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If your favorite part of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books or movies is the time spent in the Shire – the lush, verdant, and hilly home of the habitually hungry halflings who live in holes (albeit well-decorated ones) known as Hobbits – then I’ve got good news for you: Tales of the Shire might make you very happy, regardless of whether or not you already play and enjoy the cozy genre. I played an all-too-brief 20 minutes or so, split across two save files: one from the beginning of the game (post-character creator) and another from around halfway through. My takeaway after that time was exactly what I was hoping for heading into the hands-on: that Tales of the Shire is shaping up to be a relaxing, no-pressure, no-drama escape into the Hobbit hillside where your biggest worry is getting a new recipe just right so you can make a new friend in town. First, I love the art style in Tales of the Shire. It’s bright, sunny, and overall just pleasant, as it should be. The village feels big without being overwhelming or annoying to navigate. On that note, I adore the designers’ twist on the compass or arrow pointing you in the direction of your current objective that so many games use (or, to compare it to another charming fantasy game, the golden breadcrumb trail in Fable): here, when you’ve marked a destination on your map, adorable birds will land on fence posts or tree branches ahead of you every 50 feet or so, literally pointing with their beaks in the direction you’re supposed to go. It’s a great unintrusive touch that keeps you looking at the beautiful game world rather than constantly pulling up the map. Music, too, is as mellow and delightful as you’d expect. I saw the basics of the cozy gameplay mechanics during my demo: cooking, building relationships with your fellow Hobbits, as well as both interior design and landscape architecture. The latter two are the most simple, mechanically speaking, but also allow you to most customize your Hobbit home. Outside, I picked up a watering can from the garden, refilled it in the adjacent stream (which, by the way, you can also fish out of in other locations like off of a bridge), and then set about watering the plentiful amount of vegetables in my garden. (This, I should add, was the mid-game save that already had a rather impressive garden planted and thriving). From there you can, if you choose, rearrange the placement of your plant beds however you see fit. So if you want to have a nice unspoiled lawn on one side of your Hobbit ***** and cram all of your plants into a dense garden on the other, go for it. It's a zero-stakes, relaxing time spent in the Shire. Inside the house, meanwhile, you can do the same micromanage-y levels of home decoration. You can move rugs, tables, chairs – anything that isn’t part of the foundation, really. Although even there, you’ve got options. You can choose the style of your walls, from wood patterns to wallpaper. But it goes deeper than that: you can even rearrange individual pieces of fruit on tables and individual books on your bookshelf. As for cooking, that’s where the most gameplay I saw factored in. Hobbits love to eat, of course, so the best way to make new friends and improve your relationships with Hobbits you already know is to cook a meal for them. That first involves getting new recipes – after you’ve received an invitation in the mail for the meal, that is; effectively it’s how you get quests – then gathering all of the correct ingredients, and finally bringing everything together in the kitchen. You can choose how chunky or smooth you cut some things by pressing ‘A’ a certain number of times. A more complicated cooking moment I experienced involved adding just the right amount of salt in order to spice the recipe just right, indicated by a plotted point on a small chart in the corner of the interface. All in all, Tales of the Shire was exactly what I was hoping it would be: a zero-stakes, relaxing time spent in the Shire. This game is set after The Hobbit but before The Lord of the Rings, so the Scouring of the Shire is still far, far away. But hopefully, Tales’s release is much closer in 2024. 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

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Like many I’m sure, I have extremely fond memories of the original Fallout games, 2 especially. I bought my first laptop for uni, barely suitable for much except typing long literature essays in which I’d complete assignments using my favorite university trick of writing “ah, but to answer this question, we must first explore (whatever I actually wanted to write an essay about.)” Faltering, bricky turnip that it was, I still had some of my favourite gaming memories on that thing, mainly around aging RPGs: Baldur’s Gate 2, Planescape: Torment, and the old Fallouts. Read more View the full article

Yoko Hiromine is the new character who dramatically changes the story of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance if you choose the Canon of Vengeance path. Her philosophy is questionable, though, and players keep poking fun at it. Yoko plays a thematic counterpoint to Tao; she prefers chaos over order because she sees order as maintaining a status quo in which many people suffer. The philosophical struggle between chaos and order defines the Shin Megami Tensei series, and many SMT games present solid arguments for and against both sides. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but the way Yoko approaches speaking her mind has made her the center of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance memes. View the full article

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has now released on Steam, and at least when it comes to AMD GPUs, it seems to be currently a no-go and just doesn't run with Proton on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

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AMD's Ryzen 9000 desktop processors, powered by the company's highly anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture, could launch in late July, if details provided by online retailers are to be believed. In addition to these Granite Ridge CPUs, AMD's Zen 5 lineup will feature the company's next light mobile (Strix Point), extreme mobile (Dragon Range), server (Turin), and enthusiast/workstation (Shimada Peak) solutions. View the full article

Inspired by animated cursor-chasing cat software like Neko and the mobile app Neko Atsume, KittyToy is a simple little casual chill-out game about stray cats. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

While Helldivers 2's last big patch has gone down pretty well, it also seems to have created a fresh set of issues for Arrowhead to investigate. To its credit, the studio is now looking into two of the biggest problems players are currently reporting, though the list does look to be getting longer day by day. If you're out of the loop, one of the things some folks have been reporting as they've gone about saving and then ******** kids is that the changes the patch made to how enemies spawn - by lessening the amount of heavy units that get flung at people in favour of more small foes - have actually made things more difficult. Arrowhead's now confirmed it is looking into that, but the situation apparently isn't as straighforward as it might seem. In a post on the game's Discord server, community manager Twinbeard has shared an update on the studio's efforts to investigate those reports that the tweaks haven't made for less folks getting helplessly pinned down at higher difficulties. "For those of you who are asking about patrols/****** presence, this is an intricate one," he wrote, "Instead of me trying to get into the nitty gritty details, probably failing miserably, I think we should try to supply a proper explanation on how it works, what we've changed and how we want it to play in regards to ****** presence overall." Read more View the full article

If, like me, there's a ***** in your heart where StarCraft 3 or a new Command and Conquer game should be, one rapid new RTS game is about to jump in with a playtest you can join. Battle Aces puts a bitesize spin on the format, designed to strip out the fluff and busywork in favor of perfectly sized strategy game chunks. With sign-ups live now, you can already register your interest ahead of the imminent Battle Aces closed beta test. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New StarCraft rival designing an approachable RTS with 10-minute games Gigantic new RTS game is like Command and Conquer at high speed View the full article

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The original Elden Ring manga is on hiatus for this month, as the author is… going to be busy playing Shadow of the Erdtree. Earlier this month, you might have seen that a new Elden Ring manga was in the works. The original manga, Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree, by Nikiichi Tobita, is still ongoing, except there won't be a new chapter next month. As spotted by GamesRadar, Tobita took to Twitter to explain why they won't be releasing a chapter next month (which typically releases on the 19th, a new chapter just dropped today), and it's pretty simple: Shadow of the Erdtree is out this week. Yes, that's right, Tobita is just like the rest of us, and appears to be taking some time off of working on a manga about playing Elden Ring, so that they can instead play Elden Ring. I mean, this surely has to count as research right? In the tweet from Tobita above, you can see a drawing of someone sleeping in a bed dreaming of those funny glowing worms seen in the first Shadow of the Erdtree trailer, that person presumably being Tobita themself. I do love those weird little worms too, even though I know they'll end up kicking my ****, despite how cute they are. Still, there'll likely be a new chapter come August at the very least, and you'll have Shadow of the Erdtree to keep you busy while you wait! Read more View the full article

Super Earth is constantly developing new weapons and Stratagems to aid Helldivers on the battlefield. But it seems someone leaked a few classified government documents, as we got an early look at a new stratagem in Helldivers 2. A marketing material from PlayStation shared on Reddit on June 18 revealed a new Helldivers 2 Stratagem. The Airburst Rocket Launcher is a quad rocket launcher support *******, seemingly inspired by the M202 FLASH rocket launcher. View the full article

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EA's annual Proxy Statement, highlighted by Game Developer, shows that Wilson's basic salary in FY24 was $1.3 million. He also received over $20m in stock awards, slightly under $3.5m from a non-equity incentive plan, and $500,000 in "other" compensation, such as personal security benefits. His compensation was significantly higher in... Read Entire Article View the full article

Habbo, also known as Habbo Hotel, is a social MMO that originally launched in 2000. Now, it’s making a comeback with Habbo Hotel: Origin. This new information came via the official Habbo X profile, where the developer has been hyping the rerelease for months. The game is finally available now and users can sign up for free. View the full article

If you've ever played Sekiro: Shadows **** Twice, then you'll probably remember just how rhythmic and fluid the fighting is. Armed with a samurai sword and a prosthetic arm, there's more of an onus placed on precise timing and dancing around your opponent than you may find in other souls games. But this style isn't as much of a one-off as it may seem. While later souls games like Elden Ring certainly share some DNA, studio president Hidetaka Miyazaki believes the future of souls games will build off what Sekiro tried to perfect... Read more.View the full article

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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree might only be a DLC, but it's already the best-reviewed game of 2024. The average score is so high that it beats out Destiny 2: The Final Shape, Balatro, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. With an entirely new region to explore, bosses to ******, and weapons to find, Shadow of the Erdtree is already shaping up to be one of the best pieces of DLC of all time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Elden Ring DLC release date - latest on Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree review - a monster of an expansion The best Elden Ring armor sets View the full article

Gaijin Entertainment have released the Seek & ******** update for War Thunder which as usual sprinkles in a bunch of new content, along with some general tweaks across the board. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content]-******** View the full article

While Microsoft recently reassured PCWorld that x86 apps are constantly improving their performance on the new Arm-based Copilot+ PCs, the company admitted that progress on gaming might disappoint some. As these devices are obviously not gaming laptops, they currently don't support some important titles that run smoothly on low-end x86... Read Entire Article View the full article

A new Genshin Impact announcement has revealed the complete kit details for one of the upcoming characters, the five-star Hydro user Sigewinne. HoYoverse has already confirmed that Sigewinne will appear in the second part of the ongoing update 4.7, which will arrive on June 25. View the full article

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2K Sports has shared the first image of Post Malone as a playable character in WWE 2K24. The award-winning rapper and music producer, who curated the WWE 2K24 soundtrack, will join the game’s playable roster as part of a DLC pack coming next week. The Post Malone & Friends Pack, which will be released on June 26, includes Post Malone as well as former wrestlers Headbanger Mosh, Headbanger Thrasher, ****** Tonk Man and Sensational Sherri. Read More... View the full article