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    ** Cross-Play

    Whether you're joining PlayStation 5 players from your PC, or jumping into a game with Mac users from your Xbox, Baldur's Gate III multiplayer will soon feature full cross-platform progression, including cross-play—just as the gaming gods intended.

    Once the update is live you'll be able to invite your friends to join your cross-play lobby directly, regardless of platform and find available multiplayer lobbies with friends on other systems using the Larian Network.

    ** Subclasses

    Patch 8 will introduce a new way to play your favorite class, adding one new subclass for each of the existing Bard, Barbarian, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Fighter, Monk, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard classes in the game.

    Expect new abilities, animations, video effects, summons and cantrips, and unique voiced dialogue lines for the Oathbreaker Knight with written reactivity for Oathbreakers, along with a touch of homebrewing on certain actions to enhance your role-playing experience.

        Bard: College of Glamour – As a College of Glamour Bard, you'll find you have the power to heal friends and command enemies in equal measure. Cast Mantle of Inspiration to bestow your allies with 5 temporary hit points. And should an enemy attack while it is cast, they'll find themselves Charmed. Play your hand correctly and you'll be able to use this to your advantage with Mantle of Majesty. Target Charmed enemies and you can command them to flee, move closer, freeze, drop to the ground, or drop their weapon.
        Barbarian: Path of Giants – Opt for the Path of Giants, and your newfound giant strength will make it easier for you to yeet friend and foe alike. Forget chugging potions to pump those muscles, these Barbarians benefit from the Giant's Rage passive that grants both strength and size – allowing you to deal additional damage with Throw attacks. Pockets weighing you down? Not for you and your increased carry capacity!
        Cleric: Death Domain – As a cleric of death, you'll find a few dark new tricks up your sleeves—from spells that specialize in necrotic damage to three new necromancy cantrips. This includes Toll The Dead, a cantrip that causes 1 to 8 damage when your cleric rings the bell of impending doom—a number that scales if your target has already been damaged. We've also added the homebrewed ability to explode nearby corpses, damaging enemies.
        Druid: Circle of Stars – These Druids look to the stars for answers, accessing powers beyond those offered through the classic wildshapes. Taking on one of three Starry Forms for their power—the constellations of the Archer, Chalice, and Dragon. Each one favors a different play style and strategy—the Archer dealing radiant damage with astral arrows, the life-giving Chalice restoring hitpoints to you and others nearby, and the wise Dragon, allowing you to deal damage with an added bonus to constitution rolls. The Starry Forms offer not just a celestial aesthetic, but practical, powerful options to enhance your role as a healer, fighter, or strategist.
        Paladin: Oath of the Crown – You've been sworn to uphold the principles of law. Stay true to your oath and you'll be rewarded with the power to aid your allies and disrupt your foes. Guide your companions in battle with Righteous Clarity, taunt enemies with strategic interrupts, and keep your party standing strong with Divine Allegiance, absorbing their damage while restoring their health.
        Fighter: Arcane Archer – Mastering the dual arts of magic and marksmanship, the Arcane Archer subclass offers unique skills on top of new shooting animations. Banish foes to the Feywild, removing them from the battlefield for a turn, or unleash Psychic damage that forces enemies to make a Wisdom saving throw or be blinded until the start of their next turn.
        Monk: Drunken Master – Putting the brew in homebrew, as the Drunken Master, you have the ability to consume alcohol straight from your inventory, as well as drink from bottles you see around the Sword Coast, in order to recover Ki. By sharing the bottle with your enemies using Intoxicating Strike, you'll generate a buff towards your Armor Class and your Chance to hit Drunk targets. Drunk enemies are also susceptible to the Drunken Masters' other abilities, like Sobering Realisation—which sobers up drunk targets, dealing physical and Psychic damage.
        Ranger: Swarmkeeper – The Swarmkeeper subclass provides Rangers with three kinds of deadly swarms to assist them in combat. The Cloud of Jellyfish deals extra lightning damage—potentially shocking your enemy. The Flurry of Moths deals Psychic damage, giving you the potential to Blind your enemy. The Legion of Bees deals piercing damage and forces the enemy to make a strength-saving throw or be knocked back 15 feet. Each swarm also has the ability to provide you with teleportation capabilities!
        Rogue: Swashbuckler – This Rogue subclass introduces a range of new actions fit for the piratical life. Play dirty by tossing sand at enemies to Blind them. Flick your weapon at a target to Disarm them. Or use your new Fancy Footwork passive while meleeing your enemy to ensure they can't make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn.
        Sorcerer: Shadow Magic – As a Shadow Magic Sorcerer, you deal in a form of magic that makes you deadliest in darkness. This subclass gives its sorcerer Superior Darkvision, as well as the ability to Shadow Walk between places of dim light or darkness. It also lets you call forth the perfectly homebrewed Hound of Ill Omen to harass your foes, and use Strength of the Grave to prevent you from being downed—ideal for those attempting Honor Mode runs.
        Warlock: Hexblade – Hexblade Warlocks make a pact with an entity from the Shadowfell that manifests in the form of magical weapons. Curse your enemies and force their souls to do your bidding. Slay any enemy that isn't generally an element of nature, construct, giant blob, or already dead, and you'll be able to raise their spirit from their corpse for ten turns. This new summon can deal necrotic damage and will rip away a chunk of your enemy's soul to provide your Hexblade Warlock with healing.
        Wizard: Bladesinging – The Bladesinging subclass merges swordplay with wizardry. Expect new spellcasting animations when casting spells with your weapon, a new Bladesong ability to grant you supernatural speed, agility, and focus, plus gives you a bonus to any Constitution saving throw you make.

    ** Photo Mode

    Finally, you can stop using pictures of fish you've caught on your dating profile and start snapping photos with your Hound of Ill Omen. Photo Mode is coming to Baldur's Gate III in Patch 8!

    Baldur's Gate III‘s Photo Mode is a little like a photo booth that lets you set up pretty much any shot you'd like. This new feature introduces a whole slew of options to let you customize and edit your in-game photography, with various levels of freedom depending on whether you're using it while adventuring, or during combat, dialogue, and cinematic scenes.

    Camera Settings

    Toggleable from the HUD, located near the minimap, or by using the hotkey binding (F9 on PC, and by pressing both analog sticks at the same time on console), you'll get to choose which character you want to take centre stage, determine their best side, and adjust the camera position to suit.

    As long as they're in your party while you're adventuring, you'll be able to line up your scene perfectly—including summons and those in a Wild Shape! For all budding virtual photographers, you can also turn on the camera reticle and composition grid to make sure you're lining up the perfect shot.

    Lens Settings

    Determined the angle and sorted the positioning? You'll be able to jump over to the Lens Settings where you can play around with the Field of View, Exposure, Depth of Field, and Focus.

    Scene Settings

    NPC ruining your shot? Toggle off either Playing, Party, NPC, or Enemy characters.

    Now you're ready for your close-up! Or, if you're feeling creative, set the scene for a full-on Faerûn musical—choose a set facial expression, plus a range of over 40 static and animated poses, each with multiple variations to help give you the perfect layout.

    Internal playtesting for Patch 8 is already well underway, and we wanted to highlight just a couple of the great shots our playtesters have been grabbing using photo mode, and how they've chosen to edit them!

    Post Processing Effects

    While you won't be able to adjust your party or play around with lens and camera settings during cinematic scenes and dialogues, you'll be able to color-grade your shot and experiment with contrast, saturation, highlights, brightness and vignette.

    Frames

    Add flair to your scene with a range of different frames and letterboxing to nail those cinematic shots.

    Stickers

    Choose from over 300 stickers and add up to 30 to your scene, including emojis, icons, blood splatters, textures, objects and items, and of course, cat ears.

    In your hands soon, you'll be able to take role-play to the next level with unique combinations of poses, stickers, and frames. We can't wait to see what absolute nightmare fuel you come up with.

The full list of Monthly Games is as follows:

        Aliens: Dark Descent (PS5, PS4) – Battle to keep your squad alive against the deadliest foe mankind has ever faced. Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time combat strategy game where you'll command a squad of hardened colonial marines to stop a terrifying Xenomorph outbreak on Moon Lethe. Lead your soldiers against iconic Xenomorphs, rogue operatives from the insatiable Weyland-Yutani Corporation and a host of horrifying creatures new to the Alien franchise. Infiltrate large open levels and annihilate enemies with your squad, dispatching orders strategically and intuitively. Tread carefully, as your foes will adapt their tactics to your actions while hunting you down because death is permanent.
        It Takes Two (PS5, PS4) – It Takes Two is a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Choose from couch or online co-op with split-screen play, invite a friend to join for free with Friend's Pass2 and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Together, trapped in a fantastical world where the unpredictable hides around every corner, they are reluctantly challenged with saving their fractured relationship. Master unique and connected character abilities in every new level. Help each other across an abundance of unexpected obstacles and laugh-out-loud moments. Kick gangster squirrels' furry tails, pilot a pair of underpants, DJ a buzzing night club, and bobsleigh through a magical snow globe. Embrace a heartfelt and hilarious story, where narrative and gameplay are interwoven in a uniquely metaphorical experience.
        Temtem (PS5) – Every kid dreams about becoming a Temtem tamer; exploring the six islands of the Airborne Archipelago, discovering new species, and making good friends along the way. Now it's your turn to embark on an epic adventure and make those dreams come true. Catch new Temtem on Omninesia's floating islands, battle other tamers on the sandy beaches of Deniz or trade with your friends in Tucma's ash-covered fields. Defeat the ever-annoying Clan Belsoto and end its plot to rule over the Archipelago, beat all eight DojoLeaders, and become the ultimate Temtem tamer.

Sony Interactive Entertainment also shared a look at other offerings coming to PlayStation Plus in December, including the first reveal of a trio of titles joining the Classics Catalog:

    PlayStation Plus Premium Game Trial

    PlayStation Plus Premium members can enjoy a game trial of thrilling sci-fi action-adventure Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II when it joins the service on December 3. But that's not the only PlayStation Plus Premium news we have to share…

    PlayStation Plus Premium Classics for December

    Today we're happy to share the first reveal of a trio of PlayStation classic titles joining PlayStation Plus Premium's lineup in December, all of which help celebrate PlayStation's 30th anniversary. Starting December 10, members will be able to complete the PlayStation 2 Sly trilogy with the release of Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, and also enjoy Naughty Dog‘s PlayStation 2 adventure Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. We'll have more news on the full PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Premium lineups, later.

    Free Online Multiplayer Weekend form December 6 to 8

    To keep celebrating the fantastic online games and communities on PlayStation, we're hosting an extended free online multiplayer weekend on December 6 to 8. During those days, you can enjoy online multiplayer for games you own without having a PlayStation Plus membership, on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles.

    esports Tournaments from December 6 to 8

    During the same weekend, we'll host a series of PlayStation 5 esports tournaments, featuring titles like EA Sports FC 25, NBA 2K25, Tekken 8, Mortal Kombat 1, Madden NFL 25, College Football 25, UFC 5, MLB The Show 24, and Guilty Gear: Strive. If you own any of these games and qualify, you can compete on December 6 to 8 to win avatars and other game-specific prizes. Players on PS5 can sign up via the Game Hub or the in-game PlayStation Tournaments button. Keep an eye on compete.playstation.com for all the upcoming tournament details.

    Sweepstakes from December 10 to 23

    To celebrate PlayStation's 30th anniversary, we're giving away a 30-month PlayStation Plus Premium membership to 30 winners in each participating country!

    We'll be honoring the legendary games in our Classics Catalogue for this 30th anniversary-themed sweepstakes starting December 10 to 23. To enter, purchase any PlayStation Plus Premium / Deluxe membership and play any game from the Classics Catalog. If you're already a PlayStation Plus Premium / Deluxe member, just dive into any game from the Classics Catalog to qualify.

    The participating countries are Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia.

    Sony Pictures Core Offer from December 3 to 9

    To celebrate 30 years of PlayStation, PlayStation Plus members get 30 percent off 100 top movies on Sony Pictures Core starting December 3 through 9. Explore a collection of fan-favorite films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Uncharted, Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

    Sony Pictures Core Movie Credit Promo from December 10 to January 10

    Purchase any 12-month PlayStation Plus membership and get movie credit(s) to use on the Sony Pictures Core app. Dive into epic blockbusters like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and more—your next movie marathon starts here!