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В прошлом месяце Hi-Fi RUSH сменила издателя. Права на франшизу перешли к южнокорейской Krafton. Компания анонсировала обновление, с выпуском которого из игры удаляется привязка к Bethesda.net. View the full article

В сентябре Electronic Arts согласилась стать частной компанией под управлением консорциума инвесторов, среди которых Фонд Государственных инвестиций Саудовской Аравии, инвестиционная компания Silver Lake и принадлежащий зятю Дональда Трампа Джареду Кушнеру фонд Affinity Partners. Сделка оценивается на $55 миллиардов. View the full article

Звезды Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 считают, что категорий для награждения создателей игр на The Game Awards должно стать больше, и призывают организаторов подумать о расширении списка. View the full article

Переосмысление The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion на движке The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim официально перенесли на 2026 год. Руководитель проекта Skyblivion сообщил, что команде ещё слишком многое предстоит сделать — спешить она не хочет. View the full article

Китайская студия Pathea Games представила амбициозный ролевой боевик с открытым миром в стимпанк-сеттинге The God Slayer. Разработка ведётся для PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S и ПК уже около полутора лет — релиз состоится не раньше 2027 года. Если к моменту завершения производства появятся новые консоли Sony и Microsoft, проект выпустят и на них. View the full article

More details on the unnamed game will be revealed another timeView the full article

The GeForce RTX 50 series of cards came with some major compatibility issues, but NVIDIAis finally issuing a fix for some of them. While the 50 series is naturally NVIDIA's best option for running modern games, the cards have actually struggled with some older titles. Dropping 32-bit PhysX support left classic games likeAssassin's Creed 4: ****** Flagand Mirror's Edge high and dry, forcing players to turn off the physics simulation that originally made the PC ports memorable. View the full article

I'd recommend the CRKD Atom controller at full price, but it just so happens to be less than $20 in time for the holidays.View the full article

The Great Hollow Shifting Earth event in Nightreign triggers a crystal curse, halving HP, requiring you break Resonating CrystalsView the full article

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunthas been out for over a decade now, but remains one of the most popular RPGs ever created. Players are still incredibly active in the game, with a massive modding community and thousands of excellent mods that enhance the base Witcher 3 experience. View the full article

The new co-op game being built by Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth and Bad Robot Games, the development studio arm of J.J. Abrams' multimedia company, has secured itself a major publisher in the form of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Hot off the massive success story that is Helldivers 2, SIE has confirmed that it will be producing and publishing the "unannounced four-player cooperative shooter" for both Playstation 5 and PC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The creator of Left 4 Dead is making a brand new co-op shooter and I need it The original and best Left 4 Dead suddenly spikes on Steam after major price cut This stunning zombie game is less than $1 on Steam View the full article

The Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2c is one of the more expensive compact gaming mice on the market, but it backs up its price tag with the brand's best sensor and an impressive low weight.View the full article

Next month's Early Access won't be on Valve's storefrontView the full article

Originally revealed with the PlayStation China Hero Project, Pathea's open-world steampunk fantasy RPG is coming to both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles in addition to PC. View the full article

This guide works as a Path Action checklist for all the towns in Octopath Traveler 0. View the full article

A new set of Battle Bus quests is now available in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1, and you can complete three different tasks for more rewards. The latest set of quests is an extension of the original one released at the launch of Chapter 7 Season 1. Dec. 4 officially marks the return of the Battle Bus in Fortnite, and you complete three tasks to finish the questline. Fortnite Hail to the Bus Driver walkthrough The Hail to the Bus Driver quest can be broken down into three smaller tasks. Thank the Bus Driver once.Damage opponents from below (100 damage)Travel distance while airborne in a vehicle (200 metres) All three tasks are relatively simple. The return of the Battle Bus makes the first task relatively easy. To complete the second task, you'll have to hit enemies who are above you. You can complete the objective by striking them when they're in the air. This could be someone jumping from a higher altitude or landing after dropping onto the map. Screenshot by Destructoid Hitting opponents who are in an air balloon also counts towards completion of this objective. This particular one can be slightly tricky, but you should be able to get it done during a live match. The final task is to travel at least 200 metres while being airborne in a vehicle. The easiest way to complete this task (if you don't care about anything else) is to just fly with a vehicle off the cliff. The higher the cliff, the better your chances of completing the objective without any complications. You can also use the mountains of Wonkeeland to get the best results. All tasks of the Hail to the Bus Driver questline have been added to the Battle Bus chapter. As a result, you have 3 days and 23 hours left to finish them. Each task offers you 10,000 season XP, allowing you to progress towards unlocking more rewards available on the new passes. The post How to complete Hail to the Bus Driver! in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1 appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

One downside of Xbox Game Pass is when games are removed each month due to rolling updates to the catalog of various free games. Typically, players receive ample notice before their favorite games are taken off Xbox Game Pass, and often new and better games are added to replace them. However, it isn't very often that the decision to remove games is reversed. View the full article

The survivors genre is pretty clearly defined by now, with a clear set of rules that every game is expected to have. One you, endless amounts of them, and a screen packed full of destruction in an ever-escalating blaze of firepower. Which, granted, is kind of like saying an FPS puts you behind the character's eyes while wielding some type of gun. It's technically correct while also an oversimplification, because each new entry brings its own take on the genre's conventions in one way or another. The rules are there to be played with, and while the scenario may be familiar the fun part comes in finding endless new ways to handle it. Grind Survivors knows exactly what genre it's in, if the title wasn't a dead giveaway, but its second playtest is showing a game that's a great combination of meeting player expectations while doing its own thing. View the full article

There are more tanks for attackers, but that's not what people wantView the full article

"It's incredibly important to create a sense of accomplishment for everyone"View the full article

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a partnership with Bad Robot Games, which will see Sony publishing its first internally developed game. Bad Robot Games is the video game division of Bad Robot, the film and TV production company owned by JJ Abrams which previously co-produced such films as Star Wards Episodes 7 and 9, the Star Trek reboot trilogy and the Cloverfield trilogy. The studio is currently working on an unannounced four-player co-op shooter, which will be directed by Mike Booth. Booth is Bad Robot Games’ chief creative officer, but is best known as the creator and lead designer on Left 4 Dead and its sequel. Read More... View the full article

If you own the Elden Ring Nightreign Deluxe Edition or bought the DLC on its own, here's how to access The Forsaken Hollows content including new characters, boss, and more. View the full article

GOG have announced today that as part of the 25th anniversary of the series, four classic Total War games are now on GOG in their Preservation Program. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The creators of the Fallout TV show have confirmed Season 2 avoids making any New Vegas ending canon by taking what they call "the fog of war approach." Fans of the Fallout video games had wondered how Season 2 might reflect the endings of Obsidian’s much-loved Fallout New Vegas, given the show is canon and is set 15 years after the game. A quick reminder of where we’re at in the Fallout timeline: the Fallout TV show is set in 2296, nine years after the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years after the events of Fallout: New Vegas. We’ve already seen a debate about which Fallout 4 ending should be considered canon, if any. Based on already released trailers, we know Mr. House is in Season 2, so does that suggest a canon ending is being used? Depending on the choices the player, aka The Courier, makes throughout the course of the game, New Vegas can end with victory for the player during the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives out all factions including Mr. House himself, a victory for Mr. House in which he remains in control of New Vegas and takes over Hoover Dam, a victory for Caesar's Legion, or a victory for the New California Republic. There are variations within these endings, but given Mr. House is in Season 2 in a post-war setting, and is alive (sort of) when the main characters turn up at New Vegas, it seems he survived the events of New Vegas the video game. But does Season 2 make a decision on who won Fallout New Vegas? It does not, executive producer, creator, and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet and executive producer Jonathan Nolan told IGN in an interview. Nolan said Geneva Robertson-Dworet and co-showrunner Graham Wagner took “the fog of war approach,” which he called "an absolutely brilliant way to make a bit of an end run around that whole question." “This was a really early decision that Graham and Jonah, and I made together,” Robertson-Dworet added, “was that we wanted to try, as much as possible in our show, to honor all gamers' experiences and all the choices they might make as they play the game. So we always wanted to avoid trying to make one canonical ending the ending that led to the events of the show.” In Season 2, all the various factions at play think they won the events of the New Vegas video game. “We had the delicious idea that at the end of a conflict, 15 years down the line, every faction might think they won, which I think has a bit of a poetic quality to it,” Nolan said. “It's like, the story of history depends on who you ask,” Robertson-Dworet added. “That was the idea.” There is one fan-favorite minor faction in New Vegas who very much did not win: the Kings. In the video game, the Kings are a street gang made up of people who discovered an Elvis impersonation school and decided to live their lives according to the King’s ideals. But in Fallout Season 2, we see they have become ghouls. “It hasn't worked out very well for the Kings, at least some of them,” Nolan teased, confirming the Elvis ghouls we see in the show are indeed the Kings characters from the game. Nolan continued: “One of the fun ideas is that, with all the factions, whether it's the Legion, or the NCR, or the Kings, is that in any version of the ending, there'd be some rebuilding to be done, right? Whoever won, whoever lost, all these factions would be in rebuilding mode, and the sort of sanctity of Vegas, this place that House very carefully protected, has been, for reasons we'll come to understand in the season, has been removed or violated, which means that the folks who were in the game, safe and sound, have had some hard times.” Still, there is much about Season 2’s New Vegas that fans of the video game will find familiar. Robertson-Dworet described the Strip, for example, as “a very sacred kind of location.” “You really feel like you're almost going into the heart of the game when you reach the Strip. And so it was really unbelievable to see what our production designer, Howard Cummings, pulled off. We took over an abandoned shopping mall and built there, and the scale of it was just phenomenal. So that was really exciting to see come to life. Freeside was also unbelievable, also because it's shot on the same street that Westworld was shot on and Deadwood. So just seeing that transformed at a place that's had so much TV history, for me, as a fan, as well as now making a show there, was really, really exciting.” Fallout Season 2 kicks off December 17. Image credit: Lorenzo Sisti/Prime. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

Elden Ring Nightreign's The Forsaken Hollows DLC introduces a new Shifting Earth event titled The Great Hollow, and it has certainly made things a lot more difficult. The new event introduces a crystal curse modifier across the base game. This modifier slashes your pool of health by half in specific areas, which isn't ideal. This curse becomes a ******* headache when you're trying to farm resources. Thankfully, you can remove the curse by completing The Great Hollow event, and this guide will list all the steps. Elden Ring Nightreign The Great Hollow event walkthrough Your main objective is to find four blue crystals located all around the map. Their exact locations, as per my understanding, are random (and so is the timing of their spawn). Whenever you find one while roadming in an area, you'll have to smash them to advance your progress of lifting the curse. They will look exactly like the one in the following image. Image via FromSoftware When you get close to a crystal, you'll have the option to interact with it. Choose this to break the crystal. When you break one, you'll get a message that the Great Crystal is cracking. To shatter the Great Crystal, you'll have to interact with and destroy four smaller Blue Crystals. In my experience, you'll always find the smaller crystals on the first day itself. Try to smash all four on the first day, but use day two to complete the task (of destroying all four). Both the locations and spawn rates of these crystals are entirely random. Once four smaller crystals are shattered, head to the Great Crystal in the center of the map. You can locate it with the help of a red flag marker on the map (same as any Shifting Earth event). When you reach there, you'll be able to grab the buff offered by the shattered Great Crystal. Image via FromSoftware Gaining the buff will end the crystal curse, and you'll also gain an increased art charge rate after using all your flasks. Once complete, you'll be able to enjoy full HP at every location. If you're a beginner, you'll need to complete a few extra steps to gain access to all the contents of the DLC. This guide will help you unlock the new two Nightfarers, along with starting The Forsaken Hollows DLC. The post How to complete The Great Hollow Event in Elden Ring Nightreign appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article