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A strange new glitch seemingly rewrites the events of previous ****** Ops titles in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6, as Frank Woods abandons his wheelchair right in front of a player during a training mission. The player shared a video of the glitch with the rest of the Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 community, causing confusion for many. View the full article

Stardew Valley 1.6 finally hits the console and mobile versions of Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone’s 30 million-selling farm life simulation game today, November 4, and with it update 1.6.9 launches across all platforms. The Stardew Valley 1.6.9 update for consoles, mobile, and PC rolls out from 10am PST, although the exact time it will be available may vary from platform to platform, Barone tweeted. Fans do have the Stardew Valley 1.6.9 changelog to run through now (check out the patch notes below). The patch notes are just for 1.6.9, but console and mobile get all the previous 1.6 content as well. There’s a lot to dig into with 1.6.9, but new content and features include the ability to find a lost item via a new friend who appears in the secret woods, slightly tweaked dialogues, new Easter eggs, and new hidden cheat commands. Barone had said that following the release of 1.6, console and mobile players can still experience almost everything new with their existing save, “but if you have any interest in starting a new farm it would be ideal to start fresh.” “Some of the new things, for example, are different in year one than in year two plus,” Barone continued. “Besides, it's fun to start a new farm right?” The free 1.6 update, which sparked a fresh 10/10 Stardew Valley review from IGN, launched on PC in March, which means console and mobile players have waited eight months for it to launch on their platforms. Barone initially expected the ports would be released a month later. Barone has apologized to disgruntled fans and promised not to return to work on his next game, Haunted Chocolatier, until Stardew 1.6 was finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a release window. Stardew Valley 1.6.9 patch notes:New content & featuresIf you lost an item that can’t be found again, a new friend appears in the secret woods who can get it back (for a price).You can now put legendary fish in fish ponds. These are limited to one per pond and produce legendary fish roe. Each fish has a unique water ******.You can now place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that allow furniture.Items dropped in water now float for a short time, so you can collect them if you’re quick or have a magnet ring.Sam and Shane now have work portraits while working at JojaMart.Slightly tweaked some dialogues.Added new Easter eggs.Added hidden cheat commands. (Only on platforms where a save edit is possible)Balance changesBlue grass no longer grows slower than normal grass.Fruit tree growth is no longer blocked by grass and seed spots.Pine trees now drop one extra wood when chopped down.The initiation quest now counts wild slimes ******* on the farm.Thorns ring damage now stacks if you equip two of them, and monsters ******* by a thorns ring now drop loot like regular ******.With the Gatherer skill, the chance to double harvested forage now applies when using an iridium scythe too.Son of Crimsonfish can now be caught during the night market.Robin no longer constructs buildings during green rain in year 1.Placing a ***** and then switching to a ******* no longer applies its enchantments to the ***** damage.Added some items to shops:Adventurer’s Guild: Rusty Sword, Femur, Elf Blade, Steel Smallsword, Crystal Dagger, Obsidian Edge, and Work Boots. These unlock after you reach a certain mine level, regardless of whether you found them in a mine chest.Marnie’s shop: Cow Decal.Hat mouse: Sports Cap.******’s shop: Advanced Iridium Rod.Passing trains are now more likely to happen multiple times in the same session, but can no longer appear on consecutive days.******’s shop now opens on spring 2 in the first year even if you didn’t read his letter.Fixed Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes needed by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.Fixed being able to receive monster damage while jumping down a mine shaft before the screen fades to ******.Fixed spa not fully recovering energy when a max-energy buff is active.Fixed sleeping late while exhausted not reducing stamina as intended.Fixed the catalogue and Furniture Catalogue selling items from themed catalogues like Retro Catalogue.Fixed exploit where a fish pond with a golden cracker could produce unlimited output. Fish pond output bonuses are now applied once when the output is created.Fixed exploit where you could cancel cow milking and still get the friendship boost.Fixed unintended extra chance of spontaneous green rain trees when loading a save in fall.Fixed skill buffs affecting shop item requirements in 1.6.Fixed sturdy ring no longer halving debuff times in 1.6.Fixed lower chance of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.Fixed forage crops harvested from garden pots always being low-quality and providing no XP.Fixed iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or applying the forage level quality boost.Fixed some weapons never dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.Quality of life changesThe game now recovers most saves automatically if they’re broken, corrupted, or missing the SaveGameInfo file.The game now resends most achievements, recipes, and important mail if you somehow missed them. For PlayStation/Xbox players, missed trophies are readded when perform a specific action instead.Fish ponds now show the number of roe or other output items to collect.The wedding event now replays if you exit & reload the day.The tailoring UI is now a bit more intuitive: slots that can’t accept the held item are now disabled, and you can no longer pick up some items that can’t be tailored.******** items like flowers now also sort by ******. That avoids items being reordered randomly each time you sort your inventory.You can now only sell books to the bookseller via the book purchase menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the chance of accidentally selling a book when trying to trade it in.The collections tab now shows artifacts, gems, and minerals once they’re donated to the museum (not as soon as you find it).Clint now refills your watering can when upgrading it.Tweaked save process to reduce the chance of ***********.Anvils no longer accept parrot eggs if you can’t re-roll their level yet.Improved chatbox commands:Chat commands are now case-insensitive.Changed /help format to make room for more commands.Added /help descriptions for /emote, /mapScreenshot, and /unbanAll.Added consistent messages when you can’t use a multiplayer-only or host-only command.Performance optimizations.Technical changesMigrated from FAudio to OpenAL, which should improve performance when playing audio.Updated SDL from 2.0.x to 2.30.4 (used for input and windowing).Fixed compatibility with newer Windows systems when using some older GPUs.Gameplay fixesYou can no longer swap a chest’s type if the new type is too small to store its current items.Fixed NPC issues:NPCs no longer avoid passable terrain features like flooring and grass when pathfinding.Fixed kicking Krobus out of the house triggering divorce dialogues.Fixed Leo following his island schedule after moving to the mainland.Fixed a Lewis schedule where he would overlap Marnie.Fixed a Penny resort dialogue when married that was never shown.Fixed Pierre sometimes showing a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his shop hours are extended.Fixed mom or dad sending duplicate mail if you change gender later.Fixed some dialogue based on location + heart level only being shown if you have 10 or more hearts with the NPC.Fixed special NPC gift reaction dialogue sometimes not matching their gift taste (e.g. ****** giving a positive dialogue for triple shot espresso).Fixed unable to talk to Robin after accepting a house upgrade.Fixed incorrectly split dialogue in Linus’ first heart event.Fixed NPCs unable to pathfind through tiles that had a tent at the start of the day.Fixed NPCs not loading their green rain dialogue if you started the day on the island.Fixed NPCs saying “…” in 1.6 if they bought an item you sold to a shop but they don’t have a relevant dialogue for it.Fixed your spouse sometimes saying “…” instead of the intended neutral dialogue.Fixed your fiancée/spouse reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as if you’re engaged/married to someone else.Fixed UI issues:Fixed world map not always showing players at the right spot when they’re inside a constructed building.Fixed links in credits no longer opening a browser page.Fixed able to interact with HUD elements like the toolbar when they’re hidden (e.g. when the game is paused).Fixed issues when resizing the game window:advanced game options layout being messed up;collections page losing its selected tab and page;social page losing its scroll position.Fixed themed catalogues not having category tabs.Fixed forge UI destroying any item held by the cursor after unforging.Fixed museum menu clicks on the OK button sometimes grabbing the artifact behind it instead.Fixed tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable items.Fixed organize button in inventory UIs letting you put any item in special chests like enrichers.Fixed issue where phoning Robin to get building prices and then resizing the window would enable the build/demolish/etc options as if you’d visited the shop directly.Fixed specific items and machines:Fixed chest ****** getting reset when you swap chest type.Fixed crab pots not producing double catches correctly with wild bait.Fixed crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.Fixed crab pots not applying deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some cases.Fixed fences destroyed on click when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + right) instead of four as intended.Fixed geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.Fixed magic quiver trinket sometimes doing nothing if both a valid and invalid target are in range.Fixed mannequins losing their clothes if they’re moved into storage to make space (e.g. for an event). They now re-equip their previous clothes when they’re put back down.Fixed tents not blocking item placement.Fixed watering cans with bottomless enchantment sometimes shown with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans are now always full.Fixed building upgrades not placing interior items (like the coop incubator) if…furniture is in the way. The furniture is now moved just like other objects.an item blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the lost & found in that case.Fixed cases where the Pirate’s Wife quest chain could lock you out:If you have the quest but lost the required item, you now get a new War Memento overnight.If the quest was cancelled, you can now talk to Birdie to restart it.NPCs can no longer mistakenly accept the quest items as gifts or refuse to accept their quest item.Fixed location/map issues:Fixed screen viewport at wrong position right after warping on horseback in some cases.Fixed wilderness farm not pre-building the first cabin in separate-cabins mode.Fixed grass in Marnie’s cow field never regrowing.Fixed ******’s bait barrel missing during night market.Fixed some missing map tiles which let you walk off-screen.Fixed able to leave Stardew Valley Fair’s festival area in odd years.Fixed weed/stone debris spawning on top of placed paths in some cases.Fixed able to dig up ******* treasure from non-diggable tiles in some cases.Fixed forest fish no longer catchable on the four corners farm.Fixed bug where using the standard farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of another farm type would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.Fixed pre-1.6 saves sometimes losing the Dwarvish Translation Guide. The fix is retroactive for affected players.Fixed pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated correctly. The fix is retroactive for affected farmhands.Fixed pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers never blooming again if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.Fixed raccoon bundle accepting anything for preserve items.Fixed level requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.Fixed fish ponds accepting multiple golden crackers before the first one lands in the water. They now register the first golden cracker immediately (but still delay the visual change until it lands).Fixed two Desert Festival makeover outfits that applied male shirts to female players.Fixed strange behavior of shop items with both a stock limit and stack size (e.g. items in several desert festival shops).Fixed edge cases where viewing a previous year’s secret santa letter in the collections tab would show the current year’s secret santa in the game menu during the Feast of the Winter Star week.Fixed the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the base uncolored sprite for ******** items like roe.Fixed error loading mobile saves on other platforms.Fixed ****** when loading a save file in some rare cases.Fixed ****** when using a tent on Ginger Island during a night event.Fixed some cat gifts applying fishing bonuses from the main player’s equipped fishing rod.Fixed movie theater scene failing in some cases when players have previously unequipped trinkets.Fixed Junimo harvesters losing the item ****** when dropping a crop on the ground due to their hut being full.Fixed rare edge case where a Junimo hut output chest has too many item slots.Multiplayer fixesAdded an /unlinkPlayer [name] chat command, which lets the host player release a farmhand so it can be reclaimed by the next person who connects.Fixed being able to steal another player’s roommate.Fixed farmhands able to claim multiple Desert Festival fishing quests per day.Fixed ****** when reconnecting later in the day after leaving a festival.Fixed host ****** if a farmhand disconnects while they’re between locations.Fixed NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.Fixed crab pots & farm animals owned by an offline farmhand checking the main player’s professions instead.Fixed crab pots with no owner checking professions from the main player instead of the player adding bait.Fixed farmhands sometimes not seing the message when they can’t enter an NPC’s bedroom.Fixed Marlon’s desert festival quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.Fixed some multiplayer logic not handling an offline/invalid player correctly.Fixed some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.Fixed crab pots with no owner checking the Mariner profession instead of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some cases.Fixed ****** not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who join after spring 2.Fixed ‘waiting for players’ check including disconnecting players.Fixed trains not playing chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.Display text and localization fixesIn the credits, replaced the Reddit/Twitter links with a “News & Community” link.Fixed a huge number of translation issues for non-English players, and added automated tests to keep translations more in sync going forward. For example, this fixes…dialogue/event changes in 1.6 which weren’t applied in some languages;missing dialogues and event actions;missing, outdated, or incorrect translations;missing event preconditions (e.g. Leah’s 10-heart event could play on a rainy day in some languages);events playing the wrong music, not being skippable, or placing players or NPCs at the wrong spot;translations having different dialogue portraits/breaks/etc;conversation topics not started when something happens;text being shown with one word per dialogue box;improved grammar (e.g. gender conjugation);various errors and typos;and many other issues.Many improvements and fixes to translations and sprites, including some re-translated item names.Renamed “cranberries jelly/juice/wine” to “cranberry jelly/juice/wine”.Fixed some bad words being produced by the random name generator.Fixed NPC text signs and some chat/UI messages in multiplayer not always shown in your language.Fixed flavored items in some chat/UI messages not shown correctly (like “Player put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).Fixed various typos in English text.Fixed special order objectives not re-translated when the language changes. (This fix only applies to new special orders going forward.)Fixed Robin showing the wrong number of hardwood required for a house upgrade in some languages.Fixed some languages showing ******’s back room invite mail as “???” in the collections tab.Fixed some languages having inconsistent hat hair behavior.Fixed some languages producing items with a different internal name.Fixed French players not seeing prismatic effect for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.Fixed French and ********* showing a ‘needs 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.Fixed Russian club coin and slots offset issues.Fixed Russian Joja movie theater tilesheet not showing up.Fixed Russian tool tooltips having overlapped names.Fixed Spanish jukebox showing blank name for ‘Ginger Island’ song.Fixed buy-ticket messages showing an unformatted price (like 1000g instead of 1,000g).Cosmetic fixesAdded lights to Marcello’s book stand.Sam now changes uniform when he enters JojaMart, instead of only when he reaches his work tile.Fixed many bugs related to light sources (e.g. lights stuck on screen, shown in the wrong location, removed before they should be, etc).Fixed issues with the golden walnut & Qi gem drop-down display:Added support for showing both at once (e.g. another player finds a golden walnut while you’re in the Qi gem shop).Fixed display sometimes stuck on screen permanently.Fixed display showing the wrong type in some cases.Fixed display sometimes appearing in multiplayer when the value didn’t change.Fixed line wrapping for movie concession description tooltips.Fixed visual glitch during the even-year Spirit’s Eve if you have the Joja movie theater.Fixed issue with padding on the edge of maximized game windows on Windows.Fixed a shirt that looked weird.Fixed tooltip display issues, like an empty space for edible items that don’t recover any stamina/health (like sweet pea and crocus) or an unintended double space in tooltip buff names.Fixed missing shadows behind some ******** items (like wine) in menus.Fixed texture wrapping issue with Joja door.Fixed glitched hidden emote animations in NPC profile menu in some cases. NPCs now use always their default sprite in the profile view.Fixed red ****** item sprite drawn one pixel lower than other colors.Fixed missing pixels in anvil sprite’s outline.Fixed stray pixel in dried mushroom ****** mask.Fixed Krobus showing a gift icon for the void ghost pendant when he can’t accept it.Fixed the item-received message cutting off part of the item name if it contains a # character (like ‘Tropical Fish #173’).Fixed the item-received message sometimes showing no count or a wrong count.Fixed some farm animals having double shadows.Fixed stardrop tooltips showing incorrect health/energy recovery amounts.Fixed timing of Easter egg in summit event.Gamepad fixesFixed various issues/crashes with gamepad support.When buying animals or buildings with a gamepad, you can now use the D-pad to move the cursor.In the community center bundle UI, using gamepad triggers to move to donation slots and back now returns you to the same spot.Added a small delay before you can cancel a waiting-for-players dialogue using a gamepad, to prevent accidentally closing it immediately after pressing the OK button.Fixed gamepad issues on the new game screen.Fixed dresser tabs not selectable with a gamepad.Changes for modded playersAdded a Content/ContentHashes.json file containing the MD5 hash for every vanilla content asset. This can be used by SMAPI and other tools to detect corrupted or modified game files.Improved debug console commands.When you leave a horse/mount in a temporary location, it now returns home when that location is removed.Fixed ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ book producing roe for custom fishing catches that normally don’t have roe.Fixed forage crops outside the farm being removed each week.Fixed meteorite, strange capsule, and stone owl only appearing in the top-left 64×64 tile area on large custom farm maps.Fixed pagination in powers tab when mods add more powers.Fixed edge cases throughout the game code related to items whose stacks can’t be reduced to zero (e.g. tools).Fixed various errors when custom items have no name.Fixed error when mods apply audio changes if there’s no audio device available.Fixed error if there are no movies available due to a mod bug. The game will now log a warning and choose from the full list of movies instead.Fixed ****** if a farm animal is in a broken building or location.Fixed ****** if a smoked fish’s original fish data no longer exists. You now get a delicious smoked Error Item instead.Fixed ****** when custom sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg files are paused/resumed many times.Fixed map tilesheet ****** in some cases when playing split-screen mode with mods.Fixed issues when the game’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.Fixed ‘light source already exists’ and ‘changing net field parent’ warnings in some cases.Fixed mod data getting reset on chest type swap.Fixed berry bushes showing wrong sprite in locations where seeds can be planted in any season.Fixed stardrop gift reaction dialogue for custom NPCs defaulting to some raw data instead of their loved dialogue.Fixed able to enter the Adventurer’s Guild back room without meeting the requirement if the door is open after a custom event.Fixed triggered actions being logged twice.Changes for mod authorsSee the 1.6.9 mod author migration guide for new APIs, dialogue keys, game state queries, debug commands, map properties, C# constants/fields/methods, data fields, and many other technical changes. 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 For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Put that boring, ****** PC case to one side, because it's time to grab the Cooler Master Shark X PC case instead. After the recent launch of its top-end $7,000 gaming PC, built to resemble a shark, Cooler Master is now releasing the Shark X case as a standalone for gamers to use in their own builds, as long as the enormous price tag isn't a problem. Jimmy Sha, Cooler Master CEO, describes the Shark X case as "a masterpiece of technology and art" and, given the distinctive design, he isn't wrong. Even the best PC cases like the NZXT H7 Flow RGB conform to a typical rectangular box shape, and there are very few of the best gaming PCs you can buy right now that break from that mould, either. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Save 19% on this pink Sakura wireless gaming mouse, if you're quick You're gonna need a ******* desk for Cooler Master's new shark PC Cooler Master's new MasterHub lets you build your perfect stream deck View the full article

If there's one game I can't stop telling people about, it's Supervive. While I'm caught up in yet another League of Legends flurry in the wake of an outstanding Worlds 2024 finale, Riot's MOBA is beginning to wind down for the year. Theorycaft's colorful multiplayer brawler, however, is starting to ramp up. We've been waiting for the Supervive beta test dates for months now, and now that we have them, the rest of the month is looking so much better. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: When does the Supervive open beta begin? Supervive has "leveled up" for Steam Next Fest, and the stats prove it Upcoming MOBA Supervive is getting a free, week-long demo very soon View the full article

What is the best AS Val loadout? The ******** rifles in ****** Ops 6 fill a similar role, capable of dominating any kind of mid-range ******. The AS Val is slightly different in that it comes with an integrated suppressor, and is just as much use in close-quarters combat as it is in extended firefights. With players still working their way toward unlocking the AS Val, it hasn't quite found its way into the meta yet, although, with our loadout, we think it takes a well-earned place in our best ****** Ops 6 loadouts list. The recoil of the AS Val can be a little unruly, especially during sustained *****, so we've crafted a loadout and class setup that will see you dominate any ****** in ****** Ops 6 with ease. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best ****** Ops 6 XM4 loadout and class build ****** Ops 6 Season 1 release date, new maps, modes, and Zombies Best ****** Ops 6 KSV loadout and class build View the full article

It's a new month which means new Xbox Game Pass additions, and there's plenty of variety in this fresh batch. Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Fortnite has recently added a new emote, simply called “Snoop’s Walk”. However critics have been quick to point out that the walk is essentially the “Crip Walk” gang symbol. For those who don’t know, the Crip Walk is a dance or gesture that indicates affiliation to the Crips. These are the same Crips that have […] Source View the full article

Stardew Valley may be a game about settling into a new pastoral life just outside Pelican Town but it seems that most players don't care to help out the hamlet's many citizens. Fairly early into any playthrough of ConcernedApe's RPG, Farmers will be introduced to Quests which can be found on the notice board outside Pierre's shop. These small missions take the form of "Help Wanted" requests posted by the locals and while the objectives can be fairly straightforward, it turns out that most players just don't care for them. View the full article

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe has confirmed that Update 1.6.9 will be released at 10am PST. Update 1.6.9 is coming to all platforms, but the big new update is especially exciting for those that play Stardew Valley on consoles and mobile. View the full article

Filed in the Créteil judicial court, the lawsuit claims that TikTok's algorithm suggested videos to the teens that promoted ********, self-harm, and eating disorders. Read Entire Article View the full article

Starfield mods could be the savior of Bethesda's space RPG. After years of anticipation, the spiritual successor to Skyrim and Fallout has so far ******* to inspire the same reverence as its close cousins - even the Shattered Space DLC is still languishing on Steam with a 'mostly negative' rating. For some, Bethesda's heyday is embodied in The Elder Scrolls Morrowind. It's when the developer was at its most original and ambitious. Though still in early development, one new Starfield mod feels inspired by that 2002 classic. Skyrim had a close equivalent. If The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 are still a ways off, perhaps it's mods such as these that will make Starfield better. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Starfield 2 would have the same advantage Skyrim did, ex Bethesda dev says Starfield Steam numbers slip back down following Shattered Space launch The 64 best Starfield mods View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

MSI has just unveiled an incredible new deal for buyers of its cases, coolers, and motherboards. It's offering up to $100 in Steam codes when you buy a range of products, with the codes allowing you to buy whatever games you like on the gaming platform. The new MSI offer means that whether you're after one of the best gaming motherboards around, need a new PC case to house your system or need a CPU cooler upgrade, MSI might have just what you need and get you a great saving in the process. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This $599.99 MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX gaming laptop deal is genuinely outstanding Grab Stalker 2 for free, thanks to MSI OLED gaming monitor sales are booming, and these are the ones to buy View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Paradox recently confirmed that the popular Cities Skylines 2 'Traffic' mod had been updated with a malicious file. This file was not added to the mod by the mod's creator, and the CS2 publisher quickly pushed a new, safe version that removed the suspect file. Now, Paradox provides a new statement, explaining that the file may have targeted the cryptocurrency wallets of any exposed Cities Skylines 2 players. The publisher reiterates that the file should be considered harmful and removed from your PC if it is present. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Popular Cities Skylines 2 traffic mod may contain malicious file, Paradox warns The 17 best Cities Skylines 2 mods It may have taken a year, but the Cities Skylines 2 region pack is finally real View the full article

Longtime fans of the Baldur's Gate franchise will remember the infamous villain, Sarevok, from the original game, and were surprised to see him resurface in Baldur's Gate 3 considering his previous fate. Sarevok's role in Baldur's Gate 3 is significant, yet players may never access some of his most important dialogue without attempting to play as the Dark Urge, one of Baldur's Gate 3's unique Origin characters. Players will have the opportunity to interact with Sarevok during the "Impress the ******* Tribunal" quest, where the Dark Urge will have to either resist or embrace their evil impulses. View the full article

If you were one of the three people who'd hoped to spend your weekend playing Ubisoft's new weird NFT game Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, first of all, I'm very sorry that you probably ended up playing a bunch of matches against the same person. The good news is that the problem has now reportedly been fixed in semi-awkward fashion. Read more View the full article

Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P) is the director and driving force behind Final Fantasy 14—and other projects at Square Enix besides, also directing the series' 16th entry. He's also in Monster Hunter Wilds, sort of. Presumably determined to see their favourite developer hit giant creatures with a giant instrument, fans recreated Yoshi-P in the game's character creator during the game's beta last week, as you can see below:.. Read more.View the full article

A player recently discovered an easy-to-miss Easter egg after taking a closer look at a ******* in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6. This Easter egg is a direct reference to Treyarch itself, with the development team, or a rogue designer, planting a secret logo on one of the weapons featured in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6. View the full article

While we're getting a Gears Of War prequel in Gears Of War: E-Day, this does mean that Gears Of War 6 is yet to be a thing. In a recent episode of IGN's Podcast Unlocked, former Gears Of War director and current Diablo 4 lead Rod Fergusson revealed what his plans were for Gears 6 when he left. In short, he was going to take the game to space. Righto. Read more View the full article

Insomniac has detailed the enhancements coming to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PS5 Pro, saying the mid-gen upgrade enables the “quintessential version of the Spider-Man experience.” In a new video, below, developers from Sony-owned Insomniac talk about the PS5 Pro enhancements for Spider-Man 2, including much-improved ray tracing (yes, even in the puddles!), detail, and the ability to play at 60 frames per second but with the visual quality normally reserved for fidelity mode on the base PS5. Senior creative director Bryan Intihar said that Spider-Man 2 running on base PS5 was a “compromise between the creative vision and the technical limitations” Insomniac ran up against when developing the 2023 adventure, which has sold over 11 million copies. It’s a different story on the more powerful $700 PS5 Pro, as you’d expect. “When players play Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PlayStation 5 Pro, they are playing the quintessential version of the Spider-Man experience on the PlayStation 5,” Intihar insisted. While Spider-Man 2 may enjoy a jolt in the arm with the release of PS5 Pro on November 7, Insomniac has confirmed it has no plans to release DLC, much to the disappointment of some fans. The announcement came in the same breath that Sony announced a PC version of Spider-Man 2 launches in January — one of the quickest turnarounds from single-player PS5 exclusive to PC from the company so far. IGN’s Spider-Man 2 review returned an 8/10. We said: “Marvel's Spider-Man 2 delivers Insomniac's best tale yet, and despite its open world falling short, is a reliably fun superhero power trip.” So, what’s next? While Insomniac has a Wolverine game in the works, fans are hoping the developer will also release a Marvel’s Spider-Man spinoff similar in scope to the hugely successful Miles Morales standalone, with Venom the potential focus. To find out how Insomniac has set up its next sequel, check out IGN’s Spider-Man 2 ending explained. 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

There has been plenty of discourse surrounding the numerous PlayStation remasters over the years, and it came to a head with Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Many felt like the 2017 game was already perfect and did not need any enhancements or additions, while others felt that improving the game's visuals to be more in line with the sequel was a positive change. View the full article

Twitch have introduced a new "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label for streams that "focus" on topics like "elections, civic integrity, and war or military conflict". As with the streaming giant's existing labels for M-rated material, ******* themes or depictions of gambling, the idea is that viewers can filter out such streams in advance by altering their settings. Advertisers, similarly, can "make better choices about the content they want to advertise next to" - in other words, pull their ads from a whole swathe of material if they don't want to be associated with anything controversial. Twitch's hope is that "the labels will allow advertisers to have more context to inform which types of streams they show their ads alongside, which we expect to increase brands’ confidence in running ads on Twitch, and could bring new advertisers to our service." Read more View the full article

The researchers' recently published study describes a way to re-activate apoptosis in mutated cells, which would amount to forcing ******* to self-destruct through a bioengineered, bonding molecule. Read Entire Article View the full article

Once you're done with Elden Ring, the soulslike genre can feel incredibly daunting. Yes, you can tackle FromSoftware's previous games like ******'s Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, but there's a whole world out there. In recent years we've had ***** of P, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Remnant 2, and even Jedi Survivor. There's too much to choose from, and while that's a great problem to have, there's one game I need to recommend above all else. 2023's Lords of the Fallen reboot has turned into a spectacular game, and even if it feels too familiar to Dark Souls at first, that'll change the more you play. Even better, it's just had another free update and is about to be 50% off on Steam. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Lords of the Fallen is getting a sequel, just not on Steam 2023's top soulslike hits Game Pass, drops huge new update 2023's top soulslike turns into a roguelike with huge final update View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 associate director Matt Scronce responded to a fan on social media, teasing that the game is going to be getting a ******* balancing update in the near future. Since it launched in October, Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 has seen plenty of success, offering players a variety of content, whether it be through the single player campaign, Zombies content, of the massive popular multiplayer modes. View the full article

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has surpassed 89,400 concurrent Steam players over the first weekend of November 2024. It hence significantly improved upon its peak player record from launch day, although early market watcher estimates suggest that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is still far from breaking even. View the full article