The first big patch for Fallout: London has now arrived and is full of fixes for the various technical teething issues which afflicted the launch version of the mod, just as Team FOLON had said it would be. This should mean you’re finally able to drop into Blighty without having to worry about running into as many annoying gremlins as we did while reviewing the massive mod. Fallout: London’s definitely worth braving some crashes and bugs for, but hopefully this update’ll mean you’ve got way less of that to worry about. Read more View the full article
Becoming a famous socialite in Bitlife is tricky because you need luck and money to make it work. But it’s a worthwhile investment, as having fame in your life makes things easier for you. In the latest weekly Bitlife Seeing Stars challenge, one of the parts of the quest requires you to become a famous socialite, but it might take some work to complete and finish your challenge. View the full article
Tango Gameworks are back from the *****. The Hi-Fi Rush studio have been acquired - alongside the IP for future games in the rhythm action series - by South Korean company Krafton, who also own PUBG Studios and Striking Distance, among others. “This strategic move will include the rights to Tango Gameworks’ acclaimed IP, Hi-Fi Rush,” Krafton said in a statement today. I particularly enjoy the hand-rubbing, grinning use of the word ‘strategic’ here. Great news though. Read more View the full article
Madden 25 provides plenty of ways to play. If you want to know all the available game modes, we’ve got you covered. Whether you want to build a team of superstars, lead your favorite team to glory, or create your own player, Madden 25 has the option to do so—and the majority of modes are well-established in the franchise. View the full article
Uh oh, the Borderlands movie is off to an incredibly rough start, as the box office figures point all sign towards a flop. I think it's pretty safe to say that Borderlands is a pretty popular series, right? Do we all agree there? It has to be, otherwise the idea of making a movie adaptation would be unthinkable. Said movie has been in the works since 2015, which is always a surefire sign of a hit, and was finally released last week after almost a decade of development. And how was it? Well, I gave it a singular star in my review, because I simply couldn't find anything to like about it. And it seems that that sentiment is pretty much universal, with the film sitting at a Metacritic critic score of 27/100, and a user score of 2.8 out of 10. So it shouldn't be any surprise to hear that, as reported by Variety, the film has opened with a painfully low $16.5 million on a $115 million budget. Domestically it took home $8.8 million, with $7.7 million coming from international sales, painting a picture that quite clearly says "yeah, we're good thanks." Variety also notes that just under 60% of production costs for the film were covered by international presales, according to sources anyway, but it's still a result that is far behind expectations. I think it's pretty safe to say we won't be getting a sequel, at least not any time soon - the games will probably have to redeem the series' image a bit. Read more View the full article
The Witcher 4 (codenamed Polaris) will feature Geralt of Rivia in at least some capacity, according to voice actor Doug Cockle—but he won’t be the main focus of the sequel. This came from an Aug. 10 YouTube video on the Fall Damage channel. As the conversation veered to the next Witcher game, the voice actor revealed, “Geralt will be a part of the game. We just don’t know how much, and the game won’t focus on Geralt, so it’s not about him this time.” View the full article
The wait is over, and Madden 25 finally lands this week, commencing the countdown to the start of the new NFL season. Many wonder whether the New Zealand trick will work for the title. We’ve got the answer. The New Zealand trick has become a popular choice for gamers to work around staggered release windows, which see titles released at different times in various parts of the world. Though predominantly used on Xbox, there are ways to make it work on PlayStation 5, too. View the full article
Finally some good news! Krafton Inc, the South Korean games company best known for its work on PUBG and The Callisto Protocol - has acquired Tango Gameworks and the award winning Hi-Fi Rush IP from Microsoft ahead of the studio's closure. Tango Gameworks, which created the excellent Hi-Fi Rush in January 2023, will be leaping from one company to the other, taking all the staff who would otherwise have been ***** off with it. In a PR statement, Krafton describes this as its "first significant investment in the ********* video game market", though other video game IP from Tango including Ghostwire Tokyo and The Evil Within remain in Microsoft's hands. This is quite a sudden and exciting bit of news in what has otherwise been a depressing spree of video game layoffs and studio closure stories. The announcement that Microsoft was closing Tango Gameworks, alongside Arkane Austin and Alpha Dog Games, hit the industry like a frieght train. While all three studios had obvious merit Tango had only recently won awards for Hi-Fi Rush - a relatively cheap game with a brand-new IP, something Microsoft seemingly would want in this current climate. Read more View the full article
The countdown for Madden 25 is well and truly on, and we’ll tell you exactly how much longer you need to wait in our guide below. EA Sports’ latest installment of the long-running franchise features ********** McCaffrey as the cover athlete and arrives during a big year for the developer, as Madden 25 releases just a month after EA College Football 25. View the full article
Massive Monsters Cult of the Lamb has finally added local co-op in its latest update, Unholy Alliance. The long-awaited feature is just one of many new goodies for players to enjoy in the cutesy horror roguelite released for multiple platforms in 2022. Published by Devolver Digital, Cult of the Lamb puts players in the role of a little lamb who, at the orders of a powerful deity, must form a cult to honor them. View the full article
The Pokémon TCG Shrouded Fable expansion set couldn’t have come at a worse time for players heading to the Pokémon World Championships 2024, with many cards from the set able to turn the metagame as we know it on its head. While Shrouded Fable has seen many powerful cards added to the mix ahead of the Worlds tournament, some Pokémon TCG professionals have been left skeptical about which ones could make an impact at the top of the leaderboards. Each TCG player has differing options, with some sharing their thoughts with Dot Esports on which new cards they expect to overtake the metagame ahead of Hawaii on Aug. 16. View the full article
Nothing beats getting a challenging LoLdle quote, and today’s certainly fits the bill because this League of Legends champion is nothing short of mysterious. Best get racking your brain for all the dual characters on the game’s huge roster. Unless you’re familiar with League champions who are never alone (or always together), this one’s tricky—which is why I have the answer to the Aug. 12 LoLdle quote below. View the full article
There are times when I think each week's most intriguing new PC releases are being organised behind the scenes by a fiendishly plotting, Left 4 *****-style "AI Director". Mostly, the games approach in small groups distributed evenly among the weekdays - a steady ********. But every now and then, they treacherously mass and pounce on one particular day. This week, it's the latter. Read more View the full article
Call of Duty players have been treated to a wide range of ****** Ops 6 leaks this past couple of weeks, but last weekend’s unintended reveal of what looks like the title’s planned Warzone map already has some fans bailing out in lifeboats. The map, known as Avalon, was shown off by dataminers throughout much of last weekend following a huge wave of leaks containing videos and images of ****** Ops 6. Screenshots were taken and posted online, and while most were swiftly removed, many CoD players across social media managed to glimpse the new map. View the full article
With the Pokémon World Championships just a few days away, VGC players are busy prepping and practicing with their teams in Scarlet and Violet. Part of that preparation involves identifying the biggest threats in the metagame. Pokémon Worlds is set to kick off on Friday, Aug. 16 with so much on the line for VGC, TCG, Go, and UNITE competitors. On the VGC side, the international event will follow Scarlet and Violet’s Regulation G ruleset, which currently allows the use of one restricted Legendary Pokémon alongside other dominant forces. View the full article
Team FOLON, the group of volunteer modders responsible for the hugely popular Fallout London mod, intends to form a brand-new indie studio following the project’s roaring success. While fixes and a substantial content patch are underway for the total conversion mod, the dev team is headed for something *******. Speaking to BBC News on Aug. 10, FOLON’s Dean “Prilladog” Carter chalked out future plans following the mainstream limelight on its ambitious Fallout 4 mod. “A lot of people who have enjoyed [Fallout London] have donated to us and what we are doing with that is we are channeling that into Team FOLON,” Carter said. View the full article
Valve has been forced to disable Lone Druid after Dota 2 players discovered a ****** bug involving a neutral item interaction that can ****** matches almost at will. The hero will remain unavailable until the developers find a fix for the druid and his spirit bear companion. The bug gained traction in the lead-up to last weekend, with Dota 2 devs ultimately pulling the plug on Lone Druid in a small update on Aug. 10. Lone Druid won’t be available to select in any mode as the bug stems from an interaction between the hero and his spirit bear. After transferring an active neutral item from the bear to the hero and back, any command then issued to the bear would ****** the server and end the game for everyone. View the full article
Normal and ranked games have become so exhausting for League of Legends players that many are now ditching the Summoner’s Rift for less stressful game modes like the Howling Abyss (ARAM), Swarm, Arena, and even League-adjacent Teamfight Tactics. The toxicity in League has always been one of the biggest downsides of playing normals and ranked games. As the years wear on, players have grown tired of the constant battle that is ranked and are opting to enjoy—as many agreed today—the pure chaos that is ARAM, while others are embracing League’s other modes. View the full article
Dress to Impress, the popular Roblox fashion game, might be teasing a collaboration with British pop star Charli XCX. Owned by Dress-to-Impress Group and Gigi, this Roblox lobby invites players to create outfits and beauty looks according to themes, and they have to vote on the best-dressed avatars. View the full article
PUBG publisher Krafton has acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP from Xbox, meaning the studio will no longer be shut down. Krafton shared the news in a press release alongside confirming that, "as part of this strategic agreement, KRAFTON intends to collaborate with Xbox and ZeniMax to ensure a smooth transition and maintain continuity at Tango Gameworks, allowing the talented team to continue developing the Hi-Fi RUSH IP and explore future projects." "KRAFTON intends to support the Tango Gameworks team to continue its commitment to innovation and delivering fresh and exciting experiences for fans," the press release continues. "There will be no impact on the existing game catalog of The Evil Within, The Evil Within 2, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and the original Hi-Fi RUSH game." In May 2024, Microsoft announced that it had closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Tango Gameworks and Redfall's Arkane Austin. This was obviously met with shock and anger by developers and fans alike, especially after Microsoft executive Aaron Greenberg said on X/Twitter in the past that Hi-Fi Rush was a "breakout hit for [Xbox] and [its] players in all key measurements and expectations. Hi-Fi Rush hit two million players a month after release and recieved very positive reviews. In our Hi-Fi Rush review, we gave it a 9/10 and said it "marches to the beat of its own drum with stunning animation, loveable characters, and stylish rhythmic action that are anything but one-note." While it's great news Tango Gameworks and High-Fi Rush get to live on, the other studios have not. For more on that, read out features on why success can't save your favorite game studios anymore and what the previously thought of end of Tango Gameworks means for Game Pass. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [Hidden Content]. Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on TikTok. View the full article
Welcome back to another week of daily discounts. Please excuse my slight absence last week—I was off smashing Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2, a shooter with big guns and Power Armour-soiling ****** swarms. I also got to literal grips with a Moza Truck Wheel setup that let me live out my nichest, Pork Chop Express from Big Trouble in Little China fantasies. But, hey, enough about me; let's get you sorted with the best deals of the day, bar none. In retro news, I'm celebrating the 41st birthday of Mario Bros., the arcade cabinet that lauched a plumbing empire. Partially inspired by some of Joust's mechanics (and an Italian-********* landlord hounding Nintendo for rent), Mario Bros. was a non-scrolling arena affair that was quite addictive, especially in simultaneous two-player. Interestingly, it was made by a tiny team of just five people, all of whom were credited in its great, great, great, (great) grandchild, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Sadly, we'd rarely see such a lineage occur in modern game development, given how lay off happy this industry has become. This Day in Gaming Aussie birthdays for notable games. - Mario Bros. (ARC) 1983. Get - Warlords III (PC) 1997. Get - Trials HD (X360) 2009. Sequel - Hacknet (PC) 2015. Get View the full article
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Portal-fuelled arena shooter Splitgate is coming back with a bang, with 1047 Games hard at work on long-hyped sequel-cross-upgrade Splitgate 2. The portal shooter’s sequel will change the game when it arrives too, with everything from new maps and battlefields to class-based warfare coming to the futuristic FPS. The developers have been hard at work building this next evolution and upgrading everything since the original Splitgate hype three years ago. View the full article
It wouldn’t be an Esports World Cup without Starcraft 2, with the real-time strategy title hosting 16 world-class players in Riyadh beginning Aug. 14. Up for grabs: A huge $400,000 USD first-place prize purse—the largest in Starcraft 2 in over five years—as well as club championship points at the Esports World Cup as teams chase victory in Riyadh. Here’s what you need to know about Starcraft 2 at the Esports World Cup: Players, schedule, results, streams, and more. View the full article
Three months after Microsoft announced its closure, Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks has found a new home with PUBG publisher Krafton. In an announcement today, the South Korean publisher describes the move as its "first significant investment in the ********* market"... Read more.View the full article
Korean publisher KRAFTON has announced they’ve acquired both Tango Gameworks and the HI-FI RUSH intellectual property from Microsoft. The new acquisition of both Tango Gameworks and HI-FI RUSH marks the first major investment by KRAFTON in the ********* market. Tango Gameworks was founded back in March 2010 as part of Zenimax Media, and became part of […] Source View the full article
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The first big patch for Fallout: London has now arrived and is full of fixes for the various technical teething issues which afflicted the launch version of the mod, just as Team FOLON had said it would be. This should mean you’re finally able to drop into Blighty without having to worry about running into as many annoying gremlins as we did while reviewing the massive mod. Fallout: London’s definitely worth braving some crashes and bugs for, but hopefully this update’ll mean you’ve got way less of that to worry about. Read more View the full article