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Enlarge / All these goons are targeting Captain America, as shown in icons above their heads. Good. That's just how he likes it. (No, really, he's a tank, that's his thing.) (credit: 2K/Firaxis) [/url] I fully understand why people don't want multiple game launchers on their PC. Steam is the default and good enough for (seemingly) most people. It's not your job to compel competition in the market. You want to launch and play games you enjoy, as do most of us. So when I tell you that Marvel's Midnight Suns is a game worth the hassle of registering, installing, and using the Epic Games Launcher, I am carefully picking my shot. For the price of giving Epic your email (or a proxy/relay version, like Duck), or just logging in again, you can play a fun, novel, engaging turn-based strategy game, with deckbuilding and positioning tactics, for zero dollars. Even if you feel entirely sapped by Marvel at this point, like most of us, I assure you that this slice of Marvel feels more like the comic books and less like the overexposed current films. Just ask the guy who made it. Tactical deckbuilding is fun The game was very well-regarded by most critics but was not a financial success upon release in Dec. 2022, or was at least "underwhelming." Why any game hits or doesn't is a combination of many factors, but one of them was likely that the game was trying something new. It wasn't just X-COM with Doctor Strange. It had some ***** Emblem relationship-building and base exploration, but it also had cards. The cards blend into the turn-based, positional, chain-building strategy, but some people apparently saw cards and turned away. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article

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The 2024 Pokémon North America International Championship (NAIC) kicked off today, and the event already ran into a huge tech issue. In the middle of the Pokémon VGC Swiss round three match between Eric Rios and Jean Paul López Buiza, the power cut out for a brief moment and the stream was paused. Everything resumed shortly after, with casters Rosemary Kelley and Jake Muller confirming it was a power outage. View the full article

A major ***** recently revealed that the highly-anticipated horror game Slitterhead is set to launch on November 8. The release of this title being only a few months away will likely excite many Silent Hill fans, as Keiichiro Toyama, the creator of Konami's classic franchise, has been leading Slitterhead's development alongside his team at Bokeh Game Studio for several years. View the full article

Eagle-eyed users on Resetera and Reddit spotted a banner for Sid Meier's Civilization VII on the 2K Games website, which has now been removed. Read Entire Article View the full article

Most people don't get to save the world, which is probably for the best. As it turns out, if you do it the first time with style and flair, people are going to want you to do it again. Saving the world once should be enough for anyone but no, a properly successful adventure will frequently turn into the first of potentially many. Then again, if the world is in danger it's probably best someone with experience be the one to tackle the problem, so when a dark presence appears Grapple Dog Pablo is ready to take all his finely-honed skills and platform his way to victory again. This time, though, he's got a friend in the form of Luna, who's got a different move-set that lets her tear through her levels in a very different way. View the full article

Red ****** Reformed is an Exotic Pulse Rifle introduced in Destiny 2's latest expansion, The Final Shape, which concludes the Light and Darkness saga. This **** is a revamped version of Red ****** from the original Destiny. There are two ways that players can get their hands on Red ****** Reformed. The ******* has two unique perks that keep the **** balanced. This Solar Pulse Rifle gains boosted stats mid-combat and can heal Guardians. This guide will teach you to obtain Red ****** Reformed and unlock the Exotic Catalyst. View the full article

Aspyr has rolled out Patch 3 for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered after addressing some issues communicated in consumer feedback. Last month, Aspyr released Patch 2, which made several texture and graphical updates to the HD version. In the process, the posters seen in Sleeping With The Fishes (The Lost Artifact) were inadvertently removed. Patch 3 for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has restored the missing posters and also implemented some additional fixes across all three of the game's titles. Some updates are title-specific, whereas others are applied across all three games, including an outfit selector allowing players to customize Lara Croft's cosmetics at any time. View the full article

Today NVIDIA put out a new security bulletin, to highlight multiple security issues identified in their proprietary graphics driver for Linux and Windows. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The talent behind the cover character for Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 has been revealed, and it’s a new one for the series, along with a new actor. Thirty-five-year-old ********* actor Y’lan Noel will be playing an as-of-yet unknown character in ****** Ops 6, but he’s the one who’s depicted in the game’s promotional and cover art, according to a report by Variety. View the full article

If you need another set of games to play this weekend and into next week and probably longer, Humble Bundle put up the IGN Live at Home collection. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The original MSI Claw. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge If you’re still under the impression that an original MSI Claw might be a worthy purchase, I beg you to reconsider. MSI has now announced not one but two successors to the embarrassing handheld that are coming this fall — and hinting it might show off yet another one at CES in January. MSI already revealed an eight-inch Lunar Lake version dubbed the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus at Computex this week, but the company will put Intel’s Lunar Lake into a new seven-inch version at the same time. MSI Claw product management director Clifford Chun revealed the existence of that handheld in an interview with PCWorld and explained that should arrive with the launch of Intel’s more efficient Lunar Lake chips this fall. Lunar Lake not only has up to 50... Continue reading… View the full article

After almost 10 years, Kakao Games will be shutting down the North ********* and ********* servers for its MMORPG ArcheAge due to a decrease in active players. The open-world fantasy game, developed by XL Games, launched back in 2015 under the leadership of Korean developer Jake Song, who formerly worked on another MMORPG called Lineage. In November 2022, it was announced that a sequel to ArcheAge was in development and slated for some time in 2024. While ArcheAge has only been accessible on PC, the sequel will also be available on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. View the full article

Concord has been confirmed to have six different game modes in a recent announcement. Concord is PlayStation's upcoming hero-shooter that hopes to be its foot in the door of the medium of live-service shooters. View the full article

Valve recently stated that a Steam account and its entire library of digital games cannot be transferred to a third party, even if the original owner has *****. Now, GOG is addressing the issue, confirming that the ownership of digital content is a very complex topic. The digital store is... Read Entire Article View the full article

There was a lot that came out of my hands-on time with Delta Force: Hawk Ops that I didn’t expect. I didn’t know it was a top-to-bottom reboot of the 1999 series of military shooters, re-imagined meticulously in Unreal Engine 5. I would have never guessed it was attempting to strike out at not one, not two, but three different current shooter sub-genres all at once. And I would have never imagined that my short time with it would leave me anxious to play more of its heavy tactics-focused running and gunning. Developer Team *****’s Head of Studio Leo Yao answered my most obvious question first: “How did a ******** studio get their hands on such an ********* franchise?” Long story short, THQ Nordic acquired the assets from the original developer NovaLogic back in 2016, and it was lost in the Embracer Group slurry until it was rescued by Tencent a few years ago. “I’ve always had a soft spot for the series,” Yao told me, adding that outside of personal attachment, the team saw a lot of potential in reviving the franchise in 2024. They aren’t simply redoing the original game with shiny new coat of paint, either. They’re expanding it into a massive game with three distinct experiences: a large-scale, team-based PvP mode; an extraction shooter a la DMZ or The Cycle; and a single-player campaign with hopes of recapturing the magic of military shooters of yesteryear. A lot of that potential is in the series’ 2003 adaptation of the book ****** Hawk Down, about the Battle of Mogadishu. Yao told me that as the most recognizable entry in the series, it served as the perfect point of re-entry, and the best place to start the re-imagining process. The first big change being that this version of the single-player campaign will be based on the Ridley Scott film of the same name, complete with the rights to footage. He wouldn’t give me details on how any of this would integrate into the campaign, or the fact that the rest of the game’s near future tech and aesthetics would potentially change the story based on an event from the early ‘90s. Nor did I get any hands on time with it specifically, but he did mention that it is the team’s goal to make it a challenging and intense FPS experience where bullets are extremely lethal and being caught out of position could spell disaster. This version of Delta Force's single-player campaign will be based on the Ridley Scott film ****** Hawk Down. I spent most of my time with Havoc Warfare, Hawk Ops’ take on Battlefield’s Breakthrough, where attackers must take points of interest from defenders, pushing their zones of control further and further back until they’re completely run off the map. The first big difference between Hawk Ops and games like it is in the loadout screen. I had the option between four different characters, each with a suite of special abilities, weapons, and tools that made them unique from one another – much like the Specialists in the Call of Duty series, but with three or four unique actions per character. I warmed up with Kai, who is mostly your standard ******** gunner who can speed himself up temporarily, but also has a handy rocket barrage that's great for clearing out tight spaces. I really got to sink my teeth into some more tactical options with Terry, who can use drones to scan for targets and immobilize them for a brief *******, as well as set mines to trap enemies moving on objectives. The map I played had some key fortified areas where using a little recon in advance of an ******** really made the difference between taking an objective and getting stopped at the line. Unfortunately, I played in matches that were populated mostly by bots, and without pings or commands it was nearly impossible to coordinate these skills between players to make big gains, but the potential for comboing abilities for huge payoffs is written on the wall. Team ***** told me that other maps will test your squad’s tactical awareness even further as they’ll introduce mixes of indoor and outdoor objectives and verticality, as well as vehicles and ******* placements that can help teams get an edge or keep defenses solid. Before you even choose your characters, though, you can fiddle with your loadout, or spend the in-game currency to buy some of the dozens of weapons and gear pieces available. Something remarkable about customizability in Hawk Ops is that not only do weapons have a ton of potential to add bits and bobs to them, all of which have some sort of consequence on gameplay, but each one of those pieces can be further customized, too. And not just colors, materials, or textures, but the actual size of pieces like barrels and cheek guards can be adjusted to make even more minute tweaks to weapons. I don’t think I have it in me to fine tune the lengths of all my favorite **** suppressors, but for those who are looking for an extra layer of optimization, Hawk Ops has what you need. Dukes of Hazard Item progression gets a little more complicated when you get to Hazard Operation, the extraction shooter portion of Hawk Ops. Weapons and mods can be bought from a greater marketplace (and can be meticulously modded as in other modes) but can be permanently lost if you’re downed while deployed. Yao smirked when I mentioned the prospect of a player losing a **** they spent an unreasonable amount of time preening over it in an abrupt hail of bullets. “The risk/reward elements of extraction shooters will be very present.” If you come across someone else’s precious ******* while in the field and don’t see the same value in it yourself, you can resell it on an open marketplace for in-game currency, a feature also present in games like Escape from Tarkov. When you deploy into Hazard Operations mode, your goal is to scoop up anything valuable and take it back to base to sell. When you deploy into Hazard Operations, your goal is to scoop up anything valuable and take it back to base to sell. This could be other player’s prized weapons and armor, or rare treasures that only serve the singular purpose of being really valuable when resold, like a fancy futuristic VR console or some sort of super fancy high-tech medical equipment that I found on my journey. Clearly marked spots on the map highlight lockboxes that have a higher chance of containing something valuable, and are likely hotspots for ****** player activity. Between these points of interest are various encampments, natural features like caves and cliffs, and old corporate buildings repurposed as fortifications for the many AI mobs that exist to put your life and your stuff in danger. These regular enemies will never be as significant a threat as other players, but they do at least keep the pressure on you to move with caution, as well as providing opportunities to earn basic equipment like ammo and health to keep you topped up on longer deployments. Not all of these NPC enemies are pushovers, though. Boss enemies with high health and rarer loadouts exist on the map to grant players added challenge in exchange for a higher chance of great loot. The one I found was draped head to toe with body armor and had several goons attacking my flank, but with a sound strategy heading up into its lair, I found a way to conquer it. Though I could only try out one map, Yao and team assured me that multiple maps would be available to drop into at launch, each with their own layouts and points of interest. Something they really intrigued me was how character selection can affect your odds of survival. I was guided to choose the medical support character, as he had self-heals and a couple of reliable smoke deployment options to keep your movements hidden from dug-in threats. I can’t help but wonder how choosing someone like Luna with her Hawkeye-like trick arrows would fare in such an environment. Delta Force: Hawk Ops might share a lineage with the old PC series of the same name, but it doesn’t share much of a resemblance. Its single player mode is revamped from the ground up with modern tech, old-school difficulty, and the blockbuster ****** Hawk Down film as both reference and inspiration. Its two multiplayer offerings – a large scale objective based crawl and a dynamic extraction shooter – help highlight how Hawk Ops’ level design and characters put team composition and tactical decision making ahead of twitch *********. Will all of its ambitions come together in a game that has the chops to steal you from your current forever game? Time will tell. View the full article

A weird glitch in Stardew Valley has left one player with an interesting livestock problem, as their farm animals have somehow transformed into different versions of one of Pelican Town's residents, Kent. Based on reactions, this particular Stardew Valley glitch seems very rare and only affects pigs and brown cows. View the full article

The latest ********** family ******* has been revealed as Hands in a recent trailer for Texas Chain Saw Massacre, along with a new playable survivor, Maria, coming to the title on June 11. The one-minute video shows off some of their mechanics, but little has been confirmed. Hands is the seventh *******, excluding Grandpa, in Texas Chain Saw Massacre. View the full article

The Pokémon North America International Championship (NAIC) is underway and day-one usage stats show a very diverse Scarlet and Violet meta—something Wolfe Glick predicted months ago. Play! Pokémon has released the top most-used Pokémon for day one of NAIC, and there’s a lot to unpack on the VGC side. Looking at the top non-restricted ‘mons, Incineroar once again leads the charge at 43.51 percent, with Urshifu and Rillaboom not too far behind. These top three make up the very dominant *****/Water/Grass core, although we also have alternative options in Whimsicott, Amoonguss, Chi-Yu, and Pelipper all in the top 12. With Miraidon flying around with Electric Terrain, Electric-type ‘mons like Raging Bolt and Iron Hands are seeing a lot of usage as well. View the full article

When it comes to agent updates in VALORANT, Riot never fails to surprise the level-headed part of its community—and it’s no different with Patch 8.11 which introduces a couple of Clove nerfs nobody asked for. In fact, if Clove were to receive tweaks at all, it should have been buffs. Now, many of you may revolt against my claim, saying they are overpowered and highlighting their immensely successful launch. To those people I ask, can you really “control” a VALORANT map with Clove like you can with any of their peers? View the full article

It will take until after the regular portion of the season is done and dusted, but we’re finally set to see a 99 OVR player in EA FC 24 Ultimate Team thanks to the launch of new dynamic Path to Glory items for Euro 2024 and Copa America. Team of the Season ******* to deliver and was an overall disappointing piece of content, considering its status as the quintessential endgame Ultimate Team promo event. Not a single player over 97 OVR was suspicious at the time, but it’s now clear that EA was setting the stage for its Euro 2024 content to be the actual Thanos of EA FC 24 Ultimate Team. View the full article

The hardest decision you’ll make at the start of your A Twisted Path to Renown journey is deciding which free recruit to pick. This guide is designed to help you choose as it will explain which free recruits are best to start out with.A Twisted Path to Renown: Which free recruit should you choose?Selecting the right free recruit in A Twisted Path to Renown can make or break whether you survive a match and complete an extraction. For the most part, free recruits will have debuffs toward certain stats.When it comes to choosing a free recruit, you want to make sure you select one that doesn’t have any debuffs toward the following stats: Stamina, Stamina Regeneration, Sprinting Speed, and Strength. These four stats are crucial in survival and having any debuffs towards them can make the overall experience significantly more challenging. A debuff in any other stat is okay.Image: Flip Force Gaming / YouTubeSome examples of who not to choose are characters that...View the full article

Raids are the ultimate challenge in Destiny 2, and the stakes have never been higher than in the Final Shape. If you think you’re tough enough, here’s how to start the Salvation’s Edge raid in Destiny 2.Where to access the Salvation’s Edge raid in Destiny 2Screenshot: PC InvasionYou can start the Salvation’s Edge raid from the Pale Heart location in the Director. The node is on its own, far to the right, so you’ll need to scroll across to find it. Keep in mind the raid is in “Contest Mode” for the first 48 hours. After that time, the required Light Level will likely lower, although we can’t say by how much. Raids are peak content in Destiny 2, making most other PvE activities look like a cakewalk.What do I need before I can try the Salvation’s Edge raid?Before entering the raid, you must meet a few prerequisites. These aren’t visible in-game, but Bungie has mentioned them on social media and in their ...View the full article

When Sony launched the PlayStation 5 in late 2020, an accompanying FAQ noted the console was compatible with 8K displays. Sony further said that after a future system software update, the system would be able to output resolutions up to 8K once content was available. Read Entire Article View the full article

Trishiraite is a type of ore you can find in Genshin Impact to use as an ascension material, but what are the best farming routes? If you’re looking to ascend Sethos, you’ll need a lot of this material.Genshin Impact: Best Trishiraite farming routesTrishiraite appears throughout the deserts of Sumeru, specifically around the Realm of Farakhkert and Gavireh Lajavard. It’s a required ascension material for Sethos, the 4-Star Electro Bow character. You’ll need a whopping 168 Trishiraite to fully ascend Sethos, so let’s start farming!Screenshot: PC Invasion (via Teyvat interaction map)Asipattravana Swamp / Hills of BarsomNear the Asipattravana Swamp and the Hills of Barsom are quite a quite ore deposits for Trishiraite. These spots are a little complicated just because only the five Trishiraite in the middle image are available in the overworld between these two locations.On the left, you can find five more Trishiraite in Madinat al-Nuh...View the full article