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If you like action platformers, you’ll love Gestalt: Steam and Cinder. It’s a shorter affair, to be sure, but it explodes with love for the genre with a world and story that is both equal parts fun and tense to explore. View the full article

Quick Play: Hacked is returning for a brief window in Overwatch 2, this time letting players choose their role passives. Overwatch 2 players are currently enjoying the game's superhero-themed 11th season, named Super Mega Ultrawatch. The season added a new Push map named Runasapi, a Summer Games 2024 event, and introduced another major collaboration, giving popular heroes Reinhardt, Bastion, Ramattra, and Illari impressive skins based off fan-favorite Transformers. View the full article

Blox Fruits, a popular One Piece-inspired game on Roblox, revolves around efficiently boosting your character's power to overcome opponents by consuming various fruits. Players can use Blox Fruits codes to gain free bonuses and boosts, such as doubling their XP for a limited time, injecting currency, or receiving cosmetic items. These codes are essential for enhancing gameplay and are often released during game updates, holidays, or to celebrate social media milestones. View the full article

Rising to the top of the Raider ranks in the Fallout 4 DLC Nuka-World is a fun ride but one player took their dedication to their kingdom ever further by constructing a massive throne worthy of a ruler. While the theme park-inspired DLC was largely slammed by critics and fans for its busy-work quests and underwhelming content, most players agree that the standout moment of the expansion is competing in the Gauntlet and eventually overthrowing Overboss Colter. It's a memorable sequence with a fun reward even if the default throne is a touch disappointing. View the full article

It's nearly that time of year again, soccer fans - the hype train for EA FC 25 is about to depart. July almost always summons an announcement trailer and early details about the year's new EA Sports soccer sim, and things are no different this time around - an official reveal is coming on Wednesday, July 17. However, ahead of time, leakers are claiming that the series' street football mode, Volta, is getting axed in favor of a brand new 4v4 game mode in FC 25. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: EA FC 25 Heroes list EA FC 25 Icons list Is EA FC 25 coming to Game Pass? View the full article

If I were a Lovecraftian monster from outside reality I simply wouldn't invade our reality, I think it's a little rude and frankly we could all use a rest. Unfortunately they do like to pop in and make a mess and in Chromosome Evil 2 one such entity has brought about the end of the world. Thankfully there are some trying to keep the spark of humanity alive in these darkest of times, though it's not an easy task. A new update for the RTS, however, has made it a little simpler - at least in some ways. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

******* on Titan Revolution ******** one of Roblox‘s most popular games, so much so that we think it’s worth you having access to the title’s official Trello and Discord links. The creative freedom Roblox offers means your favorite franchises come to life in new ways. There are countless ******* on Titan imitations to be found on Roblox, but arguably the most successful one is ******* on Titan Revolution. View the full article

A new Path in Honkai: Star Rail may be underway sooner than expected, according to a ***** about upcoming content. Currently, there are seven playable Paths in the game: Destruction, Hunt, Erudition, Nihility, Harmony, Preservation, and Abundance. Nevertheless, many others are mentioned by name frequently the Trailblaze and the Beauty are examples of such Path. There are also non-playable Paths that appear in various activities, such as the Divergent Universe that came along with the release of Honkai: Star Rail 2.3, for instance. View the full article

The massive spiraling Point Hope map in Phasmophobia is one of the most detailed and tricky locations to navigate in the ghost-hunting game. It also hides quite a few secrets, including a locked cabinet that can only be opened with the Point Hope key. Obtaining the key you need is a pretty complex task you likely won’t solve on your own since it involves a well-hidden secret. If you’re determined to see what ***** behind the locked cabinet door, here’s how to get the Point Hope key in Phasmophobia. View the full article

Following the example set by HoYoverse's previous game, Zenless Zone Zero allows players to select one free S-rank agent of their choice to receive for free from the standard banner - but only once, and only after 300 standard pulls, making it potentially a tough decision to make. And, while many players will tend to gravitate towards their personal favorites, some agents may be better than others when considered purely from an optimization standpoint. View the full article

EA has unveiled the athletes featured on the Ultimate Edition of the upcoming EA Sports FC 25. Among them is Jude Bellingham, the English player from Real Madrid, alongside football legends like Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, and Gianluigi Buffon, with Aitana Bonmati representing the ******** teams. In the standard edition of EA Sports FC 24, the cover athlete was Erling Haaland, a Norwegian professional player for Manchester City. In contrast, the FC 24 Ultimate Edition cover featured 31 players from various nationalities, with Erling Haaland at the center. View the full article

Grab a copy of Overwatch off some dusty GameStop shelf and rub it under the musky armpit of the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Peter Quill and you might have something close to the feeling of Concord. As competitive hero shooters go, this sci-fi contender from Sony plays it quite safe, complete with immediately charming characters immaculately rendered in gobsmackingly beautiful cutscenes and ability-based PvP combat that never addresses why those characters are fighting one another when they’re clearly allies in said cutscenes. But just because it doesn’t offer much in the way of innovation doesn’t mean Concord isn’t extremely fun to play. I still have lots more to see when it launches properly next month, but with 16 characters and four familiar game modes available in its preorder beta this past weekend, the vast majority of the 10+ hours I’ve spent with it so far have been a sweaty, ****-toting good time. You and your squad will form a five-person team of super-powered characters, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities, and then bring them to bear against an opposing team in a variety of formulaic game modes. Those include a standard deathmatch mode, a “***** Confirmed” mode called Trophy Hunt, an *******-and-defend mode called Cargo Run, and a zone control mode called Clash Point – none of which possess even the slightest hint of novelty. But being overly familiar isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you’ve got best-in-class gunplay and awesome characters with compelling powers to back it up, and boy, Concord has got both of those down pat. Concord sagely keeps its ******* selection very slim, with just two options given to each character by default and no way to customize that – but the upshot there is that every single ******* feels incredibly responsive and finely tuned, and no two characters have weapons that feel at all similar. The arena-controlling old lady, Duchess, wields a submachine **** that’s devastating at close range, while the sneaky and tactical Vale mostly relies on a long-range ******* rifle to take out enemies from afar. Not everything seems perfectly balanced – I, for one, think most things should probably **** when they take a ******* rifle shot to the head, and it’s a bit weird that the character that uses a slow-loading missile launcher as her main ******* doesn’t do more damage with it – but they all feel really good to use, and that means I’ve been having fun even when it feels like something needs tweaking here and there. Every ******* feels responsive and the abilities are largely fantastic. Similarly, the abilities that complement those weapons are fantastic, diverse, have very generous cooldowns, completely changing the way combat plays out depending on which character you’re playing as. The floating, fireball-chucking Haymar can ****** opponents for a ******* of time and make them pay for standing in the same spot too long, while the rampaging ogre, Star Child, can close distances quickly with his charging ******* and smash the ground to do heavy damage around him. Not all characters feel quite as original, like how Teo is the world’s most generic soldier and comes equipped with a smoke grenade and cluster grenade as his two powers, but those bland options are few and far between. Learning each character, using their abilities to counter the team comp of your opponents, and juggling the madness on the battlefield with top-notch gunplay was just as fun in my first match as it was in my 30th, and I certainly can’t say I’ve felt that way about most hero shooters I spend time with. One of the few novel twists Concord brings to the genre is the way its competitive playlist works. Unlike the casual playlist where you can play whichever character you please (so long as someone else hasn’t already selected it), in competitive you cleverly aren’t allowed to select the same character again if you win a round while using them. Since matches go to best of seven rounds, that means winning one will push you to get outside of your comfort zone and use a minimum of four different characters. Not only is this a neat way to force people to master more than just one or two options, it also encourages communication with your team between rounds to ensure you’ve got proper coverage to play out whatever strategy you’re trying to pull off as your options get slimmer. The other interesting wrinkle Concord adds to the formula is character variants: Slightly different versions of existing characters that come with a unique perk and an altered appearance, and which can be unlocked by completing specific objectives during matches. For example, the gunslinger Lennox can normally reload his ******* by dodging, while the variant you can unlock for him loses that ability, but gets more ammo for all his weapons instead. The five variants available for each character so far offer mostly minor changes like this, but they definitely add a meaningful thing to chase that provides more options in combat. Perhaps more importantly, they also give you the opportunity to fudge the numbers a bit in the competitive playlist, since variants count as separate characters on your crew, and therefore, let you play as the same characters in multiple rounds. I also just love that Concord is chock full of goofy terms in its “How To Play” tutorial section, like how it tells you if certain game modes are likely to be sweaty by assigning them a “Sweatstrum” rating, or how it explains you can recharge your abilities with “Sloops,” AKA “Skill Loops.” There might not be much of a story yet, but this game’s got charm coming out of its Martian ears. There’s still more I haven’t been able to play in this early beta version, like the two game modes that remain locked for now, but Concord is already shaping up to be a heavyweight hero shooter I could easily see competing with the genre’s giants. It doesn’t seem like it will bring much new to the table, and that’s a bit of a bummer considering we’ve already played great games very similar to this one before, but I’m heartened by what I’ve seen so far and am looking forward to playing a whole lot more when it launches next month. View the full article

The Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 open beta will kick off on September 6 following a brief early access *******, Activision has announced. The publisher's newly announced ****** Ops 6 beta dates apply to all platforms, which is a notable first for the Call of Duty series. View the full article

Two years after announcing the end of updates for the "Halo with portals" shooter Splitgate, developer 1047 Games is teasing something new—and it looks a lot like Splitgate... Read more.View the full article

Mouse Rotation and Dynamic Sensitivity are two new settings options for Razer's Viper V3 Pro and DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed mice. After installing the latest version of Synapse and updating the products' firmware, users can access what Razer describes as a new way to adapt peripheral control to one's quirks and... Read Entire Article View the full article

Cyberpunk 2077's release was described by PC Gamer's online editor Fraser Brown as among "the highest-profile launch disasters in videogame history", and it really was bad times. After years of white-hot hype, CP2077 arrived with major technical issues and bugs across all platforms, with things so bad on PlayStation that Sony took the unprecedented step of removing the game from its store... Read more.View the full article

Heads up, hackers: Quick Play in Overwatch 2 is very different again for the next few days. The newest Quick Play: Hacked is now live in OW2, and it’s called “Pickable Passives.” It’s all in the name, really. The mode allows you to select your passive ability for each individual role in the game: tank, damage, and support. View the full article

Wuthering Waves is one step closer to its console release, now promising a demo at ChinaJoy2024. It's been a while since the official announcement that Wuthering Waves would be coming to PlayStation, both on the PS4 and PS5. Fans have been eagerly awaiting more information on when the console release will come out and now there's finally a hint about more details as it gets closer to release. View the full article

GOG has recently confirmed that the upcoming Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London will not be playable with a copy bought on the Epic Games Store. This is the latest of several issues suffered by the high-profile Fallout 4 mod, which will create a DLC-sized Fallout adventure set in the English capital. View the full article

Activision has announced the Call of Duty ****** Ops 6 multiplayer beta dates. Early access to the beta will run from August 30 until September 4 on all platforms. This will be available to anybody who pre-orders ****** Ops 6 or subscribes to select Game Pass plans. Read More... View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6's beta dates have been officially confirmed, marking the first time the beta for the popular shooter will be available on all platforms at the same time. Revealed during the Call of Duty podcast on YouTube (via CharlieIntel), the Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 beta will be available on the following dates. Early Access: August 30 - September 4Open Beta: September 6 - September 9 Over the past several years, Call of Duty's betas have been exclusive to PlayStation platforms. Early access to the beta will be available to Game Pass subscribers and those who pre-order ****** Ops 6. The open beta will be available to all players. First revealed in May after months of rumors, ****** Ops 6 is the latest in the long-running series developed by Treyarch. Activision revealed a host of details in June about the multiplayer, Zombies, and the campaign, which is set in the 1990s. Like other games in the ****** Ops sub-series, ****** Ops 6 features a paranoid outlook in which players are "never sure who to trust, and what is real." ****** Ops 6 was a hot topic in the wake of last week's Game Pass price increases, which includes a "Standard" tier that doesn't include day one releases. ****** Ops 6 is set to be available on Game Pass at release on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass for Console. Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 is scheduled to release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S on October 25. Kat Bailey is IGN's News Director as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot. View the full article

The upcoming highly anticipated Fallout: London mod will not be playable with Epic Games Store copies of Fallout 4 at launch. A GOG spokesperson confirmed the trouble with Epic Games Store support with VG247. Fallout: London will require players to downgrade their versions of Fallout 4 wherever they’ve purchased it. That means reverting the latest version of the game to an earlier update, with options available to do so being offered for storefronts like Steam and GOG. GOG, which is helping distribute the mod, says the Epic Games Store’s lack of support for update rollbacks will keep players on that platform from enjoying Fallout: London. Ideally, the mod will eventually be usable with current versions of Fallout 4, but FOLON will need more time to get such a version of the experience up and running. Until then, Epic Game Store players will have to wait. IGN has reached out to Epic Games for comment. Fallout: London's challenged release The Fallout: London team at FOLON has generally had their hands tied when it comes to the release of the gargantuan fan-made experience. The project was originally set to launch on April 23 but saw an indefinite delay following developer Bethesda’s announcement that it would drop its own sizeable next-gen update for the fourth numbered Fallout entry on April 25. The update threw a wrench into ther plans of Fallout’s large community of modders, including the developers at FOLON, as it meant Fallout: London would likely not work properly without preparation for Bethesda’s new patch. The modding studio said it felt “blindsided” at the time but would push on to continue its work on one of the most hotly anticipated mods in recent memory. Now, with its launch expected to arrive soon, there will still be a few hiccups to overcome. It’s unclear how long Fallout: London will be kept from Epic Games Store players’ hands, but it’s also unclear when the project will release at all. For now, GOG tells VG247 that its still testing the mod, so there is still some time to wait before its launch on other platforms. Until more is revealed, you can read up on some of the talent that can be heard when Fallout: London eventually arrives. Former *** speaker of the house John Bercow will play a role in the mod, for example, as will Baldur’s Gate 3 star Neil Newbon. Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx. Be sure to give him a follow on Twitter @MikeCripe. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

AMD's new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors are just around the corner, and today we can reveal a little more information about them. As a quick recap, AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 series at Computex last month. This includes four main desktop processors in a pretty standard line-up: the Ryzen... Read Entire Article View the full article

PCSX2 2.0 brings big picture mode, enhanced performance, and broader compatibility. It now supports over 99% of the PS2 library with an updated UI, automatic game fixes, and better visual and audio support. Read Entire Article View the full article

The previously announced 2v8 mode in ***** by Daylight is finally seeing the light of day, with a new reveal trailer showcasing the total chaos created by double ******* trouble. The trailer also stated more information will be shown tomorrow, July 16. The trailer shows The Wraith and The Trapper going to town against eight survivors who are hopelessly trying to fix all the generators in time and escape with their lives. It’s only a minute long and doesn’t give us much of the intricacies Behaviour Interactive designed for the mode, though we do have a glimpse of the action. Eight Survivors are nothing to scoff at even for two veteran Killers, so it will likely not be too easy for them. View the full article