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Right now, both ****** Ops 6 and Call of Duty Warzone are in the midst of the Hit List event, which has both personal and community rewards tracks. In regards to the community track, the number one prize is the new Sirin 9mm special *******, but CoD fans are collectively some way off unlocking it just yet. However, a new bug is letting people unlock, use, and level up the **** early in most game modes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best new PC games 2024 ****** Ops 6 meta - best weapons tier list ****** Ops 6 Season 1 Reloaded release date speculation, maps, modes, and more View the full article

The Storybook Vale expansion pass was released last week, delivering a ton of new content to the popular game of Disney Dreamlight Valley. The expansion pass is being released in two parts, with "Part Two" scheduled for release in Summer 2025. The decision by developer Gameloft to release The Storybook Vale in two parts provides the opportunity to receive double the amount of content and gameplay compared to the expansion pass simply coming out in one installment. This ultimately leads to more enhanced and extensive gameplay with exciting new content yet to arrive. View the full article

In Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, there is no better way to get experience for levels than by farming Metal Slimes. Farming for experience can be important when leveling characters after switching their Vocations, which resets them back to level one. It can also be crucial to get new party members up to speed when recruiting new characters at Patty's Party Planning Place. View the full article

According to a *****, the Legend of the Vagabond Sword is coming back to Genshin Impact in Version 5.3, bringing an increased level of challenge with a new combat mechanic on top of an updated roster of bosses. While the Spiral Abyss and the Imaginarium Theater can be considered the endgame of Genshin Impact, the developers have toyed with adding more difficult combat encounters over the years. The Local Legends of Fontaine and Natlan are one such example, but the Legend of the Vagabond Sword deserves a mention as well. View the full article

As a whole, the Mass Effect trilogy tells a complete story about Commander Shepard, the Reapers, and the resilient nature of both organic and artificial life in the Milky Way Galaxy. Each game has its role in the overarching narrative, and the first game has benefited a lot from the Legendary Edition, fixing much of its original clunkiness. So, although it receives plenty of praise, it might be time to admit that Mass Effect 3 is better than ME2. View the full article

Just like its predecessor, with the entirety of planet Earth available to explore, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has a whole lot to do. 2020’s Microsoft Flight Simulator was the first (and, so far, only) 10 I've given in a review, and the enormity of the options available in this year’s follow-up have only been tempered by the lingering problems that accompany them. Because codes weren’t available early and unexpected turbulence at takeoff made it literally impossible to play for the first 24 hours, I’m still working on my up and coming aviation career, as well as this review. For now, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has some extraordinary features to set it apart, but its impact is also falling short of how blown away I was by the last edition, and I really wanted to be blown away. Instead, I'm "merely" impressed. Right off the rip, the biggest new addition to Flight Simulator 2024 is its career mode. You pick a starting airport as your home base, get hired by a fictional aviation company, and begin progressing through your career as a pilot. It all plays out like a traditional video game skill tree: after you master the beginner missions, you open up new options, and completing them opens up further opportunities still. So you can get a tail wheel endorsement, for example, after you complete the requirements for a commercial pilots license, which then opens up options for newer planes and jobs like search and rescue, or you can get certified in rotor craft (helicopters) which leads to stuff like operating a sky crane. Which, to me personally, elicits a "***** yeah." Each new certification or endorsement also opens up different jobs you can pick from, ranging from simple stuff like flightseeing, to more complex operations like, well, anything to do with the helicopters, basically. Eventually you earn enough money and reputation to throw off the bonds of your employment and start your own aviation company. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I am moving along with my fixed wing endorsements at a pretty good pace. To what end, I haven't yet decided, but I'm looking forward to opening my own company and taking the lion's share of the profits. Those profits are used to further grow your business, and I can’t wait until I can afford my own fleet of aircraft. The first few missions in career mode are just basic flight training, meant to familiarize you with the ins and outs of flying a plane. What I found disappointing is that the flight training is pretty much identical to the tutorials from 2020. All the training missions take place at the same airfield in Sedona, Arizona as 2020 and the actual tasks are exactly the same. The only real difference is that the AI-generated instruction and on-screen advice is a little more clear about what's expected of you in any given mission. I do appreciate the default tooltips in 2024 because there are about a million different buttons that do a million different things, and I used to have to go to Google whenever I'd forget how to release my parking brake. (I don't even think I'll end up turning them off like I did in 2020, just because I'm a forgetful fellow.) The further you get in career mode, the more mission types open up. After the initial training missions, you do a few flights to get enough hours in to test for your commercial pilot's license. Taking the tests costs in-game currency, but you only need to pay for it once and you can retake it as many times as you need. You also need to have enough experience and do well enough in the training missions – but if you are already an experienced pilot, you can just jump right into the test and skip the lessons. The further along you get, the more missions and mission types open up. What I thought was a little strange, however, was that they don't all open up near your home airport. I picked a small airfield in the deepest parts of eastern Maine, KMVM Machias Valley Airfield, but after my initial missions, I was being sent to Europe to complete aircraft delivery and skydive missions. It's not something that bothers me too much, but it did come across as odd, which pulled me out of the “career” illusion I had built up for myself. Lousy imagination! What we said about Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Microsoft Flight Simulator is legitimately incredible. It's difficult to fully describe how amazing it feels to jump into a plane and have the freedom to fly to and from literally any place in the entire world. The base game's 20 included aircraft feel like more than enough for even ********* aviation enthusiasts, and the ability to adjust the assists to tailor the experience to whatever skill level you ******* makes it suitable for anyone looking to fly the friendly skies from the comfort of their home. The real-world mapping data, however, takes Microsoft Flight Simulator from being just an impressive game to the most awe-inspiring simulation I've ever experienced, in spite of its less than stellar load times. Seeing famous landmarks, landing at the world's most recognizable airports, or just touching down in a remote landing strip in South America is mind-bogglingly cool and an absolutely unparalleled way to virtually explore our world. - Seth G. Macy, August 17, 2020 Score: 10 Read the full Microsoft Flight Simulator review. [/url] Otherwise, I'm actually really loving career mode. In 2020’s iteration, I would make-up little missions for myself, like delivering pizza by air from Knox County Regional Airport in Owl's Head, Maine to the remote Matinicus Island 20 miles off the coast (a real thing that happens, by the way). Having structured reasons to better familiarize myself with the aircraft and patterns in the sky is going to keep me on course, so to speak, and stealthily make me into a better sim-pilot. So far it's my favorite part of Flight Simulator 2024 and I'm looking forward to starting either my own airline or a helicopter sky crane company. Or both! I've got time. Another new addition is the challenge league. This mode is the most game-y of them all, but retains all the simulation flight models and physics I love. There are three challenges each week, as well as leaderboards, which I am a huge fan of because I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. Of the three available in the first round, my favorite is the F/A-18 rally race through the Grand Canyon. You fly Maverick's modern jet of choice through a section of the canyon, slaloming gates in a hunt for pure speed. Since it's still the same flight model under the hood, that’s not as easy as it seems – but holy ***** is it fun as *****. It took me a lot of tries to get to my final score of around 1 minute 54 seconds, and that's not even a good score: it only put me in the Bronze league. But the satisfaction of seeing my time raised up above the Xbox Live Gamertag of someone who I don't know at all, but is unknowingly my arch-nemesis, is great. I'm looking forward to revisiting the challenges each week. The previous Flight Simulator had landing challenges with leaderboards, too, but as fun as those were, they didn't quite hit the dynamism of flying a fighter jet through one of the world's seven natural wonders. Take Your Pic One of the things I liked the most about the last Flight Simulator was how it let me visit places I'd either never been before or would almost certainly never visit again. In Flight Simulator 2024, sightseeing has been placed front and center in the photo challenges mode. You visit famous landmarks and places around the world and take photos of them. The type and criteria of the photos changes with each landmark. For example, in the first photo challenge, you need to take a picture of the Great Sphinx while the sun is above its right shoulder on the equinox. Oh, and you need to do it on foot. And that's one of the biggest and coolest new features: you can land, get out of your plane, and walk around. However, it's not quite as elegant as I had hoped it would be. First of all, your walking speed is paced realistically, just like the rest of the simulator, (who would have guessed?) so if you've been playing first-person video games all your life, walking at an actual human's pace feels almost painfully slow. Secondly, the level of detail is going to depend on a whole bunch of different factors, like the power of your PC, the strength of your internet connection, and the health of the cloud servers, so your mileage can (and probably will) vary. Still, in spite of some weirdly GoldenEye-esque objects around the Great Pyramid complex, the up-close terrain itself is really detailed. The sand and desert rocks look incredibly realistic, and the ground in general now seems to look more like how ground is actually supposed to look around the world. If you taxi through tall grass at the end of a rural runway, for example, the tracks from your wheels remain even when you return later. Same thing with snow or mud. Mud will even stick to your wheels and supposedly have an effect on your aerodynamics, although I can't speak to how true that is on account of never having flown an actual plane with mud-caked tires. There are also way more animals now. Instead of static points on a map telling you "there is a giraffe here," animals now pop up in the places you'd expect them to be. I very much felt like I was actually at an airfield in Maine when a bull moose plodded its way across the airstrip as I held short of the active runway. I haven't seen any other animals myself, but I know they're there because Flight Simulator 2024 uses an open-source database of animal locations to put them where they're supposed to be – so with some luck, I can go to ******* and see some lions before long. And when you lift your head up from the ground, Flight Simulator 2024 can look much better than its predecessor across the board (with an emphasis on can). The improvement is especially stark in a place like the Grand Canyon, which I visited many times in 2020’s Flight Simulator. Whereas before it looked very obviously like a smooth, texture-mapped computer model up close, now it looks amazingly like the real thing. I am currently running Flight Simulator 2024 on a pretty beastly PC: it has an i9-13900K processor, a Radeon RX 7900XT GPU, and 64GBs of DDR5 RAM (disclosure, the RAM was provided by Corsair). With that setup, this year’s Flight Simulator looks and runs way better. Mostly. The problem comes from the fact Flight Simulator 2024 is streamed from the cloud, and so far they haven't ironed out all the issues. In career mode, I did a flightseeing mission around Venice, Italy, and St. Mark's Basilica was a purple-checkered polygonal model with no textures whatsoever, while the rest of Venice was rendered in perfect detail. I honestly would rather have something like the world map packs of 2020’s Flight Simulator living on my SSD and only stream the boring parts. Right now, though, there's no way to do that, and the reliance on cloud streaming was something the Flight Simulator team really hammered on the importance of leading up to launch, so I'd be surprised if they switched to some kind of hybrid model at this point. And in spite of everything looking really good on my beastly PC, it's worth noting that my GPU is running at 100% capacity at the recommended settings in order to make that happen. When I turned the graphics down to the next lower preset, it only brought GPU usage down to 98%. That ain't good. Current Thoughts In spite of what can reasonably be described as a catastrophic launch, I'm already pretty much in love with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 – I'm just not blown away like I was five years ago, when I first found myself faced with the opportunity to fly to literally any place on Earth. That option ********, of course, and it's been vastly improved by some smart new features, but it doesn't have that same impact, either. As we move away from the rocky launch, I'm encountering fewer and fewer issues, which gives me the chance to focus on what I love about Flight Simulator. Usually that’s flying around aimlessly, but this time career mode is also giving me real reasons to take off, as well as a better understanding of the world of commercial aviation. I'm going to keep at it before I render my final verdict, but right now, in spite of its initial problems, I think Flight Simulator 2024 is pretty ***** great, even if it hasn’t caught the lightning in a bottle that was the last Flight Simulator once again. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

If you're a gamer that wants nothing more than to bark orders on a vast battlefield and test your aim with some seriously realistic gunplay, you really can't go wrong with Arma 3. It's one of the most expansive, engrossing, and modded war games ever made, and not content with just putting out its own DLC and content for Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive has championed third-party studios and modders to make their own officially published 'creator DLCs' too. The latest CDLC has just hit the military FPS, with the US Marines and amphibious vehicles taking centre stage. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can get Arma 3, the most realistic military shooter, for just $3 Arma 3's next DLC will have you fighting wildfires from the sky New Arma 3 DLC adds WW2 co-op campaign "on a scale not seen before" View the full article

Shortly after his introduction in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Professor Hermann becomes a pivotal character. Hermann is a senior researcher at the Scientific Institute for Research of the Chornobyl Anomalous Area (SIRCAA), a powerful, well-informed STALKER 2 faction that plays a major role in the plot. He's also Skif's source of transportation into the Zone in the first place, agreeing to help him in exchange for some valuable data. However, the mission goes south, and Skif and Hermann are temporarily separated. When they eventually find each other again, it's a fateful meeting that could prove fatal for Professor Hermann. View the full article

Marvel Rivals has released a new trailer showcasing its new map set in a secret Hydra facility named Charteris Base: *****'s Heaven. Having hosted a very popular closed beta over the summer, Marvel Rivals, the 6v6 Overwatch-like free-to-play hero shooter, has become one of the most hotly anticipated new multiplayer games this year. View the full article

BLAST’s first foray into Dota 2 kicked off with BLAST Slam I. With 10 teams and an unusual structure (at least in Dota esports terms), the $1 million USD tournament has already raised some eyebrows in the MOBA community. Incidentally, it’s the first tier one tournament since the release of patch 7.37e. So, it’ll likely be somewhat of a departure from the stale 7.37d meta we witnessed since BetBoom Dacha and DreamLeague Season 24. View the full article

While SMG players may feel unstoppable in ****** Ops 6, ******** rifle mains have plenty of options to level the playing field when it comes to multiplayer stomping. Staying on top of the meta in any CoD game is important, but when it comes to BO6, the choices you make in your loadout and Gunsmith may make all the difference between winning or losing a **** ****** thanks to how important omnimovement is. View the full article

If you’re feeling empty after Arcane season two ended this week, don’t worry: The Jinx Fixes Everything mini-game in League of Legends is back to give you a behind-the-scenes look at Jinx’s preparation before she spoiled Noxus’ party in Piltover with her Rhino *******. Apart from witnessing Jinx’s creative genius in making her *******, League players will also have the opportunity to get the Arcane Shimmer Lab Singed cosmetic which is directly inspired by the show. If you can’t wait to get your hands on Singed’s new cosmetic, here’s everything you need to know to complete act three in Jinx Fixes Everything. View the full article

Xbox Game Pass lets players play their favorite games on both Xbox consoles and PC. It has a large game library with access to hundreds of games, even including access to new releases on day one. Xbox Game Pass also features online multiplayer,cloud gaming, and a bonus EA Play membership. However, there is an area where Xbox Game pass is missing out: older Call of Duty games. View the full article

In recent months, Riot Games has been upping the ante when it comes to super-premium skins in League of Legends. For its new Jinx skin, which is inspired by and coinciding with Arcane Season 2, LoL has created a whole new rarity tier called Exalted and a gacha-like mechanic for obtaining it that can make it a very pricey addition to your collection. That concept alone has already irked many in the community, but now Arcane Fractured Jinx is getting hammered all over again. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Jinx Fixes Everything Act 3 guide - complete walkthrough LoL Season 15 release date estimate and latest news Despite tearing up the lore, Arcane may just have saved League of Legends View the full article

Humble Bundle's latest offering is another doozy, with the Sci-Fi Shooters collection packing in seven dark and futuristic titles and one discount coupon for as little as $19 / £15.04. Among the games included is 2023's System Shock remake, which will provide a healthy dose of nostalgia for fans of the 1994 original, while giving newcomers a chance to try it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Build your own Hollow Knight Silksong with 99% off this software bundle Grab Stalker 2 with a bundle of eight free games Grab 23 top zombie games at a hair-raising 91% discount View the full article

Blizzard partner and ******** World of Warcraft distributor NetEase is selling a mount bundle for about $260. Though World of Warcraft only recently began selling the $90 Traders Gilded Brutosaur, NetEase has nearly tripled its high price tag with an even rarer mount. View the full article

In recent months, Riot Games has been upping the ante when it comes to super-premium skins in League of Legends. For its new Jinx skin, which is inspired by and coinciding with Arcane Season 2, LoL has created a whole new rarity tier called Exalted and a gacha-like mechanic for obtaining it that can make it a very pricey addition to your collection. That concept alone has already irked many in the community, but now Arcane Fractured Jinx is getting hammered all over again. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Jinx Fixes Everything Act 3 guide - complete walkthrough LoL Season 15 release date estimate and latest news Despite tearing up the lore, Arcane may just have saved League of Legends View the full article

Update (Dec 23): Starship, the PC port of Star Fox 64 is now available on Github. Read Entire Article View the full article

The ******** release of Arcane: League of Legends has reportedly censored romantic scenes between two female characters Vi and Caitlyn. The scene shows Vi and Caitlyn having a heartfelt conversation and cuddling up to one another, however the ******** version has the two characters spaced apart through awkward editing. Caitlyn becomes a nondescript blur in some […] Source View the full article

There's stiff competition for the greatest gaming comeback stories, but Cyberpunk 2077 will always be part of the conversation. CD Projekt Red was coming off the back of the outstanding Witcher 3, had all the time and money in the world, and the dream setting: *****, it even had Keanu Reeves. Anticipation and expectation were sky-high... Read more.View the full article

Flowers are one of the most important resources you can get in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Many of them are rather tricky to find and obtain though, as is the case with extremely rare Slate Gray Roses. These Flowers are an essential item for various quests and crafting recipes. They also can occasionally be a villager’s favorite item of the day, so you need to acquire lots of them. Here’s how to get Slate Gray Roses in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

Every Pokémon you catch in Pokémon Go can be useful to you if you know how to use them and in what activities. You normally want the strongest form of a Pokémon, but things get interesting when you consider Galarian Corsola and if you should evolve it into Cursola. Although Cursola is a stronger form of this Pokémon family, there are several reasons you may prefer the base form over its evolved form. You’ll want to consider the stats and moveset for both the base and evolved form, as well as where you can use it. We’ll give a distinct breakdown between Galarian Corsola and Cursola, making it easier for you to make your choice in Pokémon Go. View the full article

The addition of a new Pokémon is always a welcome sight in Pokémon Go, and anyone on the hunt for Galarian Corsola will want to act quickly. This elusive Ghost-type Pokémon won’t always be around, and when it is, you’ll want a chance to add it to your collection. Like many Pokémon, Galarian Corsola only appears in a few places. If you want to increase your chances of getting it, knowing where you can catch it is important. With Galarian Corsola making its debut during the end of the Max Out season, we can expect to see it in future seasons and events, but in smaller doses. For those who are looking to catch Galarian Corsola immediately in Pokémon Go, we can highlight the best way to get it, potentially netting you a Shiny version. View the full article

The Max Out Finale is the last event occurring in Pokémon Go for November 2024 as we say goodbye to the Max Out season. Although this wraps up the season, there are several more surprises coming to players before Niantic moves on to the next season, Dual Destiny. There’s a good amount of content for this final event, especially for anyone who may have missed out on any of the Legendary five-star raids that occurred these past few weeks. Although you won’t be able to challenge every five-star raid encounter or find every Pokémon that was featured for Max Out, there’s still a lot returning that were favorites from a lot of players. We’ll be going over every wild and raid encounter, special Pokémon hatching from eggs, every Field Research task and reward, and the bonuses everyone gets while playing Pokémon Go. View the full article

When figuring out how to best use a Pokémon in Pokémon Go, it all comes down to their ******* and stats. These need to complement each other. For anyone who wants to add Galarian Corsola to their collection and team, figuring out their best moveset is critical. There are multiple attacks you could teach Galarian Corsola that might feel like the best choice. As a Ghost-type, it’s tricky to know the correct combination. Ghost-type Pokémon can be useful, but it all depends on your opponent, and what other Pokémon you have on your team. You’ll want to consider your teammates carefully, but Galarian Corsola has a bright future in the Great League. To make that future possible, we’ll be helping you figure out the best moveset you can teach Galarian Corsola in Pokémon Go. View the full article