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Veteran video game developer Shinji Mikami has opened up about his departure from Tango Gameworks in a new interview. It was confirmed last February that Mikami was leaving Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush, which he founded in 2010 before selling it to Bethesda. After it emerged last month that the Resident Evil creator had established a new company, Mikami appeared on ********* YouTube channel Byking to discuss his career and what he wants to do in the future. Read More... View the full article

Planning ahead is a huge part of success in Manor Lords, and building places to store your raw ingredients and processed goods is crucial unless you want things to go bad or get stolen.When you’re first starting out in Manor Lords, you’ll likely encounter a red notification that reads “generic storage full.” This can be a complicated problem to solve for new players, but once you understand what needs to be done, it’s an easy fix. As long as you build the right buildings and have enough people available to work, there won’t be any issues.How to Fix Full Storage in Manor LordsTo fix the generic storage full error in Manor Lords, you need to build enough dedicated storage facilities and have enough available workers to transport and supply buildings with excess materials. Screenshot: PC InvasionIn Manor Lords, generic storage refers to the storage of goods like wood and stone. These are stored in Storehouses, which are dedicated sto...View the full article

Everyone needs more storage for their handheld gaming PC from time to time, whether it's on a Steam Deck, ROG Ally, or Nintendo Switch. With this microSD deal, you can add 1.5TB of storage to your device for just $110, which will open up your handheld to a ton of extra possibilities when it comes to downloading your favorite games. The SanDisk Ultra sits one class below the Extreme, which is our pick as one of the best MicroSD cards for Steam Deck. However, due to the Steam Deck and most other handheld gaming PCs having a transfer limit imposed on MicroSD cards, you won't see any noticeable performance difference between this 1.5TB Ultra card and the 1TB. Extreme. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fallout 4 is still broken on Nvidia RTX GPUs because of one setting Nvidia DLSS guide - upscaling to ray reconstruction explained The mechanical keyboard switch guide View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Thankfully, in 2024, we're broadly all enlightened enough to recognize Half-Life 2 as a genre-defining modern FPS. Generally, in the decades since its release, its entirely deserved status as one of the greatest games of all time (not to mention one of the most influential) has arguably obscured some critical judgment of Valve's creation. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Half Life 2 RTX won't use AI textures, devs are crafting "every pixel" Forgotten Half-Life 2 mod from 2007 suddenly has 1,700% more players Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remake View the full article

For better or worse, the Fallout 4 next-gen update is out now on Xbox. Bethesda's new layer of polish for the hit Fallout entry has been in the works for two years, but the update's rollout has been far from slick. One key feature is the addition of Quality and Performance Modes, with the former bumping Fallout 4's resolution. Well, that would be the case if it worked properly. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Fallout 4's next-gen upgrade to PS5 is a mess for PS Plus subscribers Fallout 4's nuclear next-gen update for PS5 and Xbox is finally here Fallout Season 2 locked in as Fallout game sales soar on PS5 and Xbox View the full article

The future of Xbox Game Pass is looking hellishly good - at least based on how ActiBlizz banger Diablo 4 has popped off on the subscription service. New stats from Microsoft's top dog have revealed that Diablo 4 racked up a very impressive amount of play time when it was added to Game Pass in March. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Diablo 4 leads ActiBlizz charge onto Xbox Game Pass this March 2023's most controversial PS5 and Xbox game was its most Googled You should really prep for the new Diablo 4 Abbatoir of Zir activity View the full article

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Xbox users are reporting that the new quality mode in Fallout 4 isnt working. For years, fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise have been waiting for Bethesda to release Fallout 4s next-gen update for Xbox Series X/S and PS5. That day finally arrived on April 25, though not without a fair few issues. View the full article

If you want to survive in Manor Lords, you need to grow your population and attract new settlers to move into your village. Without hard-working people, you won’t survive the winter and you’ll be vulnerable to *******.Thankfully, growing your settlement is fairly straightforward in Manor Lords and you should be able to add tons of new families to your village quite easily once you’ve established a foothold in the area. As long as you keep the resources flowing and the people happy, growth will happen naturally.How to Increase Settlement Population in Manor LordsTo increase your population in Manor Lords, you need to have empty homes for people to move into and have a decent approval rating so people will actually want to move into those homes. An approval rating above 50% is the requirement for new settlers to come to your town, but it should ideally be even higher.To build housing for new settlers, open the Construction menu and navigate to the Residen...View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

All you Lefties out there can finally get properly represented, in Counter-Strike 2 that is, as there's now the ability to swap your weapons into the other hand. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Out of the 12 best-selling gaming consoles of all time, 5 are handheld systems, and that's not including the Nintendo Switch. Handhelds have made a huge comeback and here are our favorite systems. Read Entire Article View the full article

Helldivers 2's most recent Major Order really came down to the wire, but the community managed to pull out a victory that's really impressive - given how dire the situation looked earlier this week. The celebrations haven't ended there either, with Arrowhead having indicated that some evac missions which've been proving near impossible should be adjusted soon. Yup, after plenty of arguing about the difficulty ********* players were having in trying to convince all of their casual pals that they needed to pitch in, the same tenacity that ******* a bunch of bugs the other week helped folks successfully defend ten planets. And their nightmares might not features as many evac mission flashbacks in the near future. You love to see it. As folks celebrated over on the Helldivers 2 Discord server, community manager Twinbeard provided them with even more reason to get hyped. "To all of you offering feedback on how the **** citizen evac missions are $€@!£X@&! impossible on higher difficulty levels," they wrote, "We agree 100 % and will therefore adjust these in the near future!" Read more View the full article

Mayors in RPG games are rarely given the spotlight. They're mostly just there to give you an early quest involving goat banditry or windmill rats or some such other domestic drudgery. Or, in the case of Tristram’s mayor in Diablo, to fret behind the scenes about how to properly fit considerable cathedral repairs into this month’s budget. Well, no more must this valuable civil ******** hide behind balance sheets, occasionally popping out to cut a big ribbon in celebration of a nearby mausoleum being turned into a Wetherspoons. Tristam is a 72 hour Ludum Dare project where you play as said town’s mayor. And this time: It’s ceremonial! Read more View the full article

Bethesda's highly anticipated next gen update for Fallout 4 is riddled with issues across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The next gen version was finally released on April 25, 2024 (around 18 months after it was announced) but the several gigabyte update hasn't been met with much fanfare. The Steam version of Fallout 4 appears most wrought with technical issues, though PlayStation 5 players have struggled to obtain the update at all due to an availability error and confusing messaging from Bethesda. Xbox players, on the other hand, don't have access to the game's Quality Mode, meaning they can't experience one of the main appeals of the next gen update: 4K resolution on ultra settings. This specific issue was confirmed on X/Twitter by tech expert Digital Foundry's Thomas Morgan. "I can confirm that only the 60 frames per second Performance Mode works right now. The update has a bug." PC players, meanwhile, have taken to Steam to flag myriad issues with the update. "Many of the bugs that existed and were promised to be fixed are actually still in the game after the patch," said Piglet in one review. "Finally updated the game and didn't fix a single issue," wrote birthdayjesus. "But now the mods I used to fix it don't work." The initial reaction to the patch notes wasn't positive either. "*****, the bugfix list is short," wrote DreamweaverWR on Reddit, a comment which has 921 upvotes. "I had very low expectations but this is much less than I expected. They didn't fix almost any of the bugs that annoyed me the most (VATS ****** and perception bug in Survival, for example)." FluffyBunBunKittens chimed in too. "It is kind of amazing," they said. "Now I'm just waiting with interest what new bugs we get with this update." One of these new bugs seemingly makes the game unplayable for some on Steam Deck. A Reddit post from prunebackwards said Fallout 4 can no longer be launched on the handheld PC, a sentiment corroborated by many in the comments and elsewhere. Some players who can launch the game are finding myriad issues upon doing so too, like having no graphics settings, no launcher, defaulting to low settings, having a poor frame rate, and more. Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update will be available for PS+ Extra members. We do not have any information regarding PS5 Catalogue or PS+ Essentials. — Bethesda Support (@BethesdaSupport) April 25, 2024 PlayStation users haven't been free from the issues either, though perhaps the biggest came in even trying to access the game. Fallout 4 was available for free through PlayStation Plus to all PS5 owners from November 2020 to May 2023, but this version of the game, nor the PlayStation Plus Essentials Catalogue version, wouldn't allow players to upgrade to the next gen update for free. A full $19.99 purchase was required instead, though Bethesda soon confirmed this was an unintentional bug. "We've seen some confusion regarding the free Fallout 4 next gen update for PlayStation Plus Extra members," wrote a Bethesda community manager on the company's official Discord, who clarified it should be free as expected. Bethesda wasn't able to offer any clarification regarding the free PS5 version nor the PS Plus Essentials version, however, saying on X/Twitter that "we do not have any information" regarding either. PS5 users were naturally left frustrated with the initial bug and unclear communication. Those who have been able to get into the game haven't had the best experience either, and have taken to social media to share their impressions. "The Fallout 4 PS5 upgrade looks amazing," wrote CSSJAZZ on Reddit, sarcastically, as they posted the comment alongside a video of one area with missing textures. Reddit user pasta_classic posted an image of the character creator screen, where the default man was missing a face completely. "Loving the update," wrote SnoopyTheDog_, who posted a video of their character locked in place while being ******* by roaches. "Gotta love that Bethesda polish," said UnwillingArsonist, whose post showed that makeshift weapons in the update are also missing textures, appearing as floating red exclamation marks in the world. The issues come as somewhat of a sour note in what's otherwise been a Fallout resurgence, spurred on by the critically acclaimed Amazon TV series. A huge upswing in the popularity of Fallout 4, multiplayer entry Fallout 76, and other games in the franchise even caused popular modding website NexusMods to struggle, and Fallout 76, once universally panned, saw one million players log in a single day following the show's release. Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article

With the recent success of Prime Video's Fallout series, there's a real allure to returning to Fallout 4 and making it feel more like its television counterpart. The show is not based on any of the games before it, instead adapting the world but bringing it to life with different characters and a brand-new story. The series feels like an unapologetic and authentic member of the Fallout gaming franchise, but some mods can turn the tables and give Fallout 4 the same feel as the TV show. View the full article

Left-handed Counter-Strike 2 players, time to raise that left hand in what could be interpreted as a celebration. In the game's latest update, Valve have added the ability to swap from the default right-handed viewmodel to a left-handed one. There's also an update to the buy menu, making it easier to track your bank account and grab weapons your mates have dropped. Alongside further UI improvements for grenade line-ups, and a tweak to the Active Duty map pool. Read more View the full article

Eco-conscious village builder The Wandering Village sees you raising a settlement on the back of a huge wandering creature called Onbu. For the most part, you live in a symbiotic relationship with this gentle giant, as your villagers keep the gargantuan trundlesaur healthy while being ferried about on its back. Awww. Well, the wholesome city-builder now lets you feed villagers to the creature and start a cult in the great devourer's name. Okay. Why not? Read more View the full article

An absolute indie gem released in 2022 is Dome Keeper from developer Bippinbits that has you mine underground for resources, while you also defend your dome above land from aliens. It's good fun and some big updates are on the way. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Escape From Tarkov, the extraction FPS from developer Battlestate, recently put up a new Unheard edition of the game for pre-order, and tarkov escapers aren't happy about it. The price for this bundle - which includes a new mode, a ******* stash, and assorted gubbins - comes in at $250, or around two actual hundred actual pounds, but the price alone isn’t necessarily what’s got a section of the player base so tarked-off that a few of them are even loudly considering a lawsuit. The actual issue is twofold: the edition is being called pay-to-win, and is also the only way to access said new PvE co-op mode, despite players previously shelling out notable nuggets for what was pitched as access to "all subsequent DLCs" as part of the now-delisted Edge of Darkness edition. Read more View the full article

To celebrate Alien Day, one developer decided to make a fan game with Aliens: Redacted now available on *****.io. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

No Rest for the Wicked has been in early access for eight days, and developer Moon Studios has already shipped its fifth hotfix patch. The hotfix includes lots of changes, from performance tweaks to quality-of-life updates. What caught my eye is that your cooking and crafting materials finally stack up to 25, you can put food in cupboards, and the durability of tools and armor has been enhanced. On top of that, the update adds eight new shields, for even more class diversity, as the No Rest for the Wicked devs put it. View the full article

Microsoft has suggested that Xbox is starting to reap the rewards of its increased multiplatform focus. While it already had a strong foothold on rival platforms thanks to perennial best-sellers Call of Duty and Minecraft, Xbox recently announced plans to bring more first-party games to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, starting with Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded. And during Microsoft’s third quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Satya Nadella said Xbox games have been performing strongly on the PlayStation Store. Read More... View the full article

Fallout 4’s fiercely anticipated next-gen update has wreaked havoc on the modding community, breaking a vital mod that many others rely on. Launched on April 25, Fallout 4‘s next-gen update brings the game up to date on consoles like PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, while PC players have only minor changes—but it’s enough to cause problems. View the full article

Counter-Strike 2 is missing many features that are common in other FPS games, but that’s part of what makes it unique. Sprinting is one of these missing features, and now fans are joking that the April 25 update finally introduced it. Valve launched a massive CS2 patch on April 25 called “On The Other Hand.” The update’s name comes from the fact that players can finally switch hands with their guns and knives. You can do this at any time with a console command, and players discovered that doing it every half a second looks hilariously like sprinting. View the full article

No Rest for the Wicked, the - initially divisive - new Early Access game from Moon Studios, has been available to play for one week. The developer has been diligently, and quite remarkably, releasing hotfixes almost every day since the game’s release. Just a few hours ago, the game received its fifth hotfix, and it’s the largest one by far. Read more View the full article