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What many people thought was going to be the end of Destiny 2 as we know it, turned out to be the best greatest Guardian revival the series has ever seen. Since Bungie has gotten past its rocky delays and layoffs, the new Episodic content after The Final Shape is shaping up to be a great time. That’s why we’re going to break it down and show you how to use the Planetary Piston Hammer and how to charge it up in Destiny 2.Destiny 2 — How to get and use Planetary Piston HammerBefore you can start using and charging the Planetary Psiton Hammer, you’ll want to figure out how to get it and how it works. The Piston Hammer is part of the new Episodic activities for Episode 1: Echoes. Specifically, you’ll need to start the Specimen ID: NES001 quest and progress until you need to talk to Failsafe for the first time.Image: BungieOnce you talk to Failsafe, they’ll give you the Planetary Piston Hammer and task you with extracting data and activating a...View the full article

A Baldur's Gate 3 fan recently showcased an impressive gender-swapped Astarion cosplay. The fan attracted significant attention and praise from fellow Baldur's Gate 3 enthusiasts for their cosplay skills. View the full article

Call of Duty will bring both Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone to the Esports World Cup later this summer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the EWC announced today. Both of the titles from CoD join a huge list of games being played with big prize pools at EWC, including Apex Legends, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, EA Sports FC 24, Fortnite, League of Legends, Overwatch 2, and more. View the full article

Fallout 76 Season 17 is here, having launched in the early afternoon hours ET on June 12. Titled Skyline Valley, this season brings the game's first-ever map expansion, on top of introducing a wide variety of new Fallout 76 content. View the full article

Community manager Dylan Gafner, also known as dmg04, is returning to Bungie after two years in a major new position representing Destiny 2. Through the years, dmg04 has been an important voice in the Destiny 2 community, and he will be making his return later this month. View the full article

As we head into Season 17 of Fallout 76, there’s still a lot to discover before attempting the additional content for the expansion. One of them is the pickaxe. This guide will cover where to find and use pickaxe in Fallout 76, so it might be important.Fallout 76: Where to find and use the pickaxe – guideThe one thing to note is that there are a few spots where the pickaxes spawn, so you might have to go out of your way to search for them. One may assume that the Mole Miners may have them, but sadly, they do not. As of now, there seem to be four pickaxes waiting to be found. You can read below to learn the location. However, I recommend using the map as well. The world of Fallout 76 is massive. Having a direction can speed things up quite a bit.By heading to Gauley Mine and looking for the Light ‘er up holotape, you can find a pickaxe leaning on some crates facing the holotape.In Greg’s Mine Supply, there should be two to find. One is going to be in a ...View the full article

Over the last month, Riot Games has been under ***** from the League of Legends player base over the new Faker-themed Ahri skin bundle that costs an arm and a leg to buy. That new bundle finally launched today, and Riot dropped a new mega RP bundle with it. The Signature Edition of the Immortalized Legend Ahri bundle costs a whopping 59,260 RP, which equates to about $450, much to the chagrin of most casual and ********* League players alike. There is, however, a new RP option in the store that will allow you to purchase the bundle with just a couple of clicks. View the full article

Excision, Destiny 2: The Final Shape's final mission was released after the first clear of the Salvation's Edge raid. Salvation's Edge saw a brave fireteam of six Guardians infiltrate the Witness' stronghold in the Pale Heart, confronting it and loosening its hold on the Light of the Traveler. Their bravery gave the Vanguard the shot they needed to finally confront the Light's greatest threat. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Developer Treyarch recently discussed how long Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6's story missions will take to beat, and the answer may surprise fans of the decades-old franchise. This news follows other major reveals about ****** Ops 6 during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, where developers confirmed several tweaks and changes to the Call of Duty formula. View the full article

Since launch Soulmask has been hitting it out of the park, both in terms of player number counts but also with the flow of information. There's been a ton of short Q&A sessions each covering things players want to know, a few different patches, and generally players have been kept up to date with what's going on. There's also a different kind of information the developer is regularly sharing. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Steam's hottest new survival game is already cooking lots of upgrades Steam's new survival game hit mixes Ark and Palworld to weird results Massive new survival game sells 200,000 copies in just five days View the full article

Ravensburger dropped new Disney Lorcana spoilers for Set Five, Shimmering Skies, on June 12, along with a special exclusive card found within the Disney Villainous: Introduction to Evil tabletop game. TCG players are diving deep into Disney Lorcana as organized competitive play continues to grow in popularity. Sticking to a strict release schedule, the fifth Lorcana set, called Shimmering Skies, will officially be released on Aug. 9 through local game stores. The tabletop Disney Villainous: Introduction to Evil game launched in July, and an exclusive foil alternative art Prince John, Gold Lover card is coming to Lorcana after Set Five launches. View the full article

Kick and Twitch streamer NICKMERCS is once again making waves on social media for making transphobic remarks on one of his streams, and just like last time, the popular Call of Duty player isn’t backing down. During one of his streams of Elden Ring, NICKMERCS read aloud a comment calling him a transphobe while he was struggling with one of the game’s bosses. NICKMERCS responded by saying, “There’s no such thing as trans people.” Later on, he told his viewers that he was going to “break it down” by saying “******, dude. *******, girl. Done!” Needless to say, this response has not gone over well with some people. View the full article

The Final Shape expansion for Destiny 2 introduces plenty of new weapons and gear for fans to obtain, such as the Khvostov 7G-0X exotic auto rifle which can now be acquired after a bug preventing players from collecting it has been resolved. This exotic ******* in Destiny 2 harkens back to the very first **** that Guardians pick up on their journeys, with the rifle's new incarnation making for one of the most powerful primary weapons offered in The Final Shape expansion. View the full article

Disclosure: This article contains an affiliate link to our friends at Play-Asia. Bunny Garden the dating sim game where you meet ****** at a bunny girl hostess club is coming to the Nintendo Switch in English on a physical cartridge. Unfortunately, this isn’t an official North ********* release, but rather an ****** region release thanks […] Source View the full article

Palworld players on Xbox will be able to preview the game's big June update early. While the update to Palword doesn't officially launch until June 27, Xbox Insider users can currently access a preview build, and it's compatible with existing save files. View the full article

GameStop has said that the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater release date is posted on Twitter was incorrect, meaning fans don't know when they will get to play the highly-anticipated remake. Series creator Hideo Kojima leaving Konami left the Metal Gear Solid franchise stuck in a limbo of sorts. For years, Konami did very little with the IP besides license it for non-gaming purposes and release the poorly-received Metal Gear Survive. View the full article

When writing an article for work or an essay for school, a typo is usually at most a small inconvenience, unless you’re challenging yourself in the ultimate test of typing proficiency: the Dark Souls-inspired word processor, FromSoft Word. In Microsoft Word or Google Docs, a typo or misspelled word will typically be auto-corrected or at worst receive a red underline to highlight the word so you can return later. But when typing in FromSoft Word, a free game available on the *****.io platform, a single typo results in a game over screen using Dark Souls-esque font that completely erases all your work. View the full article

Co-op ARPG Path of Exile 2 may not yet have a release date, but following a playable demo being present at Summer Games Fest, devs have confirmed that they are working on ensuring the game can be played on the Steam Deck with no issues whatsoever. It's no secret that the Steam Deck is one of the best handheld gaming PCs, and it makes perfect sense for the team at Grinding Gear Games to try to make Path of Exile 2 playable on Valve's portable from day one. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Path of Exile 2 release date estimate, beta, gameplay, and latest news Path of Exile 2 devs are excited to compete with Diablo and Last Epoch Path of Exile 2 lead won't put it out "if I don't think it's good yet" View the full article

Earlier this week, I had the chance to go hands-on with LEGO Horizon Adventures. Alongside all my other praise for this game, I really loved the immense level of detail put into making each and every LEGO brick component. That’s not a coincidence, either, as it turns out the entire world is made out of individual bricks in a way that could apparently be reconstructed in real life from actual physical LEGO sets. Speaking to me at Summer Game Fest Play Days over the weekend, Guerrilla Games narrative director James Windeler told me about how this strange collaboration between Guerrilla and LEGO came about. Guerrilla had originally prototyped Horizon: Zero Dawn’s ****** dinosaurs in DUPLO and had a lot of interest in model building. The team wanted to make something more lighthearted for its next project. And then there was that LEGO Tallneck collaboration from a few years back. On the LEGO side, LEGO really liked that the Horizon games had bright colors and optimistic themes, as well as a relatively inclusive fanbase. Put it all together, and it’s no wonder the two companies came to an understanding. Most LEGO games up to now have been made by what is now called TT Games, but TT isn’t involved with this one. Instead, co-development group Studio Gobo and LEGO are working with Guerrilla Games, which itself has assembled a team including a number of individuals who worked on the original Zero Dawn. Windeler tells me many of them have had kids since Zero Dawn released, and those kids are now reaching an age where their parents want to play video games with them. Hence, Horizon Adventures’ co-op feature. But a different team also means different approaches and capabilities, and for Guerrilla in particular that meant really sweating the LEGO details. Windeler says the team wanted Horizon Adventures to feel like a “playable LEGO movie,” and notes that every single asset in the game is “built from an individual [LEGO] brick.” “It's designed by master builders,” he says. “All of these things, from the coolest elements of Horizon, the majestic nature, the machines, the characters, they're all following the rules of physical LEGO. So even though they're made as digital assets, you could build them technically out of physical sets…And it also extends to the animation style and the way that the characters move in the game. There's this kind of stop-motion of all of the characters. Yeah, it's like a toy. ‘Toyetic’ was a word that was thrown around a lot as a target, and it's the idea that you're playing potentially with your own figurines.” What Windeler is describing certainly showed in my hands-on time with the game. I pointed out that when characters fall off a high ledge, they humorously plop down flat like a LEGO shoved off a shelf. Then they quickly pop back up and trot off again with the jerky motions of a child walking a LEGO character around on a play mat. There are other little nods like that to the overall feel of playing with LEGOs - for instance, when I rescued some Nora villagers in my demo, there were a few generic LEGO people mixed in with the Horizon-themed costumes. What was that about? “When you're a ****, when you're playing LEGO, with LEGO, you're not necessarily building this completely unified world,” Windeler explains. “You're using the LEGO that you have from your set.” Fair enough. Windeler can’t comment on whether or not the very real buildability of LEGO Horizon Adventures means more LEGO Horizon sets are on the way, nor can he speak for whether or not other PlayStation IP will get LEGO games. He does tell me that LEGO Horizon Adventures’ story is about seven to eight hours long, and will have a replayable element at the end that will allow players to revisit regions they’d previously visited and unlock more customizations and other things. As Windeler told me, Horizon Adventures isn’t supposed to be a 20+ hour adventure the way Horizon: Zero Dawn was. It’s loosely based on Zero Dawn, but it’s meant to be digestible for everyone – not just ten hours of in-jokes for existing fans of Horizon. “There's tons of nods, and I mentioned iconic scenes that we've reinterpreted that will be recognizable and hopefully joyful to a fan of the series, but at the same time, we want people to come in who have no Horizon knowledge.” For more details on LEGO Horizon Adventures, you can check out our full hands-on preview. We also played the new Astro **** game at the same PlayStation appointment, and have a preview for that as well. View the full article

Baldur's Gate 3 players itching for some kind of new experience in the Forgotten Realms should definitely check out this mod which manages to transform the RPG into an action-packed roguelike. While Larian Studios' sprawling Dungeons & Dragons game may not initially appear to function like a randomly-generated roguelike, it certainly has the variety needed to make the genre truly sing. With hundreds of different locations, items, and enemies, it stands to reason that all of these factors could be swirling together to create an experience that rewards flexibility and careful strategy. View the full article

There is a new survival game on the market, Soulmask, and finding your way through it will be a little easier with the help of console commands. Soulmask claims to be an actual survival experience, and you will only have the help of a mysterious mask at the beginning of the game. To get an extra boost, you can use console commands to make the start of the journey easier. View the full article

Forza Motorsport players can snag their own Porsche 963 for free as part of the racing game's summer promotion. The vehicle typically costs $4.99 on the Xbox and Steam storefronts, but fans who act quickly enough can add the sporty car to their Forza Motorsport garage at no extra charge, View the full article

Ubisoft has released XDefiant update Y1S0.3, introducing aiming penalties for players who frequently use the jump and crouch buttons, a tactic known as "jump spamming." This XDefiant patch also addresses various gameplay, *******, social, and map issues to enhance the game's performance and user experience. View the full article

We're chomping at the bantha bit to explore the galaxy of Star Wars Outlaws, and that anticipation has only grown with the knowledge the upcoming game will launch with support for Nvidia's latest DLSS 3.5 tech, and will include ray tracing and Reflex support too. The combination of these features should mean that Star Wars Outlaws runs well and looks lovely on the latest Nvidia RTX 4000-series hardware. That's not to say it won't also perform and present perfectly on AMD GPUs, but the likes of the RTX 4070 Super, which tops our best graphics card guide, should be extra well placed to play the game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nvidia's main chip maker is threatening to increase GPU prices Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU specs just leaked, including RTX 5090 Nvidia has officially erased Intel from the graphics card market View the full article

Nvidia has famously been skyrocketing in value recently, off the back of its specialist AI chips being snapped up in the tens of thousands with huge profit margins. That appears to have struck a nerve - or at least been noticed - with Nvidia's main chip manufacturing partner, TSMC, hinting that it could increase its GPU production prices for Nvidia, so it can reap a little more of what Nvidia is sowing. How this might affect future pricing of the best graphics cards is hard to say, as the implication here is that TSMC would be charging more for higher-profit items, rather than just charging more across the board. However, it does give us a little cause for concern, as if TSMC does raise its prices to produce gaming GPUs, we would reasonably expect Nvidia to pass on the price hike to consumers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You're going to want an Nvidia GPU to play Star Wars Outlaws Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU specs just leaked, including RTX 5090 Nvidia has officially erased Intel from the graphics card market View the full article