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A new update for Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone addresses a specific issue affecting Xbox Game Pass users amid ongoing concerns about cheating within the franchise. Despite the Call of Duty: Warzone developers' continuous efforts to combat this persistent problem, instances of cheating continue to emerge, affecting gameplay and player experience. View the full article

The Garden Path from developer carrotcake is a slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, designed to be picked up and played in short and sweet bites. It's a real cosy gem you should take a look at. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Final Fantasy. Dragon Quest. Chrono Trigger. Shin Megami Tensei and its perhaps more famous spin-off, Persona. When you think of the most foundational and best JRPGs of all time, there are some easy picks, and the Mana series deserves to be among them. Initially starting life as Final Fantasy Adventure, Square Enix would turn it into its own standalone series with 1993's Secret of Mana, widely hailed as an essential pillar of the genre. Now, it's back, and you can try the new Visions of Mana today with a free Steam demo. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Visions of Mana release date, trailers, and latest news View the full article

It's refreshing to see a gaming laptop that isn't wholeheartedly set on beating Apple when it comes to making the thinnest product possible, and the Alienware M16 R2 is surprisingly thick in comparison to the majority of its competitors. That's a massive boon, perhaps more so than you might think, as it gives the M16 R2 a serious advantage when it comes to its cooling. In fact it's so potent, that its Intel Core Ultra 7 processor actually outcompetes the Core Ultra 9 found in MSI's Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V. Alienware has made a few design choices that seem a little out of place in the modern era, but this this is otherwise one of the best gaming laptops out there right now. Alienware was perhaps one of the first dedicated PC gaming manufacturers out there, and is actually a subsidiary brand of Dell at this point, predominantly focusing on gaming. The M16 R2 is thoroughly designed around that ethos. From its internal hardware to the 240Hz screen, RGB illumination, and M16 engraving on the back, it's a laptop that is entirely built around gaming, and it delivers on that front admirably. I've been testing the M16 for the last couple of weeks, seeing just how well it performs in games, and as a day-to-day workbook as well, to see if this could well be your next gaming laptop. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Alienware's best gaming PC still has a massive $800 off Get $100 off this Alienware OLED gaming monitor, if you're quick Alienware's best ultrawide HDR monitor is $200 off right now View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

While Intel are currently battling issues with their crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, they're now planning to launch Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake in September. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Zenless Zone Zero has been out for a while, and if you’re a PC player, you might want to know if and how you can mod the game. Well, good news! Not only can you mod ZZZ, but you can use the same method used for other miHoYo games. Here’s how to mod ZZZ. Before you mod ZZZ Download the Mod tool before you start modding. Image via Gamebanana Before you start modding Zenless Zone Zero, you need a special modding software called 3DMigoto. This software runs in the background while you run ZZZ (or any other miHoYo game) and loads mods. View the full article

The Void Shard loop in The First Descendant is one of the worst grinds in the game. Nexon’s previous changes weren’t enough to satisfy players, so more improvements are in the works. In the patch notes for Update 1.0.5, The First Descendant director Minseok Joo acknowledges that players don’t like the existing Void Shard loop. With the Update 1.0.5, Special Operations now drop seven times more Void Shards than before, and the team is considering removing Void Shards from the Void Fusion Reactor startup. “This would make the Fragments necessary only when the Reconstructing Device is used at the Fusion Reactor,” the director wrote. View the full article

Providing the best build for March 7th (Hunt) in Honkai: Star Rail and inserting her into a reliable team comp is the first step to fully unlocking her power after you have fully ascended her and started leveling up her Traces. March 7ths new playable form allows you to control the classic character from the Astral Express, albeit with an entirely new outfit and gameplay kit. March 7th (Hunt) is a 4-star Imaginary character who follows the Path of the Hunt, and is a specialist in dealing damage and providing support, often operating at her best as a sub-DPS. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Players of Fallout 4 recently got an amazing treat in the form of Fallout: London, transplanting the action from Boston to England's capital. As a total conversion mod Fallout: London replaces Fallout 4, allowing the post-apocalyptic city to be explored and 20 new factions to be met. This is the first time fans of the franchise have had a chance to peek outside of the ******* States and this has many curious about the rest of the world. View the full article

Goat Simulator has earned the right to call itself one of the greatest meme games of all time so it's great news that the original title may soon be remastered. Launched back in 2014, Coffee Stain Studios' ridiculous sandbox experience starring a goat driven to ******** as much as possible has become a dominant force in the industry, spawning several major expansions and an oddly titled sequel. Enthusiasts likely still enjoy returning to the place where it all started but even though it's meant to look a little strange, a fresh coat of paint certainly wouldn't hurt. View the full article

Xbox Game Pass is losing A Short Hike and two more highly rated games later today, July 31. These departures will increase the total number of July 2024 Xbox Game Pass removals up to nine. View the full article

Idea Factory has announced that the spinoff for Koushi Tachibana’s Date A Live, Date A Live: Ren Dystopia, will be released worldwide on Steam in September. In addition, there would be a deluxe edition where along with the game, a short novel named Ren Masques, two audio dramas named Natsumi Encounter and Origami Friendship, the official soundtrack, and a […] Source View the full article

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) and Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami say they would like to make a Complete Edition of Killer7, as well as a sequel. In this year’s Grasshopper Direct presentation, Suda was joined by Mikami to discuss the upcoming Hella Remastered version of their 2011 game Shadows of the Damned. However, at the end of the presentation, as the pair discussed their future projects, Mikami stated that he would like to see the return of Killer7, which he co-wrote with Suda. Read More... View the full article

Our obsession with the concept of the “***** game” and player counts is unhealthy for the video game industry and gamers, one of the developers behind Palworld has said. Palworld, dubbed “Pokémon with guns,” launched in early access form to record-breaking success. It is the second most-played game ever on Steam, with an incredible concurrent player count of 2,101,867 on Valve’s platform. Only battle royale PUBG is ahead of Palworld in Steam’s all-time peak concurrents chart. Palworld’s Steam concurrents have fallen since that explosive launch earlier this year, and now usually hit a peak in the tens of thousands rather than millions. The decline has caused some to call Palworld a “***** game,” but it is far from the only game to be called that in recent years. For example, Rocksteady’s catastrophic ******** Squad: ***** the Justice League, whose Steam concurrents usually peak in the hundreds of players, was called a ***** game upon its release. Arrowhead's Helldivers 2, Ubisoft's Skull & Bones, and Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 are also often called ***** games. Sony’s live service hero shooter Concord has been labeled "***** on arrival” before launch because of low beta concurrents on Steam. The “***** game” narrative is exacerbated by an industry currently pumping out more live service games than the market can perhaps support, or even wants, and by publishers who walk away from their live service games amid low player numbers. This month Capcom announced plans to move on from dinosaur-themed shooter Exoprimal just a year after launch, with Steam concurrents brutally low. John “Bucky” Buckley, community chief at Palworld developer Pocketpair, has been a vocal critic of the “***** game” phrase, and in social media posts has called on the industry, media, and gamers to ditch the fixation on concurrents and player counts. Bucky followed up on these posts in an interview with YouTube channel Going Indie for a video titled, ‘***** Games Are A Good Thing, Actually.' In it, Bucky called out publishers and developers who try to brute-force mechanics designed to keep players playing forever into games they're not suited to, declaring it "unhealthy." “Just play the games you like,” Bucky said. “If you finish in a day, cool. Good job. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Play the next one. “I don’t think it really serves anyone to push gamers to just play the same game day in, day out. There are games that you can play every single day for months on end and never ***** out. League of Legends, Dota, most MMOs, but they’re designed to be like that. “Whereas what we’re seeing now is a trend of... I won’t necessarily say who’s trying to push it, but a lot more people are trying to push gamers to play games that aren’t really designed to be played for months on end, for months on end.” Who cares if there’s only five people playing it? Just enjoy yourself. “I don’t think you need to be pushing yourself to play the same game all the time,” Bucky continued. “It’s not healthy for us, it’s not healthy for developers, it’s not healthy for gamers, it’s not healthy for the gaming media. And it’s just not healthy for our industry, because the more we push this kind of narrative, the more very large companies are going to just say ‘gamers want more live service.’ And we’re just going to get more of these really soulless live service games that come out and then get shut down nine months later, 12 months later, because they’re not making enough money. And we all lose in that case. “Play all the indIes you can. Spend as much money on indies as you can. Who cares if there’s only five people playing it? Just enjoy yourself. Just enjoy games. I don’t think it needs to be any more complex than that.” But will the industry, the media, and gamers listen? The “***** game” narrative is in part fueled by the video game industry’s obsession with secrecy. Unlike Hollywood, which makes movie budgets and box office figures public, video game publishers tend not to announce video game sales and/or revenue unless they’re truly spectacular, with development budgets almost always kept a closely guarded secret. In truth, it’s almost impossible to determine whether a video game has met expectations, which is why vague publisher comments made by CEOs in investor-focused financial calls get so much attention. This secrecy means gamers and the media have just one publicly available performance metric with which to gauge performance: Steam concurrents. Valve continues to make this stat available for the world to see, and so the world has developed a hyper-focus around it, in turn leading to an over-reliance. In any case, there have been plenty of examples of live service video games that were prematurely consigned to the scrap heap. Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege suffered a disastrous launch but went on to become one of the biggest live service games around. Hello Games' No Man's Sky is another redemption story, as is CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077. And let's not forget the humble origins of Fortnite, what began as a lackluster tower defense game but ended up perhaps the biggest live service of them all. 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

Luna has the honor of being the first Descendant to join The First Descendant after launch and the grind to obtaining her begins. If you want to know the precise steps, we’ve got you covered. Obtaining new Descendants in The First Descendant is a time-consuming process if you’re not willing to splash the cash. On top of that, there’s the added complication of only having limited slots for available Descendants. View the full article

A bit of an oops here with the newly released The Jackbox Megapicker, with the Native Linux version causing the Steam Deck to get corrupted. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Team Go Rocket serves multiple purposes in Pokémon Go, from acting as event bosses to tossing Grunts in your way for Field Research. No matter what their goal, Giovanni is pulling the strings—and you will need to put some work in to find him. Hunting down the Boss Rocket in Pokémon Go is something you have to build up to, as it requires you to beat multiple Go Rocket Grunts and all three leaders to have a chance at finding him. This typically involves completing special Rocket-themed research during specific events. If you plan to battle Giovanni, you must prep a strong team to deal with his rotating lineup of Shadow Pokémon—which currently includes a Shadow Groudon. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve will actually show you who is gaming on a Steam Deck. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This versatile MTG card's price has already spiked by 300% Reserved list MTG card price spikes 465% thanks to foolish frog MTG rules change won't break infinite combo, decrees designer View the full article

Braid creator Jonathan ***** says sales of the recently released Anniversary Edition have been awful. Braid: Anniversary Edition was released on May 14, containing a remaster of the 2008 original along with numerous new features, including a new interactive commentary track with over 15 hours of commentary. However, a new compilation video put together by the YouTube channel ***** Fan (as spotted on X by user @Knoebelbroet) shows a montage of clips from *****’s Twitch channel in which he gets progressively more negative about the game’s sales as the weeks pass following its release. Read More... View the full article

The First Descendant players love to experiment with weapons, Modules, and Descendants, but they unanimously agree that Shotguns are totally lackluster. Shotguns, the close-range, burst-*******, head-popping weapons popular in many games (especially looter-shooters), are completely disliked by The First Descendant playerbase. They’re so hated that one Redditor compiled a detailed breakdown of why Shotguns are bad on July 31 explaining exactly why this ******* archetype is useless. View the full article

Cult of the Lamb: Unholy Alliance is the next free update to the fantastic roguelike game, and it's absolutely jam-packed with goodies. Having earned the coveted 'overwhelmingly positive' rating with Steam score of 95% from over 69,000 user reviews, developer Massive Monster gives us an insight into what we can expect from the expansion, which includes the addition of co-op play, new structures, and plenty of extra follower traits and items. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fantastic Steam roguelike set to add co-op and more in big update One of the best roguelikes ever is finally getting our dream crossover Cult of the Lamb player count jumps 460% after **** update View the full article

With hordes of characters and gear to track down, The First Descendant doesn't shy away from a long grind. Although it's undoubtedly part of the appeal for us loot-minded players, at times it can feel like a second job. Worry no longer, as the latest The First Descendant update patch notes for version 1.0.5 promise drop rate improvements that will make grinding much less arduous. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The First Descendant has lost almost 40% of players in just one month The First Descendant codes July 2024 Nexon apologizes for The First Descendant loot farm fiasco View the full article

The First Descendant's massive 1.0.5 patch is here and it's bringing with it some necessary balance updates while also introducing the community to a brand-new playable character. NEXON's looter-shooter is still dominating just a month after its original launch so the fact that players are being treated to more content so soon after release is a welcome surprise. The developer was relatively cagey about revealing the full extent of Luna and Ultimate Valby's abilities before the patch dropped but now fans can finally get a glimpse of what ***** in store. View the full article

Dasung has debuted what is likely the world's first portable ****** e-ink monitor, the Paperlike ******, which is now available for $850. Although e-ink monitors lag behind traditional display technologies in several crucial ways, their unique quirks make them better suited to certain tasks. Read Entire Article View the full article