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The Sims 4 has been the core game in The Sims franchise for just over a decade now, with numerous content add-on packs continuing to accumulate a massive playerbase. Despite the base game for The Sims 4 lacking in the unpredictable and more chaotic gameplay compared to previous installments, various expansion and stuff packs have added an abundance of fun features that have kept the game alive. One of the things that The Sims 4 does best is its occult content packs, which always offer exciting gameplay features as well as unique items in Create-A-Sim and Build Mode. View the full article

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes: General Fixed some outdated or missing strings in non-English languages. Game Recording Fixed layout issues in the BPM Game Recording settings page. Added export time to the progress bar in the send to phone dialog. Increased Instant Clip default duration from 10s to 30s. Fixed a race condition which could prevent audio recording. (Windows) Prevent Windows mixer settings from affecting output level when recording game audio. Linux Fixed native titles occasionally running in the wrong runtime.View the full article

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel. General Fixed some outdated or missing strings in non-english languages. Game Recording Fixed layout issues in the BPM Game Recording settings page. Added export time to the progress bar in the send to phone dialog. Instant clip default duration increased from 10s to 20s. Instant clip duration is now configurable in gaming mode. Linux Fixed native titles occasionally running in the wrong runtime.View the full article

The Call of Duty Endowment program has released a 15-year anniversary bundle with multiple items in ****** Ops 6. While there are many ways for Call of Duty players to unlock in-game items, the Endowment celebrates veterans at home and abroad. View the full article

Marvel Rivals has revealed that it will cross over with Fortnite. Since its announcement, Marvel Rivals has made headlines by bringing together heroes and villains from the House of Ideas in a shooter. After carrying out a series of tests to give a preview of what's in the store, launch day is approaching, and players are getting increasingly excited about finally checking out the full game. View the full article

If you also got addicted to claiming new skins in Insomniac's Spidey series as I did, today's your day. There is some new Spidey 2 spandex available for Pete and Miles, plus the freebie train continues with a couple of PC handouts worth redeeming. Beyond that, this is a very CoD-centric day—past and discounted present. So maybe go quickscope yourself a saving. In retro news, I'm lighting a 16-shaped cake for Call of Duty: World at War. In the First Person Shooter wing of my gaming museum, WaW stands out as a pivotal, er... CoD piece. Back in the day, I travelled to Treyarch to preview this and was highly impressed with its co-op campaign (2P split or 4 online), the inaugural version of ***** Zombies, and the way military advisor Hank Keirsey's eyes lit up when we spoke about flamethrower usage and the brave acts of Aussies in the Pacific theatre. Technically the beginning of the ****** Ops sub-story that has now reached ****** Ops 6, WaW stands up quite well, mostly due to an all-in performance by Gary Oldman as Viktor Reznov. This Day in Gaming - CoD: World at War (PC,PS3,X360) 2008. Get - Guitar Hero World Tour (PC,X360) 2008. eBay - New Super Mario Bros. (Wii) 2009. Redux - PlayStation 5 launch, 2020. Get Table of ContentsNintendo SwitchPCXboxPlayStationLEGONice Savings for Nintendo Switch Metroid Dread (-29%) - A$56.95No More Heroes (-70%) - A$8.98Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (-20%) - A$64Resident Evil Origins Col. (-30%) - A$49Super Mario Party Jamboree (-15%) - A$68Xenoblade Chronicles X (-15%) - A$68 Expiring Recent Deals Joy-**** Pair (-21%) - A$95Let’s Sing 2024 2-Mic Bndl (-43%) - A$57Pro Controller (-21%) - A$79Hades (-60%) - A$15Transistor (-80%) - A$4.79 Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card. Switch Console Prices How much to Switch it up? [/url] Back to top Purchase Cheap for PC Vail VR (-100%) - FREEDeceive Inc. (-100%) - FREESpirit of the North (-100%) - FREEDeus Ex: HR Director’s (-86%) - A$4.13Helldivers 2 (-15%) - A$51.72Resident Evil 4 (-58%) - A$25.17Rising Storm Series ***** (≤95%) Expiring Recent Deals XCOM 2 (-95%) - A$2.99The Division Gold Ed. (-75%) - A$18.73***** Space [2023] (-70%) - A$26.98Thrustmaster USAF Multiplat headset (-22%) - A$140Far Cry 6 (-75%) - A$22.48Metal Slug Bndl (-80%) - A$4.59 Or just get a Steam Wallet Card. PC Hardware Prices Slay your pile of shame. [/url] Back to top Exciting Bargains for Xbox Grand Theft Auto V (-53%) - A$28*********'s Creed Mirage (-65%) - A$28Starfield (-60%) - A$47.95The Crew Motorfest (-72%) - A$28TopSpin 2K25 (-40%) - A$36Persona 5 Tactica (-60%) - A$37 Expiring Recent Deals 8Bitdo Ult. cont. (-40%) - A$59.95Dragon Age: The Veilguard (-32%) - A$75Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (-51%) - A$39Mortal Kombat 1 (-53%) - A$36CoD: MW2 (-65%) - A$38WD 1TB Expansion Card (-31%) - A$207 Or just invest in an Xbox Card. Xbox Console Prices How many bucks for a 'Box? [/url] Back to top Pure Scores for PlayStation Spider-Man 2 [2 Skins] - FREEMarvel’s Spider-Man 2 (-21%) - A$99System Shock (-50%) - A$29.98Grand Theft Auto V (-53%) - A$28Sonic Frontiers (-51%) - A$49CoD: BLOPS 6 (-20%) - A$88Astro **** (-19%) - A$89 Expiring Recent Deals Hogwarts Legacy (-66%) - A$34Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete (-55%) - A$34.95Star Wars Outlaws (-30%) - A$77Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (-21%) - A$99FF VII: Rebirth (-33%) - A$79.95 Or purchase a PS Store Card. PS5 Pro Enhanced Bargain Need a cheap Pro showcase title? Horizon Forbidden West - $109.95 / $79 Admittedly, I spent just as much time testing the Pro Enhancements of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered as I did this. The targeted improvements are more or less identical across the two titles, though Forbidden West gets some extra sugar sprinkled on its unique gameplay sections, i.e., improved cloud rendering in the DLC area with a higher quality render mode. Beyond that, you can expect new upscaling and anti-aliasing algorithm for 60 fps gameplay at resolution mode quality. Improved volumetric sampling for sacreliciously good-looking godrays/volumetric lights and more overall stability. All in all, super impressive stuff. PlayStation Console Prices What you'll pay to 'Station. [/url] Back to top Legit LEGO Deals Animal Crossing: Birthday Party (-40%) - A$12City: Race Car & Truck (-36%) - A$32Harry Potter: Sorting Hat (-34%) - A$99 Expiring Recent Deals Marvel Advent Calendar (-25%) - A$45City Advent Calendar (-25%) - A$45City: Arctic Explorer Ship (-40%) - A$150 Back to top Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 players have noticed that even though the developers said they removed a no-attachments challenge, it's still around. The ability to partake in frequent challenges seems like a feature that can break up any possible monotony that players may experience while revisiting Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 on a daily basis. With the presence of challenge events in the game, the developers can incentivize players to try out new things, stop focusing on a quickly forming meta, and enjoy each unique element that ****** Ops 6 and its weapons can offer gamers. View the full article

With the addition of The Sims 4: Life & ****** expansion, players can bring a brand-new melancholic social event to their Sims, and that is hosting a ********. Similarly to weddings, hosting a ******** allows you to bring your Sims together for a special moment, adding another layer of reality to this simulated world. View the full article

One of the best feelings you can get in a building game is when you look down at all you've created, taking pleasure in thousands of machines working to bring order from chaos. It's a feeling you can get in titles like Infinifactory, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, or Satisfactory, but one of its purest forms comes in Shapez 2. It's been making waves in early access since August, but now it has just had its price slashed in a ***** that should bring it to a much ******* audience. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Unique, abstract building game sells 150,000 copies in only three days Factorio like building game Shapez 2 lands to stellar Steam reception Shapez 2 is Factorio with no limitations, and you can play it now View the full article

Atmospheric and gruelling action roguelikes are all around us these days, but they pretty much all involve heading into dungeons, scaling towers, or escaping otherworldly realms on foot. Well, in the newly-revealed Scaravan 66, you're fortunate enough that protagonist Lucky has passed her test, because this roguelike is all about brutal vehicular combat. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Finally laying to rest years of debate among fans, Silent Hill 2 art director Masahiro Ito has confirmed that Pyramid Head's design is not a creation of protagonist James Sunderland's mind but is instead an image from a painting brought to life. Silent Hill 2 players have long pondered whether the horrifyingly iconic appearance of Pyramid Head was from the mind of James or if it had a more complex origin, the latter of which has now been confirmed by the creature's creator. View the full article

Stardew Valley has lots of achievements for players to earn - they cannot all be earned in one playthrough, as the game has two separate routes for players to take. The 1.6 update has finally made it to the console and mobile versions of the game, which has come with nine new achievements alongside its new content. There is lots to explore in this famously cozy farming simulator. View the full article

Something very special happened in our hobby this weekend. The Digsite team, a group of Halo modders who've been working with Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) to restore lost artifacts of Halo history, delivered a mother lode: A playable version of the legendary Halo 2 "Earth City" demo... Read more.View the full article

The Steam Deck is getting a brand new ****** starting net week. Valve announced on Monday that a white version of the Steam Deck OLED will be available in limited quantities starting November 18, offering users who don't want to go through the trouble of purchasing custom skins a bit more variety. The newly-revealed Steam Deck OLED: White Edition will have all the same specs as the one terabyte model and will be available everywhere the Steam Deck currently ships, including Australia. It is the second unique Steam Deck colorway to be announced, following on from the smoky translucent version released last year. "Last year, we released a smoky translucent limited edition Steam Deck OLED as an experiment to find out if there was interest in alternative colorways (there was!). This is our second experiment along those lines. The difference this time (aside from the ******!) is that we're able to ship the Limited Edition White to all regions where Steam Deck already ships. We're curious to see what the response is, and will use what we learn to inform future decisions about any potential new ****** variants down the line," Valve said in its announcement. "We've been super happy with the reception of Steam Deck since we first launched the LCD version in March of 2022. We've always said our intent is to continually work on improving Steam Deck, and that's true from both a software perspective (continuing to ship improvements) and a hardware one (Steam Deck OLED, as well as ongoing work toward the future of Steam Deck and other hardware plans). The Steam Deck OLED: White Edition's is being treated as a limited edition, with Valve saying "once we're out, we're out." It plans to allocate stock proportionally across each region and will restrict purchases to one unit per account. Eligble accounts must have made a Steam purchase before November 2024 and be in good standing to be eligible. The Steam Deck has become a popular way to play games on the platform since its release in 2022, spawning a raft of imitators. The OLED version improved on the original release with a superior screen, and better battery life. "When the Steam Deck is living up to its promises, it's absolutely incredible. Playing GTA 5, **** of War, and other modern games on the go is an absolute joy, and the hardware and controls feel good to hold even though it’s a big chubby boy of a handheld," we wrote in our original review. Notably, GTA 5 and Apex Legend have since lost Steam Deck support. The Steam Deck OLED: White Edition will release on the eve of ****** Friday, and you can read our guide to what to expect right here. 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

Sony says it should have solicited more internal and external feedback before launching Concord, the multiplayer shooter that sold so poorly the publisher canned it just two weeks after it launched. Next time, Sony will need "more detailed confirmation, or validation" that a given live service game can be successful, executive Hiroki Totoki said during a recent Q&A with investors... Read more.View the full article

New Stellar Blade update brings collaboration content, costumes, additional lip-sync, and more. View the full article

Image: Nintendo Nintendo is finally ready to show off the next phase of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. In a Nintendo Direct today, the company gave the first proper look at the Donkey Kong Country-themed expansion for the theme park, which includes a mine cart rollercoaster and a real-life, three-player version of the Donkey Konga rhythm game. The expansion opens on December 11th. To get to the new area, attendees go through a tunnel seemingly made with rocks, that leads to a jungle-themed locale. There’s a towering tree house, a golden temple spewing steam, and lots of banana-flavored deserts. And just like in the games, you can find — and collect — giant letters hidden around the area using the park’s NFC bracelet.... Continue reading… View the full article

Today, Valve has announced that they are releasing a Steam Deck OLED limited edition in White. The Steam Deck OLED has been available since last year, which has also received a transparent version, and keeps the same internal components as before. It will retail for $679 and be available November 18. The internal specs remain […] Source View the full article

Although players only got a small taste of what is to come, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta seems like everything that hopeful fans want from an MH title in the current console generation. It is the best looking title in the series and has added many new features that feel like they will end up being great by the time of the full release. ******* switching, a vast, open-world environment to explore, a likable cast of NPCs, and extreme weather conditions that change the hunting environment are all new to Wilds. View the full article

Valve has just dropped a new flavor of its acclaimed handheld, with the new white Steam Deck OLED transforming the previously all-****** gaming device into a classy white and gray model. Despite being ostensibly the same device, but with a different ******** shell, the result looks strikingly different from the original device, with the white heavily contrasting against the ****** screen. This isn't the first white handheld, of course. The Asus ROG Ally is already available in white as standard, as are some other devices, but Valve doesn't often venture outside the Model T Ford ****** scheme for the Steam Deck, and we love to see it. As we found in our Steam Deck OLED review, this device's amazing screen, and use of SteamOS rather than Windows, makes it the best handheld gaming PC right now, even if other devices have more processing power available. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock not expected until 2025, says gaming CPU retailer Intel just admitted its Arrow Lake launch "didn't go as planned," promises fixes Best gaming keyboard deals ahead of ****** Friday 2024 View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White will be available worldwide on November 18th, 2024 at 3PM PST. This model will cost $679 USD, and will be available in all Steam Deck shipping regions, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong via Komodo. Our new customers in Australia are included as well! The Limited Edition White model will ship alongside all other Steam Deck models at the same time (in Australia, this translates to November 19th, at 10:00AM AEDT). Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White has all the same specs as the Steam Deck OLED 1TB model, but in white and grey. It also comes with an exclusive white carrying case and white microfiber cleaning cloth. This model will only be available in limited quantities, with stock allocated proportionally across each region. This means separate availability for US, CA, ***, EU, AU, and the Komodo regions. To ensure that as many customers who wish to purchase a Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White can get their hands on one, we are restricting purchases to 1 unit per account. Accounts must have made a Steam purchase before November 2024 and be in good standing to be eligible. As this is a limited edition release, we will not be making more of this particular design. Once we are sold out, we will be sold out. Click the links below to add a reminder to your calendar - these links will automatically adjust to your local timezone for the worldwide simultaneous release. [calendarevent title="Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White Release" datetime="2024-11-18T23:00Z" body="Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White becomes available for purchase. Order yours at [Hidden Content]" ][/calendarevent]View the full article

The Steam Deck OLED – which is like a Steam Deck but better in almost every way – is getting a new, if potentially more smudge-susceptible Limited Edition. A successor to the translucent version that only went on ***** in the US and Canada last year, the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White offers both a snowy look and, for those of us outside North America, the chance to actually buy one. It’ll go on ***** November 18th, in all the countries that the Steam Deck currently ships in. Read more View the full article

For a genre built entirely on the appeal of its characters, recent hero shooters have woefully lacked spice and creativity. Poor, forgettable designs have made recent failures and underwhelming hero shooters on the horizon (sorry Concord and Project Ethos) look like trend chasers showing up years late to the party. However, there is one upcoming hero shooter that's doing everything right: Fragpunk. It's giving the genre a shot of adrenaline it desperately needs right now... Read more.View the full article

Dungeon crawlers have had a long and storied history with PC gaming, from titles like Akalabeth, Eye of the Beholder, or Dungeon Master to more modern offerings like Dark and Darker, Dungeonborne, and Legend of Grimrock. There are some truly unique twists on the genre out there too, and Dungeons of Blood and Dream is one of them. Even outside of its art style, which is already enough to set it apart, it brings in some neat roguelike elements that make this entirely its own thing, and it's out now. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

A great game doesn't need to be hundreds of hours long, and games like Firewatch have proved that. Campo Santo's single-player adventure game is one of the all-time great compact games, with roughly five hours of brilliance on offer. However, the studio's next game, In the Valley of Gods, may never come to light due to Valve's acquisition of it. Well, here are six stunning seconds of what you could've won. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: In the Valley of Gods is still "on hold" after the launch of Half-Life: Alyx Valve game put "on hold" to prioritise Half-Life: Alyx and Dota Underlords Valve purchase Firewatch creators Campo Santo View the full article