Image: Roblox Roblox is facing accusations that it lied to investors about the number of people who use the platform. In a report published on Tuesday, the investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is “consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more.” Roblox, which went public in 2021, reported having 79.5 million daily active users in its most recent earnings report. However, Hindenburg claims Roblox “intentionally conflates” actual people with daily users, as that number could also include alt accounts and bots. The research alleges that Roblox can separate alt accounts from single users, even though the company’s disclosure says daily active users “are not a measure of unique individuals... Continue reading… View the full article
Call of Duty is more than just a multiplayer shooter, and there’s no better example than the campaign storyline of the ****** Ops franchise. With ****** Ops 6 on the way, Activision has posted a video detailing “the story so far” in the ****** Ops campaigns. It’s quite a truncated recap, but worth watching nonetheless to re-live some of the moments from ****** Ops, ****** Ops 2, and ****** Ops Cold War, leading up to BO6’s campaign that takes place in 1991. View the full article
The one-year anniversary of Cities Skylines 2 is just around the corner on Thursday October 24, and - while there have certainly been improvements - the Colossal Order city builder is still struggling to win over fans. Despite strong foundations and some notable updates, we've yet to see a return to the best-in-class form established by its predecessor. Speaking with CS2 publisher Paradox Interactive's deputy CEO Mattias Lilja and chief creative officer Henrik Fåhraeus, I ask what went wrong, and if they're worried about competition. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 22 best Cities Skylines mods and maps The best management games on PC 2024 Grab Cities Skylines and every major DLC for just $20 View the full article
It's been a tough couple of years for Paradox Interactive. Since the triumphant launch of Crusader Kings 3 in 2020, the strategy game specialists have struggled to land a hit. New forays into other genres such as Lamplighters League, Millennia, and Life By You have fallen short of expectations - with the latter canceled entirely as it neared launch. Cities Skylines 2 has yet to match up to its mighty predecessor. Even in the grand strategy space it knows best, Age of Wonders 4's success sits alongside the underwhelming beginning for Victoria 3. As Paradox looks to right the ship, I sit down with deputy CEO Mattias Lilja and chief creative officer Henrik Fåhraeus to ask what went wrong, and what the team has learned. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Paradox "saw flaws" in Cities Skylines 2 before launch, chief executive says 12 games like The Sims to play in 2024 The 16 best Cities Skylines 2 mods View the full article
History and videogames have always been a match made in heaven. Civilization's whistle-stop tour of human history, *********'s Creed's flawless capture of long-lost cities, and even the realistic Old West of Red ***** Redemption 2. Personally, I've always been partial to Ancient Greece, and that's why I'm thrilled by the new Kingdom Two Crowns Call of Olympus DLC. Taking the more personal touches of the strategy genre found in the base game, the new expansion gives everything a Greek coat of paint. Released alongside a free and game-changing 2.0 update, Call of Olympus is available now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Pixel strategy game Kingdom Two Crowns reveals DLC, coming very soon View the full article
Sony Santa Monica’s **** of War Ragnarok will indeed get a PS5 Pro Enhanced update after the first-party PlayStation Studios game skipped the announcement of the $700 mid-gen upgrade. Push Square spotted the PlayStation Store listing for **** of War Ragnarok now includes the 'PS5 Pro Enhanced' label. Neither Sony nor Sony Santa Monica have announced the game's PS5 Pro support yet, and there’s no detail on what it will involve, but of course the hope is Ragnarok's resolution will be boosted while maintaining 60 frames per second. **** of War Ragnarok joins the likes of Blizzard’s Diablo 4 in a list of over 60 games with confirmed PS5 Pro Enhanced updates, according to eagle-eyed fans who’ve been keeping an eye on the PlayStation Store (IGN has a list of all the PS5 Pro Enhanced games so far). PS5 Pro has an AI-powered upscaling feature called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) that can automatically improve the image clarity of games, but PS5 Pro Enhanced games take particular advantage of the beefier console’s features. At a recent PS5 Pro preview event, we spoke with the technical leads of some of PlayStation’s biggest games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us Part 2, to discuss the improvements we can expect to see now there’s a more powerful PS5 on the market. In an interview with IGN, Saber Interactive Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits said he’s hopeful the PS5 Pro will improve Space Marine 2 by default via PSSR, but did not confirm a PS5 Pro Enhanced patch. PS5 Pro itself launches November 7. Just days after **** of War Ragnarok launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating over its forced PlayStation Network account linking, a mod was released that bypassed the requirement entirely. The creator of the mod eventually pulled it offline out of ***** of reprisal from Sony. The PC port includes the long sought after ability to tone down puzzle hints from companions. Sony has said this will soon to be added to the console version, but we don't have a release date yet. Perhaps it will arrive alongside the PS5 Pro Enhanced update. Though **** of War Ragnarok met with critical and commercial acclaim, selling a whopping 11 million copies in less than three months on ***** and earning a 10/10 in IGN's review, one gripe players had was with the companions throwing out puzzle solutions before players had a chance to solve them. 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
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the next game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, was originally a concept called Like a Dragon: Tuna where original protagonist Kiryu Kazuma was a fighting fisherman. RGG Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama revealed the origins in a PlayStation Blog post discussing Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ahead of its February 28 release date. The game stars the fan favorite Majima Goro as he wakes up on a beach with no memory and, in a sea-faring alternative to his yakuza roots, becomes a pirate. It wasn't originally going to star Majima at all, however. "For quite some time, I wanted to make a game called Like a Dragon: Tuna, where Kiryu Kazuma, as a tuna fisherman, sets off to sea to ****** against fishing boats," Yokoyama said. "Long story short, it never came to fruition, but keywords like 'ship,' 'sea,' and 'fighting,' which had since then been engraved in my head, evolved into the concept of pirates." Kiryu has had plenty of fishy experience over the years through the myriad fishing minigames sprinkled throughout the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. He's also resorted to beating the rowdier ones up with his fists, like in the shark boss ****** from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth that's practically the end of Jaws. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a spin-off to Infinite Wealth, the eighth mainline entry in the Yakuza series (or ninth including Yakuza 0). The series underwent a name change from Yakuza to Like a Dragon upon its release, made more confusing by the seventh game being called Yakuza: Like a Dragon and starring new protagonist Ichiban Kasuga. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii grew into its own thing during the development of the latest game, however. "Around June or July 2023, long before the release of Infinite Wealth, the dev team was already mulling over the idea of an Infinite Wealth spin-off," Yokoyama said. "Even if we were to make Like a Dragon 9, we knew that wouldn’t be enough to capture and tell the story. During the end of the Infinite Wealth development, we began percolating the idea of a spin-off that stars characters who are not Ichiban Kasuga. It was almost as if we were creating a blown-up sub-story for Infinite Wealth." Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was revealed in September as a half Yakuza, half *********'s Creed 4: ****** Flag-looking entry. A lengthy reveal trailer showed Majima washed up on the beach of Rich Island, near Hawaii, looking worse for wear and helped by a child with a **** tiger (who is bizarrely played by Ichiban voice actor Nakaya Kazuhiro). This will be the first time in a while Yakuza fans have had to wait an entire year for a new release, with Infinite Wealth having arrived in January and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii not launching until February. While this is fairly normal for most game franchises, RGG Studio is known for its rapid release schedule. In the last five years, for example, it has released Yakuza 4 Remastered, Yakuza 5 Remastered, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Judgment Remastered, Lost Judgment, Like a Dragon: Ishin, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, alongside three Super Monkey Ball Games and an enhanced remaster of Virtua Fighter 5. That's 12 games in total. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will therefore add to that list, but the next mainline game (and a mysterious trademark called Yakuza Wars) are yet to be revealed. In our first preview of the incoming entry, IGN said: "Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is ship-shaping up to be a seaworthy spin-off with a fin-favorite at its helm." Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article
The time is almost upon you, OG Red ***** Redemption fans, as the classic open world cowboy game is coming to PC this October. Read more View the full article
Completing your weekly quests is one of the best ways to earn lots of XP in Fortnite, but they sometimes involve fairly tricky tasks. One such quest asks you to use ascenders or zip lines in different matches. If you’re unfamiliar with ascenders or zip lines or don’t know where to find them, this can be a tough task. It’s pretty easy to finish once you know where to find both, so here’s how to use ascenders or zip lines in different matches in Fortnite. View the full article
Image: Rockstar Games The original Red ***** Redemption has ports on the PS4, the Nintendo Switch, and now, finally PC. Rockstar has announced that the game and its zombified, non-canon side story Undead Nightmare are coming to PC on October 29th. The game will feature new PC-specific settings to tinker with and take advantage of, including: Native 4K resolution supported up to 144hzUltra- and super-ultrawide monitor supportMouse and keyboard support (naturally)Upscaling technologies support for Nvidia DLSS 3.7 and AMD FSR 3.0Nvidia DLSS Frame GenerationAdjustable draw distance and shadow quality settings Last year, Rockstar released ports of RDR on the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch. According to Verge writer Andrew Webster, Red ***** Redemption worked... Continue reading… View the full article
There can’t be a Pokémon Trading Card Game without a viable Charizard deck, and luckily for those of you playing Pokémon TCG Pocket, a Charizard ex deck that’s pretty strong is available. Granted, even though it’s popular, it doesn’t make it one of the greatest decks. That honor is still reserved for Starmie ex and a few others. Still, Charizard ex is a great deck to run if you enjoy the deck or want to play something different. View the full article
Red ***** Redemption and its expansion Undead Nightmare are finally coming to the PC 14 long years after the game's original release. The open-world Western adventure and its zombie horror side story will launch on PC on October 29. View the full article
The Moth Room, also known as the "M" room, in Silent Hill 2 Remake has a puzzle tied to finding the combination of a padlock you must solve to move forward. This puzzle changes depending on your game's difficulty, but the method for finding the solution always ******** the same. You must be observant and follow the clues next to the padlock to discover the right answer. View the full article
Rockstar Games has confirmed that the original Red ***** Redemption is finally coming to PC, over 14 years after it was first released on consoles. The original Red ***** Redemption launched for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. Later that same year, PS3 and Xbox 360 games were treated to the standalone expansion, Undead Nightmare. View the full article
The Core Ultra 9 285K achieved an impressive 5,268 points in PassMark's single-threaded benchmark, putting it ahead of competing processors like the Ryzen 9 9950X and the Apple M3 Max. While the AMD chip managed 4,739 points in the same benchmark, the M3 notched up 4,777 points. The Intel's flagship... Read Entire Article View the full article
One of the games industry's worst-kept secrets, the PC version of Red ***** Redemption, is a worst-kept secret no longer. After an unconscionable ******* of leakage, Rockstar have at last confirmed the open world port, together with a PC version of its Undead Nightmare expansion - they're coming to Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29th 2024. Picture craggy old John Marston riding into town at sunset, whooping and ******* six-shooters at the clouds. Actually, don't picture anything - that's what videos are for! Find the announcement trailer below. Read more View the full article
While Goku is Dragon Ball’s main character, it’s arguable that his son Gohan has the most character development in all of Dragon Ball Z, and that’s something Dragon Ball Sparking Zero examines more closely in his branching paths. There are fewer overall levels in Gohan’s campaign in the Episode Battle mode compared to some other characters in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero. The good news is that unlocking Gohan’s side missions only requires you to excel in combat, rather than the convoluted method of getting one of Vegeta’s branching paths or the choices you need to make in Goku’s side stories. View the full article
The Final Exam is not designed for entertainment or to scare people, but is an educational game, said Patricia Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin Oliver was ******* during the 2018 ********* at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Read Entire Article View the full article
2024 has been filled with surprising Steam hits. We've already had Palworld, Once Human, and ****** Myth: Wukong. Even more shockingly though, these games still have legs. Whether they're free or premium releases, players keep flocking back on Valve's platform. Amazon and NCSoft's newest free-to-play MMORPG Throne and Liberty is poised to join them, as within a week of its Western launch it's already amassed well over three million players. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Throne and Liberty server status and maintenance times Throne and Liberty server caps raised as Amazon battles MMO congestion Amazon addresses Throne and Liberty's shaky launch, details planned fixes View the full article
*********'s Creed Shadows might have been pushed back, but Ubisoft's tentpole RPG and stealth series is far from silent. AC Mirage is about to hit Steam, the mysterious Hexe is still in the works, and now, without any hint or fanfare, *********'s Creed Valhalla has gotten a significant update. Originally released in 2020, the Viking variation on Ubisoft's open-world formula is maybe the most expansive *********'s Creed game of all time. Personally, I remain a ****** Flag guy (I also like *********'s Creed 3, despite its many flaws), but if you've never played Valhalla before, or you're a veteran searching for an excuse for another run through, a sizable new update provides the ideal reason. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: *********'s Creed Valhalla Siege of Paris release date and gameplay Prepare for *********'s Creed Mirage with up to 80% off the full series Five *********'s Creed games are free to play, but not for long View the full article
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I remember when New World launched back in 2021. There were colossal server queues, disconnects, and a whole lot of hysterical laughter turned crying as you finally hit the shores of Aeternum, and were promptly yeeted back to the main menu. While I forged unique bonds with my then-colleagues, feeling like we'd experienced something the rest of the globe would never quite understand, it's no secret that server issues are incredibly annoying. Speaking to New World Aeternum's senior producer Katy Kaszynski in an exclusive PCGamesN interview, I ask how the team is planning to ensure a smooth launch for its fresh take on its magical MMO. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New World Aeternum details how its free-for-all PvP zone will work New World Aeternum release date and changes explained New World Aeternum open beta lets you try the reborn MMORPG for free View the full article
Finally huh? They sure kept us waiting. Red ***** Redemption from Rockstar Games is now set for a PC launch on October 29. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Twitch recently released a document explaining their rules and violations that can lead to enforcement actions, however VTubers and their fans were quick to point out that these rules may be selectively applied. In a recent tweet, Twitch addressed concerns that VTubers were facing unexplained suspensions for content that by all accounts was mild in […] Source View the full article
Entering the purple atmosphere of the mysterious Va'ruun'kai should have felt like something truly special, but Starfield: Shattered Space DLC feels more like a scientific space slog that fails to launch, rather than a groundbreaking new entry in the story. Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, the shroud of choice in a fairly linear narrative, marred by a lack of any chance-taking or anything new and exciting, leaves the first expansion for the epic space adventure an underwhelming endeavor and a reason to pause for anyone who doesn't already own the deluxe edition. View the full article
Paradox Interactive have not had a rosy couple of years. While the company's core business in grand strategy ******** prosperous, their approach to games outside this niche has been mired by delays, cancelations, closures and layoffs. Let's run through the big setbacks: The Lamplighters League, which we overall liked, was a $22 million financial flop - Paradox have now parted ways with creators Harebrained Studios. Cities Skylines 2 should have been a victory lap, after the success of the first game, but it launched with severe bugs and performance issues. Prison Architect 2, another follow-up to a hit game, has been delayed indefinitely, and Paradox have split from developers Double Eleven. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is borderline vapourware: originally announced in 2019 with Hardsuit Labs at the helm, it's currently in the hands of The ******** Room, and was recently delayed for the umpteenth time into 2025. And then there's the abrupt cancellation of Life By You, a life management sim designed to compete directly with The Sims 4, and the closure of its creators Paradox Tectonic. Writing-down the development of Life By You cost Paradox around 208 million krona, or $19.2 million. It was the primary contributor to a 90% decrease in the company's operating profit for the second quarter of 2024, versus the same quarter in 2023. Read more View the full article
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Image: Roblox Roblox is facing accusations that it lied to investors about the number of people who use the platform. In a report published on Tuesday, the investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is “consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more.” Roblox, which went public in 2021, reported having 79.5 million daily active users in its most recent earnings report. However, Hindenburg claims Roblox “intentionally conflates” actual people with daily users, as that number could also include alt accounts and bots. The research alleges that Roblox can separate alt accounts from single users, even though the company’s disclosure says daily active users “are not a measure of unique individuals... Continue reading… View the full article