Rockstar Games may have already provided the world with a monolithic single-player campaign in Grand Theft Auto V but players would have received even more story content were it not for Grand Theft Auto Online. Despite the narrative and characters earning critical acclaim from fans and critics alike, the ******-riddled stories of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor largely come to an end with the game's credits role. Given Rockstar's reputation for releasing massive expansions, fans expected some kind of DLC building upon the story, but due to shifting priorities, these projects were scrapped. View the full article
Elden Ring's got another patch out and it's tinkered with Shadow Of The Erdtree weapons, fixed some bugs, and still not done anything about the game's performance issues. That perfume bottle and lightning combo? Binned off. Everyone's favourite summon Blackknife Tiche? She's seen a certain health-regen bug fixed, so everyone's not being duped into thinking she's been heavily nerfed since the Shadow Lands sprung forth. Read more View the full article
Solely playing the main story of The First Descendant can leave you underpowered when the time comes to take on Void Intercept Battles. The ***** Bride requires more preparation than any previous bosses, so here’s everything you need to know to beat it. How to defeat ***** Bride in The First Descendant Always come prepared. Screenshot by Dot Esports The ***** Bride is a level 44 Void Intercept Battle in The First Descendant on normal difficulty and is similar to Stunning Beauty in design. The weak spots on this boss are pretty much the same: View the full article
Diablo 4 has many bosses for you to ******. Some require beating lesser enemies to farm the rare materials necessary for spawning them, while others can simply be found in dungeons or at the end of quests. One legacy boss in particular, however, is famous for his enduring habit of always showing up at the most inopportune time. We’re talking about The Butcher, of course, the classic, menacing boss who ambushes players, spawning at any moment without warning. Blizzard clearly doesn’t think he’s threatening enough, though, because there’s now a more terrifying version of it you may encounter. Read more View the full article
Obsidian have spent a lot of time tuning up Avowed's combat in response to negative reactions to the new action-RPG's initial reveal footage at an Xbox developer direct, with gameplay director Gabe Paramo conceding that the team could have oiled the hinges and buffed the contacts a little more before showing the game off. Read more View the full article
The Major Order that Helldivers 2 have been plugging away at for the past couple of days is definitely proving to be an interesting one. The latest development in it seems to hint at some fresh weaponry from the first Helldivers potentially being incoming. If you're out of the loop, the MO has tasked folks with holding on to the planet X-45, so the ruins of a "lost Advanced Weapons Lab from the First Galactic War", which was "working on development of a powerful interplanetary battle station" prior to it falling into disrepair, can be excavated. As you can imagine, that's gotten the ol' divers pretty interested. As they work on doing just that, players have gotten a fresh strategic update, which reads as follows: "The first layer of rubble covering the advanced weapons lab on X-45 has been cleared. Initial reports show show the facility ******** largely intact. Read more View the full article
Call of Duty players are picking the ****** Ops series above all others within the larger franchise and dedicating themselves to only buying ****** Ops/Treyarch games in the future. Call of Duty has had trouble winning over the hearts and minds of fans in recent years, particularly within the new Modern Warfare trilogy. The new Modern Warfare 3 may be the most poorly received CoD game of all time, with nearly 10,000 “Mostly negative” reviews on Steam. Several controversial points within the game led to this point. But the fanbase seems hopeful that ****** Ops 6, led by Treyarch rather than MW’s Infinity Ward, won’t have the majority of these issues, and the result is a boycott on all non-Treyarch CoD games moving forward. View the full article
Individual Descendants in The First Descendant have unique quest lines to progress through, with Bunny likely being the first you encounter, and we’re here to tell you where to find the Records in the Search of the Relic quest. Unique Descendant questlines in The First Descendant provide a backstory for each character, with more to come in future updates as revealed in the roadmap, and Bunny’s quests have you searching high and low for lost Journals. View the full article
Ubisoft is continuing its NFT gaming push, having just announced a new partnership to that effect. The move signals that Ubisoft is still unwavering in its pursuit of the technology that has already received significant pushback from its fans. View the full article
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft developers Bit Golem announced this week that they’ve raised 200,000 złoty (around $50,000) towards humanitarian aid charities aiding Ukranians, including the Polish Red Cross, Save the Children, and Voices Of Children. Dagon itself is a free game, but has several pieces of paid DLC, all of which are currently on *****. Read more View the full article
Nekomata is an S-Rank agent in Zenless Zone Zero, and as a member of the Cunning Hares Faction, she’s fierce and powerful. Here’s the best Nekomata build in Zenless Zone Zero. View the full article
The First Descendant has enjoyed a big launch, but it’s also been marred by a number of issues that developer Nexon has continued to apologize and offer compensation for. Since the free-to-play co-op focused looter shooter launched a long list of issues has emerged, including frame-rate problems, the ******** to deliver on promised items such as Twitch drops, and for some players, the ******** to deliver items they’ve paid real-world money for. The latter issue revolves around a problem where customers have yet to receive items when they’ve bought the same item multiple times through the basket on Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform stores. Developer Nexon issued an update on this “mass Caliber purchase error,” promising a fix. In the meantime, it asked players to buy “Caliber” items (items that are bought with the premium in-game currency that is itself bought with real-world money), individually “to avoid any inconvenience.” For those who bought items from July 2-4 and have yet to receive them, these purchases will be canceled, Nexon warned. “The same measures will be taken for any further mass purchases until the error is resolved,” Nexon said. “We apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by this error. We are working diligently to fix the issue as soon as possible to minimize inconvenience.” Meanwhile, producer Lee Beom-jun published a developer chat to YouTube in which he thanked and apologized to players. In the video, the Nexon developer promised a hotfix that would optimize performance of the PlayStation 5 version (The First Descendant runs particularly poorly on PS5). There’s work on those missing Twitch drop rewards, as well as a promise for **** sound improvements and ****** fixes. Interestingly, Lee Beom-jun offered an explanation of sorts for The First Descendant’s controversial third-party data collection and sharing policy that Nexon asks players to agree to before playing the game. This personal information sharing, one of the leading complaints amid the game’s ‘mixed’ Steam user reviews rating, is supposedly required because Nexon uses it to track what players are doing in The First Descendant in order to improve it. Lee Beom-jun insisted Nexon does not use players’ personal data, rather the nicknames they choose. There is no explanation for The First Descendant’s ultra aggressive monetization, however, which some players have described as “microtransaction *****.” Despite all these problems, The First Descendant has enjoyed a big launch, with a huge 239,513 peak concurrent players so far on Steam. That’s enough to put the game in Steam’s top five most-played games. Sony and Microsoft do not share player numbers. Check out IGN's The First Descendant review in progress to find out what we think of the game so far. 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
Grand Theft Auto 5’s planned story DLC was cancelled because GTA Online was making so much money, a former developer claims. Info datamined from the game in 2023 suggested that a DLC pack named Agent Trevor was one of three cancelled expansions for the game, alongside other expansions called Zombie Apocalypse and Alien Invasion. Joseph Rubino, who was a senior camera artist and virtual cinematographer at Rockstar for six years, has told the SanInPlay YouTube channel that he worked on the Trevor DLC before it was cancelled. Read More... View the full article
In news that should put a smile on your face no matter how ******* a day you might be having, a Shiba Inu named Peanut Butter has won a game of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB at this year's edition of Summer Games Done Quick. Not only that, but with help from his owner, the doggo did so in pretty dramatic fashion. If you're not familiar with Peanut Butter, he's the dog of speedrunner JSR_ and has become pretty well known for playing NES games like Gyromite via a control system that seems him provide the control inputs based on treat incentives provided by his human companion. It's pretty cool. At this year's SGDQ, PB stepped up to play a bit of the 1994 NES classic Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, with the aim of winning one game as Griffey's Seattle Mariners - thereby accidentally providing a weird side note in the history of baseball's most interesting team. Read more View the full article
The First Descendant draws a lot of inspiration from games like Warframe. Despite being a free-to-play game, Warframe has a trading system that allows non-paying players to get premium currency through trades. What about The First Descendant? We’ll tell you everything we know about The First Descendant’s stand on trading items between players. View the full article
Controversy isn’t leaving Ubisoft’s back as the petition to cancel *********’s Creed Shadows is growing stronger with over 50,000 signatures. This petition at [Hidden Content] (translated by Google) charges *********’s Creed Shadows for “cultural disrespect” over its ****** Samurai co-protagonist Yasuke. It goes so far as to paint it as “a serious insult to ********* culture and history” and prophesies that the game “can lead to racism in Asia.” View the full article
The First Descendant has an arsenal stacked full of weapons to use in the ****** against the Vulgar but none are as good as the Ultimate Weapons—so how do you get them? We have the answer. Ultimate Weapons in The First Descendant are significantly more powerful than other weapons you will loot, though this is counter-acted by the fact they are much ******* to get your hands on—and that’s before the hours of research time it will take. View the full article
One The Sims 4 player has recently found themselves quite surprised after their character gave birth to a brick-red baby. Their unusual experience underlines some of the quirks of how The Sims 4 handles genetics. View the full article
Helldivers 2 gave players a surprise on July 4 with new fleet upgrades for the Super Destroyer. Alongside the new content, the latest Helldivers 2 hotfix update has fixed minor issues and bugs, which players were finding quite annoying. These new fleet upgrades will enhance the Stratagems in many ways, like reducing cooldown, buffing damage, and improving targeting mechanics. View the full article
To do s1mple things, you need to have all the best crosshair and viewmodel settings in CS2—and who has better settings than s1mple himself? While you don’t necessarily have to copy s1mple’s settings, crosshair, and viewmodel from top to bottom, you might find it helpful to see what one of the biggest names in esports uses. In the end, if these settings helped s1mple become as good as he is, perhaps they’ll help you improve. View the full article
It’s amazing how many mindless tasks we put up with just because a giant cat gives us the order. But hey, if Zenless Zone Zero‘s Officer Mewmew asks us to deliver missing cargo for him, we’ll comply. In Zenless Zone Zero, main quests come to a halt until you hit certain level milestones. To continue protecting Agents in the Hollow, you need to grind up to level 20 by doing side tasks on Sixth Street. One of the quest providers is Officer Mewmew, and unlike the usual commissions, his involve repairing broken Bangboo or finding lost ones and sorting out their problems. What makes them especially tricky is that their locations, just like the Lost Cargo Trucks’, aren’t even marked on the map. In this guide, I’ll show you how to find all Lost Cargo Trucks to get the Keen Senses Medal in ZZZ. View the full article
The final boss of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was initially supposed to talk, according to some newly uncovered dialogue lines that were cut from the DLC. Although the lines themselves don't reveal any new information, their mere existence would have potentially changed the way in which the Shadow of the Erdtree story is interpreted by some fans were they actually included in the expansion. View the full article
The Lands Between have expanded with Shadow of the Erdtree, with new challenges and of course new loot! Among the treasures you’ll find truly phenomenal armor sets, each offering unique benefits and dripping with character. Whether you’re a hulking Strength build, an agile *********, or a nimble spellcaster, there’s a perfect set waiting to be discovered. Here are all the best armor sets Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has in store. View the full article
Keep an eye out for Bangboo as you wander around Sixth Street, and you could score a bunch of rewards with Chivalrous Spirit Medals in Zenless Zone Zero. Sixth Street is chock-full of shops in Zenless Zone Zero: Tin Master’s Coff Cafe, General Chop’s Ramen Restaurant, and Belle and Wise’s oh-so-trendy “Video Club,” Random Play. This fabulous street isn’t just cluttered with shops though; it’s also littered with Bangboo in every ***** and cranny. View the full article
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Rockstar Games may have already provided the world with a monolithic single-player campaign in Grand Theft Auto V but players would have received even more story content were it not for Grand Theft Auto Online. Despite the narrative and characters earning critical acclaim from fans and critics alike, the ******-riddled stories of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor largely come to an end with the game's credits role. Given Rockstar's reputation for releasing massive expansions, fans expected some kind of DLC building upon the story, but due to shifting priorities, these projects were scrapped. View the full article