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Gearbox CEO ****** Pitchford says that Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the fantasy-themed spinoff from the Borderlands series, was "wildly successful" and that it's reasonable for fans to expect more from the series in the future. Pitchford's comments echo what he said around the launch of Wonderlands, when he said that Gearbox may well have "a new franchise" in the fantasy series... Read more.View the full article

You can pursue just about any profession you can think of in BitLife, but some of them are a lot tougher to get than others. Becoming a brain surgeon is one of the trickiest tasks you can attempt in BitLife. If you successfully become a brain surgeon, you’ll be earning a solid amount of money and have a steady profession to work through, which makes it much easier to complete other tasks. Here’s how to become a brain surgeon in BitLife. View the full article

The hunt for specimens continues in Destiny 2‘s Echoes, with guardians chasing down Specimen NES006 for its quest. This specimen can be tricky to find since you can miss its location. As usual, finding Specimen ID: NES006 kicks off an associated quest, which gives you another set of objectives to complete. Here’s where you can find this specimen and complete the associated quest in Destiny 2. View the full article

Fallout: London is an incredible mod for Fallout 4 with a range of new companions to meet. The most popular of these companions is Churchill the Bulldog, a lovable new furry companion similar to Dogmeat in the base game. Churchill is named after Winston Churchill, the famous Prime Minister of the ***. View the full article

The First Descendant has been taking the gaming community by storm since its launch day on July 2, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of players have logged in on Steam alone, and its multiplayer community continues to thrive. This is largely due to The First Descendant's seamless crossplay and its multiplayer content, but its multiplayer gameplay is not without its issues. View the full article

World of Warcraft has finally fixed the Warband Bank a week after it was supposed to be added in the War Within Pre-Expansion Update. After resolving a critical issue with the new feature, World of Warcraft players can now use the Warband Bank to easily transfer and store items across all of their characters. View the full article

When paired with a high-end GPU, SK Hynix says the memory can process more than 1.5 TB of data per second. Read Entire Article View the full article

Some studios will spend years of development time and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing emotional, Hollywood-quality stories and realistic graphics, but the Earth Defense Force series proudly prefers to remain the most pure video game nonsense ever conceived. Don’t be fooled by the PS3-era graphics, atrocious voice acting, absurd story, and uneven technical performance of Earth Defense Force 6 – developer Sandlot knows exactly what it’s doing with this over-the-top satire that makes Helldivers 2 look highbrow by comparison. Like its predecessors, EDF6 leans into its rough edges and silly cooperative mayhem, prioritizing mindless fun above all else, and the result is yet another wonderfully amusing entry in the ongoing saga. But even going in with the right expectations, it’s not all sunshine and dismembered thoraxes, as this inadvisably long campaign has tons of repetition, plenty of levels that are more boring than amusing, and at times crosses the line from knowingly campy to just plain bad. Still, this giant insect-filled monster fest is more often than not a hilariously good time, and that’s something we could certainly use more of. Earth Defense Force 6 is a goofy as heck cooperative third-person shooter that throws you and up to three friends into a version of our world under siege by aliens. Called the Primus, these primarily insectoid invaders are a grab bag of dorky monsters that range from generic flying drones, knockoff Godzilla kaiju, oversized evil Battletoads, massive spiders that jump everywhere, and more. Across the 80+ hours it took me to complete its 147 level main campaign, you’ll blast these low-res goons to bits using a growing arsenal of guns, rocket launchers, grenades, turrets, vehicles, and giant Gundam mechs, some of which feel great while others are experiments gone horribly wrong. Wrap all of this ridiculousness in some contentedly outdated graphics and a framerate that becomes unstable whenever your explosive shenanigans reach a fever pitch, and you’re in for an uproarious good time. It’s hard to beat rocket launchers that can level cityscapes in seconds. You’ll also bounce between four returning character classes: the Ranger, a standard soldier whose only advantage is that their weapons are the best around; the Wing Diver, a Valkyrie-like class whose jet-pack and wings give her unmatched mobility (offset by the fact that she’s ******* by a light breeze); the Air Raider, an often second-fiddle support class who specializes in calling in massive ******** runs, relies on gadgets like drones to squish bugs, and can summon vehicles to deal serious damage; and the Fencer, a dual-wielding tank class who can absorb serious damage with a giant shield and smash things to bits in melee, but who is also quite difficult to play well. It might be a little milquetoast, but I favor the Ranger – it’s just hard to beat rocket launchers that can level cityscapes in a few seconds and ******** rifles that plow through hundreds of aliens with ease. While the stories in Earth Defense Force games have always been charming rubbish, EDF 6 sets a new bar with a tale that actively makes no sense at various points (even if, like me, you’re following along very closely and occasionally taking notes). It makes heavy use of time travel and has humanity losing the war against the Primus, only for you and the aliens to both go back in time to try again – but the good guys perplexingly make very little use of the knowledge gained in the previous timeline, so you’ll have to watch them slowly piece together what’s happening while you and your character are already miles ahead of the buffoons trying saving humanity. Most of the time, this insanity is as amusing as you might hope, like when one part introduces giant frog enemies and says they’re “just like humans” without addressing the fact that they’re clearly frogs, then later introduces cliche humanoid gray martian enemies and describes them as “not humanoid.” Other times, though, it’s just painful, like one section where they explain the origins and biological breakdown of a flying dragon monster while making you ****** it about five times in a row, reminiscent of a filler episode of Dragonball Z. The story's insanity is as amusing as you might hope most of the time. The extremely poorly written story is eclipsed in its dreadfulness only by the voice acting, which sounds like it was performed by some poor souls who were rejected by their local improv troupes and decided to give video game voices a try. One part nearly made me *****-take when a character says, in the most monotone voice imaginable, “you have no idea how relieved I am” – you’re right, my dude, I definitely do not. But between all of that cringey dialogue and senseless plot development, there’s a ton of joy. There is still plenty of the kind of bad-by-design silliness at which EDF excels, and the times where it manages to walk that line properly are a gift that keeps on giving. Thankfully, the heart and soul of Earth Defense Force 6, its over-the-top combat against all manner of blurry foes, is actually a lot of fun – and oftentimes pretty ***** challenging. Dodging, dashing, and flying out of the way as monsters, aliens, overgrown insects, and robots rock the screen (and threaten the framerate) is exactly the kind of action-packed madness I love about this series, and it’s never been done better than in this iteration. The fundamentals of that action may be almost identical to what we got a few games ago, but EDF6 adds a ton of weapons and new ****** types to the mix and then dreams up interesting scenarios to put you in, like one level where you’re defending a beach from an entire army of giant poisonous reptiles. Playing through on the normal difficulty can be challenging enough, especially if you don’t have a competent crew at your back, but it gets absolutely insane once you dial that up to the ******* options. It requires an intense amount of grinding to get the requisite powerful weapons and armor to put up a ******, plus a team who absolutely knows what they’re doing. As with prior entries, combat’s simple setup and silly attitude don’t get in the way of being extremely entertaining and genuinely satisfying to overcome, and that can make it pretty hard to put down. That said, some of the design decisions definitely go a step beyond janky fun and into being straight up obnoxious, like how if you’re ******* and waiting to be revived by a teammate, you just have to sit there staring at your own corpse until they come to get you. There’s no option to watch what other players are doing if they aren’t standing right by you and no respawn timer, which is just plain boring. There are also a handful of maps you’ll find yourself running missions on quite a few times, and while the enemies and objectives are usually at least a little different, the lack of variety definitely grated on me at times. Also, you’re occasionally made to play some slower-paced, story-focused levels that are simply the worst, though they at least only show up at a few specific moments. This isn’t the kind of story that’s at all worth slowing down the pacing to tell, and those segments just absolutely waste your time in a campaign that’s already way longer than it probably should be. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Three years after its initial release, Guilty Gear Strive continues to add new characters, stages, and story content for players to enjoy - but out of all the game's post-launch additions, an entirely new mode might stand out as a reason to revisit Strive in 2024. Alongside the announcement of a new Season Pass for the game, Strive is currently testing its first (and likely only) new game mode to be added post-launch, adding a new way, even more chaotic way to play matches with friends. View the full article

There may be a drastic change to Honkai: Star Rails traditional gameplay, according to new Version 2.5 leaks that have started circulating. Version 2.5 is still a few weeks away, as the popular turn-based RPG is still entering Version 2.4. In the current patch, players will return to the Xianzhou Alliance and witness a new story arc, as well as gain access to the new characters of Honkai: Star Rail 2.4, Yunli, Jiaoqiu, and March 7th (Hunt). With Version 2.5s beta tests occurring, however, some details about the upcoming patch have already started emerging. View the full article

Rejoice, agents. One of the VALORANT community’s most divisive maps is finally being rotated out of the competitive map pool in the upcoming Patch 9.08. Riot Games has announced that in Patch 9.08, the competitive map rotation is being updated with a host of changes, including the removal of Icebox and Lotus. As a replacement, the devs will be bringing back Pearl and Split into VALORANT‘s competitive pool, but there won’t be any design updates to either map. View the full article

Superhero media before the days of cinematic universes and constant cameos was like the Wild West, for better or worse. A relic of this bygone era is the catalog of licensed superhero games, including one that’s seen a price hike as a result of the recent Deadpool & Wolverine movie. High Moon Studios’ 2013 action game Deadpool, starring the titular wisecracking anti-hero, was one such piece of superhero media freed from the fetters of big studio oversight. It likely would have gone down as yet another of the seemingly endless stream of irreverent, stylish hack-and-slashes the seventh generation gave us if not for the curious tale of its licensing. View the full article

Ben ******* is a lovable bear in Zenless Zone Zero who players can gain Trust with up to level four. This A Rank Agent is given out for free during the main story and is the first Defense-type character in the game. He deals ***** damage and can trigger the ***** effect by building up the ***** Anomaly. Ben can also counter with his Special *******. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Image: ***** For almost 20 years, Nintendo and ***** have released Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games to coincide with the international sporting event. But now, according to a report in Eurogamer, that tradition is at an end. In 2020, the IOC made the decision to not renew the game’s licensing deal, ending a run of games that’s covered most Summer and Winter Olympic games since 2007. “Basically the IOC wanted to bring [the licensing] back to themselves internally and look at other partners so they would get more money,” Lee Cocker, a developer who worked on the Mario & Sonic franchise, told Eurogamer. Strangely though, those “other partners” are NFTs and esports — products that are not currently known for their money-making possibilities. To... Continue reading… View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Deadpool & Wolverine is blowing up the box office, but you don't have to scurry off to the movie theater to enjoy it. You can make your own Deadpool & Wolverine movie in Blockbuster Inc, a movie studio management sim that just added some pretty recognizable superheroes—yet still legally distinct from Marvel—in its latest update... Read more.View the full article

A new battle pass for Teamfight Tactics Set 12 has arrived, and the rewards are better than previous passes. The Magic n’ Mayhem battle pass has paid and free-to-play options. I normally run the free-to-play versions, but the rewards for Set 12 are a serious upgrade, like the new Enchanted Archives Arena. This article breaks down what you get for free and what’s included in the paid battle pass version so you can decide which option is best for you. View the full article

Another new set dropping into Magic: The Gathering Arena has bugged the system, causing dropped matches in Limited events and other modes during the digital release of Bloomburrow. The digital launch of Bloomburrow on July 30 through MTG Arena was going smoothly until around 1pm CT, when players began making reports of dropped matches. As with most new sets dropping into the digital client, players were able to access the new cards and start playing before the update was finalized. Dropped matches were occurring in Limited Draft events, leaving players frustrated and out almost $10 unless WotC refunds the Draft tokens. View the full article

A lot of great games released in 2022, from juggernauts like Elden Ring to breakout hits like Tunic, but few were as unique as Cult of the Lamb. As a mixture of roguelite dungeon crawling gameplay and managing a cult society, Cult of the Lamb is both an action title and a darker take on cute life simulation titles. The game has continued to receive patches and updates since its release, and the newest one might be the most exciting yet. View the full article

World of Warcraft recently revealed the full list of cosmetics players can get at the Trading Post in August, including faction-bending Alliance and Horde mounts, a new Murloc ****, and the Cowards Violet Target back transmog the bonus reward for the month. With The War Within releasing in the same month, World of Warcraft fans can pick up these cosmetic items before, during, and after the launch of the new expansion pack. View the full article

Today's release includes a variety of bug fixes and quality of life improvements across SteamVR, our OpenXR API, and Steam Link. We continue to focus on OpenXR as our preferred API for new games and applications. SteamVR’s official OpenXR subforum is here and we’d love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for new features. SteamVR: Fixed a memory ***** affecting some users who have a Lighthouse HMD attached to their system, but are using a different HMD, or are streaming to a wireless HMD. Panels dragged by a grab handle now face the user and move more smoothly. Fixed ****** that occurred when a remapping file path in an input profile was invalid. Allow Tundra trackers to be bound to left and right wrist roles. Fixed a case where controller simulation could break when starting an application or connecting a new device. Restrict applications from seeing controller/tracker positions while the Steam keyboard is visible.OpenXR: Implemented XR_EXT_hand_tracking_data_source. Fix bindings for left_wrist and right_wrist in XR_HTCX_vive_tracker_interactionSteam Link: Fixed a memory ***** when using Nvidia cards. Help & Information: The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a SteamVR System Report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.View the full article

The Sims 4 Lovestruck has a secret and decently complex quest you can work through to earn a special prize. This is the Ring Bear’s quest, a task involving a very sad Sim who needs your help. Completing this quest is quite tricky if you’re not familiar with Ciudad Enamorada and all the secrets it hides. The reward you get at the end is pretty unique and powerful though, so here’s how to complete the Ring Bear quest in The Sims 4 Lovestruck. View the full article

The wildness of Call of Duty’s skins gained a new chapter today, except this one is just plain awesome as opposed to weird or silly like some others that the game is known for. The Tracer Pack: Down From the Skies Ultra Skin and MasterCraft bundle has been on the minds of Modern Warfare 3 players since it was data mined, and it can now be bought. And it’s absolutely worth the excitement. View the full article

When playing as a Rogue in DungeonBorne, you must be careful as you explore any of the fearsome dungeons. You might not have robust defenses, but you have some fantastic ******* power and can leverage that to make gold pretty fast. There are several ways to go about making gold. The best way to ensure you always get a small amount of gold on every run in DungeonBorne is to survive and find a portal. If you consistently have runs where you don’t make it to the end, you’ll likely struggle with maintaining money. You may have to turn down the difficulty to ensure you have a better chance of surviving the horde of enemies and players, preventing you from escaping. View the full article

Star Wars Outlaws has the easiest elevator pitch of any game in recent history. It's the first ever truly open-world game set within one of the most iconic entertainment franchises in history, and it's made by Ubisoft, masters of the open-world genre. Developed by Massive Games - of The Division fame - the game promises tight gunplay, exciting quests, and complete immersion in Lucasfilm's iconic fiction. On paper it's an easy win, but how does Star Wars Outlaws hold up in practice? After four hours of exclusive hands-on access, I'd argue that it all works out pretty well. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All Star Wars Outlaws planets and locations All confirmed Star Wars Outlaws characters When does Star Wars Outlaws take place? View the full article

I've been trying to decide which moment in Conscript I think is the scariest, and it depends essentially on your definition of *****. There's visceral *****, when something leaps out at you or it's horrifying to look at. There's also ***** of the unknown, this idea that something is happening that you can't understand or control, and that it's preparing to ******** you in a way you can't defend. There are moments of Resident Evil, Amnesia, and the wonderfully postmodern Signalis in here, but if I'm trying to simplify or singularise what makes Conscript the best survival horror game of 2024, it's the way it preys upon a more unusual, more intricate, and more excruciating type of *****. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Brutal new horror game Conscript mixes Resident Evil and Battlefield 1 Win a 1TB Steam Deck OLED and HyperX gaming gear bundle Terrifying WWI horror game finally has a launch date and new demo View the full article