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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

Prismatic is the newest subclass in Destiny 2, and it's got some really diverse potential thanks to the variety of Fragments that the devs have created. You start with six Fragments by default; Facets of Courage, Dawn, Hope, Protection, Purpose, and Ruin. During The Final Shape's campaign, players will unlock some more of these Fragments, but the others must be hunted down across the Pale Heart. Some are just hidden, while others are locked behind tricky puzzles that will take all the sleuthing skills Guardians possess to unlock them. View the full article

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, the upcoming installment in the beloved anime arena fighter, is poised to be one of the biggest video game releases for diehard Dragon Ball fans. Just when the game felt like it couldn’t be any more of a love letter to the series, a voice actor from the anime seemingly confirmed that one of the most underappreciated Super Saiyan forms would be making its way to the game as well. During a Dragon Ball Z cast panel at Anime Riverside 2024, longtime Goku voice actor Sean Schemmel discussed the challenge of voicing different characters in the series and giving them their own unique voice. In a video uploaded to YouTube by JimmyisaGeek, Schemmel seemingly let it slip that Super Saiyan 4 Goku will be playable in Sparking! Zero. “I didn’t realize that subtly changing the voice for every single form was gonna ***** me in the **** later, and so keeping track of all that for like Super Saiyan 4, Super Saiyan 3, **** mode, Red, was all real subtle,” Schemmel said. Sean Schemmel has recorded SUPER SAIYAN 4 dialogue for Sparking ZERO THE TIME HAS COME [Hidden Content] — Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO News, Posts & Fan Hub (@DBSparkingZER0) June 18, 2024 Schemmel credits Damon Mills, the voice actor for Frieza, for helping him keep track of Goku’s Super Saiyan voices on "this last game we’ve been working on.” While Schemmel could be speaking about any Dragon Ball game, there’s a high probability he’s talking about Sparking Zero, seeing as how Mills serves as the game’s lead voice director. “Damon has been on top of keeping all my references in line. Going through making sure everything’s right. Really nitpicking it. It’s a very challenging thing to do, but it's really easy so long as you keep vocal references around because the second I can hear it, I can do it,” Schemmel said. Super Saiyan 4, developed by Toei Animation character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, is one of the most visually unique designs in the Dragon Ball mythos. Contrary to other Super Saiyan forms, which see a ****** and length change for their Saiyan warriors, Super Saiyan 4 leans in on the Great ape design from OG Dragon Ball by giving its heroes ******** fur and a tail. Super Saiyan 4 is also considered the best thing to come out of Dragon Ball’s universally reviled sequel series, Dragon Ball GT, among longtime fans. Prior to Schemmel seemingly spilling the senzu beans about Super Saiyan 4, fans were hard at work freeze-framing blurry microscopic shots from the latest Sparking! Zero trailer theorizing Super Saiyan 4 Goku being in the game. Those theory crafters are likely breathing a sigh of relief that their speculations weren’t unfounded. Schemmel’s apparent Super Saiyan 4 confirmation not only means another Goku is being added to Sparking! Zero’s sizeable roster, it could also indicate other super Saiyan 4 characters like Vegeta and Gogeta making their way to the fighter as well. In our preview for Sparking! Zero, we praised the game for feeling like its battles were lifted right out of the anime, saying, “Even after just a dozen or so matches against the CPU, it became clear to me that Dragon Ball superfans who are exceptionally good at fighting games – or those who intend to practice a lot with Sparking Zero – are going to find themselves having a great time crushing their competition.” Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is slated to launch on October 11 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Isaiah Colbert is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh. View the full article

With many other players waiting to continue crafting and upgrading their bases in Pax Dei, finding resources in the wild can be particularly difficult. Here is how to get flint in Pax Dei.Pax Dei: How to get FlintGetting flint in Pax Dei will be a mixture of luck and exploration. Let’s start with the latter. Flint are rocks that you can find near rivers and mountains and are lying on the floor waiting for you to pick them up. Depending on the region you have chosen, you will end up walking for a bit and perhaps encountering some wildlife to ****** with. Similarly, you will also find clay around these types of areas.Screenshot: PC InvasionBe on the lookout for any flint rocks in the ground. These can be easily missed because getting the pick up resource trigger is a bit too precise for my liking. Now, about the luck aspect of resource collection, if you can’t find any flint rocks in the wild, the most probable thing is that other players have already collected...View the full article

Despite being an always-online game, there is a way to install and use mods in Wuthering Waves. There is a whole load of ways you can tweak the game to your liking, from changing graphical settings to editing the models of the characters.How to use mods in Wuthering WavesTo run mods in Wuthering Wave you will first have to install a sideloader program. This program simply stores the mods you want to use in the game and ensures it runs smoothly. However, be aware that because mods are not officially supported, there is always a chance you will experience crashing and issues. To install mods in Wuthering Waves, follow these steps.Screenshot: PC InvasionHead to this website and download the 3dmigoto tool.Extract the files into a location of your choosing on your PC.Now, open this folder and locate the Mods folder. This is where you should download the Mods you want to use in Wuthering Waves.When you have the mods you want to use downloaded, run the 3DMigot...View the full article

Retiring on a white sand beach, palm trees swaying to and fro, sun shining as I sip a ********* served in some sort of fruit, that's the life for me. And it's the life that can be lived in underrated city builder Tropico 6. Well, for some. It's a satirical take on global politics set in the Caribbean island nation of Tropico. You are El Presidente, the ruler of the island, and it's up to you to ensure your citizens prosper. Well, now you can give them the life of luxury on the water with the new DLC that launched today. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: City-building game Tropico celebrates 20th anniversary with discounts and free stuff This is your last chance to get the Humble Choice October bundle Humble Strategy ***** offers Tropico, Darkest Dungeon, TABS, and more dirt-cheap View the full article

Wield a deadly katana and cut down dozens of foes in this visually stunning RPG coming next month. View the full article

Metroid Prime fans said, "About time," when today's Nintendo Direct revealed the first gameplay trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Nintendo teased the direct sequel during E3 2017 – 10 years after Metroid Prime 3: *********** debuted and eight years after the trilogy compilation released. Read Entire Article View the full article