Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just released that blog post telling everyone where the studio’s at in terms of current progress on its 60-day plan. Good news, the next big update to the game is set to arrive on September 17. If you're out of the loop, since the Escalation of Freedom update was accompanied by some balancing changes and tweaks to flamethrowers that didn't go down well with a lot of players, who felt Arrowhead wasn't aiming to make the game fit their definition of fun via its nerfs to meta weapons, the studio's been attempting to get a lot of these unhappy soldiers back on side. As detailed in the blog post, the next big update to the game - which the likes of Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt have been teasing for the past little bit - now has a concrete arrival date - September 17. So mark that on your calendar. Read more View the full article
A new adventure awaits in Ark: Survival Ascended in Aberration, in a land filled with familiar creatures and ones you may not have encountered. If you’re after a full list, we’ve got you covered. Every new map in Ark: Survival Ascended introduces new creatures to the game, which can be transferred to other maps, and Aberration adds a shedload. Along with all the new creatures, there are also Aberrant versions of existing ones. View the full article
There are a diverse set of outfits available in Star Wars Outlaws. Some of these outfits, such as your starting outfit and the Sarbacc Shark set, are merely cosmetic. Others, however, have special passive bonuses that can prove powerful in the right hands. For a few outfits, if you wear all three pieces of the set (chest, pants, and belt), you'll get a fourth bonus on top of the individual item perks. View the full article
****** & White from Lionhead Studios released originally back in 2001 went on to great reviews, and won various awards. Sadly, it's one game that has also been lost to time but the openblack project plans to revive it with open source. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 offers full co-op through the main story as well as three-player co-op Operations. To access the feature, there are a few basic steps to complete—and we’ve outlined the process below. Support from teammates is vital to success in Space Marine 2, where you face ambushes from enemies at every corner, and playing with friends is one of the best ways to enjoy the game. Like many other games, however, you need to unlock co-op in Space Marine 2. View the full article
When is the Dying Light The ****** release date? The standalone Dying Light spinoff, now called Dying Light The ******, originally started out as Dying Light 2 DLC, but the concept and scale of the game grew and now we're getting a very fresh looking game. Let's dig into what we know. Though we enjoyed Dying Light 2, the futuristic, grand scale of the metropolis setting fought off the creepy horror that we love about the series. That, and a lack of survival game elements, made Dying Light 2 just a really cool parkour game. Thankfully, Dying Light The ****** is looking very different, and instead will be set in the countryside 13 years after the events of the first game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Techland is pulling the Dying Light 2 ultimate edition from Steam Dying Light The ****** is "bringing survival back," and I'm excited The new Dying Light game is completely free, for some people View the full article
I sometimes worry that good games, even great games, live or **** depending on a single badly received update. Yes, this is the era of the comeback - Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky serving as prime examples - but with so many new games and so much choice, it's also much easier than ever for players to just move onto something new - I'm not sure that Helldivers 2 will ever recover from the PSN account linking snafu. Thankfully, though, despite the (arguably deserved) ire directed towards Age of Mythology's first DLC, the full release of the RTS game, built by Age of Empires devs, seems to be going exceptionally well - the strategy reimagining is surging on Steam. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The first Age of Mythology Retold DLC is already being review bombed Age of Mythology Retold dev's favorite new feature is **** cows Age of Mythology Retold review - a great remake of a classic RTS View the full article
Overwhelmingly positive user reviews. Almost 2.5 million concurrent players. A mainstay on the Steam sales charts even weeks after it was released. It's safe to say that ****** Myth Wukong, the ambitious fantasy RPG by Game Science, is one of 2024's biggest hits. But according to a new report, the developer is far from finished. The first ****** Myth Wukong expansion is apparently already in the works, as one of the game's principal investors discusses its runaway success so far. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All ****** Myth Wukong bosses, locations, and rewards Best ****** Myth Wukong mods All ****** Myth Wukong chapters and how long to beat View the full article
Konami has confirmed that eFootball will have the exclusive licence to Inter and AC Milan this season, meaning they won’t be in EA Sports FC 25. Both AC Milan and FC Internazionale Milano (Inter) have signed full exclusivity deals for the 2024-25 season, meaning eFootball will be the only football game to feature their official branding. While EA Sports FC has the licence for the Serie A league both teams play in, this doesn’t automatically mean it has the licence for every team in that league too. Read More... View the full article
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Shamans have been begging Blizzard to add new Ascendance forms for years, but they should be careful what they wish for. Blizzard is finally adding new Ascendance models in WoW’s 20th-anniversary update, and judging by the community’s reaction, they’re in dire need of a makeover. In a Sept. 4 Reddit thread, players bemoaned the new Ascendance form models Blizzard teased earlier that day. “**** ***** that’s one ***** of a monkey’s paw,” the top comment reads, which at the time of writing has over 1,700 upvotes. “These are the goofiest things I’ve ever seen,” one user replied, while another lamented: “15 years I waited.” View the full article
NBA 2K25 has plenty of visual effects to spice gameplay up, including the Shot Meter. We’ll show you how to change the Shot Meter in NBA 2K25 or completely turn it off if you’re not a fan of visual cues. All UI elements, including the Shot Meter, can be changed or turned off via the Customize HUD tab, which you can find in the Main Menu and within the menus of the various NBA 2K25 game modes. Changing settings from the game’s Main Menu applies them to all game modes and is the easiest way to set your preferences without having to bother on a term-by-term basis. View the full article
Pest Apocalypse continues looking great. One I highlighted before and doing so again now due to a brand new demo, bringing vehicular action to the survivor-like bullet ***** genre. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] 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
The longer-than-usual wait for Arcane season 2 has been rough, and chances are you'll need to rewatch the first set of episodes ahead of its November return to make sense of all the plot lines and characters involved, but its first full trailer is so good that it might send you straight into Netflix to do so. The first proper look at the long-anticipated second season runs for about two minutes and is jam-packed with even more drama, style, and action, which is everything we could've asked for after that wild season 1 finale. Just keep that s**t coming in. We already know this is the end of the line for Arcane, but the folks at Riot Games have fortunately stated in the past they're interested in expanding the world of League of Legends (Runeterra) beyond this one show, so we just have to hope for a new series as high-quality as this one, no matter the production time it requires. Read more View the full article
Coming with Native Linux support on September 30th is The Throne, a 2.5D styled metroidvania from BeByte. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
****** Myth Wukong developer Game Science is working on an Elden Ring-style expansion for the game ahead of any sequel. A Bloomberg report into Game Science investor Hero Games has revealed an updated sales figure for the smash hit ****** Myth Wukong, which set Steam concurrents records upon its launch last month. ****** Myth Wukong sold an eye-watering 18 million copies in just two weeks across PC and PlayStation 5, Bloomberg reported, making over $700 million in revenue so far. That’s enough to put ****** Myth Wukong up there with Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as one of the fastest-selling games of all time. In a subsequent tweet, Daniel Ahmad, director of research and insight at Niko Partners, said the $700 million figure is actually dated August 30, and that ****** Myth Wukong is now around the $800 million mark. That’s an astonishing return for a game Bloomberg reported had a budget of $70 million over six years of development. Fans, though, will be most interested in Game Science’s plans for ****** Myth Wukong now it’s out in the wild. While the developer has yet to say, Bloomberg’s report confirmed an expansion is in the works, with Game Science said to be following Elden Ring’s lead. Elden Ring, itself one of the best-selling video games of all-time, saw a significant expansion DLC called Shadow of the Erdtree launch in 2024, two years after the base game. From Bloomberg: “It won’t take another six years for the next chapter in what’s planned to be a series based on ******** mythology — though that won’t be a sequel, Wu [Daniel Wu, Hero Games boss] said. Game Science is working on an expansion to Wukong, which will give it a chance to monetize the game a second time. 2022’s Elden Ring, a title with similar play style and design, has shown how the release of an expansion — this year’s Shadow of the Erdtree — can spur a fresh flurry of sales for the original.” Last month, IGN verified an email sent from the ****** Myth: Wukong marketing team at Hero Games that told content creators who were granted a Steam key that they must not include “feminist ***********” or use what are called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their coverage. At the time, Hero Games ******* to respond to IGN’s request for comment on the matter, and Wu declined to comment when asked by Bloomberg. Game Science has yet to respond to IGN’s previous report compiling numerous sexist comments made by the studio's founders and other developers spanning the last decade. Meanwhile, ****** Myth: Wukong's delay on Xbox is due to an exclusivity deal with Sony and not a development issue with Microsoft’s consoles, a knowledgeable source has told IGN. This week, a Microsoft spokesperson issued IGN a fresh statement: "As we have said before, we’re excited for the launch of ****** Myth Wukong on Xbox Series X and S and are working with Game Science to bring the game to our platforms,” the spokesperson said. “We'd prefer not to comment on the deals made by our partners with other platform holders but we can confirm that the delay is not due to Xbox platform limitations that have been raised to us." IGN has otherwise reported on a super cool ****** Myth: Wukong secret that lets you summon one boss to beat another boss while you basically do nothing, and on how one optional boss encountered very early in the game is absolutely destroying players. While you’re here, IGN has plenty more ****** Myth: Wukong guides to help you out, including Essential Tips and Tricks, Things ****** Myth: Wukong Doesn't Tell You, and our Boss List and Guides. IGN’s ****** Myth: Wukong review returned an 8/10. We said: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, ****** Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.” 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
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Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio plans to continue making Yakuza/Like a Dragon games about middle aged men doing "middle aged men things." Series director Ryosuke Horii told Automaton he's grateful for Yakuza/Like a Dragon's influx of new players, which includes younger people and women, but said the studio doesn't plan on changing its approach because of it. "We have had a large increase in new fans, including women, which we’re truly happy and grateful for," Horii said. "However, we don’t plan to do anything like deliberately changing conversation topics in order to cater to new fans." He continued: "We are middle aged guys ourselves, so I guess that’s the kind of target audience we’re going for, probably. I think this is precisely one of [the series'] selling points. In Yakuza: Like a Dragon, everything starts with three unemployed middle aged guys being like, 'Let’s go to [the job centre].' They have a different air about them than a group of young heroes would, complaining about back pain and the like. But this humanity you feel from their age is what gives the game originality." The Yakuza/Like a Dragon series, which had a confusing name change in 2022, focused on original protagonist Kiryu Kazuma through the first six games and prequel Yakuza 0. While he was just 20 in that game, Kiryu was 37 in the first Yakuza (which was remade as Yakuza Kiwami in 2016), 38 in Yakuza 2 (remade as Yakuza Kiwami 2), then 41, 42, 44, and eventually 48 in Yakuza 6. He appears in later games too, and continues to grow older alongside the series. Yakuza: Like a Dragon protagonist Ichiban Kasuga, who takes over from Kiryu in what's essentially Yakuza 7, is 42 in that game and 46 in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (essentially Yakuza 8). The series does feature plenty of characters who aren't middle aged men, but most of its main cast are. "The characters are flesh and blood human beings much like our players are, so their problems are relatable," Horii said. "That’s why it’s easy to really get into the game and feel like you’re listening to conversations between ordinary people. There isn’t any typical 'game-like' language like 'where is the treasure chest?'" Yakuza/Like a Dragon lead planner Hirotoka Chiba gave an example. "There’s a conversation where Adachi is conflicted about whether he should drink ***** or not because he’s worried about his uric acid level," he said. "We’re making the hearty talks of middle-aged dudes our identity, rather than youthfulness." Fans expecting a hard left turn in the next game, which is being revealed on September 20, may therefore have to think again. Adachi is conflicted about whether he should drink ***** or not because he’s worried about his uric acid level. It's unknown if this new game (or potentially games) is the next mainline Yakuza/Like a Dragon entry, another spin-off game like Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, another remake like Yakuza: Kiwami or Like a Dragon: Ishin, another game from spin-off series Judgment, or something else entirely, however. Publisher ***** did register a trademark for something called Yakuza Wars in August 2024, however, and RGG has already said fans will be "surprised" by the reveal. In our 9/10 review of the last game, IGN said: "Sprawling, enthralling, and packed with dynamic brawling, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth isn’t just the best turn-based Like a Dragon game, it’s one of the greatest games in the entire series." Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article
I will never cease to be amazed, impressed, and terrified by the kinds of unexpected hotties that come out of the gaming community—earlier this year it was Bakool Ja Ja in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, and now Deadlock's got its own fan favourite, the gargoyle Ivy... Read more.View the full article
With eight different subclasses, the wizard class in Baldur's Gate 3 has the most variety in its specializations. It also has the least class-specific features at each level-up, since it focuses on its expanded spellcasting. The subclass abilities really matter, as they're the only class-specific features wizards get. Thus, players really need to consider which option they choose. View the full article
September 2024 is looking to be a fun month in Disney Dreamlight Valley with the addition of a new event called the End of Summer event. After a busy month in August with the introduction of Princess Tiana and Act III of the DLC A Rift In Time, September will be a bit slower but still with a lot of fun. View the full article
The projector market is beaming bright right now, with brands constantly trying to lure media connoisseurs and gamers away from flat-screen TVs and monitors - which require a lot of space in your home. The Dangbei Atom laser projector marks just how far consumer technology has come in a few years, packing Google TV and that vast world of smart apps into a small box measuring just over 7 inches wide. The compact Atom was released at the beginning of 2024, and it cements ******** brand Dangbei as a serious maker of smart projectors for home entertainment. But how does it stack up against the best gaming projectors? In this review, I've put it to good use over several months to find out. One of the Atom's most promising perks is the 40-180-inch display size, meaning you can install it in pretty much any room with enough blank wall space (preferably of light or neutral ******). Its brightness is also high, while on paper, features like autofocus and auto-keystone are designed to help you create a perfectly sharp and shaped picture as and when you move the Atom about from room to room. On paper is one thing, but here are my experiences with the Dangbei Atom in real life. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Save $400 on this wooden water-cooled mini gaming PC from Corsair Red ***** Redemption 2 system requirements Geekom just dropped the "world's smallest" water cooled mini gaming PC View the full article
When is the Infinity Nikki beta? The next installment of the Nikki series is coming to PC, bringing developer Infold's world of dress-up to a whole new audience. Playtests offer the chance to experience Nikki's next adventure in Miraland ahead of time, and we've got all the latest news for the upcoming beta *******. The Infinity Nikki release date is fast approaching and beta recruitment has already begun. We've got all the Infinity Nikki beta sign-up details, including the next Infinity Nikki playtest start and end times plus any important guidelines for successful entrants. Whether you're a long-time Nikki fan or just looking for a relaxing game to unwind, the Infinity Nikki beta is the perfect chance to discover if the self-styled "coziest open-world game" is for you. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Infinity Nikki release date estimate, beta, trailers, and latest news View the full article
Carrying on from a small snippet of Warhammer 40k lore in the last Adeptus Custodes Codex, Games Workshop has released a new Warhammer 40k animation featuring a female Custodian protagonist. Custodian Tyrith Shiva Kyrus appears in 'Harvest', episode two of 'The Tithes' series available now on Warhammer TV. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG is 3 times more attractive to women than men think, survey finds Space Marine 2 multiplayer classes Legendary White Dwarf editor Paul Sawyer has terminal brain ******* View the full article
Slamming the ball right on your opponent’s head is a feeling like no other, but you’ll have to put in some work before your MyPLAYER can do it. We’ve compiled all the contact dunk requirements for NBA 2K25, so you can track just how long until you have your own in-game dunk contest. There are 12 contact dunk packages in NBA 2K25, including four alley-oop sets. Each package comes with its own attribute requirements. Some are also locked behind height limitations, though you’ll have access to at least six contact dunk sets and two alley-oop sets at any height. The full requirements for contact dunks in NBA 2K25 are listed below: View the full article
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just released that blog post telling everyone where the studio’s at in terms of current progress on its 60-day plan. Good news, the next big update to the game is set to arrive on September 17. If you're out of the loop, since the Escalation of Freedom update was accompanied by some balancing changes and tweaks to flamethrowers that didn't go down well with a lot of players, who felt Arrowhead wasn't aiming to make the game fit their definition of fun via its nerfs to meta weapons, the studio's been attempting to get a lot of these unhappy soldiers back on side. As detailed in the blog post, the next big update to the game - which the likes of Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt have been teasing for the past little bit - now has a concrete arrival date - September 17. So mark that on your calendar. Read more View the full article