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Developer Argonaut Games has unveiled 20 achievements for the upcoming remaster of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, hinting at a range of tasks players will encounter, including exploration and combat. The classic title from the golden era of the PS1 still lacks a release date, but the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster developer has announced it will be released in 2024. View the full article

Concord won't get a second chance. The hero shooter that bombed in August isn't going to be reworked and relaunched, Sony announced this week, and the studio that spent years developing it is being closed for good... Read more.View the full article

Call of Duty ****** Ops 6 has enjoyed a blockbuster launch, according to Microsoft. The latest entry in Activision’s shooter series was released on October 25 for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC on the Microsoft Store, Battle.net and Steam. Notably, it was also the first Call of Duty to be available on Game Pass at launch. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touched on the game’s early performance during Microsoft’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Read More... View the full article

If you've sunk thousands of hours into series like Cities Skylines, Tropico, and Frostpunk, you may consider yourself something of a city builder ****. Well, here's a game that lets you literally earn that title, as These Doomed Isles puts you in the shoes of Greek, Celtic, *********, and Mayan gods and asks you to build a kingdom. These Doomed Isles has just celebrated its 1.0 launch after a spell in Steam Early Access, and it gives you plenty of plates to spin. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: These Doomed Isles finally hits 1.0, adds two new modes and fixes UI View the full article

***** by Daylight needs some competition in the world, and recently offerings like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and ******* Klowns from Outer Space The Game have been able to step into the space once solely held by that title. Unfortunately, the latter of those has had a rough time since launch with players on Steam turning away from it, but a newly released patch and map has seen a turnaround in that downward trend. At least, partially. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Multiplayer game ******* Klowns to add two horror legends in new DLC ******* Klowns player numbers stagnate on Steam two weeks after launch ******* Klowns from Outer Space guide View the full article

World of Warcraft is adding the pointed Arathi ear customizations for both Human and Kul Tiran characters in Patch 11.0.7. These unexpected character customization options will arrive in the new World of Warcraft content update, currently expected to arrive in early 2025. View the full article

The latest Genshin Impact build on the beta servers has revealed that Version 5.2 will feature Ororon, Shikanoin Heizou, Yao Yao, and Fischl as the featured 4-Star characters. While most players tend to prefer 5-Star characters in Genshin Impact, the importance of 4-Star characters cannot be overstated. Despite launching in Version 1.0, Bennett and Xiangling have continued to play an almost dominant role in the meta, and even newcomers such as Chevreuse have carved out a role for themselves. View the full article

Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most graphically demanding and visually impressive games in recent years, will soon get a Mac release, according to developer and publisher CD Projekt Red. The announcement was published on CD Projekt Red's blog and also appeared briefly during Apple's pre-recorded MacBook Pro announcement video. The game will be sold on the Mac App Store, Steam, GOG, and the Epic Game Store when it launches, and it will be labeled the Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, which simply means it also includes Phantom Liberty, the expansion that was released a couple of years after the original game. Cyberpunk 2027 launched in a rough state in 2020, especially on low-end hardware. Subsequent patches and a significant overhaul with Phantom Liberty largely redeemed it in critics' eyes—the result of all that post-launch work is the version Mac users will get. Read full article Comments View the full article

Bandai Namco's latest Tales of Remaster is looking to be the strongest yet, and that's exciting for the future. View the full article

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's creative director, Axel Torvenius, has stated that the game is designed to run at 60 frames per second on both the Xbox Series X and Series S. Discussing the game's technical performance, the creative director for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle promised to share more details as the release date gets closer. View the full article

The €650 million ($702 million) project is being funded by the ********* Investment Bank, which recently finalized a green credit deal with Belgian transmission operator Elia to kick off the first phase. This initiative is a key part of the EU's ambitious REPowerEU plan to phase out fossil fuels and... Read Entire Article View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Image: The Verge Microsoft’s Q1 2025 earnings are in, and the results show that Microsoft’s software gaming revenues are way up even as Xbox hardware revenue is declining. The company says that its Xbox content and services revenue grew 61 percent year-over-year from the previous quarter — a figure is driven by “53 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition,” according to the company’s press release. But hardware revenues again declined, down 29 percent this quarter, which may be influenced by Microsoft’s continued strategy to make its games available more widely than just Xbox consoles. During the quarter, Microsoft introduced its new Xbox Game Pass “Standard” tier and a price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Q1 also saw the arrival of Call... Continue reading… View the full article

The next round of Gigantamax raids has come to Pokémon Go, and you’ll want to band together with any nearby players to help take it down. This time around, you’ll be focusing on Gigantamax Gengar, and you’ll want to know its weaknesses and the best Pokémon to counter it. You can have the best Pokémon on your team, and know Gengar’s weaknesses, but it takes a strong team to compete in Gigantamax raids. You’ll want to gather at least 20 other players for a chance to beat this exceptionally powerful Gengar. Following the first round of Gigantamax raids, Niantic made small changes to the system, and players gave their proper feedback. If you’re ready for this next round of raids, here’s what you need to know about all Gigantamax Gengar weaknesses and the best Pokémon to counter them in Pokémon Go. View the full article

After years of console domination, we’re starting to see cracks in the PlayStation brand as it tries to brute force its way towards live-service supremacy. There’s no clearer example of this than the high-profile ******** of Concord and the closing of Firewalk Studio. This week, PlayStation announced that it was shuttering Firewalk Studio, a developer founded in 2018 that Sony acquired just last year. The reason for the acquisition and the closure are the same: Concord, a live-service PvP hero shooter released on both PS5 and PC, developed by creatives who cut their teeth on games like Destiny and Call of Duty. To be perfectly frank, Concord bombed. According to SteamDB data, player counts on PC never broke 1000, and estimated sales figures across both PS5 and Steam were abysmal. At the time of its disastrous launch, I ***** out reasons why Concord ******* to land, including the eight years it spent in development that caused it to completely miss the hero shooter trend that was kickstarted by Team Fortress 2 in 2007 and peaked with Overwatch in 2016: “Knowing the cost and development time required for a AAA online games, studios have to assess, predict and/or simply guess as to what will be the next big hit. What games will succeed in four, five, six years time if we begin developing it right now? Will the audience still care for that kind of game when we’re finally ready to release it? It practically requires the services of a fortune-teller to get the answer right.” Basically, if you start making a game based on what’s popular now, you’re probably already too late. The reason for the acquisition and the closure are the same: Concord That quite straightforward mistake is compounded by Concord’s exorbitant development cost. The vast budget that allowed for PlayStation’s characteristic best-in-class visuals and a library of cinematic cutscenes we’ll never see meant that while rivals were released free-to-play, Sony chose to sell the game for $40. Combined with low consumer awareness and tons of quality, free alternatives, Concord’s price put it at a massive — and, as it turns out, fatal — disadvantage. Content wise, it’s hard to say that Concord was fully baked when it launched. The character kits were awkward at best, the systems — which Firewalk said mixes elements of fighting games and card games — were mostly unclear, and the map designs had much to be desired. Parts of the internet will say that Concord’s characters also doomed the game. Though this is a hard argument to believe considering Valve’s own hero shooter, Deadlock, was released at around the same time to widespread excitement and an exploding player count. And Deadlock doesn’t even have a finalized character roster, though it is free-to-play. But all this is to say that Concord is a ****** eye on the PlayStation brand, and not just because of its commercial ********. Sony’s handling the entire situation has been catastrophic. It’s one thing to release a flop, but pulling the game from stores and player accounts barely weeks after launch, and then shutting down the studio it just acquired and scattering its developers into the wilds of 2024’s already ********** games industry, are the panicked decisions of a company totally unsure of where to go next. This kind of ******** and subsequent panic is alien to modern Sony. Since the launch of the PlayStation 4, its gaming brand has been nearly unstoppable, releasing critically-acclaimed game after game and defeating its rivals in the console race. Nintendo has all but exited the console wars, choosing instead to be everyone’s second console of choice, while Xbox has spent years rebuilding itself in an attempt to get close to being second place again. But while games the platform’s signature single-player games like **** of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man, and The Last of Us racked up awards and sales, the game industry changed. Industry analysts like MIDiA may say that most gamers prefer single-player games, but the truth is that in 2023, 80% of game time was spent on just 66 games, most of which are online games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, Call of Duty, and League of Legends. Live-service is where the attention and dollars are at. It’s not hard to see why Sony would be interested in pursuing an aggressive live-service games strategy, then, beyond just the potential profits. PlayStation’s first-party teams like Naughty Dog and Insomniac spend nearly half a decade developing their AAA single-player games before they’re released. So, if Sony has a few live-service games to keep players distracted in between major AAA releases, then suddenly it’s got a pretty healthy looking release calendar that alternates between single-player game releases and live-service content. It was probably with this in mind that Sony acquired Destiny 2 developer Bungie in 2022, its most high-profile live-service studio acquisition to date. That wasn’t all; at the time Sony announced that it planned to have 10 live-service games running by the end of the 2025 fiscal year. Last year, seemingly in response to a behind-the-scenes realization of how difficult a goal that was to achieve, Sony revised that number down to just six. With the shuttering of Concord and numerous rounds of layoffs at Bungie, it’s clear that the PlayStation live-service era is off to a rocky start. So what can Sony do about it? First, it’s important to understand the current state of play and where Sony’s at in its live-service goals. PlayStation has canceled numerous online games, some officially confirmed, others only known via rumors and reports. Among them are Naughty Dogs’ The Last of Us PvP project, an online Spider-Man game, a live-service Twisted Metal, and Payback, a third-person Destiny spinoff. As for the projects still reportedly in development, there’s Bungie’s Marathon (which just received an official developer update and, for the moment, seems safe) as well as two rumored Horizon games – one a co-op experience, the other an MMO. Sony also acquired Haven Studios in 2023, a new game studio started by former Ubisoft veteran ***** Raymond. While Haven was purchased for its own upcoming AAA PvP project, Fairgames, Sony also planned for the studio to help bolster its other live-service efforts – until its closing, Haven aided Firewalk in development of Concord. So far, Sony’s most successful contribution to the live-service genre is via a studio it doesn’t actually own. Arrowhead Studio’s massively successful Helldivers 2, may show the PlayStation Studios logo when it boots up, but it is only published by Sony. And, while it launched to great fanfare, Helldivers’ recent updates have been less well-received by the community, further indicating the long-term challenges PlayStation faces in the live-service arena. It’s not hard to see why Sony would be interested in pursuing an aggressive live-service games strategy, beyond just the potential profits. The strategy here is muddled at best. The Last of Us and Spider-Man are both incredibly popular games for Sony, but to not even try to deliver on a multiplayer component when that’s such a big focus for PlayStation this generation feels like a missed opportunity. Meanwhile, Sony is also willing to release games from new studios like Firewalk for $40 in a genre dominated by premium, free-to-play experiences is a huge gamble, unless Sony believes that the PlayStation brand is strong enough to bolster the very first game from a relatively unknown studio. And without even giving Concord time at making any kind of meaningful change after the launch, Sony shutters the studio outright. In its official statement, Sony says it will “take the lessons learned from Concord and continue to advance our live service capabilities to deliver future growth in this area.” But with so much having gone wrong for Concord, it feels like Sony should look at everything it did with Concord and do the opposite. Maybe don’t be so arrogant as to believe that the PlayStation name alone is enough to prop up a game in an over-saturated genre. And if a live-service game fails to meet its targets a week after launch, maybe don’t immediately pull it from stores. And, for any prospective developer in talks to join the PlayStation family, maybe assure them that they won’t be shut down the moment after their first game isn’t a hit. Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd. View the full article

World of Warcraft just revealed a preview of Patch 11.0.7, which is finally adding the long-awaited Stormcrow mount to the game after over a decade. Named Thrayir, Eyes of the Storm, this mount will be obtainable on the Siren Isle, the new endgame zone coming to World of Warcraft in the next content update. View the full article

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has quietly released its own NFT game to join the ranks of other vaunted, widely-played blockchain enabled titles like Axie Infinity and...uh, Ember Sword. Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles launched earlier this month with relatively little fanfare or marketing. The game comes two years after Ubisoft’s ******* bid to make NFTs work in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, a solid three years after NFT prices and purchases fell off a cliff, and barely a week after it announced it would disband the team behind the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Surface level, Champions Tactics is a PC strategy game where players assemble teams of champions to ****** their way up the rankings. Teams are composed of three champions,... Continue reading… View the full article

Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Pre-orders are now open for the new MacBook Pro, starting at $1,599 for the base model with the M4 processor, $1,999 for the M4 Pro variant, and $2,499 for the M4 Max. Shipping begins on November 8, with student discounts available on each model. Read Entire Article View the full article

The most recent update for Total War: Warhammer 3 brings a variety of changes to the game in the form of new content, bug fixes, and improvements to several battle maps. Patch 5.3.0 and all the adjustments it brings to Total War: Warhammer 3 will be available on October 31. View the full article

Blizzard has revealed that the popular World of Warcraft game mode Plunderstorm will return in early 2025, nearly a year after its initial run. The return of Plunderstorm to World of Warcraft will see a mix of old and new rewards for players to obtain from participating in and winning matches, including mounts and cosmetics. View the full article

Dying Light 2's Tower Raid mode makes a return in the game's newly released 1.19 update. The activity was removed around the time Dying Light 2 received its previous update in August. View the full article

While it's always frustrating when a promising game releases in a less-than-ideal state, I do enjoy seeing one go through a solid redemption arc. Payday 3 is definitely one of those games. It's been steadily honing the co-op FPS into an experience that better captures the magic of its still-popular predecessor, and now that it's pushed live its massive anniversary update full of essential new features and improvements, it's finally starting to look like the experience it should've been from the get-go. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Game-changing Payday 3 update fixes servers, UI, and some of the worst problems Payday 3 dev says it will keep making updates even if there's only one player Payday 3 launch was "disastrous," Starbreeze admits, but huge changes are coming View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

2023 was a heck of a year for games - we had Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Starfield, and plenty more. One of the best and most intriguing titles released that year was Ghostrunner 2, a speed-filled slaughterfest in a cyberpunk, neon-drenched city. To celebrate the anniversary of its launch, developer One More Level has released what is set to be the game's final DLC, along with a few freebies for anyone who owns the game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: 2023 cyberpunk hit, Ghostrunner 2, is 70% off in Humble ***** The slickest action game of 2023 is 75% off, for now 2023's secret game of the year is finally going cheap ahead of new DLC View the full article

CD Projekt Red's popular RPG Cyberpunk 2077 is set to debut on Mac in 2025. Having previously made its mark on PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as on PC, Cyberpunk 2077 is now being ported to Apple's macOS four years after its initial launch. View the full article

Image: Activision Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs on Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says the Call of Duty game, which it released on October 25th, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last week. It’s not really possible to quantify that further, given Comcast didn’t provide any specific numbers — either about how many customers were downloading the game or how big their downloads were. Ranging between 84.4GB for the PlayStation version and 102GB for the PC edition Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 is, in the grand tradition of Call of Duty games, a hefty download. It can be as much as 300GB if players choose to go... Continue reading… View the full article