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After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

A new mode, Heirloom, and a bunch of skins are coming to Apex Legends in its latest collection event, Space Hunt. The Serpent’s Sting sword is a universal Heirloom that will be available in Space Hunt event packs, which contain one event item and two standard items, all with duplicate protection. And the Heirloom looks pretty awesome, with the end of the blade extending out into a sort of ***** or tooth to rip enemies up with. View the full article

It’s been a long ride for THE FINALS, from going retro against CNS to exploring feudal Japan. But it all comes back to the spirit of the world’s largest game show in season four. THE FINALS season four was revealed on Sept. 12 by Embark Studios, and it’s filled with competitive spirit and sponsor logos. Cashout is at the heart of THE FINALS, and following player feedback, Ranked Cashout is returning as a core ranked mode in season four, replacing Terminal *******. Terminal ******* and its leaderboards aren’t going anywhere, though, and will still be available to enjoy in Quick Play as a casual mode. View the full article

As someone who prefers high-adrenaline rollercoasters over the teacups, visiting amusement parks can be thrilling and Planet Coaster 2 understands this well. Building your own park in the original Planet Coaster ******** entertaining eight years later, something Frontier Developments hopes to build upon with new water park rides, improved visuals, and better construction tools. I recently went hands-on with the PC version, and I'm confident the upcoming sequel will be worth the admission. Anyone familiar with Planet Coaster or Planet Zoo will feel right at home, and your goal ******** drawing in visitors to earn as much money as possible. This preview showcased two of the three upcoming modes - Sandbox Mode offers a pleasing level of freedom with unlimited cash for flat rides, rollercoasters, and more, while Career Mode feels designed as a gradual introduction to these gameplay mechanics. Starting with the Career Mode's third chapter, what follows is the type of strangely enjoyable challenge you'd only ever find in fiction. A rival theme park builder has bought land within your park and imposed unusual construction restrictions, which forces you to find creative workarounds. Career Mode uses a ranking system that swaps the original Planet Coaster's star rankings for up to four medals, and clearing the initial 'Bronze' challenges is unsurprisingly easy. This mission highlights the new water attractions well, which offer more excitement than the original game's log flumes. You can now set down pools and water slides wherever you like, adding some welcome variety. Slides always require a landing pool underneath them, or you can create a separate large pool for guests to use at their leisure. Just make sure you have enough lifeguards on duty. Surrounding them with lovely scenery increases a ride's prestige rating, though it's a slightly shallow approach as you can dump anything around those rides without consistent theming. As someone who struggles with creating interesting custom creations, using pre-designed rides via the blueprints system over making your own is undoubtedly helpful. However, some noticeably fiddly gameplay mechanics hamper this. Connecting your theme park guests to each ride requires laying down paths, yet they don't always connect despite stopping right in front of a ride or theme park entrance. It's slightly frustrating as I can't tell what I'm doing wrong in these moments. Thankfully, new paving methods like drawing and stamping tools make the wider process more convenient. Creating a park and letting things run isn't enough; you need staff and facilities, but wages and construction come at a cost. Powering up rides needs a delicate balance as placing generators too close to an attraction can reduce the prestige, but placing them further away means the mechanic needs longer to reach them. Creating a park and letting things run isn't enough; you need staff and facilities, but wages and construction come at a cost. Still, rising to the challenge can feel rewarding, even if effectively spaced land development is not my specialty. Watching these rides in action shows how closely the team paid attention to real-life rollercoaster designs, and that's particularly clear from the first-person camera. Instead of just watching from above like some omnipotent adrenaline-fuelled deity, you can swap perspectives and witness a ride unfold in either testing or while it's actively open. That's nothing new for the sequel, but seeing these rides in action has me itching to book Thorpe Park and Alton Towers tickets. How much care Frontier is giving Planet Coaster 2 is immediately clear. I also enjoy how you can customize rollercoaster trains with additional designs, such as light bars on the side. Duplicating these across the entire set of trains at once is also helpful, keeping designs consistent while removing any potential tedium doing that for every individual cart would involve. An option to create custom trains and original mascots would be nice, though the existing choices on both aspects are still great. Though Planet Coaster 2 doesn't completely flip the script, evolutionary gameplay changes and visual upgrades mean building your theme park feels better than ever. I hope Frontier will address my more minor frustrations, yet this hands-on session shows the potential of the upcoming amusement park sim. I'll be keen to check out more when Planet Coaster 2 launches on November 6 for PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5. View the full article

Helldivers 2 developer Arrwhead has revealed the next Warbond that'll be arriving in the game. It's called Chemical Agents, and will live up to that name by letting you douse enemies in horrible gas and unleash some similarly toxic odours on your teammates through a ***** emote. The news of this Warbond comes as studio is building to the deployment of Patch 01.001.007 on September 17, which thus far looks to be bringing a heap of buffs in an attempt to get the game's community back into their happy zone, following recent criticism over nerfs. Here's hoping the follow-up to the Freedom's Flame Warbond passes that same smell test. As outlined in the PS blog post announcing it, Chemical Agents is set to drop on September 19, and offers a bunch of gear themed around the kind of stuff you might don if you were trying to rid the entire galaxy of bacteria using everything you keep in the cupboard under your kitchen sink. Read more View the full article

Crackling Energy is a Sorcerer status effect in Diablo 4. It is generated by certain skills and discharges automatically when foes approach. It provides extra reactive damage and can even give other benefits. It is an excellent means of improving your Lightning Elemental damage. However, it will likely be impractical if you are mostly focusing on *****, Ice, or even mixing multiple elements. This makes it important to either stack lots of Crackling Energy benefits, or ignore it entirely. View the full article

MultiVersus has released a new teaser trailer for the game's upcoming Season 3 update, bringing with it several new items, stages, and fighters. Season 3 marks the introduction of the Powerpuff ****** and the long-rumored Nubia of DC Comics fame. The third season of MultiVersus kicks off later this month and will undoubtedly change the way the game feels, with new content set to influence the title's meta. View the full article

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice is heading to WB Games' MultiVersus Season 3 as The Powerpuff ****** are heading to the game on September 17. DC's heroine Nubia is launching later this season. View the full article

Arcane fans have been waiting for this moment since Sting sang the last note of “What Could Have Been” in the final episode of the animated series’ first season. Riot Games has finally unveiled the Arcane season two soundtrack artists, showcasing an impressive and diverse lineup of globally known talent. Twenty One Pilots, Stray Kids, Woodkid, and Stromae are just some of the illustrious names featured on the list of the 19 new original songs designed to amplify the emotional moments of the Emmy-winning series. Over the past few days, artists around the globe have teased their participation in the second season of Arcane by sharing a ******-and-gray picture of themselves with a quote from the show—and now it’s time to reveal who they are. View the full article

EA FC 25’s ratings reveal continues ahead of the game’s launch into early access next week, with the Bundesliga the latest to have its top 25 players unveiled. With the early access launch on Sept. 20 rapidly approaching, EA FC 25 has drip-fed reveals of the player ratings throughout the game. After revealing the top players overall, the Premier League and LaLiga have been announced. View the full article

Nearly a decade after the release of the original, Planet Coaster 2 is finally slated to arrive this fall, bringing with it more customization and detail than ever before. Self-publishing studio Frontier Developments has a long history with the management genre, producing not only the original Planet Coaster but many other beloved titles like Zoo Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. The company recently held a two-hour virtual hands-on session with the title that consisted of two parts: a mission from the games main story, and a free exploration of Sandbox mode. View the full article

The highlight of the first Venom: The Last Dance trailer was the symbiote taking over a horse, which... isn't exactly high praise. In the just-released second preview, however, things are looking more intriguing and unexpectedly high-stakes. We already knew that the third Venom movie was meant to be the 'end of the line' for Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock and the chatty Venom symbiote unless some sort of very half-assed crossover event movie happens with Morbius, Kraven, and whatnot. The first trailer also introduced Chiwetel Ejiofor as a military-type and Juno Temple as a scientist both trying to hunt down and understand the symbiote just as a major invasion hits Earth. Now, the plot is getting a bit more complicated. One major complaint about the two Venom movies released so far, which have done really well at the box office despite the middling critical receptions, was that they lacked compelling-enough villains or threats that went beyond just another guy wearing a symbiote in a different colour. Sure, Carnage is a big villain from the comic books, but he was wasted alongside Woody Harrelson's Cletus Kassady. Now, in the final stretch, the creatives and producers behind the saga are raising the stakes by bringing Knull, the **** and creator of all the hungry symbiotes, into the fold. Read more View the full article

Fans who preordered the new DnD core rulebooks are having their orders inexplicably canceled, with an email saying the payment didn't go through. Scores of disappointed players have taken to social media or the DnD Beyond forums in the past two days to report the issue, which appears to be rather widespread. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hasbro CEO wants to put AI into DnD because all his pals use it DnD sizes explained All Lego Dungeons and Dragons Minifigures, ranked View the full article

The third premium DLC coming to Remnant 2 has been announced by developer Gunfire Games, and will see players embarking deeper into N’Erud. The third expansion, The Dark Horizon, will releases on Sept. 24, but we have a precise release date countdown so you know when you can jump in. Not only will players get the chance to launch into The Dark Horizon on Sept. 24, but Gunfire Games also shared that there will be a free update to Remnant 2 with a Boss Rush mode. This update is free to all players, regardless of whether they’ve purchased any precious DLC packs, and it comes out on the same day as The Dark Horizon. Here’s what you need to know about the start time and release date for Remnant 2’s The Dark Horizon expansion and Boss Rush free update. View the full article

With the recent Patch 7, Larian has added a great deal more content to Baldur's Gate 3, despite the game already being massive beforehand. The biggest additions are perhaps mod support, which brings mods to consoles, and the various new endings for Origin Characters looking for a satisfactory but horrifying finale. That doesn't mean that the Belgium-based studio hasn't made time for the little things in one of its biggest patches for its golden goose, since many new, minor cutscenes and pieces of dialogue have been added to further flesh out the title. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The Payday 3 game director, Miodrag Kovacevic, is stepping down from his role to take on a new position as a designer within the project. This change in leadership follows a tough first year for the game, which saw a rough launch and continued problems with keeping players engaged and fixing technical issues. Even with these challenges, Starbreeze Entertainment is still dedicated to making Payday 3 better as it moves into its second year. View the full article

MultiVersus Season 3 will add the Powerpuff ****** and Nubia as playable characters, Warner Bros Games has confirmed. A new trailer for the game (seen below) focuses mainly on the Powerpuff ******, who ****** as a single character similar to the Ice Climbers in the Super Smash Bros series. The trailer also gives players the first look at Nubia, a character from the Wonder Woman universe. Read More... View the full article

Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. ... Read more View the full article

It's now 11 years since the first playable version of Star Citizen first hit PC. In that time, Cloud Imperium has raised more than $720m in crowdfunding and carried the space MMO all the way to alpha version 4.0.0, which is expected to launch in the near future. We're still waiting on the single-player Squadron 42, and it might be a while until the full Star Citizen 1.0 launch arrives, but with the new system Pyro on the way, the persistent universe of SC feels ever closer. It seems, however, that Cloud Imperium might have a new game up its proverbial sleeve. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Space MMO Star Citizen shows off new roleplaying options coming soon New Star Citizen update brings two features the game has always needed Gigantic space MMO Star Citizen goes briefly free-to-play View the full article

If the Monster Hunter Wilds hype has you curious about the series, you're in luck. While we still don't have a confirmed date for the upcoming RPG, Capcom's best-selling games are going at an incredible discount right now. This custom bundle lets you pick up the phenomenal Monster Hunter World and Rise on Steam, along with their expansions and other DLC add-ons, and you can choose exactly what you want, with a discount of up to 84% depending on your picks. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get $200 worth of the best Monster Hunter games for 85% off on Steam Snag two of the best RPGs on Steam and their expansions for 85% off Capcom broke Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck, new update fixes it View the full article

Xbox is reportedly undergoing another round of layoffs, with 650 roles eliminated across Microsoft’s gaming division to organize the business for “long-term success.” On Sept. 12, IGN reported a memo sent to Microsoft staff by the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. In the email, Spencer wrote that Microsoft is laying off “approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming,” mostly within corporate and support functions, to align with the “post-acquisition team structure” and manage the business. View the full article

The Crew 2 has surged to new records on Steam following the announcement of an added offline option and a bargain *****. The 2018 title is available on Steam for just one dollar and, after some good news about The Crew 2’s future, has now surged past 28,000 concurrent players at the time of writing—with the record breaking almost every minute. View the full article

Marshmallows have come to Disney Dreamlight Valley as part of the End of Summer Event, allowing players to prepare two new recipes that can be savored and shared with others around the valley. The End of Summer event is a limited-time event that runs from September 4 to September 26, 2024, during which exclusive Blue and Pink Marshmallows can be found in the valley. View the full article

Astro ****’s success has rubbed more salt into the already sore wounds of PlayStation flop Concord, which reportedly surpassed its global sales numbers with only physical sales in a two-day ******* in the U.K. The two PlayStation exclusives could not have had more different experiences, with Concord ***** on arrival and Astro **** jumping from strength to strength. According to GameIndustry.biz head Chris Dring, sales of Astro **** in the ******* Kingdom “aren’t huge,” but the only data available so far is only for physical copies. Despite this, he added that Astro **** has “certainly sold more copies in the U.K. in just two days than Concord sold worldwide.” View the full article

Mistakes are a key part of life, so it’s not surprising there are many different words to describe making them. Today’s “Makes a mistake” clue on the NYT Mini Crossword challenges you to uncover a rather rare way of saying this. The solution to this clue is easily one of the trickiest words I’ve seen in any crossword puzzle. If you’re struggling to solve this one, here’s the answer to the Sept. 12 “Makes a mistake” NYT Mini clue and some hints to help you navigate through it. View the full article