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The Vegas Legion franchise is officially leaving the Call of Duty League. Team Falcons is replacing the Legion in the CDL for next year, the organization announced today. The team will be known as the Vegas Falcons and is set to feature a roster of all Saudi Arabian players, including Roxas, Exnid, KingAbody, and KHHX. View the full article

EA and BioWare have revealed some features for the PC version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which should allow for smooth graphics and easy-to-use controls across a variety of computer builds. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is coming in just a few months, and its developer and publisher want to make sure it's just as enjoyable on PC as it is for console players. View the full article

Xbox has unveiled a new adaptive joystick controller that allows for more accessibility options while gaming. More people are playing video games than ever before, and developers have taken note of this by adding options to help players who normally wouldnt be able to enjoy games on Xbox or any other system. This includes special ****** filters that allow colorblind gamers to better see in-game objects, auto descriptions and screen readers for cutscenes and in-game text, and additional subtitles and captions for players who are deaf or hard of hearing. View the full article

Bethesda has shared the full patch notes detailing the Starfield update 1.13.61. This release introduces Starfield's first-ever land vehicle, new graphics settings, and a variety of bug fixes and UI tweaks, among other novelties. View the full article

Take note, other developers: this is how you do it. Capcom has removed gender-restricted armor sets from Monster Hunter in the upcoming PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC title, Monster Hunter Wilds. As show in the developer diary streams that were broadcast live from Gamescom 2024 today (and confirmed in a hands-on demo by yours truly), Capcom has decided to bin off the binary armor choices for female and male hunters. Now, no matter what character you decide to make when you create your avatar for the game, you will be able to equip all variations of armor without any restriction. Typically, Monster Hunter games have locked you into one of two variants depending on the make-up of your custom character, but in the upcoming title, every single player will be able to equip an A or B variant of each gear set. I even experimented with mixing and matching; it was possible to use the ‘male’ version of a Chatucabra head and the ‘female’ version of the Chatucabra body in the same loadout. Ergo; you can mix and match. Read more View the full article

Epitaph Prime is the new form for arguably the best primer ******* in Warframe. And, as a bonus, all you have to do is open Relics to farm this *******—no Railjack involved. Epitaph Prime debuted alongside Sevagoth Prime, and the process of getting both is similar. You must open Relics until you get the desired drops, though you can only open each Relic once. Because of this, stocking up on Epitaph Prime Relics is the best way to even your odds of getting this *******. Here are our go-to spots for farming Relics in Warframe. View the full article

For those searching high and low for a new side scrolling runner to get addicted to, Cookie Run: Ovenbreak might be the next game to satisfy your gaming sweet tooth—especially with the different codes you can use for different freebies. In Cookie Run: Ovenbreak, you take control of a plethora of different cookie characters as you run away from the dreaded oven to avoid being baked into a delicious treat. You’ll also discover different environments, find unique pets, and unlock various other cookies as you keep your feet moving. View the full article

Overwatch 2 just debuted Control, a 3D animated short telling some of the backstory of Juno, the new hero from Season 12. This charming cinematic came as a surprise to players, as it has been about a year since Overwatch 2 released its last one. View the full article

League of Legends Patch 14.17, scheduled to go live on Aug. 28, has unveiled some changes to the Arena gamemode, including nerfs to control mages and assassins. Riot Games developer Mike “RogueFool” Breese released a preview of the patch on X (formerly Twitter), and the patch nerfs champions like Master Yi, Orianna, Talon, Veigar, and Ziggs. The LoL patch also brings some meager buffs to the timekeeper Zilean, and adjustments to items and augments. View the full article

With the release date for Silent Hill 2 on the horizon, the anticipated horror remake finally has official release times set for its respective regions. There have been both high hopes and concerns regarding Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2, but those who are excited can now mark down official launch times on their calendars. View the full article

Building an army of capable animals to ****** at your side in Once Human is a legitimate strategy to progress through the game. One animal you can call to your side is the mighty Crocodile, but before you tame it, you’ll need to find it somewhere in the world. Crocodiles are tricky to track down while exploring Once Human. Similar to bears, they don’t always appear in the same spot, and you’ll need to do some trekking to find them, and once you do, you need to complete a few other steps before attempting to tame one. Here’s what you need to know about where to find Crocodiles and how to tame them in Once Human. View the full article

Monster Hunter Wilds has announced a major change to its armor system by eliminating gender-locked customization. Capcom revealed the new feature as part of Monster Hunter Wilds' official livestream at Gamescom 2024. View the full article

A recent update to Half-Life 2 in the form of a new "test" branch for the game has raised some eyebrows among the Valve community, with some speculating that it could be a sign of an incoming content update to release in time for the game's 20th anniversary later this year. While little is yet known about the internal update, many Half-Life 2 fans were quick to draw comparisons to a seemingly insignificant branch update to the original Half-Life late last year, which turned out to be the game's massive 25th anniversary update which absolutely no one was expecting. View the full article

Sevagoth, the Haunted Helmsman, is back in Warframe with his own Prime variant. As usual, you can unlock him by finding Sevagoth Prime Relics all over the Sol System, but knowing the best locations to farm them will save you some time. Once you have the Relics you need, you can open them at any corresponding Void Fissure mission. All available Relic missions appear in the Navigation tab, but some parts are rarer than others. View the full article

Jafar has been an absolute menace throughout the entire A Rift in Time storyline in Disney Dreamlight Valley. But he eventually sort of sees the error of his ways, which means you can recruit Jafar to the village. While most villagers have just a few quests or prerequisites before you can unlock them, the process for obtaining Jafar is a whole lot more complicated. He’s a tricky guy to find, so here’s how to get Jafar in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

July was an incredible time for the video game industry, with 20 games rising to the top of the charts during the action-packed month. The latest report details the top 20 best-selling games in July, with several world-renowned franchises like Call of Duty, UFC, and Tekken all charting. However, this list also includes a few unexpected titles, with Nintendo making the list on multiple occasions. View the full article

Everyone loves the bouncy cars of Starfield. The Rev-8 has been a big success, with fans of the game now racing across the surfaces of planets throughout the entire galaxy. With car mods already making an appearance, it looks like this is the missing thing that a lot of Starfield players were wanting. But, as always, there's a cost - and that cost is planetary textures. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 62 best Starfield mods Starfield launches player cars you can drive now in free update Starfield Shattered Space DLC release date, trailers, and latest news View the full article

It’s been a while since a known gamer resided in The White House. The first, and last, to do so was former President Barack Obama, who brought a Nintendo Wii with him when he took office and, according to someone who played against him, apparently mains Captain Falcon in Super Smash Bros. But depending on the outcome of the 2024 election, The White House may soon have a second gamer in residence: current Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. But Gov. Walz isn’t bringing a Nintendo Wii with him (that we know of), nor has he attempted to settle his political disputes in Smash to our knowledge. His gaming habits are, surprisingly, a bit deeper a cut than that. It turns out that Gov. Walz is reportedly a fan of the ***** Dreamcast. And through some sleuthing, we’ve managed to not only track down Walz’s old Dreamcast console, but we may have also uncovered at least one game that the former teacher-turned-politician has historically enjoyed: Crazy Taxi. Little Dreamcast, Big Adventure We first learned that Gov. Walz was, at one point, a Dreamcast enjoyer due to an article in The New York Times. In the report, a former student of Walz’s recalls that he used to share “unusually relatable” stories with his classes, “like the time his wife had seized his Dreamcast, the ***** video game console, because he had been playing to excess.” Obviously, this immediately sparked a flurry of community memes speculating what game had Walz so enraptured. Was it ***** Bass Fishing, a quintessential “dad” game that seemed in keeping with Gov. Walz’s overall demeanor? Was it ***** Sports NFL 2K, an apropos choice given he was a football coach and then-Minnesota Vikings wide receiver ****** Moss was on the cover? Was it something more left-field like Shenmue or Skies of Arcadia? Theories abounded. We, and probably a number of other journalists, reached out to Gov. Walz’s office weeks ago looking for the answer, but didn’t get any response. I get a little kick out of knowing our future VP might know who Big the Cat is. That would have been the end of it, but for one member of gaming forum ResetEra. The user, Bryn Tanner (who goes by Aaron on the forum), had posted way back in 2018 that they were in possession of Gov. Walz’s old Dreamcast. “Oh I bought a Dreamcast for $25 back in 2012 from one of his former high school students who worked on his campaign. Walz was just like ‘hey we have this old video game thing, do you want it?’ And the guy took it.” When I reached out to him, Tanner was taking a well-deserved and humorous victory lap as news about the Dreamcast surfaced. “***** yes I still have that Dreamcast this ******** rules,” he wrote in a post following the NYT piece. Tanner went on to tell me that while the Dreamcast he purchased at the time came with a VMU, a third-party rumble pack, two controllers, and a controller extension cable. It did not come with any games, though Tanner bought a copy of Crazy Taxi for $4 at Pawn America the night he purchased the console. “I get a little kick out of knowing our future VP might know who Big the Cat is if he ever played Sonic Adventure,” Tanner tells me. Though Tanner didn’t know what games Walz played, he did know someone who might. He referred me to Alex Gaterud, one of Walz’s former Global Geography students at Mankato West. Though Gaterud doesn’t remember Walz ever speaking with him about video games, he was roommates in college with another Mankato graduate who brought along the Dreamcast in question and left it behind when he moved out. Gaterud then says he sold the Dreamcast to Tanner, though he points out to me that "advertising something ‘formerly owned by a U.S. Congressman’ doesn't add any value on Craigslist.” What games came with the Dreamcast? Gaterud doesn’t know - there weren’t any around when he handed it off to Tanner, and he can’t recall ever playing anything on it. Fortunately, Gaterud was able to connect me to one more person who might be able to sort this out once and for all. So I called up Tom Johnson, another Mankato West graduate and a former campaign intern for Gov. Walz. Tim Walz and the Nerd Herd Tom Johnson graduated Mankato West in 2007, and spent the summer before he went to college working for Walz’s congressional campaign. As an intern, he would send out mailers, coordinate volunteers, and drive around Minnesota, occasionally with Walz along for the ride. Given that it wasn’t an election year, Johnson says the vibes were fairly relaxed and quiet, and the campaign office had a break area in the back with a mini putt set, a couch, and a TV. One day, he recalls, Walz brought in a box of stuff that he had planned to donate, saying he thought the staff might like to use it. Inside, of course, was the Dreamcast. Johnson and the other staff didn’t play the Dreamcast much during its stint in the campaign office, so when he left for college, Johnson just took it with him, which is how it reached Gaterud and later Tanner. But while Johnson wasn’t doing much Dreamcast gaming, he tells me that in high school he was a part of a group of individuals known (“affectionately, I hope”) as the “Nerd Herd” at Mankato West. The group would have LAN parties together, and play World of Warcraft late into the night. Many Nerd Herd members, Johnson says, went on to work on Walz’s campaign for Congress in 2006. “I would say the Nerd Herd of Mankato contributed greatly to [Walz’s] election to Congress in 2006, which had the domino effect of him being nominated for vice president of the ******* States.” “Walz really is just such a great, normal guy,” Johnson continues. “He’s one of those guys, it’s like, he’s your friendly neighbor, and then you find out that guy has the Guiness Book of World Records for free throw *********. He’s just a normal guy, he just happens to be a governor too. Everything people say about him being this down to earth guy, really nice, really friendly, really earnest, it’s all true.” But what video games does he play? Johnson thinks he remembers one disc sitting inside the Dreamcast when he took it from the office to go to college. “I wanna say there was Crazy Taxi,” Johnson says. Is Crazy Taxi the game Gov. and VP candidate Tim Walz played so much that his wife took his Dreamcast away? We still don’t know for sure. It is, as Gaterud put it to me, “basically law that all Dreamcasts need a copy of Crazy Taxi,” so at minimum, Gov. Walz almost certainly owned a copy. And in a TikTok video posted by Tanner about the Dreamcast, one commenter seems to imply they at one point knew Walz, and that he talked about Crazy Taxi a lot - we've reached out to them for more details. I’ve also reached out to his office again to see if he’ll confirm, but nothing so far. And I reached out to ***** for comment on the possibility that their goofy driving franchise played a tiny role in the current presidential election. No comment there either. Whatever the case, Gov. Walz’s however-brief flirtation with the Dreamcast would make him the first known gamer vice president if he and current vice president Kamala Harris are elected. Given that Crazy Taxi is apparently getting an open-world reboot, maybe we’ll see it make an appearance in the White House one of these days. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. View the full article

Achievement and trophy hunters will be pleased to know that Goat Simulator Remastered is doing away with one of the original game's most frustrating achievements. Goat Simulator Remastered was just recently revealed at Gamescom's Opening Night Live with a humorous trailer poking fun at the industry's penchant for re-releasing old games in the form of ports, remasters, and remakes. Reveals for Borderlands 4, ******: The Old Country, and Tarsier Studios' new game Reanimal graced the Gamescom stage as well. View the full article

The survival-action title Atomfall will be hitting Xbox Game Pass as a day-one release in March 2025, and will also be released simultaneously for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. Atomfall is reminiscent of the Fallout franchise but is set in the British countryside, adding a horror twist. View the full article

Palworld is giving away free new cosmetics like the Summer Chillet skin, and you can use the skin to style your favorite Pals with some new outfits. Apart from getting the Cattiva Sunglasses skin for free in Palworld, developer Pocket Pair is showing its love and generosity towards the community by allowing you to earn up to three skins for different pals like Relaxaurus, Quivern, and Chillet. View the full article

Over the last patch cycle, League of Legends players in the bottom lane have been dealing with a new rising star in the support role as Senna has become an unshakable healing enchanter with an incredible win rate. In Patch 14.17, however, Riot Games will be making immediate changes to curb her sudden success, including direct nerfs to her healing and shielding. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

To put a stop to Jafar’s scheming, you have to find a way to get to the area of the palace he’s at in Disney Dreamlight Valley. One of the obstacles blocking your way is a bird you have to feed in Jafar’s Laboratory. Although you might expect this bird to be Jafar’s loyal companion Iago, it’s actually a raven that he’s trying to train to replace him. This bird knows where the key you need is, but it won’t give it up until you prepare a meal for it. Here’s how to feed the bird in Jafar’s Laboratory in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

If you’ve always wanted an animal companion to watch your back, you can do just that in Once Human. Bears are among the few animals you can find and tame, but doing so is not easy. There are a few steps you need to take before getting one. Not only do you need to track a bear down, but you’ll need to tame it for the bear to become an animal companion. As you might imagine based on any wild animal, there are a few talents you need to unlock to make this happen. Here’s what you need to know about bear locations and how to tame a bear when you find it in Once Human. View the full article

Ahead of its launch, positive Steam reviews for Concord are starting to trickle in, but unfortunately not at the pace developer Firewalk Studios was likely hoping. As the first game from Firewalk Studios, the ambitious hero shooter is aiming to compete with other titles in the genre, but Concord may not have the hype behind it to make that happen. View the full article