The tattoo artist who inked LeBron James and tried to sue Take-Two Interactive for his work making it over to the NBA 2K games has lost his case... Read more.View the full article
The Roccat brand has officially met its demise, as Turtle Beach has confirmed that it will no longer be using it in its peripheral lineup. We first got an inkling about this last week, when Turtle Beach revealed a plethora of new PC gaming peripherals under its own brand, but many of the product names mirrored those of the popular Roccat brand, which was previously purchased by Turtle Beach in 2019. As the maker of the Syn Max Air, our pick as one of the best gaming headsets for its wonderful RGB design, Roccat was a hugely recognizable brand with its fierce logo. We alluded to Roccat's unfortunate demise when we covered the new Turtle Beach PC peripherals last week, and the reaction has been mixed. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This Nvidia GeForce GTX 2070 (yes, GTX) GPU just got benchmarked MSI Claw sees its price slashed just weeks after release Valve Certified Refurbished Steam Decks are back in stock, for now View the full article
The Valheim Ashlands are finally here. It's been a long time since the last big biome overhaul for Iron Gate's Viking survival game - the Mistlands update arrived 16 months ago, if you're keeping count. In that time, we've seen plenty of contenders arrive, from Sons of the Forest and Palworld to Enshrouded, Nightingale, and most recently the 1.0 launch of The Planet Crafter. But now, after much teasing, one of the biggest and best open-world survival crafting games on Steam is ready for you to explore its newest region, with the public test available right now for you to jump into. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best Valheim servers 2024 The best Valheim mods Iron Gate just released a tiny troll and more Valheim plushies View the full article
Screen Rant has received an exclusive first look at a new trailer for upcoming arena shooter Histera that reveals its release date. The new FPS from developer StickyLock will take players through different eras as they battle it out in teams of eight. Both weapons and locales will draw from various time periods, and a mechanic called the Glitch that changes the arena over the course of a round will ensure no two matches are the same. View the full article
Mortal Kombat 1 players have discovered a secret Brutality for all characters that developer NetherRealm appears to have stealth-dropped into the game. All Mortal Kombat 1 characters have Brutalities — unique moves that end a match in a particularly brutal fashion. They’re triggered by doing an extra input command on top of a specific combo ender or move that wins the final round. Most of the characters in the game have six brutalities, but ever since Mortal Kombat 1 launched in September last year, [Hidden Content]. As reported by EventHubs, Mortal Kombat 1 players are only now discovering a secret Brutality that works for every character in the game. It involves depleting your opponent’s health bar with a back throw that sees your character launch their hapless foe straight into the game’s camera. To trigger this match ender, hold up and back punch after performing the throw. X / Twitter user Mortal_Kombat_Addict revealed a few examples of this secret Brutality in the clip below (warning, as with all things Mortal Kombat, the video is a gorefest!): Secret Brutality that apparently works for all characters! #MortalKombat1 [Hidden Content] — Mortal_Kombat_Addict | Fatalities Daily (@MK_habit_addict) April 21, 2024 The secret Brutality was discovered after the launch of Mortal Kombat 1 Season 5: Storms, which also saw the release of DLC character Ermac for Kombat Pack owners. Speaking of Ermac, the soul-loving ninja has a new Brutality ripped straight from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Season 5: Storms revolves around the arrival of Raiden as the main boss in Invasions mode, and includes fresh challenges, story elements, boss battles, and rewards. Season 5: Storms runs until June 4. Kameo fighter Mavado is available May 2024. 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
Recent Genshin Impact 4.6 leaks are proving that the game’s newest villain is not exactly what they seem to be. Version 4.6 is the next big patch for HoYoverse’s popular RPG and will add loads of new playable content. This includes new areas, new story missions, new bosses, and one new character in Genshin Impact 4.6, who has long been awaited by the community: Arlecchino. As a Fatui Harbinger, the Knave is part of an antagonistic faction. She is, however, not as villainous as she presents herself. In fact, Arlecchino’s principles are in the right place. View the full article
After close to a decade since its launch, Fallout 4 is receiving a free next-gen-only update to fix a major story omission. Due to the release of the Fallout Show, it was announced that Fallout 4 would be receiving an update to help scale up its performance to go along with new cosmetics and weapons. Though an update now seems odd, the massive success of the franchise's first live-action show made it a smart decision. Every Fallout game has seen significant increases in sales and player base since the show's release. View the full article
A Destiny 2 player, with the use of the game's cosmetic system, was able to transform their Hunter into ****** Knight Gael from Dark Souls 3. Fashion is an important element of the popular shooter, and it has even led to the creation of a dedicated sub-community. View the full article
Genshin Impact Version 4.7 will feature three new playable characters, as Clorinde, Sigewinne, and Sethos will join the rest of the cast in the upcoming update. As the Fontaine era slowly comes to a close in Genshin Impact, the 5-Star characters released during its patches will likely be remembered for providing new depth to old gameplay. New mechanics such as Hit Point fluctuation and the Bond of Life have come to define the Fontaine roster, whereas Navia reinvented Crystallize as an Elemental Reaction all by her lonesome. View the full article
FaZe Clan’s rain just broke a truly unique Counter-Strike record by becoming the player with longest stint on a single team since the beginning of CS:GO era. As of April 21, the rifler has been with FaZe for 3,104 days, breaking the CS record previously held by EliGE and Team Liquid that ended at 3,013 days, according to HLTV. With the rest of the competition far behind and rain doing well in the international team, it’s unlikely someone will overtake the Norwegian anytime soon. View the full article
Hand Cannons are a beloved ******* archetype in Destiny 2 and arguably the most stylish. If you bring the aim, these weapons bring the pain, but which ones are worth using? Let me show you our Destiny 2 Hand Cannon tier list: Best Hand Cannons for PVP and PVE.The best Hand Cannons in Destiny 2While every ******* is technically useable everywhere, some excel in PvP, while others are better suited elsewhere. Because of this, I have a separate list for PvP and PvE. I’ve put any Exotics at the top of each list, but Legendaries are just as important if you want your Exotic slot for another *******. With this in mind, each list is split by rarity as well.Top Exotic PvP Hand Cannons in Destiny 2As Special and Heavy ammo are both precious commodities in PvP, why not take a deadly primary that doesn’t use them? These weapons are all popular in The Crucible, with good reason.The Ace of SpadesScreenshot: PC InvasionThe Ace of Spades is one of Destiny...View the full article
Genshin Impact players will be able to unlock Gorou by completing the main event in 4.6. With version 4.6 of Genshin Impact now imminent, the HoYo team has revealed all the new content included in the latest update. It's confirmed that Arlecchino and Lyney will have an increased drop rate for three weeks. As in previous versions, a roster of weapons and four-star reruns will be added to limited-time banners. View the full article
Fishing is better than ever as of Stardew Valley's 1.6 update, if only players know how to optimize their daily catch. Fishing has always been a part of the game; it involves a fun, if frustrating, mini-game, and can be a good way to make some money while farming takes a ********* in winter. But in previous versions, fishing was mostly a distraction from the real game of growing crops and cozying up to villagers. It had its own endgame goals, like catching all the legendary fish in Stardew Valley, but it wasn't as viable as a source of income. View the full article
Although its relationship with video games goes all the way back to Pong, tennis has seemingly always been a tricky sport to properly nail in digital form. While there have clearly been successes over the years – the Virtua Tennis and Mario Tennis series being the obvious examples – the history of the medium is littered with attempts that struggled to recreate the feel of playing tennis. One series that pulled it off with aplomb was 2K’s TopSpin. While its last entry—2011’s Xbox 360 and PS3 title TopSpin 4—was met with widespread critical acclaim, it was the last we’d see of the franchise. That finally changes now, because after a 13-year gap, TopSpin is back. While it has a few performance and progression issues, when it comes to the actual gameplay on the court, it’s a spectacular return to form. Read More... View the full article
Famed mass-layoff-manufacturing corporation Embracer Group are dividing into three companies, which will be listed separately on Sweden’s stock exchange. Those companies are: Asmodee Group, which comprises Embracer’s tabletop games biz; Coffee Stain & Friends, an evolution of the existing Coffee Stain publisher, who will pursue "a dual focus on indie and A/AA premium and free-to-play games for PC/console and mobile"; and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends, “a creative powerhouse in AAA game development and publishing for PC and console, as well as the stewards of The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider intellectual properties, among many others”. After writing roughly 100,000 posts about Embracer’s butchering of vast swathes of the games industry, this is surely my chance to raise a cheer and celebrate the conglomerate’s unglomming with a cool glass of turnip juice, but it is Monday, the man next door is shouting again, and I am tired - so tired that only ill-suited Simpsons references come to mind. Read more View the full article
Warning: spoilers for the Fallout TV show follow. If you watched the Fallout TV show as a fan of the video games upon which it’s based, one revelation in particular will have caught your eye: who dropped the ****** first on that fateful day in 2077. Fallout’s nuclear apocalypse was thought to have been triggered by China going first. Tim Cain, co-creator of Fallout, said in an interview last year that it was indeed China who dropped the first *****. "The reason we got nuked is: bio-weapons were ******** and somehow China found out we were doing FEV [Forced Evolutionary Virus]," Cain explained in an interview with Fallout lore expert TKs-Mantis. "And they were like, 'you have to stop it.' And we went, 'OK.' And all we did is move it. All we did was move it over." But the Fallout TV show heavily suggests Vault-Tec, the evil corporate manufacturer of Fallout’s famous vaults, triggered the nuclear war by dropping ****** of its own — essentially for profit. This megaton has sent shockwaves throughout the Fallout lore community, but there is a groundswell of opinion that Vault-Tec ********* first is a misdirection. For a start, if Vault-Tec started the war by dropping the first *****, wouldn’t Barb, a high-up executive privy to the company’s plan, have ensured Cooper Howard and their daughter were safe within a vault and not outside at a ****’s party before pushing the big red button? This contradiction raises the question: did Vault-Tec in-fact drop the first *****? Or was the company caught off guard by, for example, China going first unexpectedly hours earlier? That’s the theory suggested by redditor Corpolentusmaximus2, who points to Obsidian's 2010 game Fallout New Vegas to back up the claim. In New Vegas, antagonist Mr. House reveals he miscalculated the Great War by 20 hours. The Fallout TV show confirms Mr. House was in the room when Vault-Tec revealed its dastardly plan. Perhaps everyone was caught off guard by China going “early.” Fans are now hoping to see more of the backstory to the nuclear war in the confirmed Fallout Season 2, which we know will include one of Fallout’s iconic monsters. It seems inevitable that we’ll get more pre-war Cooper Howard, since his separation from Barb and the events leading up to Season 1’s opening go unexplained in Season 1. But there are other unanswered questions following Fallout Season 1, including about the Snake Oil Salesman’s mysterious serum. 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
Are you a fan of challenging Soulikes games with breathtaking cinematics? Steam might have just the game for you, offering phenomenal value for a Game of the Year title. One of the most critically acclaimed video games, 2019’s Game of the Year winner Sekiro: Shadows **** Twice is currently on a half-price discount on Steam for players who have yet to savor this classic title. View the full article
Classic games often get decades of praise, and a few even get remastered. This is exactly the case with Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. If you haven’t bought it yet, now’s the perfect time, as it’s currently on ***** on Steam. Right now, you can get Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition for 50 percent of its original price. If you still haven’t played one of the most iconic RTS games in history, you can get it for just $9.99. View the full article
Finally! Valheim is getting close to the release of the big Ashlands update, and now you can go and actually test it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
In the latest step in its restructuring initiative, Embracer Group has announced that it will be splitting into three different companies. Embracer is a Swedish video game and media conglomerate that got its start in 2011 as Nordic Games Licensing, taking over the intellectual properties of defunct publishers like JoWooD and THQ. In the years since, the company has grown into a major presence in the video games space. View the full article
As we've known for some time, the 5800X3D ******** a strong gaming CPU that's roughly equivalent to the new Ryzen 7 7700X. But still, here's a broader comparison for new builders and upgraders. Read Entire Article View the full article
Valheim, the popular norse-inspired survival game, is set to get even deadlier and at least several percent more volcanic with its upcoming Ashlands biome. The new biome is due to enter public testing as we speak. Read more View the full article
When the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was first teased in April 2019, the internet recoiled in collective horror. Reborn as an unholy, humanoid CG abomination, Sonic’s gangly legs, un-conjoined eyes and terrifyingly lifelike teeth felt less like dream fulfilment and more like a waking nightmare. Yet as gamers braced themselves for yet another Hollywood humiliation, against all odds, the blue blur bounced back. Thanks to a hasty redesign, *****’s sassy speedster returned to cinemas triumphant, raking in a cool 306 million USD box office and spawning a successful 2022 sequel. Now, Paramount is hoping that everyone’s favourite alien echidna will repeat the same ring-spewing magic for its streaming service. With Dr Robotnik sent packing, we return to Sonic’s serene slice of ********* suburbia in Montana’s Green Hills, where a fish out of water Knuckles struggles to adapt to life on Earth. Read More... View the full article
If you were worried that Stellar Blade and its… well, particular proclivities, would be censored in some way, you don't need to be. Stellar Blade is a bit of a hot button topic at the moment, mostly because its protagonist looks like she's wearing the tightest piece of clothing ever invented, showing off certain rotund areas that are quite obviously designed to make the player ****** as *****. You might wonder then if the game would be somewhat censored, reducing those industry staple jiggle physics to appease particular regions' ratings boards and the like. But, in a recent tweet from the official Stellar Blade Twitter account, it turns out the game will be the same no matter where you play. "Stella Blade offers the same uncensored version in all countries, including the ********* version," reads a tweet from the account, the same sentence also written in *********. This was paired with an, ironically, censored image of the game showing a heavily pixelated scene with a large red cross on top of it and text that reads "uncensored all countries." A real win for the prospective Stellar Blade fans out there, I guess. Read more View the full article
Amid the success of the Fallout TV show, Fallout video games are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. The player boost is so significant that even NexusMods is struggling to cope. The mod site issued a warning over the weekend that increased interest in Fallout mods had caused heavy network traffic, forcing it to deploy “extra resources” to cope. Explaining the situation, NexusMods namechecked the popularity of the Fallout TV show. "We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series," NexusMods said in a statement. "We have deployed extra resources where possible and we are monitoring the uptime and performance across the network. We have staff on call at all times to deal with any problems. "Please do be aware that this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications." Even now, April 22, the problem continues, with a “degraded performance” warning on-site. Perhaps it’s no surprise to see NexusMods struggling given the increase in player numbers for everything from the original Fallout to the most recent release, Fallout 76. On Steam, which tracks concurrent player numbers, Fallout 4 has seen a significant increase, resulting in a peak concurrent player count of 164,190 over the weekend. Fallout 76, meanwhile, has hit its all-time peak on Valve’s platform, with 73,368 concurrents. The actual player numbers for Fallout games will be even higher, given their availability on multiple platforms, including Game Pass. Fallout 4 is set to get yet another shot in the arm with this week’s release of its next-gen update. As for the Fallout TV show, we know for sure Fallout will get a second season, and that it will include one of Fallout’s iconic monsters. To keep you going until Season 2, be sure to check out IGN’s wide-ranging, spoiler-filled interview with Bethesda Game Studios executive Todd Howard and executive producer and director Jonathan Nolan. Elsewhere, lore experts believe the Brotherhood of Steel airship seen in the show makes one of two Fallout 4 endings canon. There are plenty of unanswered questions following Fallout Season 1, too, including about the Snake Oil Salesman’s mysterious serum. 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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The tattoo artist who inked LeBron James and tried to sue Take-Two Interactive for his work making it over to the NBA 2K games has lost his case... Read more.View the full article