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A player recently managed to capture a bizarre glitch while playing Marvel Rivals which swapped their chosen character with a completely different one. The glitch occurred while the player was checking out the Hela emote screen inside the menus of Marvel Rivals. However, Hela was nowhere to be seen, with her player model strangely being swapped with Captain America's. View the full article

Elden Ring Nightreign brings back the classic bloodstain mechanic, though it offers players a source of valuable loot for interacting with them instead of a glimpse of another player's death. One of the ******* surprise announcements during The Game Awards was From Software's latest title, Elden Ring Nightreign. View the full article

Sometimes dogs are hard to shut up. Over a year and half after releasing Hrot from early access, the developer of the Quake-inspired shooter has fixed the dogs after discovering that a few of the canines have been, for some players, barking in a hideous and endless loop. Read more View the full article

A rumor about the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 has just dropped, and if it's true, it's not good news for the longevity of this future budget gaming GPU. This particular leak concerns the VRAM fitted to the new graphics card, and unless Nvidia prices this new GPU really competitively, the RTX 5060 could be in some trouble. It's been a struggle to recommend the best graphics card under $300 lately, with the 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 being overpriced at $299, and the $269 8GB AMD Radeon RX 7600 struggling with ray tracing. It's an area where Intel has attempted to carve a niche for itself, with the $249 Intel Arc B580 specs offering 12GB of VRAM and faster performance than the RTX 4060. That situation is further complicated by a severe lack of supply of the new Intel GPUs right now, however. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power draw could be lower than expected, suggests leak This new $249 Intel GPU beats the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in benchmark leak There's a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 GPU inside this leaked Dell laptop View the full article

When is the Bleach Rebirth of Souls release date? With the roaring success of Bleach's ongoing Thousand-Year Blood War arc anime adaptation, the concept of the first full-fledged 3D Bleach fighter in over a decade suddenly became a very real possibility. Now, as we celebrate the anime's 20th anniversary, Tamsoft is bringing the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo to the mortal realm. Bleach Rebirth of Souls is a 1v1 fighting game that lets you unleash powerful Bankai and devastating attacks as you take to its story and multiplayer game modes. We've already been inundated with gameplay footage, character reveals, and much more, so read on to find out all you need to know ahead of launch. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

The PC is arguably the definitive gaming platform, deeper and broader than any of the bespoke boxes you stick under your TV. It has become a catch-all for multiplatform games, an inevitable second home for first-party console exclusives, and a bastion for smaller games that may not be able to develop ports. It’s also a destination of its own for unique, mouse-and-keyboard-driven genres that just aren’t quite as comfy to play while sitting on a couch, while also being the place for portable-friendly games thanks to the likes of the Steam Deck. Unsurprisingly, it meant we had a lot of games to pick from when it came to crowning our 2024 PC favourites. While plenty of incredible games came to both the PC and other platforms this year, our picks for the best PC games of 2024 stand as a mix of impressive experiences across multiple genres – some of which you simply can’t play with a controller in your hand. There’s the intricate, automated empires of Satisfactory; the exquisite puzzle design of Animal Well; the just-one-more-round compulsion of Balatro; the thrilling detective work of The Rise of the Golden Idol, and more besides. But only one can be crowned the best PC game of 2024. What did the IGN team judge to be the most worthy? Let’s take a look at the results… Honorable Mentions With so many excellent games to choose from this year, the spread of votes for the best PC game was understandably broad. The varied taste of the IGN team meant that several games picked up a strong number of votes, but sadly not enough to secure a podium finish. Of those games, the two that only just missed out were 1000xResist and The Rise of the Golden Idol. Plenty of games tell a compelling story, but it’s the way 1000xResist tells its story that truly stands out. It is a confident and moving tale that isn’t afraid to get deep, blending surreal concepts with emotionally charged deconstructions of the human condition in a manner reminiscent of games like Nier: Automata. Thanks to its narrative-first design being something of a first cousin to visual novels, 1000xResist’s story is able to double down on delivering ideas and plot in innovative ways that raise the bar for its genre. A follow-up to 2022’s breakout detective game, The Rise of the Golden Idol continues to impress by empowering you to solve its crimes with hands-on detective work. Set in the 1970s, it presents multiple diorama-like crime scenes in each chapter, demanding you to gather clues via close observation and then piece together exactly what happened. Rarely are the actual events as simple as they seem, and the truth can only be deduced from spotting minor things such as an empty gun chamber or the hidden subtext in an angry note. It’s a “puzzle” game that’s not simply about finding the right button to push, with an artistic presentation uniquely its own. Runner-Up: Animal Well 2D pixel art platformers can feel like they are a dime a dozen these days, but Animal Well is different. That may sound like a cliche setup, something you’ve heard before about plenty of other games, but it really is true here. Animal Well wears the skin of a puzzle-driven metroidvania while also twisting all the usual trends that come along with that structure. You aren’t fighting your way through waves of enemies or upping your missile capacity here, in part thanks to Animal Well’s almost complete rejection of violence. Instead you’ll find bubble-blowing wands that can produce floating platforms, frisbees that can tame ferocious dogs, and firecrackers that illuminate the dark to reveal the hidden platforming challenges ahead. The real joy of Animal Well, though, is realising that there’s far, far more to each item than their obvious use. And then you begin to realise that there’s far, far more to each location than the obvious objectives. And as you begin to peel back the layers, you soon discover that what initially appeared to be a five-hour metroidvania is instead a gargantuan puzzle with enough secrets to discover that they could fill an actual well. It’s an innovative and endlessly enticing take on otherwise well-worn territory. Runner-Up: Satisfactory After nearly five years in Early Access, Satisfactory’s 1.0 update arrived this year to cement it as one of the absolute best automation games around. It’s a game all about building assembly lines and laying down endless miles of conveyor belts, which is much more of an immense joy than it may initially seem. The subsequent tech climb that sees your factories become faster, more efficient, and inevitably more complicated always keeps you looking forward to that next big breakthrough. The sight of spaghetti-like factories that span a thousand acres can seem intimidating at first, but don’t let that put you off: Satisfactory’s well-constructed web of objectives helps you build confidence in your engineering capabilities. Within just a few hours you’ll have graduated from novice conveyor belt enthusiast to an automation veteran, capable of troubleshooting catastrophic malfunctions as if they were minor inconveniences. But while the factories are your primary concern, Satisfactory is much more than the end result. This is also a Minecraft-style open world in which you must delve into caves, survive deadly gas clouds, and stripmine rock formations in order to gather the materials needed to both fund and fuel your colossal creations. Throw in a few friends working together in co-op to pave over every inch of green on this detailed alien world and you’ve got a recipe for “blink and an hour has passed” captivation that rarely quits. Runner-Up: UFO 50 UFO 50 is an almost incomprehensible achievement. The concept of an old-school gaming system being miraculously unearthed and made available today is a cute one already, and I wouldn’t blame you if you assumed the catalogue of 50 games that came with it were largely just quant minigames that make for an amusing but fleeting distraction. But that’s simply not the case. Each and every entry in this library is essentially the size of an entire retro game of its own, many of which would have surely been standout hits in their era if they actually existed at that time. But this isn’t a collection of games made in the 1980s, and the deeper down the rabbit hole you go the more obvious that becomes. The games of UFO 50 are smart. Like, modern day indie darling smart. Each one weaves excellent new ideas into the canvass of a retro classic, resulting in games that feel like toys of yesteryear but play like a 2024 Steam top-seller. Echoes of No Man’s Sky, Hotline Miami, Into The Breach and more can be found between the scan lines, but each game is more than just a de-make of its inspiration. UFO 50 is essentially a playable examination of the past and present of video games. There’s just so much to dig into here, with an almost alarmingly consistent level of quality. UFO 50 could have been half as big as it is and it still would have been impressive – instead, it’s borderline stunning. Winner: Balatro If you’ve already played Balatro, you probably understand why it’s here. In fact, odds are good you might still be playing it right now. And if you haven’t, I’d recommend you do, but the kinder thing might be to tell you to run. Because once you’ve jumped into its smart mix of roguelite deckbuilding and digital poker, you might find your free time slipping away and the sun creeping up during what was supposed to still be night. But then again, it sure is worth it. There’s something about Balatro that effortlessly hooks you, the “just one more turn” syndrome distilled into its purest form. Everything about its fairly simple presentation is tuned perfectly to be endlessly satisfying, bringing delight or destruction with every card you play. While on the surface it’s a poker game that’s approachable for anyone who can tell their flushes from their full houses, don’t be fooled into thinking you need to know the rules of the classic casino game to play. In fact, this isn’t actually poker. Balatro is an entirely original idea, and while poker hands may be at the centre of the screen, the real centre of the experience is building wild game-breaking decks that can send your score multiplier skyrocketing. Each round allows you to tweak and improve your collection of cards, switching out suits to more easily achieve better hands, or using celestial powers to assemble literal wildcards. The options are unbelievably deep for those who then want to break the intuitive tropes open with smart modifiers – you may have put together a four-of-a-kind in your day, but play a five-of-a-kind for the first time and you won’t ever want to go back. This is the truly impressive trick of Balatro, making you think you know what it’s doing at every step of the way, then teasing you in deeper as more game-shifting Jokers are discovered, more decks are unlocked, and the scores you consider impressive start stretching from the thousands into exponents so large you need a degree to decipher them. Wrap that up in a lo-fi presentation as deceptively well designed as the card game it houses, and you’ve got a game we’re undoubtedly going to be playing for years to come. 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As hero shooters go, Marvel Rivals is easily one of the most popular in the gaming community right now, but one main complaint has been on players’ minds since its beta *******. With different Marvel heroes and villains taking up separate roles like Vanguard (tank), Duelist (damage), and Strategist (support/healer), many players are wondering when role ****** will be added to the game to help players ****** up for the role they wish to play. But also to prevent team compositions from getting too unbalanced or weird. View the full article

The rumored sequel to Tiny Tina's Wonderlands has reportedly been canceled. While Gearbox hadn't officially announced the second title in the Borderlands spinoff series, early signs had pointed to something in the works. Unfortunately for fans, the latest update on the Tiny Tina's Wonderlands sequel may confirm its existence by suggesting its cancelation. View the full article

The anime fighting game Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact has showcased a new gameplay trailer. In it, Morel uses his giant smoking pipe to pummel the kid protagonist Gon. He uses his special move Deep Purple to strike his foes multiple times in a brutal attack. Hopefully, you can master his moves against the likes of Killua as well. View the full article

Between Millennia, Ara History Untold, Frostpunk 2, and the slow resurgence of Cities Skylines 2 - not to mention the buzz around Civilization 7 - if you've missed Endzone 2 so far this year, that's understandable. 2024 has some serious strategy game vintage, from well-publicized monoliths like Manor Lords to superlative sleeper hits in the form of Songs of Silence. But don't sleep on this one any longer. Originally released back in August, over the past four months Endzone 2 has been quietly earning a reputation as one of the best city-building games on PC. The initial reviews were mild, but that's completely changed. Thanks to another major, free update, this one deserves to be bumped up your play list. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Endzone 2 is like a strategy game version of Fallout, and just got a big update Endzone 2 is like Cities Skylines in a Fallout world, and it just got better Frostpunk 2 and Manor Lords inspire new survival city builder, out now View the full article

We won't be getting the first trailer for James Gunn's Superman until later in the week, but he has at least shared the main theme. Read more View the full article

A fan of Marvel Rivals posted their original concept art of the X-Men character Gambit and what he could look like in the game's signature style. NetEase Games recently launched Season 0 of Marvel Rivals. While the current season features a multiversal crisis with two versions of Doctor Doom at the center, the developer has already laid the groundwork for future antagonists like Knull. View the full article

I love it when a vast RPG has a minigame that takes over my life. I played an extraordinary amount of Queen's Blood in FF7 Rebirth at the start of this year, and sitting down to play poker in Red Dead Redemption 2 has always been an easy timesink. None of these compare to The Witcher 3's Gwent, though. I can't count the number of times I've stopped Geralt in his tracks just so I could try to win another card to bolster my own deck. Gwent is all I want in The Witcher 4, and it sounds like CD Projekt Red is fully aware of how popular it is. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Witcher 4 release date estimate, trailer, and latest news The Witcher 4 won't "focus on Geralt," but he will be in it CDPR has ten times more devs on The Witcher 4 than Cyberpunk's sequel View the full article

We're spoilt for choice when it comes to exploring the universe in space games. You can get behind the controls of Starfield, No Man's Sky, Eve Online, The Outer Worlds, and countless more to experience different flavors of interplanetary travel. After ten years on the market, however, none do it quite like Elite Dangerous. Part MMO, FPS, and space simulator, Elite Dangerous has an entire persistent universe that players can shape through their actions, and it's getting even ******* in 2025. Considering how little players have explored the game in the last decade, next year is poised to massively expand what's on offer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Huge Elite Dangerous update transforms the space MMO based on player feedback If you're disappointed by the Starfield DLC, get Elite Dangerous at 70% off Elite Dangerous has a great new ship, but with a real money catch View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

In a shocking turn of events, Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree didn't end up taking home any awards this year, despite its high praise from critics and fans alike. Following its controversial nomination for GOTY despite being DLC for an existing game, Shadow Of The Erdtree had more than enough content to stand up against the competition. While the beloved Elden Ring wasn't able to take home any awards in its second outing, the third time might be the charm for the legendary FromSoftware. View the full article

Phasmophobia’s event board has a collection of special trials you can tackle to claim exclusive rewards. One of these challenges is Achievement Hunter, and it’s by far one of the toughest to complete. Although the Achievement Hunter task is difficult, finishing it gets you a special ID Card and Badge that you can’t acquire through any other means. This makes it a quest worth finishing, so here’s how to complete Achievement Hunter in Phasmophobia. View the full article

Omens of Tyranny update for Helldivers 2 introduced the Illuminate—a long-awaited faction from the original game. These squids terrorized our colonies and abducted citizens until Helldivers rained hell on them in one of the toughest defense campaigns. Over the weekend, Helldivers 2 players were hard at work fighting arguably the most challenging invasion in the game. The Illuminate attacked Calypso in the Saleria Sector, and according to the progress screenshots from players, the efforts of the invaders and Helldivers were almost perfectly in line. In the end, the Helldivers prevailed in defending the sector and wiped the Illuminate from the galactic map only days after their appearance. View the full article

Ready for a new horror co-op adventure? KLETKA just entered Early Access on Steam with Native Linux support and it's quite an unnerving experience to explore it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is only a few days away from launching in cinemas worldwide, but that hasn’t stopped what appears to be the movie’s post-credit scene from being showcased online in an apparent leak. The scene, posted on 4chan and Reddit, appears to happen at the end of the movie. It introduces two big Sonic characters to the movieverse for the first time and seems to set the story for future movie installments. View the full article

The Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie’s post-credits scene has seemingly leaked. Mobile phone footage from what appears to be a pre-release screening is currently circulating on social media platforms. If genuine, it reveals some of the new characters who could feature in a potential fourth Sonic movie. At the time of publishing, you can watch the scene in question via the YouTube video embedded below. Read More... View the full article

With Genshin Impact well into its fifth year of content, it’s about time developer HoYoverse brings an end to the way that Alchemy Tables (Crafting Benches) currently operate and facilitate farming and crafting for players, as it has done in other titles under its belt. The action RPG is heading into Version 5.3 soon, a patch that should conclude the main story arc set in Natlan. Based on what is expected to happen and the leaks so far, the update is likely going to be the largest one since Version 5.0, which introduced Natlan to Genshin Impact’s map. View the full article

The Fortnite community is not shy about voicing their opinions, so it is no surprise that the R/FortNiteBR post asking for unpopular opinions has hundreds of responses. What could be surprising is what Fortnite features some players have recently taken issue with. Fortnite unpopular opinions according to r/FortNiteBR When Fortnite Chapter Six, season one dropped, there was a lot of excitement for the new map and a fresh weapons load-out. Contrary to regular commentary over the years suggesting Fortnite is becoming too bloated with new game modes and constant crossovers, one user’s “unpopular opinion” was that the constant changes keep the game “fresh and interesting.” Aside from this pretty wholesome unpopular opinion, other gamers had different complaints. View the full article

Slavic Magic's Manor Lords may still be in early access, but this brilliant medieval city builder is a must-play for strategy fans - and now is the perfect time to pick it up. Thanks to Humble Bundle's Hooded Horse Build Your Own Bundle *****, you can grab Manor Lords for its lowest price yet, alongside four other great games from the publisher at a nice discount. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Manor Lords, Against The Storm, and the greatest RTS games now cheaper than ever Huge new Manor Lords update is about to transform the medieval strategy game New Manor Lords update targets one of the strategy game's biggest problems View the full article

FromSoftware titan Elden Ring has now outsold the entire Dark Souls franchise thanks to a sales boost seemingly spurred by expansion Shadow of the Erdtree, though still ahead of spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign launching next year. Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco announced the open world role-playing game has now sold 28.6 million units, up 3.6 million from the 25 million revealed in June. And as pointed out by @ZhugeEX on X/Twitter, this means its outsold the Dark Souls series' 27 million. FromSoftware launched Elden Ring in February 2022, meaning its reached the impressive 28.6 million sales figure in two years and ten months. Dark Souls, meanwhile, arrived in 2011 with follow-ups Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 arriving in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Elden Ring enjoyed the lessons learned from the beloved Dark Souls series, of course, and also marked FromSoftware's first foray into the more accessible open world formula. Players struggling with a challenging boss could step away and spend time on weaker enemies, for example, so Elden Ring gained more mainstream appeal. The franchise is only growing too, as FromSoftware has just announced co-op spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign, in which up to three players are dropped into a condensed version of Limgrave from the main Elden Ring and simply tasked with surviving. Enemies and structures are procedurally generated to allow for a varied experience, with players encouraged to battle to grow stronger and survive the night, when a boss appears. Surviving three days and nights spawns a major boss for players to take down, and the game has eight in total for players to conquer. IGN has already played the game and you can read our impressions here. And be sure to read our big interview with Elden Ring Nightreign's game director for an even deeper dive. Elden Ring Nightreign could even boost the Dark Souls franchise itself, as it's already confirmed to feature bosses from the iconic series and potentially other FromSoftware titles. Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article

Balaji told the NYT that he quit OpenAI after four years at the company as he had realized generative AI would cause more harm than good. His biggest worry was the way OpenAI allegedly used copyrighted data for LLM training – something virtually every other AI startup has been accused... Read Entire Article View the full article