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Whether you’re planning to celebrate Halloween with your VALORANT duo or are just an independent cat person who loves grinding ranked games, the new Troublemaker bundle is all you need. The Troublemaker collection kicks off the season of jump scares and pumpkins in the popular tactical shooter, bringing you a bunch of new items to collect. And if you’re all alone this Halloween (and spooked), the bundle gives you an adorable ****** kitty to keep you company. As a **** buddy, but that works, too, right? View the full article

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has only been released to a portion of its potential players, with the game's Ultimate Edition dropping Tuesday, but it seems like it's going to go onto big things. View the full article

The Silent Hill 2 remake received a speedy patch after it was discovered the game’s Italian subtitles spoil the ending early on. This article contains ending spoilers for Silent Hill 2. Near the start of the game, James finds a radio which is used throughout the rest of his journey to help the player detect monsters (it makes progressively louder static noises as they approach). Read More... View the full article

We're on the last day of Prime Big Deal Days, and there are still plenty of excellent discounts to check out. If you're searching for some video game deals in the ***** event, we found an incredible offer on the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 that you don't want to miss. Its price has dropped down to $19, over 50% off its MSRP. According to camelcamelcamel, this is the game's lowest price yet so there's no better time than now to scoop it up. I played these games for the first time this year, and I have to say they are some of the most incredible stealth action gameplay I've ever experienced, alongside some of the goofiest humor. Please, do yourself a favor, and check them out while they're on *****. This collection includes Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear (NES/FC version), and Snake’s Revenge. And with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's release (hopefully) on the horizon, there's truly no better time to revisit these classics. And at this price? Worth every penny. This isn't the only game deal we've come across during October Prime Day, though. In our roundups of the best PS5 deals, Switch deals, and Xbox deals, we've gathered up even more gaming-related discounts that are worth having a look at. This includes games, hardware, and plenty of accessories. Today's your last chance to score a wide variety of these deals, so act fast to secure the ones you want. If you want to see what else is still available, have a look at our roundup of October Prime Day deals to see everything from 4K TVs to LEGO to Amazon subscriptions like Audible that are still up for grabs. Hannah Hoolihan is a freelance writer who works with the Guides and Commerce teams here at IGN. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Firaxis is working with the Shawnee tribal nation to ensure “an authentic, sincere recreation” in the upcoming Civilization 7. In Civilization 7, Shawnee are an Exploration Age civilization, which means they will have to become another civ in the Modern Age (presumed to be the Lakota or Iroquois). Here’s Firaxis’ official description: An Algonquian-speaking people originally from what is now the eastern ******* States, the Shawnee fought hard to keep their land and traditions. Their fiercest battles were with the ******* States, as the new nation pushed westward. Seeking to build a coalition of indigenous people to form a ******* front, the Shawnee established a settlement at Prophetstown, but the U.S. Army loomed on the horizon. Speaking to the Associated Press, producer Andrew Frederiksen revealed that developers from Firaxis had asked the Shawnee to imagine a Shawnee university or library of the future and to create new Shawnee words to describe futuristic concepts for use in the hotly anticipated 4X game. Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes, already a fan of 1999’s Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, jumped at the chance to be involved with Civilization 7 after Firaxis said it wanted to make a playable character out of their famous leader Tecumseh. “Firaxis was asking questions about language we never would have thought to ask,” Barnes said. The partnership also involves a donation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in language revitalization programs and facilities. According to Firaxis, Tecumseh, "the one who leaps across the great expanse," was a Shawnee chief "who challenged the westward expansion of the early ******* States. Together with his brother Tenskwatawa, he spread a message of unity and resistance among indigenous people. Although Tecumseh was ******* during the War of 1812, his vision of cultural persistence lives on." Firaxis historian Andrew Johnson revealed that academics had warned the studio against including Tecumseh as a playable leader, but got in touch with Shawnee leaders directly to find out what they thought. “I think so often you get people assuming that representation in Civ is a reward of some sort. It’s not,” Johnson said. “This is a company and we’re selling a product and we’re using an image and likeness to make a profit. And getting your ‘civ’ in Civilization doesn’t really help you very much if you’re struggling to preserve your culture.” AP said the partnership comes after an acknowledgement from Civilization creator Sid Meier and other Firaxis executives of "past missteps in the Civilization franchise’s casual treatment of history, including how it incorporated Indigenous groups and colonization more broadly." The report mentions that Firaxis ditched its plan to add a historical Pueblo leader in 2010 after tribal leaders objected, and that the studio faced public criticism in Canada for including a Cree leader in Civilization 6. In 2018, a prominent Cree leader complaining that it "perpetuates this myth that First Nations had similar values that the colonial culture has, and that is one of conquering other peoples and accessing their land. That is totally not in concert with our traditional ways and world view." We always kind of felt, 'Here's a way that you can change history.' Maybe we can make Stalin a good guy. But that might have been stretching things a little too far. Meier talked about the early Civilization games’ inclusion of Indigenous leaders such as Montezuma of the Aztecs, as well as the likes of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. "We never realized people would take it as seriously as they do," Meier said. "We always kind of felt, ‘Here’s a way that you can change history.’ Maybe we can make Stalin a good guy. But that might have been stretching things a little too far. "We learned a lot as time went on. It is now a badge of honor for a nation to be included in Civilization. We’ve been lobbied by different countries, et cetera.” In Civilization 7, Tecumseh specializes in diplomacy and defense. His unique ability, Nicaakiyakoolaakwe, increases food, production, and combat strength based on the number of allied city-states. Shawnee as a civ excel at utilizing natural resources. Their unique ability, Nepekifaki, gives more food for settlements built on river tiles but slightly reduces food for any cities not built on rivers. Its associated wonder is the Serpent Mound. The Shawnee civilization is part of the Tecumseh and Shawnee Pack DLC, which is included in the Deluxe and Founders Editions of Civilization 7. It is not included in the Standard Edition of Civilization 7, but is available as a bonus offer for pre-orders of the Standard Edition until February 11, 2025, and will be available for separate purchase thereafter. 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

It's sounding like Christopher Nolan has a new film in the works, but you probably won't be surprised to hear that early details are a little slim. Read more View the full article

Destiny 2 Episode Revenant’s first Act kicked off on Oct. 8, and as Bungie promised, it allows you to complete its entire story in one go. Unfortunately, you don’t need more than one go to finish the story in the first place. You can complete the entire questline of Revenant’s first Act in under an hour, which left many Destiny 2 players frustrated with the lack of story content. “The entirety of Act 1 was less than an hour. You have to be ******** joking?” a player wrote in a Reddit thread on Oct.8. View the full article

The obvious way of bundling up Beautiful Light is probably "Hunt Showdown meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R.", and whoops, I've already committed to that in the headline. But the first game that came to mind when I chanced on some playtest footage last night was The Town Of Light, LKA's deeply disquieting game about exploring a carefully recreated abandoned asylum. There's the title overlap, of course - it's always a bit of a provocation when horror games make a point of being well-lit. Beyond that, the two games share an interest in dessicated interiors where chairs huddle disconsolately, where the sun slides through windows whose curtains have rotted away, and the plaster flakes in ways both pretty and macabre. But where The Town Of Light gave you one rambling building's worth of encroaching hallucinations, Beautiful Light gives you a whole wilderness, where the architecture scales from "dreary forgotten school" to "gleaming underground base". It also gives you a lot of guns. Devised by Geneva-based Deep Worlds SA, this is a team extraction shooter where six squads of three gasmasked alpha-bravos compete to retrieve an artifact from a quarantine zone full of deadly anomalies. Read more View the full article

There are so many ways James Sunderland’s story can end in the Silent Hill 2 remake, but unfortunately, this love story does not offer that ****** tale ending. With eight Silent Hill 2 remake endings—two additional to James’s and Mary’s story—here is our full guide on unlocking all Silent Hill 2 remake endings. View the full article

Mouthwashing's greatest triumph is placing you at the scene. The first being the most obvious ******: a captain steering their space freighter into harm's way, entirely on purpose. You're there, staring through the eyes of the person in the cockpit. You open the locker and grab the key and insert it into the safety override panel with a satisfying click. You see the plastic casing spring open and the red button emerge. You press it and listen to the sirens whirr. You grab the steering wheel and yank it. Read more View the full article

The cosy (but maybe not so cosy) tea-brewing adventure Wanderstop has been delayed until next year, say developers Ivy Road. The colourful game about a troubled arena fighter retiring into a life of lapsang souchong and repressed urges to do sudden ********* had previously been planned for a release some time in 2024, according to the developer's original announcement. But game development is, as ever, a fickle destroyer of plans. "Reading the tea leaves, it has become clear that Wanderstop needs a tiny bit more time to fully bloom," they said in a Steam post yesterday, adding that their new estimate is "early 2025". Read more View the full article

Understanding DP is one of the most important aspects of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO, as it decides which characters you can use in certain modes and what your teams look like. Each fighter has its own DP pool, but it can be hard to know what it means if you are a new player or organize a team if you don’t know their DP value. Luckily, we have you covered on both. View the full article

Starfield: Shattered Space launched to "Mixed" reviews on Steam before quickly dropping to "Mostly Negative" that same week. The community was mostly disappointed by its narrative and price tag, but critics also disparaged the expansion for being "unstable" and "weighed down by bugs", leaving it with an aggregate score of just 59. View the full article

FEX-Emu is an emulation layer that allows you to run x86 and x86-64 binaries (like games and apps) on an AArch64 Linux host, similar to qemu-user and box86/box64. Instead of using full disk images, FEX-Emu uses rootfs overlay + forwarding GL processing to the host to achieve better performance in emulated software. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Fortnitemares is back with a bang for 2024, bringing a whole host of new collaborations and changes to the Battle Royale experience, and we can tell you exactly when it begins. Fortnite’s annual Halloween event has been running since 2017, but the 2024 Fortnitemares event could be ******* than ever, with collaborations with Saw, Disney, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and more. View the full article

It’s been a little over one day now since the launch of Vessel of Hatred, the first paid expansion to Diablo 4. The launch was several hours late, thanks to the discovery of some last-minute bugs, but it now appears there’s more to complain about here than we initially realised. Read more View the full article

In a now deleted series of posts on Bluesky, Uzumaki producer Jason Demarco shared a bit of insight into what went wrong with the series. Read more View the full article

Thanks to Descent 3 being officially open source, developers can do almost anything with it now and this has given rise to the Descent 3: Piccu Engine. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

One missed in the inbox of no return from last week. The next-generation SDL 3 is closing in on a proper stable release now with the SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview now available for game developers. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

If you’ve always wanted to decorate your VALORANT weapons with spooky cute accessories, you’ll love this year’s unique Halloween bundle. The Troublemaker collection is all set to drop in the VALORANT shop’s featured section, but guess who the showstopper of the bundle is? It’s the mysterious and talented headshot-only “demo guy” from all those skin showcase videos. But that’s not it. Proving those who believed it was a pro player wrong, Riot Games finally revealed the demo guy had been an adorable kitty all along. View the full article

Valve released another smaller Beta update for Steam desktop and Steam Deck with even more bug fixes. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Why, Hawthorne, must you put in me a position where I have to balance my love of woodland fantasy against my complete exhaustion with chopping things down to build other things? There are two scurrying mammals wearing robes inside of me, and they both love Redwall, Mice And Mystics, and Mouse Guard, but might spontaneously combust if they have to craft another hatchet. A trailer, eh? Is...is that a mouse and an otter dancing on top of a table, each grasping a mug of ale of their tiny paws and dancing to fiddle music? Fine! Fine! I’m not happy about this, but Fine! Read more View the full article

Making your way through the dangerous city in Silent Hill 2 comes with many risks, but there are memories you need to track down. A major one is the many Strange Photographs, each with a distinct memory of Mary for James. The locations of these Strange Photos can be tricky to find. Not only do you need to be looking for them at the correct location, but you might be barred from seeking them out as you navigate through Silent Hill. You want to ensure you grab them all before you move on and reach the end of the game. Here’s what you need to know about where to find all Strange Photo locations in the Silent Hill 2 remake. View the full article

In his novel Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales, Game of Thrones star Kristian Nairn attributed World of Warcraft to helping him detox and kick his ***** addiction. The Hodor actor revealed in his autobiography that he fell in love with a person who had a ***** addiction, which, in turn, led to him abusing narcotics. But after a nearly fatal experience, the actor headed to a bungalow at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in Ireland, where he detoxed from drugs while playing World of Warcraft “from dawn till dusk.” View the full article

Our LoLdle quote for today is another short one, but that doesn’t make guessing this League of Legends champion easier. So, here’s the answer to the Oct. 9 LoLdle quote. Who says, ‘****** by steel’ in LoL? The LoLdle quote on Oct. 9 is, “****** by steel.” The League champion who says this line is Olaf. View the full article