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Game Rant can exclusively reveal that the first major Go-Go Town update is scheduled to roll out on September 15. Called Build and Bustle, this release will expand the Steam version of Go-Go Town with new areas, customization options, and gameplay mechanics, as well as other novelties. View the full article

Plans for remasters of two classic Shin Megami Tensei games, the ****** Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha game duology, have potentially been leaked by Atlus on Steam. Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei franchise is quite diverse, spanning various RPG formats and spin-offs over the years. These have resulted in various subseries being created, like ****** Summoner, Persona, and ****** Survivor, just to name a few. View the full article

The ***** by Daylight developers have just unveiled all the changes coming to patch 8.3.0 of the famous asymmetrical horror game. This update brings a massive amount of bug fixes, balance changes, and a rework to one of the oldest systems in the game. Before the patch hits live servers, you may want to know what perks, add-ons, and Killers have been changed. Here’s everything in ***** by Daylight‘s 8.3.0 update. View the full article

***** by Daylight recently released their September Developer Update outlining all the upcoming changes hitting the game's public test build for patch 8.3.0. The ***** by Daylight patch features a long list of tweaks to several perks alongside some major updates to game mechanics and a select few killers in ***** by Daylight. View the full article

If videogames had to flawlessly simulate everything they depicted, developers would still be stuck on the behavior of neutrinos. Games are illusory. The cool take-off and landing animations in Star Wars Outlaws are essentially live loading screens, but if it feels like we've just gone from the surface of Tatooine to outer space, they've done their job... Read more.View the full article

Roblox has many different game modes, including a new tower defense mode, Anime Vanguards. In this mode, players must defend their base from enemies while using characters from well-known anime shows such as Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and Solo Leveling against antagonists from such series. View the full article

World of Warcraft Classic has officially revealed the plans for its massive Realm consolidation in Season of Discovery Realm that will take place on September 19. With all but two Realms for this World of Warcraft game mode closing to new players, this should be the final time Season of Discovery fans have to move their characters until the end of the experiment. View the full article

AMD users with a Ryzen AI processor are in luck, as the tech giant released a new Radeon Software preview driver that includes support for AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF2) technology on AI-powered hardware. Although AMD Fluid Motion Frames entered the preview state in July, the latest update will allow more users to test it out before its full official release. View the full article

Climbing Tartarus’ floors in Persona 3 Reload isn’t an easy task. Powerful enemies lurk on higher floors, and the Elegant Mother waits at Yabbashah, and at the Desert of Doors, if you’re playing Episode Aigis, though it’s easy to take advantage of her affinities. The Elegant Mother appears inside some of the Monad Doors in Yabbashah, Tartarus’ third block, and then reappears as you head up the mysterious tower in the Dark Hour. The first time you ****** this shadow can be confusing: You’re fresh on a new block of Tartarus, and it may be the first time you’ve ever even seen a Monad Door. View the full article

All good things come to an end and exactly two years after launch, Roadwarden has received its final update. This beautifully written game has won tons of plaudits over the course of its lifespan, with some reviews anointing it as one of the best RPGs ever made. With all updates completed and the game reaching its final form, there's never been a better time to try it for yourself than right now. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Space Hunt is the newest event coming to Apex Legends, bringing a fresh game mode and a plethora of space-themed skins. The Legendary cosmetics from this event are themed as slick bounty hunters that travel through space to hunt down their targets. These include skins for fan favorites like Wraith, Mirage, Ash, and Bangalore, and some skins for Ballistic and Gibraltar. The event also comes with two free skins for Conduit and Valkyrie unlocked via quests, and many different ******* skins. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Stray, a game where you play a cat. | Image: Annapurna Annapurna Interactive, the game company famous for publishing indie hits like Stray, Outer Wilds, Gorogoa, Neon White, What ******** of Edith Finch, and many more, may not be the same company anymore. Bloomberg reports that the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the gaming division of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna, has resigned after failing to convince Ellison to let them spin off its games division into a new company. IGN is corroborating the report. Former president Nathan Gary, Annapurna Interactive executives, and “around two dozen” staffers have resigned, Bloomberg reports. An Annapurna spokesperson told Bloomberg that existing games and projects will remain under the company. Annapurna didn’t immediately reply to a request for... Continue reading… View the full article

Having the freedom to travel across multiple planets is a huge selling point for Star Wars Outlaws, but making the first choice about which to visit can be a challenge. After a brief stint in Canto Bight, the early parts of the game focus exclusively on the moon Toshara, home to plenty of stealth missions and windy fields of grain. Kay's stuck until she can get the ship's hyperdrive fixed, but once that happens, three of the game's planets open up as possibilities to jump to next. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

It’s time to shine that magnifying glass and dust off that lucky trench coat of yours because Shadows of Doubt is back, and it finally has a release date. Originally released back in April 2023, Shadows of Doubt offered an immersive world of quirky characters, intriguing cases, and cold-blooded murders for you to solve. Even in its early access state, Shadows of Doubt has complex, procedurally generated cities with a massive cast of characters you could observe and converse with, all blissfully unaware you’ve been stockpiling their data. All citizens must be viewed as possible suspects, even if they haven’t committed the ****** yet. View the full article

Persona 3 Reload gave players close to 100 hours of intense battles and comforting social events. With the release of the base game’s expansion, Episode Aigis, it would be helpful to know how many hours of playtime the game provides, and whether it’s worth the price. Playtime of Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis Episode Aigis adds on anywhere from 10 hours to 30 hours of additional playtime, depending on the difficulty level you play and if you choose to complete Elizabeth’s requests. View the full article

Remember when Chewbacca *****? In the 1999 book The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime by R. A. Salvatore, Han Solo’s faithful Wookiee partner, Rebel Alliance fixture, and big walking carpet Chewie bought the moisture farm. Not surprisingly, he ***** a hero, saving thousands of lives. It was a pretty big deal, even for those Star Wars fans (like me) who didn’t read the Expanded Universe books and comics at the time. Vector Prime got a big promotional push, including a commercial featuring Mark Hamill doing voiceover as Luke Skywalker, and the book even made it to the New York Times Best Sellers list for four weeks. But that was then and this is now, where the EU is known as Star Wars Legends and “doesn’t count” anymore, and a character like Chewie seems unlikely to ever **** in the modern Star Wars canon. No, a popular figure such as Chewbacca, who can be endlessly recast on the cheap – and who can continue to juice merchandising sales for untold generations to come – is probably doomed to live forever like some kind of outer space Renfield, beholden to do his master’s pop-culture bloodsucking forever. A popular figure like Chewbacca, who can be endlessly recast – and who can continue to juice merchandising sales – is probably doomed to live forever. It’s not just our favorite Wookiee who is consigned to this dire fate, of course. C-3PO and R2-D2 are, and will continue to be, similarly afflicted, but even characters that have ***** in the canon like Yoda and Jabba will continue to rise from the grave time and again to satisfy the Sarlacc-like Easter egg maw of the latest show or game (most recently for Yoda on The Acolyte and for Jabba in Star Wars Outlaws). And those are just the most obvious examples. Everyone from Nien Nunb to Baby Yoda to the guy who got his arm cut off in the cantina in A New Hope is up for grabs. (Ponda Baba. His name is Ponda Baba.) I’m thinking about this today not just because of the news that Disney is embroiled in a lawsuit over the use of the late Peter Cushing’s likeness as Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One, but also because of the passing of James Earl Jones on Monday. Jones of course was the voice of Darth Vader, one of the most iconic characters not just in Star Wars but in all of cinema. The fact that the actor had signed off on AI recreations of his Vader voice reminds us that while he may be gone now, the Sith Lord can and almost certainly will continue to pop up in future Star Wars films and TV shows. But Vader, or Anakin Skywalker if you will, actually ***** all the way back in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. And while, sure, prequels like Rogue One, flashbacks like in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, and Force dream sequences (or whatever that was) in Ahsoka can bring a character back, we have to ask whether or not they should be bringing a classic figure like Vader back time and again. Take the prequel trilogy, where Anakin’s origin story was told and he was portrayed first by Jake Lloyd and then Hayden Christensen. I would argue that whether or not you think those movies ultimately work as original stories, they at least were trying to do something new with Anakin, uncovering the events that led to his downfall over the span of three whole movies. Can the same be said for Rogue One or Obi-Wan Kenobi, where Vader was more of a “how cool is it that we brought him back” play than anything else? Of course, the threat of living forever in an ever-diminishing series of Star Wars vehicles has now extended beyond the masked and non-human characters. The debate over the use of Cushing in Rogue One some 22 years after he ***** isn’t a new one; ditto Mark Hamill’s cut-scene-like returns as a younger Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Even our three main heroes from the original trilogy — Luke, Leia, and Han — are all ***** now in the canon, but they’ve each come back in some form or another too. Plus, in the case of the late Carrie Fisher, digital trickery was also employed to (unconvincingly) insert old footage of her into The Rise of Skywalker. Indeed, the notion of the ***** returning to the land of the living goes back to the very first Star Wars movie when Obi-Wan’s ghost whispered, “Run, Luke, run!” But that was an unexpected and cool extension of Luke’s story, not a gimmick used to sell more tickets or Alec Guinness plushies. Andor, which is the best of the live-action Star Wars shows, also features the return of a ***** character via prequel story, but the compelling tale of how an ordinary man becomes a rebel during the age of the Empire works because of the show’s excellent writing and performances, not to mention the avoidance of cute cameos for the sake of them. Alas, that is the exception rather than the rule in the Star Wars universe now. So pour one out not just for the EU version of Chewie, who ***** saving thousands rather than continuing on forever as a shambling echo of his former greatness, but also for Threepio, R2, Vader, Yoda, and all the rest who will never be allowed to truly move on. They will persist so that the Star Wars franchise can continue to, sort of, live. Talk to Scott Collura on Twitter at @ScottCollura, or listen to his Star Trek podcast, Transporter Room 3. Or do both! View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Annapurna Interactive's entire gaming staff has resigned from the company following a leadership dispute, according to a Bloomberg report. The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in negotiations with Annapurna founder and billionaire Megan Ellison to spin the gaming segment off as its own company. However, Ellison eventually pulled out of negotiations, at which point Gary resigned. Almost 30 other individuals, including division co-heads Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, as well as the entire remaining staff of Annapurna Interactive, joined him. While negotiations were still ongoing, Annapurna Interactive re-hired former Epic Games executive Hector Sanchez as its president of interactive and new media, and Paul Doyle as its head of strategy. IGN understands that Sanchez was expected to head up Annapurna's gaming efforts in Gary's absence once his part of the company was spun-off. With Gary now having resigned, Sanchez has taken the lead. As Bloomberg reports and IGN has also heard, Sanchez has spoken with partner developers this week to reassure them that Annapurna will continue its existing contracts and replace departed staff. Annapurna Interactive, a division of Annapurna Pictures, has become known for its publishing catalogue of boutique, critically-acclaimed indies. In recent years, the label has seen success and awards for games like Cocoon, Stray, Neon White, The Artful Escape, Sayonara Wild Hearts, and more. Just last month, the company partnered with Alan Wake 2 developer Remedy Entertainment to fund its ongoing development efforts as well as make TV and film versions of its IP. However, Annapurna Interactive has also been the subject of an investigative report by People Make Games alleging it supported multiple company founders known to be creating toxic work environments at partner studios. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. View the full article

Firaxis Games has revealed the first six civs for Civilization 7, which include Aksum, Egypt, Maya, Maurya, and Rome from the Antiquity Age, and the Shawnee from the Exploration Age. Each civilization will have its own special skills, buildings, and units that will be important in shaping the early stages of Civilization 7. View the full article

World of Warcraft is offering a few exclusive tabard transmogs as a part of a collaboration with Trolli, but earning them requires fans to make purchases at three separate stores: Dollar General, Wallgreens, and Circle K. In order to get all three of these transmogs, as well as the accompanying Gummi battle ****, World of Warcraft fans will need to buy a total of four Trolli products split across each of these locations. View the full article

Shaped like a futuristic scythe, Apex Legend‘s Serpent Sting moves the ***** counter from the feed and etches it into the blade as you battle for the number one spot. Here’s how to unlock the Serpent’s Sting Heirloom in Apex Legends. View the full article

An extensive look at uninterrupted gameplay for this Korean developer's upcoming open-world action RPG. View the full article

Legendary mods are the newest addition to Fallout 76 and something that can allow you to take a regular ******* and turn it into a legendary one. This is done mostly through a process of scrapping and crafting, and players will want to use their new mods as soon as possible. It is also possible to craft these mods yourself once you have a recipe, which will also be covered here. View the full article

Stardew Valley is a game that gives players back as much as they're willing to put in but every so often, a major feature can be overlooked by even the most enthusiastic Farmer. While the latest 1.6 Update has continued to astonish players on PC, older mechanics added in previous improvements can still stump those who may not have read the patch notes in detail. In instances like these, it's common for the community to come together to celebrate the discovery, even if everyone else is already well aware of its existence. View the full article

After many months of waiting, fans of LEGO Fortnite will soon finally be able to take to the skies, with developer Epic Games revealing the game mode's first official flying vehicle. The Air Ship will make its debut in LEGO Fortnite in the game's upcoming Lost Isles update, which also brings several other exciting additions and changes. The update comes in the middle of Fortnite's Chapter 5 Season 4, which has planted players in a new world dominated by Marvel villain Doctor *****. View the full article

The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, publisher of games such as What ******** of Edith Finch, Stray, and Outer Wilds, has reportedly resigned earlier this month after an ongoing dispute with ownership. According to Forbes’ Jason Schreier, Annapurna’s video game division was attempting to go independent and negotiating with ownership including Megan Ellison, daughter of billionaire and Oracle CTO Larry Ellison. When a deal fell through, Annapurna president Nathan Gary and “other executives” along with “around two dozen other staffers” resigned, according to Schreier’s anonymous sources. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]