Fallout 76, Bethesda's MMORPG take on the post-apocalyptic RPG game series, is the biggest it's ever been on Steam. Thanks to a free play *******, *****, and the popularity of the new Amazon Fallout show, the online twist on Bethesda's formula is seeing a record number of players flock to it. Even the original CRPGs from the late '90s have players coming back too, just not in nearly as big numbers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Here are the Fallout 76 system requirements The Fallout show finds the Bethesda spark that Starfield lost Fallout 76 Season 14 gives you the grandma you didn't know you needed View the full article
It's been a hot minute since we last caught wind of anything new from Cliffhanger Games, the EA-owned studio that's currently in charge of a new Marvel ****** Panther game (not Marvel 1943, the other one). Now, a fresh job listing for a Principal Sandbox Designer has surfaced at Cliffhanger, requiring candidates to be proficient in open-world design. You know where this is going. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
Ybarra, who left Blizzard in January, spelled out his likely well-intentioned but poorly implemented idea on X/Twitter. Read Entire Article View the full article
While there may be many opportunities to find love in the cosmos of Starfield, one player has taken it to the next level by making romance an extremely efficient way of boosting one's abilities. While Bethesda's latest RPG is littered with NPCs to discover, there aren't too many that are willing to throw caution to the wind and date the protagonist, given their dangerous lifestyle. Fortunately, there are a few that are daring enough to partner up and while there are some fun story moments that come from these interactions, they feel fairly limited in their scope. View the full article
The boss of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has ruled out a transmog system coming to the hit PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter, insisting: “it doesn’t make sense.” Ever since Helldivers 2’s explosive launch in February, some players have called for a transmog system for the game’s myriad armor pieces. Transmog, short for transmogrify, itself a portmanteau of "transfigure" and "modify", would theoretically let players change the appearance of armor pieces without affecting their stats. Helldivers 2 armor does feature gameplay affecting stats, and some are deemed more “meta” than others. One of the most popular armor pieces gives players a 50% chance not to **** when taking lethal damage, for example. Responding to a user on X/Twitter, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt said a transmog system wouldn’t make sense for Helldivers 2, and put that down to a commitment to realism. “We are not doing transmog,” Pilestedt said. “It doesn't make sense - equipment looks different because it has different effects. Swapping one for the other is like having an apple that tastes like bacon or the other way around.” While Pilestedt’s comments are sure to disappoint some Helldivers 2 players, it is consistent with the philosophy underpinning the game. Things work as they look like they should, from the way weapons ***** to ****** weak points. Even loading into a mission and dropping down onto a planet is rooted in this idea that everything you see is happening in real-time and for a reason. Indeed, much of Helldivers 2’s eye-catching emergent gameplay stems from this design. A transmog system would perhaps undermine Helldivers 2's thus far crystal clear visual communication. 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
Super Meat Boy is one of the most popular and successful indie games of all time, and you can grab it right now for less than the price of a coffee. While Super Meat Boy does not hold your hand, and expects you to knuckle down, learn the level design, and play at your absolute best to avoid watching Meat Boy explode over and over, there are few games quite as satisfying to get through. Plus, it paved the way for other fantastic, difficult indie platformers like Celeste, making it an important part of platforming history. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Free games: Grab a free copy of Super Meat Boy from the Epic Store Free games: ********* platformer Super Meat Boy is free on the Epic Games store Edmund McMillen returns to work on Super Meat Boy Forever View the full article
After the success with the Crusader Kings III: Chapter III season pass, Paradox have decided to give the same treatment to Stellaris with Stellaris: Season 08. We also have a new trailer and release date for Stellaris: The Machine Age. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
***** Space Remake developer Motive's Iron Man game will seemingly be an open world, if a job listing from EA is anything to go by. With Motive now splitting time and resources between Battlefield and Iron Man - and seemingly not a ***** Space 2 remake - it looks like the first details of the superhero tie-in are already available. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
That being said, we strive for intellectual honesty, which means the higher our conviction in a thesis, the more we need to test it out. Poke holes. Look for ways in which we could be wrong. In this case, we want to explore all the ways Nvidia might be vulnerable. Read Entire Article View the full article
Square Enix has released a benchmark tool for Final Fantasy 14 ahead of its upcoming Dawntrail expansion. Dawntrail, which will be released on July 2, will bring the game up to version 7.0, and will bring with it a major graphical upgrade. Version 7.0 will add greater visual detail to the game, with textures, grass, hair, shadows and reflections among the various elements getting an upgrade. Read More... View the full article
I know plenty of people who will probably be quite interested in the Devious Deckbuilders Humble Bundle, which includes some pretty great games. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Bazzite is one of the most interesting versions of Linux available for handheld gaming devices, and the latest release version 2.5.0 is out now with some great improvements. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Helldivers 2 players are getting frustrated by the game's overly zealous ***** damage, but developer Arrowhead has promised a fix is in the works. Earlier this month, as part of Helldivers 2's update that added in blizzards and sandstorms, the damage that ***** caused also received a tweak. However, this particular tweak hasn't been well-received, as it's essentially causing players to **** from ***** damage in just seconds, which unsurprisingly annoyed a lot of players. Thankfully, it seems like a change is on the way, as in the game's official Discord, community manager Thomas 'Twinbeard' Petersson has assured players that the team is working on making ***** not so overwhelming (thanks, PCGamesN). "We're going through '***** as a whole' at the moment," wrote Petersson in response to one Discord user. "The works - DPS, DOT, the host thingie, not dying in two seconds from just touching it etc. Probably introducing fixes in parts, but we're on it like Donkey Kong on barrels!" In a separate message to another user, Petersson went on to acknowledge how the ***** damage is "ridiculous" writing that it's "at least wrong and something we’re changing… It's an elaborate process, so we’re doing it in parts. More info to follow." Read more View the full article
The former boss of Blizzard Entertainment has suggested a post-purchase tip feature that would let players give $10 or $20 extra to the developers of special games. Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra tweeted that he’s often felt that upon completion of a particularly enjoyable single-player game, he’d like to give more money to the developers “because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn't try to nickel and dime me every second.” Games Ybarra mentioned that had sparked such a feeling include Guerrilla’s Horizon Zero Dawn, Sony Santa Monica’s **** of War, Rockstar’s Red ***** Redemption 2, Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3, and FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. “I know $70 is already a lot, but it's an option at the end of the game I wish I had at times,” Ybarra continued. “Some games are that special.” It’s fair to say the reaction to the suggestion is mixed, with many people saying they’re already forking out plenty of money for video games. Others have pointed out that some game platforms, such as [Hidden Content], already allow tips, and that small indie developers often use established platforms for donations. Many have also pointed out that any extra revenue generated through tips would invariably end up in the pockets of publishers, as opposed to the developers themselves, at least for the majority of triple-A releases. And if such a system were to hit the likes of Steam, the PlayStation Store, or the Xbox store, would Valve, Sony, and Microsoft all expect a cut? On the other hand, others have backed the idea. Paul Kilduff-Taylor of Mode 7 Games tweeted: “People have discovered various ingenious ways to be ****** about this but adding a ‘pay more if you want’ option to major stores would straightforwardly be excellent for devs - it works very well on Bandcamp.” Ybarra ended his post acknowledging that the tipping idea won’t be for everyone. “I know most will dislike this idea,” he said. “BTW, I realize we are tired of ‘tipping’ in everything else - but I view this different from a pressure to tip type scenario many face and give feedback on.” The video game industry is currently struggling amid one of the toughest periods for developers in recent memory, with thousands of staff ***** off and an ever-growing list of studios shut down. This comes during a push for unionization across the industry as staff seek better protections from corporate cuts. 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
Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree is just months away but dataminers are still discovering secrets within the base game, this time in unused alternate underground maps likely related to a scrapped "cataclysm" system. YouTuber Sekiro Dubi, who recovered an unused opening for the game earlier in 2024, uploaded a video showcasing the unused maps and how they were likely related to the cataclysm system, which would see Elden Ring's world of The Land Between changed drastically during gameplay. While the video shows a somewhat put together overworld map available, these unused areas are almost completley void of assets, instead only having the base shape of the world formed in bright blue and green polygons. Sekiro Dubi theorised these unused areas would have been made available through the cataclysm system, which would change familiar areas of Elden Ring similar to how a part of the map does actually change in the full game following the defeat of Starscourge Radahn. One of these unused cataclysms would occur over that boss's arena too, as a small ***** at the bottom of a crater would lead on to a few new areas, which Sekiro Dubi explores in the video. These unused areas are still incredibly complex despite their lack of assets, but it seems developer FromSoftware just had to draw a line somewhere in its already colossal role-playing game. The fact new secrets are still being discovered in FromSoftware's latest speaks to how much it captured the attention of fans upon its launch in 2022. Elden Ring proved somewhat of a cultural phenomenon, with players finding a ton of different ways to interact with the game. Fans played it using a Fisher Price toy, the Nintendo Switch Ring Fit controller, and someone even made a working VR version of the game. Many are therefore waiting with bated breath for the June 21 release of Shadow of the Erdtree, which is sure to add hundreds, if not thousands, of new secrets and story threads to be discovered. In fact, even its release date announcement drew hoards of players back to the Elden Ring. In our 10/10 review, IGN said: "Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path." Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article
A new Honkai: Star Rail ***** has revealed a new mysterious NPC named Micah that will be a part of the upcoming Version 2.2, which should arrive around May 8. Each new version of the game has its own beta phase that includes new playable characters, weapons, and regions, as well as NPCs. View the full article
It was the Donald Trump administration that placed Huawei on the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List almost five years ago, ensuring that US companies cannot do business with the tech firm without first securing a license. Read Entire Article View the full article
Twenty years after the first release, OpenTTD 14.0 has been made available bringing with it some really useful sounding features to enable new ways to play. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
An essential tool for anyone wanting to configure their fancy Razer devices is OpenRazer, with version 3.8.0 just released bringing expanded support on Linux. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Not much is known about Electronic Arts’ ****** Panther game, though the newest job listing on the company’s page sheds some details about its gameplay. Electronic Arts is looking for a Principal Sandbox Designer for Cliffhanger Games, a newly-formed studio working on ****** Panther. The position will be responsible for creating an open-world environment, indicating the game will be an open-world adventure rather than a linear story. View the full article
Inspired by the core gameplay of Minecraft, the name MineClone2 was not a particularly good one and it seems the developers were aware and so it's gone through a rebrand to be now called VoxeLibre. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Sony is still developing its live-action adaptation of One Punch Man, and it's brought on Rick and Morty writers Dan Harmon and Heather Anne Campbell. With superhero movies not being as popular as they used to be, the two next big things that Hollywood is trying to tackle are video game and anime adaptations. Both The Last of Us and Fallout have proven successful on the games front, and One Piece was a massive hit for Netflix too. Anime is obviously massively popular these days, and while One Punch Man isn't on people's minds as much as it used to be (even if season 3 is finally on the way), it's still getting a live-action adaptation from Justin Lin, the very same director that's being eyed up for Spider-Man 4. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Lin's One Punch Man film is getting a rewrite - from Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon, and writer on the animated series Heather Anne Campbell no less. Lin makes sense as a choice to handle a live-action One Punch Man film, given his experience with blockbusters like Star Trek Beyond and multiple Fast & Furious films, though I'd have to assume Harmon and Campbell's involvement is mostly due to their history of working on comedy animated series. It would actually be a reunion of sorts for Harmon and Lin, though, as the filmmaker did actually direct a few episodes of Community, which Harmon also created. Read more View the full article
Ikea’s Brännboll range is just the right mix of neutrals and bright colors to match most modern homes. | Image: Ikea Ikea is introducing a new range of gaming furniture that subverts the usual dark, edgy “gamer” aesthetic for designs that are more likely to blend in with your existing home decor. The company’s Brännboll collection is a lineup of 20 items, including a desk, chairs, accessories, and various storage solutions. Following the mostly-****** ROG collaboration Ikea released back in 2021, which was similarly free from overly aggressive “gamer” flourishes, the new Brännboll collection instead focuses on the kind of designs that Ikea does best — simple and recognizably Scandinavian. Seating is the main focus. There’s an armchair that folds out into a lounging position, a rocking-style chair designed to swing with your body’s movement, and an... Continue reading… View the full article
Shaxx built multiple defenses for us to defend the Last City in Destiny 2, but one significantly falls behind compared to the rest. Among the three defenses available in the Onslaught activity in Destiny 2, Tripwires are, undoubtedly, the worst way to invest your Scrap. In a Reddit thread posted on April 14, a frustrated player wrote: “Im really trying to find a way to justify purchasing a tripwire over literally anything else. Why waste 1000 scrap when its so ***** hard to get in the first place,” adding that post wave 20, even the lowest tier enemies can survive the Tripwire’s **********. View the full article
GE-Proton 9-3 has been released, and it includes a fancy new option to hopefully prevent you having issues with modded games when moving between systems like a PC and a Steam Deck. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
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Fallout 76, Bethesda's MMORPG take on the post-apocalyptic RPG game series, is the biggest it's ever been on Steam. Thanks to a free play *******, *****, and the popularity of the new Amazon Fallout show, the online twist on Bethesda's formula is seeing a record number of players flock to it. Even the original CRPGs from the late '90s have players coming back too, just not in nearly as big numbers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Here are the Fallout 76 system requirements The Fallout show finds the Bethesda spark that Starfield lost Fallout 76 Season 14 gives you the grandma you didn't know you needed View the full article