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We’ve just had a brand new look at more Assassin’s Creed Shadows gameplay, showcasing how duo protagonists Naoe and Yasuke infiltrate ... Read more View the full article

Although your main focus in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies is likely running your very own small business, there are other gameplay features worth exploring, too, like completing the Trashley Certified Art collection. If you notice this feature on the collection page, you’ll likely have no idea how to actually go about finding the art pieces included in it. It’s decently tricky to figure out, so here’s how to complete the Trashley Certified Art collection in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies. View the full article

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The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies is all about building skills and a business based on what your Sim likes to do. As you hone in on skills and become highly adept at them, you can acquire powerful bonuses called Skill Mastery Perks. These perks are hidden until you acquire them, but you might be interested in knowing all of the available options so you can focus your Sims’ skills on certain tasks to unlock them. There are plenty to choose from, so here are all Skill Mastery Perks and their effects in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies. View the full article

Collections are a great way to explore the world and challenge yourself in The Sims 4. Some collections are trickier than others, and one you might be eager to complete is the Nordhaven Bike Parts collection. There are lots of items in this collection, and finding all of them is tough, especially if you don’t know where to start. It’s a lot easier to tackle once you know where to look, so here’s how to complete the Nordhaven Bike Parts collection in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies. View the full article

The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies allows you to fully customize and create any type of small business you can think of. With so many activities to choose from, figuring out what type of business you want to make can be tricky. You can create a business based on pretty much any activity or skill that exists in The Sims 4. This system is also very customizable, so you can mix and match between different businesses and even create entirely new ones by putting different activities together. If you’re unsure where to start, here are the best small businesses you can make with The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies. View the full article

The Huntsman in R.E.P.O. has one defining characteristic you can take advantage of to best deal with him, and with that comes many different strategies that can bag you more coin during rounds with the Huntsman in. Here’s how to tackle and maximize the Huntsman’s worth in R.E.P.O. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

What are the new WWE 2K25 locker codes? It's all heating up in the ring in WWE 2K25 as players prepare for another fiery year of MyFaction. Assemble your roster of legendary wrestlers throughout the ages as you travel the globe searching for worthy competitors. These WWE 2K25 codes provide you with helpful rewards for MyFaction, ensuring you have everything needed to create an all-star line-up of wrestlers. MyFaction can be quite the slog if you're relying entirely on in-game rewards, so it's always nice to get an instant upgrade to your squad by redeeming codes in the sports game. You can find the latest codes for WWE 2K25 codes below, along with instructions on how to redeem them. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can get 13% off of PGA Tour 2K25 and WWE 2K25 pre-orders ahead of launch View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

There's something about H.P. Lovecraft's mysterious science fiction universes that just draws you in. The dark and the bizarre are just so alluring, and that's what made The Sinking City so special back in 2021. Its sequel, however, while announced, has been quiet for some time - in fact its inaugural trailer debuted a year ago today. After 365 days of silence, Frogwares is back, and we've finally seen some gameplay from The Sinking City 2. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Cult Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City is getting a sequel View the full article

If you've been searching for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition card at launch without success, you're not alone. However, it's not just that you've been unlucky or the scalpers got there first. Instead, Nvidia quietly confirmed that it isn't immediately making its FE card available, and that instead it will be arriving "later in March," according to a new leak. The launch of the RTX 5070 hasn't been plain sailing for Nvidia, with our RTX 5070 review noting the card's lack of VRAM, its meager performance, and the failure of the card to live up to Nvidia's claim that the RTX 5070 will offer RTX 4090 performance. However, for all its foibles, the card is still a reasonable mid-range offering, despite not making it onto our best graphics card guide, and the Founders Edition is a stylish and compact version. As such, many potential RTX 5070 buyers might have been looking forward to picking up that card and this news will come as a blow. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best graphics card 2025 Where to buy 5070 Ti - Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti stock for March 6 This $649.99 gaming laptop deal is amazing, includes an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Matthew Glanfield, co-owner of the venerable Warhammer 40k and miniature gaming YouTube channel MiniWarGaming, says that tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on ********* imports to America "hurt us as a ********* business". The channel plans to attend the Adepticon convention at the end of March with a substantial retail presence, and will pay import duties of 25% on all its merchandise. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Warhammer 40k lore: All 21 Primarchs, explained This free indie wargame is like Warhammer 40k meets Unreal Tournament Warhammer 40k's creepy religious new Kill Team proves GW can still do grimdark View the full article

GTA 6 is set for a 2025 release, and while Rockstar has yet to announce the exact date, we already have a good idea of when to expect it. This will be the first new entry in the series since GTA 5 launched in 2013. Players are hyped about what GTA 6 will bring, so hyped that they some have been baited by John Cena’s Instagram posts and believe random leaks they come across online. While most people are taking these leaks as memes and joking about the long wait for GTA 6, we actually have a solid estimate of when the game will arrive. GTA 6 releases in Fall 2025 GTA 6 is expected to launch in Fall 2025, according to Take-Two Interactive’s 2Q25 earnings report. Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games, explicitly mentions this is the release window for the game. That means we can expect GTA 6 to launch sometime between September 22 and December 21, 2025. Image via Rockstar Games Looking at past Take-Two releases and other major game launches toward the end of the year, it’s likely that GTA 6 will come out in late October or early November. This would help it avoid clashing with Borderlands 4, which is set to release on September 23, as well as late-year competitors like Call of Duty. While not a direct competitor, Nintendo is also expected to release Pokémon Legends: Z-A in late 2025. I would expect these two audiences not to clash, as I believe in the meme of Pokémon games being played by adults and mature games like GTA 6 being played by kids. So while they may not compete directly, it’s still a release date worth keeping in mind. No confirmed date for GTA 6’s second trailer There’s no official word on when the second GTA 6 trailer will drop. While there have been trailer two rumors and predictions, the truth is that every time you search for trailer leaks, someone will have a theory about why it’s coming out "in the next two weeks"—no matter when you check. Eventually, someone will guess correctly and claim they were right, but that’s probably just because they predicted it every month until it finally happened. So, for now, you can either choose which rumor to believe in or just wait for Rockstar to release the trailer when they’re ready. All we have so far is the first GTA 6 trailer. GTA 6 has not been delayed GTA 6 has never been delayed since its official reveal in the first trailer. While Rockstar has been developing GTA 6 for a long time, we don't know what were their initial plans to release the game compared to where they landed. However, there was no change in the publicly announced and confirmed release date or window as we have right now. We will keep this story updated with any kind of official information based on Take-Two's and Rockstar's announcements. The post GTA 6 official release date window and trailers appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Performance is a hotly contested topic in gaming, much like visual fidelity. Some feel 30 FPS is fine, while others aren't happy unless they get upwards of 120 at maximum settings. The truth is, as usual, smack-dab in the middle, but it's not entirely straightforward. PC performance is something I'm passionate about, as cheesy as that might sound. In the nerdy, min-maxing kind of way, of course. In case you've previously come across my AI frame generation explainer here at Destructoid, this probably sounds quite self-apparent, but the same approach could be applied to a wealth of other related topics, too. There's a huge amount of nuance to how a game runs, and the more the gaming industry matures, the better we understand this specific aspect of game development. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean newer games perform better as a rule. Uh, quite the opposite, actually, if you consider crummy releases such as Monster Hunter Wilds. New games mean new rendering techniques, and the cutting-edge is not cheap to run. There's an entire science's worth of effort that goes into game optimization and performance measuring, and I genuinely think that knowing and understanding what goes into making a game performant is a crucial aspect of PC gaming. I can't shove an entire industry's worth of performance understanding into a single article, obviously. What I can do, however, is to try and explain how to make a game perform smoothly. Or, if you will, how I believe "good performance" should be measured. When does a game perform well? I've been repeating this over and over again to anyone who listens, but frame rate alone is not a good quantifier of how well a game will run. If you're relying exclusively on average frame rate for performance assessment, as benchmarking often does, you're using an outdated and frankly inadequate measurement that barely tells you half the story of what's actually going on. Instead, you need (at least!) frame rate and frame time information via preferably a graph UI. MSI Afterburner still works great in this respect, if you need it. The rule of thumb is that no matter your frame rate, your frame-time graph needs to be as flat as possible. Spikes indicate stutters and performance issues, and unless the game is deeply broken or running on Unreal Engine 5, the way to get around these spikes is to play around with your graphics settings and change your FPS target. An objectively good performance isn't even that hard to achieve. At least, not on paper. Here's my first hot take, though: removing the cap from your frame rate and going ham isn't a good time for the average gamer. Personal preferences and all that, yes, but you really want your frame time graph to be as stable and flat as possible. This isn't happening when you've got one scene rendering at 200 FPS while the other drops you as low as 80. Good performance, as a term, should be used to describe a situation in which a game can always hit its target frame rate at an appropriate frame time. Surely you've noticed by now that not every game properly caps out at 60 FPS, right? You're only getting a perfectly silky smooth 60 FPS if there's exactly 16.67ms between each rendered frame, and since human eyes expect consistency, that's what makes certain games performant. How much FPS is enough FPS? The more FPS you get, the better. That's always going to be the case. The more nuanced and practical assessment, however, is once again that consistency is a crucial part of it. And so we come to my second hot take of the day: your FPS cap should be just under whatever your lowest average frame rate in a game is. Optimizing your graphics settings on PC is all about balance. Let's say you've got a 120 Hz display that you want to fully saturate while playing a certain game. Your first goal should be to see if you can't hit the 120 FPS target, of course, but if you're closer to 80 or 90 FPS most of the time my recommendation is to call it quits and go for a 60 FPS cap instead. Crank those settings up a tad, and I promise you'll have a better experience at a stable 60 than you would if your FPS was all over the place but closer to 120. I say 60 FPS, specifically, because in this example we've got a 120 Hz display. At 120 Hz, your performance targets should simply be 120, 60, 40, and 30 FPS depending on what your hardware can reach in a given game. Your monitor's refresh rate has to be able to evenly divide your rendered frames for your frame-times to be stable and constant. 60 FPS will look awful on a locked 144 Hz display because the display will render each frame twice and then some. You do not want this. Your frames should be displayed in extremely even intervals, with each staying on-screen for precisely the same amount of time. The alternative is a ******, cyclical stutter that won't go away. All of this is to say that you don't actually want too much FPS unless you're a competitive gamer. Instead, figure out what performance target looks the best to you and remains achievable with your hardware, cap your frame rate to that specific target, and you're golden. Screenshot by Destructoid Wrapping it up Let me reiterate something I mentioned at the start of this diatribe: I've only just scratched the surface of good video game performance here. I've barely touched upon technologies such as G-Sync, for example, and how it effectively enables variable frame rates without screen-tearing. Or how you can use RivaTuner to fine-tune your frame rate caps per-game to a greater extent than actual GPU driver software allows you to. There's a wealth of tools we can use to truly fine-tune what our hardware does and how games are rendered. Back in the day, on the other hand, all we really had to go on when it comes to performance assessment was Fraps: a crummy frame rate counter that was honestly quite wrong half the time. Now? You can have actual frame-time graphs drawn for you in-game, allowing you not just to see why your 120 FPS gameplay feels like trawling through mud but also making it easy to pinpoint what might be causing your latency spikes. With so many of these applications at our disposal, why aren't more of us using them to actually tune our games for perfect, rock-solid performance instead of going after the highest frame rate possible? Give my advice a shot, either way. I don't think you'll be disappointed with what you find. The post What does ‘good performance’ really mean in the context of PC gaming? appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Kubfu is one of the new Legendary Pokémon that has made its way to Pokémon GO with the release of the new Might and Mastery season. Here's how you can get your hands on the Wushu Pokémon. You should have enough time to get the Legendary Pokémon, with the event running from March 5 to June 3, 2025. Complete enough tasks, and the reward is yours to keep forever. How to get Kubfu in Pokémon GO There are two ways to get Kubfu in Pokémon GO: Free Special ResearchPaid Fuzzy Fighter Special ResearchFree Special Research A Kubfu encounter is one of the rewards you can get from the free Special Research in the Might and Mastery season. Now that the season has begun, tasks for the first part of the Special Research are now visible. Image by Destructoid To get Kubfu in Pokémon GO, all you need to do is: TaskRewardExplore 3 km15x PokeBallsDefeat 3 Team GO Rocket members5x RevivesUse a supereffective Charged Attack1x Charged TM After completing these three tasks, you will get 891 XP and a Kubfu encounter as additional rewards. Buy the Fuzzy Fighter Special Research ticket The other way to get Kubfu is by purchasing the Fuzzy Fighter Special Research ticket for $7.99. You can purchase it from March 5 to March 10, 2025. Here are all the rewards you can earn from the Fuzzy Fighter Special Research: Encounters with Dynamax Kubfu, Teddiursa, Tyrogue, Cubchoo, Pancham, and Stufful.2x Premium Battle Passes3x Kubfu Candy XL30x Kubfu Candy5x Rare Candies1x Star Piece1x Incense2,000 XP and 3,000x Stardust, and more. The Fuzzy Fighter Special Research finishes on May 29, 2025, at 8 p.m. local time. In case you don't manage to get Kubfu from the free research, you have another paid option until the end of May 2025. The post How to get Kubfu in Pokémon GO appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

A recent Genshin Impact leak has discovered the release date of the upcoming Auto Chess game mode, with datamined information pointing towards Version 5.6. While Genshin Impact has a core gameplay loop that focuses on building a team to explore a vast open world, the developers have frequently toyed with alternate game modes over the years. Genius Invokation TCG and the Serenitea Pot can both be considered an example of this. View the full article

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Civilization 7 players on PlayStation consoles are reportedly receiving refunds for the game despite some purchases appearing to extend beyond the PlayStation Store's normal 14-day refund window. Frequent crashes on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 versions of Civilization 7 have been a major issue, and this problem appears to be giving a lot of players buyer's remorse. View the full article

WWE 2K25 has revealed the details of its season pass, announcing which new characters it'll release monthly following its March release. Building on its launch roster, WWE 2K25 will receive a series of DLC character packs throughout the year. Each one will contain a handful of new playable wrestlers, along with the occasional celebrity guest. Barring any surprise superstar announcements (which I wouldn't totally count out), WWE 2K25's Season Pass is expected to expand the roster by over 20 characters throughout the remainder of the year. View the full article

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a major patch on 13th March, developers Warhorse have announced. It will enhance the bracingly mucky RPG with modding tools and a "trove of updates", including what the devs ambiguously refer to as Barber Mode. Going by the promotional image they've knocked together, this is just a selection of beards and haircuts for protagonist Henry. But it is not yet 13th March, so let us dare to dream. Let us imagine that the update will let Henry become a barber, cutting a swathe through the innumerable beards and fringes of 15th century Bohemia. Read more View the full article

In 2015, you died in Bermuda. In 2018, you died in Vinland. And I'm sorry to say that your luck's not going to get any better in 2025, as you and your small crew fling yourselves into the cold void of space so you can die again, this time in an entirely different solar system. (Hey, at least you're seeing some sights.).. Read more.View the full article

I confess that I forgot Frogwares was making The Sinking City 2, following its battle with Nacon over control of the original game. The announcement was made exactly a year ago, with a cinematic trailer and a few details: like the shift to survival horror and only optional detective work... Read more.View the full article

I once visited a Blockbuster Video in the early 2000s, and while browsing the horror section, I came across a film called The Killer Eye (1999). The sleazy cover art promised a giant killer eyeball, creeping away from a scantily clad dead woman. “This should be fun”, I thought to myself as checked it out […] Source View the full article

Two more 2025 Alienware gaming monitors are now available to buy, and the newcomers include a 27-inch 185Hz IPS display for under $300 and a curved 32-inch model.View the full article

Marvel Rivals’ latest patch didn’t feature a long list of hero balance changes or too much new content, but it did quietly add a very solid quality-of-life change to its user interface. I’ve never been a player who checks the Heroes page too often, but that may change now thanks to the addition of Proficiency icons on every single character there, offering information at a glance for completionists looking to rank up their favorite heroes. View the full article