I had no idea what to expect from The Thing: Remastered. I've always been a fan of the film, but I was far too young to play the original back in 2002, so I was excited to get a chance to see what all the fuss was about for myself... Read more.View the full article
Shiro Games developer of Northgard, Wartales and Dune: Spice Wars have announced SpaceCraft, and my space-nerd brain is now very excited. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
In a recent poll on his Tumblr blog, Magic: The Gathering lead designer Mark Rosewater asked his followers if kithkin, the white-aligned little humanoids from Lorwyn, should become Halflings going forward. While the answer was an overwhelming "no", with 69% of the 1,346 respondents asking for no change, I have a sneaking suspicion Wizards might have made the switch already. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG's new ninja planeswalker card doubles in price due to dominant deck MTG land that's been a Standard staple for a year suddenly spikes 300% MTG reveals gorgeous Innistrad cards, but admits to awkward printing goof View the full article
Citadelle des Morts in ****** Ops 6 Zombies hides plenty of secrets, including the mystery of the four powerful swords you need to collect. If you’re hunting for the Raven Sword, we’ve got the details you need. The Raven Sword, aka the Balmung, in ****** Ops 6 Zombies is one of the four swords available on Citadelle des Morts, which you can ultimately turn into Wonder Weapons. The process can be tricky, however, and time-consuming. View the full article
Updates for Haunted Chocolatier have been infrequent, but Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has made it clear it's still coming. Read more View the full article
Path of Exile 2 is releasing later today, and it looks as though early-access sales are scorching hot. So hot in fact, that the game director Jonathan Rogers has come out and released a video to the fans warning that login queues might be waiting for you once the servers go live. Read more View the full article
If you've paid the extra cash to play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle when it launches in early access tonight, then prepare for disappointment if you were hoping to max out the graphics settings. According to Nvidia, you won't be able to enable full ray tracing (path tracing) in the early access game, with this feature only being available when the game officially launches later in December. All the game's graphical presets will use ray tracing in some form or another, resulting in the surprisingly demanding Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements. However, the full ray tracing specs looked set to offer a visual treat to owners of the best graphics card models available right now, with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 cards required for every tier. In fact, the Ultra specs require a GeForce RTX 4090, and even that needs to use frame generation. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle voice actors and cast list All Indiana Jones and the Great Circle missions and side quests Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Sacred Wounds and Jesus painting puzzle guide View the full article
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 publisher Focus Entertainment has confirmed a December 10 release date for the hotly anticipated Patch 5 and Dark Angels Chapter Pack, and released a new screenshot showing something players haven’t seen in the game yet. Focus has said Patch 5 makes the recently released Neo-Volkite Pistol (the one players were using to recreate Ghostbusters) available in PvP, adds a new PvE Operation called Obelisk, the new Tzaangor Enlightened Majoris enemy, and the aforementioned Dark Angels Chapter Pack, which includes a unique armor set and banner for the Bulwark Class. In a tweet, Focus released four new screenshots (below) showing off the new content, but there’s one image in particular that’s set tongues wagging within the community. This image, below, shows a Blood Raven (the chapter created for Relic Entertainment's Dawn of War series) holding what looks like a chalice in one hand and a pistol in the other, while staring down at a potential enemy. Whatever it is, the object is not currently in the game, at least not in a form that can be held by the player. What could this chalice represent? Current theories include a raid-style mechanic for the new Operation (perhaps it needs to be held by a player for a certain amount of time). This would make sense in the context of what we know about the Operation from Focus itself. As a reminder, here’s what the publisher has said: Called Obelisk, you’ll be sent to Demerium and your mission is to rotate a replica of the obelisk to disrupt the flow of energy protecting the Aurora device. This operation takes place in parallel to the final events of the campaign. To reach the console control of the obelisk, you’ll have to make it through a tomb plunged into darkness. To make your progression even tougher, the Chaos forces see a new addition to their roster: the Tzaangor Enlightened, a new Majoris enemy! They will now appear in every PvE Operation with Chaos. Perhaps the chalice the Blood Raven is holding in the image is used to light the way to the console, but this is purely speculation on my part. Either way, it looks like we’re seeing the Space Marine from the perspective of a downed enemy, which suggests it’s been obtained during a firefight or perhaps even stolen from something. December 10, by the way, is also the release date of Amazon’s Secret Level anthology series, which includes a Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 animation that acts as a sequel to the events of the game. Check out IGN’s Secret Level review for more. In September, Saber Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits told IGN how the breakout success of Space Marine 2 had “changed everything” for the company. Eagle-eyed fans have spotted the Space Marine chapter now all-but confirmed to get a cosmetic pack after the Dark Angels, too. 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
Path of Exile 2 early access finally kicks off today, perfectly timed for a debauched weekend of murdering monsters in Wraeclast. Pals, I will not be moving from my chair. My dog's gonna have to walk himself (don't worry, I'm not really this terrible). Early access—whether it's singleplayer, multiplayer or live service—usually means you shouldn't get too attached to your characters or campaigns. Full launch often means a fresh start. This is true of Path of Exile 2, as well, but that doesn't mean Grinding Gear Games is going to wipe everything... Read more.View the full article
In a recent poll on his Tumblr blog, Magic: The Gathering lead designer Mark Rosewater asked his followers if kithkin, the white-aligned little humanoids from Lorwyn, should become Halflings going forward. While the answer was an overwhelming "no", with 69% of the 1,346 respondents asking for no change, I have a sneaking suspicion Wizards might have made the switch already. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG's new ninja planeswalker card doubles in price due to dominant deck MTG land that's been a Standard staple for a year suddenly spikes 300% MTG reveals gorgeous Innistrad cards, but admits to awkward printing goof View the full article
Bringing together the MCU’s best and drawing even more from the depths of Marvel's rich comic history, Marvel Rivals already has a stacked roster of 33 characters—a feat Overwatch only achieved with its sequel over two years later. Naturally, this makes putting together a Marvel Rivals tier list highlighting the best characters in the meta more challenging than any other hero-shooter at launch... Read more.View the full article
Runeterra is coming to the real world for the second time, as Riot Games reveals Project K - a physical League of Legends TCG. Taking after the likes of Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon, the trading card game involves building a themed deck with a playstyle that suits you in order to take on up to three opponents. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: League of Legends' controversial $250 Jinx skin gets hood after backlash LoL tier list patch 14.23 - best League of Legends champions Which League of Legends skins are currently on *****? View the full article
The Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions set isn't easy to pre-order, despite the fact it's releasing in early 2025. Elite Trainer Boxes? Gone. Booster Packs? Gone. Those snazzy-looking Suprise Boxes? You guessed it - gone. It's an elusive set that is already earning the right to be compared with the often-scalped 151 set, but if you're desperate, the Japanese version is still easy to get your hands on. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The most powerful Pokémon cards 2024 Grab a Japanese Pokémon 151 Booster Box for $100 less for ****** Friday Get 10 Pokémon TCG packs and a cool Charizard statue at a low ****** Friday price View the full article
Fortnite has added the Big Flake wrap to the in-game Item Shop for the third time since its release nearly five years ago. Fortnite is a free-to-play game, which means players can get a full experience without spending a single dime on it. However, gamers can buy the in-game currency in Fortnite and acquire cosmetic items for their character to wear in any game mode. While at first the Item Shop only featured a handful of items for gamers interested in exchanging V-Bucks for cosmetics, it is now several pages long and usually contains more than 50 items at a time. View the full article
Every fascist in this game has a cold. The Hitlerites and blackshirts of Indiana Jones And The Great Circle sneeze and cough as they patrol the dig sites of Gizeh, or the marble corridors of the ********. Although this is the Machine Games' clever way of letting you know where your enemies are at all times, it is also mildly funny, as if all the Nazis have been secretly kissing each other, spreading the same rhinovirus from Italy to Egypt to Nepal and beyond. More than that, it's a stubborn reminder that, despite the many hours of perfectly motion-captured cinematics that accompany all this, you are still playing a video game. A snotty tissue that separates the Indy of taut two-hour cinema and the Indy of a sweeping first-person punch 'em up that will take days to complete. All this is to say, you will notice the difference. But that might not matter; they're both still Indiana Jones. Read more View the full article
Bit of a surprise! Nightdive Studios launched The Thing: Remastered, an upgrade of the cult-classic survival horror game. It launches with a Steam Deck Verified status, so you'll be all good on Desktop Linux too. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Dark Math Games - a splinter studio with ex-ZA/UM devs currently working on its own detective RPG XXX Nightshift - just secured new funding. This cash injection comes courtesy of MM Grupp, an Estonian investment company which had previously helped fund Disco Elysium itself. Read more View the full article
Dragon Age: The Veilguard hasn't been a surefire hit with everyone, but luckily the series' original designer has a new game on the way, and it's out soon. Read more View the full article
Caves of Qud is a proper roguelike, with deep science fantasy lore and after 15+ years of development it is finally finished with the 1.0 release now available. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The Amazon Games team behind New World: Aeternum has announced the start date for this year’s Winter Convergence Festival, and outlined the holiday-themed content for adventurers. New World: Aeternum’s festive event will transform the titular island into a “winter-wonderland,” dotted with Winter Villages and themed quests with plenty of unique items to collect, and the festivities are confirmed to begin on December 10. View the full article
Epic Games has made a big change to the rate at which Fortnite players earn XP, substantially increasing numerous values due to fan backlash that occurred following the release of Chapter 6 Season 1 last week. Fortnite's new Japanese-themed season kicked off on December 1 with a plethora of new gameplay updates and content, but fans were quick to blast the studio's decision to nerf XP rates, resulting in numerous updates from Epic to address the complaint. View the full article
Sony’s original PlayStation exclusivity deal for Grand Theft Auto 3 and the following two games in the series was in part a reaction to concern about Microsoft’s launch of the Xbox, a former executive has revealed. Speaking to [Hidden Content], former PlayStation Europe boss Chris Deering (who was recently criticized for saying laid off developers should “drive an Uber” or “go to the beach for a year”) admitted Sony was concerned about the November 2001 launch of the original Xbox, and sought exclusivity deals with third-party publishers to bolster the appeal of the PlayStation 2. "We were worried when we saw Xbox coming," Deering said. "We knew exclusivity was the name of the game in a lot of fields, like Sky TV with sports. Just as Christmas was approaching when Xbox would launch, a few of us went out to our favourite third-party publishers and developers, and we asked them, 'How would you like a special deal if you keep your next-generation game on PlayStation exclusive for a two-year *******?' And one of the deals we made was with Take-Two for the next three Grand Theft Auto games. At the time, it wasn't clear that Grand Theft Auto 3 was going to be as huge as it was, because it used to be a top-down game. "It was very lucky for us. And actually lucky for them, because they got a discount on the royalty they paid. Those deals aren't uncommon in industries with platforms. Including today with things like social media." As a result of this deal, Grand Theft Auto 3 released in October 2001 as a PS2 exclusive, a month before the original Xbox came out. The game released in May 2002 on PC, and then, two years after the PlayStation launch and after this exclusivity deal ended, in November 2003 for the Xbox. As Deering mentioned, Sony’s Grand Theft Auto exclusivity deal was for three games, so included Vice City, which came out in October 2002 for the PS2 first, and San Andreas, which released in October 2004 for the PS2 first. Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City hit Xbox together as a pack late 2003, with San Andreas launching in June 2005. The deal worked out perfectly for both Sony and Rockstar parent company Take-Two, as Deering suggests. Indeed, San Andreas ended up the best-selling PS2 game of all time, Vice City the third best, and Grand Theft Auto 3 the fifth best. Only Gran Turismo came close the the sales the Grand Theft Auto games posted on PS2. The exclusivity deal also helped cement Grand Theft Auto as a PlayStation-first series, and while Grand Theft Auto 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5 launched on PlayStation and Xbox at the same time, Rockstar’s open-world crime epic is still strongly associated with Sony’s consoles, even now. In fact, a number of Grand Theft Auto games made IGN’s Top 100 Best PlayStation Games of All Time list. But what about the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6? It’s due out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S at the same time in the fall of 2025, but marketing deals with either Sony or Microsoft have yet to be announced, if they exist at all. 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
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Flathub has positioned itself as pretty much the go-to place for Linux apps, since it works across many distributions and is even on the Steam Deck. Now, the GNOME Foundation are looking to hire someone to help expand it into a self-sustaining entity. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Marvel Rivals is an instant hit and cosmetics are a big part of the title. For those who want to give their favorite heroes a new look, there are tonnes of Costumes available—and we’ve listed them all, along with how to get them. Though Marvel Rivals is free-to-play, additional cosmetic items are purchasable, much like they are in other games like Fortnite and Overwatch. With over 80 years of comic book history, there are plenty of ideas for NetEase to dive into.[Hidden Content] View the full article
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I had no idea what to expect from The Thing: Remastered. I've always been a fan of the film, but I was far too young to play the original back in 2002, so I was excited to get a chance to see what all the fuss was about for myself... Read more.View the full article