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
We thought we'd seen the last of the mind-blowing SSD deals for a bit after the ****** Friday SSD bonanza, but we've just spotted another bargain if you're looking to expand your gaming PC storage to install more games. This Samsung 980 Pro gaming SSD deal enables you to pick up a 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive for just $119.99, from both Best Buy, saving you $50 over the usual price. I've been using this PCIe 4.0 Samsung drive for several years in my gaming PC now, and I've found it to be plenty fast enough for my needs, plus this 2TB drive will give you lots of capacity for the latest super-size game installs as well. We gave it a score of 8/10 in our Samsung 980 Pro review, thanks to its superb performance for the money, earning it a place on our guide to the best gaming SSD, and it's now even cheaper. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This really cool mini PC hides under your desk, and now we want a gaming version NZXT scrambles to fix controversial gaming PC rental scheme, as anger mounts The best VPN deals: get cheap internet privacy in 2024 View the full article
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As Path of Exile 2 prepares to launch into early access, developer Grinding Gear Games announces that sales are so high it's already worried about queues despite its extensive preparation. The long-awaited sequel to one of the best RPGs on PC is aiming to capitalize on the incredible popularity of the genre in the wake of Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred, and it looks like it might be well on the way to doing just that. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Is Path of Exile 2 down? Current server status Path of Exile 2 passive skill tree explained Path of Exile 2 Sorceress class guide View the full article
Creating an entirely new edition of Dungeons and Dragons would have been easier than creating the updated 2024 rules for 5e, says D&D designer Jeremy Crawford. Speaking to Wargamer at MCM London in October, Crawford says "the further we got, the more we realized it would have been easier to start from scratch". Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Top tabletop RPGs to play in 2024 Pathfinder's newest class fixes everything I hate about DnD necromancers Phrozen RPG resin is perfect for DnD miniatures, too expensive for anything else View the full article
Gwent fans and physical card game lovers, I've got great news for you: the beloved digital card game is being made real. Read more View the full article
Marvel Rivals is out at last, and it looks as though the game is popping off already, hitting a fantastic 444,000 peak concurrent player count on Steam a few hours after its release last night. This number will likely increase too, as we approach the weekend and word of mouth does its work. Read more View the full article
Undisputed developer Steel City Interactive has announced it will be releasing a new DLC pack on December 12, adding controversial boxer Jake Paul to the game's roster. Alongside the influencer-turned-boxer, Undisputed's 'Problem Child' DLC will also include former WBO interim heavyweight champion Zhilei Zhang, former undisputed world heavyweight champion Buster Douglas, Swedish heavyweight Otto Wallin, and more. View the full article
Marvel Rivals is the next big multiplayer shooter and potentially the next "big thing", with a Steam free to play release now live. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
A playable demo for Sonokuni is available now on Steam. Sonokuni was given VGC’s Media Highlight award at the BitSummit indie event in Kyoto earlier this year, and players can now try out the game on Steam to see why we liked it. The game’s unique selling point is that it’s developed by Don Yasa Crew, a Japanese hip-hop outfit who decided to learn game development during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More... View the full article
Remember that point in June when Helldivers 2's community really weren't inerested the idea of getting anti-tank mines as a reward, so they went out and called Arrowhead's bluff by saving some Super Earth kids - a thing that didn't benefit the divers' selfish desires at all? Well, there's now another Major Order offering a mine reward, and players reckon it's another examnple of the studio trolling them a bit. Read more View the full article
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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