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Where can you find Hades 2 Poppy? Another ingredient for the ****. The Poppy ingredient in Hades 2 is useful for a few things and is vital if you want to upgrade the Crossroads. Like many of the plants in Hades 2, you'll have to find the Poppy seeds if you want to collect this valuable resource, but where are they? The Hades 2 early access release has been a huge success, with our Hades 2 review heaping praise onto the roguelike game. Chronos is proving to be a tough nut to ******, and you'll need to work on yourself and your surroundings if you hope to succeed. One of the things you'll need to find on your journey is Poppy seeds; here's where you can find them, and harvest them Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hades 2 Chaos Trials explained The best Hades 2 boons Hades 2 cast and voice actors View the full article

They did it. Someone finally went and did it. Strategy games, JRPGs, roguelikes, anime, and cooking - if I've learned anything as a news reporter, it's that any one of these genres or elements, by themselves, can be enough to make a game pop on Steam. Now, they've all been combined into one, thanks to an extremely stylish, wildly ambitious new strategy roguelike RPG - a stratPGlike, if you will - that unsurprisingly has demolished its funding goal in less than three days. It's a bit Darkest Dungeon. It's a bit Genshin. This one could take off big time. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Image: Crystal Dynamics In addition to announcing a second season of Mr. And Mrs. Smith and a fifth season of The Boys, Amazon is adding another new series to its television lineup: a live-action Tomb Raider series. The series will be produced in collaboration between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge serving as the show’s writer and executive producer, confirming rumors reported earlier last year. The Tomb Raider series is no stranger to live-action adaptations. In the 2000s, Angelina Jolie starred as the badass grave ******* in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel, The Cradle of Life. At the time, both movies were financial if not critical successes but are viewed more favorably today, especially when compared to... Continue reading… View the full article

Do you ever think about how a game smells? I'm not talking about, say, the smell of the manual (back in the days when games had manuals). I mean what the game world might smell like if you could inhale its atmosphere. A few of the more putrid areas of FromSoft games, like Dark Souls' Blighttown, have got me wondering about how badly it might whiff. But it isn't something I consider especially often... Read more.View the full article

It’s been a long time coming, but the highly popular battle royale Stumble Guys is finally set to become available on PlayStation, while Nintendo Switch players will have their launch soon. First released in September 2020, Stumble Guys became a quick hit on mobile and made the move to Xbox platforms in January this year. Now, it’s time for other platforms to join the fun. View the full article

Ubisoft’s cryptic puzzle shared with fans as part of the marketing for *********’s Creed Shadows may have been solved less than a day after its big reveal. *********’s Creed Shadows is the long-awaited entry in the series set in Feudal Japan that players have been calling for, and its big announcement is set to take place in a video tomorrow, May 15. View the full article

Different achievements in Gatekeeper will unlock different Artifact groups, allowing you to bring more powerful upgrades into your runs. One of these achievements is to find Juju.Where is Juju in Gatekeeper?I was pulling my hair out trying to find Juju in Gatekeeper. When, as is typical, I finally found it out of sheer luck when I wasn’t even trying to find it. I considered that Juju could only be found incredibly late into the run, as I had no luck whatsoever finding it. Until I did.Screenshot: PC InvasionJuju can be found on the Ethereal Bridge in Celestium, the second planet you’ll venture to. Upon spawning in, go north until you find a tree. Nestled into the roots of that tree will be Juju, just sitting there. You’ll need to go right up to it to be able to activate it, however.Upon activating Juju, you’ll complete the achievement “Find Juju”, and the Artifact group will unlock. This artifact group only has one Artifact, aptly ...View the full article

Team Heretics’ Dominykas “MiniBoo” Lukaševičius will not attend VALORANT Masters Shanghai next month, the org announced today. The team has decided to give him a break from competing after exhibiting signs of burnout and exhaustion in recent weeks. In the team’s statement put out this morning, Heretics said his condition was not improving during the final days of the VCT EMEA Stage One playoffs, leading the org to make the “hard but correct decision” to temporarily move MiniBoo to the bench. The VALORANT roster status for Heretics at Masters Shanghai has not been determined yet but is expected to be announced soon. View the full article

Well, here's a bit of a nuisance. Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT is launching on May 16th and the developers have explained how it will work on Steam Deck but it's a mixture of good and bad news. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Many Mists of Pandaria raids in World of Warcraft will now have a daily lockout rather than a weekly one, with the change affecting both Dragonflight and Remix characters. When Mists of Pandaria Remix was announced, it was met positively by the World of Warcraft community, as the event is designed to let players have fun, collect cosmetics, and experience Mists of Pandaria content with their friends once again. It will run from May 16, 2024, until August 19, 2024. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

It seems the partnership between Amazon and Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics won’t just focus on video games. The two companies are expanding their cooperation to work on a new Tomb Raider live-action series set to feature on Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video. Plans for a live-action Tomb Raider series were confirmed by Amazon Games today, May 14, and will be part of the deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Crystal Dynamics. It is set to be written and produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who previously ran the critically acclaimed Fleabag show. Amazon and Crystal Dynamics previously announced their ****** efforts to create a new, story-driven single-player Tomb Raider game, though details are still few and far between. It is also unclear if the new live-action series will be canon to the new Tomb Raider title. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Once upon a time, The Recluse was the best primary ******* in Destiny 2. Its signature perk, Master of Arms, was so powerful that it became one of the main reasons ******* sunsetting happened back in the Beyond Light days. It was an iconic part of the Forsaken era, and thus an obvious choice for Bungie to reissue with the Into the Light update. It now joins the Brave Arsenal with an extra origin perk attached, so is it even more powerful than before?.. Read more.View the full article

One of the scarier bosses to tackle in Animal Well is the Bat, but how can you defeat this boss? If you don’t know the correct tools to use, you’ll be digging your own grave.Animal Well: How to defeat the Bat bossThe Bat boss is easier than you think, you just need to find the right items to do the trick. You can defeat the Bat boss in Animal Well by lighting three Firecrackers. While many enemies like those ghosts that chase you are dispelled just with one Firecracker, the Bat will only fly away if you use three in one go. Where to find Firecrackers and a MatchScreenshot: PC InvasionFirst off, you need a full set of Firecrackers to get rid of the Bat. You can find three Firecrackers together just one room to the left from where you ****** the Bat. Before you light the Match that sets off the Bat (the easiest way to get to this room), jump up to the left side of the room and throw your Yo-yo upwards. You’ll break a stalactite on the ceiling, allowin...View the full article

Arm Holdings is working to increase its market share in the Windows PC ecosystem. According to Rene Haas, CEO of the *** chipmaker and semiconductor designer, the Apple ecosystem has "completely converted over" and now it's time for traditional, x86-based PCs to contribute to the company's future business prospects. Read Entire Article View the full article

The Simulated Universe activity may get a massive update in Honkai: Star Rail 2.3 if new leaks about the upcoming patch are proven to be true. The turn-based RPG is still in the early stages of Version 2.2. The current patch brought forth the final missions in the main storyline of Penacony though there are bound to be more quests related to the Planet of Festivities in the future. Players can also experience playing with Robin and Boothill in Honkai: Star Rail 2.2, as these are the new characters added with the update. View the full article

Destiny 2 players have come across a new damage bug, occurring during interactions between Hunters using Golden **** within a Warlock's Well of Radiance. Season of the Wish has seemingly breathed new life into solar builds, especially after fixing a longstanding Destiny 2 bug which negatively impacted the duration timer for the Restoration buff after picking up a Firesprite or interacting with a Sunspot. Along with the seasonal relic perks, the Solar subclass has become very popular with players, especially those looking to produce a lot of damage very quickly. View the full article

Tank mains, this is the Overwatch 2 update you’ve been waiting for. After years of having a duo, tanks have been flying solo in OW2, but help has finally arrived (again) in season 10’s midseason patch. Several changes will affect tank survivability, including a global tweak that will help tanks remain active on the field of battle. View the full article

At the moment, it feels like a day can't go by without job losses, studio closures, and games being shuttered. Thankfully it's not happening everywhere; there are still some glimmers of hope appearing for gaming. One such glimmer is helmed by Jake Solomon, lead on the XCOM revivals, Marvel's Midnight Suns, and now top dog at new studio Midsummer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the best strategy games ever made is now less than $2 XCOM: Legends is real and is an official XCOM game XCOM reboot was originally real-time, and had vehicles View the full article

The current state of the ******* sandbox in Helldivers 2 isn’t ideal, as players keep seeing fun guns getting nerfed while the rest of the weapons are receiving almost meaningless buffs—and Arrowhead’s CEO agrees that something needs to change. This seemingly won’t last for too long, as on May 13, the Arrowhead developer by the name of Evil-Bosse on Helldivers 2 official Discord shared that the CEO, Johan Pilestedt, is doing a “major internal push on balancing,” and there are currently “a lot of talks meetings and a lot of chats going on” about the matter. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Here's a confession: I don't like building multiple bases. I never understood the point of establishing another camp or homestead in a survival crafting game when I've already got a nice roof and a cosy bed waiting for me back at my original. Why would I want to rebuild a layer of resource infrastructure and refinement that I've already progressed through once? It's always seemed like a waste of time and resources to me, especially if you're playing without console commands... Read more.View the full article

This week, Microsoft and Bethesda announced that they would be closing down multiple game development studios under their umbrella. These include Alpha Dog Games, maker of Mighty *****, and Arkane Austin, developer of the disastrous Redfall among others. In the gaming industry, the conventional wisdom has long been held that bad games sink you and great games save you, which would lead many to drawing an unfortunate line between Redfall’s reception and Arkane Austin’s closure — but immediately stops supporting that conclusion when you get to Tango Gameworks. Founded in 2010 by Shinji Mikami, the studio was largely known for horror games like Evil Within until last year. As part of a shadow drop release, the cool rhythmic action title Hi-Fi Rush garnered critical acclaim from all sides, multiple awards and nominations, and was recently ported to PlayStation 5. Xbox Vice President Aaron Greenberg even said that the game was a “break out hit” in “all key measurements and expectations.” Moreover, they did what critics and fans alike beg studios to do: make something wildly different outside of their comfort zones. Hi-Fi RUSH was a break out hit for us and our players in all key measurements and expectations. We couldn’t be happier with what the team at Tango Gameworks delivered with this surprise release. — Aaron Greenberg U (@aarongreenberg) April 21, 2023 Despite all that, late at night in Tokyo, the people who made a Game of the Year candidate were informed through an email by Xbox Games Studios head Matt ****** that they were closing the studio. Hi-Fi Rush was, by Microsoft’s own admission, exactly the kind of game the Redmond giant has been convincing their audience to stick with Game Pass for, which sets unclear goals and expectations from the get-go. What exactly constitutes a success on Game Pass? Hi-Fi Rush topped a whopping 3 million players last year, but that clearly was not enough for the higher ups. The lack of transparency with the general consumer on how games are evaluated internally is understandable, but it seems that not even Tango was aware of what metrics their game seemingly missed. Despite having worked at a ********* game studio myself, it does not take much experience to understand that creative jobs perform better when there is greater incentive beyond decidedly-unclear goals at the end. No one is working on a video game in hopes that they can get to the finish line of release so that they can continue to ***** their nails over whether a nearly-90 metacritic game will result in a studio closure down the line as corporate, as ****** puts in the email, “look across the business to identify the opportunities that are best positioned for success.” Which leaves us grasping within this self-imposed murkiness for an answer to an important question: If success cannot save your studio, what can? This is a problem that is likely on the mind of every other Xbox studio that does not produce games commanding audiences of tens of millions. With the upcoming release of Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice, it is not difficult to imagine that a successful launch would not shield Ninja Theory from Microsoft’s ever-floating evaluations. Now those talented developers who have spent years toiling away on their game across multiple changes in their parent company’s focus have an ominous pall hanging over their head. It is not just enough to make a good game, nor make a game that critics and audiences both like, but you have to hope that a C-Suite executive’s nebulous plans forward include taking your studio along for the ride. We have long assumed that corporate ownership by one of the richest companies in the industry would inoculate studios from tragic closures, but we were wrong. We thought that putting out a game with a modest budget would be protection, but we were wrong there too. And now we have learned that putting out a critically acclaimed title that said richest companies openly brag about succeeding will not protect anyone. There truly is no more shelter to hide under in the gaming industry and developers and consumers both suffer from it. When studios are concerned for their very existence, games like Hi-Fi Rush do not have space to make it to market. Tango Gameworks bet on themselves by making something different than what they are known for and, by every metric available to them, that bet demonstrably paid off. In a situation where their head was on the chopping block the entire time, waiting for the ************ to make the call on whether their axe comes down on the back of Tango’s neck, you could not get a Hi-Fi Rush. It is also unclear at this point what players can do to support games they love anymore. When the act of championing a game you like can only be measured in numbers too absurd for most video games, then there is no reasonable way to patronize them anymore. If three million players are not enough, why should anyone expect that four or five or ten million would be? It is no longer satisfactory to executives for a game to be a decent success, so there is little reason for audiences to become publicly enamored with what they play. In one fell swoop, Microsoft managed to undermine any grassroots marketing efforts they could have counted on for games that are not Call of Duty. The games industry is ill and things like this, like the closure of Tango Gameworks and high-quality studios like Roll7, are symptoms. They can be written off by people as not their kind of game or reasoned with twisted return-on-investment maximization brainworms, but they do not represent an industry that is happy and healthy. The industry is now trying to redefine what success means until it skyrockets into an utterly unattainable goal post. It is likely not by intention, the decision-makers are also flying by the seat of their pants on this high-speed rocket, but ultimately that doesn’t actually mean anything. Microsoft was supposed to be the company that stepped back and said “Not past this line.” Now they’re erasing the line in the sand and hoping we don’t notice. View the full article

Nvidia shared some critical performance metrics for its Blackwell accelerators when compared to the older Hopper GPUs in a recent post. According to Team Green, Blackwell GPUs will offer generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs) at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than Hopper. Read Entire Article View the full article

Counter-Strike 2 received a major update on April 25, which implemented Dust 2 into the competitive map pool, replacing Overpass. While a lot of players hated the decision, the latest data shows the map is immensely popular in Premier mode. After the update went live, a large amount of players immediately jumped into Dust2 in the game. As of May 13, the map has been the most-played one out of all seven ones in the active pool, according to data from Leetify. It has boasted a 35 percent play rate, precisely two times more than the second-placed Mirage, which had 17.5 percent. View the full article

Alfira is arguably one of the most underrated NPCs in Baldurs Gate 3. Initially found in the Emerald Grove, where she can teach the player character how to play an instrument, her number of appearances in a playthrough depends entirely on whether or not a player manages to keep her alive (or if theyve picked the Dark Urge origin character). Like most underrated video game characters, Alfira also gets some of the best cosplay. View the full article

Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Foamstars—three major Square Enix releases in the 2023 to 2024 financial year—all ******* to meet the company’s expectations. In a financial call reported by Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki, Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu admitted these three games ******* to meet expected revenue and profit margins, and contributed heavily to the biggest dip in the company’s operating income in the last 13 years. View the full article