Medieval city builder Manor Lords was Steam's most-wishlisted game prior to release, and has now managed the feat of transmuting that anticipation into broad enthusiasm and very healthy sales. Not too shabby, considering that it's mostly the work of just one person, Grzegorz Styczeń of Slavic Magic, who has hopefully found time to sleep now and then between fielding bug reports and preparing the game's first patches. Styczeń understandably doesn't have much time for interviews right now - those troublesome archers aren't going to balance themselves - but yesterday I spoke to Tim Bender, CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse, about how Styczeń is getting on. The answer, apparently, is: pretty good, because Styczeń has a healthy approach to early access development in keeping players close, without quite handing them the wheel. Read more View the full article
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The controversy surrounding the Escape From Tarkov Unheard Edition seems to have opened the door for a new realistic FPS. Although it faced bad reviews at the start, owing to supposed performance problems, this new rival to EFT, The Division, and Arma is already starting to turn things around - user ratings are picking up, and while it's been available through Steam Early Access for a short two days, it's already sold more than 400,000 copies. If you want a change from Tarkov, this might just be for you. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Gray Zone Warfare settings for max fps Gray Zone Warfare Medical Detective task guide Gray Zone Warfare Leave No Man Behind guide View the full article
Okay, so what the heck is this then? Kaizen Game Works (Paradise *******) recently announced Promise Mascot Agency and the setting sounds absolutely bizarre. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Amid several complaints about its performance, Gray Zone Warfare’s undeniably overpowered AI enemies have caught the attention of several players—and they’ve determined that the culprit is the first hotfix. As one player pointed out on Reddit, the AI enemies have gone “absolutely lethal” after Gray Zone Warfare’s Hotfix 1 update dropped on May 1. From ********* through walls to landing one-shot ****** from a suspiciously large distance, the bots have left players shivering thanks to their hacker-like mechanics. View the full article
Developer melessthanthree has announced that ****** of a Wish, their scribbly-art styled vicious hack-and-slash action-RPG, will be releasing a Linux version on May 9th. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
In Manor Lords, converting your Burgage Plots into production buildings is all good and fun until you either can’t keep up or have an insurmountable amount of shoes.How to stop Burgage Plots from producing itemsWhen you build a level 2 Burgage Plot extension in Manor Lords, the resident families will lock themselves in to create whatever you’ve selected them to create. Weaponry for your militias, ale for your taverns, clothes, or even armors. A problem surfaces when the families are taking more materials than you can manage anymore, or when they are clogging up your Storehouses with so many ***** shoes. Currently, there is only one way to get around the construction of Burgage goods.Screenshot: PC InvasionWhen clicking on the Burgage Plot, there should be a small button in the top right, a pause button.Toggling that on will seize the construction of new goods from that Burgage Plot. They won’t make any more goods, but they will still peddle them...View the full article
AMD opened its doors on May 1, 1969, and was led by co-founder Jerry Sanders. AMD jumped into the microprocessor industry in the mid-70s and competed directly with Intel and other chipmakers of the day. It wasn't until the early 2000s, however, that AMD started making significant headway in its... Read Entire Article View the full article
Remember that bit in that Guy Ritchie film where Dexter Fletcher ****** a guy and then throws a glowing jar over his soldier that summons a bunch of skeletons to help him out? Me too! Must have been the direct influence for Sea Of Thieves' new Season 12, which launched earlier this week with a bang - from two smoking barrels! Among the additions in this season of the ever popular salty sea-dog open-world adventure are double barrel pistols. They deal less damage per shot but have higher rate of *****, and you can charge them up to ***** both barrels at once. On the other end of the ******* scale are new throwing knives, capable of sneak attacks, light slashes, or, you know, throwing. You can nab any throwing knives you see lying around, too, which is fun. But honestly, the Bone Caller tool (the aforementioned jar of skeletons, which has a great Jason and The Argonauts vibe) and the ***** Of Fair Winds are are probably more useful. The winds from said ***** can make your ship go faster, but can also put out fires or crowd control enemies, or for some reason make you swim faster? I don't think that makes sense, to be honest, but the ***** has limited uses so as not to make you an unstoppable wind machine. Read more View the full article
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Sorry, but it looks like mining the public domain for quick bucks is the new trend in low-budget horror. Following the success of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) and the launch of its 'Twisted Childhood Universe' à la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, more filmmakers are grabbing everyone's cute childhood memories and turning them into nightmares. Unsurprisingly, Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh will be duking it out sooner rather than later. Deadline dropped the exclusive on May 1, highlighting the upcoming crossover horror movie won't have any ties to pre-existing flicks such as the Blood and Honey features or Mickey's Mouse Trap, which was promptly announced just as the classic Steamboat ******* cartoon hit the public domain in January. So far, the exploitation of these childhood characters in mature yet puerile fashion - with tons of blood and homages to low-budget horror fare - has proven to be a profitable endeavor, with the first Blood and Honey movie making roughly $5 million worldwide at the box office on a measly $50,000 production budget. While the quality was certainly up for debate, it's easy to see why some aspiring filmmakers may take this route to put their name out there and gradually go *******. It ******** to be seen, however, whether the joke holds up in the long run and ******* distributors show an interest in such projects. Read more View the full article
When is the Metaphor Refantazio release date? This is the first new game from Studio Zero, an internal development studio within Atlus made up of former Persona developers. It is set in the ******* Kingdom of Euchronia, which is coming to terms with the ****** of its king and a realm without an heir. You are thrust into the contest to determine the next ruler by gaining the trust and popularity of the people. However, surpassing your rivals and claiming the throne will be an uphill struggle for a relatively unknown candidate of "inferior background". Metaphor Refantazio borrows much of the same sense of style from the Persona RPG games. It primarily opts for turn-based combat systems similar to many JRPGs while including the more familiar social mechanics. There's plenty out there about Studio Zero's first game, and below is all the key info about the Metaphor Refantazio release date, as well as gameplay details and comments from the developer about the world and story. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Persona developer drops fall 2024 launch window for new fantasy RPG Final Fantasy 16 isn't coming to Steam yet, but this JRPG is View the full article
The next big ****** for gaming monitor supremacy will be between OLED and miniLED screens. OLED has a lot going for it, but isn't the brightest screen tech around and, despite recent improvements, it's still prone to screen *****-in. Meanwhile, miniLED isn't as fast to respond but brings dazzling brightness for strong HDR reproduction in even brightly lit rooms. The Lenovo Legion Y34wz-30 is a great example of the latter, and makes for a compelling general-purpose gaming monitor. This all adds up to this Lenovo display being the best miniLED monitor we've yet tested, and one of the best HDR gaming monitors too, landing this display a spot on our best gaming monitor list. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Lenovo Legion Go just hit its lowest ever price, but be quick Save $600 in this Nvidia RTX 4070 gaming PC deal, thanks to Best Buy Lenovo confirms new Legion Go, but will it launch before Steam Deck 2? View the full article
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Manor Lords is one man's unusual take on the joys of managing a medieval city and, after garnering a whole lot of wishlists, sold over a million copies within a few days of launch. The developer did try to set pre-launch expectations appropriately, warning players this was no Total War competitor, but the game's emergent narratives, relative polish, and the historically accurate NPC name Cuntz has charmed players and left it sitting pretty on around 25,000 'very positive' user reviews... Read more.View the full article
In the market for a new laptop? Maybe TUXEDO have what you need, especially if you're wanting something with AMD. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Bethesda development chief Todd Howard has commented on the mixed reception to its expansive space game Starfield, suggesting some of the criticism stemmed from the game being different from the likes of Fallout and Skyrim. Starfield came out in September 2023 and, boosted by its inclusion in Microsoft’s subscription service Game Pass, enjoyed more players at launch than any previous Bethesda game. It also held up better than most other Bethesda games in terms of performance. But Starfield had a mixed reception from critics and players. IGN’s Starfield review returned a 7/10, with what we called “disjointed space travel, nonexistent maps, aggravating inventory management, and a slow rollout of essential abilities” holding it back from getting a higher score. Starfield currently has a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam, with negative reviews pointing out the extensive loading involved with space travel, empty spaces on planets, and a lack of people or enemies to encounter. In an interview with Kinda Funny Games, Howard addressed the mixed reception to Starfield, or as interviewer Greg Miller put it, the “polarizing” Starfield. Howard began by pointing to Starfield’s stability at launch, which he said the studio was delighted with, as well as the reviews on the higher end of the scale. But throughout his response is the suggestion that Starfield suffered in part because it was unlike Bethesda’s previous games, Fallout and Skyrim, and he insisted: “Each of the franchises should be its own thing.” “What's new is it's a new IP, so you know that we're going to be doing some things differently than we've done before, and obviously we had people who love the game both on the review side and people who liked it less,” Howard said. “I think the majority of our reviews were in the 90s, which, look, that's great. I don't want to ever be in a world where that is not a great place to be in terms of critical reception, particularly in a year where there were so many amazing games out. “But obviously, look, we see the feedback, we see a lot of players saying, this is what I want out of a Bethesda game, which is to explore a world in a certain way and Starfield didn't give me that, I prefer the way it's done in Fallout or Elder Scrolls. And perfectly understandable right, in terms of, hey this is a different experience." Howard continued by discussing the "trade-offs" Bethesda was willing to make in order to realize the fantasy of landing on a huge number of planets and exploring each one in-game. Ahead of release, Bethesda touted Starfield's 1,000 explorable planets, although many players found them to be lacking in content. “I do think, for us, particularly me going into a science fiction game, I want to be able to land on all the planets, I want the game to say yes to us knowing that that content is going to be different than you've seen from us in the past when you're exploring a landscape," Howard said. "And that's some of the trade-offs we'll make to do what we think makes a science fiction game like this, that's based in this kind of fiction and reality, to make it what it should be. Each of the franchises should be its own thing. “Obviously, look, there are areas that… the maps or some other things, gameplay options, that we're adding, other display modes on console that people have asked for, and we want to do all that stuff, it takes some time but we're excited to get stuff out there.” Howard’s comments, already much-discussed online, come as Bethesda is in the process of releasing a significant update for Starfield that makes the Xbox Series X version playable in 60fps, among many other things. It will be interesting to see if the update sparks renewed interest in the game, with the Shattered Space expansion due out in the fall. 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
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Xbox Game Pass members can now play Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition as part of their subscription. This is the first title to reach Microsoft's gaming service in May 2024, as well as the 59th new Xbox Game Pass addition since the turn of the year. View the full article
I haven't ever raided in an MMORPG like World Of Warcraft for several reasons, one of which is the time commitment. I've never put in the many, many hours needed to earn the requisite gear nor partied up with the many, many people necessary to slay a big dragon. If only raiding was possible without these things… well, my saviour seems to have arrived in a form I wasn't expecting: 2D anime bunny ******. Rabbit And Steel is a co-op action roguelike that's raiding without the pre-grind and it looks rather wonderful. Read more View the full article
Hello there. Helldivers 2's last big patch only dropped on Monday - bringing with it a huge host of changes - and there's already another one out. Thankfully, this hotfix is just a little fella designed to sort out some of the performance issues and crashes that've cropped up since its hefty predecessor was deployed. If you're out of the loop, Monday's patch featured a pretty extensive array of balancing changes to 24 weapons and stratagems, as well as tweaks to some enemies. Though, it has also caused some unintended consequences, such as an uptick in self-killings and the gremlins this hotfix aims to, er, fix. If you read the notes for Patch 1.000.301, you won't be at it long. There are four main things it mentions rectifying, with these all being crashes and performance issues that've cropped up since Patch 01.000.300 dropped. Read more View the full article
I don't tend to do a lot of videogame discount posts because I have a mortal ***** of enriching my backlog, but when I see the entire Mass Effect trilogy and all of its expansions for around the price of a slightly more aristocratic sandwich, I am compelled to share. The Legendary Edition of BioWare's ravishing sci-fi RPG series is 90% off on Steam until 13th May. That translates to 6€, $6 or £5 for all three main games and 40 DLC packs, plus bells and whistles such as 4K Ultra HD and beefed-up character models. If you haven't played a Mass Effect game before, this is a pretty good place to start. Read more View the full article
The mid-season update for THE FINALS is here, and it adds a new event and new rewards to grind for, as well as making several balancing changes. In update 2.6.0, THE FINALS introduces Terminal *******, a limited-time round-based five-vs-five game mode. In Terminal *******, one team attacks a terminal to deliver and upload the decryption key, while the defending team must do all they can to prevent that from happening. View the full article
The best-performing GPUs in April's Steam survey were two laptop products, the RTX 4060 (up 0.50%) and RTX 3060 (up 0.39%). There was also a boost for a former number one, the GTX 1650, which was the month's fourth-best performer thanks to a 0.25% increase. Read Entire Article View the full article
Ninja Theory has said it plans to share something from Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 daily in the run-up to the game’s release this month. Having revealed Hellblade 2 alongside the Xbox Series X console in 2019, Microsoft is gearing up to release the game on May 21. It will be available for Xbox Series X/S and PC. Ninja Theory announced plans to share Hellblade 2-related things daily alongside the release of a new screenshot, which is viewable below. Read More... View the full article
Roll7, developers of bright skateboarding games OlliOlli World and dual-wielding bloodsport Rollerdrome, are being closed down as part of large scale layoffs by parent corp Take-Two Interactive, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The British studio has been responsible for some great stuff over the years but the report says they'll be following the fate of Kerbal Space Program 2 developers in being ***** off. Read more View the full article
You'd be forgiven for not remembering that the storied Team Ninja put out its most ambitious game just a few weeks ago. Rise of the Ronin, the studio’s open-world epic, landed with a bit of a thud. The action RPG was generally favourably reviewed by critics, and received well enough by players, but it clearly didn’t satisfy longtime followers of the studio, or really anyone who thought it would be an evolution of the Nioh games. As it turns out, Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja may have made the right decisions with that one. Read more View the full article
The Yugioh TCG Legacy of Destruction set came out in April 2024, adding 101 cards - among them 100 brand new designs, and 'Magicians of Bonds and Unity' reprinted as a Quarter Century Secret Rare. This guide includes the set's complete card list. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Yugioh banlist February 2025 The 26 most expensive Yugioh cards and prices Germany hosts Yugioh games with cards the size of five-year-olds View the full article
Pokemon Go has dozens of research questlines for trainers to complete, but a few feel like they’re impossible or not worth doing because of how grindy they are. This begs the question: Out of all the questlines available, which is the worst one of all, and which one do players avoid most? Now, it seems like we have the answer. Which Research Do You Not Plan on Finishing? byu/Forward_City3800 inpokemongo Everyone on Reddit seems to agree the one research task not worth doing is the Welcome Party questline. You can only complete it through the Party feature in Pokémon Go, and you have to team up with friends to complete challenges that take way too long, so it’s a bit of a grind. View the full article
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Medieval city builder Manor Lords was Steam's most-wishlisted game prior to release, and has now managed the feat of transmuting that anticipation into broad enthusiasm and very healthy sales. Not too shabby, considering that it's mostly the work of just one person, Grzegorz Styczeń of Slavic Magic, who has hopefully found time to sleep now and then between fielding bug reports and preparing the game's first patches. Styczeń understandably doesn't have much time for interviews right now - those troublesome archers aren't going to balance themselves - but yesterday I spoke to Tim Bender, CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse, about how Styczeń is getting on. The answer, apparently, is: pretty good, because Styczeń has a healthy approach to early access development in keeping players close, without quite handing them the wheel. Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]