Marvel Rivals players recently took to social media to request that NetEase Games enable hero bans across all ranks of Competitive play. The popular hero shooter is currently in Season 0, with Season 1 expected to drop sometime in January 2025. Many Marvel Rivals players are eagerly awaiting the new season and hope to see it released alongside fresh heroes and maps. View the full article
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After years of of chasing live-service and open-world blockbusters, games like Astro Bot and Balatro showed that old formats could be a solution to modern industry problems. Read the full story at The Verge. View the full article
The predicted amount of Primogems in Genshin Impact 5.3 has leaked, indicating just how much of the precious resource players will be able to obtain during the action RPG’s next update, both in F2P (free-to-play) ways and with premium subscriptions. Version 5.3 is the next big patch in HoYoverse’s game, and it should add the final Natlan Archon Quests, as well as four new playable characters. One of them will be made available for all players, as it is the Pyro Traveler, while the new units in banners are Lan Yan, Citlali, and Mavuika in Genshin Impact. View the full article
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****** is one of those series that arguably lost its way a little over time. While the first game was critically acclaimed (on PC, at least) and its sequel did even better, it’s probably fair to say that ****** 3 dropped the ball a bit. While it did manage to pull off one thing the series has always been renowned for – its accurate depiction of an era and location rarely visited in video games, in this case New Orleans in the late 1960s – its ******* narrative and heavier reliance on open-world exploration made it feel more like a ****** game done in the Ubisoft style. [Hidden Content] Read More... View the full article
Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. ... Read more View the full article
Leakers on the Chiphell forums recently provided two close-up images of the upcoming GeForce RTX 5090. Meanwhile, established tipster @kopite7kimi has provided near-complete specs for the 5070 Ti and 5070. Read Entire Article View the full article
In November 2024, Resume-building platform Resume.Org surveyed 900 business leaders whose companies had implemented return-to-office (RTO) policies since the pandemic. Read Entire Article View the full article
In late September, Dominik “Domtendo” Neumayer received a troubling email. He had just featured The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom in a series of videos on his YouTube channel. Now, those videos were gone. “Some of your videos have been removed,” YouTube explained matter-of-factly. The email said that Domtendo had now received a pair of copyright strikes. He was now just one copyright strike away from losing his 17-year-old channel and the over 1.5 million subscribers he’d built up. At least, he would have been, if Domtendo hadn’t spotted something fishy about the takedown notice — something YouTube had missed. Domtendo had been a little bit confused right from the start; the strikes didn’t make sense. Like countless other creators, Domtendo specializes in “Let’s Play” videos, a well-established genre where streamers play through the entirety of a game on camera. “The next copyright strike will close your channel” [/url] Nintendo has a complicated relationship with the fans who use its copyrighted works, infamously shutting down all sorts of unauthorized projects by sending cease-and-desists. It has gone after YouTubers, too. But both the Japanese gaming giant and the broader... Read the full story at The Verge. View the full article
Grand Theft Auto 6 is easily 2025's most anticipated game thanks to the huge amount of hype that's been building for it practically since the launch of GTA 5. For many, it seems like a shoo-in for the best game of the year and the best-selling game of the year. That's not an unreasonable assumption, even just based on the game's initial reveal trailer view count on YouTube. View the full article
Activision has confirmed that the highly-anticipated Call of Duty x Squid Game collaboration will be released on January 3, featuring new limited-time modes, weapon blueprints, operator skins, and more. Call of Duty's collaboration with Squid Game was announced earlier this month and will now be released just one week after the launch of the show's second season, which is available to stream right now on Netflix. View the full article
If you're after a heartwearming dating sim, MiSide is not that game. It has all the trappings of a dating sim - an adorable anime girl, gifts you can earn to gain her favour and more. Plus, it's rated a massive 98% on Steam. But there's something very wrong in Mita's world, and finding out could cost you your life. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
More than 18,500 games will have been released onto the PC gaming platform Steam in the year 2024, according to SteamDB. Dividing that by the number of people covering games at Ars, or the gaming press at large, or even everybody who games and writes about it online, yields a brutal ratio. Games often float down the river of time to us, filtered by friends, algorithms, or pure happenstance. They don't qualify for our best games of the year list, but they might be worth mentioning on their own. Many times, they're better games then they were at release, either by patching or just perspective. And they are almost always lower priced. Inspired by the cruel logic of calendars and year-end lists, I asked my coworkers to tell me about their favorite games of 2024 that were not from 2024. What resulted were some quirky gems, some reconsiderations, and some titles that just happened to catch us at the right time. Read full article Comments View the full article
Rare has published the first new Everwild art in nearly three years, suggesting it could potentially ramp up pre-release marketing for the game in 2025. Rare announced the new IP in November 2019 and released another trailer in July 2020, but updates on the game since then have been rare. However, fans finally got another glimpse of the game this week, via Rare’s Instagram Christmas card, which features festive-themed Everwild art. Read More... View the full article
Escape from Tarkov's latest update, Patch 0.16.0, is here, and it offers higher-end PvP players a compelling reason to get back into the game. The new Prestige system gives pro players somewhere to go, instead of just reaching the top and twiddling their thumbs. And if you've been rolling your eyes at Escape from Tarkov's bots, they've been given a welcome boost in intelligence. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: When is the next Escape from Tarkov wipe? New Escape from Tarkov update adds essential feature and random mortar strikes New Escape from Tarkov and EFT Arena roadmap reveals major changes View the full article
Over 25 years of Halo content has leaked online, including playable builds from before the iconic first-person shooters series joined Xbox – or was even an FPS. The leaked content appears to have originated from a Halo Studios collaboration with fan modders, which aimed to restore cut content from past Halo titles, including the Halo 2 E3 2003 demo released last month. The mod team Digsite had been working with 343 since last summer – allegedly for no pay – to restore content, including multiplayer maps originally developed for the PC port of Halo Combat Evolved, and cut content from classic Halo games. Read More... View the full article
Ark: Survival Evolved has made the leap from PC to mobile, with the release of Ark: Ultimate Mobile Edition. But instead of being some Tamagotchi-style dinosaur-feeding game, this is Ark: Survival Evolved as you know and love it, just on a smaller screen. And it's off to a strong start, with over one million downloads in just 24 hours. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best Ark mods 2024 Ark commands - cheats and admin code list Ark remaster delayed, now early access, but cheaper View the full article
Infinity Nikki gets its first major update soon, Infold Games has announced. The Shooting Star Season update lands on December 30 across PC, PlayStation 5, iOS and Android, and runs until January 23, 2025. It adds new adventures, limited-time events, and of course new outfits, which you can check out in the new trailer. Fans can also expect new storylines and platforming challenges. The tagline is: "Let shooting stars guide paper cranes on their journey of fulfilling dreams." Here’s the official blurb: Stories of the past still echo in the wind, as new wishes begin a brand-new chapter. During the season of shooting stars, people come together beneath a starlit sky. May paper cranes carry each precious dream, shooting stars shine upon every heartfelt wish, and may every day of the new year shine as brilliantly as the stars in the sky. Infinity Nikki, downloaded over 20 million times since launch, is a free-to-play adventure dress-up game developed in China at Papergames and published by Infold Games. It’s one of IGN’s best-reviewed games of 2024, securing a 9/10. We said: “Infinity Nikki has deep open-world exploration, a quirky story, and some of the most beautiful in-game outfits you'll ever see – you just have to be ready to navigate a maze of menus to get them.” For curious stylists and outfit collectors, we've got a guide to all Outfits in Infinity Nikki, plus all Ability Outfits, to help you avoid a fashion faux pas. As you explore Miraland and search for collectibles, keep an eye out for all the Whimstar locations, and make sure to check in with our Infinity Nikki daily tasks guide. Plus, there are plenty of Infinity Nikki launch rewards to claim, including some very generous promo codes you won't want to miss. 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
Sci-fi roguelike Caves of Qud has exited Steam Early Access after nine long years, and it's sitting pretty as 2024's highest-rated game. It's beaten out Hades II, Balatro and Satisfactory, according to OpenCritic which has ranked it as its 2024 game of the year. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: 95% rated roguelike Caves of Qud just hit 1.0 after a 15-year wait Caves of Qud update adds a ton of new content to 9/10 Steam roguelike Caves of Qud adds massive new dungeon in Tomb of the Eaters update View the full article
Earlier this week, the very much expected double XP event kicked off in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 across all platforms. This is something that happens every year, and 2024 is no different. Read more View the full article
Mat, Matt, and Jen are here to present the IGN *** Podcast Alternative Game Awards for 2024. Which game had the best animal? Which simply requires you to get gud? Listen to find out. Remember to send us your thoughts about all the new games, TV shows, and films you're enjoying or looking forward to: [email protected]. IGN *** Podcast 780: The Alternative Game Awards 2024 IGN *** Podcast 779: The Alternative Movie and TV Awards 2024IGN *** Podcast 778: The Game Awards Reveals and Ferry FightsIGN *** Podcast Special Episode: We Visited CD Projekt Red to Talk About The Witcher 4 IGN *** Podcast 777: Indiana Jones and the Great GameIGN *** Podcast 776: Breaking Down the Top 20 PlayStation Games View the full article
A Valve employee recently provided PC Gamer with a rough calculation of the company's per-employee income, revealing that Valve generates more money per person than several of the world's largest companies. While the data is a few years old and doesn't account for some significant recent trends in the tech... Read Entire Article View the full article
Palworld's Feybreak update offers a lot more than new content; it lets you face one of the most popular challenges in the Pokémon community: Nuzlocke. The addition of a hardcore mode, where both players and their Pals can die permanently, lets players take on a whole new way of playing. The standard hardcore mode can feel too easy, making Pals seem almost invincible because they can always come back. The same can be said for the respawning player. View the full article
The Chaotic mode of the World of Darkness has released for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. This pits an entire alliance against a powered-up level 100 version of the Cloud of Darkness, previously seen in the story events of A Realm Reborn. This isn’t just the same fight with a 50-level increase; instead, Cloud of Darkness has additional moves and behavior to keep everyone on their toes. As long as the whole team can coordinate, the boss should prove to be a medium challenge. View the full article
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Marvel Rivals players recently took to social media to request that NetEase Games enable hero bans across all ranks of Competitive play. The popular hero shooter is currently in Season 0, with Season 1 expected to drop sometime in January 2025. Many Marvel Rivals players are eagerly awaiting the new season and hope to see it released alongside fresh heroes and maps. View the full article