Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment have announced that poorly-received plans to overhaul the battle royale's Premium Battle Pass will be partially walked back. Most crucially, the new passes – set to launch alongside the upcoming Season 22 in August – will no longer be sold exclusively for real-world cash; as with previous BPs, players will still be able to buy them with accumulated in-game currency. Read more View the full article
I've never been a poetry guy, not because I don't like it, I've just never gone out of my way to read them over books or whatnot. The poems I've engaged with the most are those read out during wedding ceremonies, those that pop-up before the start of a horror game, or The Tiger by 6-year old Nael that occasionally pops up as I'm doomscrolling. But thanks to the multiplayer web game "fridge poetry", where you drag words to create poems, I might become a day-to-day poem guy. Going off my first effort, I don't think many will appreciate my career switch. Read more View the full article
Concord, Sony’s $40 hero shooter set to launch on PlayStation 5 and PC in August, does not have a battle pass. Sony-owned developer Firewalk Studios took to social media to answer questions coming out of the recent closed and open betas, and confirmed Concord bucks the live service trend by ditching a battle pass in favor of an old-school unlock system fueled simply by playing the game, completing objectives, and leveling up. “Concord does not have a battle pass,” Firewalk said. “We wanted to focus our attention on making Concord a rewarding and robust experience on day one, where just playing the game, leveling up your accounts and characters, and completing jobs yields meaningful rewards.” No Battle Pass, folks. You own Concord, Concord doesn't own you. Firewalk Studios gameplay animation director, Mark DeRidder, followed up by tweeting: “No Battle Pass, folks. You own Concord, Concord doesn't own you.” Concord is set to enter the tough live service hero shooter market, taking on established players such as Blizzard's Overwatch 2, EA's Apex Legends, and Riot's Valorant by charging $40 all-in, rather than go free-to-play with microtransactions and battle passes, as its competitors do. The game’s chances of success are a hot topic online, with recent poor concurrent player numbers on Steam for the closed and open beta fueling the sense that Concord will likely struggle on PC. Concord may fare better on PS5 (Sony does not make PlayStation player numbers public), but tough questions will surely continue around whether the game hits Sony’s commercial expectations for it. Sony has found enormous success going down the PS5/PC cross-platform route for fellow PlayStation live service, Helldivers 2. Arrowhead’s third-person co-op shooter, which also launched at $40, is PlayStation's fastest-selling game of all time with over 12 million sold in 12 weeks. Early indicators suggest Concord will struggle to emulate its live service predecessor’s sales success. Meanwhile, Firewalk confirmed Concord does not have a PvE mode at launch, although pointed to the addition of new modes in the future. Concord launches with the six 5v5 PvP modes seen in the beta, alongside 12 maps and hundreds of customization items to unlock. The idea is Firewalk will release new characters, maps, and plenty more as part of regular post-launch seasons. Cinematic vignettes will be released weekly in-game at launch (three we shown during the beta). These let you get to know the characters and learn about life as a Freegunner and the broader Concord galaxy. One big problem the beta suffered from was no mid-match leaver penalty, and no join-in-progress system. That meant players would be faced with playing as part of an under strength team, or against a team short on numbers, which would encourage more players to leave. Firewalk said “ensuring teams are complete and evenly matched throughout a game is a priority for us,” and confirmed plans to explore the potential of a leaver penalty system “to incentivize players to start and stay in complete teams,” but it doesn’t sound like it will be in place for launch. And finally, at launch, Concord will have its training mode and Galactic Guide unlocked. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article
Recruitment is a vital component of success in College Football 25. Managing your recruiting hours is pivotal, but can you increase the number of hours available? We’ve got the answers. Learning how to recruit is the most important thing in College Football 25, and we have plenty of tips to help you get to grips with the mechanic, but maximizing the time available to you is the most valuable approach. View the full article
An update for the PC version will launch on the same date, including an improved block and parry system, charged heavy attacks, new enemies, UI changes, and improved controller support. View the full article
After Five Nights at Freddy's success on the big screen, it only makes sense that Hollywood studios are scrambling to find the next hit which may convince Generation Alpha to leave their computers and phones for a bit and visit the nearest cinema. However, trying to make a franchise out of the brain-rotting viral Internet sensation Skibidi ******* might be a bit too much. Variety shared an exclusive interview with filmmaker Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman on July 24. The main subject of the conversation? They're seriously looking at Skibidi ******* as something with movie and TV potential. If you aren't a teenager, chances are you don't know what the ***** we're blabbering about here, so let us give you a quick rundown of Skibidi ******* lore: In a general sense, Skibidi ******* is a machinima web series of YouTube videos and shorts that have been created by Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded to the channel ******!?*****!. These were produced using Valve's handy Source Filmmaker, and while the series started as kind of a joke, it's somehow evolved into a story that presents a fictional war between human-headed toilets and humanoid characters with electronic devices for heads. Read more View the full article
Has your mind ever been blown while doing a crossword? Mine has. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword clue is all about how you’d react or what you might say in a mind-blowing situation. Imagine you got Wordle on the first try. That’s mind-blowing. What’s the first thing that would come out of your mouth in that scenario? View the full article
The Escalation of Freedom is Helldivers 2‘s biggest update yet, and in addition to introducing new content, it features quality-of-life changes to address the grief-kicking problem. In a Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom blog post on July 24, developer Arrowhead Game Studios announced a system where if you get kicked, you spawn in a new session as a host with all the team’s loot from the previous session. You can pick up all the items before extraction and get out without losing any rewards. View the full article
Chained Together is the latest platforming co-op sensation where you climb up from ***** while chained to another player—and it’s finally come to Roblox. While similar to the game it’s based on, this is still a Roblox game with codes. Here are all the codes for Roblox Chained Together. View the full article
Sign-up before July 31 for a chance to participate. You can also earn a gift card reward for uploading a video in the Creator's Program View the full article
Grit And Valor 1949 certainly evokes the tactics of Into The Breach, with its stompy machinery and floating tile battlegrounds. But, despite all appearances, this one isn’t actually turn-based at all. A tiley, tiny real time strategy then? Aye, and one that’s actually pretty frantic as it happens. Missions are snappy, intense skirmishes. You’ll ****** off waves while trying to protect your useless, freeloading command vehicle. This threat, combined with on-the-fly tactical consider-me-do's like utilising cover and keeping rock-paper-scissors matchups in your favour ends up spawning something quite distinct. Please, do stomp on, preferably with less hypens for all our sakes. Read more View the full article
The Sims 4 recently released its latest free update for the base game, aiming to enhance it with fresh content. However, instead of excitement, many players of The Sims 4 have expressed widespread frustration due to a range of bugs and performance issues that have plagued the update. View the full article
Fallout: London, the massive fan-made Fallout 4 mod set in Poundland Prime (No Elephants, Some Castles, Canary Wharfare) has finally got a release date. Happy days, it’s actually today, Thursday 25th July. The news comes from Inverse, who’ve sent their dear alsatian companions sniffing around the mod’s Discord. Yesterday, Team FOLON lead Dean Carter shared the song I Just Can't Wait (For Tomorrow) then, when sniffed at *******, confirmed that the 'Tomorrow' part meant tomorrow (as in, today), "Unless nuclear war happens." Read more View the full article
The First Descendant’s latest hotfix reduced the cooldown timer for Volgus Strategic Outposts from five minutes to one minute, and players are pleased with the change. On July 24, The First Descendant received its 1.0.4 Hotfix, which changed and rebalanced a few things in the game. The hotfix also gave us more information about the upcoming Descendants and the new weekly challenges. View the full article
Updated July 25, 2024: We added a new code! Transforming into an alien and smashing enemies in Benverse Protector is super fun! Defeating opponents will bring you DNA Coins that you can use to upgrade your Omnitrix, but if you’re wondering if there’s a better way to obtain them, keep on reading. View the full article
If you're familiar with indie developers Double Stallion, then you likely know then for making 2D side-scrolling games with anime-inspired visuals, such as Speed Brawl and Convergence: A League of Legends Story. So it's a bit of a shock that their new recently-revealed game veers away from side-scrolling, instead being a co-op action-RPG extraction game, a rather unique twist. Said game is dubbed Surfpunk, and as its name may imply, the central theme here is a bit of a post-apocalyptic world with an emphasis on surfing culture, all while keeping the team's signature anime style. Basically, imagine an answer to the incredibly rare question of "What if Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont HIgh was a Final Fantasy character?" View the full article
The bonafide success of all-new League of Legends game modes Arena and Swarm have inspired Riot Games to start work on even more alternate playlists—including some that may “push the envelope.” League has long existed with its more traditional modes, mainly Summoner’s Rift and Howling Abyss. While that has kept it among the biggest games in the world, new hype has flooded into the fandom with the birth of fresh game modes across the last few seasons, including last year’s Arena and now Swarm. View the full article
With such a short LoLdle quote yesterday, I’m happy to announce today’s League of Legends champion quote has a little more substance. If you thought it would be easy to solve though, you may be wrong—and that’s be why you’re here. The July 25 LoLdle quote may seem easy to some, mainly support players who love diving in for ******, engaging, and sneaking away. That said, Even if you’re a support main like myself, this is a challenging quote because there are a few champions to whom this quote could apply. If you’re tired of struggling, I have the answer. View the full article
In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s latest Mystery Gift distribution, you can get a free Fuecoco based on the one seen in the anime. Previously, we’ve had Mystery Gift codes to claim Dot’s Quaxly and Liko’s Sprigatito from Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and now it’s finally Roy’s Fuecoco’s time to make its debut in Scarlet and Violet. For a limited time, you can collect Fuecoco and the other two Gen IX Starters from the anime and have them join you on your own adventure through the Paldea region. View the full article
Fallout London is a DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod made by dedicated fans that is designed to bring the long-running franchise to the other side of the Atlantic. It’s been in the works for quite a while, and now the mod is finally here. The hype has swept across the entire Fallout fandom, leading many who play on Xbox or PlayStation to wonder if it will make it to their preferred consoles. View the full article
Riot Games is joining the fighting game world with 2XKO, a Runeterra-themed brawler designed to bring fan-favorite League of Legends champions to a new genre—and many are wondering if the studio’s controversial anti-cheat program Vanguard is coming too. Vanguard, which started life packaged alongside VALORANT in 2020 and then successfully shipped in League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics early in Season 14, has its fair share of doubters. Amid the PC-bricking claims and concerns around its kernel-level digging, some gamers simply want to avoid it. View the full article
Acid is incredibly useful for crafting in Once Human, but gathering its main ingredient, Polluted Water, can prove challenging amidst the game’s expansive water-covered map. While water covers 40 percent of the landscape, locating Polluted Water often becomes a daunting and confusing task. Here’s how to get your hands on the elusive Polluted Water in Once Human. View the full article
“Take your pick” is a troublesome clue in today’s NYT Crossword puzzle because there are endless answers to this. It literally could be anything. So, how are we supposed to know the answer? We aren’t… not without a little help. This “Take your pick!” clue is from the July 25 NYT mini crossword puzzle. You’d think it’d be easy to solve with only three letters. But if you’re here today, you might also be struggling a fair bit with what it could actually be. View the full article
Roblox’s credibility when it comes to keeping its playerbase of children safe has this week been called into question after the arrest of Arnold Castillo, a child predator. Last week, Bloomberg shared a report titled Roblox’s Pedophile Problem which documented the case of Arnold “DoctorRofatnik” Castillo, owner of Sonic Eclipse Online. The report suggested Roblox has ******* to protect the many children playing the game, with more details then included in a companion video on YouTube. View the full article
While there may not have been too many, one of today’s confuddling NYT Crossword puzzle clues is “Apt anagram of Rhino-I.” I enjoy anagrams, but I wasn’t sure what this one meant—especially the “I” part. If you’re here, you’re probably in the same boat. This clue is five-across in the July 25 NYT mini crossword puzzle, and I could only solve it by guessing what the “I” part meant (deleting a bit). The key to this was knowing that there are no anagrams for the word “rhino.” View the full article
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Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment have announced that poorly-received plans to overhaul the battle royale's Premium Battle Pass will be partially walked back. Most crucially, the new passes – set to launch alongside the upcoming Season 22 in August – will no longer be sold exclusively for real-world cash; as with previous BPs, players will still be able to buy them with accumulated in-game currency. Read more View the full article