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When it comes to a firefight in Fallout 4, there's no one you want watching your back more than the ever reliable Mysterious Stranger, especially when he goes above and beyond and pulls off a cool trick. Fallout veterans are no doubt already familiar with the aforementiond Stranger, a clandestine figure who randomly spawns during V.A.T.S. to finish off whatever enemies prove too difficult. It's no doubt a fun Perk, even if it is somewhat unpredicatable, but what makes it even better is when Fallout 4 bugs out briefly and prompts the ********* to suddenly become ********. View the full article

Amazon'****** 2021 MMORPG, New World, is finally being ported over to consoles later this year. Developed by Amazon Games Orange County, New World was wildly popular upon launch, but the game's staying power has waned over the last few years. Bringing the MMORPG to new platforms will likely give the title a much-needed shot in the arm, and it'll allow players to enjoy the game without requiring a gaming PC. View the full article

Riot Games has announced console ports for Valorant, their 5-on-5 tactical first-person shooter, which has been on PC since 2020. Valorant is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 sometime later in 2024. A limited beta will kick off next week for PS5, on June 14th. Here’s a rundown on the game, plus a new […] Source View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail players will earn a free copy of Xueyi by completing the Apocalyptic Shadow mode in version 2.3. Honkai: Star Rail's Apocalyptic Shadow is a new permanent mode that requires players to complete challenges and collect points to gather bonus rewards. It works similarly to Pure Fiction and Memory of Chaos, providing Trailblazers with stage buffs that help them defeat formidable bosses. View the full article

The Final Shape campaign has some of the most enjoyable and challenging story missions in Destiny 2 of all time, ever. Emphasis on the challenging, as interesting mechanics in the story force you to think outside the box (or in this case, inside the bubble). So let’s meld Light and Dark together, and figure out how to survive the instant ***** ******* in Iconoclasm final boss ****** in Destiny 2.Quick preface, we will be talking about the later missions and story of The Final Shape, so pretty large SPOILER WARNING. The mission you had to complete before jumping into the brand-new raid tasks you with weakening the Witness in order to deal with it properly.Destiny 2 — How to survive the instant ***** ******* in IconoclasmScreenshot: ZaFrostPet/YouTubeThis mission is titled Iconoclasm, and at the end of it, you’ll finally come face to face with the dreaded Witness, kinda. While you don’t exactly ****** him, you do deal damage to his health bar in this ****** o...View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

It was less than a year ago -- during 2023's Gamescom Opening Live presentation -- that a peculiarly-stylized adventure/platformer, more than made its presence be known. And at the risk of coming across a little bias here, consider the prospect of a comical-if-crude take on Northern-English, working-class living via developer Coal Supper's Thank Goodness You're Here, one to take immediate notice of. View the full article

Playtonic Games has announced Yooka-Replaylee, a new remaster of their 2017-released mascot platformer. Yooka-Replaylee is launching for both Windows PC (via Steam) and unspecified consoles, though a release date wasn’t announced. Here’s a rundown on the new remaster, plus its reveal trailer: Meet the definitive remastered and enhanced version of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee (2017), […] Source View the full article

One of Baldur's Gate 3's great strengths is how intelligently it translates the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons experience to the video game realm, and in some cases, what it focuses on can provide great inspiration for how to make DnD campaigns better. I've been DMing a multi-arc DnD campaign since 2020, and that whole ******* has been a continual learning experience, with every session providing some kind of takeaway on how to make things better. Outside inspiration can be equally important, however, from live DnD play to books, films, games, or even life experiences. View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail revealed March 7th's new variant, which shows the main character's element, Path, and star level. March 7th is one of the main characters in Honkai: Star Rail, who usually accompanies the Trailblazer on their missions along with Dan Heng. At the start of the game, players can get March 7th as their free support character. View the full article

Do you like the bullet-time effect from the Matrix? How about X-ray vision? Combine the two and you get the bone-shattering imagery of the ******* Elite video games, WW2-era tactical third-person shooters where you ****** Nazis in slow motion and watch as the bullets ricochet around their insides. Now, the whole series is on ***** on Steam, so you grab them for up to 90% off. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: ******* Elite: ***** Zombie Army gets a free eBook all about zombies, Nazis and ******* Rebellion head on Gamespy ******* Elite server shutdowns: "It would have been a good idea to at least pre-warn our fans that this was happening." Glu begins closing down Gamespy servers without warning View the full article

One of the most interesting-looking games from Summer Game Fest's Day of the Devs is this horror fusion of Cyberpunk 2077 and Silent Hill. It's a stunning, haunted house mystery that looks as twisted and scary as it does deeply philosophical. It's called Psychroma, and there's a free Steam demo you can try out now. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Many couldn’t see how Bungie could top Destiny 2’s Last Wish raid, but they’ve blown it out of the water as Team Parabellum claimed the title of World’s First in today’s Salvation’s Edge raid, just days following the release of The Final Shape. Last Wish’s 18-hour first clear record was shattered, with Tyraxe, Astro, bravo, DrakathShadow, Ham, and Jake (alongside a few “coaches”) taking 18 hours and 57 minutes to defeat all five encounters of the epic raid. For *********** player Tyraxe, who began the raid run with the team at 3am local time earlier today, it was an absolute slog. View the full article

Oh boy, The Final Shape was really worth the wait. I've wrapped the campaign, played some additional missions, and grinded the overworld activities in the new Pale Heart patrol space, and I've got to say, it's a near-perfect Destiny 2 expansion. I'll reserve final judgement until the I've played the Raid, but regardless of what happens there, it's safe to say that despite the stunning cutscenes, excellent writing, and stellar gameplay, the Pale Heart is standing out as The Final Shape's best asset - I think it might be my favorite Destiny location ever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Destiny 2 server issues cause The Final Shape cutscenes to disappear Destiny 2 dev's cryptic tweet has my 'Hopes' up for something big Make for the spoiler bunker, Destiny 2 The Final Shape has leaked View the full article

One Dragon Age: The Veilguard fan believes that they have figured out the factions of the game's companions. Their convincing theory subsequently made the rounds on social media, adding to the growing speculation surrounding Dragon Age: The Veilguard. View the full article

It all comes down to this. There’s nothing quite like a world first raid race day in Destiny 2, and the latest might be the most exciting of all time. The Final Shape is here, as is the Witness, the malevolent force behind many of the events within the franchise’s history. View the full article

After weeks of internet rumours, Sony’s unusual new game was finally made official at Summer Game Fest 2024: LEGO Horizon Adventures. Built brick-by-brick by main Horizon developer Guerilla in collaboration with Studio Gobo, it looks to be exactly what you’d expect from a LEGO tie-in: bright, charming, goofy, and full of things to smash and studs to collect. That’s been a recipe for success multiple times over for LEGO, but this time around I’m not so sure. Who exactly is LEGO Horizon Adventures for? This isn’t LEGO’s first foray into the Horizon universe. The Danish toy company’s fantastic Tallneck kit, based on Horizon’s giraffe-like walking towers, is an almost 14-inch tall behemoth made of 1,222 pieces. If the brick count didn’t give it away, the recommended age for this model is 18+. In the physical world, LEGO Horizon has been aimed at adults because it’s adults who play the video game series. But one look at LEGO Horizon Adventures and it’s clear this isn’t anywhere close to the type of experience we’ve had with the two mainline Horizon games so far. For existing fans who are already chomping at the brick for a new game, this likely isn’t what they were hoping for. While I didn’t expect LEGO Horizon Adventures to simply be a full-**** Horizon game with a LEGO aesthetic, I am surprised that the trailer shows very little of what I’d consider to be the series’ core DNA. Horizon is all about tactically tearing apart ****** dinosaurs and animals. Thunderjaw wrecking your day? Blast off its missile launchers. Struggling with a Snapmaw? Snipe its freeze sac. Each machine is built of components that can be broken and shattered, an idea that would surely translate beautifully into snapping and scattering Lego pieces. And yet the trailer suggests that combat in LEGO Horizon Adventures will be similar to prior LEGO games of the Star Wars and Marvel varieties – give something a good, simple boop on the head and they’ll break apart. I’m not sure how satisfying this is going to be for long-term fans. And so the answer is obvious, isn’t it? LEGO Horizon Adventures is for children. This is a PlayStation Studios game being released for Nintendo Switch, afterall. But I’m not sure it’s that easy. LEGO games have been so successful with children because they’ve historically adapted licences that kids already love. As a pre-teen during the prequel era of Star Wars I loved the tie-in LEGO kits, and so the subsequent LEGO Star Wars video games were a no-brainer. But Horizon isn’t already beloved by kids in its original or LEGO form. And while my six-year-old nephew is as dinosaur obsessed as any **** his age, I don’t think an armour-plated t-rex is going to be a guaranteed magnet. He’d go wild for a new LEGO Jurassic World game, though, not least because there’s already age-appropriate LEGO kits he can play with. So who is LEGO Horizon Adventures for? I think it’s for gamer families. It’s for parents who spend dozens and dozens of hours playing Horizon on PS5 after they’ve put their kids to bed, and who now want to introduce that world to their sons and daughters. The ingredients are all there: as detailed by the PlayStation Blog, LEGO Horizon Adventures is a light-hearted retelling of Aloy’s original story, playable completely in co-op. It’s a way for an older gamer to share something they love with a **** who’s not quite ready for something as intense and complex as the full-scale Horizon games. That’s what I imagine the boardroom pitch was, anyway. And while I hope that LEGO Horizon Adventures finds its place, I think that place is going to be a much narrower niche than would be ideal for Sony. For the parent or older sibling in the co-op pairing, I wonder if LEGO Horizon Adventures will be able to translate all the things they love about the original games. Will the combat – the beating heart of Horizon – be good enough? Will turning the complex Aloy, with all her doubts and troubles and inner-******, into a cartoon character be satisfying? And for the child with the other controller, will this bright new world of machines, hot dogs, and (presumably) a message of environmental protection prove alluring enough to pull them away from more established characters and the likes of Roblox? I ***** that the sweet spot for both players will be slim. Historically, the LEGO pipeline has taken movies families love, turned them into physical LEGO kits they can build together, and then reimagined those kits as worlds that can be explored through video games. LEGO Horizon Adventures disrupts that pipeline by being a family game inspired by a LEGO kit for adults that was adapted from a video game for more advanced players. And so while I really do hope it’s a co-op delight, I can’t help but wonder if LEGO Horizon Adventures is built on shaky foundations. Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Open-world games have increasingly become the norm over the past decade or so, with games like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and Red ***** Redemption 2 helping to show how engaging expansive exploration can be. At the same time, a lot of open-world titles end up falling prey to repetitive design elements and lackluster environments. When an open-world game does click, it's because it rises above these pitfalls with consistent creativity and a meaningful world to explore. View the full article

Complex word elements are something you can make by combining ideas in Infinite Craft and building smaller concepts, like Water, into specific phrases, such as Humans. As its name suggests, you can create almost infinite words simply by throwing things together and experimenting. However, if you want to have only the human element, you need to carefully follow the right steps. View the full article

This year’s main Summer Game Fest presentation has now ended. Taking place once again at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, the show offered two hours of new game announcements and trailer for previously known titles. Most of the big reveals were instead confirmation of previous leaks, such as Lego Horizon Adventures (although the fact it’s also coming to Nintendo Switch was a genuine surprise). Read More... View the full article

The MSI Claw. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment in my May 18th review, one commenter pointed out they’d gotten higher benchmark scores than me. Sure enough: MSI had pushed out new graphics drivers and BIOS updates between the time I benchmarked and the time we published. I’ve now tested those updates. In some of my tests, they’re better. In others, I actually found them worse! Overall, they don’t change my conclusion one bit: the MSI Claw is the worst pick from today’s crop of consumer handheld gaming PCs, and you should steer clear. Below, you’ll find my new benchmark results in the same games, across all of the Claw’s standard power modes. In almost every test, you’ll see the Claw dramatically behind the competition in speed while using... Continue reading… View the full article

Different Archetypes give players other weapons to ******* with in the real-time aspect of Metaphor Re:Fantazio's battles. View the full article

Follow a coming-of-age story as Cali and Kira become certified motorcycle couriers called Petal Runners. View the full article

The game's previously-released "8-hour demo" has been updated, and some contests will be held with rewards for players. View the full article

This action RPG emphasizes high-speed combat. View the full article

The new trailer teases a brand-new unannounced monster near the end that can ***** lightning bolts from its mouth. View the full article