In a fairly exciting case of two major industry stories meeting in the middle, former members of downfallen indie publisher Annapurna Interactive have reportedly joined forces to take control of several game projects previously published by Take-Two Interactive's label Private Division, which has itself been sold off amid layoffs. The game projects in question include the Kerbal Space Program series and an unannounced project from Pokémon developer Game Freak. Read more View the full article
A Helldivers 2 dataminer appears to have accidentally managed to activate some kind of deadly lightshow by dropping an Illuminate obelisk, and now they're struggling to activate it again. Read more View the full article
Overwatch 2 players have reacted with dismay after the latest in-game releases, which pale in comparison to what is being offered by competitor Marvel Rivals this week. NetEase is gearing up for a huge content drop in Marvel Rivals with the start of season one, introducing Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman as new playable characters alongside new maps, a new game mode, new skins, and plenty more. View the full article
A troubling glitch in Call of Duty: Warzone is causing frustration among players attempting to engage in Ranked Play and causing them to get suspended. The issue arises when a dev error leads to a game ******, which unexpectedly triggers automatic suspensions from Call of Duty: Warzone matches. View the full article
Fish Salad is a three-star entrée in Disney Dreamlight Valley, perfect for restoring energy or completing a specific friendship quest. It’s an easy recipe made from ingredients you can get in the base game as soon as you unlock the Forest of Valor. Here’s everything you need to know about crafting this refreshing dish. Table of contentsDisney Dreamlight Valley Fish Salad informationFish Salad ingredient locationsQuests that use Fish Salad Disney Dreamlight Valley Fish Salad information Make your own Fish Salad! Screenshot by Dot Esports When you prepare your first Fish Salad, it will be added to your Dreamlight Valley Meals Collection—which requires that you make one of every meal in Dreamlight Valley for 100 percent completion. You can use this meal to replenish energy, make your villagers happy, or fulfill quest objectives. It’s not very useful for earning Star Coins because it’s one of the least valuable meals in the game. View the full article
The upcoming James Mangold directed Star Wars flick Dawn of the Jedi is set incredibly far in the past, and it's all to avoid being bogged down by lore. Read more View the full article
Capcom has today announced what a lot of us Monster Hunter Wilds fans expected: the game is going to return to our PCs and consoles one last time ahead of the big launch in late February. Well, the open beta will, anyway. Read more View the full article
Marvel Rivals‘ first season promises several new exciting additions. This includes The Fantastic Four as playable characters and a recently revealed skin for Susan Storm named Malice. Here’s all you need to know about Malice and her backstory before she arrives in Marvel Rivals. Malice’s backstory explained The Invisible Woman in her natural form. Image via Marvel Rivals Malice is an alternate skin for Susan Storm, The Invisible Woman, one of the four members of the Fantastic Four. She is the embodiment of the Invisible Woman’s dark side and the manifestation of all her dark thoughts and negativity. The character made her first appearance in Fantastic Four issue 280 and was brought to life by the mad scientist and supervillain Psycho-Man and his Android creation Hate-Monger. The latter, disguised as Susan’s husband Reed Richards or Mr Fantastic, ambushed Susan and altered her mind. View the full article
Even though the Marvel Rivals season one battle pass doesn’t release until Jan. 10, a streamer accidentally leaked a sizeable portion of the skins early. This battle pass is double the length of the season zero pass, meaning you can earn a total of 10 skins. Here are all the skins in the season one battle pass of Marvel Rivals. View the full article
The organ in Kell’s Fall might be the most puzzling part of the Exotic mission. This functional instrument can play a myriad of songs, but typing the correct notes triggers extra effects and solves some of the mysteries in the quest—when it doesn’t create more questions, that is. When fully repaired, the instrument has 13 keys. This is enough to start on a C note, run through a full octave, and end on a higher C. If you’re quick and dextrous enough, you can play almost anything. View the full article
Hey, you! Don't just stand there half-naked with your stomach growling. Grab a stick, pick up a rock, craft a rope from whatever the heck "plant fiber" is, and combine them to make your first crude axe. Then chop down some trees, build a mech suit (I may have skipped a few steps), climb in, and start running as fast as your sprint meter will allow... Read more.View the full article
Starting in May, customers will be able to purchase Lenovo's newly announced Legion Go S handheld gaming PC with Valve's SteamOS operating system as an alternative to Windows. However, Valve has confirmed that it plans to release a SteamOS beta for other handhelds even earlier, likely in April. Read Entire Article View the full article
With the latest season of the Call of Duty League set to start, players can now get their hands on skins for each of the 12 teams taking part to use in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone. While the generic League Pack skins have already been available for players to use for a number of months, fans will now be able to pick their favorite team and equip a themed skin. View the full article
Mass Effect has multiple games, and each game includes a variety of different dialogue options that change the lines that Commander Shepard, their crew, and NPCs in the universe say. While many lines of dialogue fit the situation and don't stick out enough to think about after the moment passes, others end up quoted by players even years after they've finished the game. With so much dialogue included in one series, it's natural that some lines have become iconic within the community. View the full article
A popular Marvel Rivals streamer delighted many fans by sharing every skin in the upcoming battle pass for Season 1: Eternal Night Falls. The new season has a bit of a darker tone, with the main antagonist being Dracula himself. Fans eager to jump in on the action will be able to do so when the new season of Marvel Rivals launches on January 10 at 1 AM PST. View the full article
This gameplay update focuses on parkour, the grappling hook, sprinting, button mapping, and much more ahead of the game's launch next month. View the full article
Its reputation as a virtual Roblox for catgirls, memelords, and Sonic the Hedgehog cosplayers hasn't done VRChat any harm, with player numbers continuing to rise. As SteamDB reports, VRChat recently hit a record peak concurrent player count of 66,284 on Steam—though that doesn't count users accessing it via the Meta store, Google Play, or elsewhere... Read more.View the full article
Valve will begin allowing third-party handhelds to license SteamOS starting with Lenovo's new Legion Go S. At CES 2025, Lenovo announced that it will ship a version of its upcoming Legion Go S handheld called the "Powered by SteamOS" that will run, you guessed it, SteamOS. This is the same OS that powers Valve's Steam Deck, which is pretty good if you're primarily someone who owns all their PC games on Steam. As part of the launch, Valve published a blog that confirmed that alongside the Legion Go S, Valve is working on "a beta of SteamOS which should improve the epxerience on other handhelds and users can download and thest this themselves." Meaning that SteamOS should be available on non-Steam Deck handheld gaming PCs as well. The benefits of SteamOS, especially for those with massive Steam libraries, is that of the handheld PC interfaces, SteamOS is very smooth and easy to navigate. While not mandatory for handheld PC gaming, it has its fans and soon even non-Steam Deck owners can install it for their own handhelds. IGN is at CES 2025 where we already previewed the Legion Go S, a lighter version of Lenovo's 2023 handheld the Legion Go. It comes in a lighter formfactor, but with some improvements under the hood. It is not, however, a next-gen handheld. That's the Lenovo Go 2, which will utilize the AMD Z2 Extreme SoC and is currently in the prototype phase. Be sure to stick around for all our updates from CES and let us know if you're excited to install SteamOS to your non-Steam Deck handheld. Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor. View the full article
Baldur's Gate 3 fans should be aware that there's a scam claiming to be a mobile port of the game available on the iOS App Store. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a mobile port, and players should avoid any apps claiming otherwise. View the full article
The decades-old Shiren the Wanderer series is famous for being bluntly unforgiving, and The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is no exception to that intimidating rule. I'm dumped into a randomised dungeon and expected to fend for myself using nothing more than whatever I find lying around on the floor, the stairs to the next level only promising more of the same pain. A monster strolls into the room, one tile at a time, and I freeze, carefully considering every step and sword swing I can make before I act... Read more.View the full article
AMD's new Radeon gaming GPUs barely had a mention in the company's recent announcement at CES, but I've spotted a load of new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 graphics cards on the CES show floor, not only from board partners such as Asus and Gigabyte, but also AMD reference models. AMD might be playing down its new GPUs, but the cards definitely do exist, so let's take a look at them. There's little doubt that the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is going to take the best graphics card crown when it comes out at the end of January, but we were hoping that the new AMD GPUs would at least take on the RTX 5070 with some competitive pricing. While there's no release date or price for the Radeon RX 9070 XT yet, though, we can at least take a look at the cards. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: No, the new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme gaming CPU won't be in the Steam Deck 2 The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT gaming GPU is finally here to take on the RTX 5070 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D gaming CPU unveiled, 20% faster than Intel Core Ultra 285K View the full article
As you play through Path of Exile 2, you'll come across lots of different types of currencies: Orbs, Scraps, Whetstones, Baubles, Etchers, Prisms, Mirrors, and Shards. Each and every one of these has its uses, whether it's for leveling up your character, improving your gear, completing story content, or multiple of the above. That is to say that you'll need to learn how each type of currency is found, and what it's used for, in order to progress and put together a decent build in Path of Exile 2. View the full article
Content Warning: The story contains details regarding physical and psychological abuse, as well as the death of a child. A new report from People Make Games has unearthed deeply disturbing allegations of workplace abuse at Brandoville Studios, an Indonesian animation support studio that has worked on games such as Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires 4, and The Last of Us: Part I Remake. Allegations of mistreatment at Brandoville Games were first reported by People Make Games back in 2021 as part of a broader story on how Western AAA studios effectively outsource crunch on major games to overseas developers, effectively sweeping it under the rug. However, People Make Games was urged to revisit its reporting on Brandoville more recently, after accusations went viral on Indonesia social media of continued crunch, as well as physical, verbal, and mental abuse. TheGamer reported on the allegations in September of last year, pointing at CEO Ken Lai's wife, Cherry Lai, as the instigator of much of the studio's worst issues. Numerous screenshots and videos verified by TheGamer as well as shared publicly across social media told a story of Lai's abusive behavior, which included sending threatening and insulting messages to staff, verbally berating and insulting them, and in at least one case, repeatedly physically assaulting an employee and ordering them to physically hurt themselves as "punishment" for poor performance. That employee, Christa Sydney, has shared much of her story publicly, including claiming Lai once slapped her head so hard it caused tinnitus, and at other times choking her, pushing her down the stairs, and forcing her to bang her head on the wall until she had a concussion. People Make Games' follow-up investigation goes further to verify and detail these claims, including sharing a video Sydney was allegedly forced to send to Lai of her slapping herself 100 times. In addition to Sydney, People Make Games' report details other accounts, including allegations that Lai pit employees against one another by verbally berating employees in the office or gossiping about them, forced employees to participate in Christian worship on a daily basis, and would insist on approving employee outfits every day before work. One former employee in the video claims Lai manipulated him into giving him a significant part of his salary. Another former employee, Syifana Afiati, tells a story of being overworked while pregnant to the point of being asked to work while she was in the hospital. Afiati's child was born prematurely, and she was asked to return to work just one month after giving birth, despite her maternity leave being three months and her son still being treated in intensive care. Her son died four months later. Three days after he passed away, Lai sent a message to company HR, strategizing on how to avoid supporting Afiati and deprive her of benefits while she was on leave. Ken Lai did not comment to People Make Games when asked, but Cherry Lai provided a statement to People Make Games: "To me, my part of the story is not important, as long as my team are good and safe now," but ghosted the outlet without much further commentary. Brandoville Studios was shut down last year. While Ken and Cherry Lai attempted to spin up a new company with some of the former Brandoville employees, LaiLai Studios – it's unclear if the company is currently running or working on anything. As of September, Jakarta police were actively searching for Cherry Lai as part of an investigation into Brandoville. Lai suggested in an email to People Make Games that she may have fled to Hong Kong, but that has not yet been confirmed. IGN has reached out to Naughty Dog, Xbox, and Ubisoft for comment on their partnerships with Brandoville in light of this story and will update if a response is received. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. View the full article
Hopefully you're still holidaying and if you are, you'll need games. Cheap ones. Along with the headliner deals that describe themselves, I'd like to highlight a pretty great preorder price for FF7 Rebirth on PC. I for one can't wait to see how brilliant it can look (and run) on some beefy hardware. That being said, let's move along and save a bunch more Gil on today's bargains below! In retro news, I’m ensuring we all Don’t Starve by baking a 10th birthday cake for said indie great. When I was famished for things to play on my newly acquired launch PS4, I was surprised when this out-of-nowhere roguelike nourished me for dozens of hours. Being a masochist, there was so much to love about this—the complete lack of farming direction, the Burtonesque atmosphere of a storybook gone bad, and that increasingly *********-puckering stress of keeping shadow beasts and stomach grumbles at bay. Holds up quite well today, and you really ought to play this with a mate in the Don’t Starve Together co-op variant. This Day in Gaming Aussie birthdays for notable games. - Don't Starve (PS4) 2014. Get Table of ContentsNintendo SwitchPCXboxPlayStationLEGONice Savings for Nintendo Switch Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (-15%) - A$68Hogwarts Legacy (-37%) - A$57Endless Ocean (-23%) - A$54Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 (-31%) - A$55Disco Elysium TFC (-70%) - A$18 Expiring Recent Deals NFS Hot Pursuit (-35%) - A$39Axiom Verge (-85%) - A$4.05Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (-83%) - A$6.79Phoenix Wright Trilogy (-67%) - A$13.18Batman: Arkham Trilogy (-60%) - A$35.98 Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card. Switch Console Prices How much to Switch it up? [/url] Back to top Purchase Cheap for PC Borderlands Pandora’s Box Col. (-94%) - A$52.28Chess Ultra (-70%) - A$5.55Road Redemption (-88%) - A$4.34FFVII Rebirth (-30%) - A$73.46Star Wars Bounty Hunter (-50%) - A$14.75Far Cry 5 (-85%) - A$13.49Far Cry 5 Gold (-85%) - A$20.24Far Cry 5 + New Dawn (-85%) - A$22.49 Expiring Recent Deals Gungrave G.O.R.E (-95%) - A$3.49Prince of Persia: TLC (-50%) - A$29.97Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Del. (-77%) - A$27.58Far Cry 6 (-75%) - A$22.48LEGO Bricktales (-75%) - A$10.73 Or just get a Steam Wallet Card PC Hardware Prices Slay your pile of shame. [/url] Back to top Exciting Bargains for Xbox Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (-19%) - A$89Sniper Elite Resistance (-11%) - A$89Starfield (-81%) - A$22.68****** Bandicoot 4 (-50%) - A$49 Expiring Recent Deals FC 25 (-65%) - A$39Powerwave Dual Charger (-27%) - A$29Tekken 8 (-61%) - A$47Hogwarts Legacy [XO](-64%) - A$36Batman Arkham Col. (-41%) - A$49.85Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star (-25%) - A$55.73Assassin’s Creed Shadows (-19%) - A$89 Or just invest in an Xbox Card. Xbox Console Prices How many bucks for a 'Box? [/url] Back to top Pure Scores for PlayStation Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (-19%) - A$89Burnout Paradise Rem. (-85%) - A$3.74CoD: Modern Warfare Remastered (-56%) - A$39.85Space Marine 2 (-37%) - A$69Horizon Forbidden West (-38%) - A$59Sniper Elite Resistance (-21%) - A$79Witcher 3: Complete (-36%) - A$49.95 Expiring Recent Deals PowerA Twin Charging Station (-27%) - A$29NBA 2K25 (-63%) - A$44Star Wars Outlaws (-46%) - A$59The Last of Us Part 2 Re. (-29%) - A$69CoD: MW3 (-37%) - A$69Assassin’s Creed Shadows (-19%) - A$89DualSense Midnight ****** (-18%) - A$98 PS+ Monthly Freebies Yours to keep from Jan 7 with this subscription Suicide Squad: KTJL [PS5]NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered [PS4]The Stanley Parable: Ultra [PS4/5] Or purchase a PS Store Card. What you'll pay to 'Station. [/url] Back to top Legit LEGO Deals Sonic: Knuckles Emerald Shrine (-42%) - A$35City: Fire Station (-34%) - A$99Botanicals Wreath (-29%) - A$119.95 Expiring Recent Deals Mario: Rambi The Rhino (-40%) - A$11.39Dune: Ornithopter (-32%) - A$10Star Wars R2-D2 (-30%) - A$139 Back to top Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube. View the full article
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Asus has just unveiled a new ROG mini gaming PC that contains one of the very latest Nvidia gaming GPUs, giving it a surprising amount of gaming power for its size. Inside the new Asus ROG NUC 2025 you'll not only find a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 gaming GPU, but also an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU. We spotted the new Asus ROG mini gaming PC at CES, where we're currently roaming the show floor. It's not tiny like some of the latest machines you see from the likes of Geekom, but it's genuinely small for the spec on offer, measuring just 282.4 mm tall and 56.55mm wide. That's a small chassis for the spec on offer, making this machine a genuine contender for the best mini gaming PC title. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Run an RTX 5090 gaming GPU on nearly any laptop or handheld thanks to Asus This new Asus ROG Strix gaming laptop has enough RGB to make your desk glow Loads of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 laptop gaming GPU specs just leaked in blunder View the full article
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In a fairly exciting case of two major industry stories meeting in the middle, former members of downfallen indie publisher Annapurna Interactive have reportedly joined forces to take control of several game projects previously published by Take-Two Interactive's label Private Division, which has itself been sold off amid layoffs. The game projects in question include the Kerbal Space Program series and an unannounced project from Pokémon developer Game Freak. Read more View the full article