Stardew Valley has received its 1.6.5. update, and with it, patch notes explaining what was changed have been released. This is just the latest in a series of updates made to the game since Stardew Valley received the major 1.6 content update in March. View the full article
OneLEGO Fortniteplayer has built a functional aircraft with incredible speed and maneuverability. Over the past few months,LEGO Fortnite players have created intricate vehicles that require a lot of resources. For example, one combined a number of turnable wheels, suspensions, and other high-tier materials to craft a semi-truck, whileanother spent all the wood in their inventory to create a pirate ship. View the full article
Bandai Namco has released a new update for Dragon Ball FighterZ, addressing the many issues that had been introduced after the game's previous update. On February 29, Dragon Ball FighterZ finally got its long-requested rollback netcode update along with a free upgrade to the newly released PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions. This update was meant to improve upon Dragon Ball FighterZ's online environment, as the previous console and PC versions used delay-based netcode. However, once the update went live, instead of fixing the online environment, it only broke the game instead. View the full article
Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel. General Fixed an issue causing no sound output in games that open and close audio devices quickly like Super Blood Hockey Stability and security improvementsView the full article
Starfield players are expressing frustration over what they call a "lazy" detail after discovering that three mission NPCs are identical. The detail is annoying Starfield players because of how easy it would have been to fix, and has some lamenting the issues with the game in general. View the full article
The Fallout show's power armor is remarkably faithful to the suits found in the Fallout games: big, clumsy, ridiculous. They could've wound up looking very different, though, because according to Fallout show production designer Howard Cummings, Bethesda never insisted on adherence to the games... Read more.View the full article
Ubisoft has been working on implementing an advanced reputation system into Rainbow Six Siege for quite a while now, and since Year 8 season 4, the system has been present in Siege in a beta state. For the time being, it's going to stay in beta - Ubisoft says the system still isn't behaving consistently enough and requires further improvement before it's fully implemented. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Rainbow Six Siege is a free game for a week, and 80% off on Steam You can now play Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Siege for free, kind of New Intel APO testing pushes Rainbow Six Siege above 1,100 fps View the full article
With the release of the new Fallout TV show there has never been a better time to ***** into the post-apocalyptic universe and replay the Fallout games. One often overlooked entry into the series is the free to play idle game Fallout Shelter that puts players in charge of their very own vault. But what is it that makes this game still worth checking out in 2024? View the full article
Harness the power of the jungle's Nature Spirits as you grant allies handy support buffs while you devastate foes with this new Archetype class View the full article
A Minecraft player has created an incredible city inspired by historical Greek locations using the many materials available in the game. Since the game was released, Minecraft fans have shared their unique locations, but this may be among the most memorable. View the full article
Sonic x Shadow Generations has already received age classifications in several jurisdictions, with its latest rating emerging on April 19. This turn of events is a promising sign for *****'s fandom, as it indicates that Sonic x Shadow Generations is on course to hit the store shelves without any delays. View the full article
Valve says each unit has received over 100 tests and meets the same performance standards as new Steam Decks. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s not often we see an excellent portable gaming PC like the Steam Deck on ***** for nearly half off, but today’s your lucky day. So long as you don’t mind buying it in certified refurbished condition, you can save hundreds when you purchase it directly (with a one-year warranty included) from Valve right now. The refurbished Steam Deck starts at $279 for the base model with 64GB of storage, which is about $120 cheaper than buying it in new condition. And if you need more storage, the 256GB and 512GB models are both on *****, too, for $319 and $359, respectively. Given they both start at $529 and $649 in new condition, that’s almost like getting them for up to half off. What’s great, too, is that Value says it’s thoroughly tested each... Continue reading… View the full article
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A creative Baldur's Gate 3 fan has recently shared on social media an impressive Astarion cosplay wearing drow studded leather armor. The player's remarkable craftsmanship garnered the attention of the Baldur's Gate 3 community, who swiftly poured in to applaud this cosplay work. View the full article
Disney Dreamlight Valley is adding a new villager to the game soon, and a new teaser gives a strong indication that it's a character with an extremely long history with Disney. Disney Dreamlight Valley is constantly adding new villagers to the game with their own stories to explore, and fans have been trying to decipher who is next since the Disney Dreamlight Valley roadmap rolled out. View the full article
The story of the Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 can end in multiple ways, depending on who you ally with. For most of the game, you can freely help out the major factions of the wasteland, regardless of what they think of the others. However, at a critical point in the main story, you must decide whether to side with your family or protect your new world. View the full article
According to a job description on LinkedIn, there were originally three versions of Starfield planned, with it being intended as a multi-platform release. Ultimately, Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax Media, the owners of Bethesda Game Studios, the studio's massive space RPG was an Xbox console exclusive and launched on Xbox Series S/X and PC in September 2023. View the full article
Disney Dreamlight Valley developer Gameloft has recently revealed that players will be able to use their Royal Tools while visiting other players’ Valleys soon. By introducing the new feature, the devs will likely increase the level of interactivity that gamers may have in Disney Dreamlight Valley while playing together with their friends. View the full article
It's fair to say the Fallout TV show has been a massive hit and spurred on many people to replay some of the Fallout games as well as introducing a whole new generation of gamers to the series. However, if you've been tempted to jump into the first of the 3D versions of the game series, Fallout 3, which is just $2.49 on Steam, you may have found the game either doesn't run at all or doesn't run well. If so, this guide should hopefully help you out. Here's hopefully how to fix Fallout 3 for Windows 10 and 11 users. Fallout 3 is available in two versions on Steam. There's the original Fallout 3 release or the Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, which costs $4.99. These fixes should apply to both versions of the game, though your mileage will vary a great deal based on the exact version of Windows you're running and all the hardware in your system. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 31 best Fallout 3 mods The Fallout show finds the Bethesda spark that Starfield lost Get every game in one of the best RPG series ever for just $25 View the full article
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Looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer to see Prison Architect in 3D. Prison Architect 2, which had been originally set to launch March 23 before being pushed back to May 7, has now been delayed again. The new Prison Architect 2 release date is now set for September 3. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Prison Architect 2 adds a new dimension to the beloved management game View the full article
Warning: The below story contains FULL SPOILERS for Fallout Season 1, which is now streaming on Prime Video. Ever since Fallout Season 1 hit Prime Video, there's been quite the debate over what some fans argued was a timeline discrepancy with Fallout: New Vegas. While Bethesda's Todd Howard cleared all that up in a recent interview with IGN, original Fallout creator Tim Cain has also joined in on the theorizing fun, offering up his own speculation on what "The Fall of Shady Sands" could be referring to. To give you the TLDR on what fans thought the conflict was: in short, in episode 6 of Fallout Season 1, fans spotted that "The Fall of Shady Sands" was written on a chalkboard, and that event happened in 2277. What got fans up in arms was the fact that, if Shady Sands was destroyed in 2277, that would essentially retcon New Vegas, since that's four years before the events of that game. Howard set the record straight in my recent interview with him, saying, "everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened." He further clarified that "the ***** falls just after the events of New Vegas." But Cain brings up a good point in his own review of the TV show, which he posted on YouTube earlier today: how do we know the timeline events, as written on a chalkboard, are even true? "I know people are complaining about the dates being off. Well, you're right! Maybe they are off! Maybe what was taught to the kids was wrong," he says. "Maybe they were lying to the kids. They lied to the kids in Vault 33 about other things, why not lie about that? Or, maybe they're off, but they don't know they're off? Just a few years either way." He goes on to point out that Fallout, as a series, has a long line of "unreliable narrators." "Maybe the dates in the games are off," he says. "Maybe Fallout: New Vegas, some of the characters in that game, got the dates wrong. There's no master calendar you can refer to... Fallout has a history in a lot of the games of having people tell you something that isn't true." He's not wrong, and spreading *********** among the Vaults' youth isn't something you should ever put past Vault-Tec. Speaking of Vault-Tec, he also offers some theories about whether or not the corporation dropped the first nuclear ****** that ultimately led to society's demise. Basically: Cain doesn't think Vault-Tec shot first. "Fallout has a history in a lot of the games of having people tell you something that isn't true. To support his theory, he points to what we saw in the season premiere of Fallout: Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) with his daughter, Janey (Teagan Meredith), at a birthday party when the first nukes drop. As we learn in the season finale, Coop's wife Barb (Frances Turner) was one of the high-up executives at Vault-Tec who were discussing the possibility of dropping the nukes. "I don't think they nuked first," Cain says. "I really don't think they did, because Barbara didn't strike me as a ******* woman. Would she have sent her daughter to a birthday party on the day Vault-Tec was gunna *****?" "I think they were planning on nuking - it was one of their strategies that they were thinking about, which is enough to go, 'wow, Vault-Tec is evil,' " he continues. "But I don't think they nuked. I think they were a bit caught off guard too when nukes came in." Cain stresses that his theories are just that, and goes on to encourage fans to have fun spinning up ideas on the show as well, as long as it stays good-natured. The good news is that we may actually get answers to some of these questions, given that Prime Video officially renewed Fallout for a second season yesterday. In the meantime, check out our review of Season 1, which we gave a 9/10. Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons. View the full article
Though Fallout creator Tim Cain has not been involved in the series in over 20 years, he still keeps up with the franchise. Case in point, he recently shared his thoughts on the first season of Prime Video's Fallout TV series. In a new video posted on his YouTube channel, Cain spent nearly 13 minutes discussing his thoughts and impressions on the show's first season. Right at the top, he says he likes the show before going on to "ramble" more about the specifics, including why he likes it so much. "Everything feels like Fallout. It feels like Fallout," he says. "That is hard to do, trust me. I know how hard that is to do. It's easy to write post-apocalyptic stuff that doesn't fit in the Fallout mold, and it would have been very easy for them to go off to be too silly accidentally, to have things that are like, 'that's not part of Fallout.' But they didn't." Cain also loved how much Fallout lore was present in the show, even admitting he missed a few things during his viewing. He appreciated that the show never added a narrator to explain everything to viewers, but noted that the lack of exposition and amount of lore drops might make it "a little ******* to get into" for those who haven't played the post-apocalyptic action RPG series. He also praised the Prime Video series for its trio of main characters. Each, as he pointed out, "felt like different ways that a player character could be approaching the game." Lucy represents the "nice character," the player with high ethical standards. Maximus, meanwhile, represents a more neutral player, one focused on achieving their goals. The Ghoul, he said, serves the role of "the show's ******* *****," likely referring to the players who ****** first and ask questions later. Cain went on to share his thoughts about the potential timeline issues presented in the series before the show's executive producers, Jonathan Nolan, and Todd Howard, cleared the air. This is the second video Cain has published sharing his impressions on the Fallout TV series, following a video he uploaded roughly a week ago after attending the first season's Hollywood premiere. Cain created the series when he was employed at Interplay Entertainment, where he served in various roles, primarily as a designer for the first two Fallout games. However, Cain has not been directly involved in any of the games since Fallout 2. He has shared some Fallout-centric videos on his YouTube channel. Some videos include him explaining cut content from the original Fallout, the biggest influences on the series, and why he left Fallout 2 early into its development cycle. While he largely doesn't publicly share his thoughts on newer games, he did offer some about Fallout 3 during a 2010 interview. The Fallout TV series' first season premiered a little over a week ago and has been a huge success for Prime Video. Alongside the Fallout games seeing a surge in player count, it was no surprise that Prime Video renewed the show for a second season. If you've already finished the first season of Fallout, check out our ending explainer and our piece detailing 14 things we'd love to see in Fallout season 2. Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster. View the full article
Image: Nintendo If you’re the kind of Mario Kart 8 player who cares about winning and not just playing their favorite characters (Daisy and Peach supremacy), choosing the best combination of driver, vehicle, and wheels gets tricky. Luckily, thanks to data science and 19th-century Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, there’s a way to figure that out. Data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz applies one of Pareto’s principles, the Pareto front, to plot the best combination among the 703,560 possible decisions players must make in Mario Kart. Eurogamer helpfully explains that a Pareto front finds the best possible solution to a problem with different objectives. In a cool piece of data visualization you should definitely check out, Mayerowitz narrows down the... Continue reading… View the full article
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Version 1.2.0 will also bring character adjustments and new features that have yet to be detailed. View the full article