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Happy New Year 2022

Dec 31, 2021, 18:00 Fyra Frost News

We wish you the best for 2022 and will continue to provide you with your favorite video games at the best prices.

It's been a problematic year again for many of us as the pandemic is still in our lives, but video games have helped us to enjoy whatever free time we had at home, allowing us to share the fun and stay in contact with our friends online. The dLcompare team wants to wish you a happy New Year. We hope that 2022 will be a bit better and guarantee that we will continue to help you find the...

No rings in Elden Ring? Director explains why

Dec 30, 2021, 12:00 Sacha Loric News

Rings exist in the game, but they have a special function unrelated to your inventory unlike in most other games.

In a departure from fantasy tropes and previous FromSoftware games, Elden Ring will not have wearable rings. Nothing like the New Ring in Shadow of War or similar titles. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki provides this explanation during an interview with Edge magazine: "Rings do exist as physical 'finger rings' in this game, but more as unique items involved in the story and unique character events. So we wanted them to have a special positioning within the world of Elden Ring and also...

Dying Light 2 update reveals UI details

Dec 30, 2021, 12:00 Sacha Loric News

Dying Light 2: Stay Human features more HUD, UI, and accessibility choices than any other Techland game to date.

Techland tips their hand a bit more for their upcoming survival horror game Dying Light 2: Stay Human. In the latest episode of their Dying 2 Know More, we hear from Techland UI producer Agata Sykula about enhancements made to the game. Players will see an unprecedented amount of freedom when it comes to selecting what they see on the HUD. ...

The Mister Chief DLC is out for Halo Infinite

Dec 30, 2021, 10:00 Fyra Frost News

A new DLC pack with cosmetic items is available in Halo Infinite and it aims to replace the famous cat ears that almost every player wears.

The launch of Halo Infinite multiplayer has arrived like a storm, shaking the panorama of the free-to-play games. Call of Duty Warzone and other top titles in the genre have a new contestant whose popularity keeps growing day by day. In fact, Halo Infinite has been confirmed recently by Valve as one of the games with most concurrent players in 2021, which is an impressive feat if we consider that the game has been out for a few weeks only. Such big...

Nintendo reveals the best-selling indie games on Switch

Dec 30, 2021, 09:00 Fyra Frost News

Are you looking for a small indie game that you can play on your Switch? Nintendo has some suggestions for you.

At this time of the year, it's quite usual for companies to make lists with the best-selling video games, the most played ones, and many other categories. In most cases, the games at the top of those lists are AAA titles, but there are also many titles created by small independent studios that have managed to catch the attention of many players despite being created with a much smaller budget. Nintendo has gone into detail about the indie games on...

Japan Top 100 Video Games of All Time

Dec 29, 2021, 17:00 Murillo Zerbinatto News

TV Asahi asked 50,000 participants their pick on best game of all time. This created the Japan Top 100 Video Games of All Time list.

TV Asahi from Japan conducted a poll of 50,000 people about the best game of all time. Popularly named Japan Top 100 Video Games of All Time, the list was presented by Japanese gaming personalities. The results were published in Famitsu magazine. You can check out the complete list (in Japanese) on the magazine's website. In the first place, we have The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as the best game of all time, according...

Hades is the first-ever video game to win a Hugo Award

Dec 29, 2021, 15:00 Sacha Loric News

In a historical first, the sci-fi and fantasy award-giving body has included a Best Video Game category.

Roguelike RPG Hades is no stranger to awards, having already won four BAFTAs, a British Academy Award, and two Game Awards from 2020 to 2021. But in a historic first, Hades has won a Hugo Award in the newly-minted Best Video Game category. Hades was up against stiff competition for the award, besting other...

Control developer Remedy jumps into the free-to-play arena

Dec 29, 2021, 09:00 Fyra Frost News

Remedy Entertainment surprises everyone with the announcement of a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that will be nothing like Alan Wake 2.

Remedy's excellent job as a developer in games like Control has gained the studio quite a bit of renown. Their career started with Death Rally in 1996, but their first big hit arrived in 2001 with Max Payne. The shooter rapidly became a cult game thanks to its frenetic action, and a couple of years later, its sequel Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne continued to make the series popular. But the true success...

God of War PC features trailer and system requirements

Dec 28, 2021, 19:02 Murillo Zerbinatto News

God of War is coming to PC. Check out all the new features it will bring and the system requirement needed to run the game.

Every parent knows that their children will grow wings and leave the nest one day. But anyone who once speculated that God of War would leave Sony's warm embrace was clearly delusional. However, the game's PC release has now been more than confirmed, as you may know. Recently, Sony released a trailer showing the features that the lovable and endearing Kratos and troupe bring to the PC. I am not familiar with hardware properties or knowledgeable about graphics evolution technologies. However,...

Monster Hunter Rise expansion will be unveiled next Spring

Dec 28, 2021, 11:00 Fyra Frost News

You need to be patient. Capcom will wait until Spring 2022 to reveal more news about Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion

Spring 2022 will arrive full of announcements about video games. We recently knew that Square Enix had chosen that time of the year to talk about Final Fantasy XVI, and it seems that Capcom is following the same pattern for one of the fan-favorite titles of 2021. We already know that Monster Hunter Rise is getting an expansion called Sunbreak, but very little information about it has been revealed so far. Several pieces of information about the upcoming...

Steam publishes the list of best games of 2021

Dec 28, 2021, 09:00 Fyra Frost News

Find out which ones have been the top sellers and the most played on Valve's platform this year. The list includes some surprises.

There are some events that are becoming a tradition. Valve's game distribution platform is famous for its seasonal sales throughout the year, but it also publishes a list that reveals the top sellers and most played games. The Steam Best of 2021 list is already out, and it reveals some surprising facts about the video game community. The Top Sellers category shows that a huge number of players enjoy certain games without caring about how old...

Final Fantasy XVI next reveal on Spring 2022

Dec 27, 2021, 17:00 Murillo Zerbinatto News

Final Fantasy XVI was delayed almost half a year, as well as news regarding more details of the game.

In an announcement of Sony showcases like the State of Play or at annual gaming events like E3, Summer Game Fest, or The Game Awards, fans' hearts begin to skip anxiously whenever Square Enix pops on the screen. But when the first screens show a game other than Final Fantasy XVI, spirits get sullen, and anticipation feels betrayed. Final Fantasy XVI was first announced in September 2020. Since then, we have only had a few crumbs of information, such as voiceover...

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