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Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games have announced today that Adventure Mode for Dwarf Fortress is now officially out for everyone. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The enchanting world of Disney Lorcana continues to surprise and delight us, with plenty of expansions arriving since launch to add more cards for your binders. Recent set Ursula's Return, arguably one of the best so far, unsurprisingly sees the comeback of the Sea Witch herself - and if you've yet to grab some of its Enchanted cards, this Ursula's Return booster box at a major discount is a bewitching offer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best card games 2025 King's Cup rules for the drinking card game The best drinking card games 2024 View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The outfits feature has officially arrived in Wuthering Waves which means you can now unlock new looks for your favorite characters. One of the first ones you can add to your collection is a free skin for Sanhua. This outfit is free to commemorate the launch of the new feature, but it won’t always be which means you need to act fast if you want to ensure you’re able to earn it. Luckily, the process for claiming it is fairly straightforward once you know about it, so here’s how to get the free Sanhua skin in Wuthering Waves. View the full article

A new video game review aggregator CriticDB is set to launch on January 30. The new site’s stated goal is to connect users with diverse outlets without weighting mainstream sources, giving independent outlets a chance to thrive and share their thoughts with the wider gaming community. CriticDB describes its mission statement on the site’s new […] Source View the full article

Elden Ring: Nightreign’s network test is a few short weeks away, but there is some bad news to deliver to some of you out there. From Software confirmed today that the network test for the Elden Ring spinoff will take place from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17, meaning anyone who has some romantic plans for Valentine’s Day weekend will have to either cancel them or miss out on the co-op Soulslike adventure before it releases later this year. View the full article

The arrival of a new Assassin's Creed might be one of the most routinely expected events in the gaming sphere, but when it comes to Assassin's Creed Shadows, things feel a little different. Even when it was only known by the project title Codename Red, the announcement of an Assassin's Creed set in Japan fulfilled a request that's been around for as long as the series has. As the game has inched closer to release, however, it's come to bear a greater weight, with delays and changing launch plans highlighting how important it is for Ubisoft to land a hit. View the full article

Longdue Games Studio has officially announced Hopetown, its spiritual successor to the hit RPG Disco Elysium. Developed by ZA/UM Studios and released in 2019, Disco Elysium was widely praised for its groundbreaking twist on the detective RPG genre, featuring innovative, thought-provoking mechanics and an irresistibly engaging story. After it took home four Game Awards and a BAFTA, all eyes were on Disco Elysium's creators as rumors of a sequel-successor reached a fever pitch. But conflicts at ZA/UM instead led to legal struggles and multiple different splinter studios. One of those, Longdue, has just announced its first game. View the full article

Last year, a bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors, and soon we learned that they'd all brushed shoulders with each other in a bunch of ways - some of which were controversial or bizarre - prior to making those announcements. Read more View the full article

Where were you on October 11th last year? If you were Edwin, Brendy, or myself - which, statistically, you are not - you were writing news articles about one of three aspirant spiritual successors to detective RPG Disco Elysium. It was an "I'm Spartacus"-**** day of press releases, culminating in the announcement of a project from former ZA/UM writers Argo Tuulik and Olga Moskvina. Before that came sci-fi RPG XXX Nightshift, and before that was an unnamed "psychogeographic RPG" from newly formed Longdue. We now know that it's called Hopetown, and Longdue are set to launch a crowdfunding campaign which you can "pre-register" for here, should you wish. Here's the sell: Read more View the full article

Disco Elysium is a flashpoint in adventure games that will be talked about for years while to come. Bold and unapologetic, it carved its way into the videogaming psyche with a distinctive blend of RPG, mystery, and adventure game that's simply overflowing with dialogue choices and character development possibilities. In the wake of a studio fallout at developer ZA/UM, numerous spiritual successors have sprung up, several with ties to the original. Now, one of those, Hopetown, has a new crowdfunding pre-launch campaign. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

If you only read social media over the past few months, you would think that Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was an unmitigated disaster. But as far as selling copies goes, it took the crown. BO6 was the best-selling premium game in the United States for all of 2024, despite the fact that it only released at the end of October, according to Circana’s Mat Piscatella. This means that CoD’s streak of being the best-selling game in the US as far as dollar sales go continued for an unprecedented 16th straight year. View the full article

The Epic Games Store free game for Thursday, January 30 is Undying. Epic Games Store users have been able to claim a variety of free games in 2025 already, with new titles added every Thursday at 10:00am CT. View the full article

Dishonored 2—one of the best immersive sims ever made—did not sell as well as a game of its pedigree or impressiveness really deserved. And if it wasn't for the reputation of the series, which offered it a "seal-of-quality protection", and Arkane's history of arguably making Bethesda's "most refined games", the studio might not be around today... Read more.View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling game of 2024, according to a new report from Circana. While many in the gaming sphere won't be too shocked to hear that Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the top seller last year, some titles appearing in the top 20 are a tad more surprising. View the full article

Few games place me so betwixt the yin and yang of frustration and flow state as Snow Riders. Here is a compact selection of ski slopes, each one yodeling the promise of my smooth and exhilarating descent over fresh powder. But wait, someone has littered this Ski Sunday with obstacles, forcing me to run a gauntlet of trees, rocks and rivers. I am thrust headlong into each of these obstacles a dozen times before my withered synapses and tired bones internalise these arboreal teachings and I make it safely to the bottom. As in life, there is joy to be found in this journey precisely because it is hard. Unlike in life, the camera is often facing backwards while you do it. Read more View the full article

Warner Bros. Games boss David Haddad is set to leave the company, according to a new report. Variety said Haddad will leave his role as president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment after 12 years of leading Warner Bros. Games. The company has had a troubled 12 months, first with the catastrophic release of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, then the disappointing release of Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus. Warner Bros. Discovery has said Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s failure contributed to a $200 million hit to its business, and MultiVersus added another $100 million on top. Warner Bros. Games' only new game release during the third quarter of 2024 was Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, which failed to make an impression. Speaking in a financial call, Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav said: "We recognise [the games business] is substantially underperforming its potential right now.” Since then, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League post-launch content has come to an end with the delivery of its year one roadmap. Warner Bros. has yet to announce Rocksteady’s next game, but it is reportedly helping out on a director’s cut of Hogwarts Legacy. The legendary British studio has suffered a number of layoffs in recent months. There are also question marks over Mortal Kombat 1’s financial performance, although NetherRealm chief Ed Boon recently announced over five million sales and teased future DLC following the release of the T-1000 Terminator guest character. During the same financial call, Zaslav said Warner Bros. was doubling down on four games: Hogwarts Legacy (a sequel is already in the works), Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, "in particular Batman." Warner Bros. recently published VR game Batman: Arkham Shadow exclusively on the Meta Quest 3, and has a Wonder Woman game in the works at Monolith Productions. "We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio," Zaslav added. According to Variety, Haddad will stay on with Warner Bros. discovery for the next three months as the company looks for his replacement during an apparent quieter release schedule. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

An imaginative Marvel Rivals player recently shared their idea of what the classic X-Men anti-hero Emma Frost would look like in the game. Marvel Rivals already has a packed roster of heroes and villains from across the Marvel universe, with many of them being tied to the X-Men franchise. Major team members Wolverine, Storm, and Psylocke are among Marvel Rivals’ 35-player line-up, as is their on-again-off-again nemesis/mentor Magneto. View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling video game in the US last year, marking the series’ 16th successive annual number 1. According to new data published by Circana for December 2024 and the entire year, ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling game in the US in terms of dollar sales. As such, according to Circana, “Call of Duty remains the best-selling video game franchise in US full game dollar sales for a record 16th consecutive year”. Read More... View the full article

With the usual level of high quality, some really fantastic artwork, and several very valuable chase cards, Pokémon Prismatic Evolutions is almost perfect - except for the fact that you can't get it at a good price. It's the latest target for collectors and scalpers alike, causing boxes to sell for huge costs on the likes of eBay - but if you're eager to collect the Eeveelutions regardless of language, perhaps you should opt for the Japanese version Terastal Festival instead, as it's just announced imminent reprints! Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: McDonald's has a sneaky Pokémon Pocket promotion you didn't know about 15 cutest Pokémon of all time All official Pokémon TCG formats explained for 2025 View the full article

Diablo 4 just started the Season of Witchcraft on January 21, and it has brought some changes to the game’s six classes. Five of the game’s classes - Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, and Sorcerer - are available in the base version of Diablo 4. The DLC expansion, Vessel of Hatred, introduced the powerful Spiritborn class which, in its original form, blew all other classes out of the water in terms of damage. Since it was introduced in Season 6, this new season is the first time changes are being made to the class. View the full article

Dwarf Fortress's Adventure mode - a procedurally generated campaign that lets you approach the famously dense colony sim like a more traditional roguelite - is now out as a free update on Steam. The game represents perhaps the most cavernous, yawping blind spot in my entire pile of shame. I do own it, but I'm yet to play. I've already read a great deal of extended wordery on its merits - please, sell it to me in the comments in seven words or less. Here's a trailer: Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Valve has released a new client update for Steam, adding a highly requested quality-of-life improvement to the platform's download and install UI. Prior to the January 22 Steam update, the interface shown to users when downloading an update for a game combined the download and install progress bars, making it incredibly confusing for users. These two bars have now been separated, allowing users to see exactly what stage the download is at. View the full article

The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition in an Ncase M1. The Nvidia RTX 5090 FE barely fit my 12.7-liter small form factor case, but using it was a dream. In 2022, I wrote that GPUs were headed in the wrong direction — their price, size, and power consumption were off the charts. And while I still believe that’s true, I can now confirm Nvidia has at least made one phenomenal exception in the size category: the two-slot “Founder’s Edition” of its RTX 5090 graphics card, on ***** January 30th. The last time Nvidia made a two-slot flagship graphics card, it was the 2021 RTX 3080 Ti FE — the 3090, 4080 and 4090 were gigantic by comparison. [/url] So, while my colleague Tom Warren was busy writing his full review of the new 5090 using the best gaming CPU, I wedged one of the $2,000 cards into my own aging mini desktop. I wanted to see whether the surprisingly small flagship GPU was truly ready for small form factor (SFF) cases — or, whether my beloved 12.7-liter Ncase M1 chassis is well and truly obsolete. To my surprise, it worked: all I needed was a new power supply to turn my backpack-sized daily driver into one of the most powerful gaming PCs in the world. At 4K resolution, I’m typically seeing more than double the framerate I get with an RTX 3080 Founder’s Edition, one of the last cards that could comfortably fit in the Ncase M1, to give you some idea. But I’m not going to suggest you do the same! For starters, we’re talking about a two thousand dollar graphics card and a one thousand watt power supply — which I actually saw consuming up to one whole kilowatt (as measured by my trusty Kill A Watt at the wall) in my Cyberpunk 2077 tests. With an RTX 3080, my system consumed over 200 fewer watts. Not that I minded having a space heater on these cold January days! But I literally had to wedge the 5090 into my Ncase M1 to make it fit, and even remove and reattach the video card’s bracket inside my case. And even then I couldn’t fully seal my desktop because the GPU’s new 12V-2x6 power connector occupies a chunk of space where my case’s side panel is supposed to go. You’ll want an SFF-ready case with more clearance than I have. It took a bit of elbow grease to get it in there. If not for that power cable... Still, leaving my desktop’s guts exposed was a small price to pay to toy with this much power! It’s enough to play games at 4K at their maximum settings, save for full ray tracing (aka path tracing). It’s even got enough horsepower to turn on path tracing, too, if you combine it with dynamic upscaling and/or fake frame generating tech. I normally play Helldivers 2 on an old 3060 Ti graphics card I bought for just $400, where I’m forced to rely on those tricks just to get smooth 4K-ish gameplay. It was quite nice, if expected, to finally max out that game on the 5090 instead. What I didn’t expect: my aging, space-constrained AMD 5800X desktop delivered the same performance as Tom’s open-air testing rig in quite a few of our 4K gaming benchmarks. I knew it was possible, but it goes to show that Nvidia’s fancy two-slot “double flow through” cooler really is suitable for SFF PCs. It depends on whether your games are CPU limited, of course, as my older PC does have a slower CPU — and most of today’s games tend to be at least somewhat CPU limited at 1440p resolution, where Tom’s system often pulled far ahead by 20 to 60 percent. Facing down the alien swarms and flying particles in Returnal, for example, Tom pulled 201 frames per second at 1440p while my diminutive desktop managed just 169fps; in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, the most CPU-limited game we’re testing, my bottlenecked system averaged just 123fps to Tom’s 200fps. But that’s still over 120fps on max settings, more than enough for butter-smooth sessions of these single-player games! And if I were to pair my tiny tower with a 4K TV in my living room instead of a 1440p monitor, as many SFF PC builders might like to do, I’d have a blast — my 4K results always averaged over 60fps, and were often within just a few FPS of Tom’s open bench. And again, I’m typically seeing the RTX 5090 delivering more than twice the horsepower of an RTX 3080, making it quite the upgrade for SFF fans with deep pockets. That’s not necessarily something to celebrate, though: the $2,000 RTX 5090 admittedly costs more than twice as much as a $700 RTX 3080 did at its 2020 launch, and will be out of reach for most gamers even if shortages and scalpers don’t rear their ugly heads. When it comes down to it, I think the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is a damn cool piece of kit. It makes me want to quote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off because it is so choice. It’s a noteworthy exception to the very annoying trend of GPUs expanding in every direction. But at $2,000, 575 watts of power by its lonesome, and with no other Nvidia board partner offering anything nearly as compact, it’s the exception that proves the rule. Photography by Sean Hollister / The Verge View the full article

The Pokémon Company The latest batch of new Pokémon TCG Pocket cards finally has a concrete release date, but it seems like you won’t be able to trade them right off the bat. The Pokémon Company announced today that Space-Time Smackdown, Pokémon TCG Pocket’s latest expansion, is set to debut at the end of the month right after the game’s trading feature launches on January 29th. While cards from the last set could all be obtained from a single type of pack, Space-Time Smackdown — which includes a number of monsters from Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum — will come from packs featuring the legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia. [Hidden Content] Along with Space-Time Smackdown’s announcement, TCPi also revealed a bit more about how the trading mechanic will involve two new types of in-game currencies — trade houseglasses and trade tokens. It seems as if there will be cooldown periods as well as a cost if you want to swap cards from Pocket’s Genetic Apex and Mythical Island sets with other players. But there will definitely be some waiting involved for people hoping to trade Space-Time Smackdown, which will not be tradeable until a later date after it drops on January 30th. View the full article

Extremely OK Games has announced the cancelation of its hotly anticipated title, Earthblade. The Celeste studio first announced the game back in 2021, but several years, delays, and in-house issues later, it has made the sad decision to pull the plug on the project before it could see the light of day. Fans who were looking forward to Earthblade will have to wait and see what comes next for Extremely OK. View the full article