Capcom’s co-op dinosaur mech game Exoprimal will not receive any new content, the company has announced just a year after the game came out. The shooter launched in July 2023 as a brand new intellectual property from Capcom and an attempt to create a successful live service. Despite various updates and crossovers with other Capcom franchises, such as Street Fighter, that attempt has not been as successful as hoped. According to SteamDB, Exoprimal had a 24-hour peak concurrent player count of just 66 on Valve's platform, with only 41 concurrent players at the time of this article's publication. Capcom said that with the release of Title Update 4, all planned Exoprimal seasonal content has been finished. After Season 4, which concludes on July 11, Season 1 will return, marking the beginning of a recycling of already released content. From there, a new season will begin on the first of each month. In addition, Season Passes 1 to 3 will be available for ***** again. “This will allow players to obtain items from all seasons,” Capcom explained. Essentially, Exoprimal will be put on a Season 1 to 4 cycle going forward. Capcom insisted all online services will continue to be available, so Exoprimal will remain available to play despite the company essentially walking away from the game. All gameplay modes will remain available to play, including the main Dino Survival mode, as well as endgame content such as Savage Gauntlet and Time Loop Rebellion. If you're playing alone or match with only a few other players, Bots will still be added “so that you can fully enjoy the Hammerheads' story and reach the ending,” Capcom added. “The Exoprimal team appreciates your interest and support, and we hope to see you in the wargame!” Exoprimal’s announcement back in 2022 was seen as a ****** knell for a potential Dino Crisis revival, but Capcom teased fans recently when it tweeted out a solitary image to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the much-loved dinosaur survival horror game. In August last year, Capcom admitted to “challenges” given Exoprimal is a new IP, but pointed to the fact it had more than one million players as a “positive." “Given that this game is an all-new IP, the situation is not without its challenges; however, we view the fact that the game has amassed over one million players to be positive,” Capcom said at the time. “Going forward, we will continue to release content for the game while monitoring player behavior with an eye toward expanding sales.” Capcom insisted it expected Exoprimal would be a profitable project overall (it launched straight into Game Pass). Exoprimal does not currently feature on Capcom’s list of platinum-selling titles, which means it has sold less than one million copies. IGN’s Exoprimal review returned an 8/10. “Exoprimal's unique take on the hero shooter genre is a bold one – with its best modes and surprises hidden deep within its goofy sci-fi story – but a variety of fun exosuits, the simple appeal of tearing through thousands of dinos, and great multiplayer design make that grind an easy one to recommend sticking with,” we said. 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
By all accounts, the FF14 Dawntrail launch has been far smoother than Endwalker. Aside from day one, I've had almost no login queues at any time of day, and the overall experience has been pretty smooth. However, it wasn't without flaws, and due to issues on both console versions Square Enix is preparing to hand out free game time for Final Fantasy 14 to all players with a subscription, regardless of which platform you play on. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The first FF14 Dawntrail job changes are on the way, Yoshida reveals All FF14 Dawntrail Aether Current locations FF14 Dawntrail's "urgent issues" are being fixed, Yoshi-P apologizes View the full article
Drive Discs are your Artifacts in Genshin Impact or your Relics in Honkai: Star Rail. You can either farm them or craft them in the Master Copy. But in Zenless Zone Zero, you must unlock the Music Store to fine-tune your Drive Discs. Zenless Zone Zero introduces Drive Discs as soon as you reach level 20. You’ve probably walked past the Bardic Needle Music Store several times while completing Officer Mewmew’s challenges to find Bangboo or Cargo on Sixth Street. It’s not hard to put two and two together and realize that there’s more to Drive Discs than just equipping them as you get them. In this guide, I’ll show you how to unlock the Music Store and explain every level-up upgrade in Zenless Zone Zero. View the full article
Last week, a group of modders introduced a new concept to the Starfield Reddit: an entire planet dedicated to Tamriel from The Elder Scrolls series, aptly named Project Tamriel. But their grand vision was apparently not meant to be, as a few days later the team decided to rescind their plans... Read more.View the full article
XDefiant’s highly anticipated Ranked mode is finally live, and as exciting as that sounds, players are calling out Ubisoft for not giving much thought to setting its rules before the launch. View the full article
The First Descendant is often compared to Warframe—and with good reason. The First Descendant draws direct inspiration from Digital Extreme’s free-to-play looter shooter and its unique mechanic of farming and building new characters. So, which one should you play? We’ll help you decide whether you should play The First Descendant or Warframe. View the full article
The First Descendant has a stacked roster of characters you can play as, and Ajax is a popular choice, so we’ve outlined the best possible build you can use. Ajax is one of three starter options in The First Descendant and, with a high amount of defense and a Tank role, is a solid choice to begin with. While you won’t be dishing out massive amounts of punishment, you can play an important role in your squad. View the full article
Soon we'll see the arrival of AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 CPUs, but in the meantime we've updated all our CPU benchmark data to recap how the current Intel and AMD generations played out. Read Entire Article View the full article
Are those some spots I see in the mirror? Must be the teens. GamingOnLinux, the website, is another year older today and I'm still blown away by what we've achieved together. 15 years! I can hardly believe it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Facewear is a new cosmetic option in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. It allows you to customize your glasses and other facial equipment better, including spectacles or monocles. It is a brand-new equipment slot, though none of these items have combat stats. View the full article
Rockstar Games may have already provided the world with a monolithic single-player campaign in Grand Theft Auto V but players would have received even more story content were it not for Grand Theft Auto Online. Despite the narrative and characters earning critical acclaim from fans and critics alike, the ******-riddled stories of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor largely come to an end with the game's credits role. Given Rockstar's reputation for releasing massive expansions, fans expected some kind of DLC building upon the story, but due to shifting priorities, these projects were scrapped. View the full article
Elden Ring's got another patch out and it's tinkered with Shadow Of The Erdtree weapons, fixed some bugs, and still not done anything about the game's performance issues. That perfume bottle and lightning combo? Binned off. Everyone's favourite summon Blackknife Tiche? She's seen a certain health-regen bug fixed, so everyone's not being duped into thinking she's been heavily nerfed since the Shadow Lands sprung forth. Read more View the full article
Solely playing the main story of The First Descendant can leave you underpowered when the time comes to take on Void Intercept Battles. The ***** Bride requires more preparation than any previous bosses, so here’s everything you need to know to beat it. How to defeat ***** Bride in The First Descendant Always come prepared. Screenshot by Dot Esports The ***** Bride is a level 44 Void Intercept Battle in The First Descendant on normal difficulty and is similar to Stunning Beauty in design. The weak spots on this boss are pretty much the same: View the full article
Diablo 4 has many bosses for you to ******. Some require beating lesser enemies to farm the rare materials necessary for spawning them, while others can simply be found in dungeons or at the end of quests. One legacy boss in particular, however, is famous for his enduring habit of always showing up at the most inopportune time. We’re talking about The Butcher, of course, the classic, menacing boss who ambushes players, spawning at any moment without warning. Blizzard clearly doesn’t think he’s threatening enough, though, because there’s now a more terrifying version of it you may encounter. Read more View the full article
Obsidian have spent a lot of time tuning up Avowed's combat in response to negative reactions to the new action-RPG's initial reveal footage at an Xbox developer direct, with gameplay director Gabe Paramo conceding that the team could have oiled the hinges and buffed the contacts a little more before showing the game off. Read more View the full article
The Major Order that Helldivers 2 have been plugging away at for the past couple of days is definitely proving to be an interesting one. The latest development in it seems to hint at some fresh weaponry from the first Helldivers potentially being incoming. If you're out of the loop, the MO has tasked folks with holding on to the planet X-45, so the ruins of a "lost Advanced Weapons Lab from the First Galactic War", which was "working on development of a powerful interplanetary battle station" prior to it falling into disrepair, can be excavated. As you can imagine, that's gotten the ol' divers pretty interested. As they work on doing just that, players have gotten a fresh strategic update, which reads as follows: "The first layer of rubble covering the advanced weapons lab on X-45 has been cleared. Initial reports show show the facility ******** largely intact. Read more View the full article
Call of Duty players are picking the ****** Ops series above all others within the larger franchise and dedicating themselves to only buying ****** Ops/Treyarch games in the future. Call of Duty has had trouble winning over the hearts and minds of fans in recent years, particularly within the new Modern Warfare trilogy. The new Modern Warfare 3 may be the most poorly received CoD game of all time, with nearly 10,000 “Mostly negative” reviews on Steam. Several controversial points within the game led to this point. But the fanbase seems hopeful that ****** Ops 6, led by Treyarch rather than MW’s Infinity Ward, won’t have the majority of these issues, and the result is a boycott on all non-Treyarch CoD games moving forward. View the full article
Individual Descendants in The First Descendant have unique quest lines to progress through, with Bunny likely being the first you encounter, and we’re here to tell you where to find the Records in the Search of the Relic quest. Unique Descendant questlines in The First Descendant provide a backstory for each character, with more to come in future updates as revealed in the roadmap, and Bunny’s quests have you searching high and low for lost Journals. View the full article
Ubisoft is continuing its NFT gaming push, having just announced a new partnership to that effect. The move signals that Ubisoft is still unwavering in its pursuit of the technology that has already received significant pushback from its fans. View the full article
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft developers Bit Golem announced this week that they’ve raised 200,000 złoty (around $50,000) towards humanitarian aid charities aiding Ukranians, including the Polish Red Cross, Save the Children, and Voices Of Children. Dagon itself is a free game, but has several pieces of paid DLC, all of which are currently on *****. Read more View the full article
Nekomata is an S-Rank agent in Zenless Zone Zero, and as a member of the Cunning Hares Faction, she’s fierce and powerful. Here’s the best Nekomata build in Zenless Zone Zero. View the full article
The First Descendant has enjoyed a big launch, but it’s also been marred by a number of issues that developer Nexon has continued to apologize and offer compensation for. Since the free-to-play co-op focused looter shooter launched a long list of issues has emerged, including frame-rate problems, the ******** to deliver on promised items such as Twitch drops, and for some players, the ******** to deliver items they’ve paid real-world money for. The latter issue revolves around a problem where customers have yet to receive items when they’ve bought the same item multiple times through the basket on Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform stores. Developer Nexon issued an update on this “mass Caliber purchase error,” promising a fix. In the meantime, it asked players to buy “Caliber” items (items that are bought with the premium in-game currency that is itself bought with real-world money), individually “to avoid any inconvenience.” For those who bought items from July 2-4 and have yet to receive them, these purchases will be canceled, Nexon warned. “The same measures will be taken for any further mass purchases until the error is resolved,” Nexon said. “We apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by this error. We are working diligently to fix the issue as soon as possible to minimize inconvenience.” Meanwhile, producer Lee Beom-jun published a developer chat to YouTube in which he thanked and apologized to players. In the video, the Nexon developer promised a hotfix that would optimize performance of the PlayStation 5 version (The First Descendant runs particularly poorly on PS5). There’s work on those missing Twitch drop rewards, as well as a promise for **** sound improvements and ****** fixes. Interestingly, Lee Beom-jun offered an explanation of sorts for The First Descendant’s controversial third-party data collection and sharing policy that Nexon asks players to agree to before playing the game. This personal information sharing, one of the leading complaints amid the game’s ‘mixed’ Steam user reviews rating, is supposedly required because Nexon uses it to track what players are doing in The First Descendant in order to improve it. Lee Beom-jun insisted Nexon does not use players’ personal data, rather the nicknames they choose. There is no explanation for The First Descendant’s ultra aggressive monetization, however, which some players have described as “microtransaction *****.” Despite all these problems, The First Descendant has enjoyed a big launch, with a huge 239,513 peak concurrent players so far on Steam. That’s enough to put the game in Steam’s top five most-played games. Sony and Microsoft do not share player numbers. Check out IGN's The First Descendant review in progress to find out what we think of the game so far. 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
Grand Theft Auto 5’s planned story DLC was cancelled because GTA Online was making so much money, a former developer claims. Info datamined from the game in 2023 suggested that a DLC pack named Agent Trevor was one of three cancelled expansions for the game, alongside other expansions called Zombie Apocalypse and Alien Invasion. Joseph Rubino, who was a senior camera artist and virtual cinematographer at Rockstar for six years, has told the SanInPlay YouTube channel that he worked on the Trevor DLC before it was cancelled. Read More... View the full article
In news that should put a smile on your face no matter how ******* a day you might be having, a Shiba Inu named Peanut Butter has won a game of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB at this year's edition of Summer Games Done Quick. Not only that, but with help from his owner, the doggo did so in pretty dramatic fashion. If you're not familiar with Peanut Butter, he's the dog of speedrunner JSR_ and has become pretty well known for playing NES games like Gyromite via a control system that seems him provide the control inputs based on treat incentives provided by his human companion. It's pretty cool. At this year's SGDQ, PB stepped up to play a bit of the 1994 NES classic Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, with the aim of winning one game as Griffey's Seattle Mariners - thereby accidentally providing a weird side note in the history of baseball's most interesting team. Read more View the full article
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After 20 years, Phantom Brave's new entry is off to a promising start. View the full article