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Some World of Warcraft players are signing a petition asking Blizzard to revert changes made to the Classic Era and ********* servers on July 9. These fans believe it goes against the spirit of Classic, and that World of Warcraft went back on its promise of No Changes in doing so. View the full article

When taking on Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go, defeating them in five-star raids is the standard method. If you plan to challenge Necrozma, you’ll want to bring a few friends and ensure you know its counters and weaknesses. You can research before challenging Necrozma to a battle in Pokémon Go. However, you must also ensure you have the correct team curated for this ******. The longer you can withstand Necrozma’s attacks and deal more damage against it, the better your chances of quickly defeating it. Legendary Pokémon are not easy to deal with in Pokémon Go, and you want to be prepared. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Enlarge / Man vs. machine in a sea of stones. (credit: Getty Images) [/url] In the ancient ********* game of Go, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence has generally been able to defeat the best human players since at least 2016. But in the last few years, researchers have discovered flaws in these top-level AI Go algorithms that give humans a fighting chance. By using unorthodox "cyclic" strategies—ones that even a beginning human player could detect and defeat—a crafty human can often exploit gaps in a top-level AI's strategy and fool the algorithm into a loss. Researchers at MIT and FAR AI wanted to see if they could improve this "worst case" performance in otherwise "superhuman" AI Go algorithms, testing a trio of methods to harden the top-level KataGo algorithm's defenses against adversarial attacks. The results show that creating truly robust, unexploitable AIs may be difficult, even in areas as tightly controlled as board games. Three ******* strategies In the pre-print paper "Can Go AIs be adversarially robust?", the researchers aim to create a Go AI that is truly "robust" against any and all attacks. That means an algorithm that can't be fooled into "game-losing blunders that a human would not commit," but also one that would require any competing AI algorithm to spend significant computing resources to defeat it. Ideally, a robust algorithm should also be able to overcome potential exploits by using additional computing resources when confronted with unfamiliar situations. Read 11 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Pokémon Go Fest 2024 Global is finally here, giving many players the chance to capture several Pokémon they’ve been missing from their collections. These happen with the various habitats appearing throughout the event, which have a distinct schedule and various Collection Challenges alongside them. It can be difficult to keep track of the constantly changing Habitat Rotation. Although they happen every hour, a new cycle of Pokémon begins to spawn throughout the area, making them your new targets. But you want to ensure you don’t miss out on the ones you’re trying to catch. For those participating in Pokémon Go Fest 2024, we’re here to help you catch all the Pokémon appearing in the habitats with a full schedule breakdown and revealing the various Collection Challenges happening for each one. View the full article

There are several activities and Pokémon for you to catch during the massive Pokémon Go Fest 2024 Global event. Alongside these activities are the various Field Research tasks you can earn by spinning PokéStops, and there will be a lot of them showing up throughout the day. The Field Research tasks available for Pokémon Go Fest 2024 Global work differently from the standard ones. They will swap out every hour rather than having a set series of exclusive ones throughout the event. They’re going to match the Habitat Rotation Pokémon appearing during the event, which means there are a lot of Field Research tasks and rewards. We’ll review them all and ensure you know which ones you want to focus on for the proper rewards. View the full article

We don't talk enough about UI in games. They can really make or break an experience, with a poor UI dragging even a great game down. The UI in ***** by Daylight has been ripe for criticism for a while, with the new menu system particularly sparking discussion in the community. The next update, however, will overhaul the selection menu and even though it's been changed thanks to fan feedback, the main issues are still going ahead. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: DBD codes July 2024 DBD's new game-changing mode gets launch date in July roadmap DBD dev teases what's next for the horror game in Reddit AMA View the full article

With the Mid-Air Maneuvering Module, you can say goodbye to grappling off the floor or awkwardly off the corners of walls in The First Descendant. When you’re in the heat of the grind, speed and comfortability matter in The First Descendant. Whether you’re on a mission to defeat Colossuses or get some less interesting chores like looking for collectibles and depositing them in a collection bin. To become stronger, there are lots of side activities you can tick off your list, but it all consumes precious time. The Mid-Air Maneuvering Module is a time saver and just an overall cool-looking item you can get in the game. In this guide, I’ll show you how to get, use, and enhance the Mid-Air Maneuvering Module in The First Descendant. View the full article

Rotating habitats are a staple of Pokémon Go Fest, and they’re returning for the 2024 Global event with four different habitats appearing every couple of hours, each with their own unique Pokémon spawns. These habitats only appear on the first day of the event to allow trainers to find specific Pokémon to complete their Pokédex or increase the odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon they might be after. These habitats include Dawn Meadow, Shining Day, Creeping Dusk, and Darkest Night. View the full article

Habitats are mainstays of Pokemon Go Fest, and the 2024 Global event has a few, each with its specific Pokémon spawns for trainers to collect. Four habitats comprise Go Fest 2024 Global and only appear on the first day. These include Dawn Meadow, Shining Day, Creeping Dusk, and Darkest Night, and one will appear every hour for you to search for a specific Pokemon to fill your Pokédex or look for rare Shiny versions. View the full article

Habitats are back for Pokémon Go Fest 2024: Global, with four rotating pools of Pokémon making up the first day of the festivities. On July 13, trainers have the chance to find hourly habitat rotations called Dawn Meadow, Shining Day, Creeping Dusk, and Darkest Night. These habitats all have unique Pokémon spawns that have increased Shiny chances or rare Pokémon to help those who want to complete their Pokédex. View the full article

Habitats are a big part of Pokémon Go Fest 2024: Global, with new pocket monsters spawning every hour on the first day of the event. Each habitat is unique, and there are four this time: Dawn Meadow, Shining Day, Creeping Dusk, and Darkest Night. These habitats only appear on the first day of Go Fest before every Pokémon becomes available at once, so it’s a great way to find certain Pokémon you might want over anything else. View the full article

The number of people and organizations forced to experience crashes and general instability on Intel's latest CPU models keeps growing. Now, a game developer is blatantly pointing the finger at the Santa Clara corporation and its alleged "defective" products. Read Entire Article View the full article

Knowing when to show mercy is just as important as knowing when to ***** in Elden Ring. FromSoftware's action-RPG pits players against innumerable enemies as they journey to the Elden Throne. Many Tarnished will reasonably view the Lands Between as a "***** or be *******" environment because of this. However, certain characters need to be considered outside this hostile mentality and spared by players. View the full article

The upcoming survival horror game Nowhere combines Norse mythology with a detective story that reveals the fates of the Norse gods following the aftermath of Ragnarok. The game, which comes from indie developer Midnight Forge, is set to release on Steam and claims to blend "realistic detective gameplay" with survival horror. View the full article

Once Human is surprising. It’s a free-to-play open-world survival crafting game, a word salad of flavor-of-the-month genres if ever there was one, and it takes those well-worn ideas and simplifies them into relatively basic forms. And yet, here we are a few days after launch and I find that I can’t put it down. It’s still early, but so far it’s so fun, and so weird. There’s no shortage of post-apocalyptic survival games out there, whether you’re talking about Fallout 76, Rust, 7 Days to ****, or the many, many other options. But Once Human makes its take on that setup feel unique and interesting by wrapping the end of the world around an alien infestation rather than your classic zombies or nuclear war scenarios. It’s a fun approach that, in hindsight, seems underused in the genre, and Once Human puts it to use in some really clever ways. This alien organism has the ability to turn basically anything into a grotesque monster, living or otherwise. Sure, that shuffling and snarling person may seem like a zombie, but then it turns around and reveals it has a blinding stage light for a head. I’ve fought lightbulbs that have turned into giant spiders, evil trees, and even a bus that sprouted a really unfortunate number of giant legs and trotted up and down the road like the biggest, yellowest, and strangest centipede that has ever existed. I did not see those enemies coming, and that has kept Once Human full of surprises. Your weaponry is fairly basic, consisting of simple melee weapons like blades and bars, as well as your general *******, rifle, and shotgun small-arms options. They are pretty unremarkable, but it’s hard to be bored with a baseball bat when you are beating on a monster with a traffic cone for a head or trying to snipe at a massive shadow-****** boss that just as easily could have been fighting Kratos in **** of War. Sure, most of the fights are resolved by flailing your melee ******* or running around in circles and ********* as you drain health bars, but the boss fights do a nice job of mixing in unique mechanics, like forcing you to ***** monster spawners to make the boss vulnerable. Once Human makes forming pick-up parties for dungeons easy. The creatures are the best looking things in Once Human, with organic and inorganic meeting in a strange, body horror aesthetic. That said, the rest of the world is pretty bland. Forests aren’t particularly lush and the same trees repeat a noticeable amount of the time. Urban areas are largely covered in drab concrete that shows signs of decay, but not to the degree that stands out in something like the Last of Us series, which seems like a missed opportunity to lean even further into the alien infestation look. The biggest monsters are reserved for instanced dungeons, similar to classic World of Warcraft design. These fights are geared towards groups of up to four players, and Once Human makes forming pick-up parties easy. A click of a button brings up a server-wide team finder where you can browse what sort of groups other people are looking for, or start your own. Just pick what activity you are doing and interested parties will apply to join you, and you can give them the thumbs up or down at your leisure. Even as a relatively shy gamer when it comes to queueing up with randoms (I typically bring my own group of friends), I’ve had a lot of success getting groups together, and the fact that no words or other back-and-forth is necessary makes it painless even for online introverts like myself. Outside of combat there’s a simple linear questline to follow that, so far, is a loop of going to different places and then activating things, finding things, and fighting things. Roughly 6 hours in, it seems mainly geared towards making me visit important landmarks and introducing me to Once Human’s fundamental mechanics, which is fine for now, though it will need to pick up the pace soon if it’s going to keep my interest. I do, however, appreciate how it leans into the strangeness of the world, like the time I was sent to hunt the monster that kept turning pregnant people into trees (seriously). I haven’t uncovered the full map yet, but even in the early going it’s big enough that running from one end to the other can be a chore. Thankfully, there are a number of ways to speed that up. An early quest gave me a motorcycle that I can summon anytime, and it’s fun to zoom around on. There are also Transportation Towers to unlock, which act as fast travel points, and even a glider, which all help make the distances much more manageable. The survival-crafting aspects benefit from being very simple. The survival-crafting aspects have me very motivated to explore, too, as Once Human benefits from being very simple and straightforward here. At the start you have very few things you can craft, but as you accumulate XP and level up you get Memetic Cyphers, which let you unlock nodes on four upgrade trees. There aren’t any gaps, and as long as you have Memetic Cyphers and materials you can progress quickly to making quality food and equipment. It’s a less-is-more approach that makes it easy to get back to the action, which I appreciate. Gathering materials is still done via the tried and true “run around and punch trees” method, but at least early on supplies are abundant enough that heading out for some mining doesn’t feel laborious. Resources seem to grow back quickly, and there are upgrades down the line that look like they can even automate some potential time sinks. Aspiring to things like that is so important in this genre, and although how well those more advanced options are ********* ******** to be seen, the early stage does a good job of requiring some effort to acquire materials without being tedious. Right now my home base is pretty rudimentary, as you’d expect for someone just getting started. It’s a wooden foundation big enough for my bed and some crafting tables – it may not be fancy, but it was easy to put together with the simple point-and-drop building system. But, since this is a shared-world crafting game, I’m able to browse other players' structures, which range from rundown shacks that make my place look like a palace, to two-story mid-century modern homes that would fit right in on HGTV. I haven’t yet channeled my inner Frank Lloyd Wright, largely because I haven’t invested the upgrade points that unlock the more interesting construction options, but I’m eager to give it a go soon. So far I haven’t had any temptation to spend any real money on Once Human to speed that process up, either, as the monetization strategy mostly revolves around cosmetic items like ******* skins and home decorations. There is a battle pass with a premium and free track, but from what I can tell all the premium rewards are also cosmetic, while the free rewards contain some useful crafting components mixed in. Importantly, it doesn’t seem like there is much in the way of pay-to-win concerns, but I’ll be keeping an eye on that as I continue my playthrough. Naturally I’m still well short of the endgame, both from a story and a survival crafting standpoint, but my initial impression of Once Human is surprisingly very positive. It’s simple and straightforward mechanically, which lets the absolutely bizarre world of this alien post-apocalypse shine. The creatures are horrifying in a fun way, and I’m thoroughly caught up in the loop of being ever so slightly able to craft better and better things. I don’t know where we will end up as I continue to play over the next week or so, but Once Human is off to a really solid start. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

After a lengthy wait, Dota 2 players finally got Crownfall Act Three, The Frosts of Icewrack, on June 39 (Valve Time). Although Ringmaster didn’t show up, the Dota fandom is gushing over the barrage of content that made it through. The fighting mini-game Sleet Fighter is, of course, at the center of the conversation. But it’s not only that. The Crownfall Collector’s Cache set offerings and the overworld’s smooth progression design are also garnering heaps of praise from the Dota 2 community. View the full article

It’s not a return to six-vs-six, but it’s clear the Overwatch 2 devs knew something needed to change fast following the release of one of the most unpopular balancing updates in recent memory. The season 11 midseason patch on July 9 shipped widespread buffs to tanks, among other changes—and made the game feel awful to play for many. I can personally attest to ranked feeling less balanced than ever, with almost every game feeling like my team was either rolling over our enemies or we were just getting flatted by the opposition, with little room for evenly balanced games. And the centerpieces of all those games were almost exclusively tank characters, with Maugas and Ramattras running rampant. Today, Blizzard addressed a few of those concerns, specifically as it pertains to Ramattra, and further toned down Pharah, who is still proving to be annoying for many players to deal with. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

When using powerful Pokémon in Pokémon Go, you’ll want to teach them the strongest moves they can learn. Every Pokémon can only learn a handful of attacks, and the same goes for Marshadow, an exclusive encounter during the Pokémon Go Fest 2024 event. As a Mythical Pokémon, Marshadow is a rare Pokémon to catch. It won’t show up often, and teaching it the correct attacks is essential when you do get one. Surprisingly, Marshadow is a formidable opponent in Pokémon Go, and you should expect to see it in the Master League as a regular option for players who get it. If you plan to use Marshadow on your team, it’s time to learn the best moveset for this Pokémon and what makes it strong. View the full article

Necrozma is one of the many Legendary Pokémon you can encounter while playing the mobile game Pokémon Go. Like many Legendary encounters, after capturing Necrozma, you can add it to your collection, but you want to give it the strongest attacks to teach it the best moveset. You don’t have too many options when selecting Necrozma’s moveset. The choices you have are limited but important. If you don’t teach it the correct options, there’s a good chance it won’t perform too well in combat, and you might not be able to take on the toughest challenges in Pokémon Go. We’ll break down what moves you need to teach Necrozma to get the most out of it and how to best use it while playing the mobile game. View the full article

Call of Duty has just announced it will be crossing over with the WWE. The new collaboration will hit Call of Duty during season 5, bringing the world of WWE into Activision's long-running FPS franchise. View the full article

Counter-Strike as a franchise has never been a stranger to wallbangs. However, no other map in its history stood out in this regard as much as *****. And, even after all the reworks and Valve’s thickening of the walls, one wallbang spot is still reminiscent of CS 1.6. Apparently first discovered by Reddit user Interesting_Aioli592 and shared with the world on July 12, the wallbang includes the player standing next to ***** near the CT spawn and spamming the curb to land shots on the B site. The player demonstrates this by taking down two Ts trying to plant the ***** on B. They used the SCAR-20 autosniper due to its high damage, ************ levels, and spamming nature. The user also stated they likely aren’t the first to uncover the wallbang, but also said “as far as I know, this might be the only footage of this wallbang on the internet.” View the full article

This week, 2K Games unveiled NBA 2K25, confirming that the PC edition supports the same graphics and features as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles for the first time. The shift has caused a considerable jump in minimum system requirements compared to last year, but the game still isn't particularly demanding. Read Entire Article View the full article

The latest entry in the hero shooter genre, Concord, comes from FPS veterans across the industry. Using experience from making games like Destiny, Halo, and others, Firewalk Studios has created a fun roster of over a dozen heroes with unique personalities, weapons, and abilities to combine for a fun five-vs-five experience. View the full article

Escape From Tarkov Arena, the PvP-focused spinoff of EFT, has just been blessed with a new game mode, and it'll sound extremely familiar to fans of the king of PC shooters. Yes, Tarkov Arena is bringing the CS2 experience to its players with Blast Gang, a 5v5 ***** defusal mode. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Escape From Tarkov Arena patch 1.5.0 arrives alongside its first wipe Escape from Tarkov Arena is now open, but there's a catch The Escape From Tarkov Arena beta is about to begin View the full article

Once again Humble Choice has a new selection of free games ready to download, and this month there's the Helldivers 2-like game, Starship Troopers: Terran Command up for grabs. If you're looking for something to play after finishing Helldivers 2, we strongly recommend it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Helldivers 2 stratagems codes and tier list As Helldivers 2 Steam struggles continue dev hints big ******* change Best Helldivers 2 armor View the full article