Look away please, PlayStation has seemingly leaked a new Helldivers 2 Stratagem that looks like something straight out of the original game - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

Uh oh, it looks like a brand new Helldivers 2 Stratagem has been leaked early, but from perhaps the last source you'd expect.Patriotic Helldivers 2 players are always looking forward to being given new ways to spread managed democracy and show the Terminids and Automatons what liberty tastes like, but it seems one upcoming weapon of mass destruction might have been unveiled a bit earlier than intended. Multiple players have made posts on Reddit (which you can find here, as well as here) reportin

Ahead of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can get the entire RPG trilogy for just $10 thanks to this Steam sale

If Dragon Age: The Veilguard has piqued your curiosity about BioWare's beloved fantasy RPG series, there's now a very cheap way in thanks to a Steam franchise sale with some steep discounts.The entire Dragon Age trilogy is currently 90% off on Steam. That brings Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 down to $3 each, and Dragon Age Inquisition down to just $4 - that's $10 altogether if you want to pick up the entire series. Each of the three games is bundled with its respective DLC packs, so you'l

FromSoftware warns Elden Ring patch 1.12 might stunlock your Steam Deck: Going "inactive for more than 5 minutes may stop the game from accepting inputs"

If you've checked your exact Elden Ring DLC release time and are now counting the minutes until you can jump into Shadow of the Erdtree for yourself, tread carefully if you're also a Steam Deck user. The game's latest patch has an odd bug that might freeze up Valve's handheld if you leave it alone for too long."Note: a Steam Deck related issue has been identified and a hotfix is being worked on," the official Elden Ring Twitter account said in a tweet. "Leaving your Steam Deck inactive for more

Edge of Tomorrow director says that Warner Bros are "constantly" bringing up the idea of a sequel

A sequel to Tom Cruise’s 2014 high-octane sci-fi action movie Edge of Tomorrow may still be a possibility, according to its director."I do think there’s probably no better compliment to a movie than people wanting for there to be a sequel," Doug Liman tells Total Film in our new issue while promoting his upcoming action comedy The Instigators. "Road House – there’s call for a sequel. Edge of Tomorrow, there’s no better compliment than Warner Bros. constantly bringin

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Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco says what FromSoftware probably should have: Shadow of the Erdtree "rivals the scope of a standalone game"

Much like developer FromSoftware, Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco is all-in on Shadow of the Erdtree. Unlike FromSoftware – specifically the studio's president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, who famously reckoned the DLC is "probably" bigger than Limgrave – Bandai's very loudly arguing that the impending Elden Ring DLC is about as big as a new game.Speaking with GamesIndustry, Bandai Namco Europe chief marketing and sales officer Anthony Marace described Shadow of the Erdtree as "the largest

Netflix subscribers delight in one of the noughties' best shows being added to the platform

Dexter is now streaming on Netflix US, and it looks like fans are already gearing up for a rewatch – though they have some pretty passionate opinions on which episodes are worth tuning back into.The platform added the drama, which originally ran between 2006 and 2013 before returning for a ten-episode limited series in November 2021, on June 19 and announced the good news with a GIF of Erik King's character James Doakes saying, "Surprise, motherf***er" on Twitter.In the replies, most peopl

After 26 years, Brandy returns to horror with new A24 movie from The Lighthouse and The Witch producers

A24 has unveiled the first trailer for The Front Room, a psychological horror film starring Brandy.Per the official logline, the movie "tells the story of a young, newly pregnant couple who is forced to take in an ailing estranged stepmother." In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, Brandy and her spouse (played by Andrew Burnap) take in the stepmother from hell (played by Kathryn Hunter). Hunter's terrifying character violently bashes her own head into a table and blames it on Brandy, but

Elden Ring nerfs two of its most popular boss cheese strategies just in time for Shadow of the Erdtree

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is almost upon us (check the Elden Ring DLC release time here for your region and platform). Today should be a time of celebration for ye Tarnished - eager for more lashings, boss-induced self-doubt, and decaying beasts - but a new Elden Ring patch has slightly dulled my buzz with a nerf to two of the game's best boss-cheesing strategies, including my beloved bubbles.Developer FromSoftware dropped a patch on the eve of the Elden Ring DLC, and th

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The Boys’ latest episode is being described as "one of the most unhinged in television history" and, honestly, they’re not wrong

Just when you think The Boys can’t top itself and – bam – Homelander shows up and takes the cake. Literally.John’s return to the Vought lab that 'raised' him was the focus on ‘Wisdom of the Ages’, a tense, twisted hour that sees Homelander play with those who experimented on him in chilling fashion.Spoilers for The Boys season 4 follow.Among the many, many acts of depravity committed by Homelander include forcing one of the lab’s leads into an oven

The Boys season 4 episode 4 recap and Easter eggs: Homelander heads home

The Boys season 4, episode 4 – titled ‘Wisdom of the Ages’ – follows on from the bloody, action-packed batch of the three-episode premiere on Prime Video. With the clock ticking on Butcher, Annie locking horns with new Supe Firecracker, and Homelander becoming more and more unhinged (a scary thought), there are plenty of plot threads for The Boys to follow up on this week.But with the fifth season set to be the show’s last and creator Eric Kripke lauding Homelander

The Boys just re-introduced a major Gen V villain in season 4 - but who is he?

Did you spot the Gen V cameo in The Boys season 4 episode 4? And no, we’re not talking about Sam and Cate, we’re talking about Tek Knight.In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment after Hughie visits his dad in the hospital, a commercial for the V52 Expo convention flashes up followed by an ad for a true crime show titled The Whole Truth with Tek Knight.So, who is Tek Knight? Well, if you watched the spin-off show Gen V or have a super good memory and can recall the few times

Homelander's lab rampage in The Boys season 4: What does it mean and where does Homelander come from?

Well, that happened. The Boys season 4 episode 4 is here and it contains Homelander’s most brutal and bloodiest set of scenes the series has ever shown to date. But as shocking as the episode is, it has brought up a lot of questions about the Supe.Warning, spoilers for The Boys season 4 episode 4 follow. Episode 4, Wisdom of the Ages, sees Homelander, with a whale-shaped chocolate cake in hand, visit the lab in which he was tested as a child and instantly make everyone feel uncomfort

Following Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia, One-Punch Man becomes the latest long-running manga to announce an unexpected break

One-Punch Man is the latest long-running manga set to take an unexpected hiatus. A blog on publisher Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump manga website announced today that Yusuke Murata's One-Punch Man manga will take a two month pause due to "various adjustments and preparations," with the series returning in late August.This comes just a couple of weeks after the announcement that both the Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia manga would also be pausing, albeit only for a few weeks, while it was re

Hollow Knight: Silksong is "not in dev hell," says tester who finds fan cynicism "disheartening" but agrees developer Team Cherry "should be better" at communicating

Hollow Knight: Silksong, you may have noticed, is still not out. Developer Team Cherry is still working on the Metroidvania sequel some five years after it was revealed, and according to playtester and semi-regular Team Cherry correspondent Graig, it is very much "not in dev hell.""Hi guys I literally know they are not in dev hell," Graig says in a Discord comment on Tuesday, June 18. Graig has – and has acknowledged – something of a reputation for troll posts, and apologized f

Git gud and buy the DLC, please: Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco says getting people to beat Mohg and Radahn was key to Shadow of the Erdtree marketing

Elden Ring's publisher has revealed getting players to beat two difficult bosses in order to access Shadow of the Erdtree was critical to the expansion's marketing.If you somehow didn't already know by now, you need to beat Mohg and Starscourge Radahn in order to access Elden Ring's new Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. This might be obvious to many, but a recent revelation earlier this month from Bandai Namco revealed at least 77% of Elden Ring players on Xbox hadn't yet beaten both the bosses require

The Riddler's impact on Gotham looms large in trailer for Batman spin-off The Penguin

A new teaser trailer for The Batman spin-off series The Penguin has arrived, promising a tense, high-stakes journey into Gotham's criminal underworld."Look at this. What that madman did," Penguin (Colin Farrell) says as he drives past a flooded Gotham, the consequences of the Riddler's actions at the end of The Batman when bombs destroyed the city's sea wall. The series picks up shortly after the events of the 2022 movie, with director Matt Reeves on board as an executive producer.Describ

Natalie Portman says Star Wars prequels backlash was "hard," but she feels "blessed" to have been part of the films

Natalie Portman played Padmé Amidala in all three of the Star Wars prequels – and, though the backlash was tough, she still looks back very fondly on her experience."I see it as an extraordinarily lucky thing to have been part of," she tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday, June 20, which features Deadpool and Wolverine on the cover. "I know how meaningful it is for people. And, every day, still, people are like, 'I just watched it with my kids.' To be part of some

Olivia Colman returns alongside Tom Hiddleston in the new season of one of our most anticipated shows

Olivia Colman and a clutch of other familiar faces are returning to duty in the second season of The Night Manager.The spy thriller first aired in 2016 and saw Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine swap his job as a hotel’s night manager – hence the name – for a role infiltrating the life of Hugh Laurie’s arms dealer Richard Roper.As per Variety, Colman will reprise her role as Angela Burr, the woman responsible for recruiting Jonathan. Also back this time is Noah Jupe as

One of the best recent horror movies with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is climbing the charts – as its director sets release for next film

One of the best recent horror movies is proving very popular on Netflix – and its director has revealed he has a new project in the works.Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, is currently sitting at fourth place on the Netflix movies global top 10. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington, a Black man who travels with his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to meet her white family (Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, and Caleb Landry Jones). However, all is not as it seems, an

Helldivers 2's Spear Stratagem is literally crashing the war effort, but Arrowhead is "looking into it"

You might want to avoid using the Spear in Helldivers 2 for the foreseeable future, because it's crashing the entire game under certain circ*mstances.Earlier today, a Helldivers 2 player directly asked Arrowhead in the third-person shooter's Discord whether they were looking into crashes when using the Spear Stratagem. Specifically, the player wrote that the entire game crashed whenever they locked onto an enemy using the Spear, which is pretty concerning for the entire game at large.Representin

Manor Lords creator is sorry about bugs leftover from the city builder's latest patch, but promises the move to Unreal Engine 5 will sort out other "annoying" issues

Manor Lords' lead developer might have left deer-related chaos in the game, but it's only because he's busy upgrading the hit city builder to a fancier engine.Manor Lords is undoubtedly one of the year's biggest early access success stories, having sold over 2 million copies as of last month. Since the game is still actively in production, Manor Lords creator and kind-of-sole developer Greg Styczeń has been pushing out updates pretty consistently, but the latest one seems to have miss

Legend of Zelda player creates a real-life "mech suit" to experience Tears of the Kingdom with an actual bow, shield, and sword

It's official - you can get through Tears of the Kingdom by using a real-life bow, shield, and sword - as now proven by one genius Legend of Zelda player.YouTuber Lledos has one-upped all of Nintendo's own controllers and themed devices with a "mech suit" he uses to play games. Forget about Skyward Sword's difficult swing mechanics on the Switch and Mario Kart's twisty-turny Wii steering wheel - Lledos' suit includes sensors galore, allowing for real-time actions and movements that translate int

The director of the show that dethroned Squid Game lands another new comic book movie at Netflix

Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Netflix series Hellbound and Parasyte: The Grey, is returning with a new comic adaptation for the streamer.Yeon is re-teaming with Hellbound screenwriter Choi Gyu-seok for Revelations, a new movie based on the pair's comic of the same name, with Gravity and Roma director Alfonso Cuarón on board as executive producer.The movie will follow Min-chan (Ryu Jun-yeol) a small-town pastor who has a divine revelation that a man visiting his church is the person

The Umbrella Academy season 4 will answer "a lot" of questions, says showrunner

The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman says the series' final season will address a lot of unanswered questions about the Netflix comic book adaptation."We’ll explain Hargreeves' motivations; we’ll figure out a way to make them superheroes again, and this apocalypse is different," Blackman tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday, June 20, which features Deadpool and Wolverine on the cover. "They don’t know straight away what they’re up against; the

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom pre-order guide: where the buy the next game and limited edition console

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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was a surprise drop in the latest Nintendo Direct, but we’re already seeing a few pre-order options out in the wild. Things are a little tricky in the US - at the time of writing, there are no pre-orders available in the US for both the upcoming game and Nintendo Switch Lite tie-in edition. However, those looking to get their copy secured in the UK will have a much easier time finding boxes on th

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D isn't just an Octopath Traveler-style glow-up - the remake reportedly expands the iconic 1988 JRPG's story with famed creator Yuji Horii's oversight

The Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake is not only beautifying the 1988 classic with an Octopath Traveler-style makeup brush, but it's also apparently expanding the original game's story.RPG Site reports that an early preview session for Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D began with a pre-recorded message courtesy of famed series creator Yuji Horii and the remake's producer Masaaki Hayasaka. The latter reportedly revealed that the upcoming remake would feature "additional story scenarios written under Horii's superv

Shin Megami Tensei 5’s excellent re-release sells 500,000 copies in 3 days, pushing the Atlus JRPG series closer to its more popular spin-off Persona

Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance has sold 500,000 copies in just three days, pushing Atlus's original JRPG series closer to its popular spin-off series, Persona, regarding overall sales.Earlier today, Atlus announced that Shin Megami Tensei 5 had sold a grand total of 1.6 million copies between its launch in 2021 as a Nintendo Switch exclusive and its re-release, Vengeance, which landed on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch earlier this week. It turns out that 500,000 copies of the 1.6 million

Star Wars has a bizarre new timeline controversy thanks to The Acolyte's prequels cameo

The Star Wars timeline is confusing, there's no doubt about that, but just when fans think they've plotted every event that has happened in a galaxy far, far away upon it, a new title comes along and shake things up. Cue The Acolyte...Just recently, the Disney Plus show saw High Council Jedi Ki-Adi-Mundi, a character who appeared in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith, make a cameo – and viewers are kind of baffled, seeing as the series takes place around a ce

"It's definitely harder than Persona": Shin Megami Tensei lead explains that his new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio needed more challenge or else "it won't feel right"

With only a few months left before Atlus releases its highly anticipated new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, the mastermind director behind Shin Megami Tensei and its successful spin-off series Persona discusses what sets the upcoming game apart from its predecessors.Metaphor: ReFantazio arrives this fall, marking its monumental spot as the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei team's first original title since Atlus' Studio Zero was formed in 2016. It isn't a spin-off nor is it officially related to either

Demon Slayer will be getting extra-long episodes for the next two weeks

Good news anime fans, Demon Slayer season 4 will release extra-long extended episodes for the final two weeks of its Hashira Training Arc.The team announced the news on the official Demon Slayer website and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Twitter page shortly after episode 6 aired in Japan via a video teasing the last two episodes captioned: "Two weeks in a row of extended episodes is headed our way from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc!" See the post below.
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