Season of Discovery reinvented World of Warcraft Classic with new abilities, events, and raids. Even though features like the Blood Moon won’t be missed, fans adore one change Blizzard made in phase three, and they want it for endgame raids as well. In a post on the WoW Classic subreddit on April 16, player Deep_Junket_7954 asked Blizzard to convert all the level 60 raids (which are normally designed for 40 players) into 20-person raids. All WoW Classic raids except Zul’Gurub and the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj are intended for 40 people, but players are arguing 20-person raids are the sweet spot. You still have to coordinate mechanics with lots of players, but things aren’t too chaotic. View the full article
The time to dominate the arena in XDefiant is almost here. Ubisoft's promising multiplayer shooter returns for the XDefiant server test, giving PS5 and Xbox players a limited window to squad up and test their mettle. You'll have the chance to some earn free XDefiant rewards too, and the best part is that they'll be ready for you on day one when the game fully launches. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You could finally get to play XDefiant this weekend, but not for long XDefiant release date estimate and latest news XDefiant will "lock" in a launch date after this PS5 and Xbox test View the full article
Blizzard has released a major update for Heroes of the Storm on the Public Test Realm (PTR), featuring substantial hero adjustments, new additions to Same Hero Mode, balance updates, bug fixes, and more. Alongside these changes, Blizzard also included bug fixes and improvements aimed at enhancing the overall game experience. View the full article
Hello there, a whole bunch of games are set to leave Playstation Plus next month. There are 25 of them, to be exact, and some pretty big names are on that list. A smorgasbord of Final Fantasy titles, for example. Though, that's not what you should be most concerned about. Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 is leaving too, and to be honest, I don't think the service will ever recover from that. First, the rest of them (thanks, PushSquare). If you're itching to play Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9, Final Fantasy 10/10-2, Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, and Final Fantasy 15: Royal Edition, all of which I can confirm are Final Fantasy games, you'll have to do so prior to May 21. Look, I know Final Fantasy titles have some amazing stories and characters in them, and you're now looking Monster Jam Steel Titans 2's Metacritic and saying to yourself 'this looks really mid, even for a racing game'. But does FF have Grave Digger in it? Does it let you pop a wheelie or do a flip in a big, silly toy that's designed to look like a big bull's head, or an alien spaceship, or a zombie? Read more View the full article
There are a ton of familiar moments for fans to lose their mind over in the first season of the Fallout TV show. It may not have been particularly significant, but the first time I saw someone use a stimpack or heard The Ink Spots' I Don't Want to Set The World on ***** was still really cool... Read more.View the full article
Steve Buscemi, an actor known for having played cartoon monsters and teen detectives, has apparently been cast in Wednesday season 2. As reported by Variety, Buscemi is the latest actor to join season 2 of the very popular Netflix series Wednesday. This comes from sources that spoke with Variety, who weren't able to confirm exactly who he will be playing, though it's believed his role will be that of the new principal of Nevermore Academy. Whether Buscemi will be some kind of supernatural creature/ monster himself ******** to be seen, though I'm sure his stint as Randall Boggs in Monster, Inc. will help him out there. Plus, thanks to that one constantly referenced 30 Rock bit he appeared in as a detective that supposedly looks young enough to pass as a teen, he's surely able to get down with the kids. Details on Wednesday season 2 are mostly under wraps at the moment, though obviously the titular lead Jenna Ortega is returning, though this time also as an executive producer. Earlier this year she did say that she's "received some scripts now for the second season, and we’re definitely leaning into a little bit more horror," which will definitely be a welcome change for those that felt the first season was a bit too casual. She went on to say that "there's some really good one-liners and I think everything is *******. It’s a lot more action-packed. I think each episode will probably feel a little bit more like a movie, which is nice." Read more View the full article
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has triggered the resurgence of the Factory Striders — and on ******* difficulties they’re dropping in packs. For the uninitiated, the Factory Strider is an AT-AT-style Automaton walker that drops onto the battlefield, stomps around ********* up Helldivers, and sometimes even spawns other enemies. They were stealth-dropped into the PlayStation 5 and PC co-op shooter earlier in April, but it seems this was something of a test. Now, according to Arrowhead, Factory Striders are back and in a big way. Factory Striders have made a resurgence on the Automaton front. These imposing, massive support dreadnoughts now threaten freedom and democracy throughout the galactic rim. [Hidden Content] — HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) April 16, 2024 Since this announcement, Helldivers 2 players have discovered that on the game’s ******* difficulties, the Factory Striders can multi-drop. That is, they can drop in groups, which is a terrifying prospect. Redditor Dolt1372 published a clip, below, that shows just how out of control this can get, with Factory Strider after Factory Strider dropping in front of the unfortunate Helldiver. Factory Strider multi drop Dolt1372 [Hidden Content] — Helldivers Alerts (@HelldiversAlert) April 17, 2024 While Factory Striders are imposing and difficult to take down, the fightback has begun, with players sharing their tips for destroying the support dreadnoughts (check out IGN's guide to defeating Factory Striders if you're having trouble). In short, the answer is to bring big, powerful ******, and as many as your group can carry. Drop everything you’ve got, basically, especially if more than one Factory Strider turns up. If you're all out of ******, try blowing its guns off with your hardest-hitting support *******. If all else fails, run! Some players are reporting that even in public groups Helldivers understand the assignment, and as soon as a Factory Striders turns up, everyone lets it have it. “I joined four, difficulty eight pubs, in all four we had multi-drop Factory Striders at some point that lasted all of 10 seconds,” reported CorsariousAbonai. “Literally soon as we saw one, anywhere from six to eight stratagems would follow. I am talking 380, laser, 500kg, rail cannon, walking barrage, clusters eagle airstrike. The works. These were all pubs but everyone was on the same wavelength, drop big boomboom on big ******. “Imagine the perspective of the striders, giant mechanical menace, peak **** engineering. Gets dropped, with two of the same. Within five seconds of landing six orbs with red beams aimed at the sky fall at your feet.” The Helldivers community is currently fighting off the Automaton invasion, which Arrowhead triggered last week with a new set of Major Orders focused on pushing the bots back. It ******** to be seen where Game Master Joel will take the Galactic War next. If you’re looking for more on Helldivers 2, check out IGN’s feature on the Let Me Solo Her of Helldivers 2, a player who has answered over 100 **** Beacons as part of a mission to help others. Helldivers 2 has become one of the surprise hits of 2024 since launching in February, topping the charts on Steam and reportedly selling around three million copies. According to at least one analyst, it's still growing. Check out IGN's Helldivers 2 review to find out why it's going down so well. Image credit: Dolt1372 / Reddit 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
Planned to release sometime this year, Stardust ****** is a retro-style metroidvania adventure game inspired by ***** Story, Zelda, and many more. Featuring cute chibi characters wrapped in some dark and spooky undertones. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
A significant number of game developers are unsure about the long-term sustainability of the live-service monetization model, according to a recent survey. Generally, live-service games are those that receive continual updates after launch, often divided into seasons or chapters, and are usually accompanied by a monetization scheme like battle passes. The goal is to keep players engaged and continuously playing the game and spending money, and the model has proven extremely lucrative for developers. View the full article
Grounded has received its final major update, to coincide with its release on Switch and PlayStation consoles. The Fully Yoked update brings the game up to version 1.4 and adds a large helping of new content, features and quality of life updates. One of the more notable additions to the game is a New Game+ mode, which lets players visit remixed versions of the game world. Read More... View the full article
Do you like classic action-adventure puzzle games like the older Zelda titles? Be sure to check out Adventure of Rikka - The Cursed Kingdom. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
How about a free game to add to your library? Roboden is an asymmetrical indirect control real-time strategy game about ****** colonies and it's now Steam Deck Verified. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
If you're looking for a breech-loaded grenade launcher in Destiny 2, it's pretty likely that you're trying to complete the newly added Climbing the Mountaintop quest to get The Mountaintop grenade launcher. In the quest you need to rapidly defeat a whole lot of enemies with breech-loaded grenade launchers—bonus progress in Onslaught—or bring one into PvP to ***** guardians... Read more.View the full article
Releasing May 14th, Athenian Rhapsody certainly caught my attention in the GamingOnLinux inbox with a tagline of "Make friends and catch IBS". Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Take-Two Interactoive, the company behind GTA developer Rockstar Games - which also recently acquired Borderlands developer Gearbox Software for $460 million - has announced plans to lay off just over 500 of its employees and cancel some in-development projects. This, as we've sadly come to expect, is part of a plan to cut costs at the company. The plans were revealed via an SEC filing (thanks, [Hidden Content]) which outlined that Take-Two's board of directors had approved them and provided an explanation behind the rationale the company's using to justify making such a move. The latter contains a lot of the kind of language you might expect. In that filing, Take-Two wrote that this cost slashing is designed "to identify efficiencies across its business and enhance the company’s margin profile, while still investing for growth". "As part of these efforts," it added, "the company is rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating several projects in development and streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs." Read more View the full article
FACEMINER is a clicker/puzzle game where you work from your CRT monitor to analyse packets of facial surveillance data for a mysterious company. It describes itself as a ‘********* thriller clicker set in 1999’. As a connoisseur of unusual word combinations - as well as a believer in the satirical power of clicker games since playing Universal Paperclips - I immediately set about downloading the free Steam demo. Read more View the full article
If you can't wait to start rummaging in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's guts with its powerful new modding tools, you can now ****** for early access by signing up for a playtest on Steam. The new REDkit suite is based on the actual tools that CD Projekt RED themselves sued to create one of the best RPGs, and will let folks make a much wider range of mods. We'll be able to make new quests, new characters, even whole new worlds. Read more View the full article
Capes is an XCOM-like superhero strategy game coming from Spitfire Interactive, comprised of key creatives behind the Hand of Fate franchise. It has a new trailer and a release date now! Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
A new Genshin Impact animated short has revealed more details about the backstory of the upcoming five-star Pyro user Arlecchino. This popular character was introduced back in 2022 as one of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, a group of high-ranking officers who work for the Snezhnaya Archon Tsaritsa. View the full article
The first trailer for Look Back, an anime film based on a one-shot from Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, is finally here, and it looks ridiculously good. Back in February, it was announced that one of Fujimoto's best (and saddest) one-shots, Look Back, would be getting a movie adaptation, the first of the Chainsaw Man creator's works to be adapted for the big screen - technically the Chainsaw Man movie covering the manga's next arc was announced first, but it still doesn't' have a release date yet, whereas Look Back is due out June 28 in Japan. And late last night, at least in my timezone, the first trailer for Look Back was released, showing a film that looks so beautiful I can already anticipate it being my favourite of the year (it does help I've already read the manga, so going in I'm confident the story will hit). For those that know Chainsaw Man but maybe don't know Look Back, the one-shot follows, as described by English publisher Viz Media, "the overly confident Fujino" and "the shut-in Kyomoto" who "couldn't be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town ****** together." Like how many filmmakers often end up making a film about film, this is essentially Fujimoto's version of that, but with manga - it's very much about not even a love of drawing, but a love of working hard to get better at a thing you feel so much passion for, and doing it with people you care about. Read more View the full article
GTA 6 publishers Take-Two Interactive have announced that they're "rationalizing" their "pipeline" and positioning/restructuring/streamlining for growth by, you guessed it, laying off a load of people and cancelling a bunch of games. As detailed in a Security Exchange Commission filing, Take-Two are doing away with five per cent of the approximately 11,000 people who work for them, and have cancelled several in-development projects worth tens of millions of dollars. Read more View the full article
63 Days is a new action strategy game coming from developer Destructive Creations who previously made War Mongrels and Ancestors Legacy. 63 Days is about brotherhood and the ****** to regain independence against overwhelming odds in the 1944 occupied Warsaw, Poland. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Counter-Strike 2 players are demanding changes, and many want to see an update to the competitive map pool as they feel it’s become stale. On Reddit, CS2 players are discussing the maps they’d like to see return. In an April 16 Reddit post, players talked about the state of CS2’s map pool after redditor SyncingSLow posted a picture of an updated Train map from the game’s trailer. “Where is Train? I’m ***** of the current map pool,” they wrote, and while not everyone agrees Train should come back, they want Valve to shake things up. View the full article
The company expects to complete its downsizing efforts by the end of this year. | Image: Take-Two Interactive Take-Two Interactive, the gaming company behind franchises like Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Bioshock, has announced cost-cutting measures that will lay off “approximately five percent” of its global workforce and scrap several projects already in development. The company said in an SEC filing published on Tuesday that it is “streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs.” Take-Two says it will incur charges of up to $200 million to enact its “cost reduction program,” which aims to save the company over $165 million per year. The downsizing efforts are expected to be “largely complete” by December 31st, 2024. A five percent workforce reduction works out to around 579 of the... Continue reading… View the full article
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree will release in June 2024, but even if you buy it day one, you might not be able to access the Elden Ring DLC expansion’s new overworld areas and dungeons right away. This is an add-on aimed squarely at those in the later stages of the game, as FromSoftware’s own Elden Lord Hidetaki Miyazaki has revealed in a new Famitsu interview – to gain access, you must first defeat two of the main game’s nastier bosses. Yes, I know that all Elden Ring bosses are ******, but these two are among the worst, in my experience. Read more View the full article
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Season of Discovery reinvented World of Warcraft Classic with new abilities, events, and raids. Even though features like the Blood Moon won’t be missed, fans adore one change Blizzard made in phase three, and they want it for endgame raids as well. In a post on the WoW Classic subreddit on April 16, player Deep_Junket_7954 asked Blizzard to convert all the level 60 raids (which are normally designed for 40 players) into 20-person raids. All WoW Classic raids except Zul’Gurub and the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj are intended for 40 people, but players are arguing 20-person raids are the sweet spot. You still have to coordinate mechanics with lots of players, but things aren’t too chaotic. View the full article