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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has teased its next *******, Hands, who appears to be an original character that takes on the appearance of an evil biker. The new Texas Chain Saw Massacre addition is set to release on June 11. View the full article

When Sony began its PC porting initiative, fans begged for all sorts of exclusives to hit Steam. While heavy hitters like Uncharted and The Last of Us have been available on PC for some time, Ghost of Tsushima has been noticeably absent from the publisher’s PC lineup despite huge demand from fans. It’s finally here, though, and it’s a fantastic port to boot.Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut feels right at home on PC, arguably even more so than it does on PlayStation 4 and 5. The PlayStation 5 upgrade of ******* Punch’s open-world samurai adventure completely overhauled the already solid PS4 experience with an increased framerate and other next-gen bells and whistles, but the PC version is easily the definitive version of the game.Image: ******* PunchThere’s not much to be said about Ghost of Tsushima that hasn’t already been said, but revisiting the game yet again four years after launch is an easy reminder of why the game is so belove...View the full article

Solo Leveling: Arise has one common mistake that can make even the strongest SSR characters feel incredibly underpowered. The new action RPG gacha game was heavily anticipated due to the popularity of the South Korean webtoon it is sourced from. This anticipation was mostly rewarded as, while it is plagued with microtransactions, Arise's cool characters and engaging gameplay are appealing. The main story also follows the same beats, which gives fans of the series a chance to experience and immerse themselves in the events. View the full article

We've never seen a mini-ITX gaming PC quite like this one before. It features a custom open-air case made from steel panels that modder Michael Sheppard cut and bent to shape. It also features a full-size AMD gaming GPU and a custom water-cooling system. Thanks to our rapidly growing PC building Facebook page, we've seen many custom gaming PCs, from mods based on existing case designs to scratch PC builds. You can even submit yours for consideration right here. Now let's talk to Michael about how he created this outlandish open-air mini-ITX system. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This stunning Cyberpunk 2077 gaming PC belongs in the game This electrifying Threadripper PC is inspired by a Counter-Strike skin The Red Queen has taken over this AMD-powered Resident Evil gaming PC View the full article

This year’s rather wonderful Prince of Persia Metroid-like The Lost Crown has dropped the second of its free post-launch updates, adding a new boss rush mode, some unlockable costumes for surviving said mode, an extra way to fast-travel and more. Read more View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

If you thought your 360Hz gaming monitor was outrageously fast and responsive, then get ready for another upgrade urge, as a 1,000Hz gaming monitor is already being demonstrated. Not only that, but there's no need to put up with a low resolution on this new screen either, as this TCL CSOT 1,000Hz gaming monitor has a full 4K resolution. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Next-gen AMD CPUs could feature up to 32 cores per **** Asus' new OLED gaming monitor has a world first technology This AMD-powered mini-ITX gaming PC is small but mighty View the full article

Shift Up has confirmed that it’s exploring the possibility of releasing Stellar Blade for PC and developing a sequel to the game. In an initial public offering filing on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (via Gematsu), the studio also said its next new IP, which is codenamed Project Witches, is planned to launch globally across console, PC and mobile with cross-play. The studio is targeting a release in 2027 or later for the game, which it reportedly likened to Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Fate/Grand Order. Read More... View the full article

Season Four of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 is here and a new Gundam collaboration is the highlight of the update. New skins and a limited-time event are on the way for the mega-popular FPS, so there’s a lot to look forward to.Call of Duty Gundam Event ScheduleThe Gundam x Call of Duty collab brings a limited-time event to the game called Mobile Suit Gundam Legends. There will be free Gundam-themed rewards to earn by completing in-game challenges, and you can also spend CoD Points to purchase Gundam bundles in the store while they’re available. The Mobile Suit Gundam Legends event will last for two weeks, beginning Wednesday, June 5, 2024 and ending on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.There will be a limited-time playlist that lets you embrace the power of Mobile Suits during the event *******, similar to the previous Warhammer crossover that let players don Space Marine armor. You can earn free rewards just by earning XP during matches, and you’ll ge...View the full article

Building your car in A Dusty Adventure is honestly the best part. Being incredibly interactive, you’ll need to find the parts and install them youself.How to build your vehicle in A Dusty AdventureThis will vary from vehicle to vehicle in A Dusty Adventure, but they’ll all require the same core steps. You will start in a building, with the parts scattered around the garage, car, or indoors.When building the car, you should always wait for the “Press to place” text to appear. Never simply attach it to the car!Placing the wheels, engine and radiator in A Dusty AdventureFirst things first, you’ll need to assemble the components that’ll make your car work. The engine, wheels, and radiator can all be found around the car or indoors – the hard part is placing them.Screenshot: PC InvasionThe easiest thing to do first is grab the wheels. They’re placed in plain sight, so grab them one at a time and go over to your car....View the full article

What are the new Wuthering Waves codes? Like Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy, Wuthering Waves is another free-to-play RPG with open world fantasy elements. This time around, though, there's also a little bit of monster collecting, which will be vital to upgrading your party's gear. To help you get started, Kuro Games might provide Wuthering Waves codes from time to time, allowing you to get free items. While you can get your hands on free Wuthering Waves characters by playing the campaign, most of these "Resonators" will likely only be obtainable via the RPG game's premium currency. As the anime game gets its claws into you, here's everything you should know about redeeming codes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Genshin Impact rival hits colossal milestone before it even comes out Wuthering Waves release date, beta, trailers, and latest news All Wuthering Waves characters View the full article

The next part of Undertale creator Toby Fox’s current project Deltarune is actually two parts, as chapters 3 and 4 plan to release together. It sounds like that release is still a ways off, according to a recent update from Fox, even as the latest chapter seemingly makes “great progress” and the team eye up work on Chapter 5. Read more View the full article

The Venn diagram of gamers and anime fans seems to be inching closer to a circle every year. Which makes sense as both art forms have similarly niche origins and are now both more mainstream and accessible to a global audience than any prior point in their histories. Just as there are a wealth of games today that are chock full of anime vibes, there are loads of anime with a connection to the gaming space. Whether they be surprisingly great adaptations of a video game, about the experience of being a gamer/game creator, or make playing a game central to their plot; these are the best anime about video games that you can watch today. Remake Our Life! Remake our Life! opens with 28-year-old Kyouya Hashiba completely burnt out on his life and career. The game development studio he worked for went bankrupt and the liferaft of a project he scrambled to join was canceled shortly after he came aboard. This leaves Kyouya with little choice but to move back in with his parents and question all of his major life decisions. Magically, he wakes up ten years in the past just as he’s about to enter college, and vows to make a better future for himself. Layoffs, studio closures, and general career instability are fixtures of the gaming industry in 2024, and it’s cathartic to see Remake Our Life! address the realities of working in this industry from the get go. What follows this first episode is a cozy exploration of young, passionate people learning first hand about the highs and lows of working in creative fields like game development. If you work in any industry in the digital media bubble and feel the dread that’s related to that bubble deflating over the past half a year, this anime is a heartwarming reminder of why we got into this line of work and how the highs more than make up for the lows. Remake Our Life! is streaming on Crunchyroll. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Is an anime that’s functionally a commercial for a video game that was so broken at launch that it was delisted from storefronts arguably the least punk thing ever? Yes, but even the haters have to admit that studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a lavishly produced spectacle that serves as a solid entryway to the broader anime landscape. It’s also a fantastic example of the ******* approach to adaptation that makes so many anime based on video games feel like a delightful expansion of those universes. Taking place in Night City, the principal location of both Cyberpunk: 2077 and the Cyberpunk tabletop game, this anime follows David Martinez, a young man who becomes an augmented mercenary, or edgerunner, after a drive-by ********* ****** his mother. What follows is a gripping story about people trying to have any semblance of comfort or security under late stage capitalism, and that system beating them back down at every possible opportunity. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a great anime if you’re in the mood for a cool looking, feel-bad time. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is streaming on Netflix. Pokémon With how ubiquitous the franchise is to both ********* and global audiences, it’s both weird and necessary to point out that the Pokémon anime is, in fact, an anime! Before Pokémon was a multimedia juggernaut, it was a couple of video games that sold well enough to adapt the games into an anime. What would follow is a decades spanning television show with over 1,200 episodes that proved integral to making Pokémon the cultural institution it is today. While we would get some more direct anime versions of the Pokémon Red and Blue games in the form of Pokémon Origins, the mainline Pokémon anime decides to follow a new character, Ash Ketchum, as he explores the world of Pokémon on his journey to become a Pokémon Master. This direction for the anime plays into the greatest strength of the Pokémon games; the terrific worldbuilding that inspires a player to imagine their own adventure in this world. Seeing a fleshed out version of this new trainer's journey fed into the fantasy and and created countless lifelong video game and anime fans. Use this official guide to figure out where you can watch the many iterations of the Pokémon anime. Castlevania Though developed by Frederator Studios and Powerhouse Animation Studios, two US based production companies, the Castlevania show is simply too ***** to not count as an honorary anime! Loosely following the events of the games, the Castlevania anime follows Trevor Belmont, and later his descendent, as he and his vampire hunting contemporaries battle Dracula and his demonic horde. Castlevania excels at nailing the tone and ambience of the games it's based on better than any of the other video game adaptations on this list. While the exploration elements of the Castlevania games would prove foundational in developing game design — hence the metroidvania genre — people were coming to Castlevania games for the vibes! The Castlevania anime perfectly captures the gothic action that the games invoke and the absolute thrill of charging in against an untold number of monstrosities in a battle against a legendary fiend. Castlevania is streaming on Netflix. All the Persona Anime As one might guess from their overtly anime artstyle, there are a host of anime adaptations of the most recent Persona games! There are a total of four Persona 3 movies, a loose sequel to Persona 3 titled Persona -trinity soul-, two different anime series adapting Persona 4, a Persona 5: The Animation series, and several other Persona 5 one-shot anime episodes. These adaptations are more straightforward than the other adaptations of video games on this list, generally being closer to retellings of the games they are based on. Considering those games are 80+ hours of some of the more difficult and demanding turn based gameplay in the genre, these direct adaptations are more than welcome! The Persona series is more popular than it's ever been, and these anime are a great way to see what all the fuss is about without committing a good chunk of your time and money to them. The Persona 3 movies are available for purchase on Amazon, the Persona 4: Golden anime is streaming on Crunchyroll, and Persona 5: The Animation is streaming on Hulu and Crunchyroll. Persona -trinity soul- is unlicensed in the US. Sword Art Online The 2010s mega-hit Sword Art Online is the reason why there are so many anime today that take place in fantasy worlds incorporating video game mechanics. Trapped in a brand new virtual reality MMORPG, also titled Sword Art Online, our protagonist Kirito has to ****** for his life as he can only escape by beating the game and will **** in real life if he ***** while playing. This anime is first and foremost a power fantasy for its presumed young, male audience; but its blending of the game of ****** and sci-fi genres is still novel and appealing today. Video games are better than any other artistic medium at making a player feel great for engaging with the art form and slowly mastering a game's systems and mechanics. Sword Art Online does an amazing job of translating that feeling into an anime and the first half of its first season is a rock solid experience that anime fans new and old should check out. Sword Art Online is streaming on Crunchyroll and Hulu. Welcome to the N.H.K. In many ways the polar opposite of Remake Our Life!, Welcome to the N.H.K. is an anime about how passions around media, and possibly creating media like video games, are sometimes the only things that keep people going. This anime follows Tatsuhiro Sato, a hikikomori — a social recluse who refuses to or is unable to engage with society or even leave their home or bedroom — who’s turned to *********** theories to explain his unhappiness and niche, often problematic, media to dull his depression. To try to better himself, Sato helps his more socially attuned neighbor develop an eroge game and is forced by a good samaritan to go outside for more than just food. This anime spends most of its runtime, though, exploring Sato’s deeply misanthropic mentalities. Welcome to the N.H.K. is a weird anime that’s as critical of its main character and subject matter as it is through in its exploration of the real-life beliefs and ideologies that its protagonist embodies. To offer a point of comparison, if you liked the tone and politics of the No More Heroes games, Welcome to the N.H.K. is more than worth checking out. Welcome to the N.H.K. is streaming on Crunchyroll. Dragon Quest: Adventures of Dai Unless this is your first time reading an article on a video game website — in which case, welcome and thanks for choosing this one — you’ve probably heard of the monumental Dragon Quest gaming franchise. What you might not know, though, is that these games inspired the quietly seminal shonen manga series Dragon Quest: Adventures of Dai, and that this manga was recently adapted into an anime! Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai follows a young boy raised by monsters named Dai, who turns out to be a legendary hero and, in typical Dragon Quest fashion, has to save the world from the ****** Lord. Adventures of Dai is a solid, all ages watch and a great way to learn about the origins of many storytelling conventions in the shonen anime genre. The manga it's based on ran in the iconic Shonen Jump magazine right after Fist of the North Star wrapped, and released alongside more overtly influential genre staples like Dragon Ball and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Especially with Dragon Quest character designer Akira Toriyama’s recent passing, there’s never been a better time to check out this anime and see how games have been quietly influential on the anime medium for decades. Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai is streaming on Netflix, Crunchyroll, and Hulu. My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 One of the most grounded anime about video games, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 focuses on the lives and relationships of the gamers who make up its main cast. Following a breakup with an ex who cheated on her, Akane Kinoshita ends up meeting the standoffish Akito Yamada while playing the MMO that her ex got her into. What follows is a cozy, slice of life romance that’s a great watch for anyone looking for a new comfort show. For as popular as gaming is today, it’s strange that there are so few stories that show how casually games fit into people’s lives. My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 is a great depiction of gaming as a hobby and how meaningful the relationships formed thanks to that hobby are to people. My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 is streaming on Crunchyroll. Log Horizon If Sword Art Online is the anime that popularized the “trapped in a game” sub-genre, then Log Horizon is the anime that perfected that kind of storytelling. For as strong an opening as SAO has, it doesn’t really ground itself in the mechanics and unique tensions that any seasoned MMO player knows all too well. After all, MMO players know that there’s plenty of story material to be mined from the gameplay and social dimensions of this kind of game; like the process of researching a dungeon, planning a raid, and then convincing guild or party members to go along to with the plan and stick to their assigned roles. Log Horizon faithfully brings these situations and processes to life. It also helps that Log Horizon’s protagonist, Shiroe, plays as a dedicated support class and is less of a vehicle for audience projection than Kirito is in SAO. Log Horizon understands the unique drama and experiences that video games can provide, and is easily one of the best anime about video games. Log Horizon is streaming on Crunchyroll. Lucas de Ruyter is a freelance writer for IGN. View the full article

TinyBuild, the publisher behind popular indie titles like Graveyard Keeper, Potion Craft, Streets of Rogue, and Punch Club, will give gamers a look at some of their upcoming titles in this year’s tinyBuild Connect showcase. It’ll be a 20-minute show jam-packed with exclusive trailers, announcements, and new details — no fluff, just games. TinyBuild Connect Date, Time, and How to Watch The showcase will be livestreamed on Tuesday, May 21. Things will start with a countdown at 9:30 a.m. PT, and the show will begin promptly at 10 a.m. PT. That’s 1 p.m. for viewers on the East Coast, noon Central, and 11 a.m. Mountain. IGN will stream the event, and you can watch live on any of these channels: [Hidden Content] (our homepage) IGN’s Facebook IGN’s Twitter IGN’s Twitch IGN’s YouTube Make sure to be there for the start of the show — the trailers and info will start immediately. What to Expect from This Year’s Connect Expect this to be a dense show featuring many games, including new info on announced titles, brand-new announcements, teasers, demos, and new content for already-released indie games, including a big content update for I Am Future as well as DLCs for Punch Club 2 and Not For Broadcast. Duckside, which recently announced the launch of a Steam beta, figures to be part of the fun. It’s a multiplayer survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, and base building. Oh, also: You and everyone else are hat-wearing ducks. Not cartoony, anthropomorphic ducks. Regular, everyday ducks. Wearing hats. A trailer in April showed off some gameplay, followed by an open beta, and it's as fun as it sounds. Here’s hoping we get to see even more. Speaking of wanting to see more, there’s Sand, an upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter. It’s a PvPvE game where players operate mechanical walkers called Tramplers to explore the remnants of a once prosperous planet, now left in ruin. Explore a massive, procedurally generated world, survive encounters with rival scavengers, engage in Trampler battles, and make it off the planet with any valuables found throughout the world. A reveal trailer last summer gave us a glimpse of Sand’s world, and now feels like the perfect time to see some gameplay. Among the key titles to be highlighted is Astor: Blade of the Monolith, an action RPG closing in on its May 30 release date on PC and console. It stars Astor, a young warrior determined to unveil the secrets behind his creators’ unforeseen demise. A recent trailer showed us several vibrant, colorful environments and its fluid, fast-paced combat. That’s only a taste of what could be featured in this show. TinyBuild has several other games coming up, including the gothic hack-and-slash RPG Voin, the multiplayer tactical horror FPS Level Zero: Extraction, and the open-world sandbox RPG Streets of Rogue 2. Viewers can also expect a new look at Kingmakers, an over-the-top medieval mix of action and RTS that was announced in February. And there’s bound to be some unexpected new game reveals and announcements. Tune in May 21 to see it all. View the full article

An Elden Ring player shared a piece of Maliketh fan art that looked as if it were a sketch from Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura. Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki has repeatedly showcased his fascination for other series in his works, with the FromSoftware director even hiding multiple references to Berserk throughout his various games. Miura's beloved manga series and Miyazaki's personal love for dark fantasy have since inspired many artists, who have fallen in love with the grim yet beautiful aesthetics unique to both creators and sought to blend both franchises in tribute. View the full article

Many tasks can be completed for your faction in Gray Zone Warfare, including "It's In The Water," a two-part mission where you have to collect samples from bodies of water. The open world map of this MMO first-person shooter can be confusing to navigate at times during any task. As a result, it can be difficult to know exactly which areas you need to visit to gather the samples needed. View the full article

In celebration of Minecraft's 15th anniversary, players can claim an exclusive, TikTok-themed cape until June 18. The same event has made other Minecraft items available, including another cape, a mask, and more. View the full article

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***** by Daylight may be getting ready to add a popular Walking ***** character to the game, as actor Norman Reedus has followed the game's official Instagram account. Norman Reedus is well known for his portrayal of Daryl Dixon in The Walking ***** series, and the character would make a great addition to ***** by Daylight and its long list of crossovers. View the full article

After Larian Studios announced that it was parting ways with DnD IP, speculations were rampant regarding what the developer would do next. Now, though information is still scarce, Larian has announced it’s starting work on “two very ambitious RPGs,” and opened a new studio to help. Larian confirmed this in a post on X (formerly Twitter) today. “With two very ambitious RPGs now starting development,” the developer wrote, “what better way to see our visions realized than by growing the team and opening a seventh studio in the heart of Poland’s lively gaming scene.” The seventh studio in question will be located in Warsaw, the same city where CD Projekt’s primary studio is based. CD Projekt Red also congratulated Larian for opening a new studio in their hometown. “Welcome to Warsaw, neighbors,” CDPR wrote on X. View the full article

It’s almost time for a new season of the iconic battle royale game Fortnite, and after a bunch of new ... Read more View the full article

Completing a game is no easy feat, especially if it has a lot of “distractions” for you to stumble upon and explore. Some games, regardless of how good they are, are bound to be left unfinished. In a Reddit thread on May 19, gamers came together to talk about the best games they’ve ever played but never managed to finish. “For me, it’s The Witcher 3. I love the game, it may even be my favourite,” the original poster wrote. “But I spend so much time exploring and doing side quests that I get fatigued and life gets in the way.” They added they would come back a year later, start the game anew, only to do the same thing again. View the full article

The Yhwach boss in Project Mugetsu is a limited-time boss who will only be available to ****** for the next few weeks. You’ll need to be there on time for a chance at fighting him.Project Mugetsu Yhwach boss starting times and how to joinTo join the Yhwach ****** in Project Mugetsu, you will have to be at the Soul Society, Wanden, or Karakura at certain times on certain days. You’ll be teleported to the boss ****** with everyone else on the server.This makes Yhwach a limited-time raid boss, so try to take him down at every opportunity.Here is a list of all the starting times for the Yhwach ******:19th May – 12 to 1 PM EST25th May – 3 PM EST2nd June – 11 AM ESTThere are only two more opportunities to ****** Yhwach, so if you haven’t made one already, then you’ll need to make sure you can attend one of the later ones.Image: Osiris ProductionsThis boss is incredibly tough, so you’ll have to really take th...View the full article

The big MultiVersus relaunch trailer has finally aired, and the pie-slinging, sandwich-chomping fighting game is making its return in the grandest way possible. Alongside new gameplay snippets, Player First is celebrating Friday the 13th early this year, with Jason Voorhees joining the roster on PS5 and Xbox alongside Agent Smith from The Matrix. Interestingly, the Powerpuff ****** are still nowhere to be seen, however references to them and several other potential newcomers have been spotted in this new MultiVersus trailer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MultiVersus leaks claim Jason Voorhees will be slashing up the roster New MultiVersus PvE mode, Rifts, will put your meaty hands to the test New MultiVersus Joker trailer hides yet another Powerpuff ****** tease View the full article

By decking out their copy of Starfield with over a hundred mods inspired by Star Wars, one player has managed to turn the Bethesda sandbox into a completely different experience altogether. Though Starfield broke several Bethesda records at launch, the game's overall reception among fans has been notably mixed, with only 41% of its recent Steam reviews having a positive score. Despite this, many players feel that Starfield has a lot of untapped potential potential that could come to fruition through Shattered Space and the Creation Kit. View the full article

Sometimes the best thing to do is ***** everything to the ground and start again. If you feel like you want a new character in Roblox Peroxide, you will have to delete or wipe your old one. How to delete a character in Roblox PeroxideIf you want to start fresh in Roblox Peroxide for some reason, you can completely wipe your character. This will allow you to change race and gender and begin again with all your stats. The process is simple: You just need to talk to Nurse Ari in Karakura’s Hospital, located in The City.You should look for the notice boards in The City and, with your back to them, head straight forward. As you cross the road, you will see the large hospital on your left. You can enter here and talk to the Nurse to completely delete your character in Peroxide. Image: YouTube KaRamBe aware that you can’t undo this, and it will reset all your game progress. You will have to pay 250 Yen to wipe your old character progress in Peroxide, and it can ...View the full article