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The multiverse of smash hit indie games is currently colliding and at its epicenter is Dave the Diver. Everyone's favorite rotund fish hunter has already gathered a bevy of pals in the past, with Dredge and Godzilla collaborations under his belt, but now there's plenty more entering the blue *****. Balatro, Potion Craft, and singer/songwriter mxmtoon are hopping in for a splash in a massive series of collabs that are live right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Unbelievably, Cyberpunk 2077 and Stardew Valley now exist in the same game Free Balatro update crosses over with four games at once, right now A huge free Balatro DLC is coming, and two more reveals are planned View the full article

The 2024 installment of Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Trick or Treat Halloween event has arrived with quite a few unique tasks you can tackle to earn exclusive rewards. One of the trickier quests you need to complete is the A 3-Course Halloween Meal! Dreamlight Duty. This task doesn’t give you any additional information to work with beyond its name which might make you think you need to cook some kind of recipe to successfully complete it. The actual process for completing this task is a lot easier than you might expect, so here’s what you need to know to successfully finish the A 3-Course Halloween Meal! Dreamlight Duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

Earlier this year, we saw the debut of Love Eternal, a new horror platformer to be published by Ysbryd Games that serves as the debut from developers brlka. And now, straight from today's Indie Horror Showcase and just in time for Halloween, we have a brand-new gameplay trailer for the title, which you can check out below. Though while seeing more gameplay is obviously a definite highlight, another is a potential deeper look at the game's narrative and presentation, which hints at different perspectives when it comes to telling the story, and also different ways it may be able to mess with the player as well... View the full article

Blizzard announced earlier this year that BlizzCon wouldn't happen in 2024, with the live event instead being replaced by a series of franchise-focused streams. Next on the schedule is Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct, which Blizzard have now announced will stream on Wednesday, November 13th at 6pm GMT/1pm ET/10am PT. Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Early in Baldur's Gate 3, players will pass through a ruined area referred to as the Blighted Village. The village is currently in a state of disrepair, with caved-in buildings, broken walls, and goblins looting the old homes for everything they're worth. But remaining signage identifies the village as once having been called Moonhaven, and remaining religious iconography makes it clear this was a place of Selnite worship. View the full article

Bungie reveals all the details for Festival of the Lost 2024, adding new weapons and armor as well as the first chance for all Destiny 2 players to purchase exotic class items, regardless if they've beaten Dual Destiny or not. The level of controversy that erupted alongside the Dual Destiny mission and these exotic class items certainly reached a fever pitch, but with Festival of the Lost now opening them up to everyone during the event, all Destiny 2 fans should now be pleased. View the full article

Monster Hunter is no stranger to outlandish creature designs. Many of the monsters we're sent to ********** are majestic beauties, but the roster's also got its share of freaks. Standing beside the regal Teostra and imposing Zinogre are monsters like the Khezu: a flabby, drooling, lipped lamprey with wings, whose veined, rubbery flesh gains new dimensions of upsetting vascularity with every advancement of Capcom's graphics tech. But with its latest monster unveiling, Monster Hunter Wilds has set a new watermark for creature detestability. Behold the Rompopolo:.. Read more.View the full article

Corsair has just unveiled two new ranges of AIO CPU cooler in the shape of the Nautilus RS and iCUE Link Titan RX. The latter is a premium option that certainly looks swish, but it's the Nautilus RS that has us intrigued, as it's one of the company's most affordable AIO launches in a long while. While the Corsair iCUE Link Titan RX starts at $199.99 for a 240mm version, the Nautilus RS starts at just $99.99. That primes it to potentially be among the best AIO cooler options around if it can deliver decent cooling performance. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab a fast 2TB Corsair Steam Deck gaming SSD for just $109.99, if you're quick New Corsair gaming headset promises "incredibly clear" audio thanks to graphene Corsair's new case lets you build two gaming PCs in one, has all the fans View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Ever since the release of the original Final Fantasy 7, fans have agonized over the game's biggest, best-known tragic moment: Aerith's ******. Could she be saved? Was it possible? For years, rumors have abounded about secret ways to save her and keep her in the party. And now, speedrunners have found a path to keeping her around that may also be a massive time-saver. Discovered by speedrunners AceZephyr and Kuma and publicized by Luzbel, a new skip allows players to jump from Midgar all the way to Forgotten Capital with Aerith still in the party. Because it skips the part of the game where Aerith leaves the party, she sticks around, and ultimately witnesses her own ****** at the hands of Sephiroth only to join the battle against Jenova Life moments later. The biggest skip in FF7 has been found. [Hidden Content] — Luzbel / ルズベル (@Luzbel789) October 23, 2024 The actual skip is pretty complex and the kinks are still being worked out. It involves using a Chocobo on the world map to trick the game into letting you walk on the ocean, and then Cloud simply strolls across the water over to Forgotten Capital without doing any of the other stuff required to get there. The cutscene there plays as normal, but the party composition ******** what it was before. Kuma's got a tutorial on YouTube here for anyone interested in trying it themselves. Unfortunately, there are a lot of asterisks on this skip actually working. For one, if you don't use a version of the game that lets you disable encounters, the skip is impossible, because getting into an encounter while walking on the water will softlock the game. And because Aerith isn't supposed to be in the party at this stage, the game also softlocks whenever there's a scene with the party that she shouldn't be involved in. The community is currently working to try and find ways around this, including one agonizing five-hour effort from AceZephyr using pause buffering to avoid encounters while walking across the water. Hopefully they find one, because if it ever becomes viable it will supposedly save runners around two hours, allowing them to blast through disc one faster than ever. If this has sparked your interest in Final Fantasy 7 again, you don't need to speedrun the original to enjoy it. Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth are pretty incredible too, and together they cover a sliiiiightly different version of all the story that speedrunners are skipping on ye olde disc one. We gave Final Fantasy 7 Remake an 8/10, and Rebirth got a 9/10. Our reviewer wrote: "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth impressively builds off of what Remake set in motion as both a best-in-class action-RPG full of exciting challenge and depth, and as an awe-inspiring recreation of a world that has meant so much to so many for so long." Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. View the full article

Few games defined the Xbox 360/PS3/Wii generation as much as Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy. Whether you picked the red strawberry, blue raspberry, or green apple ending, characters like Commander Shepard, Wrex, Garrus, and others have become icons among the video game pantheon. Which is to say that when Mass Effect: The Board Game - Priority: Hagalaz was announced, I was stoked, and even more so when I got an early copy to play for this review. After rolling some dice with my old crew from the Normandy, I have to say, this board game version of Mass Effect is a pretty fun little romp. Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz Designed by Eric Lang and Calvin Wong Tze Loon (both of whom we interviewed in our preview) with art by David Benzal, Priority: Hagalaz, in Mass Effect style, is a campaign game with branching quests and alternate endings. More than 10 unique missions are neatly bound together in a campaign book containing each missions' map, along with the various objectives (each mission has neutral, paragon, and renegade objectives) and the list of the enemies you'll be facing. This campaign book, paired with a narrative book, handles the story and what the results of your actions turn out to be. Like I said in my review of the Divinity: Original Sin board game, I love that more campaign games are opting to use books for their maps and are shifting away from the cardboard titles to construct the maps yourself. It makes it so much quicker to set up, and that makes this game all that more enticing to play. Except for the player characters’ miniatures, the game’s components are full of cardboard tokens. From the enemies and elites to the treasure boxes and objectives, you can expect maps full of little markers. Thankfully, the cardboard is sturdy and punches easily with no tearing or pulling happening with my copy. Still, if you prefer to cram your board with plastic minis, then you can opt to purchase them separately from Modiphius’ store, but expect to pay a hefty price, ranging from about $38 US for a single squad up to $325 US for 48 models (some assembly required and unpainted). The player boards, one for each available character, is made of a sturdy laminated paper that allows it to be marked up with the included dry-erase marker. Each time a character levels up by gaining enough experience, you mark on the board to keep track of that character’s experience or skills they've unlocked, with one new skill unlockable per mission. It works fine, and so far I haven’t seen much in the way of staining due to the marker, but that being said, I wish that the game had gone with a duel-layered playboard instead with little areas that you would just slot in cubes or cards or something instead of the marker approach. Taking on these dangerous missions will of course require a hardened group of soldiers, and Priority: Hagalaz features a great selection of fan favorite Mass Effect squadmates. Both male and fem Sheps are available to choose from, with identical skills and stats, while Garrus, Liara, Wrex, and Tali each come with a unique set of skills that work best in different situations. Garrus, for instance, can take aim and dish out a bunch of damage all at once; Tali can send out her drone; Liara can use her biotics to freeze enemies in place with Statis; Wrex gets **** and takes it out on any unfortunate Cerberus soldier or Reaper near him; and Shepard can inspire and command the troops, letting them perform better. Missions require you to take four party members, one of whom must be Shepard (and loyalty missions require said character as well), which means you will always have to leave one of your alien friends behind on the Normandy. Every character has their own unlockable skill tree, including special abilities that can be learned by taking on their loyalty missions between main mission scenarios. Wrex has by far the best-named skills out of everyone, with attacks like “Wrex not happy” and “****** it 46 more times” that are just peak Krogan goodness. There will be missions where Character A will be better suited to handle the objectives than Character B, but Mass Effect is balanced in a way that you are never screwing yourself over if you don’t take that one crew member with you. Strategy and not spreading your team too thin is far more important than its composition, which I find to be faithful to the series. What’s in the box:Rule BookNarrative Text BookMission BookCampaign Map Board6 Squadmate miniatures5 Squadmate sheets12 Strategy Dice2 Paragon Dice64 Hazard Cards86 ****** Tokens93 Gameplay Tokens15 Tracking cubes1 ****** Bag1 Marker Pen[/url] One thing that I really appreciate about Priority: Hagalaz is that it doesn't require players to meet up for a ton of games in order to see the story through to completion. In fact, with each scenario taking maybe 40 - 90 minutes, and each “run” of the story consisting of about five scenarios, you could comfortably make it through a playthrough in a day or weekend. No yearlong-plus commitments here! Now, if you want to see every outcome, then that will require a ******* time commitment and multiple playthroughs, but I wouldn't say that's necessary. The designers should be commended for putting together a solid and rewarding campaign experience that supports multiple replays but is also welcoming to new players of the genre without much sacrifice. Getting into a game is pretty painless. All you have to do is flip to the correct page in the campaign book, pull that level’s ****** tokens from the included cloth bag and place them on the marked spots, grab either the Cerberus or Reaper hazard deck, and finally place your character minis at the starting location and you’re ready to go. The whole process maybe takes five minutes. Learning to play is also a straightforward affair with everyone I taught usually picking it up after a full round around the table. Turns start with the active player rolling a set of dice, picking three dice and using the face’s displayed actions by placing it on their boards. Then you draw a hazard card to see what enemies spawn or take an action, and then the turn passes to the next player who repeats the same steps. Each subsequent player rolls three less dice for their actions, meaning the last player is forced into whatever they roll – however, everyone but the first player can “lock” one of the dice that the previous player rolled and didn’t use. If you opt to complete the Paragon objectives in stages, you can earn yourself additional dice. Choose Renegade, and you earn special tokens you can use to change the face of a dice you roll. The reduction in dice is an interesting mechanic, but I would have rather have a smaller pool of dice, perhaps five, that everyone rolled as opposed to a shrinking pool of dice. It feels good to roll a lot of dice, giving you a lot of choice, but if you’re stuck at the end, only getting a few dice to roll – or less if you opt to lock in one the previous dice to play it safe – it’s not so much fun. You feel penalized, at no fault of your own, that you are last in the turn order, and I would much prefer giving up my ability to roll 12 dice as first player, if it means someone doesn’t get stuck with only three. Perhaps my biggest issue with this game is the character Shepard and the mechanic that if they get taken out, the whole mission fails immediately. While this may be loyal with how it’s handled in the video games, in those, you never lose control over Shepard and can always move him out of harm's way – something that you can’t do here in the board game. Here, you have four randomly drawn ****** turns standing between you and when you can act next, with no real way to defend yourself if the cards aren’t in your favor. Instead of being the hero of humanity, who would run into any ****** alongside their crew, this makes Shepard feel more like a liability or third wheel that should stay at home where it’s safe. I have had more than one mission fail simply because I *****, and in one of them I was even at full health at the end of my turn, and everything went downhill before I could take any action. Had the game added a round timer or something that gave the rest of the party a chance to revive him, it may alleviate my issue with this decision, but as written, I quickly stopped wanting to be the person stuck playing as the Commander. This issue also touches on another aspect of Priority: Hagalaz, which prospective players should know. If you aren’t a fan of uncontrollable randomness in your games, this game may not be for you. From the actions you can take via the roll of the dice, to what enemies may or may not take action (and what character may be attacked), even to what enemies you may spawn by drawing them from the bag, is all left up to chance – chance that you and the other players have no way of mitigating. Where to Buy Mass Effect: The Board Game - Priority: Hagalaz releases this October just in time for N7 day (November 7), with pre-orders available now on Amazon, Asmodee, and Modiphius’ website. View the full article

There's a new Steam Deck SteamOS release available to download, and among the numerous bug fixes and other tweaks included in the update, there are also some exciting hints at what could be in the future for SteamOS. That's because there's a mention in the release notes of the latest version of added support for "extra ROG Ally keys" and "Asus ROG Raikiri Pro controller." While this is hardly smoking **** levels of evidence, it adds to previous rumors we've seen where updates have included mentions of SteamOS support for consoles other than the Steam Deck. With the use of this custom Linux OS being one of the key reasons why the Steam Deck OLED retains its place as the best handheld gaming PC, its availability on other devices could put a whole new spin on the gaming handheld landscape. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This new SteamOS update suggests Asus ROG Ally support is coming very soon You can already save $50 on the Asus ROG Ally X Your gaming SSD speed could plunge by 16x in some AMD motherboards, says Crucial View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Nightdive Studios has released a new gameplay trailer for The Thing: Remastered. The trailer, which can be seen below, gives a new look at the visual upgrades made to the game, which was originally released in 2002 on PS2, Xbox and PC. The Thing video game is a sequel to the 1982 John Carpenter movie and takes place shortly after its events. Read More... View the full article

Crytek has responded to complaints about a new paid cosmetic in Hunt: Showdown 1896, saying that, actually, the mask from the Scream movies does fit into a supernatural monster-hunting game set in the 1890s... Read more.View the full article

According to Android Authority, the Tensor G5 – codenamed "Laguna" – will feature the Arm Cortex-X4 CPU architecture, similar to the Pixel 9's Tensor G4 but with a different core configuration. While the G4 has a 1+3+4 setup comprised of one prime core, three performance cores, and four efficiency cores,... Read Entire Article View the full article

To make the most of the Spiritborn class in the Vessel of Hatred DLC for Diablo 4, there are a number of ways to acquire the Harmony of Ebewaka Unique. With some useful stats and effects, this Unique Helm is absolutely worth your time trying to get. Among all the gear available in the DLC, this one in particular should be near the top of your list of priorities. View the full article

The long-awaited return of six-vs-six in Overwatch 2 is finally around the corner, Blizzard Entertainment revealed today in a new blog from game director Aaron Keller. OW2‘s next season, season 14, will run multiple tests of six-vs-six to see how fans react and more to the changes because “the last thing we want is to negatively impact that experience” for players who have been enjoying five-vs-five. And so, one week into season 14, the first of two six-vs-six tests will take place as part of its own Unranked matchmaking card in the game, separate from Quick Play and everything else. This variant is called “Min 1, Max 3.” View the full article

Argonaut Games has confirmed the platforms for the remaster of Croc: Legend of Gobbos. The remastered version of the popular PlayStation 1 game will be skipping one major platform, however, which may be bad news for some Croc: Legend of the Gobbos fans. View the full article

Controversy is brewing within the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 community following the game's 4.1 update, with some players calling on developers to retire an exclusive in-game item. The item, a helmet given out to those who complete Space Marine 2's co-op PvE Operations mode in Lethal difficulty, was brutally hard to get, but the game's latest update has taken a considerable ***** out of this difficulty, prompting some to feel cheated out of their original accomplishment. View the full article

Since the early days of ***** and Quake, super-fast FPS games - the now-dubbed boomer shooters - have brought us some of the best PC games of all time. Combine that speed and power with one of the most luridly compelling settings, the eldritch unknown of Lovecraftian horror, brought to life in striking comic-strip style, and you have Forgive Me Father 2. One year since developer Byte Barrel launched it into early access, the full 1.0 release arrives today on Steam, and it's one you'll definitely want to see for yourself. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: 10 top games to grab during the Lovecraftian Days Steam ***** 2024 Grab 7 of the best boomer shooters on PC for just $18 right now *****, BioShock, and Dishonored combine in gorgeous new Steam FPS View the full article

This Fallout Day ***** is truly something S.P.E.C.I.A.L. It's time to grab your big iron, strap on your PIPBOY, take Dogmeat, and embark on an adventure because all the Fallout games are on *****. So why not head to New Vegas, take a trip to DC, or even experience the grandeur of post-apocalyptic Appalachia? It's a great chance to plug the gaps in your collection or ***** into the franchise for the first time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fallout London has been played by over one million people already Massive Fallout London update brings "over 1,000 fixes" to the fan-made RPG Fallout London's success pushes its devs to form a new indie studio View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Xbox Game Pass subscribers will have the chance to play ******* Elite: Resistance on the very day of its release, January 30, 2025. Xbox Game Pass still has quite a few heavy hitters for fans to check out before 2024 is out, but some games have already been confirmed for next year. View the full article

The remaster of Playtonic’s 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee, playfully titled Yooka-Replaylee, has seemingly teased its release on the untitled successor to the ... Read more View the full article

If you've been playing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and it's your first time experiencing the world of Cloud, Shinra, Sephiroth, and co., I should advise that this article will spoil a significant part of the RPG's story. We're talking mysteries here - in fact, one of the biggest mysteries in PC gaming history. Final Fantasy 14 had a resurgence this year thanks to Dawntrail. FF16 finally made the leap to Steam. But long before any of that, back when the Square Enix series was still in its (relative) infancy, there was one myth that hung over the entirety of Final Fantasy 7. Now, thanks to some visionary exploits and speedrunner wisdom, it's finally been solved - well, kind of. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Final Fantasy 7 just got absolutely filthy E3 is cancelled this year, and it might not ever come back Robert Pattinson still isn't over Final Fantasy 7's Aerith View the full article

What are all the ****** Ops 6 missions in order? Naturally, ****** Ops 6 launches into an ongoing story that started way back in 1961 in Call of Duty ****** Ops. In the last two decades, Frank Woods has been deceived, maimed, and even tricked into ******** one of his own. Now it's 1991, Woods is in charge of a team of new faces, and still looking for revenge. That's where you come in. The ****** Ops 6 campaign kicks off as Sargent Woods sends you to Kuwait for the first of 11 missions. As you work through them, don't forget there's a collection of ****** Ops 6 campaign rewards for completing each mission in the single-player game, and even more for completing specific challenges. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All ****** Ops 6 safe house puzzles and how to solve them All ****** Ops 6 Operators and how to unlock ****** Ops 6 Theater Mode explained View the full article

So far, Windblown is the ***** Cells successor I've been hoping for. While Motion Twin stays true to the foundations of its beloved 2017 roguelike, there's more than enough here to distinguish Windblown and make it feel like a completely new vision. The entire game is built around its dodge mechanic - although the dodge is a core principle in ***** Cells, Hades, and Enter the Gungeon, in Windblown it almost becomes a religion. If Motion Twin continues to build on these movement mechanics, Windblown could very well claim the roguelike crown. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Windblown demo is here, and the ***** Cells dev's new roguelike is a blast Windblown early access release date, trailers, and latest news New Windblown footage proves it's the perfect ***** Cells follow-up View the full article