For the last two decades, Football Manager has always come out in time for October or November. It’s one of the year’s most reliable sights in league with Call of Duty or Christmas trees, but someone better keep an eye on Santa because Football Manager 2025 has been delayed to next year.Developer Sports Interactive and publisher Sega announced the series’ first delay in 20 years via a blog post, revealing that Football Manager 2025’s November release date had been pushed until next March with “specific platform release dates” still to come. The annual sports series had a minor delay earlier in the year, but the studio explained that “this additional time has not been sufficient to ensure the game quality and experience meets your expectations and our very high standards.” Different areas of production had apparently “been moving slower than we had predicted – despite everyone in the team working at an incredible pace to try and get everything done.”Sports Interactive called Footba…

How long is Metaphor: ReFantazio? I estimate a general playthrough will take between 80 and 90 hours to complete if you pack your in-game calendars with activities like side quests and bond conversations. That playtime will vary significantly, however, depending on how much side content you decide to do, as well as what difficulty you choose.Anyone with experience of Atlus JRPGs like Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Reload will know not to expect a game you can blast through in one weekend. In the buildup to its launch, Metaphor: ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino teased that we can expect it to run as long as the notoriously chunky Persona 5, but is that true?The short answer is yes, potentially. So let’s look at the specifics.How long to beat Metaphor ReFantazio? For reference, my own playthrough was finished in 87 hours, which I completed on ‘Normal’ difficulty. In that time I completed every possible side quest, bounty request, and bond conversation for my Metaphor: ReFantazio revie…

A genius Legend of Zelda fan has compiled various clips from A Link to the Past and Echoes of Wisdom to show off the similarities between the two Nintendo games – and boy, are there a good few.In a YouTube video showcasing the clips side-by-side, Rebecca Stone highlights portions of both games’ maps to portray just how similar regions in Echoes of Wisdom are to the 1991 classic. Despite some changes to the terrain, the newer game’s Hyrule is evidently the very same one fans grew to love decades ago. It seems there’s just one major difference – Kakariko Village is no longer where it used to be.As longtime Zelda players point out in the comments, “there are what appears to be ruins” in the spot that housed Kakariko Village in A Link to the Past. There are lots of other cool details of note, too – for instance, as one fan explains, “the Gorons, Sea Zora, Deku Scrubs, and Gerudo all live outside the A Link to the Past portion of the map, which retroactively would explain why they weren’t p…

In March 2007, Rockstar revealed the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 4, which prominently featured a boat docking at a ferry terminal. When the actual game launched a year later, the terminal was still there, but the ferries themselves were nowhere to be found. Fans have wondered for years why they were cut from the final game, and now one of the open-world game’s original developers has revealed the answer.”It wasn’t really because of performance,” former Rockstar technical director Obbe Vermeij reveals on Twitter. “It’s more that they were causing other issues with physics (cars sitting on a boat). As well as people queuing and getting on and off. They were more trouble than they were worth.”The Liberty Ferry Terminal first appeared in the “Things Will Be Different” teaser trailer that introduced the world to GTA 4, and it got a fair amount of notice as one of the few concrete things anybody had seen of the game. It’s not as if the cut content caused any notable backlash at the ti…

343 Industries is now Halo Studios, and it’s welcoming a tidal wave of changes to keep up with how “the consumption habits of gamers have changed.”343 Industries, and before that Bungie, were always split between actively making new Halo games while also dedicating resources to update its proprietary tech. But the newly-rebranded Halo Studios has now announced that it’s ditching its own Slipspace Engine in favor of Unreal Engine 5 – a decision that’ll supposedly help the team release its multiple in-development games and post-launch updates quicker than ever before to feed gamers’ gaping appetites.

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“We believe that the consumption habits of gamers have changed – the expectations of how fast their content is available,” Halo Studios’ head Pierre Hintze said in an Xbox Wire blog post, likely referring to the live service boom that has well oiled machines like Fortnite and Call of Duty Warzone cranking out new stuff every week…

Veteran Silent Hill developer Masahiro Ito shared a few sharply worded tweets directed toward “disrespectful” fans blaming him for their dissatisfaction with the forthcoming Silent Hill 2 remake. One tweet that suggested some fans have acted like “children” has since been deleted.The exact Silent Hill 2 remake release time varies depending on region, but for most folks it lands on Tuesday, October 8, which means the vast majority of fans haven’t had time to actually play the game yet. However, reviews have been largely very positive, with Bloober Team’s remake currently boasting a more than respectable 87 Metacritic review score. Our own Silent Hill 2 Remake review is a little lower than most at 3.5/5 stars, but that’s still a pretty solid score.Point is: most people who have played Silent Hill 2 Remake seem to be pretty happy with it, and judging from these early impressions it seems to be an extraordinarily faithful retelling, but with a series and entry as beloved as this one, a rem…

Survival game Valheim is set to get significantly cozier thanks to a new update that’s bringing all-new cooking and farming skills, making it feel a lot more akin to a game like Stardew Valley.This is coming as part of ‘The Bog Witch’ update, which is also set to add a new vendor – the titular witch – to Valheim’s swamp biome. This new face will have spices and potions aplenty on offer, as well as new materials for tools and crafting recipes. Gold can also be exchanged for ingredients usable in endurance, strength, and dexterity-enhancing Meads, Tonics, and Draughts.That’s just the start, though, as the specialized Cooking skill is where it’s at for anyone wanting to step into the shoes of a humble chef. Leveling it up by cooking dishes will make preparing culinary delights an even faster process, and grant the chance of crafting additional food items at the same time. Also coming as part of these delicious additions is the arrival of eight new ‘feasts’ – huge banquet…