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Travel the oceanic world of Ivoire once more with Marona and Ash on a brand-new follow up to the revered tactical RPG that first released on the PS2. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The new game will also have characters returning from Gundam Breaker 3 and the now-defunct mobile game. View the full article

The ****** Tail expands with an action-packed sequel coming this winter! View the full article

Featuring new arranged tracks by Kenji Ito, though players are free to select the original tracks as well! View the full article

If there's one thing that sums up summer for me, it's ignoring the weather and spending all my time indoors playing MMOs. That's a pastime Lost Ark developer Smilegate RPG seems to appreciate too, with the upcoming Summer Heat update about to hit the colossal MMO with a huge amount of new stuff. So if you're planning on spending your summer months with the curtains closed in a good game, there's a big chunk of new content on the way. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best MMO and MMORPGs to play in 2024 Lost Ark updates will always be "a couple of months behind Korea" Lost Ark finally gets much-requested balance update, and new content View the full article

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Play the game with added voice acting, enhanced visuals and with a new difficulty option. View the full article

Fans of indie developer Sunblink Entertainment's Hello Kitty: Island Adventure will soon enjoy the game on console and PC in 2025. Announced during today's Nintendo Direct, the life-sim features fan-favorite Sanrio characters exploring, crafting, creating, and, most importantly, creating friendships with one another. View the full article

Yens Blessing is a pair of Unique boots in Diablo 4 that can be used by all classes in the game. Diablo 4 season four, Loot Reborn, has introduced several new mechanics and Unique items into the game. Yens Blessing is an incredible new item that can help players fill out their build, but acquiring this piece of loot is easier said than done. View the full article

Pax Dei launched into Early Access today, but its grand entrance was overshadowed by the sheer disappointment of its initial player base. Following its debut, the game was bombarded with negative comments, resulting in Pax Dei achieving “Mostly Negative” status in all reviews. At first glance, Pax Dei seemed to offer a magical world that could only get better with its promising sandbox mechanics. But technical problems, like rubber banding, and a lack of content caused a wave of outrage among fans. Considering Pax Dei also has a hefty price tag, many early adopters felt a deep sense of frustration as they had set high expectations for the game. View the full article

With a focus on ecological restoration and a cool approach to exploration and crafting, Aloft shows a lot of promise as a feel-good survival-crafting game. This cozy take on the genre encourages players to glide between floating islands in the sky and ****** *********** to restore their ecosystems while discovering the ruins of an ancient civilization. Notably, its first-person town-building and crafting systems seemed exceptionally deep based on my hands-off demo of the game. In just half an hour, one of Aloft’s developers walked me through the beginning of the game and showed me in-depth tutorials for its myriad systems; so many that I’m glad I went hands-off to watch an expert at work. Nearly everything I saw seemed clever and engaging at the very least and was always framed around Aloft’s core conceit of creating a survival game with a positive, restorative message and vibe. Off the bat, Aloft’s setup is immediately cool: you start out on a floating island in the sky with nothing. As you work your way through the starting area, you'll eventually get a glider (think somewhere between Avatar: The Last Airbender and Breath of the Wild), and take flight to another island. Zooming from island to island looked really freeing, and developer Astrolabe Interactive made a point to incorporate systems to keep it engaging and interesting rather than just a hollow jump from one floating rock to another. Aloft’s momentum systems fuel a lot of its moving parts. It's crucial for successfully navigating the sky. Aloft’s momentum systems fuel a lot of its moving parts. It's crucial for successfully navigating the sky, and certain environmental bits like updrafts can help you gain some extra momentum—and height—as you make your way to the next island. Once you build enough momentum and land on another island, you might find yourself in a corrupted ecosystem. Overrun with mushrooms and a dense, gray-brown fog, it's immediately clear that something's not right here. You can't even harvest or mine anything from these out-of-whack biomes until you stave off the fungal ***********. Based on what I've seen, this is the only place where Aloft has combat. Using timing-based real-time systems (kind of like active reload in Gears of War) to gain small bonuses to boost your ******* rate, you'll ****** off small waves of goblin-like mushrooms as you ******* the root of the ***********. Clearing these tree-like fungal structures from the biome will allow you to begin restoring it. Aloft more or less tells you exactly what you need to do to help bring it back to life, which will usually involve diversifying the flora on the island by planting new plants to help improve that microcosm’s sustainability. Once it's flourishing, you can finally harvest plants from the island and you might even chance upon a helpful critter like a sheep to help produce wool. With the right materials, you can even pitch a sail on your island. All you need is a rudder, a wheel, and a few sails to catch the wind that's constantly blowing thanks to the massive hurricane at the heart of Aloft's map. Crafting in general might be the most interesting system Aloft has going for it, in fact – especially in how you unlock new recipes. Let's say you stumble on an abandoned house with some cool furniture you haven't seen. By drawing that piece of furniture, you've suddenly unlocked its crafting recipe for your own home. The first is tied to the game’s story. Stumbling upon stone frescoes left by an ancient civilization will reveal new ideas to you, teaching you how to make stuff that's important to Aloft’s story and progression. This is going to be how you unlock critical pieces like the Glider Stand or the aforementioned rudders and sails. Next is the more traditional route, which strikes the perfect balance between leaving it up to you as the player to discover a new recipe and showing you how to make it outright. Instead of just showing you everything you can craft with an item from the get-go, small indicators will tell you whether or not you've explored every possible combination of materials without explicitly saying what those combinations will make. This seems like the perfect balance of mystery and encouragement and plays well into Aloft’s overall sense of discovery and mystery. The last crafting method might be the coolest thing I saw in the demo. You can fill out the empty pages of a notebook by drawing things you see in the world around you. Let's say you stumble on an abandoned house with some cool furniture you haven't seen. By drawing that piece of furniture, you've suddenly unlocked its crafting recipe for your own home. Like a delicate ecosystem, seemingly every system in Aloft feeds into another. Momentum from gliding can affect combat, succeeding in combat can earn you helpful crafting materials, those crafting materials can then enable you to raise sails on your island and fly it into a storm to help water your crops. With so many systems at play, all coming together with impressive cohesion, it's hard to believe that Aloft is still in Early Access. I'm really interested to see how this interconnecting web of systems and ideas continues to evolve as the game expands beyond its current state. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Dragon Quest III is one of the most beloved classic RPGs ever made, and Square Enix now has to play the balancing act of appealing to new fans while doing right by the original. View the full article

Experience the complete Erdrick trilogy in HD-2D next year. View the full article

Nintendo has revealed the next Legend of Zelda with a new twist: playable Zelda! View the full article

********* Truck Simulator already has in-development DLCs which will see its 18-wheelers head to Arkansas and Missouri, but SCS Software have also commenced building a third: Iowa. Read more View the full article

The upcoming remake of one of the most beloved Dragon Quest entries finally gets a release date. View the full article

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel. General Fixed in-game purchase browser not loading properly. Linux Fixed disk write failures reported in the logs when starting games with the shader manager disabled.View the full article

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded. General Fixed Screenshot shortcut hotkey binding not working when clicked in settings Big Picture Mode Fixed in-game purchase browser not loading properly. Linux Fixed disk write failures reported in the logs when starting games with the shader manager disabled. SteamCMD Fixed output being redirected to stderr.txtView the full article

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded. General Fixed Screenshot shortcut hotkey binding not working when clicked in settings Big Picture Mode Fixed in-game purchase browser not loading properly. Linux Fixed disk write failures reported in the logs when starting games with the shader manager disabled. SteamCMD Fixed output being redirected to stderr.txtView the full article

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Fortnite is experiencing server issues that is preventing players from accessing the game. Just last week, another, different error prevented players from getting online. This one seems to be a bit different, but no less widespread. And it means that players are unable to access any of the game’s variety of modes and experiences. View the full article

Warning: Spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard below. View the full article

Paradox Interactive has announced plans to close its Tectonic studio following the cancellation of Life by You. Having recently delayed the life simulation game indefinitely, the publisher announced on Monday that it no longer planned to release the title. It has since confirmed plans to close the in-house studio behind the game, Berkeley, California-based Paradox Tectonic, which employs 24 people. Read More... View the full article

Classic RPG Dragon Quest 3 is getting a remake in Square Enix's now familiar HD-2D style, which blends high-resolution 2D sprites together with 3D worlds. It'll land on November 14th. "Waitaminute," you might be saying, "Shouldn't they remake the first two games beforehand?" No, you numpty, you nyaff, you roaster; within the internal chronology of Dragon Quest, 3 comes first. Plus, they are remaking 1 and 2 as well, for release sometime in 2025. Read more View the full article

Shadow of the Erdree is an excellent expansion to Elden Ring. Poison swamps, giant swords, and fingercreepers return, better than ever. View the full article

Despite the general success of Baldur's Gate 3, there are still some missing features that could improve the game. One of 2023's biggest releases, and a front-runner (and winner) of many of the year's awards ceremonies, Baldur's Gate 3 achieved mainstream appeal in a way that few other games in its specific archetype of RPG ever have, making it a standout in its own genre. As other RPGs follow in its wake, however, they're showing that there are a few things that the biggest game of 2023 could improve on. View the full article