Horizon Forbidden West is arriving at PS4 also

Our team at Arkane has always loved a good kick. In fact, we’ve been looking for ways to get it back into our games for a while. We liked the Dark Messiah kick very much, but there was no real need for it in Dishonored as other systems were serving the same purpose. Finally, in Deathloop, we had our chance to resurrect it.

Christopher Ayres, the voice actor behind the English dub of the iconic villain, Frieza, in Dragon Ball Z Kai and onward, has died.  His partner, Krystal LaPorte, announced the news on Twitter on October 19, stating that Ayres died the night before. He was surrounded by LaPorte, his mother, and his brother when he died. He was 56 years old.  pic.twitter.com/SvhMEeMWVk — Krystal LaPorte (@WowSuchKrystal) October 19, 2021 "Chris loved you all," LaPorte wrote on Twitter. "How much he loved other people filled the vast majority of our conversations. To those of you who truly loved him back, thank you. To those of you who stayed in touch, checked on him, reminded him that he was so, so much more than his job, you were the fuel of his fight. You fed the dreams of a future that kept him going longer than any normal person could go."  LaPorte said that for anyone asking if there's anything they can do at this moment, "please be more like Chris." A cause of death was not announced.  The veteran voice actor had made public his diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease he received in 2017, posting regularly on Twitter about it and keeping fans updated with progress.  Chris Ayres began voicing Frieza in Dragon Ball Z Kai, replacing Linda Young. He had been the voice of Frieza onward, winning various awards for his performance as the iconic Dragon Ball Z villain. He also voiced characters in various other animes, television shows, and movies. Game Informer would like to express our condolences to Ayres' family and friends.

Update, 10/20/21: The official Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Twitter account has revealed that the game's PC version has been further optimized and that, as a result, the final launch day download will be 80GB. This comes two days after Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy's Steam page said 150GB of space was needed to download the game.  Hey everyone! We wanted to give you an update on the final size of the PC version of the game, which will not be 150GB. The team is in the last stages of optimizing the final game and we can confirm the file size will be approximately 80GB at launch. Hey everyone! We wanted to give you an update on the final size of the PC version of the game, which will not be 150 GB. The team is in the last stages of optimizing the final game and we can confirm the file size will be approximately 80 GB at launch. — Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (@GOTGTheGame) October 19, 2021 Original story follows... Original Story, 10/18/21: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy drops at the end of the month, and a flurry of story/launch trailers has kept excitement levels exceptionally high. The game's Steam page was recently updated to include system requirements information. According to the storage notes, the Guardians are embarking on a journey of truly galactic proportions; the action-adventure title is slated to be a whopping 150GB. To put that into perspective, Microsoft Flight Simulator – a game that maps/renders the entire world with stellar precision – is 127GB on PC. Hell, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy even rivals the likes of Warzone, which sits at 175GB. Knowing how big both those games are on consoles, it's safe to assume that GOTG will also be impressively massive on those platforms. Hopefully, the loading times don't take too much of a hit! If anything, this is probably indicative of the various worlds we'll be exploring. The upcoming space odyssey follows Star-Lord and his band of alien oddities as they attempt to make a name for themselves (and money) by forging alliances/burning bridges with characters like Cosmo the Spacedog and Lady Hellbender. Even Adam Warlock will enter the fray at some point. Whether he'll emerge as friend or foe remains to be seen. Around the time of our Marvel's GOTG cover reveal, creative director Jean-François Dugas told us, "[The Guardians are] legitimate heroes for hire, but as the game progresses and they discover [the main threat of the game], they will have to become more than a marketing ploy to really save the galaxy from its own demise." Eidos-Montréal's upcoming foray into the far reaches of space launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 26.  Do you think the download size will somehow be minimized, or are we in for a colossal download come launch day? Where do you think is the reason behind the game's astronomical storage requirement? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!

Publisher: Capcom Developer: Armature Studio Rating: Mature Reviewed on: Quest I'm of two minds when it comes to whether or not someone should play Resident Evil 4 VR. If you've never touched the original RE4, then by no means should you jump into this version; everything that made (and makes, for that matter) it important would completely go over your head in VR. However, if you have played Resident Evil 4 – especially if you've completed it numerous times over the years – then RE4VR should be played at all costs.  As the name implies, RE4VR is just that. It's Resident Evil 4 but in VR. There's an immediate novelty to the game's perspective shift – bringing it into first-person allows an intimate look at the game's world third-person could never afford. Being effectively a remaster of a 16 -year-old game, RE4VR shows its age at times – mainly when up close to certain muddy textures and assets – but it doesn't look bad by any means. As someone who's played the original more times than I count, getting the chance to see a 1:1 recreation of RE4's levels, characters, and monsters was constantly amusing.  Changes specifically made for VR are also welcome in most cases. The giant interactable attache case where protagonist Leon Kennedy holds all his weapons and gear is a blast to assemble in VR. It feels as-close-as-possible to doing it in real life, even if you are more or less just playing Tetris with guns. Speaking of, the guns look fantastic. I had a great time holding up iconic weapons like the Red9 handgun and Striker shotgun and getting a good look at the added detail. Same with items throughout the world such as keys, money, and herbs. Everything can be picked up and examined before you throw it in your inventory. I'm sure I looked like an idiot to all my neighbors constantly staring at my hands, but they didn't know I was looking at a yellow herb up-close-and-personal for the first time – their loss.  Combat received the most significant overhaul in RE4VR, and it's what sent me over the moon. Famously, the original changed the typical third-person camera perspective from fixed angles to the now-modern behind-the-back view. But it still featured tank controls, meaning Leon only moved in the direction he was facing. Additionally, he couldn't move while aiming or shooting. While it was revolutionary for the time, there's an obvious narrative and mechanical dissonance in the original's gameplay. The game pitches Leon as some American Badass action hero, but once you control him, you're still bumbling around like the same old fool of past Resident Evils. RE4VR completely ditches this model if you choose to play with full-motion turned on instead of teleporting. I can't recommend it enough; it marries the mechanics and story in a way the original never did.  Running around a combat arena freely profoundly changes the way enemy engagements work in RE4. Rather than try and line myself up with a row of enemies, doing as much damage as I can before they reach me, I was constantly on the move, adapting my playstyle to the moment and acting offensively against enemies rather than defensively. From the get-go, I had a blast running around shooting enemies like some virtual reality John Wick. I figured RE4 would never feel "new" to me again at this point in my life, but RE4VR completely changed how I played one of my favorite games. It felt fresh, exciting, and wholly different from every playthrough of RE4 I've had in the last 16 years. For the first time in ages, I was no longer going through the motions, and iconic moments like the early village encounter, the El Gigante fights, and the minecart rollercoaster have rarely been more fun.  Moving RE4 into first-person also does a lot for its horror – though it's still not the scariest thing you can play on the market. There's an inherent tension to being surrounded by enemies in VR, especially when you become overwhelmed. The many impossibly large bosses are also incredibly menacing when you see them towering far overhead. More than once, RE4VR put my heart in my throat as I frantically tried to out-maneuver whatever threat was closing in on me. Occasionally, this exacerbated some issues with the tracking on two-handed weapons, which would not register one of my hands or an input such as cocking a shotgun or aiming down a scope. Luckily, this was few-and-far-between but still led to some annoying deaths. Until I unlocked the Striker, which let me shoot an automatic shotgun with one hand like I was Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 – but cooler. In 2020, I played the original RE4 front-to-back three times. It's something I usually play for comfort; I can load up and blast through without much thought. RE4VR completely turned my relationship with a game I know better than most on its head. If you're a fan of RE4, have access to an Oculus Quest 2, and don't mind the morally and ethically questionable need to have a Facebook account to play an Oculus game, I can't recommend RE4VR enough. It's like breathing new life into an old, familiar feeling.  Score: 8.75 Summary: Resident Evil 4 VR is a must-play if you're a fan of the original. It fundamentally changes the experience in meaningful ways, adding new depth, strategy, and tension to a video game most people know like the back of their hands at this point Concept: Play through Capcom's iconic and fantastic Resident Evil 4, but this time in first-person and in VR Graphics: This is a 16-year-old game, so it doesn't drop jaws very often, but there is a fun novelty to seeing a 1:1 recreation of RE4's world up-close-and-personal Sound: The use of surround sound is great, and hearing enemies close in around you on all sides is nerve-wracking and tense Playability: After a bit of time with the game's full-motion option, my VR-induced nausea subsided. Running around levels feels great, and fighting through waves of enemies in first-person radically sets this version of RE4 apart from the original Entertainment: RE4VR is an absolute blast. The perspective shift from third to first-person and the ability to freely run around during combat fundamentally altered how I play one of my favorite games Replay: Moderate Click to Purchase

Virtual reality is an ever-growing platform that enables people to play games in new ways. It brings us experiences we wouldn’t be able to experience otherwise, such as playing through Valve's Half-Life: Alyx, and it gives us new ways to play old classics, like Resident Evil 4 VR on the Oculus Quest 2.  While virtual reality continues to expand in the gaming space, it’s nowhere near as popular as traditional video game console experiences, and it’ll likely remain that way for now. That’s why Xbox is remaining committed to software, rather than hardware such as virtual reality, this generation, according to Xbox head Phil Spencer.  Click here to watch embedded media “I think that the hardware innovation that’s happening is great and it’s an important enabler, [but] right now, I’m deciding to stay more in the software side of that enablement,” Spencer said during the Wall Street Journal Tech Live event, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. “I believe it will scale better in the long run.”  This falls in line with Spencer and all of Xbox’s commitment to Xbox Game Pass this console generation. Just today, Xbox announced that Age of Empires 4, The Forgotten City, and more would be coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, bolstering the service’s already massive lineup of games yet again.  Spencer even nodded to Sony’s PlayStation VR hardware during the WSJ Tech Live event, citing that he applauds what Sony, Oculus, and Valve are doing in the VR space.  “[We’re] gonna stay as a company right now in the consumer space focused on software, and I think that’s a good bet,” he said.  The Xbox head also alluded to the fact that many VR hardware platforms use Microsoft-developed Windows, so in a way, VR experiences are making their way to consumers of Microsoft products. Spencer said they “talk to a lot of partners that are there,” too. Do you think Xbox should jump into the virtual reality space? Let us know in the comments below!