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⚔️ FAIL THE QTE. ON PURPOSE.

Phantom Blade Zero hides full death CINEMATICS behind missed QTE prompts — every miss, a different animation most players will never see.

Have you failed one yet, Council? 👇

📹 @ashenone_vi

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📜 SENTINEL — WHAT THE NAME MEANS

Bethesda's name reveal is a location reveal: Sentinel, great city of the Redguards, capital of its kingdom on the Iliac Bay — named for the watchman who first spied its harbor. (UESP)

What do YOU want to see in Hammerfell? 👇

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🗡️ THE PRIMER: the Ocarina remake changed MORE than graphics — 60fps, a real jump button, a reworked Forest Temple.
And Aonuma told AFP he's "all nervous" about how it lands. Two days out.
Ocarina of Time — Nov 5 · Switch 2.

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🧟 Resident Evil: Survival Unit — the Anniversary Update lands NOV 5 with a NEW HERO Capcom won't name yet. Part 1 of this series crossed 4K views on our TikTok. Who do you WANT the new hero to be? 👇 #ResidentEvil #SurvivalUnit

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⚔️ DAWN OF WAR IV — Part 3: THE MODES.

1v1, 2v2 & 3v3 across 30 maps. The Last Stand returns. And the Advanced Painter now paints piece by piece. 🎨

Launches Thu Dec 3, PC/Steam. Skirmish, Last Stand or Multiplayer — where's your first war? 👇

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🗡️ 29 CHANGES — PART 2: TEMPLES & SYSTEMS

Per IGN: the Forest Temple is REWORKED — puzzles changed, rooms rebuilt. Plus Din's Fire in real time, FIVE bottles, a 200-rupee wallet, and boss rematches on demand.

Ocarina of Time — Nov 5 · Switch 2.

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🎮 GAME PASS NOVEMBER — WAVE 1: six day-one launches, and on NOV 15 — Xbox's 25th birthday — EIGHT classics join Essential: Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Viva Piñata + more. 13 games leave the same day. Full list in the reel 👇 #XboxGamePass

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🪄 HOGWARTS LEGACY's DLSS 5 trailer is a full visual rebuild ✨

NVIDIA DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, Off-vs-On wipes, combat with RT on — counter north of 300 FPS in the trailer's own capture. IGN trailer: 101,959 views, climbing 📈

PC players — worth the revisit? 👇

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⚔️ ArcheAge Chronicles hits Early Access TODAY (Tue Nov 3) on Steam

XLGAMES' UE5 action MMORPG — 50 years after ArcheAge, 3 regions, 4 classes × 2 weapons, raids/PvP/housing. Demo already hit 20K+ peak players.

Who's returning to Auroria? 👇 #ArcheAgeChronicles

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📹 BODYCAM's ZOMBIE UPDATE teaser is pure nightmare fuel 🧟

Reissad Studio's ultra-realistic bodycam FPS gets a brand-new zombie mode on Trenches — landing NOV 13 on Steam. The IGN teaser is at 142,188 views and climbing 📈

You surviving the Trenches? 👇

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📜 THE SCROLL HAS SPOKEN

Eight years after E3 2018, Elder Scrolls VI finally has a name: SENTINEL — revealed by Todd Howard at the close of Bethesda's 40th anniversary video.

No date. No platforms. Name AND location revealed: Hammerfell.

HAMMERFELL — YOU READY? 👇

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🗡️ CM SERIES #2 — THE BATTLE SPOT

Ren Meguro (Snow Man) draws King Dodongo in Nintendo Japan's Ocarina remake CM. He rolls, he breathes fire — and he still opens wide for the bomb. The classic kill works. 💣

Nov 5 · Switch 2 · two days to Hyrule.

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🦖 The Lost Wild has NO combat — you're Saskia, stranded on an island of dinosaurs that hunt like real animals. They react to sound and movement, and an overused flare backfires. 116K views and climbing. Coming 2027, PS5 + PC. Could you outlast it? 👇

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🪖 WARZONE HAS A NEW FRONT 🎯

MW4's Warzone trailer: HAJIN — new BR map in South Korea — + ZODIAC, aerial takedowns & movable cover. 119K on IGN & climbing (counted Nov 2).

FREE drop Nov 6. Squad: HAJIN or ZODIAC? 👇
#Warzone #MW4

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⚔️ EVERY RAY. COUNTED.

Phantom Blade Zero on PC is FULLY path traced — and the DLSS 4.5 showcase counters run 240-400+ FPS with it ON. The catch: 4K60 path tracing asks an RTX 5080 (official specs).

PC players: PT on or off? 👇

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⚔️ FFXIV: EVERCOLD is official ❄️

Feb 23, 2027 · pre-orders open THIS Wed Nov 4 · from $44.99
New jobs: Zephyr (crossbow DPS + familiar) & Bastion (greatshield tank) · Level cap 110

Warriors of Light — which job are you maining?

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⚔️ EVANGELION is coming to FFXIV. 🔮

Ghosts of Desire — Evercold's 24-player alliance raid, made with khara — just crossed 100K views on IGN. First chapter lands in Patch 8.1.

Evercold: Feb 23, 2027. Warriors of Light, are you ready?

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🧟 Resident Evil: Survival Unit just turned ONE. The anniversary cinematic packs Leon, Claire, Chris, Jill, Ashley + Wesker into 60 seconds — and it's at 172K views on IGN and climbing. Anniversary Update + new hero land Nov 5. Who leads YOUR unit? 👇 #ResidentEvil

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🗡️ 29 CHANGES — PART 1: MOVEMENT & WORLD

IGN counted 29 changes in the Ocarina remake. First five: a real JUMP button, manual jump attacks, free camera, time flowing in Castle Town, and cracked ground that whispers "bomb here."

Part 2 tomorrow. Nov 5 · Switch 2.

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🎒⚡ ARC Raiders just turned ONE. The anniversary trailer is an accolades roll for the FROZEN TRAIL update — "one of the greatest updates I have ever played" (Zlaner) — and it's still riding Steam's Most Played chart at a 95K peak. Best extraction story? 👇 #ARCRaiders