Furniture store IKEA will pay people £13.15 / €14.80 per hour to work in a virtual store it’s opening inside Roblox. The Co-Worker Game, as it’s called, will let players “experience working in IKEA’s virtual universe”, the company said. “Fans will be able to live their home furnishing dreams and get paid for it, with a limited number of paid roles available,” IKEA continued. Applications run to June 16, with the game itself launching June 24. “The immersive experience gives players the opportunity to experience IKEA's unique approach to careers where non-linear career journeys are the norm and lateral moves across departments are commonplace,” IKEA said. It is IKEA’s first foray into mainstream gaming. There are paid shifts on offer for 10 successful applicants. They’ll help customers and get promoted to move departments, working in different sections of the store like the Showroom and Bistro, helping people choose their furniture, and even serving meatballs. “We’re excited to be the first brand to launch paid work on Roblox to showcase how we do careers differently, bringing our unique careers philosophy to life,” commented IKEA’s Country People and Culture Manager, Darren Taylor. “At IKEA, there is no set route to career progression. Our co-workers are able to change roles, switch departments, and grow in any direction they choose, both in the game or in the real world. There are many ways to learn and grow at IKEA, and that's what IKEA on Roblox is all about.” Digging into the detail, virtual interviews for shortlisted applicants take place for the fully remote virtual role between Thursday, June 14 and Tuesday, June 18. Each successful applicant will be paid an hourly IKEA Co-Worker rate for their time on the game. You have to be 18+ and in the *** or Republic of Ireland to apply. Successful applicants will be paid £13.15 (approx $16.78) per hour, the IKEA hourly rate of pay for a London member of staff. The wage matches the London Living Wage set in the ***, rather than the lower National Living Wage. Roblox, which has an incredible 77.7 million daily active users, is used by a number of companies to promote their brands with virtual experiences. But the platform and the company behind it has been accused of “exploiting” children who develop many of the experiences available to play. Roblox has denied this. 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
Dark Horse is adding another major property to its growing lineup of video game-inspired collectibles. Remnant II is getting a statue, one that immortalizes the iconic World Stone from the game. IGN can exclusively debut the first images of the Remanant II: World Stone statue. Get a closer look in the slideshow gallery below: This collectible brings the transdimensional portal to life as a statue measuring 10.5 inches tall and 4.5 inches in diameter. The statue rotates atop its pedestal base and features LED lights and customizable sound effects. The statue was sculpted by BigShot Toyworks, with prototyping and painting by J.W. Productions. It's limited to 1000 pieces worldwide and features a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity and base artwork. The Remnant II: World Stone statue is priced at $149.99 and is slated for release between December 2024 and February 2025. While you wait, why not check out the items available for preorder on the IGN Store? IGN's Travis Northup rated Remnant II a 9 out of 10 in his review, writing, "It’s astounding to think that if I were to create a list of my favorite soulslikes, my favorite looter shooters, and my favorite procedurally generated games, Remnant 2 would appear on all of those lists. This is a triumphant sequel that doesn’t just reimagine the soulslike genre as a co-op looter-shooter, but absolutely nails that concept in nearly every way – including many that the original did not. With completely engrossing combat, challenging and memorable boss fights, ultra-dense buildcrafting options, incredibly cool procedurally generated levels, and a clever multiversal concept that allows for a ton of different adventures in one package, it’s very likely going to become one of my most-played games this year. No matter which part of the multiverse you find yourself in, you should do yourself a favor and play this gem." In other news, the DLC Remnant II: The Forgotten Kingdom launched in April 2024. Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter. View the full article
XDefiant developer Ubisoft San Francisco has issued an update for the free-to-download shooter, targeting a range of issues across all platforms. The XDefiant Y1S0.2 patch (Ubisoft uses a patch naming convention based on the year and season from now on) fixes issues across social play and other parts of the game. As has become XDefiant’s style, Ubisoft has had a bit of fun with the patch notes, below, picking out a change on PlayStation 5: Fixed a thing on PS5 where people could sneak into places they shouldn't via PS5 Activities. XDefiant launched its pre-season last month and Ubisoft’s Call of Duty competitor appears to be off to a decent start, earning praise from competitive shooter fans hankering for an old-school experience. IGN's XDefiant review returned a 7/10. We said: "The fundamentals of XDefiant are good, but conflicting ideas and mechanics stop it from standing above a crowded shooter field." Ubisoft San Francisco has said it plans to fix a number of issues with the game as development continues, including the busted hit registration. XDefiant is not available on Steam, so we do not have an idea of concurrent player numbers, but according to a report from Insider Gaming, XDefiant hit 1.5 million players within just a few hours of launch. Of course, Ubisoft’s hope is XDefiant proves popular enough long-term to make its free-to-play live service a money-spinner throughout the rest of 2024 and beyond, with Activision reportedly preparing Call of Duty ****** Ops 6 for release in late October. XDefiant Y1S0.2 patch notes in full:SocialWhile in a party, we now display the most restrictive Crossplay setting among the party members, as it applies to the whole party. Also fixed an issue where party members with differing Crossplay settings couldn't matchmake.Fixed an issue with displaying incorrect player names on some Social screens.Fixed a ****** caused by spamming open/close View Party Invites, but who would even do that, calm down.On consoles, Ubisoft Connect party invites could display as if they were coming from Xbox or PlayStation Network friends. Fixed that, along with some other weird invite-related things.MiscellaneousFixed some missing terrain textures when players joined matches in progress on some maps.Input-Based Matchmaking setting status now updates correctly after changing it on Xbox.Fixed a thing on PS5 where people could sneak into places they shouldn't via PS5 Activities.Security improvements, various. 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
Image: Samsung Samsung has added some additional features to the new OLED G8 gaming monitor it announced back in January, including safeguards against OLED *****-in and AI-powered resolution upscaling for content and games. Preorders for the display are already available in regions like Australia and Singapore, suggesting that a US launch isn’t far behind. Best Buy lists the 32-inch Odyssey OLED G8 (model G80SD) for $1,299.99 — making it a smidge cheaper than the first $1,499.99 OLED gaming monitor Samsung released last year — and Samsung currently has a countdown timer teasing its “new 2024 monitors,” which expires today at 9:59AM ET. We’ve asked Samsung to clarify the release dates for the Odyssey OLED G8 but haven’t yet heard back. Samsung says the... Continue reading… View the full article
Akuma is the final DLC character for Street Fighter 6's first season and returns as an iconic fighter from the series whose moves, combos, and signature Raging ****** ******* create one of the strongest combatants in the game. Akuma boasts an overwhelming offense bolstered by the dark energies of the Satsui no Hado. With the right approach, nearly any opponent will fall to this master of the fist. View the full article
A closed alpha for modding support begins today on June 3, with a closed beta to follow in July. Patch 7 itself is set to launch in September. View the full article
Genshin Impact's version 4.7 will give a free copy of Cloudforged, a new four-star ******* with a unique skill. Yesterday, Genshin Impact revealed all the juicy details about version 4.7, confirming that Clorinde, Sethos, and Sigewinne will finally make their debut in the next update. These characters will appear on Romaritime Meluserenity and Illuminating Lightning banners, which are time-limited to three weeks. View the full article
Every hardware vendor seems to want a go at making a handheld, and now its ZOTAC jumping in with the Zone. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like other games in the franchise, uses Bells as its form of in-game currency. Bells are needed to buy items from merchants and to pay off the house that players buy from the iconic Tom *****. As a result, players need to gather quite a few Bells to pay off their debt and design their island to their heart's content, and earning that many can be both difficult and time-consuming. View the full article
When Liam Lawson got his first chance to race in Formula 1 in 2023 after AlphaTauri driver Daniel Ricciardo suffered seven hand fractures, few in the world of F1 expected him to do quite as well as he did. In a car that was usually towards the back of the pack he ended his first race in 13th after a chaotic Grand Prix in Zandvoort, then went two better at Monza to finish 11th. But it was around the difficult street track of Singapore where he put in arguably his best performance. He out qualified the three other Red Bull drivers, including world champion Max Verstappen, and ended up finishing ninth, scoring his first points in F1 that come the end of the season would see him finish above two other drivers who had more races than him. Obviously, years of experience in junior competitions along with a whole heap of talent were the main reasons for his success, but a tiny percentage was down to the F1 games he had been playing since he was young. Read More... View the full article
If you heard loud swearing last night in the Watford area it may have been one of two things: 1) me cussing out my (borrowed) Steam Deck while stealthily accessing the wifi from outside a closed public library, as I don't currently have broadband at home, or 2) me subsequently trying to make head or tail of Mech Engineer, in which you take charge of a mobile undersea metropolis and send squads of painstakingly assembled robosoldiers to semi-auto-battle squidgy alien fauna. Engineering a mech is a Herculean labour whose completion eludes today's puny scientists, and Mech Engineer doesn't aim to make life easier, whatever its putative status as a "means of fun". Mech Engineer is a game with an attitude problem, frankly. I realised this on in-game day two, when the interface coughed up a bunch of damage reports presented as pieces of paper, which I then had to crumple up and toss away individually. Read more View the full article
What is Prismatic in Destiny 2? Prismatic is the brand-new subclass introduced with The Final Shape, the conclusion to the ten-year Light and Dark saga. Unlike previous subclasses, it's not a whole new element. Instead, the key focus for Prismatic is on breaking down barriers between existing abilities, letting you combine them in new and exciting ways. It's also introducing three new Supers, one per class, alongside a few new mechanics, including an "elemental decoupling" to allow previously disparate effects to interact. One of Prismatic's key new mechanics is Transcendence. As you deal Light or Dark damage, or debuff enemies, you'll fill the relevant Light or Dark portion of the new Transcendence meter. Kinetic weapons fill both sides, albeit at a reduced rate, and once one side is full, it'll fill the other faster. Once both sides are full, you can activate Transcendence. This state gives you some big bonuses to ability recharge rate, ******* damage, damage resistance, the ability to shatter Witness shields, and class-specific grenades that entwine both Light and Dark with new, explosive results. It'll tie in with all the new exciting changes and content coming to Destiny 2 that you can read all about in our The Final Shape preview. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Things to do in Destiny 2 before The Final Shape launches All new Destiny 2 The Final Shape exotics Destiny 2 system requirements View the full article
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Xbox Game Pass subscribers now have two more indie games to enjoy, Firework and Rolling Hills, adding to the ever-changing selection of titles offered through the service. Though Xbox Game Pass regularly removes games from its catalog, it also replaces them with new titles, many of which are available on launch day. View the full article
After almost 30 years, CipSoft, the veteran multiplayer game developer behind 1997’s Tibia, is back with another MMORPG: Persist Online. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
According to Intel, Lunar Lake processors will offer a number of advantages over Meteor Lake, including better power efficiency, a 4x increase in NPU processing and 50 percent faster Arc GPU performance, thanks to the use of the next-gen Battlemage graphics architecture. The new SoCs will also have on-chip memory... Read Entire Article View the full article
If you haven't spent 600 hours of your life playing mobile games on the *******, you might not be familiar with Scopely, the company behind Monopoly Go. However, it's one of just two game development companies to have made Time Magazine's annual list of the most influential companies. Yup, as you can see in the full list here (thanks, Pocket Tactics), the mobile gaming giant behind the most lucrative thing that the Monopoly Man's done since his board game began causing family units to shatter like droopy moustaches coated in liquid nitrogen has cracked the top 100, with Fortnite creator Epic Games being the only other company in the industry to make it. Well, that's unless you count Nvidia being lauded for its AI stuff, and Microsoft as a whole being on there for, er, "making stratgic moves", which as it turns out is just code for more AI ****** in this case. But back to Scopley and Monopoly Go, which has casually raked in $2 billion since it launched in April 2023. Read more View the full article
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A MultiVersus players had to react fast after the developer pulled their main character out of the game in the middle of a tournament. A post on the MultiVersus X/Twitter account signaled the removal of Iron Giant from the recently released brawler due to various issues with the character, which players believe include overpowered combos and an infinite chain grab. Garnet was added to the Preview Rotation in response. Thank you MVPs for alerting us about the current issues surrounding Iron Giant. We have decided to bring him back into the shop for maintenance. During this time, you will not be able to play with him, but we are working diligently and will update you next week on his status. In… — MultiVersus (@multiversus) June 3, 2024 Fair enough, you’d think. But for one MultiVersus player the removal of Iron Giant couldn’t have come at a worse time. As revealed in an X/Twitter post by @NickSF_SSB, co-owner of No Style eSports, a player going by the name of ‘FlaSHFReeeze’ was in the middle of a bracket when their main, Iron Giant, was pulled from the game. Cue bemused conversation between the two players. Brilliantly, FlaSHFReeeze switched character and won the set anyway, proving that fighting game players always need a backup in case of emergency. He still won the set tho [Hidden Content] — NS | NickSF Solar Flare & Sunrise 2024 (@NickSF_SSB) June 4, 2024 This week, developer Player First Games said a number of missing features are on their way back to MultiVersus. After close to a year long hiatus, the Warner Bros. brawler featuring Gizmo from Gremlins, Rick and Morty, Lebron James, Batman, Arya Stark, Bugs Bunny, Shaggy, Tom and Jerry, Jason, and more returned in May 2024 to many players and many complaints. "Some of the missing settings and features from the open beta are incoming," wrote game director Tony Huynh on X/Twitter. "Team colors, end of game stats, swapping side and neutral *******, adjustable input buffer settings, etc." Huynh then said the team didn't have time to add these features during Multiversus's offline *******. "Many of these features are currently implemented and are in testing and we had planned, but were left out due to time as we had to rebuild every screen and feature again to support our new netcode and Unreal Engine 5 switch," he explained. No timeframe for the features was given, though as Huynh said more information is coming soon, the actual release may not be imminent. 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
Sometimes, League of Legends is just random—and a recent Brand play perfectly highlights this. On June 3, a League player shared an unfortunate clip from one of their games on Reddit. The player was pushing the bottom lane to create map pressure when the ****** Brand innocently cleared the wave with a simple W+E combo. This sparked a chain reaction, ******** the minions and Twisted Fate within seconds. View the full article
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is a Bronze Age pixel-art RTS from Wield Interactive that's now set to leave Early Access on June 13. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
At its heart, Palworld is a creature-catching survival game but offers an alternative to the typical battle-focused gameplay: breeding. Players can breed any 137 Pals, providing a unique way to acquire them. This method is particularly advantageous when you're seeking rare Pals that are hard to find or located far from your base. By breeding compatible Pals, you can hatch new Pals, eliminating lengthy exploration to capture them. View the full article
The Dwarves of Deep Rock Galactic are in for the challenge of their lives thanks to Ghost Ship Games' upcoming Season 5 called Drilling Deeper, which explores further depths in its mines and gameplay variety. Season 5 plans to give players access to past seasonal content and a treasure trove of new features. View the full article
The announcement of Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which heralds the arrival of official mod support, may have been championed by the community but Larian Studios wants to set expectations to avoid any major disappointments. When it comes to developing custom content for the sprawling RPG, there have been some impressive fan-made add-ons but nothing that fundamentally overhauls the experience. Players hoping to design new quests, characters, locations, and scenarios may want to temper their excitement given that Baldur's Gate 3's mod support won't be as robust as expected. View the full article
There's a sense that developer KT Racing assembled this next installment of the long-running Test Drive racing series by throwing a handful of darts at a mind map of popular Steam store tags and taping them to a car bonnet. It is open world and live service. It caters to both simulation lovers and arcade racers. It is competitive, but also social... Read more.View the full article
Dice & Fold is another upcoming game from Tinymice Entertainment and Rogue Duck Interactive, who are also involved in Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder and NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
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Furniture store IKEA will pay people £13.15 / €14.80 per hour to work in a virtual store it’s opening inside Roblox. The Co-Worker Game, as it’s called, will let players “experience working in IKEA’s virtual universe”, the company said. “Fans will be able to live their home furnishing dreams and get paid for it, with a limited number of paid roles available,” IKEA continued. Applications run to June 16, with the game itself launching June 24. “The immersive experience gives players the opportunity to experience IKEA's unique approach to careers where non-linear career journeys are the norm and lateral moves across departments are commonplace,” IKEA said. It is IKEA’s first foray into mainstream gaming. There are paid shifts on offer for 10 successful applicants. They’ll help customers and get promoted to move departments, working in different sections of the store like the Showroom and Bistro, helping people choose their furniture, and even serving meatballs. “We’re excited to be the first brand to launch paid work on Roblox to showcase how we do careers differently, bringing our unique careers philosophy to life,” commented IKEA’s Country People and Culture Manager, Darren Taylor. “At IKEA, there is no set route to career progression. Our co-workers are able to change roles, switch departments, and grow in any direction they choose, both in the game or in the real world. There are many ways to learn and grow at IKEA, and that's what IKEA on Roblox is all about.” Digging into the detail, virtual interviews for shortlisted applicants take place for the fully remote virtual role between Thursday, June 14 and Tuesday, June 18. Each successful applicant will be paid an hourly IKEA Co-Worker rate for their time on the game. You have to be 18+ and in the *** or Republic of Ireland to apply. Successful applicants will be paid £13.15 (approx $16.78) per hour, the IKEA hourly rate of pay for a London member of staff. The wage matches the London Living Wage set in the ***, rather than the lower National Living Wage. Roblox, which has an incredible 77.7 million daily active users, is used by a number of companies to promote their brands with virtual experiences. But the platform and the company behind it has been accused of “exploiting” children who develop many of the experiences available to play. Roblox has denied this. 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