Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Move over Detective Pikachu, there’s an even stranger live-action video game movie on the way. And by that I mean Warner Bros. just released the first teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie. The film features actual humans and a slightly realistic CG take on Minecraft. But when you mix the game’s iconic blocky style with real life you get, well, this: Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Unsettling imagery aside, A Minecraft Movie looks like some silly family fun, with lots of one-liners, large-scale battles, and Jack ****** exclaiming “I am Steve!” very proudly. And obviously there’s both mining and crafting. Aside from ******, the movie also stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer... Continue reading… View the full article
No Man’s Sky’s next big update finally adds fishing to the game after a piece of fan art stopped developer Hello Games in its tracks. Following the release of No Man’s Sky’s Worlds Part 1 update and its new water technology, Hello Games has today, September 4, released the Aquarius update, which finally adds fishing to the long-running space sim. This fishing feature was inspired by a piece of fan art, below, that shows the player’s avatar fishing while sitting on their spaceship. It was published by redditor catador_de_potos with the thread title: "I'm a simple man with a simple dream." “Something folks really loved in the Worlds update was the new water technology, tons of players were posting videos of themselves just chilling at the water’s edge,” Hello Games boss Sean Murray said. “One piece of fan art in particular stopped us in our tracks, of a player lazily fishing from their wing of their boat. That inspired our next update Aquarius - where we finally add fishing to No Man’s Sky!” The Aquarius update adds “a huge array of fish, from common minnows to wild alien catches, each with their own habitat and catching conditions” to No Man’s Sky, Murray said. You can bait your line to lure in the rarest of fish or trawl the deep for hidden messages in a bottle. There are trophies to earn, fishing logs to complete, and new fishing equipment rewards. There’s even a unique fishing expedition, Murray teased, which sends players on a quest for "the biggest catch of the day." New equipment lets you fish in deep water from your personal fishing platform. New Fishing Pots can be used to bait and trap rare catches. You can cook up the catch of the day with new recipe combinations to be discovered. “My favorite thing is to build a little base on the perfect shoreline, so I can cast my rod whenever the mood takes me,” Murray added. No Man's Sky launched in 2016 initially for PC and PlayStation 4 before coming out on Xbox One in 2018, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S in 2020. A Nintendo Switch version followed in 2022. Over the years, Hello Games has issued a long list of major updates, most recently the aforementioned Worlds Part 1. Murray said Worlds resulted in No Man’s Sky’s biggest player numbers in over five years. Indeed, it's a busy time for Hello Games, which alongside updates for No Man’s Sky is working on its next game, Light No *****. It's about adventure, building, survival and exploration together, set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth. 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
It seems impossible to comprehend now, but in 1969 three government employees climbed into a rocket and blasted themselves to the moon—even though there were no fish there. They bounced around, they drove a buggy, they picked up rocks, but the journey was ultimately pointless because there were no space ponds and no moon fish to catch. Why do you think we stopped going?.. Read more.View the full article
Image: Nintendo Zelda’s first mainline game feels like a clever crystallization of the franchise’s recent experimental era. Continue reading… View the full article
Acer has so far stayed out of the handheld gaming PC race, but that’s about to change. It’s just announced its first Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally competitor, the Acer Nitro Blaze 7, which looks like it fits somewhere between last year’s Asus ROG Ally and the newer ROG Ally X. Like Asus — but unlike most rivals — it features a 7-inch 1080p variable refresh rate IPS screen to keep things smooth, one that refreshes slightly faster at 144Hz. (Acer tells The Verge it’s a landscape-native screen.) It’s also got a newer Ryzen 7 8840HS chip, albeit with the same Radeon 780M integrated GPU as most other Windows handhelds. [/url] With 16GB of 7500 MT/s memory and a 50 watt-hour battery, it’s a step ahead of the original Ally’s 6400 MT/s memory and 40Wh... Continue reading… View the full article
World of Warcraft: The War Within is the tenth expansion for the MMORPG, but it's the first addition in well over a decade that reminds me why I fell in love with the game to begin with. After multiple expansions that were lackluster at best, I gave up on expecting that the magic of WoW's first years would be recaptured. Now, 16 years later, I finally found the expansion I was waiting for in The War Within. View the full article
Ark: Survival Ascended players who've lapsed may be tempted to finally return to the game since the latest patch adds a wealth of exciting new features. While the upgraded version of Survival Evolved has had a somewhat rocky post-launch experience, Studio Wildcard has done its best to listen to the audience and provide plenty of high-quality content updates that build on the already successful formula. The latest patch introduces a massive new biome and a major technical upgrade that should make the game smoother for everyone. View the full article
With No Man's Sky's big World's Part 1 update in the rearview window, Hello Games has revealed that it will be adding one of the game's most requested features to the game. And it's coming later today. View the full article
If you enjoy standing by virtual bodies of water and praying that you've picked the right worm to tempt what dwells within to take a little nibble, the latest update for No Man's Sky is definitely for you. Dubbed Aquarius, it arrives today, September 4, and is all about reeling in alien fish via a bunch of new mechanics. Following on from the pretty popular Worlds Update part one - which revamped planet biomes with stuff like fresh weather effects and more immersive water - Hello Games has been inspired by a bit of Reddit fan art to give folks the chance to embrace their inner angler. As outlined in the patch notes and the trailer below, Aquarius adds fishing to the game via new systems that'll let players "explore the universe to find their perfect waterside spot, hopping with fish - sit and relax alone with their thoughts, or with fellow Travelers looking out over alien vistas waiting for a *****." Read more View the full article
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The lizard outlaw MTG card Laughing Jasper Flint is shifting upwards in value. If you're lucky enough to own a copy of the extended frame version of this card, we're happy to inform you that it's spiked by a whopping 425%, jumping from $3.60 last week to $18.90 today. Regular copies are much cheaper, but they, like all variants, are also on the rise. Having been priced at 50 cents since Thunder Junction, they're now going for around $4.60 a copy. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG Duskmourn's latest horror reference is a Beetlejuice Beetle MTG Duskmourn has a card by Silent Hill's monster designer Scrapped MTG Duskmourn mechanic would've made Magic a board game View the full article
n attempt by Uwe Boll to raise $2.5 million in crowdfunding for a sequel to his dreadful 2007 Postal movie—based on the game of the same name—has predictably hit the rocks. All pledges have been cancelled and are set to be refunded mere days after the film's Indiegogo campaign launched. That's a total of 16 pledges, by the way, or about $850 of the film's overall goal... Read more.View the full article
This morning, 35 Steam players, myself included, started up Concord and decided to play a few games of Rivalry, a competitive mode in Concord that dishes out the most XP available. After waiting for five minutes (I'm queuing with PS players, too), I finally got into a match, if you can call it that... Read more.View the full article
The Beater in Harry Potter Quidditch Champions is a notorious role. Your sole job is to ruin the ****** team’s ********** and give your team opportunities to shine. Harry Potter Quidditch Champions features a myriad of roles, but none are as unique as the Beater. As a Beater, you need to get your hands ******. Each team has one Beater whose responsibility is to create chaos and challenge the ****** team. Unlike other Quidditch players, the Beater is equipped with a bat, which they can use to hit their Bludger and knock other ****** players out. They aren’t concerned with the Quaffle, so they can’t score points. View the full article
Fallout 76 Season 18 is here, having launched in the early afternoon hours ET on September 3. Called Milepost Zero, this release introduces some significant gameplay changes and a variety of new Fallout 76 content, among other novelties. View the full article
Dynamax and Max Battles have arrived in Pokémon Go, and with them, we have a bunch of new resources and items to wrap our heads around as we prepare to take on the challenges ahead. Max Particles an important new resource. You can find them at Power Spots throughout the map in Pokemon Go, or get them from missions and other means. You can earn a varying number of Max Particles depending on how you interact with the game, but there’s a limit to how many you can get daily. View the full article
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Sony After eight years in development, it took less than a month for Concord to ****. Yesterday, Sony announced that the game, which only launched on August 23rd, would be shutting down on September 6th. Ryan Ellis, game director at developer Firewalk Studios, said that it “didn’t land the way we’d intended.” That seems to be an understatement: the game is going offline, full refunds are being issued, and it’s unclear if Concord will ever come back. While the speed at which the game ended may be surprising, the fact that it happened isn’t. Concord is just the latest victim of publishers chasing the live-service trend with outsize expectations. Unfortunately, there’s only so much room — and Concord was too generic to find space. It’s easy to... Continue reading… View the full article
Newcomer Spectre Divide is taking the big guns such as CS2, Valorant, and Call of Duty ****** Ops 6 head-on. Built in collaboration with legendary FPS streamer Michael 'shroud' Grzesiek, the new 3v3 competitive multiplayer game infuses the Counter-Strike style of shooter with a unique twist, whereby you control two bodies that you can switch between on the fly. It's also packed with player-led customization - and now, just one day after launch, developer Mountaintop Studios announces that it's dropping prices in response to feedback from players. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Spectre Divide launches with strong player count but mixed reviews Spectre Divide release date locked in and the new FPS is imminent The beta for CS2 rival Spectre Divide is exploding on Steam right now View the full article
Paradox Interactive is giving away multiple Europa Universalis 4 DLC to all players for free, and you don't even need to do anything to get them. Collectively, all of the expansions are worth $60, and massively expand the grand strategy game. They're about to be integrated into the EU4 base edition, which means you can get Europa Universalis 4 and a lot of its DLC for one single price - a price that's also significantly lower right now thanks to a new Steam *****. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Massive Europa Universalis 4 mod hauls the strategy game to 600 BC Europa Universalis 4 empire building gets much tougher with hefty mod Iconic grand strategy game removes Rome in huge alternate history mod View the full article
Wizards of the Coast has released a new set of basic rules for Dungeons and Dragons, based on the updates made in the 2024 Player's Handbook. Like the 2014 Basic Rules, these are freely available on the D&D Beyond website. The 2024 Free Rules went live on September 3 - the same day that the full Player's Handbook was made available to D&D Beyond's Master Tier subscribers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: DnD has already corrected some of its most overpowered new rules You could win $100 of Roll20 credit by designing cool DnD maps DnD YouTuber's busted Bard build can deal 334 damage per round View the full article
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I have a theory - or maybe it's more of a personal belief - that videogames looked their best between 1996 and 2005. Now we have photorealism, immeasurable polygon counts, and cloth physics, but in the old days, games looked like games. They had their own aesthetic. They were unique. With that in mind, and also recalling the halcyon days of Ghost Recon - Desert Siege, Jungle Storm, and so on - meet Dagger Directive, a new tactical FPS just signed by simulation game legend MicroProse that looks like it comes from the year 2000 and plays like a mix of Arma, Operation Flashpoint, and Delta Force. This is the kind of shooter that the PC was made for. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
If you pre-order Harry Potter Quidditch Champions, you get the most complete experience possible, with exclusive bonus items for only the most hardened HP followers. Harry Potter Quidditch Champions is looking to follow in the footsteps of Hogwarts Legacy by delivering an immersive world for witches and wizards. A fully-fledged Quidditch game with full-length, exhilarating matches is what the Harry Potter community has been asking for for the longest time. View the full article
Star Wars games have always been filled with fun cosmetics, from the colorful ponchos in Star Wars: Fallen Order to the variety of jacket-filled outfits in Star Wars Outlaws. However, it has to be Kay's assortment of outfits in Outlaws that takes the cake, not just for their plethora of callbacks to characters and moments from the films, but also because of just how stylish they are. Kay absolutely pulls off every look, giving players a tough time finding the perfect look to stick with for the entire duration of Star Wars Outlaws. View the full article
A prominent leaker claims Nvidia's upcoming RTX 5000 series graphics cards will consume significantly more power than their predecessors. The rumors might not represent final TDPs, so readers should take the information with a grain of salt. Read Entire Article View the full article
The original Netflix version of Daredevil had plenty of *********, but it sounds like Marvel is upping the ante for the upcoming Disney Plus series. A big point of appeal of Netflix's Daredevil was the action and *********, in particular because it was attempting to be a lot more grounded than most of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe was offering at the time. Marvel Studios was trying to appeal to a broader audience, so Daredevil and the other Netflix Marvel shows tried to be their edgier cousin. But speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Marvel's head of streaming, television, and animation at Marvel Studios tried to make it clear that Daredevil: Born Again will be quite a "brutal" watch. "I'll tell you, some of the most brutal action we've ever brought to the screen is coming in Daredevil: Born Again, which isn't a horror show, but really it packs a lot of power and there's a lot of visceral action, to say the least," Winderbaum said. This apparently came as a larger conversation in relation to the next upcoming MCU Disney Plus series, Agatha All Along, in the context of horror in the cinematic universe. Read more View the full article
The September Humble Choice games are live, and there's a special surprise this month as an extra game has been made available via an alpha playtest. All of the standard eight games are, once again, great for the Steam Deck, and you'll save big versus buying each game individually. These games will be available to claim until Tuesday, October 2. Valve's Steam Deck became the best handheld gaming PC in large part because of how easy it makes playing games of all sizes and genres compared to buying and maintaining a gaming PC. Meanwhile, Humble Choice, the monthly games subscription service, has long offered a great way to collect games that work great on the Steam Deck, and this month is no different. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The most underrated action game of the decade is suddenly free Follow up Guardians of the Galaxy 3 with a Marvel game bargain Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy ***** makes it really cheap View the full article
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Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Move over Detective Pikachu, there’s an even stranger live-action video game movie on the way. And by that I mean Warner Bros. just released the first teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie. The film features actual humans and a slightly realistic CG take on Minecraft. But when you mix the game’s iconic blocky style with real life you get, well, this: Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Unsettling imagery aside, A Minecraft Movie looks like some silly family fun, with lots of one-liners, large-scale battles, and Jack ****** exclaiming “I am Steve!” very proudly. And obviously there’s both mining and crafting. Aside from ******, the movie also stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer... Continue reading… View the full article