You’ll encounter several puzzles as you make your way through the Silent Hill 2 remake, which can be exceptionally challenging. One of the first things you find is putting together the broken jukebox you discover at Neely’s Bar, and it’s missing several parts. These are parts you can find throughout the town of Silent Hill. Unfortunately, you might be stuck trying to figure out the best way to learn where to track down these parts. They can be difficult to find, and when you know where to find them, expect the monsters of Silent Hill to defend these locations, making them even more challenging to grab. Here’s what you need to know about how to fix the Neely’s Bar Jukebox in Silent Hill 2. View the full article
The ranch sign in the original Silent Hill 2 is iconic for its tonally off use of Comic Sans, but the remake changed it - apart from where it didn't. Read more View the full article
Genshin Impact has officially revealed the four-star characters that will be featured in the upcoming Phase 1 of Update 5.1. Genshin Impact previously confirmed that this part of the update will include the new five-star character Xilonen, who has already made multiple appearances in the main storyline. View the full article
A bit of game industry news for you: in a pretty big win for Epic Games and their Unreal Engine, 343 Industries rebrands to Halo Studios and said the future of Halo will be built on Unreal Engine 5. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The Fallout modding scene never ceases to impress. We recently had the launch of Fallout: London, an entire fan-made game set within England's capital, while other teams are working tirelessly to remake the original isometric classics in the modern, Bethesda style. View the full article
The Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia page was locked down after its list of review scores from the press was edited to make them lower. Silent Hill 2 is Bloober Team’s well-received remake of Konami’s classic 2001 psychological horror game for PC and PS5 (it’s console exclusive to PS5 for one year, Sony has confirmed). It sees protagonist James Sunderland following a mysterious letter from his late wife, Mary, and a search for clues in the terrifying namesake town, which is teeming with nightmarish monsters. As reported by Eurogamer, admins were forced to make Wikipedia’s Silent Hill 2 Remake page ‘semi-protected’ after what was called “persistent disruptive editing.” Wikipedia’s rules state that semi-protection is sometimes necessary “to prevent vandalism” to popular pages, and that’s exactly what happened here, with admins issuing a number of updates that changelog entries said were “to fix trolling.” IGN’s was among the review scores tampered with. IGN’s Silent Hill 2 Remake review returned an 8/10, but it was lowered to 6/10. Eurogamer’s score dropped down to 0/5 after awarding the game a five-star review. At the time of this article’s publication, the review scores were accurate. Seriously? Trolls can't handle SH2R's success so they vandalized the Wikipedia review scores byu/Sea-Measurement5025 insilenthill .reddit-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } Why did this happen? Eurogamer speculates it may be driven by trolls who are upset about changes made to the character’s faces and clothes. Silent Hill 2 Remake is having a better time of it over on Steam, where it currently enjoys an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ user review rating from over 3,000 reviews. (Silent Hill 2 Remake’s global release date is October 8, but advanced access is available now.) Wikipedia’s Silent Hill 2 Remake page protection is set to expire on October 9, although admins may need to keep an eye on it in the near-term at least. 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 any of you who work with image editing on Linux for any reason, you've probably used the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) at some point, well it's getting really close to the long-awaited 3.0 release now. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Master Chief in Unreal Engine 5. | Image: Halo Studios Microsoft is moving its Halo development to Unreal Engine 5, after more than a year of rumors of an engine switch following a leadership overhaul at 343 Industries, layoffs, and other changes. 343 Industries is now becoming Halo Studios as part of this engine change announcement, hoping to mark a new chapter in the history of Halo. Halo moving to Unreal Engine 5 is being positioned as the first step of a transformation for Halo Studios to change its technology, structure, processes, and even culture. “We’re not just going to try improve the efficiency of development, but change the recipe of how we make Halo games,” says Pierre Hintze, studio head at Halo Studios. Image: Halo Studios Master Chief in Unreal Engine 5. ... Continue reading… View the full article
South Korean powerhouse Gen.G will make massive changes to its VALORANT roster for the upcoming 2025 season, with three players entering free agency. Gen.G was arguably the best team throughout 2024, but a disappointing exit at VCT Champions faltered its plan to build a dynasty. On Oct. 7, the Gen.G organization revealed it has let go of Lakia, Meteor, and Munchkin from its VALORANT roster. These three players were crucial building blocks that allowed Gen.G to become such a dominant squad. View the full article
While Sony are actively making their PC ports worse with forced PlayStation Network accounts even for single-player games, some companies choose to make them better and now Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios gets better. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Gaming has had a thriving culture and community for decades now. While the medium has had negative connotations in the past, the perception has since shifted to the extent that studies, like a recent piece from the Harvard Business Review, show how it’s a beneficial force for the workplace. The article, published on Thursday, Oct. 3, notes that studies have suggested that gaming can build cognitive, social, and emotional skills relevant to organizational success. Participating in gaming can be as positive as other hobbies, such as sports, cooking, and more. The article suggests gaming helps productivity in the workplace and maintains stable mental health. View the full article
Microsoft’s beloved Halo franchise is getting a facelift with a move to Unreal Engine 5, and fans have plenty of reasons to be excited, thanks to the “multiple projects” currently in development. The last entry in the Halo series came in 2021’s Halo Infinite, which moved the standard linear approach to an open-world environment and saw plenty of hiccups along the way—including seeing early footage of the game’s graphics hammered online. View the full article
One of the major concerns about the Silent Hill 2 remake before it was even announced back when it was just a thought experiment as Capcom started to modernise the classic Resident Evil games was whether you could still capture the unnerving and voyeuristic feel without tank controls. View the full article
It's the end of an era at 343 Industries, as the developer is going by a new name, Halo Studios, with multiple Halo games apparently in development. Read more View the full article
Football Manager is one of my guiltiest pleasures. From taking Luton Town and Borussia Monchengladbach to ********* glory to establishing Atlanta ******* as a behemoth in North America, I’ve amassed many achievements I’m proud of—and I’m not alone. For the last three decades, Football Manager has occupied a unique space in gaming and football. It’s a virtual product where players can live out their managerial fantasies, all while the franchise makes a significant impression in the sport itself. Few games are as impactful as Football Manager, which offers a blend of the real world and virtual world in a way that teaches important lessons to everyone—including delicate topics others may be afraid to touch. View the full article
*********’s Creed Mirage launches on Steam later in October, Ubisoft has announced. Mirage's Steam release comes a year after it launched exclusively on the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect on PC, as well as PlayStation and Xbox. Ubisoft recently ditched its policy of signing with Epic for PC exclusivity and will now return to day-one releases on Steam following the poor performance of Star Wars Outlaws, which also skipped Steam at launch. Outlaws itself releases on Steam on November 21, 2024. Mirage is the well-received back-to-basics *********’s Creed game that focuses more on the series’ stealthy origins. You play Basim, a cunning street thief who navigates the bustling streets of ninth-century Baghdad. Mirage is also shorter than recent *********’s Creed games — in stark contrast to recent entries Valhalla and Odyssey, which had massive open worlds that would take dozens of hours to explore. IGN’s *********’s Creed Mirage review returned an 8/10. Soon after its launch, Ubisoft said Mirage's player count was "in line" with *********'s Creed Origins and Odyssey’s launch numbers. The company added that Mirage was the biggest new-generation launch game in terms of unit sales in Ubisoft's history. Mirage’s Steam launch comes amid a tumultuous year for the company that’s seen disappointing returns from Call of Duty competitor XDefiant and the aforementioned Star Wars Outlaws. Ubisoft delayed *********’s Creed Shadows into 2025 following the poor sales of Outlaws, and its staff have arranged a strike for later this month. In its recent note to investors, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot acknowledged that the company's "second quarter fell short of expectations" and vowed to launch "a review aimed at further improving our **********." He also addressed some of the cultural conversations happening around Ubisoft lately, which have intensified around Star Wars Outlaws and the upcoming *********'s Creed Shadows. Last week, Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot family and shareholder Tencent were said to be considering teaming up to take the company private following the collapse of its share price. 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
Alas for the Maw. Last week we had a critical mass of people being off *****, away on trips, away on holiday, or locked in the cellar reviewing very long video games. As such, the flow of news to the dark **** of video games journalism was sluggish. Thankfully, the Maw seems to have let us off lightly. It could have risen kraken-like from the abyss and swallowed the planet. Instead, it has merely summoned an extra moon. Quickly now, let's run through the week's PC game releases of note and top the Maw up before that bonus satellite does anything unconventional, like growing teeth. Read more View the full article
With hundreds of Until Dawn endings to get and only subtle differences between each, it is down to you whether you want to save everyone or let them all succumb to the supernatural threat that looms over Blackwood Mountain. There aren’t many changes in the Until Dawn remake endings that make it different from the original. In fact, the only noticeable change is that Josh can now be saved. Outside of this, a new post-credit ending follows the cutscene that reveals whether Josh transformed into a Wendigo or redeemed himself of his past actions based on your decisions when controlling Josh and Sam. View the full article
Diablo 4 expansion Vessel of Hatred goes live today, October 7 in some regions, with a global release date of October 8. Here are all the release times across the globe. Vessel of Hatred — Diablo 4’s first expansion — goes live as early as 4pm PDT on October 7. Pre-download on Battle.net and console (Xbox and PlayStation) is already available. There is no pre-download for Diablo 4 on Steam (Steam users must wait to download the update when Vessel of Hatred goes live at 4pm PDT on October 7). It’s worth noting that Diablo 4 players can pre-download the patch that contains Vessel of Hatred and the Season of Hatred Rising (Season 6) content regardless of whether they have bought Vessel of Hatred. Blizzard recently released the patch notes for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2, and not only are they huge but change the game in significant ways. Vessel of Hatred’s headline new features include a new class, new region, and a new story. The new Spiritborn class is joined by the new region of Nahantu, where you search for Neyrelle, who is on a mission to ******** the Prime Evil Mephisto. You can also recruit mercenaries to aid you in combat and ****** together in a new PvE co-op activity. IGN’s Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred review returned an 8/10. We said: “Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is a stellar expansion that hits all the right notes, but only feels like the first act to a larger adventure.” Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred PC, PlayStation, and Xbox global release times:Irvine: 4pm PDT, October 7New York: 7pm EDT, October 7São Paulo: 8pm BRT, October 7London: 12am BST, October 8Berlin: 1am CEST, October 8Istanbul: 2am TRT, October 8Seoul: 8am KST, October 8Sydney: 10am AEDT, October 8Auckland: 12pm NZDT, October 8 Last week, Blizzard confirmed Diablo 4 and Vessel of Hatred will be PS5 Pro Enhanced. Diablo 4 is the first Microsoft game with confirmed Enhanced support for Sony’s $700 mid-gen upgrade, which launches November 7. Microsoft owns all Activision Blizzard's franchises following its $69 billion acquisition of the company in 2023, and since then has added a number of the firm’s games to its subscription service, Game Pass. Diablo 4 is in Game Pass, although not in its Standard tier. Vessel of Hatred is not in Game Pass. 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
Halo developer 343 Industries has rebranded as ‘Halo Studios’, and announced that it’s working on multiple Halo games developed within Unreal Engine 5. The news was shared during Sunday’s Halo World Championship tournament, in which it debuted a video showing a technical test of various Halo-themed locations running within Unreal. The studio stressed that the footage shown isn’t a game, but a glimpse of what it might be able to achieve within UE5. A game engine is a framework used for the development of games. As the cost and effort associated with creating an original engine are high, most developers opt for an off-the-shelf solution such as Unreal Engine. Read More... View the full article
Reinforced Iron Plate is the first item you encounter in Satisfactory, requiring two items to make it. This means, unlike the Iron Plates, Iron Rods, and Screws that you were producing for the prior milestones via Constructor, you need the Assembler for the first time to automate its production. Reinforced Iron Plates are needed to build machines like Constructors and Assemblers, but they’ll be used most for Mk.2 Conveyor Belts. So, the way to go is to automate their production as soon as possible. View the full article
Ubisoft has acknowledged a press report claiming that its founding Guillemot family is considering taking the company private with Tencent. Last week, Bloomberg sources claimed that the ******** conglomerate – which already owns around 10% of Ubisoft – and Guillemot Brothers Ltd had been speaking with advisers to explore ways to stabilize Ubisoft, following a year in which its market value has more than halved. One of the possibilities discussed would involve teaming up to take Ubisoft private, it’s claimed, though talks were said to be at an early stage. Read More... View the full article
How time flies. It feels like just a short while ago that Los Angeles-based Akupara Games were emerging as one of the most notable publishers in the indie game scene, but this past week marked their eighth anniversary. They've been celebrating with a still-ongoing Steam ***** (lasting until October 13) and a massive Twitch stream, the latter of which contained a discussion on the state of indie games in 2024, the reveal of Videocult's collaboration with Sanshee and Rain World plushies, plus the first public showing of Airframe Ultra, Videocult's latest upcoming game about underground hoverbike racing. But the big reveal was that of the next game to join Akupara's library, that being none other than Studio Hybrid's upcoming metroidvania game GigaSword, whose latest trailer you can check out below. View the full article
343 Industries has announced they’re rebranding to Halo Studios, news confirmed alongside the reveal new Halo games are being made in Unreal Engine 5. Details on the new Halo games are scant though multiple new projects are being made now in Unreal Engine 5. The previously released Halo Infinite will continue to be run on the studio’s […] Source View the full article
An Overwatch 2 fan shares a helpful video that shows numerous ways that Cassidy is a vertical hero. Many Overwatch 2 characters are vertically focused like Pharah and D.Va, but some players may not realize that Cassidy is among them. View the full article
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The ranch sign in the original Silent Hill 2 is iconic for its tonally off use of Comic Sans, but the remake changed it - apart from where it didn't. Read more View the full article