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Built on the Zen 4 architecture, these are the first set of Pro chips from AMD to include built-in Neural Processing Units (NPUs) for AI workloads. They also come with integrated RDNA graphics. Read Entire Article View the full article

I briefly posted about this in The Maw, but was unsure at that point if SteamWorld Heist 2 was coming to PC day and date with the launch on Switch. That date is August 8th, by the way, and the answer is: yes it is! Though it was revealed at Nintendo's Indie World Showcase earlier this afternoon, strategy action-adventure-with-robots sequel SteamWorld Heist 2 isn't a timed platform exclusive, so that's fun! SteamWorld Heist 2 is, if you hadn't guessed, a sequel to SteamWorld Heist, which came to PC in 2016. The first was a side-on tactics game where you, leading a team of robots, shot teams of other (bad) robots in turn-based skill-heavy tactical battles. While that all took place in space, the sequel has achieved splashdown, and you'll be chuntering about the seas with a new lead character (Captain Leeway) and a new bunch of crewmates. It's a ****** pirate game, in other words. Read more View the full article

One of the joys of Fallout as a fan is to sit down and deep-***** into its alternate-reality take on ******* States history. The lore masters at Bethesda have entire events mapped out into canon, from the liberation of Alaska from the ******** government to the recall of Teddy ***** bears in 2072 and beyond. Until recently this alternate history has existed primarily through the many Fallout video games developed by studios like Interplay Entertainment, ****** Isle, Bethesda, and Obsidian. But with the new show from Prime Video now available to stream, there’s a new entry in the canon. We know this because IGN sat down with Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard and Fallout: The Series co-creator Jonathan Nolan to talk about how the new show fits into the grand timeline of Fallout. Spoilers for the ending of Fallout Season 1 and details on every Fallout game below. How Does the Fallout Show Fit into the Overall Timeline? Officially the Fallout show is set in the year 2296, which takes place later than any other Fallout game currently released. For example, Fallout 4 takes place in the year 2287, while Fallout: New Vegas is set in the year 2281, a full 15 years prior to the events of the show. Since the showrunners and Howard previously confirmed the show exists within the canon of the games, that means events in the show have big lore implications for the series. The biggest is probably the fate of Shady Sands, the first capital of the New California Republic and a key location in the Fallout video games. In the final episode of the first season it’s revealed Shady Sands was destroyed by Hank MacLean, overseer of Vault 33 and secret Vault-Tec employee. Shady Sands appeared in the very first Fallout video game set in the year 2161 and is referenced again in Fallout: New Vegas set in the year 2281. But with the Fallout show taking place in 2296, 15 years after the events of New Vegas, a lot can change in that time. “There might be a little bit of confusion in some places. But everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened.” According to Howard, showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet came to him with the idea to ***** up Shady Sands, something Howard says shocked him at first. But the event would serve as a catalyst for the main characters of the Fallout show and the showrunners worked with Howard and the Bethesda team to ensure it remained consistent with the games. “And we talked through it and it was, ‘This would be a pretty impactful story moment that a lot of things anchor on,"' Howard says. But for anyone confused about how the city could be blown up by the time the show takes place, Howard explains all the details of the timeline should line up. “We’re careful about the timeline,” he says. “There might be a little bit of confusion in some places. But everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened. We’re very careful about that.” “All I can say is we’re threading it tighter there, but the ****** fall just after the events of New Vegas.” How Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan Agreed on the Fallout Timeline Howard revealed that when Bethesda first began talking with Jonathan Nolan about a potential Fallout TV adaptation, Howard wanted something that “Would stand up as another entry in the series as opposed to retelling one of the games we did and sort of treat it like we do a game and move the timeline forward and do some great things. And that’s what [Nolan] was thinking as well.” Nolan adds that the show set out to honor the meticulous and detailed timeline set up by Bethesda and that creating a show not connected to the games was almost a non-starter: “Everyone who worked on Fallout, all the games, were so respectful and so careful to keep this consistent universe. If we’d gone a different direction, the show would be the only thing that doesn’t fit with that universe... We didn’t want to be in our own private corner of an elseworld or a different universe. I think that will be less meaningful to me watching the series, to know it was completely divorced from the reality of the games,” Nolan admits. What Is the Complete Fallout Timeline (So far)? Now we know the Fallout show is indeed canon and lines up with the timeline set by the games, here are the key events that mark the Fallout franchise from the first game to the show. ****** Drop - Year: 2077 While the entire history of Fallout takes place in an alternate history where the Cold War takes dramatically different turns than it does in our own reality, the key moment that sets off the franchise is the start of the Great War on October 23, 2077. A culmination of the Sino-********* War, every nation involved in the conflict was sucked into a nuclear war, transforming the ******* States and the rest of the world into the Fallout wasteland we know and love(?). This event can be seen in both the Fallout show where Walton Goggins’ Howard Cooper and his daughter are seen attempting to flee the nuclear blasts in Los Angeles, as well as the opening moments of Fallout 4 where the Sole Survivor and their family make their way into Vault 111 just before the ***** lands in New England. Fallout 76 - Year: 2102 Fallout 76 begins on October 23, 2102, or Reclamation Day as it’s known. 25 years after the ****** fell during the Great War, Fallout 76 is the earliest game in the series, with Howard even calling it a “prequel” to the other games. Set in the former state of West Virginia and now known simply as Appalachia, the game stars a Vault Dweller from Vault 76 who sets out to find the missing Overseer. Fallout 76’s version of the wasteland is especially harsh given how soon it is after the ****** were dropped and many of the series’ hallmarks like the Brotherhood of Steel and mutations have their origins explored here. Fallout 1 - Year: 2161 The very first Fallout game is actually the second game in the timeline. Set 84 years after the Great War, Fallout begins in Vault 13 in Southern California, near Shady Sands and Vault 33 from the Fallout show. The Vault Dweller in the first Fallout is given the straightforward task of finding a new Water Chip for their Vault before the Vault’s supply of clean water runs out. However, during the course of this adventure they come face-to-face with The Master and his army of mutants who are bent on mutating the humans under his rule. Fallout Tactics - Year: 2197 Fallout Tactics tells the origins of one of the Wasteland’s longest-lasting factions: The Brotherhood of Steel. When the Great War broke out, a group of military men were bunkered in a Vault-Tec Vault alongside a group of scientists. However, when the military unit discovers the scientists’ immoral experiments, they desert the army, ***** the scientists, and together form the Brotherhood of Steel. Tactics follows the Brotherhood as they attempt to claim the territory outside of the former Chicago, but ultimately takes them on a journey west to find the rumored Vault 0 which houses the ******* States’ most important government, military, and scientific leaders. Fallout 2 - Year: 2241 A direct sequel to the events in Fallout 1, Fallout 2 follows a direct descendent of the Vault Dweller from Vault 13 who was exiled and started the village of Arroyo in the Wasteland. Fallout 2 tracks the rise of the New California Republic as well as the organization known as the Enclave, which claims to be the true successor to the ******* States. The Enclave briefly appears in the Fallout show as the organization the scientist Siggi Wilzig escapes from with the Cold Fusion Reactor. Fallout 3 - Year: 2277 Set in the East Coast near the former Washington D.C., Fallout 3 takes place in Vault 101 and initially revolves around the Vault-Dweller’s search for their missing father. While venturing across the D.C. area, a larger plot is uncovered around a mysterious project to purify the drinking water of the Potomac River, along with clashes with the Enclave from Fallout 2. Fallout: New Vegas - Year: 2281 Once again set in the West Coast, Fallout: New Vegas stars a Courier tasked with delivering a package to New Vegas which, you guessed it, is the post-nuclear war successor to Las Vegas, Nevada. However, the Courier winds up caught between a local factional war between the New California Republic and the ********* gang Great Khans that threatens to destabilize the entire region. And as Howard tells IGN, Shady Sands is destroyed sometime after the events of Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout 4 - Year: 2287 Set in a region known as the Commonwealth, which comprises most of pre-war New England, Fallout 4 follows the Sole Survivor of Vault 111 who sets out in search of their missing spouse and baby. Along the way, players will encounter new factions like the Minutemen and The Institute as well as familiar Wasteland staples like The Brotherhood of Steel. The primary focus of Fallout 4 is around a new technology called Synths – humanlike machines who’ve since gained sentience, supposedly after numerous generations were created post-Great War. Fallout TV Show - Year: 2296 Finally, we have the events in Fallout: The Series. Similar to the plot of Fallout 3, Prime Video’s Fallout show follows Lucy MacLean as she sets out from Vault 33 into the Wasteland to find her kidnapped father, the overseer Hank MacLean. However, as the series continues we discover the truth behind not only the events leading up to The Great War in 2077, but also what happened to the city of Shady Sands and the original Vault-Tec. This is the complete timeline of Fallout from both the games and the show as confirmed by Todd Howard. With Fallout 5 already confirmed as a game Howard and Bethesda want to eventually make, who knows where the future of the series will go? Especially if Prime Video also greenlights a second season of Fallout: The Series. For more from us on the great big Fallout wasteland, check out IGN’s full interview with Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan. Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd. View the full article

The Helldivers 2 development team has been hard at work, keeping up with their immense success since the game launched in early February. As the team ******** hard at work, they opened up recently about why tackling some bugs takes longer than other tasks. In the official Helldivers 2 Discord server, Spitz, a community manager at Arrowhead Games Studio, shared some insight regarding many bugs and complications players continue to encounter. Spitz’s thoughts were shared in the troubleshooting and the general chat categories, offering a better idea of why these issues were not tackled sooner or weren’t immediately handled by team members. It’s also a stark reminder of how much success Helldivers 2 has given the team and how they’re trying to manage it properly. View the full article

How do you get into the XDefiant stress test? Plans seem to change frequently with XDefiant, with each beta test resulting in a delay to the shooter's full release. After months of inactivity, Ubisoft announced an XDefiant stress test, giving players a weekend to test the server's capabiltiies. So, as the FPS game opens up to as many players as it can physically support for the first time, you may be wondering how to get into the XDefiant stress test. Luckily, the process isn't all that difficult, and once you've registered your interest, you can begin earning prizes that will appear in your inventory when the XDefiant release date rolls around. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: XDefiant release date estimate and latest news Ubisoft's Call of Duty rival "can't go live" until parties are fixed XDefiant release delayed indefinitely due to "inconsistencies" View the full article

There's no shortage of incredible Fallout-themed projects being revealed right now, and this custom Fallout gaming PC from NZXT and POPeART_ is up there with the best. Better still, it's not just a pretty design, the PC itself is packing some serious hardware, and if you're in the *** there's a chance you can win it for yourself too. Boasting the best gaming CPU, one of the best graphics cards, and a range of other exciting high-end components, this NZXT H6 Flow PC is a must-have for any vault dweller. There's only one up for grabs in this giveaway, and it's only for fans living in the ******* Kingdom, but if you live in the *** then you'll want to enter. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fallout Season 2 presents a major dilemma for New Vegas The ultimate Fallout guide to getting started with the RPG series Fallout returns to Nvidia GeForce Now, just in time for TV show View the full article

I don't know about you, but when I wake up in the morning I need a few moments, at least, before I get going. That's unfortunately not an indulgence Moon Samurai protagonist Buddy has the luxury of receiving. As soon as he smashes out of his detention-tube he has to hit the ground running with hordes of burly foes to carve up and a whole city to save. There's no chance to pour a steaming hot cup of joe for this recently imprisoned boy - he'll just have to pour his enemies a steaming hot cup of pain instead. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

You just never know what's coming next in the world of gaming, do you? Well, aside from layoffs. We already knew the director's cut of Ghost of Tsushima was coming to PC on May 16, but it turns out it'll be doing more than just letting you stab some fellas with a big samurai sword. It's gonna be the first game to use a new PlayStation overlay, which basically makes a lot of stuff you'll be used to seeing on your PS5 over to PC. Because, after all, why wouldn't you want to be able to see which PlayStation trophies you're earning while you're deliberately playing the game, which has been available on PlayStation consoles for a good while now, via a totally different platform. As outlined in a new PlayStation blog post the PC version of the game, which comes with both Legends mode and the Iki Island expansion, is "the first PlayStation title on PC that uses a new PlayStation overlay." Read more View the full article

SteamWorld Heist 2 is on the way after a reveal at the Nintendo Indie World showcase, and the release date isn’t too far away. Nine years after the original title’s release, Steamworld Heist 2 is set to provide waves of new content, including a new job system and vast customization. View the full article

The Fortnite Avatar event is so good that players are begging Epic Games to make a bending-only mode. Using bending Mythics, players can ****** using air, *****, water, and earth bending skills that work better than guns do.Fortnite players want an Avatar bending-only modeAlthough you can use water bending to heal and air bending to traverse, the majority of these Mythics are used for dealing damage to enemies. The only issue here is just how powerful water, *****, and earth bending can be compared to the usual melee and ranged weapons in Fortnite. There are certain players online who have complained about how overpowered bending can be, but the majority of players and Avatar fans are begging Epic Games to make a bending-only mode for Fortnite.They need to add a bending only mode byu/Doritoicecream0 inFortNiteBRWhile suggesting a bending-only mode, this Reddit user in the Fortnite subreddit showed a video clip of them using Air Wheel to quickly glide toward an ****** and ...View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

WayForward is working on a new game based on classic Atari shooter Yars’ Revenge. The original 1982 game was released on the Atari 2600 and was a single-screen ****** ’em up in which players controlled an insectoid called a Yar and shot through a barrier to ******** a boss character called a Qotile. The new game, called Yars Rising, will be a completely different adventure set in the same universe, and will instead be a side-scrolling metroidvania-type game. Read More... View the full article

The classic card game Sabacc will finally be playable in Star Wars Outlaws, as revealed by the game’s ESRB rating. Ubisoft and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora developer Massive Entertainment announced that they were working on an open-world Star Wars game back in 2021, but it wasn’t until last June’s Xbox Games showcase that fans learned what it was going to be about. Star Wars Outlaws will put players in the role of Kay Vess, an aspiring outlaw looking to make her mark on the ********* underworld by pulling a massive heist against the rising Zerek Besh organization. View the full article

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has outlined how it attempts to balance monthly live service drops of Warbonds alongside the ongoing bug fixes a game like this needs, saying it's "difficult to maintain our cadence" due to things like the relatively small size of the team. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Helldivers 2 update finally fixes that big Warbond error Best Helldivers 2 stratagems Helldivers 2 ***** is "ridiculous" dev admits, but changes are coming View the full article

Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The next Chaos Space Marines Codex ditches Noise Marines 8 Warhammer 40k retcons ******* than female Adeptus Custodes GW confirms there are female Warhammer 40k Adeptus Custodes View the full article

It just goes to show, that as challenging as it is for indie devs right now, there's still a whole lot of success stories. Buckshot Roulette is the latest to hit over a million sales. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The Fortnite x Avatar collab has given us some incredible new elemental weapons to ******** our opponents with. One player has taken Firebending to new bounds by combining it with the Underworld Dash.Dash while using ***** Slam to reach distant opponents in FortniteReddit user Jabroni5092 shared a clip where they managed to use Underworld Dash whilst using ***** Slam to ****** down upon foes on a distant summit.This was a VERY convenient time to discover that you can dash WHILE doing a ***** kick byu/Jabroni5092 inFortNiteBRAlthough the player didn’t manage to defeat them (how awesome would that have been), they did deal an incredible 80 damage and upended them before safely retreating. This kind of feat combines numerous items to reach the unreachable and punish them.Using the Shockwave Grenade and Air Bending, the player managed to arc through the air at great height and speed. Upon initiating ***** Slam through ***** Bending, the player then used the Underworld ...View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Family Guy is 25 years old now, and while it hasn't run for as long as The Simpsons, series creator Seth MacFarlane sees no signs of it ever stopping. It might not be the household name that The Simpsons is, mostly because of its edgier approach to humour, but Family Guy is obviously now an important part of ****** animated series (even if it's one that mostly misses). Still, people like it enough all the same even now, and for MacFarlane, that's a good enough reason to keep it going. Speaking to the LA Times alongside the rest of the cast in a feature commemorating the show's 25th anniversary, MacFarlane said, "At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop. People still love it. It makes people happy and it funds some good causes. "It's a lot of extraneous cash that you can donate to Rainforest Trust and you can still go out to dinner that night. There was a time when I thought, it's time to wrap it up. At this point, we've reached escape velocity. I don’t know that there’s any reason to stop at this point unless people get ***** of it. Unless the numbers show that people just are, 'Eh, we don’t care about 'Family Guy' anymore.' But that hasn’t happened yet." Read more View the full article

From Cities Skylines 2 and Against the Storm to the upcoming Frostpunk 2, most city building games are all about expanding your urban sprawl across a wide stretch of map. That format gets a perspective twist in new roguelike strategy game Vertical Kingdom, however, which demands you construct your cities upwards into the sky in the style of a Terraria town, earning new cards and gathering resources to help construct your towering metropolises, and it's out now on Steam with a special Steam ***** discount for launch. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

A recent ***** from the Genshin Impact community has revealed which 4-Star characters will accompany Arlecchino and Lyney in the first half of Version 4.6. While the Event Banners for the upcoming Genshin Impact patch were known ahead of time, with Wanderer and Baizhu making a surprise appearance in the second half of Version 4.6, the lineup of 4-Star characters has always been ******* to pinpoint. View the full article

Destroying an Assaultron is a common daily challenge in Fallout 76. This mission aims to find and take down an Assaultron, a rare humanoid ****** ******. Their uncommon nature can make it hard to find an Assaultron in time. Luckily, Assaultrons love to gather in a few special locations in Appalachia. View the full article

Elden Ring is a big scary game with big scary bosses. At the pinnacle of FromSoft's dark fantasy epic stands Malenia, Blade of Miqella - a title you'll have probably heard about a billion times as you've been repeatedly goomba stomped by the flashy swordswoman. No? Just me? It must be a journalist thing... Anyway, it turns out that there are players out there who are pretty proficient at murdering Malenia in creative ways on PS5 and Xbox, and now one streamer has posted a clip obliterating using the power of Morse code after being heckled on socials by Elon Musk - we're not joking. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best games for consoles 2024 Elden Ring DLC will give you 10 more reasons to break your controller Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree is $40, but so what? View the full article

PlayStation games have already become quite common on PC with games like Horizon Forbidden West and **** of War leading the charge, but PlayStation integration on Steam and the Epic Games Store is getting even deeper with the launch of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut in May. In addition to a ton of new PC-specific features like ultrawide support and image upscaling via DLSS and more, the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut will debut with an all-new PlayStation overlay that includes your friends list, PSN profile, and other PSN features. The most surprising addition of the bunch is Trophy support, allowing you to earn PSN Trophies on PC for the first time ever.The Trophy set for Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut is the exact same as the PlayStation 5 version, and Trophies earned on either platform will automatically unlock whenever you swap between them. If you complete a milestone on the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima, you’ll see the Trophy o...View the full article

You'd think that huge corporations trying to replicate your success with clones of your game would be a bit of a kick in the teeth, but Palworld CEO Takura Mizobe couldn't seem happier... Read more.View the full article

With the Myths and Mortals season in full swing, some have started to speculate what’ll come next to Fortnite. Given the nature of divine beings, and the recent success of the Fallout show, a Reddit user has a pretty solid speculation.The next Fortnite season may have a Fallout themeReddit user daspaceinvader shared his speculation with the Fortnite subreddit, that when the Myths and Mortals season ends, the Gods may have enough of being summoned only to be defeated, leading to an apocalypse of sorts. The perfect gateway to a Fallout collab.Speculation: The next chapter will be post-apocalyptic themed and will feature a Fallout themed battle pass. byu/daspaceinvader inFortNiteBRI personally believe a Fallout collab is not far off at all, whether it becomes the theme for the whole season, or merely a portion of it, like the Avatar collab. For the Gods to leave the Fortnite world without any sort of impact would seem rather anticlimactic, and I don’t really ...View the full article

No Rest for the Wicked, the unlikely next game from Ori series creator Moon Studios, is one day away from release. As we approach the big day, the developer has been revealing a few final details about the game, alongside dropping the launch trailer. No Rest of the Wicked is not the type of grim action game with exacting combat you might expect to come from the makers of the whimsy and emotionally-charged Ori, but it also represents the studio’s first foray into the realm of Steam Early Access. Top-down ARPGs are no strangers to Steam Early Access, of course, but Moon Studios is adopting a very player-friendly approach that could only really make the experience as smooth as possible, on day one and beyond; at a time when everyone is becoming increasingly weary of all the different caveats and hurdles modern games can’t seem to stop creating for their players. Read more View the full article