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If you're looking for a game that operates on a truly global scale, it's difficult to think of a better candidate than Microsoft Flight Simulator. Since the current version released in the summer of 2020, it's become something of a poster child for bringing the real world details of our planet into a simulator, thanks to its use of topography data imported primarily from Bing maps and processed by Microsoft Azure's AI... Read more.View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

A new Elden Ring Malenia cosplay made by a fan gets every small detail about the legendary boss right. Malenia, Blade of Miquella is considered the toughest boss opponent in the award-winning RPG by FromSoftware and, by consequence, is also one of the most beloved bosses in the game Malenia is even considered one of the toughest and most revered bosses across all soulslike games. This positive reputation she carries is mainly due to her aggressive combat style and the difficulty involved in beating Malenia in Elden Ring makes her a worthwhile opponent. View the full article

If you own a 13th or 14th-gen Intel CPU, then you'll be glad to hear that the new microcode stability fix for your CPU is now starting to roll out, thanks to Asus and MSI. Following months of reports about Intel CPU instability, including game crashes in titles based on Unreal Engine 5, the new Intel CPU fix is designed to address an error in the microcode of its CPUs, which the company claims is causing its chips to make "incorrect voltage requests." The update is advised for any CPU with a TDP of over 65W, which is the vast majority of processors in the Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen lineups, including its best gaming CPU, the Core i9 14900K. To apply the new update, you'll need to update the firmware on your motherboard, otherwise known as flashing the BIOS, and both Asus and MSI have announced that they're starting to roll out the update on their motherboards. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Asus' new gaming tablet is reportedly more powerful than PlayStation 5 This Asus OLED gaming laptop has an incredible price right now Asus' new laptop lets you upgrade its smell View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

While Roblox does still remain blocked on Linux with Wine, as usual the community finds a way. The Vinegar team recently revealed Sober, a currently closed-source specialized runtime for the Android version of Roblox. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Call of Duty Zombies is back, and possibly better than ever, in ****** Ops 6. Treyarch is looking to cook up an experience that is fun and new while remaining true to the core that makes it so fun. One of these new additions is Augments, which are a game-changing addition to the Zombies experience in ****** Ops 6, and it’s one that all players will need to know and understand before attempting quests, easter eggs, or high-round runs in this CoD title. View the full article

***** has revealed its Gamescom 2024 line-up, including a previously unannounced game. The publisher will have three playable games at this year’s show, but only two of them are known to the public. Sonic X Shadow Generations will be playable at the show, marking its first playable appearance in Europe. Read More... View the full article

In 2014, PC Gamer awarded horror adventure Alien: Isolation Game of the Year, praising its reactive AI and exhaustively faithful environmental design. At the time, staff writer Andy Kelly called it "probably the bravest, most subversive 'AAA' game of the year.".. Read more.View the full article

A big weekend for the House of Mouse ***** ahead with Disney’s D23 expo and Fortnite is set to take center stage. During the event, an exclusive livestream will take place and we’ve got the details you need to watch it. The exact details of what will be revealed during the livestream are not known but we can expect details of Fortnite‘s next season, which starts on Aug. 16, as the leaked 2024 roadmap showed there would be a Marvel theme—something all the signs continue to point to. View the full article

A relaxing walk along the beach is always a good time, especially when there are shells along the way you can collect. A “Place to find seashells” can be described by a few different words, so you might be stuck on this NYT Mini Crossword clue. If you’re looking for a “Place to find seashells,” we’ve got you covered. Here are some hints to help you get closer to the answer and the official solution so you can get this crossword done. View the full article

There was so much hype before the Ai Pin's launch that Humane managed to secure $240 million from investors including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The company was valued at a massive $850 million last year, but that was before its first product arrived. Read Entire Article View the full article

The world is due another Wuthering Waves update, and luckily for all of us, we won't have to wait long. Wuthering Waves version 1.2 will be launching on August 15 worldwide, and brings with it new characters, events, and even a dancing turtle. This announcement comes in the form of a flashy new gameplay trailer, which wraps up all the new content in a nice visual package. The stars of this update are the two new playable characters, obviously. These are Zhe Zhi and Xiangli Yao, both of which will be earnable in-game with this update. These characters come with weapons as you might expect, including the Rime-Dripped Sprouts rectifiers, and the Verity's Handle gauntlets. With both as five star weapons, you'll have to get quite lucky to get these in addition to the new five star characters. Either that, or get ready to bust the wallet out. Read more View the full article

How do you play Star Wars Outlaws Sabacc? Games have always been a part of the Star Wars universe. There's Dejarik, the holographic chess-like board game, and Han Solo's gold dice are from a game called Corellian Spike, a version of Sabacc. That brings us to Kessel Sabacc, the playable card game in Star Wars Outlaws. Open-world games can get a little overwhelming from time to time. There's just so much to see, and it might feel like you want to just take a break. In Star Wars Outlaws, you can do that in-game with Kessel Sabacc, a fun mini-game that comes with some benefits, assuming you win. We'll show you how to play Sabacc, how to win, and - crucially, in the seedy underworld of the Star Wars game - how to cheat. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All confirmed Star Wars Outlaws characters All Star Wars Outlaws planets and locations Star Wars Outlaws gear and outfits explained View the full article

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios is facing fresh backlash from the community after nerfing ***** damage weapons days before releasing its pyromaniac-themed premium warbond, Freedom’s Flame. The balance changes introduced by this week’s Escalation of Freedom update include a number of tweaks to the game’s ***** damage system designed to make flame-spewing weapons behave “more realistically." Some frustrated community members have taken to social media to complain the update has dramatically nerfed *****-based weapons such as the flamethrower, once considered a potent antidote to armored terminids chargers. Helldivers 2’s Steam page has seen more than 2,000 negative reviews push its recent review score from ‘mostly positive’ to ‘mixed’ in a few days. Others took to social media to vent about the developer’s perceived nerf-happy approach to ******* balancing. Arrowhead has acknowledged the backlash, with community manager Baskinator assuring players on Discord that developers had “heard your feedback” related to ***** damage, and the studio was now “having a lot of internal discussions about the best course of action.” Studio CEO Shams Jorjani subsequently said on X/Twitter that a hotflix will be deployed “at some point” that will “focus on bugs, and might include some balance changes," but “other things need time to cook a bit more." This isn’t the first time Arrowhead has faced the inferno of community rebellion. Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt said in May that the studio had been overzealous with the frequency of its nerf-laden updates, noting "it feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed." The player base also rose up en-mass earlier this year to protest an unpopular policy that would have required PC players to have a PSN account to play the online co-operative shooter, eventually forcing the entertainment giant to abandon the plan altogether. The Escalation of Freedom update brought more than just controversy to Arrowhead's co-op PvE shooter. Check out the patch notes to find out about the wave of fresh features, including a new 'Super Helldive' level 10 difficulty, novel mission objectives, menacing enemies, and more. Anthony is a freelance contributor covering science and video gaming news for IGN. He has over eight years experience of covering breaking developments in multiple scientific fields and absolutely no time for your shenanigans. Follow him on Twitter @BeardConGamer View the full article

First things first: Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6’s Zombies is a return to the fan favorite round-based co-op mode of 1-4 players surviving wave after wave of zombies that escalates in challenge and difficulty each round. The story picks up after the events of 2020’s ****** Ops Cold War and continues the Dark Aether storyline with a cast featuring the returning Weaver, Grey, and Carver – who have been imprisoned – along with the new character of Maya as playable in Zombies. Each has their own storylines. Also returning is former villain William *****, who acts as your guide, along with Oskar Strauss and Raptor One in support roles. What I can say is that I enjoyed my time playing Zombies. Treyarch seems to have established a strong balance of community requested features, level design, and progression that is shaping up to satisfy veterans and newcomers to the franchise. Zombies will feature two maps at launch: Liberty Falls, set in West Virginia, and Terminus, an island set in the Philippine Sea. Terminus was playable during my hands-on time, and developer Treyarch is calling this one the biggest maps they have ever made: it’s filled with side missions, random dynamic encounters, environmental traps, and plenty of experiences left to discover and explore as you battle the zombie horde. Treyarch’s motto for Terminus is “anywhere you can see, you can go.” The map will also introduce new enemies like the Vermin and Parasites that, once the main host is *******, will mutate and evolve into a more deadly foe. Players will have access to a drivable vehicle with the Project Janus Tactical Raft that we used during our play session to explore a smaller island that was visible from the main coastline. ****** Ops 6 Zombies will also see the return of Global Progression, Classic Prestige, ******* Customization, map-specific intel systems, and fan favorite GobbleGums, a single-use item which you can store up to three GobbleGums at a time that provides in-game effects and abilities. Wonder Weapons also make a return, with the all-new BeamSmasher that uses sound frequency and light energy types for unique and spectacular damage results. Elemental damage types also have effects and abilities against enemies weak to that damage type, with a fun example being making an ****** teleport and reappear high in the air and fall at a high rate of speed. Meanwhile, the Augment Upgrade System brings a customized experience by allowing players to unlock three major and three minor upgrades per each item for every perk, field upgrade, and ammo mod. You will be able to equip one major and minor upgrade at a time. Augments are permanent upgrades that you earn by simply playing Zombies and you’ll have the ability to focus your progression towards a specific augment of the hundred augments that will be available at launch by utilizing the Research feature available via create a class. Melee Macchiato Perk was a favorite during my playtime, and it provides a strong punch ******* in close combat and Support Injection that for a limited time transforms you into a force of nature smashing through hordes of Zombies with ease. Also available in create a class are Zombie Builds, which allows you to save your custom ******* builds and make them available in game via the mystery box. A few other new quality-of-life features are coming to ****** Ops 6 too: “Save and Quit”, Third-Person mode, and Guided Mode. Save and Quit is a new feature that provides a limited pause in solo games and for longer breaks, you can save your status and resume – but only one save slot will be available to prevent multiple checkpoints as you chase those higher rounds. For co-op games, Treyarch is adding a “join matches at any time” feature for drop in/drop out flexibility to allow friends to join games in progress and/or after a disconnect from a session. Third-Person mode is available for the first time in a ****** Ops game and can be toggled on/off at any time. HUD options that allow you to remove health bars and damage numbers will be available, plus preset options with choices such as: standard, legacy, mini map and a streamer mode which would allow room for a face cam or overlay. But the feature I am most excited to see for players new to Zombies is Guided Mode. I sat down with the development team at Treyarch to discuss Guided Mode and was surprised to hear that a very low percentage of players finish the main quest, so the team decided to implement a guided version that removes side missions and the round-based ticking clock in order to provide a more welcoming and curated experience. It’s all in an effort to get more people to try and complete the main story. Guided mode will not be available at launch, though, and for ********* players there will be an incentive to complete the main quest before the new mode launches in the form of a calling card. After 45 minutes of hands-on time with ****** Ops 6, I thoroughly enjoyed fighting my way through the Zombie horde on the island of Terminus. The map is, as Treyarch promised, huge with plenty to discover. In my limited time, using my pre-configured loadout and using the Mystery Box I was able to try out a variety of weapons including shotguns, SMGs and ******** rifles. As always, all the weapons had their advantages and disadvantages, but overall they felt good to use – as did augment upgrades to various perks and field equipment such as scatter mines and the enhanced melee abilities when surrounded in close combat scenarios. The difficulty does ramp up and as you progress, I noticed I was being downed frequently by mobs of enemies surrounding me as we advanced into higher rounds (mutated parasites will be a problem if not taken down quickly) and I really needed to start using more strategy and communication with teammates versus simply running and gunning – as I expect most new players will be inclined to do on initial play sessions. There are A LOT of features being packed into Zombies this year – from exploring the island of Terminus, utilizing the GobbleGums, taking advantage of the Augment upgrades, customizing my weapons in Zombie builds, to using the Wonder Weapons to take down hordes of enemies. And this doesn’t even include things I haven’t mentioned yet, like Global Onimovement or the second map of Liberty Falls, which Treyarch promises to share more about in the coming weeks. ****** Ops 6 is shaping up to be one of the most fully fleshed out examples of the mode that Treyarch first introduced in Call of Duty: World at War 16 years ago, and I’m genuinely looking forward to playing more of it when ****** Ops 6 drops this Fall. View the full article

NBA 2K25 is promising to shake up two core MyPLAYER systems—badges and takeovers. These directly impact performance, so to make the most out of your MyPLAYER build, you’re better off knowing exactly how the new badges and takeovers work in NBA 2K25. 2K’s goal this year appears to be balancing quality and quantity. Badges, for example, have always been large in number, but oftentimes, players resort to just a few that are obviously better than others. NBA 2K25’s new systems attempt to deal with this disparity by directly tying badges and takeovers to actions and performance on the court. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The first look at Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 Zombies gameplay is here, and the legends at Treyarch may have really and truly cooked with this game. Activision has released the short trailer alongside full-length gameplay videos of the new map, Terminus, featuring a cast of new and returning characters fighting their way off of a prison island that they have been in for five years since the events of ****** Ops Cold War. View the full article

Publisher Bandai Namco has announced Dragon Ball Project: Multi, a new multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title. Some Dragon Ball fans can already sign up for a chance to participate in the game's beta, which is planned to kick off in the second half of August 2024. View the full article

Realism is thrilling, but you don't want something that's too punishing, or close to inaccessible. On the contrary, if you've got the appetite for a rugged outdoor sim, you don't want light or simplified crafting mechanics - everything should feel hard earned. The Forest and its even-more-gruesome sequel are both brutal survival games. Rust, likewise, has some particularly ****** combat and wounding mechanics. But a new competitor, created by a single developer, pushes realism even further with especially layered building and farming systems. If you want enjoyable co-op fun combined with punishing survivalism, The Last Plague: Blight might just be for you, and it's available to try right now. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

A Treasure Dig Hunt is always a highly anticipated monthly event in Monopoly GO due to the rare rewards it usually hands out. Treasure Hunts are my favorite event to play. Since you need pickaxe or shovel tokens to play, knowing how to boost your supply for free is key to completing the event. Here’s how. Where to find free Dig Hung Pickaxe tokens in Monopoly GO? Don’t miss out on free pickaxe tokens. Screenshot by Dot Esports The easiest way to earn free pickaxe tokens is through daily Monopoly GO links. These update at least once a day and may contain free tokens. Completing a Treasure Hunt level usually provides pickaxe tokens too, depending on the rewards. View the full article

Fortnite gamers love Peely, the adorable banana character, and everyone loves Marvel characters like Wolverine. So why not combine the two? Disney and Epic Games had the same idea with the special Peelverine Plush back bling in Fortnite, a special item that can be earned during the 2024 D23 showcase, where Disney shows off upcoming projects like movies, shows, and games. View the full article

The Borderlands movie is right around the corner, with its widespread release scheduled for tomorrow, Aug. 9. The initial reviews are in, and they are about as bad as they could get. “Is it too soon to call Borderlands the worst movie of ’24?” Peter Howell, movie critic at the Toronto Star, asked on X, in what is just one of the many stinging reviews of the flick. “This gobbler mixes inept directing, terrible writing, indifferent acting and gawdawful CGI into such stupefying boredom, it feels nothing could top it for badness,” he added. View the full article

Know the full list of Monopoly GO Jurassic Journey rewards so you can collect more pickaxes for the Dig Hunt main event and earn rewards like Dice rolls and Stickers. A Treasure Hunt has returned to Monopoly GO, featuring a Wild Sticker as a grand prize. Events like Jurassic Journey are a great way to earn pickaxes for the Dino Treasures main event. I am also a fan of Pickups, the mechanic for earning milestone points within the Jurassic Journey event. Here’s the full list of Jurassic Journey rewards and how Pickup tokens work. And don’t forget to collect the daily free Dice from Scopely. View the full article

Larian Studios has revealed the three Origin characters that Baldur's Gate 3 picked most to be their playable avatars. Baldur's Gate 3 recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its PC launch. Though it's been out for a year, Baldur's Gate 3's popularity has persisted, and it ******** one of the most popular games in the world. View the full article

Kingmakers, developed by Redemption Road and to be published by tinyBuild, recently took everyone by surprise with its eccentric (and technically impressive) first trailer, and while we don't have a release date yet, it seems that Hollywood is already interested in bringing it to the big screen. Via GamesBeat, we've learned that Story Kitchen, a recently-formed production company behind the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and the upcoming Tomb Raider animated series (as well as many other gaming-related projects), has signed a deal to help develop a live-action movie based on the yet-to-be-released third-person shooter. "The action, world-building, and intriguing sci-fi of Kingmakers make it a perfect concoction to build a propulsive new franchise in Hollywood... We have always been massive fans of tinyBuild. As publishers, they’re putting out great games that we love playing. We’ve kept a close eye on the things they’re working on and have been trying to figure out the next best opportunity to collaborate with them," said Story Kitchen cofounder Dmitri M. Johnson. Looking at Kingmakers' simple yet punchy premise, one can easily see how it could deftly translate will into an uncomplicated action movie that taps into several subgenres at once. Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Rogues in Diablo 4 likely have Skyhunter at the top of their list when creating the ideal build. We can tell you exactly how to farm for this drop. Skyhunter is favored very strongly by Diablo 4 players because it guarantees the first direct damage you deal to an ****** is a Critical Strike. On top of that, consuming Precision when casting a skill results in 20 to 60 percent increased Critical Strike Damage and gives you 30 to 60 energy. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]