Genshin Impact players can obtain three brand-new four-star weapons by participating in a simple web event. Genshin Impact's gacha system allows players to acquire limited weapons and characters by wishing on various banners. The ongoing Limited Character Banner features the new five-star character Emilie and the powerful Hydro user Yelan. View the full article
Valve added Dota 2’s newest hero, Ringmaster, in a surprise update on Aug. 22, bringing the game’s hero tally to 125. Valve finally introduced a new hero called Ringmaster in an update before The International 2024, 17 months after the last hero, Muerta, was added in March 2023. Cogliostro Kettle, a.k.a. Ringmaster, is an Intelligence support hero whose abilities can ***** and disable ****** units. On top of this, he also lets you protect yourself or a teammate using an escape ability that offers resistance to ****** spells. View the full article
In Baldur’s Gate 3, the Save Vanra quest sees you helping Lora, whose daughter Vanra is missing. Vanra was last seen at the Blushing Mermaid tavern, and you need to investigate her disappearance and track down her kidnapper. As it turns out, Vanra was abducted by Auntie Ethel, a Hag and a powerful Fey, whom you first meet at The Hollow and trade goods with. View the full article
Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann has said he believes the addition of AI to game development work flows won’t impact jobs, partly because “we don’t really have acting”. Hartmann made the comments in a new interview with IGN, when he was asked about a major performers strike recently called by the SAG-AFTRA union, after it ******* to negotiate acceptable protections around the use of AI for its members. “I mean, I got to be careful what is here because we are a big company and have to deal with all those organizations, so I don’t really want to get in the middle of it,” he replied. “But when we talk about AI, first of all, hopefully it will help us to have new gameplay ideas, which has nothing to do with taking work away from anyone. Read More... View the full article
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After a week full of seeing new and upcoming games in Germany, Cardy, Matt, and Alex are here to report back on everything they've seen. There's Dying Light: The ******, Avowed, Indiana Jones, Crimson Desert, Atomfall, and much, much more. Remember to send us your thoughts about all the new games, TV shows, and films you're enjoying or looking forward to: [email protected]. IGN *** Podcast 762: The Best of gamescom 2024 IGN *** Podcast 761: Space Marine 2 Might Be the Warhammer Game We've Always WantedIGN *** Podcast 760: Is Thank Goodness You're Here the Funniest Game Ever?IGN *** Podcast 759: If You Like Cameos, You'll Love Deadpool & WolverineIGN *** Podcast 758: We Build Our Dream Sci-Fi GamesIGN *** Podcast 757: Star Wars Outlaws, Trying and... It's Coming Home? View the full article
Skull and Bones is now available on Steam. While its debut on Valve's storefront has been fairly delayed, the game at least landed on Steam with a hefty launch discount. View the full article
If you’ve been looking for a new VALORANT agent to completely lock down a site, meet the newest sentinel added to the tactical shooter’s roster: Vyse. Vyse is the sixth sentinel added to the Riot Games shooter and is a defensive-minded VALORANT agent with several abilities that can completely shut down opposing teams as they rush on site. She can also separate enemies from their teammates, trap them for an easy *****, or disarm them completely with a press of a button. View the full article
It’s time to welcome VALORANT’s Agent 26, Vyse, and her array of unique abilities that hone the power of liquid metal to “isolate, trap, and disarm” enemies. Now that we have your attention, here’s everything our new manipulator can do on the battlefield. Vyse is the sixth sentinel agent in VALORANT. As exciting as it sounds to have a new site anchor, her metallic powers can initially be tricky to understand. The good news is that once you understand her kit, you can be the rattiest and the most annoying player in your ranked games with her radiant technology. Don’t worry, though—we’ve explained everything you need to know about Vyse’s abilities in VALORANT below. View the full article
The LoLdle team has certainly been keeping up the mysterious theme for the League of Legends champion quotes this week, and today’s Loldle quote is just that—mysterious and obscure. Unless you know your sleep-inducing League champions pretty well, the Aug. 23 LoLdle quote’s not an easy one to ******. Who says, “Naptime for you!” in LoL? The LoLdle quote on Aug. 23 is, “Naptime for you!” The League champion who says this line is Zoe. View the full article
In the months following Vanguard’s arrival in League of Legends, nearly a dozen unlucky champions have been slumping across several modes. It’s not necessarily a bad thing though, with the sharp decline in wins mostly because Riot’s kernel-level anti-cheat has been banning **** players using the characters. The impacted League champions (all AD carries) include Twitch, Karthus, Sivir, Vayne, Samira, Zeri, Ezreal, Kalista, and Kog’Maw—the latter of whom must be the least surprising considering how often scripters use the Void creature. View the full article
Dota 2‘s 125th hero is finally available to play after Valve launched a (not so surprising) surprise update ahead of The International 2024, and he’s as spooky as it gets. Valve first revealed Ringmaster on Oct. 29, 2023, right before Dota 2’s The International 2023 grand finals were played. Though the Dota developers never actually announced a release date, the teaser confirmed Ringmaster would be coming in 2024. Most fans assumed this meant the character would ship with the Crownfall updates, but Valve does things on its own time—we’re now just 12 days out from The International 2024. View the full article
Take out evil World of Warcraft critters invading the Isle of Dorn in the The War Within‘s ***** in the ***** quest as you grind to complete the expansion campaign. World of Warcraft: The War Within contains 12 campaign chapters across four zones, totaling three chapters per zone. After completing easy quests in the new WoW expansion, the game takes you to the Isle of Dorn where there’s a quest taking you to The Proscenium. There, a campaign side quest called ***** in the ***** appears. View the full article
Work has again begun on League of Legends honor and reporting, with the Riot Games developers now preparing another sweeping rework into the behavioral systems. League has had the same honor system since 2017, when the developers shipped a sweeping update that fundamentally changed the way players interacted post-game. At the time, Riot said it wanted to put a ******* emphasis on teamwork—and in the process, the devs seem to have lost sight of making the program about “true honor.” View the full article
Here's a guided look at the combat stylings of this upcoming action RPG, plus creative director Junho Lee answers some of our questions. View the full article
Ugly Betty was a phenomenal TV show about a wholesome woman who entered the cutthroat New York fashion world. The actress who played the main character’s sister is the clue from today’s NYT crossword puzzle. The clue, “Actress Ana of Ugly Betty,” is from NYT Mini Crossword’s Aug. 23 puzzle. This is going to be tricky if you’ve never seen the show and don’t know the cast, but you’re in luck—I have watched the series and have the answer. View the full article
A new update to the Steam storefront has been released, which helps out Steam Deck owners by showing if a review for a game was played primarily on the device. Valve's Steam Deck is a handheld PC system that first debuted in February 2022, giving gamers the opportunity to play their library in a portable form. While there are a number of other portable PCs competing for the same audience, the Steam Deck is still a pretty popular option, with a few different models for gamers to choose from. View the full article
To play the latest World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within, players had to get to at least level 70. This made the expansion content challenging from the get-go—and then there’s other new WoW features blocked by a max level cap. Here’s all the details on how high you can level in The War Within. View the full article
Beloved turn-based strategy series Heroes of Might and Magic suffered a renaming six games in, with the last two entries known officially as Might and Magic: Heroes 6 and 7 just to mess with the order of your library. Publishers Ubisoft have relented though, and gone back to the HoMM naming convention for the next in the series, the recently announced prequel Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era... Read more.View the full article
After nearly seven years online, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be shutting down. To replace the disappearing game, Nintendo will be creating an offline version. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was a part of Nintendo’s push into the mobile space, but the game’s live service aspects will completely shutter on Nov. 28. Despite that, Nintendo has shown mindfulness toward the title’s preservation, as Pocket Camp’s developers plan on releasing a version of the game to enjoy offline. The team states that more information regarding these changes will arrive “around October.” View the full article
Occasionally mischievous and always cute, cats are the focus of a popular micro-genre within the gaming hemisphere. There’s a myriad of games featuring the felines on dangerous quests, brave pioneers building communities, or gentle explorers in unique worlds. With so many games cropping up daily, picking where your next cat adventure will take you can be overwhelming. If you’re ready to inhabit the world through the eyes of your favorite pets, then check out some of the best cat games money can buy. View the full article
Khaz Algar is the latest region you’ll explore after completing the World of Warcraft The War Within campaign and diving into endgame activities, and its crown jewel is Dornogal. Getting to the capital city for the first time (or even just learning how to get there after discovering the city) is crucial for all your expansion adventures—so, here’s how to find Dornogal in WoW: The War Within and unlock the capital city. View the full article
Riot Games is already chalking the rollout of its kernel-level anti-cheat system Vanguard into League of Legends as a huge success, with the publisher proudly declaring its taken great strides to obliterating botting and cheating profiles. Vanguard has put a “hefty dent” in botting in League queues, with **** play hours already slumping from more than a million a day to less than five thousand. Another 3.5 million ****** **** accounts waiting to be sold were also pinged and shut down. “The idea there,” Riot’s head of anti-cheats Phillip Koskinas explained in the Aug. 22 blog on the topic, “is to lowly dehydrate the market for secondary accounts.” View the full article
Khaz Algar is the new World of Warcraft region only accessible to those who are playing The War Within expansion. Like all new areas added in Blizzard’s MMO, there are a few tricky steps you need to take to get there for the first time. Here’s how to find and unlock Khaz Algar in The War Within expansion. View the full article
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Valve added Dota 2’s newest hero, Ringmaster, in a surprise update on Aug. 22, bringing the game’s hero tally to 125. Valve finally introduced a new hero called Ringmaster in an update before The International 2024, 17 months after the last hero, Muerta, was added in March 2023. Cogliostro Kettle, a.k.a. Ringmaster, is an Intelligence support hero whose abilities can ***** and disable ****** units. On top of this, he also lets you protect yourself or a teammate using an escape ability that offers resistance to ****** spells. View the full article