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Today, Tribute Games Inc. and Dotemu have confirmed the beat 'em up MARVEL Cosmic Invasion will officially launch on December 1st. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

No Man's Sky's latest major content update, dubbed "Breach," is out now. While Hello Games' procedurally generated space survival title got off to a disappointing start back in 2016, it has continued to grow and change over the nine years since to become a hit among fans. The ride isn't over for No Man's Sky, either, as the game has just gotten its second major expansion in a span of under three months. View the full article

ll these years later I still have a grudge against EA. After PopCap delivered two classic PC games, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies, EA bought 'em up, laid a bunch of 'em off, and turned PopCap into a mobile game developer... Read more.View the full article

You can use PowerWash Simulator 2 crossplay on PC and Xbox, but PS5 and Switch 2 are on their ownView the full article

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Once Upon a Katamari review: "Time traveling cowboy adventures, ninja thievery, pirate battles, and more make this the most inventive evolution of the series yet"View the full article

The new No Man's Sky Breach update has just arrived, and developer Hello Games is building on the huge success of its Voyagers expansion with a cargo hold full of reasons to spend more time out in the void. It's comfortably one of the best space games on PC these days, but the No Man's Sky team shows no signs of slowing down. The Breach update packs in plenty of fresh opportunities among the stars, with wrecked crafts to investigate, a selection of Atlas ship upgrades to earn, and even a special, scary story for the Halloween season. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Criminally overlooked JRPG Quartet just got a free mini-expansion, and you'd be a fool to miss it Mixing BG3's combat and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's charm, medieval RPG Norse's new demo just made my Steam wishlist Sublime sandbox RPG Necesse is finally finished, and it's washing away my Terraria blues View the full article

There are very few games as unique as Megabonk, especially when it comes to the various items you can pick up randomly throughout each run. Every item in Megabonk has a creative design that can enhance various character builds in different ways, but there are certain items that are absolute game-changers no matter the circumstances. View the full article

Do you have time to talk about my lord and saviour, PowerWash Simulator? The unexpected cult hit hooked weirdos like me back in 2022 with its relaxing, satisfying premise; clean dirt off things. Has the sequel, PowerWash Simulator 2, changed the fundamental act of power washing? Has it given new meaning to slowly blasting graffiti off a wall? Will it make you question what it truly means to be filthy in 2025? No. And thank Mr. Clean for that, because it's the simplicity that makes it so satisfying. What you do get is what fans like me - I've got over 400 hours logged in the original - really needed; some quality of life upgrades and lots of new things to wash. I can see myself racking up another 400 hours on this installment easily. In case you missed out the first time, it really is as straightforward as it sounds. You are given a vehicle or location to clean, a selection of power washers (they all function the same way, just with varying power), soap, and if a level is feeling saucy, some ladders. You choose your washer, your nozzle (I'm a green girl, yellow for detail work, any one who uses white wasn't loved enough by their mother), and you're left to clean at your own pace, sluicing down sections in whatever way you please. One of the real beauties of PowerWash Simulator is that you can't eff it up. As long as you're blasting water at dirt, eventually things will get clean. Even if you never upgraded anything, you'd still get there in the end. What we said about PowerWash Simulator (2022) By most standards, PowerWash Simulator doesn’t offer the level of variety or progression you’d hope for, but there’s something just undeniably cathartic about the whole experience. Is it going to trouble the likes of Elden Ring in the game of the year race? No. Am I ready to pack in all this writing nonsense, rent a power washer, and start a new career as a water-fuelled saviour in a blue boiler suit? No. Did I have a highly relaxing time cleaning building after building to within an inch of their life? Absolutely. I may only be 30 years of age, but have come to fully accept that this is my life now – a man who cleans bungalows for fun. Join me. - Simon Cardy, July 19, 2022 Score: 7 Read the full PowerWash Simulator review. [/url] The big headline for the sequel is all the new cleaning jobs to work your way through, and they don't disappoint. There are vehicles like a mobility scooter or a car decorated like a dog; there are buildings like bandstands, public toilets, and grand houses; and there are even new multi-stage jobs where you'll need to clean a particular part of a map to reveal a new area. There is the perfect balance of large buildings and complex structures, for when I wanted to spend a solid hour spraying, alongside smaller vehicles for a quicker splash of dopamine. Less exciting for purists like me is the addition of a home base you can decorate (but alas, not clean) and some **** cats. I mean, everyone likes virtual pets, but unless I can tie mops to their feet I have no interest in them when I'm busy jetwashing a billboard. There's the perfect balance of large buildings and smaller vehicles to clean. You'll understand the beautiful mundanity of this game when I tell you that one of the most exciting innovations is that soap is now free and multipurpose. Not just a blow against capitalism, it actually removes one of the biggest annoyances about the first game. Soap had to be purchased, came in limited quantities, and a different soap was required for each surface. Now you just switch to the soap attachment and any surface, on any job, can be your own personal foam party as it breaks down tough stains. I've gone from a soap dodger to a detergent dilettante. While you're cleaning there are also new icons to help you track down things that still need polishing up, which might sound minor, but as someone who spent hours of their life looking for a 1% speck of dirt on a huge restroom wall, I am hugely grateful for it. The other new tricks in your cleaning kit similarly make things that were a bit of a fiddle or a grind easier, without letting you skip the work. There's an abseiling rig for large structures like billboards, a cherry picker lift so you're not balancing on ladders to get to hard to reach areas, and a spinning surface cleaner - you know, like school janitors mysteriously push around after hours - to make polishing up large flat surfaces a little less daunting. There are even tiny tweaks, like that tall scaffolding now has a ladder on the outside when you just want to get to the top, no more zig zagging up and down. What's key is that the improvements aren't about speeding you through the jobs more quickly or letting you skip chunks, because the whole point of PowerWash Simulator 1 and 2 is the meditative flow state you achieve just working away at the grime and graffiti, back and forth, up and down, all with the gentle hiss of water accompanying your progress. It's underrated as an ASMR experience, although you will need to **** every 10 minutes. If you've yet to discover the wonders of jet washing random buildings and vehicles, good news; there's no lore you have to catch up on. The loose story is delivered through text messages while you're working, but you could skip them all without a problem. They usually explain why you're cleaning, for instance, a street sweeper covered in huckleberry jelly, or will give you weird information about the area. There are some nice touches for devotees of the original, too. A shooting gallery has miniature versions of the landmarks you'll recognize, and the chatter will reference the iconic merman statue or strange temple. It's nonsense, but it's nonsense I appreciated. View the full article

Xbox Game Pass is set to add eight fresh titles to the service, offering a diverse list of options for users. Between an anticipated AAA heavy-hitter and the sequel to a beloved indie hit, Xbox Game Pass is aiming to bring players an intriguing roster within the next two weeks. View the full article

"I KNOW that the holder of the Scarface license wasn't willing to re-release the game, so this is suspect."View the full article

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Разработчики трилогии Final Fantasy VII Remake рассматривают возможность создания совершенно новой игры во вселенной Final Fantasy VII после выпуска продолжения Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Об этом рассказал геймдиректор Наоки Хамагути. View the full article

Не открою Америку, но в последние несколько лет компанию Microsoft неистово штормит. И Keeper как раз стала новой жертвой турбулентности. Предположительно, IT-гигант купил студию Double Fine Productions, чтобы та предоставила разноплановый контент для забивания каталога Game Pass. Разработчикам позволили доделать прекрасную Psychonauts 2, но затем команда Тима Шейфера перешла на несколько лет в режим радиомолчания. View the full article

The life cycle of games is getting longer as the years go by. Everything is implementing some kind of live-service element, including single-player titles that should have a succinct ending when you finish the campaign. However, all games must end some day. At least until they're revived, that is. Developer Kongor Studios is doing just that to Heroes of Newerth Reborn. With some of the original developers on board, a brand new engine, and an open beta on the way, this could seriously have a shot of placing on our list of the best MOBAs on PC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Classic 2010 MOBA Heroes of Newerth is back, dev says it was killed "too soon" Classic MOBA Heroes of Newerth seemingly teasing a return from the dead One of the original MOBAs, Heroes of Newerth, has shut down View the full article

It looks as though the wait for Intel's next lineup of gaming CPUs is nearly over, as we've just spotted a benchmark leak that not only reveals a new CPU brand name, but also some of the key specs. According to the leak, the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus offers a substantial boost in core count compared to its predecessor, the Core Ultra 7 265K, adding an extra four E-Cores to the package. Those extra E-Cores won't make much difference to gaming performance, but they will give the chip an extra helping hand in multi-threaded workloads such as video encoding and 3D rendering. As we found in our Core Ultra 7 265K review, the strong points of the Intel Arrow Lake architecture are multi-threaded performance, as well as cool operation and power efficiency. Our recent 265K retest also showed that Intel has made up some lost ground in game benchmarks now too, although AMD's X3D chips are still well ahead. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best graphics card 2025 - top gaming GPUs Your Intel GPU could see a 4x frame rate boost soon, thanks to this new tech Intel Panther Lake to "set new standard" for gaming performance, due to new GPUs View the full article

A spooky, festive new event has arrived in Disney Dreamlight Valley, bringing with it a strange floating island packed with puzzles to tackle. One of the many challenges you'll face in The Haunted Floating Festival event is the Ghostly Critter puzzle. This event is entirely based on solving unique trials, so this puzzle and all others you'll encounter are quite tricky. There are plenty of exclusive prizes you can claim as a reward for finishing these feats, though, so they're certainly worth doing. If this one has you stumped, here's how to solve the Ghostly Critter puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Table of contentsWhere to find ghost Zero Fox Critter in Disney Dreamlight ValleyThe Haunted Floating Festival Ghost Zero Fox puzzle solution in Disney Dreamlight ValleyGhostly Zero Fox memory dig spot location in Disney Dreamlight ValleyGhostly Critter puzzle reward in Disney Dreamlight ValleyWhere to find ghost Zero Fox Critter in Disney Dreamlight Valley Screenshot by Destructoid The Ghostly Zero Fox can be found wandering around The Haunted Floating Festival island endlessly. This Critter doesn't have a singular fixed location and instead patrols around frequently, making it a bit tough to track down. Luckily, this Ghostly Critter has a glowing blue and white appearance that generally makes it easy to spot around the otherwise dark island. This Fox is quite fast, though, so you might want to eat some food so you can glide or fly to keep up with it. The Haunted Floating Festival Ghost Zero Fox puzzle solution in Disney Dreamlight Valley To complete the Ghostly Critter puzzle, you need to find the Critter's favorite food and feed it to them once daily for four days in a row. This isn't a puzzle you can complete in one go, and requires patience and dedication, so here's a full breakdown of how to get it done. Find the Ghostly Zero Fox Critter around The Haunted Floating Festival event island.Learn what this Critter's favorite food is. There's a book you can find and read on the island that reveals its favorite food, which is Haunted Skeleton Fish.Track down some Haunted Skeleton Fish. You can find this fish on the ground by Zero's grave. Screenshot by Destructoid Feed the Ghostly Zero Fox a Haunted Skeleton Fish. Repeat this step once daily for four days.Collect all four Memory Shards. Each time you feed this critter, a new Memory Shard will drop. Gather all four pieces to complete the puzzle. Travel to the location pictured in the completed Memory. Once finished, the Memory leads you to the Haunted Mansion Hearse.Use your Royal Shovel to dig up your reward. At the Haunted Mansion Hearse, equip your Royal Shovel and use it to dig up your prize. As soon as you do, this puzzle will be complete. Ghostly Zero Fox memory dig spot location in Disney Dreamlight Valley The memory you piece together by completing the Ghostly Zero Fox puzzle highlights a golden, glowing dig spot on The Haunted Floating Festival island. You can find this spot right next to the hearse in front of the Haunted Mansion. This spot appears after you've fed the fox four times to collect all four Memory Shards, so you can only go looking for it once it's complete. Digging up the spot grants you a pouch you can open to claim your reward. Ghostly Critter puzzle reward in Disney Dreamlight Valley Completing the Ghostly Critter puzzle unlocks the Clawed Foot Tub item as a reward. It's a furniture item from straight out of the film The Nightmare Before Christmas, where it's used by Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Sandy Claws. Screenshot by Destructoid There are plenty of other spooky activities to enjoy around the island once you're done tackling this puzzle. If you're not sure what to do next, consider tackling tasks in the Trick-or-Treat event like the Haunted Well puzzle or Sugar Rush. Be sure to also keep up with your Witchful Thinking Star Path event duties. There are three events running together, so it can be a lot to keep up with, but all of them are packed with prizes you don't want to miss. Like our content? Set Destructoid as a Preferred Source on Google in just one step to ensure you see us more frequently in your Google searches! The post How to solve Ghostly Fox Critter puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

A fresh event has arrived in Disney Dreamlight Valley, bringing with it lots of frightfully fun new tasks to complete. The Haunted Floating Festival is one of the trickiest events we've ever gotten, as it's entirely focused on puzzles. This event features an array of exclusive spooky prizes, so although it can be a bit tough to navigate, the rewards are certainly worth the effort. It's also quite unlike all other events, so if any part of it has you stumped, here's a complete walkthrough for The Haunted Floating Festival event in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Table of contentsHow does The Haunted Floating Festival event work in Disney Dreamlight Valley?How to complete The Haunted Floating Festival event in Disney Dreamlight ValleyAll The Haunted Floating Festival puzzles in Disney Dreamlight ValleyAll The Haunted Floating Festival rewards in Disney Dreamlight ValleyHow long is The Haunted Floating Festival in Disney Dreamlight Valley?How does The Haunted Floating Festival event work in Disney Dreamlight Valley? Screenshot by Destructoid The Haunted Floating Festival takes place on a special, seasonal floating island in the sky that you can visit to tackle limited-time event tasks. While all other events focus on missions and items found around the valley, this one takes place in an entirely separate region that's only available to visit while the event is live. How to complete The Haunted Floating Festival event in Disney Dreamlight Valley To finish The Haunted Floating Festival event, you need to navigate through five unique puzzles. Not all of these puzzles are available right away, and each one has several smaller tasks to work through, so getting all of them done takes quite a while. All The Haunted Floating Festival puzzles in Disney Dreamlight Valley Screenshot by Destructoid There are five puzzles featured throughout The Haunted Floating Festival event. Three are available with the launch of the event on Oct. 22, then another will unlock on Oct. 29, and the final one launches on Nov. 5. PuzzleUnlock DateTaskGhostly Critter puzzleOct. 22Find the ghost fox Zero roaming around the island and feed him his favorite food. This critter's favorite food is the Haunted Skeleton Fish, which can be found around Zero's grave. Feed the critter once daily for four days to collect four Memory Shards and complete the event memory. Then, travel to the location pictured in the Memory, which is the Haunted Mansion Hearse, to dig up your reward.Combination Pillar puzzleOct. 22Place all four motifs on the pillar beneath the right number. You can find the motifs on tiles scattered around the island and use the pumpkins that appear by them to determine where each one goes. The solution to this puzzle is: 1 – Web 2 – Bat 3 – Witch Hat 4 – CatTerror-rific Tree puzzleOct. 22Offer certain items to the tree in the correct order to solve this one. A nearby book tells you what you need to know to get this one done, which is 20 ****** Feathers, 15 Bony Fish, and 10 Pale Blooms. You can find Haunted Crow Feathers by the scarecrow, Haunted Skeleton Fish by Zero's grave, and Haunted White Roses by the Haunted Mansion.Potion Brewer's House puzzleOct. 29Enter the Potion Brewer's House, hidden away behind the ruined castle walls on The Haunted Floating Festival island. Find the sparkling blue book sitting on a table near the back of the room to uncover a series of hints. Each hint instructs you to find a specific ingredient. You then need to venture to all ingredient locations to find the required items. “A thorny bloom of petals white” refers to Haunted White Roses found by the Haunted Mansion. “A feline fish” refers to Catfish fished up around the Peaceful Meadow biome. “Two fleshless fish” refers to Haunted Skeleton Fish found by Zero's grave. “A fish that is always en garde” refers to Swordfish caught from the Dazzle Beach biome. Once you have all the required items, return to the house and interact with the massive cauldron. Toss all of them inside to brew the potion and finish the puzzle. Haunted Mansion puzzleNov. 5TBAAll The Haunted Floating Festival rewards in Disney Dreamlight Valley There are five prizes featured in The Haunted Floating Festival event, including both clothing and furniture items. Each unique reward is tied to one of the puzzles you can work on throughout the event. PuzzleRewardImageGhostly Critter PuzzleClawed Foot Tub furniture itemCombination Pillar PuzzleHaunted Festival Dress clothing itemTerror-rific Tree PuzzleTerror-rific Tree furniture itemPotion Brewer's House****** Cauldron furniture itemHaunted MansionTBATBAHow long is The Haunted Floating Festival in Disney Dreamlight Valley? The Haunted Floating Festival event is available to complete from Oct. 22 to Nov. 11. This gives you about three weeks to complete all special tasks and earn the exclusive prizes before the mysterious island vanishes. This event will likely return in 2026, as all seasonal events do, but it hasn't been officially confirmed, so it's a good idea to tackle all you can this year to be safe. If you're interested in more spooky fun, be sure to tackle the Trick-or-Treat event and the Witchful Thinking Star Path event, too. Both of these are running alongside The Haunted Floating Festival and offer several more exclusive prizes you can claim. Like our content? Set Destructoid as a Preferred Source on Google in just one step to ensure you see us more frequently in your Google searches! The post Disney Dreamlight Valley The Haunted Floating Festival event walkthrough appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

There's a strange, ghostly animal running around The Haunted Floating Festival island in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Catching up to and feeding this Critter is a key event task, but finding the food you need can be tricky. This special Fox has different preferences than all other Foxes you can meet in the valley, so the food it desires might not be what you expect. You'll also likely struggle to find it, as it's in a rather strange spot, so here's where to find food for the Ghostly Zero Critter in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Table of contentsWhat to feed Ghostly Zero Critter in Disney Dreamlight ValleyGhostly Zero Critter Haunted Skeleton Fish food locationWhat to feed Ghostly Zero Critter in Disney Dreamlight Valley Screenshot by Destructoid The Ghostly Zero Fox will only eat Haunted Skeleton Fish. This is different from the regular Skeleton Fish you can catch over on Eternity Isle, as it's only available to find around The Haunted Floating Festival island. For the purposes of solving the Ghostly Critter puzzle, you also don't need to fish this item up. Ghostly Zero Critter Haunted Skeleton Fish food location The Haunted Skeleton Fish only spawn around Zero's grave on The Haunted Floating Festival island. There are quite a few different graves around the island, but only one that belongs to Zero. Zero's grave is easy to distinguish from the rest because it has his name on it right above a skull dog icon. It's also close to other items from The Nightmare Before Christmas, including the iconic spiral hill, Halloween Town Hall, and the Holiday Trees. This grave is quite hidden away, making it one of the trickiest spots to track down in the event, even when you know what you're looking for. If you're having trouble finding this spot, here's a full breakdown of how to access it. Start at the Coco-themed well in the center of the island. Turn to face the two frightening fountains spitting out green water.Walk down the wooden path right between the fountains. When the path ends, make a sharp left, proceeding past The Nightmare Before Christmas hill. Continue straight until you reach Zero's grave. Pick up the Haunted Skeleton Fish around the grave. Screenshot by Destructoid. Remix by Destructoid Now that you know where to find the Haunted Skeleton Fish, you can get to work feeding the Ghostly Zero Critter. Feeding this creature once won't finish the task, though, so there's still more work to be done to solve the Ghostly Fox Critter puzzle. After you're done feeding the Ghostly Zero Fox, there's still plenty left to tackle in the event. Next, you might work on solving Terror-rific Tree puzzle or solving the Combination Pillar puzzle. Like our content? Set Destructoid as a Preferred Source on Google in just one step to ensure you see us more frequently in your Google searches! The post Where to find food for Ghostly Zero Fox in Disney Dreamlight Valley appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

To tackle the many unique puzzles featured in The Haunted Floating Festival event, you need to gather lots of items in Disney Dreamlight Valley. One of the puzzles you'll encounter challenges you to find some Pale Blooms. The event island is a bit of a maze, so figuring out what you're searching for and where to find it based on this vague hint is rather tricky. Locating this item is crucial for completing a key event puzzle, though, so here's where to find Pale Blooms in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Table of contentsWhat are Pale Blooms in Disney Dreamlight Valley?Pale Blooms location in Disney Dreamlight ValleyHow often do Haunted White Roses respawn in Disney Dreamlight Valley?What are Pale Blooms in Disney Dreamlight Valley? Screenshot by Destructoid The Pale Blooms mentioned in the Terror-rific Tree's hints are Haunted White Roses. These are bright white flowers with light green stems. You can only find and pick them up around The Haunted Floating Festival island, as no Haunted White Roses exist in the regular valley. These flowers can sometimes be tough to spot among the tall, dark grass that covers most of the region. All Pale Blooms are highlighted with animated golden sparkles once you get decently close to them, though, making it a bit easier to find and collect them. Pale Blooms location in Disney Dreamlight Valley The Pale Blooms are the easiest item to find for the Terror-rific Tree since you spawn fairly close to them upon arriving on the island. You can only find these special flowers growing right in front of the massive Haunted Mansion. Since there are quite a few unique buildings throughout the island, it can still be a bit tricky to find the right spot, so here's a full breakdown of how to find the Pale Blooms. Start at the Coco-themed well right in the middle of the island. Turn towards the direction where the path changes from brown tiles to dark grey stone. Walk over to the carriage being pulled by an invisible horse.Turn left and head toward the massive mansion.Pick up the Haunted White Roses growing on the ground in front of the Haunted Mansion. Screenshot by Destructoid. Remix by Destructoid How often do Haunted White Roses respawn in Disney Dreamlight Valley? Up to three Haunted White Roses can be present near the Haunted Mansion at any given time, and it takes roughly 15 minutes for more to spawn in. There must be fewer than three flowers present for the respawn timer to start, so be sure to pick the Pale Blooms often to make room for more. There's plenty more to get done in this event. If you're not sure what to do next, consider working on the Ghostly Critter puzzle or the Combination Pillar puzzle. You also might tackle other spooky tasks outside of this event, like the Trick-or-Treat event, the Haunted Well puzzle, and the Witchful Thinking Star Path. Like our content? Set Destructoid as a Preferred Source on Google in just one step to ensure you see us more frequently in your Google searches! The post Where to find Pale Blooms in Disney Dreamlight Valley appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

The appearance of an HD remaster of Scarface: The World is Yours has taken some by surprise, especially a modder who claims it may not be a legitimate release. Earlier today a re-release of the official Scarface game – which was originally released on PS2, Xbox and PC in 2006, followed by a Wii release in 2007 – appeared on the Epic Games Store without prior notice, priced at $29.99 / £23.79. The game was then listed on Steam, with apparent publisher EC Digital posting a statement that it had been “unintentionally pushed live on a different platform earlier than planned”, and so it was “now accelerating our efforts” to finalise a Steam version too. Read More... View the full article

Remedy Entertainment CEO Tero Virtala has revealed that he will be stepping down as the company's CEO. This news comes just weeks after Remedy Entertainment announced to investors that sales for its most recent game, multiplayer title FBC: Firebreak, are struggling to hit the studio's internal targets. View the full article

Hello Games has released yet another No Man’s Sky update, this time adding space wrecks to explore. The patch notes, courtesy of the No Man's Sky website, are below. Just over a month after the Voyagers update released for the long-running space game, and the highest player numbers since launch over nine years ago, the Breach update lets players salvage wrecks, unlocking new ship building parts along the way. Hello Games has also improved and expanded ship building “in response to watching players spend so much time in the workshop designing their dream ships,” Hello Games chief Sean Murray said. There’s also a new expedition where players will traverse a desolate and abandoned universe to discover what happened to a mysterious abandoned wreck. “Voyaging to the edge of space will be required if you are to salvage from the wreckage of the ill-fated ship and add unique parts and modules to your ship-building workshop,” Murray teased. “The Breach expedition also brings players together to explore the strange and rare purple-star solar systems,” he continued. “The planets in these systems are particularly fun to explore with their deeper oceans, incredible terrains and volatile gas giants. It guides players towards the new space wrecks, is a great way to salvage some new rare ship parts, while uncovering a spooky story - suitable for the Halloween season! “It has been a crazy year for the No Man’s Sky team and we’re so proud and pleased to be able to continue working on this game we all love so much nine years after launch.Seeing so many folks enjoying Voyagers has really inspired us, and we can’t wait for you to see what we have in store in future.” No Man’s Sky continues to receive free updates even now, years after launch. And it’s clearly keeping players interested. No Man’s Sky launched in August 2016 on PS4 and PC to tens of thousands of negative reviews on Steam, with players complaining about broken promises and a lack of meaningful content, particularly on the multiplayer side. The game quickly settled on the dreaded ‘overwhelmingly negative’ Steam user review rating, a clear sign to anyone who visited its Steam page that something was very wrong. But Guildford, England-based developer Hello Games has continued to update No Man’s Sky over the years, improving player sentiment to the point where it is now considered superb. It took two years to hit ‘mixed,’ then another three to hit ‘mostly positive.’ At the time, five years after launch, Tim Woodley, Head of Publishing at Hello Games, explained how hard it was to claw back Steam user reviews from such a low base. As Hello Games continues to work on No Man’s Sky, it’s developing its next game, Light No Fire. It's about adventure, building, survival and exploration together, set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth. No Man's Sky Breach update 6.10 patch notes: BUG FIXES AND QOL Fixed an issue that could cause the player to be ejected into space if on an internal stair in a corvette while the pulse drive was active.Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette "current flightpath" autopilot from cancelling when the ship came into proximity of a large object such as a Space Station.Fixed an issue that prevented exiting the corvette pilot seat in the Space Station and Space Anomaly when using the Quick Menu in VR.Fixed an issue that prevented stairs in corvettes from being traversable using VR teleport movement.Fixed an issue that caused weapons to be misaligned with the crosshair when flying a corvette in first person.Fixed an issue that caused the corvette teleporter to persist after the corvette had landed on a planetary surface.Fixed an issue that could cause water to behave erratically when teleporting from a corvette into water.Fixed an issue that caused newly-assembled corvettes to appear at the wrong scale if another owned Corvette was docked nearby.Fixed an issue that could cause corvette interior doorways to become blocked.Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette Torpedo Launcher module from correctly installing the Rocket Launcher weapon.Fixed some corvette structural modules appearing under the exterior decoration category of the build menu.Fixed a rare issue that could cause corvette assembly data to be replaced with planetary base data.Improved the placement of corvette-class ships when teleporting to a Settlement with a corvette as the primary ship.Improved the behaviour of floating exotic creatures, especially in response to being offered Creature Pellets.Fixed an issue that could prevent biological monstrosities on derelict freighters from reacting aggressively to nearby Travellers.Fixed an issue that could prevent some varieties of hazardous flora appearing on planets.Fixed a timing-specific issue that could cause the player's wanted level to get stuck when using the pulse drive to exit planetary atmosphere.Fixed an issue that caused the current primary ship's thrusters to be used for launch fuel calculations when attempting to summon other ships from the Quick Menu.Fixed an issue that caused refiners to reset their requested output value to the maximum when refining was started.Fixed an issue that prevented the Personal Refiner from automatically starting when an input substance was inserted from the Inventory screen.Improved the error messaging when attempting to install duplicate technology in the inventory.Fixed an issue that caused rain to be audible when standing inside a corvette.Fixed an issue that could prevent the Corvette Assembly tutorial from starting in abandoned star systems.Fixed an issue that could cause Exosuit upgrade stations to lose their interaction prompt after a single use, especially in Abandoned Mode.Fixed an issue that could cause misleading instructional text during missions requiring planets with extreme weather conditions.Fixed an issue that caused some markers to persist unnecessarily in excavation and flora extermination missions from the Corvette Mission Radar.Fixed a number of minor messaging inconsistencies in missions requiring the player to prepare ingredients in the Nutrient Processor. ART AND VISUALS Fixed an issue that could cause large waves to abruptly appear and disappear on the surface of water.Improved lighting transitions when changing environments - notably when warping between solar systems, when entering or exiting planetary atmosphere, or when moving between interior and exterior locations.Fixed a number of minor visual "seams" in lighting.Improved the appearance of holographic previews of corvette modules during corvette assembly.Fixed an issue that caused the Boundary Herald starship to render incorrectly.Fixed an issue that prevented the jetpack from displaying on the Inventory screen when using first-person camera view.Fixed an issue that prevented some varieties of aquatic creature from rendering in the Discoveries page.Fixed a number of minor visual and collision issues with corvette modules.Improved the appearance of corvette modules when viewed from a distance.Improved the icons on a number of corvette modules.Improved the collision of several planetary curiosities, such as large mushrooms.Fixed missing collision that allowed you to walk through the back of some freighter hangars.Fixed a number of issues that could prevent decals from being placed on Corvette modules. INPUT Enabled Steam Input on Mac.Fixed a Steam-only issue that could cause controller bindings to shuffle or not respond on the first boot after the game was updated.Fixed an issue that prevented jetpacking while the Terrain Manipulator was in Create mode. UI Improved the readability of several UI elements.Fixed a UI overlap issue on the Corvette trade menu, which could cause the "Make Offer" button to be activated when selecting a part to trade.Fixed an issue that caused markers for other players in a multiplayer session to appear at their feet instead of above their head.Fixed an issue that prevented the display of additional recipes in the Catalogue.Fixed a rare issue that could cause an incorrect UI to appear when absorbing a Memory Fragment to expand inventory slots. STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE Fixed a ****** that could occur on Corvettes with a large number of attached weapons.Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when opening the airlock door of a derelict freighter.Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when jumping through the centre of a galaxy in a freighter.Fixed an issue that could cause a softlock if opening the corvette parts menu while a dialog box was open.Implemented a number of engine optimisations to improve performance, especially when rendering complex objects such as corvettes.Implemented a number of lighting optimisations to improve performance.Implemented a number of optimisations and performance improvements on Nintendo Switch. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article