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We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel. General Fixed audio desync that occurs for some game recording videos when played in Steam or Chrome browser. Fixed game notes being reset sometimes when enabling/disabling spell checking. Fixed hardware video acceleration setting showing as enabled when GPU accelerated rendering in webviews is disabled (both must be enabled for hardware video acceleration to work). Game Recording Added settings button to allow resetting the game recording folder to the default path. Fixed issue causing some users to encounter failures while exporting video clips. Fixed bug which applied background recording retention interval to manual recordings. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding. Remote Play Fixed store and community features being disabled when streaming to a Mac. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding.View the full article

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded. General Fixed some causes of rare crashes in Steam Client. Fixed game notes being reset sometimes when enabling/disabling spell checking. Fixed hardware video acceleration setting showing as enabled when GPU accelerated rendering in webviews is disabled (both must be enabled for hardware video acceleration to work). Game Recording Added settings button to allow resetting the game recording folder to the default path. Fixed audio desync that occurs for some videos when played in Steam or Chrome browser. Fixed successive recording exports after the first one sometimes exporting the wrong clip. Fixed issue preventing audio capture by the steam overlay in some games on Windows. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding. Fixed issue causing some users to encounter failures while exporting video clips. Fixed bug which applied background recording retention interval to manual recordings. Fixed potential ****** when exporting a clip to file when the machine has previously installed Nvidia GPU drivers but no longer has an Nvidia GPU. Remote Play Fixed store and community features being disabled when streaming to a Mac. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding. Fixed a regression in audio capture for Remote Play Together. Steam Input Fixed duplicate controllers showing up on the ROG Ally X. macOS Fixed Steam Client crashing on store age verification page.View the full article

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded. General Fixed some causes of rare crashes in Steam Client. Fixed game notes being reset sometimes when enabling/disabling spell checking. Fixed hardware video acceleration setting showing as enabled when GPU accelerated rendering in webviews is disabled (both must be enabled for hardware video acceleration to work). Game Recording Added settings button to allow resetting the game recording folder to the default path. Fixed audio desync that occurs for some videos when played in Steam or Chrome browser. Fixed successive recording exports after the first one sometimes exporting the wrong clip. Fixed issue preventing audio capture by the steam overlay in some games on Windows. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding. Fixed issue causing some users to encounter failures while exporting video clips. Fixed bug which applied background recording retention interval to manual recordings. Fixed potential ****** when exporting a clip to file when the machine has previously installed Nvidia GPU drivers but no longer has an Nvidia GPU. Remote Play Fixed store and community features being disabled when streaming to a Mac. Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding. Fixed a regression in audio capture for Remote Play Together. Steam Input Fixed duplicate controllers showing up on the ROG Ally X. macOS Fixed Steam Client crashing on store age verification page.View the full article

Although all the villagers' homes in Disney Dreamlight Valley are unique to their respective characters, not all of them are as charming as the developers may have hoped. Whether it's entirely immovable or just a giant brightly ******** eyesore, the less desirable villagers' homes make decorating the valley a pain for most players. View the full article

Publisher Ubisoft and developer Ubisoft San Francisco have announced they’re shutting down XDefiant, their free-to-play multiplayer shooter. XDefiant will be shut down on June 3rd, 2025 and is being delisted from various storefronts today. Players that had the game will be able to play until the shut down next summer. XDefiant was originally released back in […] Source View the full article

Despite Ubisoft's success in supporting a multiplayer FPS game for many years with Rainbow Six Siege, it was always up against it with Call of Duty rival XDefiant. Now, following reports of dwindling player numbers and in-game revenue, Ubisoft has confirmed that the game is shutting down. While existing players will still be able to play it for the next few months, the game is being taken down from storefronts today. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: XDefiant lead denies the FPS is shutting down but admits "numbers are down" Is XDefiant Steam Deck compatible? XDefiant public test server canceled due to security risks View the full article

If you've been looking for something to freshen up your Minecraft experience, Mojang's latest game drop might be exactly what you've been waiting for. While nowhere near as sizable as the updates of old, these smaller but more frequent game drops get new content into the sandbox game as quickly as possible. The latest, which is called The Garden Awakens, is now live, and it adds a spooky new biome, new materials, and a new mob that's straight out of a horror movie. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 101 best Minecraft skins 2024 The 32 best Minecraft servers list 2024 - Java and Bedrock Next Minecraft Update - The Pale Garden Winter Drop details View the full article

Nighdive Studios seems to have quietly announced a The Thing: Remastered release date of December 5, 2024. It’s a launch plan that will see the survival horror reimagining arriving later this week if the release date promised in a recent Xbox Wire post is accurate. The post, which was published late last week, specifically covers new Xbox game releases from December 2 through December 6, mentioning titles such as The Thaumaturge, Marvel Rivals, and early access for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Considering Nightdive has yet to announce a proper date and its official Steam page still says launch is simply “coming soon,” The Thing: Remastered’s inclusion should raise some eyebrows. Nightdive announced its latest remaster at IGN Live in June of this year, promising to deliver a bone-chilling upgrade for the classic 2002 adaptation before 2024 came to a close. A post from the studio’s X/Twitter account promised that the release date is in December earlier today but did not clarify whether the December 5 date shown in the Xbox Wire post is accurate. If it is, then we shouldn’t have to wait much longer before the full experience is available for everyone to play for themselves. In addition to Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S, The Thing: Remastered is currently set to come to PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. Nightdive has made a name for itself as an experienced remaster studio throughout the last few years. Other titles in its catalog include remasters for the Turok trilogy, Star Wars: Dark Forces, System Shock, Shadow Man, and more. The Thing: Remastered promises a suite of additions to help bring the original experience to modern platforms. These include dynamic lighting, up to 144fps, 4K resolution, antialiasing, and other general gameplay improvements. While we wait for Nightdive to share more about its plans for The Thing: Remastered, you can read about PO’ed: Definitive Edition, another one of its projects that launched earlier this year. You can also read up on why we think remakes and remasters are great for gamers, and the top 10 Konami games we think deserve a fresh coat of paint. Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx. Be sure to give him a follow on Twitter @MikeCripe. View the full article

Ubisoft is officially discontinuing XDefiant in 2025, the publisher announced Tuesday, with all new purchases and registrations being discontinued immediately. As part of the shutdown, the publisher plans to shut down its production studios in San Francisco and Osaka while ramping down its site in Sydney, with up to 177 employees losing their jobs. Roughly half of the XDefiant team will be assigned roles elsewhere. Chief Studios and Portfolio Officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert revealed the news in an email sent to Ubisoft employees that was subsequently posted online, saying that the shooter was "not able to attract and retain enough players in the long run to compete at the level we aim for in the very demanding free-to-play FPS market." The full message can be found below. Today, I wanted to share with you that we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue development on XDefiant. Despite an encouraging start, the team’s passionate work, and a committed fan base, we’ve not been able to attract and retain enough players in the long run to compete at the level we aim for in the very demanding free-to-play FPS market. As a result, the game is too far away from reaching the results required to enable further significant investment, and we are announcing that we will be sunsetting it. Concretely, that means that as of today, new downloads, player registrations and purchases will no longer be available. Season 3 will still launch, and the servers will remain active until June 3, 2025, out of appreciation for both our dev teams who worked on it and for XDefiant’s active players. Unfortunately, the discontinuation of XDefiant brings difficult consequences for the teams working on this game. Even if almost half of the XDefiant team worldwide will be transitioning to other roles within Ubisoft, this decision also leads to the closing of our San Francisco and Osaka production studios and to the ramp down of our Sydney production site, with 143 people departing in San Francisco and 134 people likely to depart in Osaka and Sydney. To those team members leaving Ubisoft, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your work and contributions. Please know that we are committed to supporting you during this transition. Developing Games-as-a-Service experiences ******** a pillar of our strategy, and we’ve achieved significant successes, like Rainbow Six, The Crew, and For Honor, among others. It’s a highly competitive market, and we will apply the lessons learned with XDefiant to our future live titles. Globally, we are determined to take the necessary steps to put the company back on a path to growth, innovation and creativity and make sure we can set you up for success. This means continuing to radically evolve our mindset for Production and Business practices, which we will share more about soon, and doing targeted restructuring when necessary. I know that the situation brings questions and expectations, and we will share regular and transparent updates. My sincere thanks for your continued dedication as we navigate these trying times together. XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin also shared a message thanking fans and saying he was "heartbroken." He also shared refund details, saying that any purchases made within the last 30 days will be fully refunded and that those who purchases the Ultimate Founder's Pack will also get their money back. Refunds should happen automatically with 8 weeks, he said. I am unfortunately here today to announce that XDefiant will be shutting down. Starting today (December 3, 2024), new downloads and player registrations will no longer be available. We will still release our Season 3 content in the near future (exact date TBD) and the servers will remain active until June 3, 2025. For those who purchased the Ultimate Founder’s Pack, you’ll receive a full refund. Players who made any purchases within the last 30 days will also be fully refunded. Those refunds should happen automatically within 8 weeks of today and you can find more details on our official website, [Hidden Content]. A few years ago, Ubisoft and the SF Dev team embarked on a bold adventure to develop a new arcade shooter called XDefiant. It was from the start, an incredible challenge. Not only were we trying to shake up the genre by removing Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) while bringing back a more “old-school” arcade shooter experience, but we were also diving into the high-risk, high-reward realm of free-to-play. And for that I want to applaud not only the Dev team but also Ubisoft leadership for taking that chance! Free-to-play, in particular, is a long journey. Many free-to-play games take a long time to find their footing and become profitable. It’s a long journey that Ubisoft and the teams working on the game were prepared to make until very recently. But unfortunately, the journey became too much to sensibly continue. I am, of course, heartbroken to have to be writing this post. Yes, this game has been a personal passion for me for years and yes, I know that not all challenges lead to victory, but I also want to recognize all of the developers who are being affected by this closure. Each and every one of them is a real person with a real life separate from our own and they have all put so much of their own passion into making this game. And I hope that they can be proud of what they did achieve. I know that I will always be proud and grateful to have worked with such a great team! A team that really punched above its weight class. And what they achieved is truly remarkable. The early response from players when XDefiant launched was amazing—we broke internal records for the fastest game to surpass 5 million users and in the end we had over 15 million players play our game! That is something to be extremely proud of, especially considering how tough this genre is. So, thank you to all of the developers who put their passion into making this game! If there’s one thing, I hope we can all take away from this experience, it’s the importance of open, honest communication between developers and players. This “player-first” mentality along with respectful, non-toxic conversations between developers and players has been one of the standout differences that made XDefiant so special. From my very first post about XDefiant, this was the vision I wanted to champion, and I hope it leaves a positive mark on how the game industry treats its players and communities. To our players, THANK YOU! From the bottom of my heart, I want to express my deepest gratitude for the incredible community that has grown around XDefiant. Your passion, creativity, and dedication have inspired us every step of the way. With the utmost of love and respect, Mark XDefiant joins Concord as the latest service game to abruptly shutter not long after launch. Unlike Concord, though, XDefiant will be given a bit of grace, with its servers not due to shut down until June 3, 2025. Ubisoft also plans to go forward with releasing Season 3, though downloads and purchases will no longer be available. Hello XDefiant Fans, I am unfortunately here today to announce that XDefiant will be shutting down. Starting today (December 3, 2024), new downloads and player registrations will no longer be available. We will still release our Season 3 content in the near future (exact date… — Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) December 3, 2024 First announced in 2021, XDefiant endured several delays before finally launching in May. We wrote in our review, "XDefiant joins the free-to-play shooter crowd as a respectable competitive FPS built around various Ubisoft franchises, but little makes it really stand out." Despite middling reviews, XDefiant got off to a fast start, pulling in a million unique players within two and a half hours, but its momentum soon dissipated. In October, Rubin acknowledged that players numbers were down while denying persistent shutdown rumors. XDefiant's impending shutdown adds to Ubisoft's woes in 2024, which has included lower-than-expected sales for major releases, delays, and other setbacks. Its share price collapse reportedly has the Guillemot family and Tencent considering taking the company private. It's far from the only publisher to struggle in 2024 though as game developers of all sizes have been racked by abrupt shutdowns and layoffs. Kat Bailey is IGN's News Director as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot. View the full article

After assuring players there were no plans to shut down XDefiant just two months ago, the game’s official Twitter account and executive producer Mark Rubin revealed that’s exactly what will happen in 2025. The announcements came today swiftly after a report from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson indicating the same news. According to Henderson’s report and confirmed by Rubin’s statement, XDefiant is beginning the sunsetting process for the game now. Season three of the title will still launch, but starting today, “new downloads and player registrations will no longer be available.” The game’s servers will remain online until June 3, 2025, at which point they’ll go offline and nothing will remain of XDefiant are the memories of playing a game that was kind of like Call of Duty. View the full article

Mark Rubin, executive producer of Ubisoft's first-person shooter XDefiant, has confirmed that the game will be shut down next year. XDefiant was released in May 2024, and positioned itself as a true Call of Duty competitor, although it hasn't quite worked out for the live-service title. View the full article

With every new season, Fortnite unvaults a lot of weapons and adds new weapons to the game. That can be great for players, and knowing which ones are coming out always gives an advantage, especially when dealing with this season's bosses. This is because many weapons get vaulted due to their power and efficiency, so most players always keep an eye on what strong weapons are coming back or being released. So any player that wants to do well should know what's coming. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Hogwarts Legacy is a beautiful and immersive world that lets players live out their own fantasy of being a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, providing many with a cozy feeling that is relaxing and comfortable despite the dark themes that fill the game. In reality, Hogwarts Legacy has plenty of serious narrative threads that can add weight and depth to its story, including ******, poachers, and more that is far beyond what any young student should have to experience. View the full article

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes: Game Recording Fixed potential ****** when exporting a clip to file when the machine has previously installed Nvidia GPU drivers but no longer has an Nvidia GPU.View the full article

Infinity Nikki has beautiful graphics, charming dresses to wear, an adorable companion, and more, but has still left some prospective players wondering about what type of game this actually is. Far from being a simple dress-up game, Infinity Nikki has many gameplay elements to it which can appeal to a large variety of people. Whether someone is interested in narrative, platforming adventures, or simply enjoys the beautiful outfits and styles that Nikki can wear, there is much more to the game than first meets the eye. View the full article

Augments can give your comp in Teamfight Tactics (TFT) a great advantage if you choose the right one, but unlike Set 12, Riot added two new types of Augments in Set 13 based on Arcane. They can alter your plans entirely depending on which you end up getting. Team-up Augments Play with the lore. Screenshot by Dot Esports One of the additions themed around Arcane is the Team-up Augments. These are based on relationships and shared lore between the show’s characters, creating a new combo for champions who normally wouldn’t be in the same comp because of their traits. View the full article

In The Sims 4, there is no need to buy a house when you can be invited to move in. This can be done via genuine friendship, a new marriage, or just faking it until you make it. Many EA-curated homes have spare bedrooms or ample space to build more dwellings. It is just a question of which Sim is easy to schmooze, are close to the end of their lives, or have other goodies to takeover. View the full article

Disney Dreamlight Valley has two types of in-game currency: Star Coins and Moonstones. While Star Coins are used to purchase clothing, decor, and other items from various Stalls in the game, Moonstones are a secondary type of currency. Moonstones can be used in places where Star Coins cannot, unlocking various experiences and items that are otherwise inaccessible for the typical player. View the full article

Stardew Valley players have rallied together to celebrate the birthday of the game's creator and developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, who turns 37 today. ConcernedApe began work on Stardew in 2012 as a solo developer (but has worked with a team since 2019), and released it to widespread acclaim in 2016. Fan appreciation for his work is widespread, and very apparent on occasions like this one. View the full article

Monster Hunter Wilds is aiming to be an upgrade on Worlds in every way - but there's plenty here to excite newcomers as well as veteran hunters. View the full article

A new update is arriving in Grand Theft Auto Online on December 10, giving players some new story, robberies, cars, and more to check out. This will be the biggest update that GTA Online has received since the Bottom Dollar Bounties update released back in June. View the full article

With the latest Ancient Isles update in Fisch, the Fischgiving event is upon us, and we have a special Turkey fish to catch and add to our bestiary. Here’s everything you need to know about the Turkey fish in Roblox’s Fisch. View the full article

Intel gave consumers the first official look at its Battlemage graphics cards, also known as the Arc B-Series, with two cards called the Arc B580 and Arc B570 hitting the market soon. Intel stated that the Battlemage graphics cards will launch below the $300 price point, and the company compared the new cards to AMD's Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia's RTX 4060 through various benchmarks. View the full article

Christmas is arriving early this year for fans of the roguelike deck-builder genre—especially if you have an Xbox Game Pass subscription. Wildfrost, one of the most adorable entries in the genre, will be free for all Game Pass subscription holders beginning Dec. 10, publisher Chucklefish announced today. The game, which was previously on Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile, will also be available on Xbox alongside its arrival in the subscription service. View the full article

It’s never too early to celebrate! That seems to be the rationale behind The Elder Scrolls Online‘s latest update, which sees the experimental Golden Pursuit system return for round two. If you don’t want to wait for the New Life event to earn festive rewards, look no further. Golden Pursuits are a bit of an odd feature, but certainly not an unwelcome one; any avenue to earn rewards for free is a good thing, after all. They are, in essence, limited-time optional objectives that any player can compete to earn unique rewards, a little bit like a battle pass but mercifully without having to put money down up front. You’re automatically opted in and probably even earning rewards without realizing it! To check the current list of Golden Pursuits or claim any rewards you’ve accrued, simply open up your group menu (which will be ******** gold to clue you in). View the full article