Shroud has declared THE FINALS developers Embark Studios “don’t understand their player base” after the release of a new one-life ranked mode on June 14 set the game’s entire community abuzz—and not in a good way. While many fans have praised Embark for trying new things in THE FINALS, new playing mode Terminal ******* has fallen flat. In this alternating *******-and-defense battle, players are challenged with an impossible restriction where they can’t heal or revive, so they only have one life to win the match. This is far from a unique concept in first-person shooters, but according to Shroud it’s way off the mark for THE FINALS and its gameplay. View the full article
A Destiny 2 player amused their fellows in the community by pointing out a humorous, unaddressed aspect of the game's new raid. Called Salvation's Edge, the new raid debuted in Destiny 2 as part of The Final Shape, its latest expansion. View the full article
One Diablo 4 player shared their lucky story of finding a very rare X'Fal's Corroded Signet while playing the game's current season. Diablo 4's Season of Loot Reborn focuses on slaying demons and collecting loot while eliminating the tediousness of the game's loot system at higher levels of play, as well as introducing new treasure for players to collect. View the full article
Big changes are coming to Pokémon VGC local events, and players are worried it’ll ***** the scene. Today, the Pokémon VGC community woke up to new changes regarding local tournaments for next season. According to a June 17 post on X (formerly Twitter) by Pokémon Professor Stephen L Kent, the 2024-2025 season is set to begin on July 1. This is already a sticky situation, considering the 2024 World Championship isn’t until August. In other words, competitors will have to split focus between attending locals for next season while also preparing for Worlds—if they qualify, that is. That isn’t the biggest issue for VGC players, however. View the full article
Welcome back to some serious EOFY savings. Hot Deals on Hardware seems to be the unofficial theme of the day—cheap VR headsets and greatly reduced "fancy colour" controllers, to be specific. I'm also liking the look of Red ***** Redemption II going for a mere $24. For what that game delivers, that's an insane price point. Buy it. Play it. Thank me later, pardner. In retro news, I'm celebrating the 34th birthday of Bonanza Bros., a coin-op great that begat a ton of console conversions. Crafted by a small team at *****—which included artist/designer Manabu Kusunoki, who would later go on to work on Panzer Dragoon—this System 24 title played and looked like nothing else at the time. I can recall loving its 2.5D level design, the comedic animations of its titular ******* "heroes," and the rarity of being able to loot these 12 levels via 2P split-screen co-op. This Day in Gaming Aussie birthdays for notable games. - Bonanza Bros. (ARC) 1990. Get - Goemon's Great Adventure (N64) 1998. Ebay - Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis (PS) 1998. Ebay - MTV Music Generator 3 (PS2,XB) 2004. Ebay - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PC,PS4,XO) 2019. Get Table of ContentsNintendo SwitchPCXboxPlayStationNice Savings for Nintendo Switch Expiring Recent Deals Hardware Watch How much to make the switch to Switch? [/url] Back to top Purchase Cheaply for PC Expiring Recent Deals Hardware Watch Slay your pile of shame. [/url] Back to top Exciting Bargains for Xbox Expiring Recent Deals Hardware Watch How many bucks for a Box? [/url] Back to top Pure Scores for PlayStation Expiring Recent Deals Hardware Watch How much you'll pay to Station. [/url] Back to top Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube. View the full article
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A Diablo 4 player has taken on a big challenge and cleared a high-level Artificer's Pit with a single skill. The Diablo 4 community is known for its creativity in inventing the most diverse ways of tackling the dangers of Sanctuary. Some Diablo 4 players reach high levels quickly, defeat powerful bosses by themselves, or use low-tier gear. View the full article
Asus has pledged to make several significant changes to its handling of customer service complaints, with some effective immediately and others coming later this year. Customers can also ask the company to re-investigate prior complaints. Read Entire Article View the full article
A Minecraft player has created a detailed version of Kansas City, revealing what the real-world location would look like in the blocky game. Over the years since Minecraft was released, fans have taken whats possible in the game to new levels. For example, this recreation of Kansas City involved the player developing software to make this version of the city possible, and the community has taken notice. View the full article
In the Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4, there is a quest called Best Left Forgotten that features some complex and hard-to-solve challenges for players to solve. There are a lot of reasons why this quest is considered challenging, mostly due to the mechanics involved, but players should feel like they can approach this quest with more confidence than before. While this quest threw players for a loop before, they should be able to feel more sure with a little bit of help. View the full article
Arrowhead chief executive Shams Jorjani has quashed any dreams of a linear story mode for Helldivers 2, but further discussions revealed features like forming guilds or a photo mode aren’t yet out of the question as the team preps for a summer break. Discussion about new additions to Helldivers 2 was sparked this week in the comments of a May 31 post on X (formerly Twitter). While sharing Arrowhead’s job posting for a new outsourcing producer, Jorjani took the time to answer several questions from interested fans—one of whom shared grievances with how the game was being run. After Jorjani responded, another Helldivers player mentioned they’d love a story mode with “epic moments and tragic scenes.” Jorjani swiftly shut the door on such an addition. View the full article
Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard knows fans are looking forward to Fallout 5, especially in the wake of the Prime Video show's success, but he isn’t interested in rushing it out the door. Howard opened up about the future of the hit post-apocalyptic RPG series during an interview with YouTube content creator MrMattyPlays. He says Bethesda spends a lot of time plotting out how to handle the direction of its franchises. "For other Fallout games in the future, you know, obviously I can’t talk about those right now, but I would say, sort of rushing through them, or we kind of need to get stuff out that is different than the work we’re doing in 76…we don’t feel like we need to rush any of that," he said. "The Fallout TV show fills a certain niche in terms of the franchise and storytelling." View the full article
Paradox Interactive announced that its long-delayed The Sims-style life sim Life by You is officially canceled in a post on their website today. Life by You was initially announced in May of 2023. At the time, an early access release was planned for September of that year. It was initially delayed to May of 2024, then in February, Paradox announced an additional delay, pushing Life by You's Early Access release to June 4th. Two weeks before the June 4 release, it was delayed again, this time without a release date, because, in the words of Paradox Deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, "additional time [was] needed." Paradox Interactive released a statement from CEO Fredrik Wester explaining the decision on its website. The full statement is as follows: Paradox Interactive (Paradox) has today decided to cancel the release of the game Life by You. This means that the second quarter of 2024 will be impacted negatively by MSEK 208 from the write-down of the game’s total capitalized development costs. For a long time, we’ve held hopes for Life by You and the potential we saw in it, but it is now clear that the game will not be able to meet our expectations. A version that we’d be satisfied with is too far away, and therefore we are taking the difficult decision to cancel the release. Moving forward, we should perform at a much higher level, and it’s obvious that we have work ahead of us, said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. We’ve performed poorly in recent releases, continued Wester. Even though we now start new projects in a different manner, it is clear that we must make further changes so that quality is more consistent and the promises we make to our players are met. We have to evaluate how we manage projects and how we organize, for we will and must get better. We have a very solid financial position and a strong core game portfolio, which keeps us confident about our future. This disclosure contains information that Paradox Interactive AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market ****** Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person, on 17-06-2024 21:45 CET. Life by You's cancelation marks the latest in what has been, by Paradox's own admission, a years-long rough patch that has affected their last few games and development process. Cities Skylines 2 had a disasterous launch that Paradox is still trying to sort out more than eight months after release, and Steam reviews for the city builder remain mixed. Jail sim Prison Architect 2 has also been the victim of numerous delays, the most recent of which pushed the release date back to September due to "unexpected issues occurring too often.” The Paradox-published Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has also endured a troubled development that has seen several years of delays, the depature or ******* of several senior staff, and, ultimately, a change in developers. Thankfully, it seems to be back on track after new gameplay footage was revealed in January. The publisher's most recent release, the Ironclad Games-developed Sins of a Solar Empire 2, dropped it's Early Access label earlier this year ahead of its planned August Steam release. In our review, we said "Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is a faithful follow-up to a beloved strategy game, but it is still in a buggy and clearly unfinished state despite its stealth launch out of early access." Will Borger is an IGN freelancer. You can find him on Twitter @bywillborger. View the full article
The Sims 4 rival Life by You has been canceled. The game is estimated to have been in development at Paradox Tectonic for about half a decade. View the full article
A Skyrim player has clipped a genius idea for never losing followers with the help of quest-related miscellaneous items. There are a plethora of items that can be looted in the Skyrim open world, and these miscellaneous ones may help players keep track of their companions. View the full article
Eleven whole months ago, a South ******** ratings board indicated that the Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 HD Remaster collection existed for PC, despite 2023's Bandai Namco only announcing it for the Nintendo Switch. That's a long time for a PC release to be MIA with no other sign it exists, but all of a sudden, whammo, here we are—Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 are out on Steam right now, after being released on the Nintendo Switch last September... Read more.View the full article
EA chief executive Andrew Wilson netted $25 million last financial year while the company cut five percent of its global workforce and shuttered several offices to “drive growth.” These new financial details comes from EA’s Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement 2024 (courtesy of Game Developer) which details the company’s annual net bookings and executive compensation structure, among other things. What stands out more than anything is the $60 million bagged cumulatively by EA execs in a year plagued by staff layoffs. View the full article
Image: Paradox Interactive Life by You, Paradox Interactive’s in-development competitor to The Sims, has been canceled, the company announced on Monday. The game, which was first revealed in 2023, sounded impressive: it was designed to allow for the entire town to be simulated in real-time and have no loading screens. However, based on a forum post by Paradox’s deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, the game had some issues that may not have been easily fixable even with additional time for development. [/url] “A few weeks back, we decided to hold off on an Early Access release in order to re-evaluate Life by You, as we still felt that the game was lacking in some key areas,” Lilja says. “Though a time extension was an option, once we took that pause to get a wider view of the game,... Continue reading… View the full article
World of Warcraft Classic players may be able to share raid attunement between characters in Season of Discovery Phase 4. While the exact method is not yet known, a datamined World of Warcraft item from Season of Discovery Phase 4 suggests fans wont have to complete the attunement quests multiple times. View the full article
A Starfield player has recently recreated the movie star Willem Dafoe in the game, but with a curious twist: hes blue. Starfield has a pretty flexible character creation system, and the blue Dafoe is just the latest example of what skilled players can do with it. View the full article
One of the cutest upcoming co-op games has reached a massive wishlist milestone on Steam in just a couple of weeks since its initial reveal—and it deserves a round-of-a-paws. Haunted Paws has logged a whopping 100,000 wishlists on Steam since its announcement trailer on June 4, and it’s clear to see why. In the game, you and a friend play as customizable puppies exploring a haunted mansion in an attempt to save their human friend. You’ve got adorable doggos wearing hats solving a bunch of spooky mysteries—what more could you want? View the full article
A Fallout 4 player has put an incredible amount of work into building a custom toy shop in Sanctuary. The Fallout 4 protagonist's home town, like other settlements, lets players build structures and homes however they see fit, but a toy store is an unusual choice to see made in Fallout 4. View the full article
Iso’s popularity has skyrocketed among VALORANT agents following a huge buff, and players have discovered an unexpected interaction between his ultimate and Clove’s. Ever since VALORANT Patch 8.11 buffed Iso, the duelist has been seeing a lot more play, to the point where some believe it’s ruining the game. Only his Double Tap ability was changed, but this also indirectly buffed his ***** Contract ultimate. Now that Iso can immediately activate his Double Tap shield without getting a ***** first, he has an even ******* advantage to win the one-vs-one duel in his ultimate. That’s exactly what one Iso player did in a clip shared in a June 17 Reddit thread—except, what came after was quite bizarre. View the full article
Starfield is courting more controversy now than ever, and the situation has gotten severe enough to be directly addressed by developer Bethesda Game Studios. The spacefaring RPG has always been divisive, with complaints about repetition and a lack of interesting content compared to Bethesda's previous games sometimes overriding the game's strong points. The recent introduction of paid mods added fuel to the *****, and an official Bethesda mission being released through the Starfield Creations platform at a price resulted in a significant surge in negative reviews. View the full article
Banana is a game where you repeatedly click on a banana, and that's about it. If that sounds dull, it is: I downloaded Banana and clicked the banana for a while, and that's pretty much all there is to do... Read more.View the full article
A hilarious Destiny 2 clip shows one player's ***** Guardian seemingly being taunted by the Transcendent Mind Vex Hydra in The Glassway Nightfall strike. Although The Glassway is an old strike, The Final Shape's updated power level limits mean that the Nightfall version can still be challenging for Destiny 2 veterans. View the full article
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Shroud has declared THE FINALS developers Embark Studios “don’t understand their player base” after the release of a new one-life ranked mode on June 14 set the game’s entire community abuzz—and not in a good way. While many fans have praised Embark for trying new things in THE FINALS, new playing mode Terminal ******* has fallen flat. In this alternating *******-and-defense battle, players are challenged with an impossible restriction where they can’t heal or revive, so they only have one life to win the match. This is far from a unique concept in first-person shooters, but according to Shroud it’s way off the mark for THE FINALS and its gameplay. View the full article