Enlarge / Photos of iGBA that appeared on the App Store before the app was taken down. (credit: [Hidden Content]) [/url] Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina launched iGBA as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's rules change regarding such emulators earlier this month. As of Monday morning, though, iGBA has been pulled from the App Store following controversy over the unauthorized reuse of source code from a different emulator project. Shortly after iGBA's launch, some people on social media began noticing that the project appeared to be based on the code for GBA4iOS, a nearly decade-old emulator that developer Riley Testut and a partner developed as high-schoolers (and distributed via a temporary security ***** in the iOS App store). Testut took to social media Sunday morning to call iGBA a "knock-off" of GBA4iOS. "I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking)," he wrote. GBA4iOS is an open source program released under the GNU GPLv2 license, with licensing terms that let anyone "use, modify, and distribute my original code for this project without ***** of legal consequences." But those expansive licensing terms only apply "unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required." Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article
Elden Ring is already a massive game but one dedicated dataminer learned that FromSoftware's RPG was originally intended to be even more gigantic. As players explore the massive world of The Lands Between, they'll uncover a couple of notable underground areas that not only serve as a fresh change of pace from the fields of Limgrave but also pose a significant challenge thanks to their more claustrophobic environments. As it turns out, the developers originally intended for there to be even more of these locales as well as a unique mechanic that would have altered the world completely. View the full article
Some merchandise suggests that Ermac was originally meant to be a part of Mortal Kombat 1’s base roster instead of a post-launch DLC character. Originally created as a red-******** palette swap of famed ninjas Scorpion and Sub-Zero, Ermac has been a part of the Mortal Kombat mythos since Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and it won’t be long before Mortal Kombat 1 players will be able to take control of this powerful undead warrior. Ermac is set to be introduced as the latest MK 1 DLC character on April 16 for Early Access players and April 23 for everyone else. View the full article
It won't be long now until the Core Ultra 200 series, otherwise known as Intel Arrow Lake, makes its debut in the desktop space. However, according to recent specs leaks, the thread count of these CPUs will be decidedly different from previous generations. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nvidia issues important message to GeForce GPU and Intel CPU owners Style your AMD or Intel CPU how you like with Thermaltake's new cooler Loads of boxed Intel CPUs just got canceled View the full article
For the first two weeks of Into The Light, Bungie wanted to try something new for Trials of Osiris: a Special ammo crate system to replace the current meter one. But it’s only taken one weekend for Destiny 2 players to pan the direction, with most hoping it’s scrapped completely. During this first weekend, Destiny 2 implemented what was described as an “unrestricted” crate system, with four Special ammo crates available every round. The impact was immediate—many fireteams started to run double Special loadouts, and the Forerunner Exotic sidearm soared to the top of ***** charts compiled by Trials Report. It had roughly 500,000 more ****** this weekend over its closest competitor, another Special *******, no doubt contributing to what one player described as “the worst week of Trials” they’ve experienced in recent memory. View the full article
A dataminer has found some cut underground content hidden in Elden Ring. From players discovering new caves, illusory walls, and secret bosses, FromSoftware’s masterpiece is packed with things to find. Some secrets can’t be found by playing the game itself. Elden Ring has some hidden cut content ******* deep within its files, which one YouTuber has been digging into. View the full article
Final Fantasy 16 has succeeded in attracting a younger audience to the series, according to DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka. Prior to its release last year, Square Enix said it had decided not to include turn-based combat in the game with the goal of appealing to a wider market. And Kujiraoka told Push Square that Final Fantasy 16’s action-based combat had helped the publisher achieve this goal to some degree. Read More... View the full article
A fan-favorite setting for a war FPS has been realized in Battlefield 2042 with a player designing a custom game mode modeled after Vietnam. The Vietnam-inspired map is available via Battlefield 2042's Portal game mode and can be used for multiplayer matches. View the full article
If you’re watching the Fallout TV show as a fan of the video games, you might be wondering what XP level Lucy would end up with, based on all the events of the series. It’s a question that has popped up on social media ever since the Fallout TV show made its debut on Prime Video and fans worked their way through to the end of season one. Some are now having fun trying to offer an answer, applying the levelling system from Fallout 3 to what we see Lucy get up to during the show. We won’t spoil the show at this point, but it’s worth pointing out that it revolves around vault dweller Lucy MacLean venturing out into the wasteland for the first time in a scene reminiscent of the Bethesda's trademark ‘stepping out into an open world’ set piece. Warning: spoilers for the Fallout TV show now follow: If the eight episodes of the Fallout TV show were a Fallout video game, what amount of XP might Lucy have accumulated? X/Twitter user Many A True Nerd has some theories. But first, we need to establish a few rules. At the start of the show, before she's even left her vault, Lucy mentions her proficiency with repair, science, and speech skills. There are subsequent signs that suggest Lucy is playing Fallout on one of the easier difficulties (that bear went down with one shot from a *******!), but also on Survival Mode, given the problems she has with water. This is something of a contradiction, but it gives us a framework to work with, at least. Ok, let's run some data here; The Fallout TV series presumably runs by Bethesda rules, and thus we can reasonably assume the ratio of XP-from-combat to XP-from-quests is going to skew heavily towards combat. This works against Lucy's levelling speed. [Hidden Content] — Many A True Nerd (@ManyATrueNerd) April 14, 2024 But what do we see Lucy actually do in the show that would earn XP? Not much combat (she shoots a few radroaches at one point, but talks her way out of most situations). She leaves the Vault, discovers Filly, escorts Wilzig, then goes off on a few side quests. One of these involves taking down an organ harvesting organization (potentially the biggest source of XP), and another involves shenanigans in a separate Vault. Lucy then rejoins the main quest as the show ends. Here’s Many A True Nerd’s verdict: “Overall, four quests representing the main plot, and two side quests, plus extremely limited combat, though technically she probably receives XP for Maximus' ****** when he's an active companion. There's also XP for location discovery, but it feels like she didn't explore that much. “Even allowing for bonus survival mode XP, it's hard to see her having more than 4,000 - 5,000 XP across the entire journey, with probably an extra 1,000 tossed in for Main Quest completion. That would put her about Level 8, and I feel like I'm being generous.” While Lucy's end of season XP level ******** subjective, we know her official S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats courtesy of Fallout Shelter, which recently added characters from the TV show into the game. Based on this, we know Lucy’s character sheet: Strength 4Perception 7Endurance 6Charisma 5Intelligence 6Agility 5Luck 7 Most seem to agree this is a fair representation of Lucy in the show, especially that Luck stat. Perhaps Charisma could be a little higher. If you’re wondering, here are how other characters look, courtesy of Fallout Shelter: If you’re looking for more on the Fallout TV show, IGN has rounded up 111 details in the Fallout show that have been pulled straight from the games, leading to a season finale that sets up a new adventure in a beloved setting. And since we're talking about Lucy here, be sure to check out How Lucy MacLean and Her "Okey Dokeys" Became Fallout's Secret *******. 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
Crawl out through the fallout, baby! I've watched two episodes of Amazon's recently released Fallout TV show, a series for and about Walton Goggins' rizz (a thing the kids say). I've been on the Goggins hype train for over a decade at this point, and it's great that - oh sorry, I'm being told that the Fallout TV show is in fact about Bethesda's post-nukepocalypse RPG series of video games, and as such has given a massive player bump to said video games on Steam. Posted on Xitter by SteamDB yesterday (HT to our pals at Eurogamer), it appears Fallout has more than doubled its concurrent players on Steam since the show dumped all its episodes last week. Read more View the full article
It's not every day you get to use both the 'sports' and 'horror' tags for the same game. Pool of Madness, an upcoming eldritch pool game where your surroundings get more bizarre and maddening the longer you play, is the latest game to crowbar Lovecraft into a place where no Lovecraft existed previously. It’s also the latest game to make me, someone who’s ostensibly had enough Lovecraft for one lifetime think: actually, yes, go on then. Read more View the full article
If you're looking for Oracle locations in Destiny 2, you're likely trying to complete Into the Light's Oracular Seeker triumph to get the newly returned Karve of the Worm exotic ship. This spiky spacefaring vessel was originally called Thousand Wings, and was only available if you completed an Oracle-based puzzle in the heroic version of The Whisper mission... Read more.View the full article
Leaks for the new Call of Duty game - reportedly titled ****** Ops Gulf War - have been flying about like an F/A-18 Hornet. Now, we may know a lot more about the ****** Ops Gulf War weapons coming to the 2024 CoD game on PS5 and Xbox. This is thanks to a fresh report from leaker 'Exo Vondy' that provides what looks to be a comprehensive breakdown of each ******* and its in-game description. But that's not all, as the leaker has also provided details on everything you'll find elsewhere in your multiplayer loadout. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Don't miss out on your free Warzone 4th anniversary rewards Yes, Call of Duty Vanguard sold better than your favorite COD game Huge Xbox Showcase reportedly set to reveal COD ****** Ops Gulf War View the full article
Lethal Company's latest update, v50, was released over the weekend, so you can jump back into your crummy little spaceship and check out all the new changes for yourself. We already knew that this update included new moons, monsters, and even a change to your running speed, but now that v50 is out, the developer, who goes by Zeekers, clarified some more changes... Read more.View the full article
An unofficial fan-made launcher for Lawbreakers has made the game playable again for the first time in six years. Developed by the now-defunct developer Boss Key Productions and directed by former Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, LawBreakers was released in August 2017. Despite a mostly positive reception from critics, however, the game was shut down just one year later, with a low player count cited as the main reason. Read More... View the full article
Since its announcement in the summer of last year, EA's ****** Panther game, developed by their recently formed internal studio Cliffhanger Games, has remained very sparse on details. All that was known for months after its announcement was just its developer and working title, not even a final name. However, the appearance of a new job listing under EA has changed that, granting some new information on how the game could actually turn out. While there were already some understandable assumptions made based on tropes commonly found in modern superhero games, this information is thankfully concrete. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
Colorado-based company Spectra Logic recently introduced the latest product in its line of tape libraries for truly ********* storage enterprise needs. Spectra Cube is the first library specifically designed for cloud environments, the backup company said, providing easy deployment and management opportunities with a remarkable overall storage capacity and full... Read Entire Article View the full article
Elden Ring is already a huge game filled with moments where you think you've seen the extent of the world only for it to unveil another area or underground zone. It can be startling to realize just how large the game is, but thanks to the work of several tireless dataminers we have evidence that at one point during Elden Ring's development, it was planned to be even *******. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best PC games 2024 Ambitious Elden Ring mod to create living, breathing world to explore The best Elden Ring mods View the full article
It's not just AMD's new Zen 5 CPUs that are now expected to come out much sooner than we originally anticipated, as it's now looking as though the Nvidia RTX 5090 release date could be landing well before the end of the year. Not only that, but it's possible that Nvidia's new Blackwell gaming GPUs will be announced at the Computex tradeshow in June 2024. There's a catch, though. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: YouTuber fixes 200 melted Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics cards a month Fallout returns to Nvidia GeForce Now, just in time for TV show Nvidia issues important message to GeForce GPU and Intel CPU owners View the full article
What are the newest Second Piece codes? We've seen plenty of One Piece-inspired experiences on Roblox, and Second Piece is one of the newest on the market. Your goal is to become king of the pirates, but your journey isn't going to be easy. Powering up in the early game might seem simple at first, but the game becomes much more difficult when you hit the level cap. There is a silver lining, however. Once you reach the higher levels, you can start entering several Second Piece codes to get free stuff. If you find this Roblox game a bit difficult to start, we also have Fruit Battlegrounds codes and Blox Fruit codes, which are available to everyone from the beginning. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Anime Last Stand codes April 2024 Jujutsu Shenanigans codes April 2024 Race Clicker codes April 2024 View the full article
Ubisoft has already come under ***** for single-player game Star Wars Outlaws having a Season Pass, but fans are expressing frustration once again upon noticing its highly anticipated Jabba the Hutt mission is locked behind it. As reported by Spanish outlet Area Jugones, Ubisoft's website outlining the contents of the Season Pass —an optional extra to the $70 / £70 standard game so far only available through its $109.99 gold edition and even more expensive $129.99 ultimate edition — reveals it includes access to the Jabba's Gambit mission at launch. "Play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit mission at launch," the Season Pass explainer reads. "Just as Kay is putting together a crew for the Canto Bight heist, she receives a job from Jabba the Hutt himself. Turns out that ND-5 owes Jabba a debt from years ago, and he has come to collect." It's unclear how much of the Jabba the Hunt content will be locked behind the Season Pass, but Ubisoft has said in the past players can work for and even betray Jabba as the head of one of Star Wars Outlaws' ********* factions. It's now unclear whether this content comes at a premium or if it's a part of the standard game. The mission description very much sounds like the introduction to working for Jabba, however, and at the very least, this confirms $70 / £70 won't give players access to all of Star Wars Outlaws. IGN has asked Ubisoft for clarification and comment. "And that's why you don't defend these sh**ty early access editions with arguments like, 'it's not taking anything away from other players, it's just to play a few days earlier'," Zephy said on ResetEra. It's a ***** move to lock stuff that's otherwise going to be there day one behind an extra paywall. "I get missions and stuff being added after release, free or paid depending on the scope and what have you, but I think it's a ***** move to lock stuff that's otherwise going to be there day one behind an extra paywall," added Temascos. Star Wars Outlaws was revealed in 2023 as a scoundrel adventure set between Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi. It stars Key Vess, her droid partner ND-5, and her beastie companion Nix as they attempt to carve out their own success during Star Wars' golden era of ********* activity. It arrives August 27, 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC, with the $70 / £70 Standard Edition joined by the aforementioned $110 / £105 Gold Edition, which comes with three days of early access alongside the Season Pass. An even more expensive, digital-only Ultimate Edition comes with both of these perks alongside cosmetics (the Rogue Infiltrator Bundle and the Sebacc Shark bundle) alongside a digital art book. Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article
A new Star Wars collab is right around the corner, revealing one of the worst-kept secrets in Fortnite. The Disney franchise and Fortnite go way back, so another partnership was inevitable, and leaks have been present for a while—but now it’s official. View the full article
Super realistic, swiftly punishing shooters like Arma and Escape From Tarkov always hold the promise of tense, cerebral gameplay. You can't just run and ****. There's no use playing solo. You've got to strategize, think, pick your shoots, and move with intent. The problem, though, is the learning curve. If you've arrived to these games a little later than the rest of the established player base, getting started can be extremely dispiriting, as you're quickly ******* off round after round before you've had the chance to get your bearings. Inspired by EFT and The Division, a new FPS game aims to provide a little more balance and approachability, closer in ethos to Valve's tentpole Counter-Strike 2. Realistic but playable, you can try it for yourself right this second thanks to a huge playtest. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New realistic FPS game leaps up Steam charts after huge playtest Counter-Strike 2 and Tarkov have a new FPS rival you can play today View the full article
Helldivers 2 may be a game about ********* Bugs and Bots with an assortment of deadly firearms but players hoping to charge into the fray with nothing but a melee ******* shouldn't give up hope just yet. Ever since the incredibly popular sequel in early 2024, the community has begged Arrowhead Studios to include some kind of sword as an unlockable ******* and since the studio hasn't done so yet, the demands have just grown louder. Fortunately, those diehard saber enthusiasts will be pleased to know that the developers are still looking into the idea. View the full article
Graphics card repair company Northbridge Fix claims it's still dealing with large numbers of melted Nvidia RTX 4090 cards, with the firm having to fix 200 cards in one month alone. Melted power connectors are supposedly caused by an insecure connection of the 12VHPWR plug to the socket on the graphics card. It's affected thousands of Nvidia graphics cards and even the 12vHPWR connectors on modular PSUs. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 could be here much sooner than expected Fallout returns to Nvidia GeForce Now, just in time for TV show Nvidia issues important message to GeForce GPU and Intel CPU owners View the full article
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Enlarge / Photos of iGBA that appeared on the App Store before the app was taken down. (credit: [Hidden Content]) [/url] Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina launched iGBA as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's rules change regarding such emulators earlier this month. As of Monday morning, though, iGBA has been pulled from the App Store following controversy over the unauthorized reuse of source code from a different emulator project. Shortly after iGBA's launch, some people on social media began noticing that the project appeared to be based on the code for GBA4iOS, a nearly decade-old emulator that developer Riley Testut and a partner developed as high-schoolers (and distributed via a temporary security ***** in the iOS App store). Testut took to social media Sunday morning to call iGBA a "knock-off" of GBA4iOS. "I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking)," he wrote. GBA4iOS is an open source program released under the GNU GPLv2 license, with licensing terms that let anyone "use, modify, and distribute my original code for this project without ***** of legal consequences." But those expansive licensing terms only apply "unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required." Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article