After receiving a ton of feedback and criticism from the League of Legends player base, Riot Games has shown off some significant changes planned for the Mastery system moving forward. First, one of the biggest changes that the developers have on the docket is updating the Mastery crest design and emote, which has been a source of many complaints from the League fan base. When the Mastery crests’ visuals were originally changed earlier this year, players were appalled by the new look and felt they were reminiscent of a “cheap mobile game.” View the full article
Throughout the Fallout franchise, players have never been able to play as a Ghoul—but that’s all about to change in Fallout 76. Usually, the Fallout games put you in the shoes of a Vault-dweller. There usually aren’t Ghouls in Vaults unless they’ve been compromised, so it makes sense the single-player Fallout games haven’t let you create a Ghoul character. View the full article
Square Enix has shared some recommendations to players before Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail arrives in a few weeks. Final Fantasy 14 introduces mountains of new content with each expansion, from new story quests and dungeons to crafting recipes and fishing spots. Dawntrail is promising a tropical getaway like no other, and fans are using the time before its release to prep for a new adventure in a new world. View the full article
With over 40 million sign-ups, you can now redeem every single free reward in Zenless Zone Zero when the gacha game drops soon. There's plenty of in-game currency available alongside a playable character, too, and with the ZZZ launch date creeping ever closer you don't want to miss signing up if you're getting ready for day one. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Zenless Zone Zero events - all current and upcoming events Zenless Zone Zero beta launch date, end time, and qualification Zenless Zone Zero release date, trailers, and latest news View the full article
Image: Netflix After showing us a couple of brief teasers, Netflix has finally dropped a full trailer for the second and last season of Arcane. According to Netflix, the final chapter of the League of Legends adaptation sets up a “dire escalation” between the cities of Piltover and Zaun — and sisters Vi and Jinx. Just because this is the final season, it doesn’t mean we won’t see any more League of Legends adaptations going forward. In a League Dev Update posted on Tuesday, the Arcane team says this is only the “first of many stories they will tell in Runeterra.” “Arcane is just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey and partnership with the wonderful animation studio that is Fortiche,” Arcane producer ********** Linke says in a statement.... Continue reading… View the full article
Riot Games is overhauling the League of Legends esports ecosystem starting in 2025. The changes include a unified split schedule for all regions and reducing the number of teams within tier-one leagues. Starting next season, League esports will begin its competitive year with the Winter Split, then move to an unnamed third international event, the Spring Split, the Mid-Season Invitational, and then the Summer Split and World Championship. View the full article
Riot Games has confirmed that the 2025 season will see a significant reduction in the number of partnered teams in the League Championship Series and in the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends, with only six of the existing teams participating in the new top tier regional tournament. This reduction means two teams from the current roster will be cut, though it’s still not decided who will take leave. Riot will engage in discussions with its partnered teams to determine the best path forward for the ecosystem later this Summer, most likely after the Summer Split ends. View the full article
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s 1.003.000 update is landing next week, complete with new suits co-designed by celebrities including F1 driver Lando Norris, soccer player Vini Jr., and singer/actress Rina Sawayama. While classics like Peter B. Parker’s Into the Spider-Verse Suit and Miles Morales’ Animated Suit are also coming to the game, it’s the collab suits that really stand out, both co-designed by fashion designer KidSuper. View the full article
After a long day of work, you don't want to perch your bottom on an uncomfortable chair as you sit down for a well-earned gaming session. In an office, employers often provide comfortable and ergonomic chairs to prevent discomfort and injury and it shouldn't be any different for gamers. The best gaming chairs should be well-suited for home use, and have a lick of paint so they don't look so corporate. The Acer Predator Rift - the manufacturer's first foray into chairs - strikes the right blend of all these attributes, with good lumbar and head support, a solid build, and the ability to lean right back all for a fairly reasonable price. It sounds odd for a PC-centric brand to move into furniture, but who better to understand the needs of consumers? I used the Acer Predator Rift for several weeks of work and play, often hopping into a game straight after I clocked out for some truly long seated sessions. I found it perfectly comfortable the whole time, but is it the right option for your space? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Atomic Heart update adds ray tracing and fixes AMD FSR bug An Xbox handheld is all but confirmed as it targets the Steam Deck AMD's next-gen XTX graphics card spotted, sporting Navi 48 RDNA 4 GPU View the full article
Strange Scaffold has quickly become one of my favorite indie studios. From my introduction to its games with Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator to Sunshine Shuffle, it just keeps putting out hits. Its latest is inspired by the likes of Team Fortress 2 and Deathloop - I Am Your ****** has one of the best Steam Next Fest demos I've played. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
Image: BioWare It has a new name and now a first gameplay trailer: here’s your first proper look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The clip was released as the final portion of Summer Game Fest and followed an announcement from BioWare that the next Dragon Age would no longer be called Dreadwolf. The studio says that the footage shown here, which includes around 15 minutes of actual gameplay, takes place during the “opening moments of the game,” and has been edited somewhat to avoid spoilers. It shows off some of the combat, conversations, and a handful of cutscenes. Earlier during Summer Game Fest, the developer released a short trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase, which showed off a few of the new characters in the fantasy RPG: It’s been a long time... Continue reading… View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 developer Treyarch is being non-committal about the prospects of the shooter's Switch port. At the same time, the company has seemingly confirmed some recent reports suggesting Microsoft was having second thoughts about bringing Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 to Xbox Game Pass. View the full article
It still doesn't have a specific release date just yet, but we do now at least know The Batman spin-off series The Penguin is releasing this September. The Penguin has been locked in for a late 2024 release window for a little while now, but anything more detailed than that has been a bit of a mystery. Streamers like to keep their cards close to their chest these days, all in the name of hype, but in a recent interview with Variety, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content Casey Bloys shared that The Penguin will be coming to Warner Bros. streaming service this coming September. "One of the advantages that I think we have as a company, putting aside HBO for a second, is all the Warner Bros. IP," Bloys explained. "So after House of the Dragon, the next big tentpole series that we have coming up will be the Penguin with Colin Farrell. That is coming out of Matt Reeves’ The Batman and it’s fantastic. Just like Peacemaker came out of James Gunn’s ******** Squad, it’s a really good example of what you can do. That’ll be in September." Bloys also brought up that the Dune prequel series, Prophecy, will be the next big series after The Penguin in the fall, but we already knew this, so don't go hoping you'll find some nugget of information about the Timothee Chalamet-less show. Read more View the full article
For a game Dragon Age fans have been waiting a decade for, The Veilguard makes one ***** of a first impression. Despite initial community concerns, a behind-closed-doors look at the game’s first hour revealed a slick, stylish, and deep sequel. Those concerns, of course, were based on a cinematic trailer and its tone. Many longtime Dragon Age fans didn’t enjoy the cartoony, heroic feel and the trailer’s introduction the companions, and were worried The Veilguard was ditching the dark tone of its predecessors. But at a first look Dot Esports attended at Summer Game Fest, the early gameplay delivered it all in the rain-soaked, ******-infested streets of Minrathous, the capital of Tevinter. View the full article
Arcane is coming to an end, with Riot Games today confirming the smash-hit League of Legends series’ second season will be its last. The early end to Jinx and Vi’s story doesn’t mean Runeterra is going anywhere though, with more projects across television and film already well underway. This isn’t a shock cancellation by Netflix, though that has been the streaming giant’s modus operandi recently. Instead, it’s a natural end to the story of sisters Jinx and Vi and their pivotal roles in the brewing war between the sister cities of Piltover and Zaun. The Arcane teams at Riot and Paris animation studio Fortiche set out with a “specific end in mind,” which they’ve now hit in the show’s sophomore season. View the full article
League of Legends players and fans are getting their wish fulfilled: A third international tournament will be officially added to the calendar for 2025. The news comes via a Riot Games dev update on June 11, with the League esports calendar set to look drastically different following the 2024 World Championship and heading into next year. Regional play will kick off earlier in the year, culminating in an event currently penciled for March. This tournament isn’t expected to be as grand as the likes of Worlds, but it fills out the calendar year a little more and gives another opportunity for League‘s best and brightest to prove themselves on the world stage. View the full article
The long-hinted merger for ********* League of Legends has come at last, with Riot Games today confirming the LCS, CBLOL, and LLA competitions will soon be consolidated into a new dual-conference Americas League. The league will split into two conferences—North America and South America—with the LCS and CBLOL teams taking part in each separately—not too dissimilar to how the leagues are split currently. The LLA, however, will lose its classification as a tiered region in the ecosystem and will be given a slot in each of the Americas conferences. View the full article
Vanguard, Riot Games’ anti-cheat software, has dealt a significant ***** to cheaters in League of Legends, resulting in the expulsion of nearly 50,000 scripters in a month. Despite this, player engagement ******** robust, with daily activity levels showing no signs of decline, Riot says. At the beginning of the year, Riot announced its ambitious plans to fortify League’s defense against cheaters with the implementation of Vanguard, its anti-cheat software. Fast forward to the present and the fruits of its labor are beginning to materialize with impressive numbers. View the full article
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Players will swarm into League of Legends for the new PvE game mode set to arrive on the client with the summer event. In the latest Dev Update video, the League team shared details about Swarm, the new game mode previously described as a “bullet heaven survivor” event. Arriving mid-July, the summer event is rumored to be themed around the Anima universe, with leaked skins hinting at the return of the 2022 skin line. View the full article
As strange as it sounds, League of Legends is nearly 15 years old. In many ways, the industry standard-bearer in multiplayer PC gaming and esports, once a haven for young, competitive players, is now an “old” title—and it has a playerbase age to match. At least, that was the gist given by League‘s leadership team in a private media event held on Riot’s Los Angeles campus. Make what you will of it, but the playerbase is getting older, and with that age comes a different set of challenges. “It’s not inherently a bad thing,” game director Pu Liu said in answer to a question about the age of League‘s players going up after confirming the assertion was true. “If you have a game that retains players really, really well, and you have a consistent inflow of new players year over year, [the playerbase] should age up.” View the full article
Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic War has taken yet another interesting turn by presenting players with something of a moral dilemma: work together to save ***** children from certain ****** or unlock a new stratagem. The in-universe announcement from Super Earth, below, details the explosive PlayStation 5 and PC co-op shooter’s new Major Order: liberate Vernen Wells, which is home to thousands of civilian survivors trapped inside a children’s hospital, or liberate Marfark, which will in turn unlock the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines stratagem. Only the citizens or weaponry on the first liberated planet is likely to be saved, the Major Order reads. Both planets are currently held by the Automatons, Helldivers 2's terrifying ****** ****** faction. MAJOR ORDER: Helldivers, a difficult decision ***** ahead. Will you save the trapped survivors on Vernen Wells or the raw ingredients for the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines on Marfark? [Hidden Content] — HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) June 11, 2024 It’s a cool development from developer Arrowhead, whose Game Master Joel pulls the strings of Helldivers 2’s meta narrative from the shadows. And while this is all just a bit of fun, already the community is stressing over what to do. “We can create more kids, we need the mines now,” reads a post from one player. “We're never getting those mines….” said another. Some are even suggesting Arrowhead is hiding some secret reward behind saving the children, although that doesn’t sound like a very Super Earth thing to do. Given how ********* Helldivers 2 players have struggled to shepherd the wider player base in a single direction for previous Major Orders, there’s a risk here that neither planet is liberated, which would be awful for everyone. Perhaps there’s time for both to be saved. It will be interesting to see which way the galactic wind blows on this one. This Major Order comes ahead of this week’s new jungle-themed premium warbond and hotly anticipated game-changing patch, which makes over 100 fixes and improvements to Helldivers 2. Both should hit on Thursday, June 31. This week is a big one for Helldivers 2 and Arrowhead, which recently revealed it was in the process of setting the studio up so it could “make more and better stuff” in the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, new CEO Shams Jorjani, who recently replaced previous Arrowhead CEO and now current Chief Creative Officer Johan Pilestedt, said the studio has had to adjust to the enormous success Helldivers 2 has brought to the company. Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation game of all time, having shifted an incredible 12 million copies in just 12 weeks since going on ***** earlier this year. Amid the huge revenue Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead itself has suffered a number of crises, including launch server problems and, most recently, a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial attempt to force Steam players to account link to PlayStation Network. 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
The ongoing speculation of an Xbox handheld recently reached fever pitch after Phil Spencer all but confirmed the existence of one. But is pushing a Steam Deck rival the right thing to do, especially when Xbox is already losing the console war by a landslide? While Microsoft will have the resources to create what should be one of the best handheld gaming PCs for its Xbox brand, many contenders have sat in similar positions and still not come close to beating out Valve's portable. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Microsoft just made DLSS, FSR, and XeSS upscaling easier for everyone Microsoft's new AI keyboard costs more than a Steam Deck Your PC is about to advertise Game Pass to you, thanks to Microsoft View the full article
Discovery of the 309.85 GB install size (for the Xbox Series X and S) on the ****** Ops 6 store page on Xbox.com led to plenty of outcry from fans of the FPS series. A game of that size is going to take up a massive chunk of space on... Read Entire Article View the full article
Ubisoft Forward treated us to our first proper look at *********'s Creed Shadows' gameplay, and wow it didn't disappoint. Though I've generally avoided the series' big RPG installments like the plague, I am ready to lock in for Naoe and Yasuke's shadowy Sengoku adventure on PS5 and Xbox. While the Splinter Cell remake was notably absent from the event, Sam Fisher enjoyers may find solace in Shadows' shinobi sleuthing. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: No, *********'s Creed Shadows won't force you to always stay online New *********'s Creed Shadows trailer is a 2-for-1 protagonist treat View the full article
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After receiving a ton of feedback and criticism from the League of Legends player base, Riot Games has shown off some significant changes planned for the Mastery system moving forward. First, one of the biggest changes that the developers have on the docket is updating the Mastery crest design and emote, which has been a source of many complaints from the League fan base. When the Mastery crests’ visuals were originally changed earlier this year, players were appalled by the new look and felt they were reminiscent of a “cheap mobile game.” View the full article