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Where do you find Bronze in Hades 2? This essential upgrade material will need to be hunted down if you want to craft the Rod of Fishing and start dredging up creatures from the environment's watery areas. You'll need to head to the surface for this material, but where exactly can it be found? There are many Hades 2 incantations that also call for Bronze, but it takes a few hours of gameplay to unlock the warped gate and head for Olympus. We've found the most reliable areas to mine Bronze in Hades 2 and detailed them below, as well as what the material can be used for. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Where to get Thalamus in Hades 2 The best Hades 2 boons Hades 2 Arcana Cards explained View the full article

The news comes from reports at saraba1st.com and Igor's Lab, citing sources familiar with Intel's plans. While not officially confirmed by Intel itself yet, the details have been corroborated from multiple angles, so we can likely take it that changes are coming down the pipeline. Read Entire Article View the full article

Elden Ring fans wanting to show off their love for FromSoftware's open-world masterpiece can now share their creations and win some incredible prizes in the process. After waiting for over two years for the upcoming release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, the Soulslike community is returning to Elden Ring to reacquaint themselves with its punishing combat and near-limitless exploration. To celebrate the launch of the DLC, publisher Bandai Namco is offering players an opportunity to get creative and prove that their adoration for 2022's Game of the Year. View the full article

The Thaumaturge released back in March from Fool's Theory and 11 bit studios, it looks pretty great and now it is Steam Deck Verified. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

It’s always a mystery what exactly goes on behind closed studio doors and what is happening during a game’s development. ... Read more View the full article

Bungie has just done something it should've done a long time ago - it's made some of its old Destiny 2 expansions completely free to play for Xbox and PlayStation gamers. As part of the Destiny 2 Expansion Open Access Month, three banger campaigns - Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, and the particularly-excellent The Witch Queen - are all now free for players to enjoy, as is all the seasonal content from the current Lightfall expansion. However, this generous offering from Bungie is only going to last until its new expansion, The Final Shape, launches on June 4, so you'll need to act swiftly. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Destiny 2 PvP Map Pack brings three awesome arenas to PS5 and Xbox Destiny 2 The Final Shape will free your favorite sunsetted weapons New The Final Shape trailer proves it's Destiny 2's Avengers Endgame View the full article

Crow Country is a VHS home movie of a ****'s amusement park recorded in 1997, then left in a hot, fetid cabinet until the tape has warped and mildewed. A yellow visual smear gives its throwback graphics a rich but fuzzy CRT texture, muddying everything enough to add a patina of creepiness impossible under the harsh light of high definition. If horror movies have taught me anything, it's that when you find an object at the back of the cupboard that has every chance of being cursed you can't, like, not watch it... Read more.View the full article

Stowaways are tiny items and companions you can add to your shell in Another Crab's Treasure. Each of these Stowaways has special perks to help you on your adventure, but many come with side effects. The best Stowaways don't just boost one stat, but provide a special advantage to the game's overall mechanics. View the full article

Solo Leveling: ARISE is a gacha-based, action-RPG interpretation of the immensely popular manwha-turned-anime. That description might make some roll their eyes - gacha games have, historically, been quite divisive - but there's plenty from Netmarble's spin on protagonist Sung Jinwoo's journey to the top that sets it apart. Whether it's the strict adherence to the source material that reveres the content that made the IP popular in the first place or its varied strategical depth, Solo Leveling: ARISE is a pleasant surprise that is well worth a look, even from those who would often dismiss gacha titles outright. View the full article

From Silent Hill to Resident Evil, the legacy of survival horror games for the original PlayStation still looms large in the general gaming sphere. There's something in the straining efforts of early 3D that beautifully conveyed the uncanny, and even as the franchises that spawned from the era embrace technological leaps, plenty of smaller games have looked back in attempts to recapture that original feeling. Rarely, however, do any do it with the polish and imagination of Crow Country, a new title from SFB Games that might just deliver the whole package. View the full article

Tangle Tower was a weird and cute point and click ******* mystery set in a big weird tower full of colourful characters, so what better way for the devs to fill time before the sequel comes out than by making a creepy retro survival horror set in a regional theme park? Crow Country is like if Resident Evil was made out of Duplo: more chunky, less threatening, and easier than playing with a fully motorised K'Nex ferris wheel, but ***** it, it's still a good time. Read more View the full article

After months of waiting, we're finally getting the delightfully nightmarish Final Fantasy 14 full-body kappa suit. Originally requested by the father of Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi, who even wore a real-life version of the suit on stage at this year's Tokyo Fanfest, the new costume is arriving in the MMO as part of the upcoming 'Make It Rain Campaign' event. Does it look incredibly *******? Yes. Will it give me nightmares? Yes. Will I be wearing it any chance I get, though? Also yes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New FF14 Dawntrail benchmark announced after graphics controversy FF14 producer Naoki Yoshida apologizes for graphical update concerns Free FF14 Dawntrail character creator has the new race right now View the full article

Asus has inadvertently leaked the name of a brand new AMD CPU, which shows the processor maker taking a very different approach to the names of its chips. If the listing is accurate, it looks as though there's a new range of AMD Ryzen AI CPUs on the way shortly, with AMD seemingly capitalizing on its neural processing hardware in its forthcoming battle against Intel. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This new AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the most confusing one yet Grab an AMD Ryzen X3D gaming CPU now for just $229 AMD ray tracing "completely different" on new GPUs, says ***** View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Where will you find Thalamus in Hades 2? Thalamus is tough to come by, but it's a vital resource for staying alive in the later stages of the game, as you need to use it for an incantation to breathe on the surface. Unlike finding Myrtle in Hades 2, Thalamus has a few stages before you can use it, including unlocking harvesting tools at the Silver Pool and using a Hades 2 incantation to plant Origin Seeds. You won't, however, need Thalamus until the later stages of Hades 2, and so far it's only required to perform one incantation at Hecate's cauldron. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Where to get Bronze in Hades 2 The best Hades 2 boons Hades 2 Arcana Cards explained View the full article

Moving your base is something V Rising players wanted the moment the game entered early access. Thanks to V Rising 1.0, you can finally relocate your castle without deleting everything — here’s how to do it.How to move your base in V RisingScreenshot: PC InvasionInstead of having to dismantle and scrap everything in your base to move it to a different location, you can easily move your base in V Rising by having 100 Blood Essence and working your way through the relocation process.Relocating your castle in V Rising is a bit of a process, but it’s not too challenging. To make it easy for you, here’s the step-by-step process of how to move your base in V Rising:Select the Castle Relocation Heart option next to the Castle Heart option in the build menu. This requires 100 Blood Essence.Place your Castle Relocation Heart in the location where you want your base to move to.Interact with the Castle Relocation Heart and select Connect a Castle H...View the full article

Destiny 2 is getting pretty generous in the run-up to The Final Shape. Alongside Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, and Witch Queen becoming free to everyone for a month, we also now have a new easy way to unlock seasonal weapons from this year for crafting. Unless you're a pretty active player, it's likely you haven't unlocked every single **** from the seasons of Defiance, Deep, Witch, and Wish. It's a total of 24 weapons, and though some have been edged out of the meta in terms of perks, there are still a lot of decent guns... Read more.View the full article

Nvidia will launch the RTX 5080 before releasing its next-generation flagship GPU, the RTX 5090, a known hardware industry leaker claimed as they addressed rumors regarding the unannounced cards. The tech giant unveiled its upcoming graphics microarchitecture earlier this year. View the full article

The 2023 Formula One season yielded a grand total of three winning drivers over 22 Grands Prix. Just six rounds into the 2024 season and we’ve already seen three different GP winners, across three different teams to boot. Has this season just threatened to become interesting? Well, it’s almost certainly too early to be hopeful of that. However, even if we are ultimately destined for yet another season of single car dominance, at least F1 24’s updated career mode will give us all a place where we can watch (and hear) the championship unfold a little differently. F1 24’s key new ***** is the ability to “be one of the 20.” That is, we can now take one of F1’s superstar drivers and play as them in a complete, multi-season career mode experience called Driver Career. Driver Career appears to be drilling down on an experience specific to the drivers themselves. This means the focus is on gaining recognition and improving your driver ratings over multiple seasons, dealing with the driver contract market with secret meetings, and completing a variety of short- and long-term goals. Senior creative director Lee Mather confirms the focus on revamping the career mode has been a “huge fan requested feature.” “It still sees huge numbers of people playing it, but obviously we were starting to feel each year the build-up of players saying, ‘I love Driver Career, it’s one of my favourite areas of the game, but you’ve not done anything with it. Why haven’t you done anything with it? Why haven’t you moved it on? Why haven’t you changed it?’” says Mather. “So we definitely had that in mind.” We were starting to feel each year the build-up of players saying, ‘I love Driver Career, it’s one of my favourite areas of the game, but you’ve not done anything with it. “The tipping point was we wanted to bring in the ability for the player to play as a Formula One driver because that’s now such a prominent thing; those drivers have now become super celebrities. They now want to be those drivers. That was less a thing back in 2010. It was more about the world of Formula One and driving Formula One cars.” Described as the biggest career mode innovation since 2016, Mather is aware that such a change to the career approach is likely to land with more weight with fans than usual. “So, as a team, it always feels like we have a lot going on,” explains Mather. “I think it just depends on where the focus comes from the players, really.” “There are some things that always land with more weight than others, but the scale of the work that goes into it is always just as significant. Something like Braking Point, for example, is a massive body of work. Things like F1 World last year; big body of work. But when it’s on something like career mode, which is an absolute pillar of the game and has been since 2010, I think that lands with a lot more weight. “They’re the areas of the game that have the most complexity because there are so many intertwined systems, and not only are we trying to obviously replicate the sport, but we’re trying to present it in a way that’s super compelling in a video game as well.” Not only are we trying to obviously replicate the sport, but we’re trying to present it in a way that’s super compelling in a video game as well. Driver Career isn’t a replacement for My Team mode, which will still exist within F1 24. You can also create custom drivers to race as yourself in Driver Career, or choose an F2 driver or past icon of the sport. However, Driver Career does very much seem geared around encouraging players to enjoy racing as one of this season’s current F1 superstars – especially considering all the driver-specific audio the team has now included. Yes, they’re not just sound bites tossed into the trailer for a little atmosphere – they’re now in the game itself. “It’s something that we started a conversation with Formula One on a few years ago, and there was an opportunity for us to do that for quite a while,” confirms Mather. “But we didn’t really feel it fit with what we were doing with the title. It didn’t really gel and make sense.” “But as soon as we opened up the opportunity to race as the real Formula One drivers [in Career Mode], it just made perfect sense to have that VO.” The question here, of course, is just how exhaustive is that pool of audio, on the back of a season where one bloke won 19 out of 22 Grands Prix? Does that narrow the selection somewhat? For instance, what happens when a driver from a minnow team jags a virtual GP win in F1 24? “It is a challenge,” says Mather. “Obviously, the front runners who’ve had wins, or close to wins, will have those moments of pure elation. The exciting ones. But then there are drivers who won’t have been in those positions, and we’ve had to be creative with the lines to ensure that they’d be fitting of the scenario as best as possible.” “Thankfully there’s a lot that the viewers never see. Formula One obviously have everything and they’ve really taken the time to go through and trawl the archives. The good thing is, obviously, there are multiple years. A lot of the drivers in the sport now have been in for several years. Even the rookies have now been in for a couple of years, so there is a good amount. “It definitely is challenging for the audio team to pick out ones that are relevant for drivers who you might play as and get a win, who’ve never actually had a win. There was definitely a challenge there, but we found ones. It definitely is challenging for the audio team to pick out [quotes] that are relevant for drivers who you might play as and get a win, who’ve never actually had a win. “There’ll be some that players recognise, because they’ll remember them from real life. I think obviously some of the Max ones stand out; they’re fairly recognisable. But Lando’s got some nice ones as well. I think Lando has got a really nice one for Monaco, which is really cool.” There’s much more to the new career experience, too. Expect rivalries that now come in three different levels of intensity (from ones that last a few races to ones that will define parts of your entire career), and a new two-player driver career mode with all the same features that can be played co-operatively, or on different teams (or both, from season to season). There’s even a spin-off of the new Driver Career called Challenge Career, which will be a curated, episodic version with which players can compete asynchronously for leaderboard placement. F1 24’s handling is again promising further refinement, with the goal being to make the cars more realistically compliant. “It’s a drum we’ve been ******** for years, really, which is realism doesn’t necessarily mean difficult,” says Mather. “That isn’t generally always the case.” “There’s a perception from some parts of the community that a sim has to be difficult. And as we’ve said, we’ve got a really in-depth sim at the core of this game. And then how we build out the handling model is through the numbers. We simulate everything authentically, only this year we've taken that to the next level. “We knew where we’d got some big holes in the sim and there were things that were achieving the end result, but we knew we could do it better and add more depth to it. One of the prime examples is the weight transfer that you get now in the cars due to the revised centre of mass, but also the suspension behaviour – the anti-***** and the anti-squat behaviour – gives a better feeling of movement in the car and weight transfer to the player. Realism doesn’t necessarily mean difficult. That isn’t generally always the case. “So that’s another thing that adds to that, ‘Well, I now know what my car’s doing.’ So before we would've accentuated that maybe with additional camera movement, so you got the feel that the car was doing something. Now you get that through the body of the car. “The real depth in a racing game is in the handling model, isn't it? You should able to instantly pick up and play, but give yourself a few weeks and you should be absolutely nailing those lines, playing with the car setups, and feeling the intricacies of it all.” F1 24 arrives on May 31 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC – just in time to rewrite the results of this year’s Monaco Grand Prix if you feel it’s necessary. Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can chat to him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Simon Belmont, the original protagonist for Castlevania 1 and 2, is a boss in V Rising. In this guide, you’ll learn where to find Simon Belmont in V Rising, how to beat him, and how to unlock the Whip *******.Where to find Simon Belmont in V RisingScreenshot: PC InvasionIn V Rising, Simon Belmont is found in the Harpy Nest which is in the south of Silverlight. He’ll ******* on sight and, this happened to me, he will chase you if you try to run away during the ******. Needless to say, so make sure you’re ready.While you’re out and about looking for and preparing to ****** Simon Belmont, you might want to prep for the Silverlight Hills boss. It’s a tough area with an even tougher boss, but the rewards are worth it. You’re already in that area; might as well make the most of it.How to beat Simon Belmont in V RisingScreenshot: PC InvasionSimon Belmont has “??” where his level should be so it’s hard to know at wha...View the full article

Perhaps one of the most significant changes in Starfield Patch 1.11.33 was the huge update to shipbuilding, one of the most popular features of the game. In addition to being able to decorate and retain decorations on each ship, Habs have been made more useful giving people a blank palette to fill in rather than pre-rendered configurations that limit creative expression and functionality. Now, ships can be much more personalized, improving immersion and customization. This even extends to Starfield's New Game Plus and the various Starborn ships. View the full article

Thanks to an outcry from Helldivers 2’s dedicated community, the game won’t require PC players to have PSN accounts. This is a major win for everyone affected, but it comes at a heavy cost for Arrowhead’s community manager, Spitz. A post by Helldivers 2 Media on May 8 revealed Spitz is no longer a community manager for Helldivers 2. Spitz wrote: “I appreciate all the support and I appreciate even more that everyone can play the game again without restrictions. I knew I was taking a risk with what I said about refunding and changing reviews. I stand by it,” adding that it was his job to represent the players, and that’s what he did. View the full article

V Rising took Steam by storm back when it hit Early Access in 2022, and now Stunlock Studios have released the big 1.0 with lots of upgrades and it should work better than ever for Steam Deck players. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

I thought it was impossible to **** in Baldur’s Gate 3 before your encounter with Commander Zhalk on the Nautolid. But one player proved nothing is impossible by showing us you can end your run before you even start it. According to u/AureliusofKvatch’s post on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit on May 7, they ***** during their first attempt at Honor Mode (a separate difficulty with only one save) in the first room. After interacting with the tadpole pool, which chunks roughly half your health, they destroyed some Brine Bulbs that explode and spread *****. Desperate to heal up, they tried to reach the Restoration Pod—which heals you and restores your Spell Slots—but unfortunately they ***** on the way, thus ending their first Honor Mode run. View the full article

Spider Form in V Rising is great for sneaking past and running away from enemies. If you want to get the Spider Form in V Rising because you love sneaking into ****** bases or just want to be safe when going AFK, here’s what you need to know.V Rising: How to get Spider FormTo unlock the Spider Form in V Rising, you need to defeat Ungora the Spider Queen. She’s a level 63 boss, so you won’t be getting Spider Form in the early game. While using horses to get around in V Rising is great, there’s something special about skittering around in Spider Form and burrowing in the ground when enemies come your way.Here are all the Spider Form abilities in V Rising:Burrow – Burrow in the ground to avoid ****** detection and sun damage. You can’t move while burrowed.Where to find Ungora the Spider Queen in V Rising: Location, explainedScreenshot: PC InvasionAs you can expect, Ungora the Spider Queen in V Rising is found in the Spider ***** i...View the full article

The MCU hasn't been doing so hot recently, even if it is still making lots of money, so Marvel is planning on reducing its output going forward. It's fair to say that 2023 was a fine year for Marvel - definitely not a good one, maybe even bad actually. Ant-Man 3 certainly underperformed, for one, and The Marvels is the lowest-grossing MCU movie since its inception. Not a great look for a franchise whose previous output makes up four of the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time, with Avengers: Endgame even holding the number one spot for a while. Now, though, it seems like both Disney and Marvel want to course correct the waning franchise, as in the former's recent quarterly earnings call, CEO Bob Iger spoke of the companies' plans for the MCU (via Variety). According to Iger, Marvel will be reducing its film output to around two to three movies a year, and TV series to only a couple per year, in a move that's part of Disney's overall strategy to reduce what it makes to focus on quality, an angle that's "particularly true with Marvel". Iger explained that "We're slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two, or a maximum of three. And we're working hard on what that path is." Read more View the full article