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The Exotic Khvosotv 7G-0X auto rifle in Destiny 2 takes multiple lengthy steps to obtain. What makes the process even more frustrating is a bug that prevents you from obtaining one last material for this Exotic. Earlier this week, Bungie disabled the Taken Servitor (also known as the meatball) boss from the Overthrow rotation in Destiny 2 because it wasn’t dropping the Mote of Light if it was the last boss you defeat for the Khvosotv 7G-0X auto rifle. On June 11, the boss was brought back into the rotation, and you can now defeat it to get that last Mote you were missing. View the full article

Riot recently came under ***** as League of Legends fans pushed back against its introduction of a cosmetic that cost up to $500. The skin was made to celebrate renowned League player Faker for being the first person inducted into Riot's new Hall of Legends, but lots of players were upset that the price barred so many from celebrating the momentous occasion... Read more.View the full article

The very pitch of a LEGO Horizon game was always bound to be delightful. LEGO games have been historically well-regarded for their self-referential humor and family-friendly gameplay, and Horizon: Zero Dawn was a game of the year contender when it came out in 2017. With LEGO Horizon Adventures, it’s like someone at Guerrilla called everyone from Zero Dawn into the room, pointed at the game, said, “Hey, let’s do a silly one.” And then, when everyone agreed to this ridiculous idea, they proceeded to treat that silly one with the same level of craft and care with which they treated the other Horizon games. LEGO in video game form has never looked so gorgeous, or felt so satisfying to tear apart. Aloy kicks up little footprints of LEGO dust as she walks. Barrels she shoots with her trusty bow burst apart into little LEGO bits. Cloth capes on NPCs are patterned with striking detail, while sunlight glitters off brick water and LEGO grass strands go up in translucent LEGO flames when hit with a ***** arrow. Sure, it's cool that we can see the pores of Aloy's skin in Horizon: Forbidden West, but Horizon Adventures is a great reminder that interesting style choices - like making an entire world out of LEGO - can be visually stunning as well. LEGO Horizon Adventures loosely - and I do mean loosely - follows the story of Zero Dawn, and lampoons it at every opportunity. For instance, you might remember Zero Dawn's intro involving a child Aloy finding her Focus in an Old World ruin. In Horizon Adventures, Rost just hands it to her in a cheerful mockery of its supposed rarity. Aloy, played by Ashly Burch in full goblin mode, revels in the self-aware script: she's obsessed with finding out who her mother is and convinced it will solve all her problems. You know, just like in Zero Dawn. The best part is, this character shift works, perhaps because Aloy never took herself too seriously to begin with. She and JB Blanc (Rost) are clearly having a great time with these lines, and I'm told most of the original voice cast was up for the challenge of reprising their same roles, but with the goofiness dial turned up to 11. And the LEGO humor extends to visual gags, too. I laughed out loud when I realized Aloy in stealth mode hiding in tall grass was simply transforming into the grass bricks themselves. Horizon's dino-hunting mechanics translate nicely to LEGO's simpler, family-friendly style, and it helps that its monsters were already made up of a bunch of breakable components to begin with. Aloy can use her Focus to identify ****** weak points, then ***** away at those specific bricks for ******* damage. Her basic attacks all use her bow, but she can find limited-use power-ups as she explores that will let her spice up combat by, for instance, letting Aloy set things on *****. Some of these attacks are practical, but others are goofy, like one ability I found that let me build an ******-damaging hot dog stand. Anachronistic, LEGO-themed goofs are rife throughout Horizon Adventures. Like a **** playing with a toy room LEGO set, occasionally I ran into pieces that didn’t quite belong, like some random generic LEGO NPCs that showed up among a group of Nora villagers. Nowhere is the customizable LEGO-ness of it all more evident than in Mother’s Heart, Aloy’s home base where buildings can be customized with everything from Thunderjaw heads to dino-themed roller coasters. Outside of Mother’s Heart, there’s not as much an emphasis on building as I’ve come to expect from other LEGO games, though there are some structures out in the wilderness you can assemble as you pass by for a bit of flavor and in-game currency rewards. Aloy herself can play dress-up with a wide variety of outfits ranging from Horizon-themed costumes to totally unrelated LEGO cast members. And every member of Mother’s Heart can be chucked into the dress-up room and fashioned up in the same way, too. If you want a Mother’s Heart full of little LEGO cowboys, by golly, you may have it. While I played the tutorial solo, half of my demo took place in co-op mode, where I played as Aloy’s friend Varl. Almost everything Aloy can do, Varl can too. He wields a spear that functions very similarly to her bow, and while there are some distinctive power-ups for each of them, they’re both just as good at taking down dinos. Co-op can get a touch chaotic with two players in the mix, especially once you start lighting things on *****. But I’m excited to have the option at all, available both in couch co-op (which I played) and online. With my back-to-back demos at Play Days last weekend covering both LEGO Horizon Adventures and Astro ****, I briefly felt I had stumbled into a Nintendo appointment by mistake. Sony clearly wants to play, and LEGO Horizon Adventures presents a massive toy box to tinker, fuss around with, and most importantly, laugh about. The Horizon series may be mechanically complex and about (among other things) the very serious and real dangers of humanity destroying itself. But to Guerrilla’s immense credit, Horizon is not above being lovingly dismantled, brick by brick, by its own creators. All the better for us that the result is such a joyful, family-friendly adventure. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. 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Exotic Class items are a fantastic new addition as long as you don’t mind jumping through a few hoops to get them. Here’s how to unlock the Hunter Exotic Class Item Essentialism and farm it in Destiny 2.How to get the Essentialism Hunter Exotic Class item in Destiny 2Every Exotic Class item is locked behind a multi-step questline in the Pale Heart. You’ll always unlock a Class item for the character you’re using, so you’ll earn the Exotic cloak if you’re a Hunter.The prerequisite steps for the quest are hidden, so here’s what you need to do step by step.First, you must complete an Overthrow at the Impasse, Landing, and Blooming. After beating each boss, you must track down a secret encounter in the area before the enemies return. I’ve had problems with this part of the task, as the secret encounters don’t always appear.This secret questline isn’t the only thing in the Final Shape that’s bugged. Make s...View the full article

Takashi Iizuka, vice president of product development for *****'s Sonic the Hedgehog series, has confirmed the possibility that ***** may introduce characters from IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog comic series in future video game adventures. Many unique characters have joined the Sonic video game franchise over the years, including lesser-known characters like Big the Cat, who first appeared in the 1998 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure, Ray the Flying Squirrel, who debuted in SegaSonic the Hedgehog, and Mighty the Armadillo, who also made his first appearance in SegaSonic and later returned for the 32X game Knuckles' Chaotix. View the full article

Want more Adventure Time? You're getting it, and by the sounds of it, a whole heap of it too. Earlier today at the Annecy Animation Festival, Warner Bros. Animation made a whole suite of announcements for upcoming film and TV shows it has in the works. Quite easily the most notable of all of them is that Adventure Time, the classic Cartoon Network series, is getting a movie (via Variety). Not much has been shared about the film just yet, with the only description being: "Jake and Finn embark on their greatest adventure yet." However, animation fans do have reasons to be excited by it. Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale, and former Adventure Time showrunner Adam Muto are all attached to the project as creators. Any Adventure Time fan will remember the several classic songs Sugar wrote for the series, so her being involved in such a direct way is definitely something to look forward to. McHale and Muto are both equally strong creatives in their own right, with McHale having co-written Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, and also being the showrunner for Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. This new movie isn't the only new Adventure Time project in the works either. Read more View the full article

Forget what you know about Fallout 76. Forget the memes, forget the drama, forget all the glitches and the crashes - what was once the most controversial game in Bethesda's history has become a thriving and successful RPG with a devout player base and a seriously committed development team. Six years, 19 expansions, and 52 updates later, Fallout 76 is a deserving member of the apocalyptic open-world series' family. The latest update, Skyline Valley, which expands the Fallout 76 map for the first time, launches today, Wednesday June 12. In Fallout 76, you'll also, in the near future, be able to play as a Ghoul. Speaking to PCGamesN, Bethesda and FO76 producer Bill LaCoste discusses the studio's long journey through the wilds of Appalachia, and how the game's community helped bring it back from the brink. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fallout 76 is about to get the one feature we've always wanted Aliens return to Fallout 76 to harvest your brainwaves Fallout 76 has a new region to explore on the PTS View the full article

The Call of Duty hype may have just reached an all-time high thanks to Treyarch’s return to the franchise with ****** Ops 6. In just under three days, the ****** Ops 6 Gameplay Reveal Trailer has ballooned to a wild 49 million views, rocketing past the previous most-watched trailer, which had a high view count for an entirely different reason. View the full article

The case, which was brought by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt, accuses Valve of shutting out competition in the PC gaming market by forcing publishers into signing price-parity obligations. According to the suit, these ensure Steam always has the best prices and prevent games from being sold cheaper on rival... Read Entire Article View the full article

Sure, the world may be a rough place, but sometimes games can help offer us a bit of a laugh to help ease the burden. For example, as part of its upcoming economy re-work, Cities Skylines 2 is solving its high rent issues by getting rid of all the virtual landlords. Yup, this isn't a joke, or a parody, or something you're hallucinating as you stand on a platform hungover and gradually realising that your rent's due. Colossal Order, for all the game's issues performance-wise at launch for those of us without NASA-spec PCs, is doing a thing that's bound to win at least some of us back over. "Let’s start with Rent," Colossal Order says in a development diary detailing some of the changes coming as part of the "Economy 2.0" update that's set to arrive in the game soon. "Most likely you have run into complaints of 'High Rent' in the game, so let’s talk about it. To complement the land value changes in patch 1.1.0f1 in March, we have tweaked how Rent works." Read more View the full article

In a recent update, Cities: Skylines II addressed problems in the game’s economy by simply eliminating the landlords. We say simply, but it goes a little deeper. Initially, rent prices were determined by an algorithmic “landlord” who would adjust prices. In order to help fix issues with the in-game economy, the landlord is gone and instead […] Source View the full article

One of the developers behind the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws recently revealed that the game once allowed players to swim, but this was ultimately cut due to technical constraints. Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment first announced that they were working on an open-world Star Wars game back in 2021, and this project was eventually revealed in full at the Xbox Games Showcase two years later. Star Wars Outlaws takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and puts players in the role of an aspiring smuggler named Kay Vess as she plans to pull off one of the biggest heists in the history of the Outer Rim. View the full article

A new anime-style series featuring Shaggy and Scooby-Doo titled GO-GO MYSTERY MACHINE is in production. The new series follows Shaggy, Scooby, and a new cast of characters. While visiting Japan, Shaggy and Scooby accidentally unleash a parade of ********* Yokai and other spirits. According to Variety, new characters include Daisuke-doo, Scooby’s uncle who appears to be […] Source View the full article

Any League of Legends fan who follows the title outside just playing it should be well aware of how big the ******** community is. Riot Games now plans to pay greater heed to them in balance decisions. In the latest League Patch 14.12 preview, Phreak, a former play-by-play caster and current developer shed some light on the company’s plans regarding the game. He outlined how the team behind patch notes will most likely take ******** data as a priority when making gameplay changes in the future, given how big the servers in the ****** country are compared to the other ones. View the full article

I don’t like Monster Hunter. Despite multiple friends trying to pull me into different iterations of the series, it’s just never been my cup of tea. The graphics have looked good, the mechanics interesting, but it’s never grabbed me. Then I saw Monster Hunter Wilds. To say the demo of Monster Hunter Wilds I saw at a behind-closed-doors Summer Game Fest preview was impressive would be my understatement of the year. It blew everything else I saw and played out of the water: The enormity of the world and its creatures, the fluidity as we moved from biome to biome seamlessly, and the overwhelming options at your disposal in your pursuit of a ******. In one hunt, I saw a particularly hearty Doshaguma climbed on, sliced, shot, lured into a gigantic sandtrap created by a different monster to thin its herd, baited into a ****** with a massive dragon that breathed lightning on the thing, chased into a massive sandstorm that turned day to night, had huge stalactites dropped on its head as it pursued our character through a *****, and finally finished off with the help of other hunters—and throughout, it seemed we’d only scratched the surface of the battles awaiting us in Wilds. View the full article

The creators of the popular social deduction game Among Us may have just accidentally confirmed the date of a highly-anticipated upcoming Nintendo showcase in a now-deleted trailer. Among Us is expected to release new content for players in the next few weeks, although this announcement will be properly announced during the next Nintendo Direct showcase, along with several other game announcements and other updates. View the full article

If you want to make the developers behind Monster Hunter laugh, apparently there's an easy way to do it: just ask them about the hunting *****... Read more.View the full article

decade ago, a Monster Hunter environment was essentially a series of battle rooms, with loading screens between each piece of the map. Chasing down a monster to finish it off meant having to put up with a few of those loads every hunt. With its two latest games, World and Rise, Capcom did away with that technical limitation, but another major bit of rigidity remained: every mission had to be selected from a job board or NPC, then launched to load into a predetermined world state... Read more.View the full article

Image: Epic Games It’s sad but true: Metallica is coming to Fortnite. Epic just announced that the group will be featured in the game’s next concert. The news is part of a larger musical collaboration between Fortnite and the heavy metal band. First up, the concert itself. It’s called “Metallica: Fuel ***** Fury,” and players can check it out during a few windows later this month: June 22nd at 2PM, 5PM, and 11PM ET and June 23rd at 10AM, 2PM, and 5PM ET. There aren’t many details on what the virtual show will entail, but it’ll be the latest in a line of in-game concerts from the likes of Eminem, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, and Marshmello. Now that Fortnite is more than a battle royale (though that ******** the most popular mode), Epic is spreading the... Continue reading… View the full article

The 2024 Xbox Games Showcase was a smorgasbord of delights, offering up a fine dining experience for Xbox players to dig into over the coming months. Though the show was filled to the brim with exciting reveals and updates on upcoming games, there were more than a few notable absentees. According to gaming personality Parris Lilly, the publisher had plenty more courses it wanted to serve up at the event. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Xbox games 2024 7 surprising absences from the Xbox Games Showcase The new Xbox consoles are an almighty, all-digital push from Microsoft View the full article

Following Ubisoft Forward, associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois confirms the smaller map size of *********'s Creed Shadows' take on Feudal Japan. It's been a big few days for the upcoming action game *********'s Creed Shadows, as it was heavily featured at various summer events like Ubisoft Forward and Xbox Games Showcase. View the full article

According to sources quoted by Reuters, Qualcomm's arch rival in the smartphone space, MediaTek, is developing an Arm-based laptop processor for Copilot+ PCs. The report does not reveal any technical details about the new chip, but claims that it might debut late next year after Qualcomm's exclusive deal with Microsoft... Read Entire Article View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

I'm sorry if you were busy doing something else, but you need to drop it, and watch the trailer for Paddington in Peru right now. As we all know, Paddington is one of the best movies ever made. Despite all previous conceptions over sequels, Paddington 2 then went on to become one of the other best movies ever made. If you think they have any flaws, well, you'd be wrong and you should maybe talk to someone about that. And now, a whole seven years after the second film was released, we're finally getting a third instalment, Paddington in Peru. This time around, the titular marmalade sandwich loving bear is, unsurprisingly, off to Peru to visit his Aunt Lucy, along with the entire Brown Family, and the first trailer for the threequel is available to watch now. Of course, things are never quite that simple with Paddington, as when he arrives in Peru he discovers that his Aunt Lucy has gone on some kind of quest. In turn, he sets off to find her, again the Browns coming for the chaotic ride. While it is exciting to get more Paddington, there are some changes to make note of. For one, director of the first two Paul King didn't return for this third entry, as he was off directing Wonka. He's replaced by Dougal Wilson, who's making his feature film directorial debut with this one (though you might know him from his work on various music videos like Year 3000 for Busted or Life in Technicolor II by Coldplay). Read more View the full article

Ok, so the latest Helldivers 2 major order is a bit of a tough one. Some poor helpless kids, some poor helpless raw ingredients for anti-tank mines. Players can only save one, and the good news is it looks like the kids might get the nod. Well, provided Arrowhead comes through with some nice rewards. Who can blame them for wanting more stuff, to be fair. They've been hard done by in terms of news regarding upcoming warbonds and patches lately, with some of those definitely not scheduled to be deployed over the next couple of days. "An emergency distress call from Vernen Wells describes thousands of civilian survivors trapped in the ******** of Super Citizen Anne's Hospital For Very ***** Children," reads the brief for this latest order. "Food and water supplies are dwindling. Their survival even this long, after the fall of the SEAF Recruitment Facility on Vernen Wells, is remarkable. Without imminent rescue, they will soon perish of starvation, thirst, or Automaton butchery." Read more View the full article

You’re going to ****. Just accept it. Save often, grind where you can, and stick your nose into everyone's business to get all that lovely experience. Batten down the hatches, gird your loins, watch out. Boss battles might absolutely batter you the first time around, but then you get to go back in with your wits about you. Even some random encounters have the chance to one-shot you if you’re not careful. This game doesn’t take any prisoners. In the vanilla release of Shin Megami Tensei 5, life was hard. In the redux, it’s brutal. Good. Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance is class-A RPG – none of that gateway Persona nonsense that holds your hand and sings to you as you plod through your fancy little high school life. The parent MegaTen series has always been hard, it’s almost a meme at this point, and whilst Vengeance isn’t quite as tricky as SMT3 or 4, it’s definitely still out for your blood. I say it’s not as cruel as its forebears mostly because of the quality-of-life changes that have been added – being able to save anywhere, tweaks to UI readability, and clearer explanations of RPG systems see to that. Read more View the full article