The beauty of cards is that they can be anything. You can slap together a working game with them in a couple of minutes. Take 12 blanks, doodle some faces and landscapes, and lo, you have a procedural narrative generator. Make some duplicates, invent a few rules and lo, you have systems. Conversely, the great drawback of cards - especially in those roguelite deckbuilders people have been churning out since Slay The Spire - is that everything can be reduced to them. For example: last night, I played a round of Fungi with my partner, Fungi being a charming tabletop foraging sim in which you gather scrumptious chantarelles and boletus from the forest floor. This morning I resumed playing Breachway, out now in early access, in which you guide a starship through a series of wartorn solar systems, with battles unfolding as a turn-based exchange of cards corresponding to ship components. Read more View the full article
Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is branching out from making videogames that are pure sugar in digital form. It's getting businessy, and has announced that it's opening a new publishing division, presumably to help other devs consume hours, days, months of our time with the most absurdly moreish games ever made... Read more.View the full article
The most recent update for Deadlock added a unique way for players to deal with cheaters by turning them into frogs. This welcome change comes after recent promises of an update to the anti-cheat system for Deadlock. View the full article
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The story behind The Day Before is a bizarre one. Advertised as an MMO, it was at one point the most wishlisted game on Steam. Then, it launched, and everyone hated it. It wasn't even an MMO, and was much more akin to an extraction shooter - albeit a very basic one that fell apart very quickly due to bugs and performance issues. View the full article
After being available on numerous other platforms, some beloved Square-Enix RPGs are finally making their debut on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Windows. Legend of Mana, Trials of Mana and the first six Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games are now available on Microsoft Platforms. All these games are available digitally now, and are all worth playing. Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters are available at a limited time discount, and all six games can be purchased individually or together as a bundle. The two Mana games are available to purchase individually, but are also available on Xbox Game Pass. View the full article
THE FINALS brings map destruction and good times with its intense FPS style, and it’s got plenty of game modes to ***** into alongside it. There’s a variety of different gameshow-themed experiences to try, regardless of how competitive you are. Here are all of the game modes in THE FINALS as of season four. View the full article
Pokémon TCG Pocket is a dream for card collectors, offering a full simulated pack opening experience with plenty of rare cards to snap up and use in battles. The first expansion set is called Genetic Apex and it’s important to choose which packs you open carefully if you’re concerned about finding particular hits. Here’s a breakdown of the key differences, looking at whether you should opt for Charizard, Pikachu, or Mewtwo packs. View the full article
All the details about Genshin Impact 5.1, including its release date, character banner structure, teasers of the story updates, and the patchs events, have been confirmed during the updates official livestream. Version 5.1 is the next major patch for HoYoverses action RPG and it will continue the story focused on the region of Natlan introduced with Version 5.0. During the update, players will be able to play through new Archon Quests related to the Nation of Pyro, as well as claim several exclusive rewards via events. Of course, they will also have the chance to obtain Xilonen in Genshin Impact. View the full article
Cyberpunk 2077's developers once brainstormed ideas for a quest in which the player "became a construct, essentially able to do millions of things at once" via some Superhot-style time mechanics, similar to those a modder has just managed to add to the game. Read more View the full article
Valve has updated its new multiplayer game Deadlock to let players turn cheaters into a frog. Deadlock is a hero shooter that’s like a mash-up of all Valve’s previous games, including Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike. It’s in early development, with Valve updating all the time, which leads us to this week’s changes. This week’s Deadlock patch added a novel anti-cheat measure: turning a cheater into an in-game frog. If you spot a cheater in-game, you can either ban them or transform them for the rest of the match. Here’s the note in the patch notes: Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system. When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards. The system is set to ************* detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive. We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out. When a match is ended this way, the results will not count for other players. And here’s how it looks: Guys do you ever get this weird glitch in deadlock [Hidden Content] — Poggu (@poggu__) September 26, 2024 According to ex-Counter-Strike developer Burton Johnsey, Valve built a system just like this for its legendary multiplayer shooter, codenamed '*** Surprise Mode,' but it turned cheaters into a chicken. Unfortunately it was never released. Holy *****, they finally built codename “*** Surprise Mode”?! When I worked on VAC, Rich and I designed this for CS but the cheater was a chicken. [Hidden Content] — BurtonJ (@sptonjohn) September 27, 2024 Deadlock isn’t properly released yet (it’s still invite only) but it’s already a big hit on Steam, where it’s usually in the top 10 most-played games. At the time of this article’s publication, Deadlock had an impressive 118,697 concurrent players on Valve’s platform. This week’s patch introduced a new Deadlock hero called Mirage, and made several map, hero, and item changes. Valve has yet to announce a release date. 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
The busy but quiet metropolis has been ********** once more as Shadows of Doubt throws a ******* into the mix. With only fingerprints to work with, you must solve the case and identify the ******* before they strike again. Here’s everything you need to know about fingerprints in Shadows of Doubt. View the full article
Genshin Impact has officially confirmed the featured characters of Version 5.1, as its Event Banners will be headlined by Xilonen, Chiori, Nahida, and Hu Tao. While only three Natlan characters have joined the playable cast in Genshin Impact, first impressions have largely been positive across the community. Mualani has offered a new playstyle for Hydro Catalysts, Kinich is an extremely mobile take for the Burgeon and Burning teams, while Kachina is beloved by characters such as Navia due to her ability to consistently trigger Geo reactions. View the full article
More details about Sunday's Light Cone in Honkai: Star Rail have seemingly been leaked online. A key character in the Penacony arc of Honkai: Star Rail, Sunday will supposedly be an Imaginary character and follow the Path of Harmony like his sister, Robin. View the full article
Actress Dame Maggie Smith has passed away at the age of 89 according to an announcement made by her sons. Dame Margaret Smith has had a long career in film and TV, notably playing Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter franchise, and Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey, among dozens of other credits across stage and screen as […] Source View the full article
You should expect to traverse several dungeons as you make your way through Remnant 2. The Dark Horizon DLC allows you to explore the Stagnant Manufactory, but there’s a tricky location where you need to navigate through toxic gases and a security room. The way the toxic gases work in this portion of the Stagnant Manufactory is you have to ******** the glass valves containing them to progress through the area. If you’re not quick enough, these gases can cause your character to **** and prevent them from moving quickly. There are several floors you have to clear to reach the end of this mechanic, but it’ll take a good amount of time to reach the end. Here’s what you need to know about how to get through the Stagnant Manufactory in Remnant 2. View the full article
Capcom developers are hinting at a future remaster of ***** Rising 2 in the style of the recent ***** Rising Deluxe Remaster. Frank Wests original trek through the zombie-infested Willamette Parkview Mall was relaunched on modern hardware with a new coat of paint on September 19 to mostly positive reviews, leaving fans wondering if Capcom is going to give the same treatment to later installments in the series like 2010s ***** Rising 2. View the full article
The Epic Games Store free game for October 3 to October 10 is Bear & Breakfast. The way the Epic Games Store works is that every week, users are treated to a new free game or two, while also being clued in on what next week's offering will be. As such, anyone that hops on to the Epic Games Store right now has a fresh free game to claim for their digital libraries. View the full article
Pokémon UNITE is set to end service in Belgium and the Netherlands from Nov. 30, 2025, with registration and renewal of Unite Club memberships and sales of Aeos Gems ending entirely on Oct. 31, 2024, effectively bringing the game to a halting stop. The news comes from Pokémon UNITE’s in-game notification screen, which informed players from the two ********* regions that The Pokémon Company has made “the difficult decision to discontinue server” and that it thanked all the Belgium and Dutch players who had enjoyed UNITE up until this moment. View the full article
JRPGs are a dime a dozen, with Square Enix remastering or remaking the majority of its classics, while other developers like Level-5 and Atlus continue to produce sequels and new IPs, like Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Persona 5. However, while many JRPGs stick to the tropes of the genre, standout games like the Persona series dare to do something different, offering social sim elements and a more magic realism setting, like no other game out there. Naturally, many may think this would lead to numerous copycats, and while there have been some, few have truly nailed the brilliance of Persona 5. View the full article
As befits the “very normal gardening game” that puzzly mystery box Grunn winkingly bills itself as, the first tool I obtained was a pair of shears. The second tool I obtained was a trumpet. It doesn’t really work like a trumpet, and it does things no regular trumpet could or should do. I got a trowel next. Here’s the thing about the trowel: it’s a pretty good trowel. Nothing fancy. But recently, I keep digging up… objects. Objects most peculiar. I’ve got the weekend to sort this garden, and a cosy little shed to sleep in, so I really should just get on with it. Again, though, I must reiterate: I keep digging up… objects. I go to clean some rubbish from the bathroom. I interact with the mirror and the game says: “You do not see anything in the mirror”. I take a note that says: I do not see anything in the mirror. I check the game again and no, I still do not see anything in the mirror. Sure it’s fine. Just a ***** mirror, probably. They should get it replaced. What good is a mirror you can’t see anything in? Read more View the full article
Image: The Verge Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve. In an update on Thursday, Steam says its subscriber agreement “now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration.” Many companies include a forced arbitration clause in their user agreement, waiving a person’s right to a trial in court. Arbitration involves settling a dispute outside a legal system before an impartial third party. This method is often faster but may not get the best results for consumers, as arbitrators don’t need to consider the law when issuing a decision. [/url] Many services put mandatory arbitration agreements in their terms of service, which people may not even read or fully... Continue reading… View the full article
Riyo Games has revealed a brand-new indie RPG inspired by Square Enix's classic JRPG Chrono Trigger called Threads of Time. This game was announced at Tokyo Game Show 2024, the annual ********* gaming event. A number of Western publishers like Xbox, Blizzard, and Bethesda were at the event, specifically to promote various games that were "worth tuning in for" based on insider remarks.This included an indie RPG inspired by Square Enix's Chrono Trigger. View the full article
Shigeru Ishiba, the former Defense Minister is set to become Japan’s next Prime Minister after an endorsement from the ******** Democratic Party. Ishiba, much like the current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Shinzo Abe before him is a part of Japan’s Nippon Kaigi organization, a far-right nationalist group which proudly considers itself a Monarchist organization. […] Source View the full article
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The beauty of cards is that they can be anything. You can slap together a working game with them in a couple of minutes. Take 12 blanks, doodle some faces and landscapes, and lo, you have a procedural narrative generator. Make some duplicates, invent a few rules and lo, you have systems. Conversely, the great drawback of cards - especially in those roguelite deckbuilders people have been churning out since Slay The Spire - is that everything can be reduced to them. For example: last night, I played a round of Fungi with my partner, Fungi being a charming tabletop foraging sim in which you gather scrumptious chantarelles and boletus from the forest floor. This morning I resumed playing Breachway, out now in early access, in which you guide a starship through a series of wartorn solar systems, with battles unfolding as a turn-based exchange of cards corresponding to ship components. Read more View the full article