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Like the old Kinetic Blade from Fortnite Chapter Four, season two, the Typhoon Blade is a must-have to battle enemies with style or get across the map quickly. Luckily, we have every Typhoon Blade location in Fortnite Chapter Six, season one. Where to find Typhoon Blades in Fortnite You can find Typhoon Blades in their dedicated stands, in Elemental or regular chests, or receive one as a reward for returning a Sprite at a Sprite Shrine. As chests and Shrine rewards are random, your best bet would be to visit any of the Typhoon Blade stands around the map to be guaranteed to pick one up. View the full article

With every new Call of Duty comes hordes of players racing to reach a handful of key milestones, like unlocking each Mastery Camo or earning the first ***** killstreak. The most coveted achievement of them all, however, is conquering all Prestige ranks. While this should have taken months to complete, ****** Ops 6's premier challenge has already been conquered and its secret rewards revealed - unfortunately, it looks like it might not be worth subjecting yourself to the grind. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: ****** Ops 6 dev explains the new CoD's controversial movement changes ****** Ops 6 events explained The best ****** Ops 6 and Warzone Sirin 9mm loadout View the full article

Genuinely great ****** Friday graphics card deals are hard to come by, as profit margins on GPUs are super tight. However, this Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super card from Asus offers a nice little saving on the best mid-range card around at the moment. When it arrived back at the start of this year, the Nvidia RTX 4070 Super really shook up the middle of the GPU market, as it came in at the same price as the original RTX 4070 while offering noticeably better performance. As a result, it became clearly the best graphics card in its price range, and with today's discount that price range has dipped just a little bit lower than usual. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab this stunning 240Hz 4K Asus OLED gaming monitor for its lowest price ever My favorite gaming keyboard of 2024 has a huge ****** Friday discount This Asus Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 gaming laptop has an absurdly low price now View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Now that the Silent Hill 2 Remake is here, Bloober Team confirms that it is doing pre-production work on a brand-new game. After working with Konami on SH2, Bloober currently has multiple unannounced projects in the works, and this pre-production phase could refer to either of them. That's without mentioning Bloober's upcoming first original IP Cronos: The New Dawn, which is scheduled for next year. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best Silent Hill 2 remake mods One of 2024's scariest games, Silent Hill 2 Remake is now cheaper than ever Enormous Silent Hill 2 Remake mystery finally solved, Bloober confirms it's real View the full article

‘Confident’ game design is one of those slightly fluffy critic words I sometimes find myself reaching for tenuously, knowing that - sigh - I’m going to have to do all sort of detestable nonsense like ‘back up my vague assertion with concrete examples that are useful to the reader’ if I do. Yuck. If there’s one type of design that deserves the accolade, though, it’s RPGs that are assured enough in the richness of their worlds to not feel the need to signpost every discovery. It’s a feedback loop of charitable feelings: the game is saying "we think you’re smart enough to find this stuff on your own". "You’re right!" you respond. "I am smart! And anyone who recognises that must be one smart cookie". Joy abounds, it rains Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers, hedgehogs jig gracefully in the street, and all is right with the world. So, I must say, I’m quite pleased to hear Avowed’s environment region director Berto Ritger sing the virtues of missable content to GamesRadar. Read more View the full article

One of 2024's most controversial AAA games - ******** Squad: ***** the Justice League - has an absolutely wild discount on Steam right now. You can buy Rocksteady Games' live service DC action game right now at an eye-watering 95% discount It usually sells for £59, but right now it can be yours for £2.99. Read more View the full article

Marvel Rivals developer NetEase has revealed the remaining characters set to appear at launch, including a first look at Wolverine. The 6v6 team-based hero shooter is packed with characters from the Marvel universe (think Overwatch but Marvel) and launches December 6 with 33 heroes unlocked and free to play. Five new characters were revealed over the weekend: Squirrel Girl, ****** Widow, Cloak & Dagger, Iron Fist, and Wolverine. While fans are debating the look of each character in the game, the design of Wolverine has sparked the most vociferous response, both positive and negative. The Wolverine here is certainly... different. Not only is he not wearing his iconic mask, this Wolverine looks a lot younger than most were seemingly expecting despite the grey streaks in his hair, and seems to favor a more casual outfit than a familiar battle costume. Some are already saying they’re hoping for the release of Wolverine's classic brown and canary yellow suits via premium skins. Others are comparing Marvel Rivals’ Wolverine to a Street Fighter character or a character from League of Legends animated show Arcane. But as others are pointing out, Marvel comics, shows, and movies have shown Wolverine in casual wear over the years, so perhaps fans shouldn't be so surprised by his base look in Marvel Rivals. The Marvel Rivals and Marvel Games teams host a fan Ask Me Anything on December 4 at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern on the official Discord, so hopefully they’ll provide some insight into Wolverine's design there. A first look at Wolverine gameplay is expected soon too, but based on the video above, we can expect to see Hulk throw Wolverine through a portal to get behind the ****** team. 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

Chapter Six of Fortnite introduced a *********-themed map, NPCs, skins, and many more things, including a new item—Oni Mask. Oni Masks are powerful tools you can use to outplay opponents, and it’s always worth picking one of them up. Here’s everything you need to know about Oni Masks in Fortnite Chapter Six, including how to get and use them. View the full article

Last week, Brendy left a note in our weekly Maw liveblog about a player-made map of Caves Of Qud, the reportedly excellent sci-fi roguelike RPG that lets you "chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations", represented as 2D Dwarf Fortress-esque layouts. Glancing over that map as a newcomer to the game, my eye was caught by the creator's casual mention that Caves Of Qud is technically 2,147,483,646 levels deep. "Is Caves Of Qud really 2,147,483,646 levels deep?" I asked Brendy, like a wide-eyed child asking whether there is such a thing as dog heaven. Brendy wasn't sure. (About Caves Of Qud, I mean, not dog heaven.) So I put the question to one of the developers, Freehold Games co-founder Brian Bucklew. In brief, the answer is yes, but with some significant caveats. Read more View the full article

Troy Baker obviously isn't doing a pitch perfect Harrison Ford impression for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but apparently that wasn't really the point. Read more View the full article

The Phoenix Rod in Roblox Fisch is one of the new fishing rods you can add to your collection after the recent Ancient Isles update, but you can only get it from a secret *****, which is very hard to reach. Here is everything you need to know to find and use the Phoenix Rod in Roblox Fisch. View the full article

If you're quick, you can snag what is unreservedly one of the finest gaming mice available right now for a penny short of half price. With this mouse normally retailing for an eye-watering $159.99, you can save a massive $79.99 and snap it up for a mere $80 in this ****** Friday gaming mouse deal. As our choice of the best wireless, ultralight option on our best gaming mouse guide, the Superlight 2 is a tour de force of gaming mouse design and performance. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab this incredible Logitech gaming mouse at its lowest price ever Save a massive $84 on this cute wireless Logitech gaming keyboard Grab a 1080p Logitech webcam for under $25, if you act fast View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Around this time last year, we were all having GTA 6's first trailer dropped on our heads, offering us our first look at the trip to Vice City that - as of Take-Two's last earnings call - is still set to rock our worlds in Fall 2025. Read more View the full article

HunterxHunter NenxImpact, the upcoming Arc System Works and Bushiroad fighting game based on the hugely popular manga IP HunterxHunter, has been refused classification by the *********** government. This means that, unless something in the game changes to better fit the country's sensibilities, it can't be sold, advertised, or even imported into Straya. Read more View the full article

Back in August, programmers finally got Bloodborne running on a PS4 emulator, bringing the game to PC (at least, unofficially) at long last. View the full article

Fortnite has launched into a new map in Chapter Six, and there are plenty of secrets to uncover, including the mysterious Mythic Vault. We’ve got all the details you need to get the Vault Key and open the door to claim the treasures inside. Fortnite Chaper Six got off with a bang following a record-breaking live event, followed by a move to a *********-themed island full of secrets and treasures. While there are plenty of bosses to ******, great rewards are tucked inside a hidden vault. View the full article

One of the many high concept ludonarrative experiments I’d one day like to bring to fruition is an immersive sim in which the player has access to many guns, but their default arsenal selection is an open packet of crisps which they hold out in front of them, in first person, and offer to NPCs. Some NPCs wouldn’t be swayed by this, but some would lower their weapons at the offer of a prawn ********* treat, and so you’d be constantly playing chicken with various guards: edging closer toward them, your shaking hands rattling the delicious disks inside the oily packet, mentally weighing up whether it's worth risking them turning hostile at the last second. Obviously, I’d scan some real crisp packets and just alter the logos for maximum immersion. One game that’s already taken this scanned bricolage concept and run with it to beautiful effect is Hyperdrive Inn. It’s an avant garde point and click adventure from Finnish studio Horsefly, where the entire world is constructed from scanned fabric samples. Have a looksee. Read more View the full article

A Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 player appears to have become the first in the world to hit Prestige Master level 1,000, revealing the previously unknown rewards for doing so in the process — but not everyone in the community is happy about it. A screenshot of gameplay from a Call of Duty player called ‘Aldredd’ revealed the milestone had been achieved, shocking players. The grind for experience points (XP) and ‘prestige’ (resetting progress and leveling up all over again after hitting 55) is part of the Call of Duty experience, and for many is the driving motivation to play for months, sometimes years on end. But a player already hitting the maximum possible level, with ****** Ops 6 little over a month old, was thought impossible. That's because of the astronomical amount of XP required to hit level 1,000 (approx 50 million XP). Once you Prestige 10 times you can graduate to become a Prestige Master, which unlocks an extra 1,000 levels to grind. Hitting level 1,000 Prestige Master is the end point of the entire ****** Ops 6 grind, and brings with it a set of exclusive rewards that were unknown to the community, until now. 1000 Unlocked #cod #nukesquad #mogged #CallofDuty [Hidden Content] — Beamishh (@Beamishhhhhhh) December 1, 2024 The player in question created an X / Twitter account to discuss what they had achieved, and even published a video showing off the rewards. The X / Twitter user, called ‘Beamishh,’ subsequently admitted to using “Zombies glitches,” to hit level 1,000 already. Ever since ****** Ops 6’s release players have used the PvE Zombies mode to farm XP because it's much quicker than playing Multiplayer or Warzone (XP progress is shared across all three experiences). And within Zombies mode, various away from keyboard (AFK) glitches and exploits have been discovered that let players leave their console or PC running as their character obtains XP from infinite waves of zombie enemies. And that’s exactly what Aldredd / Beamishh did. Why is this a problem? Some ****** Ops 6 players were racing to become the first to hit Prestige Master level 1,000 and thus reveal the rewards themselves. Indeed, entire groups of players were working together to reveal the rewards first through legitimate play. One such group, called ***** Squad, is made up of Call of Duty streamers who are sharing their accounts in order to hit the coveted milestone, but are now complaining about Beamishh getting there first. One member of ***** Squad, called Santana, tweeted to say they were “robbed.” “So saddening to see zombie exploiters ruin the level 1,000 rewards,” they said. “***** Squad has streamed every single game since the game released and for it to be robbed and posted all over social media is so disheartening. It’s also sad that the company didn’t really do anything about these exploiters even though we all knew what was going on in the background. GGs.” Santana’s tweet has itself fueled the row, with some in the community pointing out that while Beamishh used Zombies glitches to hit level 1,000, ***** Squad were trying to hit the same milestone by account sharing, which violates Call of Duty’s terms of service. Santana replied to this suggestion by claiming that Call of Duty publisher Activision had told ***** Squad that its members were allowed to account share for the race, but were restricted to no more than six people, and no more than eight hours for each person playing. This itself has caused some to wonder why an exception was made for Call of Duty streamers and content creators, leaving regular players with a disadvantage or facing a potential ban for employing the same tactic. The row shows no sign of stopping either, with both Beamishh and Santana continuing to have their say online. Beamishh denied cheating (“I’m just doing zombies glitches mate idk why you’re so tilted”) but admitted “there’s nothing impressive about my 1,000.” Santana has suggested Zombies AFK exploiters could get banned. Warning! Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 Prestige Master Level 1,000 spoilers follow: As for the rewards, some are saying they tease the next Call of Duty game, which is reportedly a ****** Ops 2 sequel set around 2030. They include a skin for Operator Eric Samuels, a Secret Service agent from ****** Ops 2. The skin is called 'New Orders' and looks like it includes future tech. The ******* blueprint is called Enigma Tech, and includes the following description: "Get a glimpse of the day after tomorrow with the Enigma Tech ******* Blueprint." ****** Ops 6 Prestige Master Lvl 1000 Rewards likely give major hints to the next Call of Duty game. Via @beamishhhhhhh [Hidden Content] — ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) December 1, 2024 The speculation now is that Activision and ****** Ops developer Treyarch had hoped it would take at least half a year for players to hit Prestige Master Level 1,000, around about the time it planned to pull back the curtain on next year’s Call of Duty. Samuels, it seems, will play a role in that game. All this will make sense in time, but for Activision, perhaps, this particular breadcrumb was discovered sooner than expected. Taking on Zombies mode? We've got Essential Zombies Tips and Tricks to help you get started, plus a guide on How to Exfil. Both Zombies maps are full of easter eggs and secrets; here's everything we've found in both Terminus and Liberty Falls, including How to Pack-a-Punch in Liberty Falls and How to Get the Meteor Easter Egg in Terminus. 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

Silent Hill 2 Remake is likely all but done with now apart from the potential odd patch with some fixes, so Bloober has already started working on its next project. Read more View the full article

Valve have released the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2024. Here's the details from it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

To your stations, colleagues! December has ambushed us like a hideous hairy man in a red bobble hat, and time is of the essence. In just a handful of weeks, Horace the Endless Bear shall strike the brazen gong labelled "Happy holidays" and atomise the world, that it may be born anew in 2025. Before that, we must heap the Maw's plate high with any remaining new video games or video game news from 2024. Find below a few new PC releases for the pile. I thought it was going to be a quiet week, but it's actually quite a boisterous haul. Read more View the full article

If we look at the revenue figures generated by the eSports market in 2023, ******* States comes top of the pile with $870 million in revenue. However, the other two countries making up the two three are China, with $445 million and South Korea with $274 million in revenue. This underlines the popularity of eSports […] Source View the full article

Madden NFL 25 wasn’t simply one more football game—it is a festival of all that fans love about the series, loaded with new ideas that meaningfully impacted the way we play. Released to mark 25 years of Madden NFL, this game brought a blend of sentimentality and innovation to players all over the place. It […] Source View the full article

Indie developer Summitsphere has announced a delay for ANTONBLAST on Switch, their new hand-animated retro platformer. ANTONBLAST will forgo its previously announced December release on Switch for one later but “before end of year.” The Windows PC (via Steam) version is still on track for December 3rd. The Switch version is a timed exclusive, the original Kickstarter […] Source View the full article

Developer Pocketpair has issued a new update for its hit survival game Palworld that has not gone over well with fans. Palworld was one of 2024's earliest and biggest successes. The record-smashing game was a huge hit in early access, and enjoyed significantly high player counts on PC and Xbox. View the full article