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Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin's Creed Shadows will not be compatible with the Steam Deck at launch, which will come as bad news for those hoping to play the game on Valve's handheld platform. Assassin's Creed Shadowsis set to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, but will still be unavailable to a small section of gamers after this news. View the full article

Intel just dropped a new Arc graphics driver, and it comes with game-ready support for the huge Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced update, coming to PC on March 4. Among the other games receiving game-ready support in this Intel update is Monster Hunter Wilds, which is struggling with performance issues on PC right now. You can follow our Monster Hunter Wilds best settings guides to try and avoid the same problems we encountered throughout testing. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: If you're hyped for GTA 5 Enhanced, Rockstar just shared some good news All GTA 5 cheats, codes, commands, and phone numbers It's been a long time coming, but GTA V is finally getting Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR View the full article

What are the Split Fiction system requirements? If you are worried about running Split Fiction on your old or budget gaming PC, you can rest easy. The system requirements for Hazelight Studios' new game are incredibly light, with Steam Deck verification also being awarded. You won't need the best graphics card to run Split Fiction on PC, although it might be time to invest in some of the best gaming RAM if your system is still stuck at 8GB. EA has also continued its trend of securing Valve's approval, just like it did with Dragon Age The Veilguard on Steam Deck. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Claim over 25 free Steam Deck games, thanks to Amazon It's not just you, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards really are MIA AMD's new flagship Ryzen X3D gaming CPU could be yours in less than a week View the full article

Thomas the Tank Engine is coming to Train Sim World 5, but if you're looking for the modder responsible, you won't find them. In a surprising but welcome move, the transport sim's developers have got official approval to add this iconic *********** character to the game and also include some of his pals. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Huge Train Sim World 4 bundle worth $444 now only $15 Free games: Win a Steam key for Train Sim World ahead of its release on July 24! View the full article

Poking fun at forgotten brawler Remember Me's name is low-hanging fruit, but it's hard to get anywhere without acknowledging the irony. These days, developer Don't Nod is instead remembered primarily for its two Life is Strange games. Remember Me is lucky to be a footnote... Read more.View the full article

Preparing for a big hunt is crucial for facing the fearsome beasts in Monster Hunter Wilds. The best way to get ready is with a hearty meal and the many ingredients you can use provide different effects and bonuses for your character before they set off. Not every meal is perfect for every character. The type of meal you want to eat comes down to the weapon you’re using, your armor, the monster you’re about to hunt, and the environment. Knowing these factors ahead of time can greatly increase your chances of success. Here’s what you need to know about the best cooking recipes and meals you can have in Monster Hunter Wilds. View the full article

Focus Mode is a brand-new mechanic in Monster Hunter Wilds, giving you new ways to target a monster's wounds with flashy attacks. By entering Focus Mode, you can carefully observe a target's weak points before striking where it is vulnerable. Every weapon has a unique Focus Mode attack that plays into its strengths, dealing heavy damage and making it easier to access certain abilities. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Monster Hunter Wildshas just launched today to a varied reception from fans, with over 10k reviews putting the game at a mixed review rating on Steam. As the latest installment in this award-winning series, this new entry follows the new story of a young boy named Nata found at the border of the Forbidden Lands, leaving the Guild to finally enter this previously unseen zone. With tales of a monster that attacked his village, curiosity is high as to what players might discover on their daring adventures into these new lands. View the full article

EA doesn't always treat its classic library with respect, as evidenced by its recent barely touched-up The Sims Legacy Collection. But the folks shepherding Command & Conquer, a vanguard series in the bygone genre of real-time strategy (RTS) games, are seemingly fueled by a different kind of Tiberium. After releasing a reverential remaster of the first two games in 2020 with 4K upscaling and behind-the-scenes looks at their full-motion video scenes, EA is now opening up the series even more to its fans. Source code for the original C&C, Red Alert, Renegade (the first-person one), and Generals/Zero Hour has been dropped on Github. Along with Steam Workshop support for most of the series, that should enable a new generation of mods for the games. Given the extent of the code available, mods could include the kinds of modern updates, like higher and wider resolutions or beefed-up textures and refresh rates, that all good games deserve. Building and working with this code will not be a plug-and-play affair. The namesake 1995 game and its hugely popular 1996 Red Alert sequel require some older dependencies, like DirectX 5 and the Greenleaf Communications Library (for a full build and tool access) and the Borland Turbo Assembler (TASM 4.0) to compile. Renegade and Generals, however, call for a whole lot more nostalgia: STLport 4.5.3, the SafeDisk API, the GameSpy SDK, the RAD Miles Sound System SDK, and at least eight more. Read full article Comments View the full article

After six years of playing Magic: The Gatheringoff and on, I started playing Magic: The Gathering Online,and you should too. MTG is one of the most dominant trading card games on the market. The franchise continues to pump out quality fun sets from its original ideas, including beloved franchises in crossover sets dubbed Universes Beyond, the next one being with Final Fantasy Commander decks. The most recent set, Aetherdrift, is a high-octane racing theme that has added a new speed to the chaotic tabletop title. View the full article

What are the best Monster Hunter Wilds design codes? We're so grateful to the talented artists working with the Monster Hunter Wilds character creator tool, providing the community with handcrafted iconic warriors. Thanks to their hard work, we're able to hunt monsters as Wednesday's Jenna Ortega, something we couldn't possibly do on our own. If you'd rather spend your time hunting monsters in the action game than creating your character, Monster Hunter Wilds character codes give you instant access to highly detailed characters and Palicos. Once your Monster Hunter Wilds character is up and running, check out one of the best MH Wilds builds, and get hunting. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Monster Hunter Wilds Insect Glaive build Best Monster Hunter Wilds Dual Blades build Best Monster Hunter Wilds Hunting ***** build View the full article

We all need a little help sometimes, even bad-**** hunters who take down giant monsters and carve their bones and flesh to make their own weapons and armor. Monster Hunter Wilds has arrived, and Twitch streamers playing the game (along with their viewers) are the beneficiaries of a Twitch drops campaign that rewards in-game items to help gamers along their quest in the latest title of the long-running franchise. View the full article

How long do you tend to spend creating a character in a video game? The correct answer is three hours. Four hours if it's a Bethesda game, because creating a character in a Bethesda game is like rewinding the Raiders Of The Lost Ark face-melting scene while shooting at your TV with Homer Simpson's Make-Up Gun. It takes patience to extract beauty or even just plain inoffensiveness from the Creation Engine's sticky coils. Hang on, why am I being mean to Bethesda? I should be directing my snide remarks at Capcom. It turns out the scalliwags want you to pay a small fee to edit your Monster Hunter Wilds character's voice, face and body structure more than once - so if you're buying today, you might want to spend a few more hours perfecting that Hunter physique at start-up. Read more View the full article

Lazarus, the latest anime from the creator of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, has a release date, and it's pretty soon. Read more View the full article

Marvel Rivals is competing for a top spot in superhero shooter space, but there’s one glaring issue—villains are massively outnumbered. While Marvel doesn’t have any shortage of iconic bad guys, the game’s current roster leans heavily toward heroes, leaving fans wondering: When are the villains coming to the game to bring their chaotic energy? In a Reddit discussion, players are discussing how the game only has a few proper, well-defined villains right now. View the full article

GTA 6 is somewhere, dimly, on the horizon, but Rockstar must be a bit worried it's forgotten how to release a Grand Theft Auto game in the last 12 years (maybe with good reason). To get some practice in, the studio is finally releasing GTA 5's next-gen update on PC next week on Tuesday, March 4... Read more.View the full article

It doesn’t matter where you sit on the scale of book collectors, if you have a single shelf of beloved favorites or far too many books and not enough shelves (guilty), there’s something utterly appealing about books with pretty covers. As they have always been, the ultimate collectors' editions are leather-bound beauties with engraved details and foil decorations. The feel of an actual tome of literature in your hands is second to none, but leather-bound classics are expensive, and collecting them is not always feasible. However, if you’re looking for a relatively finance-friendly way to get into book collecting, clothbound books are your entry point. There are many collections of clothbound classics, but none is better-known than the Penguin Clothbound Classics editions. With everything from Dante’s Inferno to The Little Prince, there’s something for everyone in this set. If you want to get into the world of clothbound books, here are 10 of the best and prettiest Penguin Clothbound Classics to get you started. Animal Farm George Orwell Image by Destructoid Animal Farm is one of Orwell’s most well-known novellas alongside 1984 (which also has a Penguin Clothbound Classic edition), and it’s a story that everyone should read at least once. Styled as a ‘beast fable’, Animal Farm tells the tale of farm animals who rebel against their alcoholic farmer, only to find themselves in a new dictatorship under a power-hungry pig called Napoleon. The Clothbound Classic cover is decorated with the type of pens you’d see at any farm, but also somehow manages to make you feel almost watched thanks to the design. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Image by Destructoid The Little Prince is one of the best-selling single books of all time, with over 140 million copies sold worldwide in 505 languages. It centers around a young child and a pilot who venture among the stars to explore themes like love, loneliness, friendship, and loss. It’s a beautiful story, even if it is hard to follow if you’re not in the right mindset for the nonsensical, almost childlike encounters. The cover of the Clothbound Classic edition features stars and planets, all small and far apart, indicating the size of the journey the duo takes during the tale. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Image by Destructoid There’s something unerringly unsettling about early science fiction novels because you’re forced to remember that none of it had ever been done before, and all of it is purely from the authors' imagination. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was decades ahead of its time, with most events taking place on a submarine called the Nautilus, which featured designs and features that wouldn’t be implemented on actual submarines for many years. The jellyfish design of this Clothbound Classic edition immediately tells you everything you need to know, even at a single glance that doesn’t allow enough time for the title to be read. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Image by Destructoid Crime and Punishment is the ultimate depiction of morality in the face of immoral acts after the central character has to live with the guilt of his decision to *******. It’s a difficult read and seems to have been inspired at least in part by Dostoyevsky’s suffering during his Siberian exile. Although the cover of the Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Crime and Punishment may not seem to relate to the story at first glance, my interpretation of it is that it depicts the various boxes that we place ourselves into or those we are put into by society, all overlapping and with blurred edges where they intersect. Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri Image by Destructoid A narrative poem written by Alighieri in the 14th century, Dante’s Inferno consists of three Cantos, each of which depicts either Purgatory, Heaven, or Hell. It’s a journey through the three settings, guided by various characters who join Dante on his descent through the nine circles of Hell. Even looking at the cover of the Clothbound Classics edition gives you a sense of falling through the various levels of Hell, in a way that reflects the prose contained within. Frankenstein Mary Shelley Image by Destructoid If you’re a fan of horror literature, then there’s no way you haven’t read Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein. It’s now a tale known worldwide, even by those who have never read the original novel, and has gone on to inspire both horror and science fiction writers for generations since its initial publication in 1818. At the heart of the haunting tale is the desire for Frankenstein’s Monster to be accepted or even loved, but the humans of the village judge him by appearance and not the heart beating within him. This heart is featured on the cover of the Clothbound Classics edition. Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson Image by Destructoid The Haunting of Hill House is a classic ghost story and psychological horror. Nothing is ever explicitly described or explained, but you somehow know what is happening even without the full explanation. Even the ending is vague and left up to interpretation, to some degree, but all of this vagueness is what makes The Haunting of Hill House so, well, haunting. The cover of this Clothbound edition features the house, or at least a section of it, repeated in a staggered pattern that’s easy to get lost in. After reading it, you might even imagine seeing faces in any of the many windows. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Image by Destructoid Although not the first fictional detective, with that title going to Edgar Allan Poe’s August Dupin, Sherlock Holmes is still one of the most famous characters in literary history. His adventures and investigations are well-known around the world, and his exploits have served as inspiration for countless authors over the years. What I love about the cover of this Clothbound edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is that it looks like a particularly bloody crime scene. The bodies, all oriented differently, are surrounded by dots that, upon closer inspection, resemble blood spatter. The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Image by Destructoid The War of the Worlds has a solid place in literary history, and a radio reading of it in 1938 is even known to have caused panic in those who tuned in late, thinking that Martians had invaded the world. Published in 1898, The War of the Worlds is a formative piece of science fiction literature, and it has inspired countless writers since. This was the first Clothbound Classic I ever purchased, which means it has a special place in my heart. However, the design is undeniably both eye-catching and beautiful. It’s hard to tell whether the circles are planets or explosions, and the colors perfectly contrast against each other to create something that figuratively jumps off the shelf. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe Image by Destructoid While The Fall of the House of Usher would be worth purchasing alone, that’s not all you’ll get when you purchase this Penguin Clothbound Classic. Also included in the book are The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, and The Cask of Amontillado. Poe is the father of gothic literature, and each of his tales or poems is worth reading at least once. If you’re like me and hold a certain soft spot for Poe, sadly, you’ll need to wait a little while before you can get your hands on the Clothbound edition. It’s set to be published on August 7, 2025, but with a cover like that, I couldn’t exclude it from this list. The post The 10 prettiest Penguin Clothbound Classic editions appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Congratulations, Monster Hunter Wilds players. Your game's the talk of the town right now, mainly because half the population of the world is playing it. There's one thing you can't have, though, no matter how hard you try. No, it's not issue-free PC performance. It's a day-one naked man mod for Wilds, that doesn't work with day-one Wilds. Read more View the full article

For those playing their first game in the series, Monster Hunter Wilds can be pretty daunting, with many unique systems that are hard to grasp at first. Veterans of the series will find a lot of familiar features in this franchise's newest entry, but anyone just starting may struggle. To learn the ways of a hunter, there are several early steps you can take to make your journey easier. View the full article

Lost Pilgrims Studios RPG makes the jump from Steam to consoles next month following its PC debut back in 2021. View the full article

Robot-maker Apptronik has announced a pilot partnership with American firm Jabil. In addition to its supply chain services primarily serving OEMs, Jabil is involved in designing, engineering, and manufacturing electronic circuit boards and systems. Read Entire Article View the full article

The World of Warcraft Undermine(d) update lets players work for one of four Cartels every week, but which should you choose first and what can you get from each of them? Working with them will increase your reputation and allow you to get the rewards you want. Table of contentsAll cartels and how they work in World of Warcraft: The War WithinWhich cartel should you pick?All cartel rewards in World of Warcraft: The War WithinBilgewater CartelSteamwheedle CartelBlackwater CartelVenture Co. All cartels and how they work in World of Warcraft: The War Within . Each one will grant you different rewards. Screenshot by Dot Esports Undermine has four cartels you can work for: Bilgewater, Steamwheedle, Blackwater, and Venture Company. As you enter Undermine in WoW: The War Within, head to the Incontinental Hotel and speak with Kaydee Racketring to pick a cartel. View the full article

AMD have finally confirmed pricing, dating, and specs-ing for their first RDNA 4 graphics cards. The Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will be out on March 6th, and start from $549 and $599 respectively. While these are still relatively **** stacks o' cash, AMD say they’ll compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti – and considering the latter is supposed to start at $749, with most models currently going for above $800, that could make for a tasty undercutting. Read more View the full article

Playing Total War: Warhammer 3's Kislev campaign on release was one of the best storified strategy game times I've had in years, launch issues be thrice-damned, triple cooked, and three times a lady. But the Slavic bulwark against stinky, angry, tricksy and horny invaders has lost some lustre since. The details in Creative Assembly's latest blog are still a work in progress, but give a solid idea of how Kislev as a faction are changing in a patch due mid-March. Read more View the full article

The first of three DLCs is now available for the Kickstarted JRPG. View the full article