New HeroQuest starter set is like Avalon Hill’s answer to Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

Talisman and HeroQuest are two beloved fantasy board games classics, and thanks to upcoming expansions and new editions, they can find their audience all over again with a new generation of players.
The games’ publisher, Avalon Hill have quite the legacy behind them and they’re not slowing down in their pursuit of producing and refining some of the best board games in the genres of strategy, wargames, and adventure RPGs. So, the team had plenty to share regarding upcoming Avalon Hill

Final Fantasy's creator doesn't want to bring JRPG hits Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon to modern platforms, but he does want to revive a decade-old strategy gem that was shut down 4 years ago

Hironobu Sakaguchi is working with Square Enix again after 20 years to spring Fantasian from Apple Arcade jail and onto PCs and consoles. As it would happen, there are other games from his post-Square Enix back catalogue he wants to do the same with – just probably not the ones you're thinking of.Speaking to Bloomberg, Sakaguchi confirms he has no interest in bringing Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon to modern platforms despite hopes of the opposite.Boo! In better news, he apparently wan

You can't romance your Avowed companions because Obsidian didn't want the RPG's platonic relationships to suffer

You won't be able to romance your companions in Avowed, because the upcoming RPG's developers wanted to make sure that it got all of the game's relationships right - romantic or not.In an interview with Windows Central, creative director Carrie Patel reiterated that 2we don't have romance in Avowed." Despite the fact that Obsidian acknowledges that "it's something that many players love," it sounds as though concerns about scope meant that your relationships will remain purely platonic."We wante

Wild Magic is one of Baldur's Gate 3's most potentially-devastating features, but one player has leaned into the chaos it offers by modding the RPG to ensure that it triggers every single time a spell is cast.Wild Magic is a Sorcerer class feature, where, every time you cast a spell, you have a 5% chance to trigger one of dozens of random effects. In D&D, these include things like all your hair falling out, being forced to shout rather than speak, or randomly casting spells. In Baldur's Gate

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Will Feature A ‘Robust’ Transmog System At Launch

Dragon Age features a ton of different customization options. Just within the character creator, there are hundreds of options to customize things like hair, body type, what your playable character Rook's face looks like, and so much more. There are also a ton of armor options, too.Companions have an armor slot, a ring slot, an accessory slot, and a weapon slot, while Rook has access to even more – a helmet, two weapon slots, a belt, an amulet slot, and two ring slots. A belt having

Before Dragon Age: The Veilguard, one fan is archiving 15 years of BioWare's additional RPG series storytelling to prevent it being lost

With Dragon Age: The Veilguard set to launch later this year, one dedicated BioWare fan is making a complete compilation of all accompanying media relating to the RPG series.Meet the appropriately-named 'The Archivist.' They're on Twitter attempting to draw attention to all the Dragon Age supplementary material that BioWare has published over the years for its RPG series. For those not keeping track, that's everything between Dragon Age: Origins in 2009, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard in 2024.The

Fallout fan film creator finally gets to work with Bethesda after 13 years, as Fallout 76 devs accidentally nab his artwork for the MMO's July 4 celebrations

A long-time Fallout superfan has finally been given his chance to work with Bethesda, after the Fallout 76 studio accidentally used a piece of his artwork in game without getting permission.Zack Finfrock is the director (and main character) of Fallout: Nuka Break, a popular fan film about a Vault Dweller wandering the wasteland in search of a refreshing cola. The first film was released 13 years ago, and even after all that time, Finfrock's still creating, with crowdfunding underway for a follow

OG Final Fantasy creator won't return to the iconic JRPG series again, partly because he might not "enjoy Final Fantasy 14 as much"

Final Fantasy's original creator Hironobu Sakaguchi doesn't want to return to Final Fantasy - because he's too busy playing Final Fantasy.It's been years since the JRPG icon left the series he created almost four decades ago, but he still has no plans for a Final Fantasy comeback, partly because he no longer works for publisher Square Enix, and partly because he just wants to enjoy critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 as an everyday fan."It started off as a courtesy," Sakaguchi

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Wild Super Mario 64 mod enables 16-player co-op with Peach, Yoshi, Toadette, and Daisy all joining the classic platformer

The unthinkable has happened - Super Mario 64 is now playable with fifteen other people.More than a decade ago, romhackers enabled co-op play for the classic platformer and since then, modders have been tinkering away at new possibilities. The Super Mario 64 Co-Op Deluxe project was initially started by "a group of people working on a fork for" the original co-op mod, according to the project's main website, but the two teams have since "merged together to be one team working on one big project.

Ms. Marvel leads the world's most unlikely superteam in an exclusive preview of Amazing Spider-Man #53

With a recently announced new creative team for Amazing Spider-Man on the horizon, it seems like we're into the last few issues of Zeb Wells' long and impressive run with Peter Parker. Still, it looks like the writer will be going out with a bang if this preview of Amazing Spider-Man #53 is anything to go by...Peter has been corrupted by the sins of Norman Osborn and transformed into the deadly Spider-Goblin. Luckily his good side has temporarily returned, thanks to some psycho-active goo delive

Steam Next Fest's big strategy hit was made because its dev loves XCOM and played it for "hundreds of hours" - but also has "so many problems with it"

One of Steam Next Fest's biggest strategy hits came about because its developer loves XCOM so much - but might also hate it a little bit, too.Tactical Breach Wizards is an upcoming strategy game that puts both a magical and riot police-style spin on the likes of Into the Breach. Launching next month, it recently appeared in the latest Steam Next Fest, where it made an impressive splash. It came 18th in Valve's charts of the most-played demos in the Fest, and was one of the third-biggest strategy

Metal Gear Solid's 1997 reveal had dev behind rival spy game "despairing" because it did "everything that we were trying to do, better"

The reveal of Metal Gear Solid at E3 1997 had a big impact, particularly on one Sony developer who was busy making his own espionage-themed action game at the exact same time.Speaking to Retro Gamer, Richard Ham, design lead on Syphon Filter at developer Eidetic (now known as Days Gone developer Sony Bend) explained how Metal Gear Solid's trailer brought the convention to a standstill. That's partly because Konami played it every single hour, on a massive screen that dominated the convention hal

Escape from Tarkov plans to counter cheating by giving in-game currency to players who successfully report opponents who are a little too good at the game

Escape From Tarkov is stepping up its anti-cheat game and toxicity efforts by giving out in-game currency in the event of a successful ban.In the extraction shooter's latest patch notes, developer Battlestate Games dedicated a section to "compensation for reporting players who violated game rules." In those notes, the dev confirms that "players will receive in-game currency compensation after the report that led to the blocking of the violator."It's not clear exactly how much currency you'll get

Elden Ring devs suggest a fix for PS5 framerate issues, but an expert FromSoft dataminer says it won't do a damn thing to help

The new Elden Ring patch suggests a fix for some of the RPG's framerate issues. Trouble is, however, that 'fix' doesn't seem likely to help a whole lot.Elden Ring patch 1.12.3, which dropped early today, features a section dedicated to "possible unstable performance fixes." Previously, publisher Bandai Namco had suggested that PC players might want to check their mouse to help with framerate issues, but now it's turned its attention to the PS5. In the notes, it suggests that "unstable framerate

The Acolyte showrunner responds to review-bombing of her Star Wars show: "I think it's pretty expected"

The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has responded to the review-bombing of her new Star Wars show – and she thinks it's "concerning" but "expected". "Oh, yes. Everybody knows what review-bombing is like. Truly when the show first came out, my publicist was like, 'OK, with the review…' I was like, 'Does anybody take that seriously anymore?'" Headland told Collider.'Review-bombing' is when a group mobilizes online to post multiple negative user reviews of a show or movi

As Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's classic-style quick-time events are teased, fighting game fans fear for their controllers: "DualSenses are like 70 bucks I need y'all to chill"

It looks like fighting game fans might want to invest in a spare controller or two, because Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is set to bring back the controller-destroying quick-time events that veteran Budokai Tenkaichi fans will remember well, including the notorious stick-spinning one that's already got many concerned about potential drifting issues.We already knew that Clashes were coming back in Sparking! Zero. Historically, they've seen players compete in high-pressure QTEs when two power

Mass Effect actor says he doesn't mind if you play as his female counterpart, because you'll be forced to listen to him anyway

The voice actor behind the male version of Commander Shepherd says he's not worried if you choose to play as FemShep instead, because he voices so many of the game's NPCs that you'll end up hearing him no matter who you pick.Speaking to PC Gamer, Mark Meer said that when people tell him they've only played as 'his' version of Commander Shepherd, he hits back with "'why are you denying yourself the excellent performance of Jennifer Hale?'" Hale, of course, voices the female version of Shepherd, a

Who is Webweaver? The Boys' latest Supe, explained

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 4, episode 6. If you've yet to tune in, and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!With two new recruits joining The Seven, Victoria Neuman's kid showcasing her tentacle powers, and cameos from a few of the Gen V lot, there are more Supes in The Boys than ever. The most recent episode, season 4, episode 6, introduced another, too: the Spider-Man-esque Webweaver.But who is he? If you've yet to watch the aforementioned sp

The Boys season 4 episode 6 recap and Easter eggs: an alt-right co*cktail party takes a nasty turn

The Boys season 4 episode 6 – which is suitably titled 'Dirty Business' – has the challenging task of following on from the pretty wild events of the last installment. As you may recall, last week's episode was total farm-ageddon as the team battled a group of seriously V-d-up animals, Hughie lost his dad and Vought news anchor Cameron Coleman was beaten to death by The Seven.This week, the titular team infiltrate an alt-right co*cktail party, which quickly takes a pretty nasty turn &

Monaco 2 Preview — Sneaking in a new dimension

Platform:PC
Publisher:Humble Games
Developer:Pocketwatch GamesThe first Monaco released in 2013 at a point when Xbox Live Arcade had hit its stride, and there was a new appetite for the type of creative and unique game that existed below the huge budget triple-A, high-fidelity experience. Those kinds of games vastly outnumber the big-budget experiences we are familiar with today, but in 2013 we were discovering such experiences and marveling at their ingenuity. The competition is stiffer for Mo

If you thought Tek Knight was bad in The Boys season 4 episode 6, he is way worse in the comics

Well, The Boys season 4 episode 6 was an interesting viewing experience, to say the least. But aside from the abundance of strange sexual displays and awkward scenes, you may be wondering, what is up with Tek Knight, and why does he have a… hole fetish?Warning: this article includes some major spoilers for The Boys season 4 episode 6, so make sure you have seen that before you read on!So… that happened. In The Boys season 4 episode 6, we were treated, or rather subjected, to

Helldivers 2 gets a selection of excellent fleet upgrades, including one that'll reduce the cooldown of all Stratagems thanks to the power of paid bathroom breaks

A handful of new Super Destroyer upgrades are now available for liberty-loving Helldivers 2 players, including one that will reduce the cooldown of your Stratagems thanks to "enthusiasm enhancement initiatives" like paid bathroom breaks. Super Earth's Ministry of Defence is so generous.Rolled out today along with the deployment of a new patch, there are six new fleet upgrades to unlock. In no particular order, these are Advanced Crew Training, Cross-Platform Compatibility (which isn't what

Barely 6 days after Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's Early Access launch, devs line up sweeping job changes targeting the Viper's "busyness," the Monk’s "inadequate performance," and much more

Square Enix is changing up several jobs in Final Fantasy 14 following a wave of Dawntrail feedback from Early Access and beyond.Director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida explains in a new blog post that we're getting specific tweaks to Viper, Monk, and a good few more, alongside sweeping changes to tanks over patches 7.01 and 7.05.For the Viper job, Yoshida says the team has received feedback "pertaining to the busyness of their skill rotation." As such, the directional requirements are bein

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail reached "a record number of concurrent users" for a total the MMO hasn't seen since the release of A Realm Reborn 11 years ago

Final Fantasy 14 has seen the most-ever concurrent players since A Realm Reborn's release over a decade ago.Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail launched in full earlier this week, bringing about the MMO's next overarching adventure. Writing on the Lodestone, game director Naoki Yoshida reveals that Dawntrail's launch has seen Final Fantasy 14 "able to reach a record number of concurrent users we've not seen since the release of A Realm Reborn in 2013."This was seemingly even with server congestion during

Win a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four companion novel Julia

George Orwell’s 1948 classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a companion volume, one which retells events from a different point of view, with a feminist slant.The work of Sandra Newman, Julia centres on a woman we’ve previously only seen from the perspective of Orwell’s protagonist, showing us her view of life under Ingsoc and the watchful eye of Big Brother – in the process filling in her background, her character, and her motivation for entering into a doo

Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste

Following in the footsteps of Mike Flanagan and Martin Scorsese, Heat and Miami Vice director Michael Mann is the latest filmmaker to make an account on film review social media site Letterboxd.The director quickly made a list of his top flicks, titled "14 Favorite Films in no particular order (except Potemkin)". As well as plenty of classics – like Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent epic Battleship Potemkin, in the list's top spot – from legendary directors like Francis Ford Coppola an

Win a Blu-ray of Night of the Eagle

The latest entry in StudioCanal’s Cult Classics range is the 1962 film Night of the Eagle. Based on Fritz Leiber’s novel Conjure Wife, and written by Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend) and Charles Beaumont (a regular contributor to The Twilight Zone) this suspenseful supernatural horror is set in the world of academia.Peter Wyngarde plays the rationalist professor who discovers that his wife (Janet Blair) has been practising witchcraft to help advance his career. After th

You're gonna need a bigger shelf, because Lego Jaws just arrived

The Lego Jaws set has officially broken cover, and it's a monster.A diorama with almost 1,500 pieces under its belt, the Lego Jaws set has two different display options; you can either let the shark loose on the heroes' boat (the Orca, complete with minifigures for the beast to chow down on) or show it off on its own stand.No matter how you choose to terrorize the brick seas, Lego Jaws will be available to pre-order from early August for $149.99 / £129.99 at Lego. If you're a member of the

Hideo Kojima teases Tokyo Game Show appearance, and all signs point to Death Stranding 2 as Xbox skips the event and PlayStation returns for the first time since the PS5 reveal 5 years ago

Tokyo Game Show 2024 has announced the full list of companies showing up to its "largest ever" trade show with both physical booths and online showings. Among the confirmed 731 exhibitors that are setting up a whopping 3,190 booths are Capcom, Konami, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, which hasn't made a TGS appearance for five years.Sony hasn't physically been present at Tokyo Game Show since 2019, the year the publisher released Death Stranding, meaning it's skipped the show every year for t

Soulslike veterans are being outmatched by the true Elden Lord: this 8-year-old who destroys Radahn on his first attempt at a "very low level"

Elden Ring is undoubtedly a difficult game, but one eight-year-old Elden Lord is putting Soulslike veterans to shame with his incredible action RPG skills, after successfully beating Starscourge Radahn in a single attempt with no help at all.In a very wholesome video posted by his dad, Twitter user @jnoe33, you can see the young Tarnished in action, dodge rolling and jumping over Radahn's attacks with ease, and slashing away at the boss at every safe opportunity. Watching how expertly he moves h