God of War  Ragnarök's Valhalla DLC is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, less than a week after it was revealed at The Game Awards 2023. It features a good bit of story content that acts as an epilogue to the events of Ragnarok, and it's packaged within a roguelite structure, meaning it's heavy on combat. Apparently, there's an endgame challenge in Valhalla so difficult that nobody on the dev team could complete it on the DLC's "Show Me Mastery" difficulty, according to Valhalla's director Mihir Sheth. 

"I am so, so curious to see how quickly players will humble us...as they often do...but maybe this time we've beaten them?" Sheth writes on Twitter, as first reported by Wccftech. 

There is an endgame challenge in #GodOfWarRagnarokValhalla that no one on the dev team has completed on the hardest difficulty 'Show Me Mastery'.

I am so, so curious to see how quickly players will humble us.. as they often do... but maybe this time we've beaten them? ?

— Mihir Sheth (@youtheremehere) December 12, 2023

God of War  Ragnarök, the sequel to 2018's God of War reboot, hit PS5 and PS4 more than a year ago – read Game Informer's review to find out why it was one of our favorite games of 2022. While many fans expected some kind of follow-up to the ending of  Ragnarök, be it a sequel down the road or an expansion, it's safe to say nobody had roguelite DLC on their bingo cards. But a roguelite DLC called Valhalla is exactly what developer Santa Monica Studios announced last week. Now, God of War Ragnarok's Valhalla DLC is out and apparently has the hardest challenge in the entire series. 

You can watch us tackle the first hour of  God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla in this episode of Game Informer Live. 

Are you playing God of War Ragnarok's Valhalla DLC? Let us know in the comments below!

Tekken 8 hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in just over a month, on January 26, 2024. As the release date nears, developer Bandai Namco has been releasing more and more about the latest entry in its flagship fighting series. We learned about newcomer Reina last month, and recently went hands-on with the game, too – read Game Informer's Tekken 8 preview here. Now, Bandai Namco has revealed the first gameplay trailer for its "mechanized space ninja" Yoshimitsu. 

It did so with a new Tekken 8 gameplay trailer that shows Yoshimitsu ripping and slicing through various fighters in the game's roster. This ninja is no stranger to the Tekken series, having appeared in every mainline numbered Tekken game since the series' start – he's actually my favorite fighter, and for money, this is his best look yet. 

Check him out in the Tekken 8 Yoshimitsu reveal and gameplay trailer for yourself below: 

As you can see, Yoshimitsu unsurprisingly relies on his ninja sword to do a lot of damage to enemy fighters. And he does so with the speed the character is known for. 

Tekken 8 hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on January 26, 2024. 

For more about the game, watch the Tekken 8 fighter reveal trailers for characters like Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix, Marshall Law, Jun Kazama, and Reina. After that, read Game Informer's preview thoughts of Tekken 8 after playing the game for a couple of hours. 

Are you going to be playing Tekken 8 next month? Let us know in the comments below!

Video game analyst group Circana has released its November 2023 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights report and in it, the company reveals that, unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was the best-selling game of the month. It launched on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on November 10 and is already the second best-selling game of 2023, behind Hogwarts Legacy. 

The annual Call of Duty game always sells extremely well – it has taken the top spot of November for five years straight – so today's results are no surprise. However, what's new this time around is that Modern Warfare III is now an Xbox-owned game, after Microsoft successfully completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for a colossal $69 billion. Also, notably, despite Modern Warfare III reviewing poorly – it has a 56 on Metacritic, the lowest of the rebooted Modern Warfare series, and received a 5 out of 10 from Game Informer – it's still selling very well, per usual. 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was the best-selling game of November, instantly becoming the 2nd best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date. It is the 5th consecutive year that a Call of Duty title was November’s best-seller (Red Dead Redemption II ranked 1st in Nov 2018).

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) December 13, 2023

However, on both PlayStation and Xbox, it was the second most-played game of the month, behind Fortnite, which is free-to-play, on both platforms. 

Here are the top 10 best-selling games of November 2023: 

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
2. Marvel's Spider-Man 2
3. Hogwarts Legacy
4. Madden NFL 24
5. Super Mario Bros. Wonder
6. EA Sports FC 24
7. Super Mario RPG
8. Mortal Kombat 1
9. NBA 2K24
10. UFC 5

And here are the top 10 best-selling games of 2023, year-to-date: 

1. Hogwarts Legacy
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
3. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
4. Marvel's Spider-Man 2
5. Madden NFL 24
6. Diablo IV
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 
8. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
9. Mortal Kombat 1
10. Starfield

In terms of platforms, the PlayStation 5 remained the best-selling hardware platform in both unit and dollar sales for November. Xbox Series X/S came in second for both measures. The newly released PlayStation Portal was the fourth best-selling platform of November. 

Overall, U.S. consumer spending on video game content, hardware, and accessories fell 7 percent compared to this time last year, to $5.9 billion. Circana executive director Mat Piscatella says this decline was driven by a 24 percent drop in hardware spending, to $964 million, and a 3 percent dip in content, to $4.6 billion. 

"All current generation consoles experienced a dougle-digit percentage decline in dollar sales when compared to a year ago, with Nintendo Switch showing the sharpest drop year-on-year," Piscatella writes on Twitter. 

For more, check out October 2023's best-selling games and then read the September 2023 video game spending results after that. Read Game Informer's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III review and then find out what we thought of Hogwarts Legacy. 

Have you been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III? Let us know what you think of it in the comments below!