf ears as it still contains a blade beyond the three-inch exception when it comes to weaponry. He did admit that the item could be seen as threatening but kept his belief.

Beyond the four months behind bars, Bray is also required to pay a £154 (or $196.21) victims surcharge. Speaking on the matter, Sgt Spellman of Warwickshire Police’s Patrol Investigations Unite mentioned that you can find non-threatening fidget toys.

“It is possible to find fidget toys that aren’t six-inch blades. It is possible not to walk down the street holding them out in front of you. With a bit more self-awareness, Bray could have avoided contact with us completely.”

Capcom has announced that the seasonal content for its shooter Exoprimal has concluded.

Following this, the previous monthly content for the game will return monthly, beginning with Season 1, which returns next week.

“All gameplay modes will remain available to play,” it said. “This includes the main Dino Survival mode, as well as endgame content such as Savage Gauntlet and Time Loop Rebellion.

“If you’re playing alone or match with only a few other players, Bots (AI-controlled Exofighters) will still be added so that you can fully enjoy the Hammerheads’ story and reach the ending.”

Exoprimal was released in July 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One and PC, and is currently available on Xbox Game Pass. Capcom said the game attracted 1 million players in its first two weeks.

The plot of Exoprimal revolves around vortexes that have started appearing on Earth, each of which poses a danger to the planet when hordes of dinosaurs and genetically modified variants called ‘neosaurs’ come out of them.

Players control special soldiers called ‘exofighters’, and have to defeat the prehistoric enemies while also dealing with Leviathan, an AI that was originally designed to help the exofighters but has gone rogue.

Stellar Blade was a terrific first attempt made by Shift Up in the modern console gaming platform. The South Korean game developers struck gold with the ambitious scope, scale, and fun combat system, and fans are hoping for more content soon.

The gaming community has grown to appreciate other aspects of the video game world. Not just the visuals, scenery, gameplay, and other appealing things, but one character caught the attention of the fans, and they didn’t mind seeing her progression and descent to madness.

Shift Up came from humble beginnings, having only worked on mobile games before partnering with Sony and PlayStation to make a massive triple-A quality video game that is now loved by the entire gaming community.

Director of Stellar Blade, Hyung-Tae Kim, was reportedly overwhelmed with the positive feedback and was immediately pestered with the same question that usually comes after a successful project, the director was coy and did not rule out the possibility of a Stellar Blade sequel but hinted at more content on the horizon.

While the developers sent more post-launch support through updates and patches like new cosmetic items and customization features, the fans suggested what the expansion should feature.

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The gaming community would love to see how Raven ended up where she is in the main story through a brief DLC, perhaps similar in length and style to what Naughty Dog did with Left Behind for The Last of Us. The short yet emotional chapter added another layer of depth to the campaign and made the players feel a certain emotion.

Director Hyung-Tae Kim achieved an unexpected accolade when the game received the highest Metacritic user score on the PlayStation 5 console. Despite being fairly new and going up against much more popular and well-established games, the gaming community was enamored with what Shift Up had to offer.

Shift Up prioritized the combat and gameplay over the narrative which was an unusual method for a game developer. Regardless, it all paid off in the end and Kim knew how to appeal to the gaming community and was heavily inspired by the intense combat of the Soulslike genre.

This expansion could have compensated for the story that was not given the same amount of attention and made it better. DLCs could benefit from the lore expand upon it and open more doors of opportunities to explore in the future.

It would be interesting to see how the game developers handle mature themes like mental illness and apply that to the character growth of Raven. Perhaps Shift Up should heavily consider putting the spotlight on other characters and see where it goes from there.

The in-game shopkeeper received her 10 minutes of fame, but the gaming community is not ready to move on. Kim jokingly stated that the shopkeeper could be the lead of the following project and the appeal is there for the taking.

Would you like to see Raven star in a Stellar Blade DLC? Let us know in the comments section below!

• Lost Mastery is a mixture of card battler and memory puzzle
• Memorise the cards in your deck and pick the right ones for maximum damage
• But try not to get greedy, or risk stumbling on any manner of debilitating debuffs

We wrote a lot about games which mixed genres yesterday, and we’re not done yet. Because today’s subject is the game Lost Mastery, a mixture of card battler and memory puzzle, where your wit is your weapon.

Lost Mastery sees you take on the role of an anthropomorphised cat wielding a giant sword, duking it out with a variety of weird and deadly enemies. The only catch? Your attacks, and indeed some hidden effects, are all chosen from the hidden deck at the bottom of the screen.

You’ll need to keep your memory sharp because while you could play it safe and only memorise a few select cards, that’ll very quickly see you overwhelmed. But lose track and pick one too many, and you might end up with any manner of debilitating debuffs.

So keep track, pick wisely, and most importantly, don’t lose your marbles.

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Mixing and matching genres is a tried and tested way to create something new, and while we’re not sure Lost Mastery is the first to do it, we think it looks to provide a very compelling package. Mainly designed for iPad, but playable on iPhone, Lost Mastery has some very nice pixel art that maintains the pleasantly retro crunchiness of the style, but with more detail than more stylistic takes.

So will Lost Mastery get your memory going again? You’ll have to give it a try and find out for yourself.

In the meantime if you’re looking for other games that’ve caught our eye then why not dig into our list of the best mobile games of 2024 (so far) to see what’s what? Better yet you can also dig into our list of the most anticipated mobile games of the year and find out what else is in the offing.

BioWare is known for its character customization options, so the fact that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have some isn’t noteworthy. However, the extent of those options is staggering, to the point where players can customize a lot of their experience.

In a series of interviews published in Game Informer this week, game director Corinne Busche delved into a ton of the customization options, from the difficulty and gameplay to character gear.

An article published Thursday continued Game Informer’s breakdown of the character customization, specifically discussing equippable gear. According to Busche, players will be able to transmog (assign certain cosmetic characteristics to) different armor sets regardless of the character. Many players have come across a cool-looking piece of armor that doesn’t have the best stats or abilities, and this is set to fix that. However, the armor still has class designations, or can only be worn by your rook.

You can also get a look at “aspirational armors” that the rook can get later in the game even if you’re just creating your character.

In another article, published Monday, Busche detailed the difficulty options. There were four available in the demo: Storyteller for story lovers; Adventurer for a balanced experience; Nightmare for way more of a challenge; and Unbound, which allows the player to customize their own. While many video games these days allow for some degree of gameplay tweaking — like the ability to turn off death or decrease damage dealt — there are some unique options here, like adjustable combat timing for parrying (great for people who don’t enjoy Soulslikes).

Busche said these options aren’t “a cheat,” but are there to “make sure players of all abilities can show up.”

Game Informer published details about character customization last week, and according to creative director John Epler, the team worked to respond to feedback regarding Dragon Age: Insquisition, like how certain hair colors looked terrible under game lighting.

This is some of the deepest customization we’ve seen in a video game. Many recent RPGs like Dragon’s Dogma 2 had detailed character creators, but few offer both a creator and robust accessibility options. We’ll get a more complete look at what’s in store closer to the game’s launch in fall 2024.

YouTube is trying to make it easy for its creators to remove songs from their videos and resolve copyright claims. In a new Creator Insider video, the website has announced that it has released an upgraded “erase song” tool that has the capability to remove music from video segments without deleting other audio, such as conversations, as well.

When creators get a copyright claim for music, YouTube gives them the option to trim out the affected segment or to replace the song with an approved one in its audio library. Creators can’t monetize that particular video until they resolve the claim. The website has been testing its “erase song” tool for a while, but in the video, the company says it hasn’t been as accurate as it would like. To solve that problem, it redesigned the tool so that it now uses an AI-powered algorithm to accurately detect and remove copyrighted music from videos.

Still, YouTube admits that the tool might not always work. If a song is particularly hard to remove, presumably due to audio quality or the presence of other sounds while it’s playing, creators may have to resort to other options. In addition to being able to trim out the offending segment or to replace its song, creators will also be able to mute that part of their video through the new erase tool.

The website’s upgraded erase song tool will be available in YouTube Studio in the coming weeks.

Developer Stormind Games and publisher Saber Interactive have released a new story trailer for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead showcasing more of this upcoming first-person horror game’s silent alien-infested world. And it continues to look like a scary new addition to the A Quiet Place movie universe. 

Though there’s still no release date – it’s launching sometime this year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC – this story trailer reveals more about the state of the world in The Road Ahead. It seemingly begins on Day One, when the aliens, which possess incredible hearing that requires people to remain silent to survive, attack Earth. It then jumps ahead to Day 105, with Alex, an asthmatic college student trying to survive the end of the world with her boyfriend Martin, on the hunt for supplies and more. 

Check it out for yourself in the story trailer for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead below: 

As you can see, it seems Alex might be pregnant, which, if you’ve seen the first A Quiet Place movie, can make trying to remain silent in this world quite difficult. We’ll have to wait a little longer to find out how the story of A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead plays out because it launches later this year on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. 

For more about the game, watch the reveal trailer for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. 

Are you excited for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead? Let us know in the comments below!

At long last, the glorious mustache of Ron Burgundy can be admired in ultra-high definition. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has long been hailed as one of the greatest comedy movies of all time, and a 4K Blu-ray version is finally available as of this week. You can secure your copy of the 4K edition for $23.19 (was $26) at Amazon, just in time to watch it on Anchorman’s 20th anniversary on July 9. The 4K Blu-ray edition of Anchorman also comes with 1080p Blu-ray and digital formats.

In case you haven’t seen it–or you need to revisit it–Anchorman was one of Will Ferrell’s breakout hits in the early 2000s. Going from Saturday Night Live sensation to cannon fodder for Austin Powers, Ferrell starred as the titular Ron Burgundy, San Diego’s number one TV news anchor in a time when cable ruled the airwaves. Having become very comfortable in the male-dominated world of news, Burgundy faces a new challenge, when rising reporter Veronica Corningstone–played by Christina Applegate–turns his world upside down.

Also, Burgundy’s on-air weather reporter Brick Tamland actually murders a man from another TV station in a brutal news team brawl. Why is he not in jail? We don’t know, but Brick totally did kill a guy, using a trident. In addition to Ferrell, the film also starred Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Fred Willard.

For the special features, you’ll get over two hours of original extras inherited from previous releases and new material like cast auditions, bloopers, deleted scenes, interviews, and a music video featuring the Anchorman cast performing Afternoon Delight. Both the theatrical and extended cuts of the film, all remastered in 4K.

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