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For as exciting as it could have been, Ark: Survival Ascended's Power Rangers crossover feels strangely underwhelming. While implementing the old DLCs from Ark: Survival Evolved, the revamped Ascended has created small new updates and collaborations to keep the game feeling fresh. This is presumably to continue buying time while the sequel, Ark 2, continues development. Ark 2 has been continuously delayed, and even though it is expected to launch at the end of 2024, has no concrete release date. View the full article

When is the Once Human release date? Starry Studio's open-world online multiplayer game drops us into a strange and wonderful - but terrifying - post-apocalyptic version of reality, filled with gruesome horrors, adorable companions, walking houses, building, crafting, *********, and more. Since the almost unbelievable story of The Day Before, a zombie survival MMO game, it's been clear that what we're all missing is a post-apocalyptic, open-world, online multiplayer game. We want to team up with others is a more realistic example of how we might survive the end of the world. Once Human is just that: you were once human, and now you're a Meta-Human. Imbued with the powers of Stardust, you and other survivors must learn how to live in this new world. If that interests you like it does us, read on for more about the story and gameplay ahead of the Once Human release date. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Huge new survival game and one of Steam's most wanted is blowing up One of the most wishlisted games on Steam is hosting a huge playtest View the full article

The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is almost here, but FromSoftware has cautioned a certain group of players about a bug that affects gameplay in Elden Ring. Earlier today, Elden Ring released a new patch that adds several adjustments to gameplay and adds support for the highly anticipated DLC, but it also came with a warning. On the official X/Twitter page for the game, the developers identified an issue related to the Steam Deck version of the game that causes inputs to become inoperable if you leave your Steam Deck idle for more than five minutes. While no official release date for the hotfix has been confirmed, the developers assured players they are working on it and apologized for the inconvenience. View the full article

While the name of the event certainly wants you to do a double take, it’s true: Apex Legends is getting a new Quads mode in its latest event, alongside a new collection of skins and a particularly devious-looking Lifeline Prestige skin. The Double Take collection event’s biggest draw is obviously Quads. Four-person teams will reign in the takeover LTM that will run until the end of the season, which will stretch all the way through July and should end on Aug. 5. Respawn says the loot pool will be “adjusted” to make sure the ******* team sizes doesn’t mean you’re constantly fighting your teammates for loot. On the other hand, if you’re already always fighting your teammates for loot… maybe get some new teammates? View the full article

Image: FromSoftware Before Shadow of the Erdtree finally goes live, Bandai Namco has implemented a patch that adds a couple of small features and updates just in time for the DLC’s launch in a few short hours. FromSoftware also shared a new launch trailer to herald the DLC’s arrival, but it’s chockful of spoilers, so beware. The update isn’t particularly earth-shattering, but it does include some things worth keeping in mind before all you Tarnished get your head beat in by the vicious monsters patrolling the Shadow Lands. Firstly, we get new hair options! I was pretty down on Elden Ring’s character creator for its lack of ****** hairstyles. It just didn’t make sense that the character creator was so robust and detailed but lacked hairstyles that represent... Continue reading… View the full article

Phoenix Labs has unveiled a massive DLC expansion for the hit cozy farming sim Fae Farm, offering players an exciting new realm of magic and more to explore in Skies of Azoria. Fae Farm has been praised by audiences for its vibrant environment, satisfying gameplay, and expansive customization, and Skies of Azoria has even more excitement in store for fans of this popular title. View the full article

If you don't want software control or huge radiators inflating the price of your CPU cooler, but still want RGB lighting, low noise, and great cooling, the Antec Vortex 240 ARGB looks like it fits the bill. It's a 240mm AIO cooler, complete with RGB lighting, but it costs just $85. However, in a crowded market where there are dozens of products vying for the title of the best AIO cooler, does Antec's latest offering live up to the hype? To answer that question, we've put the 240mm AIO through our labs, testing its performance with both Intel and AMD chips, as well as its noise levels. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A new Steam Deck rival is coming, and you'll never guess who makes it Feast your eyes on this stripped back Antec Striker gaming PC build View the full article

Ubisoft is hosting a special contest that will give a few lucky fans the chance to voice an NPC in the upcoming Assassins Creed Shadows. The latest Assassins Creed game will finally bring the series to ancient Japan for an open-world samurai adventure starring two unique playable characters. The first is Naoe, a female shinobi who utilizes traditional Assassins Creed stealth gameplay to avenge the ******* of her family. Meanwhile, real-life historical figure Yasuke will be the second playable character in Assassins Creed Shadows, encouraging players to take a more straightforward approach by initiating combat more directly. View the full article

A new Dell XPS 13 laptop featuring the Snapdragon X Elite SoC is now available, starting at $1,299. It is joined by new and upcoming Inspiron and Latitude models featuring Microsoft's on-device Copilot functionality. Read Entire Article View the full article

The Hermit Village is a hard-to-find location in Elden Ring. It's a loot-rich place that is worth the effort to reach. Some of this loot comes from an optional Field Boss, Demi-Human Queen Maggie, who enters the ****** with various sorcerers as support. Past this boss, you'll encounter the one NPC of the area who offers a potent sorcery connected to Sellen's quest line. View the full article

Since Baldur's Gate 3 was released in 2023, Shadowheart has been a front-runner for the fan favorite. The cleric of Shar (Dungeons and Dragons' goddess of darkness) joins the party in the game's prologue, then again later during Act 1. A romanceable BG3 companion with a narrative arc surrounding her religious devotion and ******, Shadowheart has been a massive draw for players and cosplayers alike. View the full article

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When first starting out in Pax Dei, your first base is going to be an important decision. Placement has various benefits, such as shared land and the convenience of resources. Here are a few spots I think you should look for in Pax Dei.Choosing your first spotThere are a number of things you need to keep an eye out for when picking your base location in Pax Dei. You want to be close enough to other players to take the bonuses from them but also not suffer from limited resources. Try not to set up too close to ****** spawns, and look for alliances you can make.ResourcesWhen placing your Pax Dei base, the first thing you need to pay attention to is how close you are to resources. There is nothing worse than having to treck halfway across the map for something you’re going to need constantly. Image: YouTube Jay OdditySo when looking for the best spot to place your first base in Pax Dei, look at the map for resources. Most of the areas will have the basics like...View the full article

Ahead of the release of Elden Ring's highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, a new bug is causing problems for some Steam Deck users. Developer FromSoftware has shared that a fix for the bug is being worked on, aware that anticipation for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is at an all-time high, and eager to ensure a positive experience on the handheld console. View the full article

Enlarge / What could have been. (credit: No Mutants Allowed) [/url] PC gamers of a certain vintage will remember tales of Project Van Buren, a title that early '00s Interplay intended as the sequel to 1998'****** Fallout 2. Now, original Fallout producer Timothy Cain is sharing some behind-the-scenes details about how he contributed to the project's cancellation during a particularly difficult time for publisher Interplay. Cain famously left Interplay during Fallout 2's development in the late '90s to help form short-lived RPG house Troika Games. After his departure, though, he was still in touch with some people from his former employer, including an unnamed Interplay vice president looking for some outside opinions on the troubled Van Buren project. "Would you mind coming over and playing one of my game prototypes?" Cain recalls this vice president asking him sometime in mid-2003. "We're making a Fallout game and I'm going to have to cancel it. I don't think they can get it done... but if you could come over and look at it and give me an estimate, that's a chance I wouldn't cancel it." Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article

Look, make sure you've got some tissues ready before you read this. Helldivers 2's poor spear. Up until the game's most recent updates, the aiming on it was broken, and a loyal legion who love stabbing stuff spent ages praying and badgering Arrowhead to fix it for them. The developer did. But now the poor spear's back in the doghouse. If you're out of the loop, Arrowhead's been busy working on a bunch of issues that've popped up since the game's most recent patch, including ****** spawn rates and ship modules that aren't doing what they say on the tin. The spear, sadly, is the latest addition to that list. What's up with it this time? Well, something a bit differennt to the aiming issues that afflicted it before - it's now been linked to some crashes folks have been getting. Read more View the full article

Unfortunately, not all games are destined for greatness. That didn't always matter. A studio could often afford to make a couple of bad games as long as it also put out a hit or two, but ballooning development times and the need to increase value for shareholders means one unsuccessful game can shut down a legendary studio. This was the case with Redfall, Arkane Austin's live service vampire co-op shooter. Development was halted, DLC canceled, and the studio closed. Fans who'd bought the ***** Back edition or season passes were left wondering if they'd wasted their money, but now it's being reported that players are receiving refunds. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Redfall adds Nvidia DLSS 3 as parting gift to PC players Ex Blizzard boss urges fans to stop taking "shots" at Phil Spencer Redfall and The Evil Within developers both shut down by Microsoft View the full article

Xbox has confirmed that it will be in attendance at Gamescom 2024 on August 21, even providing a partial list of games that it plans to show during the live event. After a summer showcase that many fans regard as the company's best in years, it appears that Xbox still has more to highlight from its slate of upcoming games. View the full article

The newest trailer for The Alters has Jans asking himself, "What if?" about his life – a question we as players will get to see the answers to in 11 Bit Studios' upcoming survival game in which you'll pull in alternate-dimension versions of yourself (Jans) in order to try and survive a hostile mining planet. Watch it above, and you can see more about how the branching narrative will work in the video below. We've been covering The Alters exclusively all June long as part of our IGN First editorial "cover story" initiative. We kicked off the month by announcing the playable demo before showing you exclusive footage from that demo before it dropped, and then posted the branching narrative explainer video below. You can also read our recent hands-on preview of The Alters. Wishlist The Alters on Steam if you're interested. We also have more exclusive IGN First coverage on The Alters coming next week to close out the month of June, so stay tuned! Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of both IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, so it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan. View the full article

During an extremely short behind-closed-doors demo for Dune Awakening, I was given my first glimpse at what the team at Funcom is expecting from this open-world survival MMO: A huge time investment from players, a compelling take on the Dune story, and several factions you can choose to learn new skills and abilities from for your journeys into Arrakis. It’s clear that the developers who gave the demo are excited about the concepts at play, boasting that the desert section of the map alone is the size of all of Conan Exiles, and that they imagine you’ll spend 30-50 hours of the game leveling there. But that just seems to scratch the surface of what you’ll be able to do. What makes Dune Awakening different and interesting is the fact that every single week, the sections of this world not protected by a shield will be hit by a sandstorm, wiping out all the buildings you and your opponents have constructed in the seven days leading up to this weekly event. The official website describes them as “cataclysmic Coriolis storms [that] regularly alter the landscape, uncovering new valuable resources and sweeping away player-built outposts. When the dust settles, the race is on. Scout the fresh new land and uncover the secrets of the sands.” This was demonstrated to us as a player journeyed into a radioactive ****** site and showcased the ability to climb any geometry in the world while teasing secrets that can be found at the highest peaks. But the one aspect they kept going back to was Survival. This aspect of Dune Awakening became clear during our hands-off demonstration when a Sandworm erupted from the ground and chased down the player we were following. ****** is devastating, and you cannot ****** a Sandworm. You can only survive or lose everything you’ve acquired to that point if you get eaten. The same will be true should you lose in PVP and become a refreshing beverage for your opponent, or fail to take cover during a world-changing event. Even becoming dehydrated in the desert if you don’t pay attention to your heat meter and get heatstroke will put you at a severe disadvantage. Surviving will be a key part of your journey. It’s also clear that Dune Awakening has a lot of ambitious gameplay elements the team is trying to tie together. For instance, a fictional story where the ************** of Paul Atreides doesn’t take place because he was never born – because his father survived. And because his mother had a daughter as she was instructed to, instead of a son. With these overarching story elements used as a jumping-off point, the team gets to play with a unique future and a new outcome for the factions, and key players of the Dune Universe interact in a way you wouldn’t see in the novels. There is a political system that pits players against each other in a battle for territory. Sandworms will eat you if you’re caught in their path and take all of the gear you had with them. And sweeping sandstorms that will obliterate any structure you’ve built on the map and create an entirely new landscape every week. All of these systems are doing their best to craft a template that will keep the world of Dune Awakening fresh and interesting for players. During our demonstration, the team estimated that you would spend your first 30-50 hours of the game in the starting location alone, and that was one of several on the map that we were shown as explorable. On the one hand, I do like the idea that the game world will be kept fresh via sandstorms that ******** all you’ve built up and unlock an entirely new overworld to explore. On the other hand, I am wondering what each new week will look like as teams scramble to utilize their building templates to prop up a new structure and claim a zone as their own to defend against combatants as each week begins. Here’s hoping it’s absolute pandemonium. While there are story changes you should expect, the need for water and even more importantly alliances are intact. Eventually, you’ll be able to choose an NPC to train you. We were shown five skill trees that can be unlocked by doing said training, which will then allow you the option of three techniques you can mix and match as your main attacks. That’s in addition to the three passive skills you can also equip. To unlock all of the options available will take a significant amount of time, but getting the right build using different attacks from each will give you access to interesting abilities. The main ability I’ve seen as an example would be a scanner that shows more information about a location you plan to explore, including ****** NPC locations. In my demo, the team promised two maps to start with and more to come. We got to peek at the Deep Desert, where most of the conflict will happen and hundreds of players will focus on collecting resources and fighting over key locations each week. There's the Hagga Basin which will have a 40-plus player cap. And two social hub locations Arrakeen and the Harko Village. There is, of course, a plan to add even more to the world as time goes by. So far Dune Awakening seems incredibly ambitious. Abilities can be unlocked by the Mentats and Bene Gesserit. There will be cool gear to collect like Holtzman gadgets and templates of interesting firearms to unlock. There’s a heat system that will require you to stay hydrated by any means necessary. And giant sandworms that will eat entire convoys if you’re not careful. One speed-run demonstration from Funcom wasn’t enough to scratch the surface of the various systems and how they’ll interplay with one another, but I’m excited to see more. For more on Dune Awakening, keep it here at IGN. View the full article

Playing video games with all sorts of unlikely objects has been prevalent for quite some time. Popularized by the Souls franchise, this practice only keeps evolving. Now, a CS2 fan has solved the ultimate puzzle—how to play the game with a Rubik’s Cube. A CS2 YouTuber aptly named The Unlimited Guy shared a video of himself playing CS2 using a Rubik’s Cube on June 15. The player goes around flipping the cube in all sorts of ways to move and ****** and even manages to score quite a few ****** in the game’s Deathmatch mode. Though it isn’t clear what precisely he did with the cube to make everything work, it appears that moving has been tied to buttons the player engineered onto it while ********* is performed by flipping the right segment. View the full article

If you're a long-term player of Elden Ring, you may well have been one of those PC gamers who has suffered from micro-stuttering—very brief but large drops in frame rate—throughout. All kinds of solutions have been bandied around the interwebs for it but none have truly nixed the issue. With the long-awaited expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, and a massive 20GB patch to the base game, you may have been hoping that FromSoftware has done something about it—but I'm afraid you're out of luck... Read more.View the full article

Banana is one of the funniest things I've had the pleasure of reporting on—it's a game that seems to have started as a joke, but has rapidly skyrocketed to a high throne on the Steam pantheon, becoming the second most-played game on the platform, beaten only by Counter Strike 2... Read more.View the full article

Recruiting villagers in Aska is how you will be able to build up your village without the need to spend countless hours getting every single stick out there in the wild. Here is how to recruit villagers in Aska.Aska: How to recruit villagersHow do you summon stray Vikings? Well, by using a lighthouse of course! Only this time, it is magic-fueled and it is called The Eye of Odin. This device uses Jotun Blood — a material filled with Norse magic — to light up a signal in the sky that will guide Vikings toward your village.Screenshot: PC InvasionThat way, each of them will be able to have a task they can perform, saving you lots of time. Building The Eye of Odin will require several materials you can find nearby, but it is a bit more complicated than it sounds. Make sure you’re eating and drinking while you work toward building The Eye of Odin. Here are the materials you need:2x Long Sticks: Found by chopping down trees.8x Sticks: Found on the ground or ...View the full article

Mother Harlot is an optional boss you can try to beat in Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance during the "Return of the True ******" quest given by the NPC Sophia. This mission asks you to face many powerful foes representing different Avatars of ******. The eighth opponent in this process within the World of Shadows is Mother Harlot, who has minimal weaknesses your team can exploit. View the full article