With the classic Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 fully playable with the open source re-implementation TRX, the team makes impressive progress with the third. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Marty O'Donnell, the former video game composer known for his work on Halo and Destiny, has seen his latest bid for Congress endorsed by Donald Trump. Writing on X/Twitter last night, O'Donnell said he was "honored" to have Trump's support, following a social media post by the U.S. president which described the ex-Bungie composer as an "America First Patriot." O'Donnell's renewed bid to enter politics follows a failed attempt at the same Congressional seat back in 2024, which ended with him landing fourth place in its Republican primary. Long known for his conservative views, O'Donnell previously seemed dissatisfied with Trump, who he reportedly labelled as an "******" in a Twitter post back in 2016 and said he "loath[ed]" in 2017. "I appreciate the trust that the President has put in me and look forward to working with him in Congress to continue delivering for working families and keeping our nation safe," O'Donnell wrote now, confirming that with Trump's support he would continue his plan to try and unseat Nevada's 3rd Congressional District Democrat incumbent Susie Lee. "Marty O'Donnell is a World-Class Composer and Entrepreneur," Trump declared yesterday. "As your next Congressman, Marty will fight tirelessly to Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Strengthen our Brave Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment." "The stakes this midterm could not be higher," O'Donnell continued. "That's why when I started running, I promised I would drop out unless President Trump supported me so that Republicans could avoid wasting resources on a needless primary. Much like President Trump, I didn’t come from the world of politics. I spent my entire career in the business world. I had the honor of working with some incredible people and composing music for some of the greatest video games of all time." Collaborating with Michael Salvatori, O'Donnell composed the score of numerous Bungie games, from 1997's Myth to the classic sounds of Halo: Combat Evolved, in a lengthy tenure that ended with his work for 2014's Destiny. 2014 also saw O'Donnell fired from Bungie, resulting in a legal tussle over witheld pay. Bungie later initiated its own legal dispute with O'Donnell in 2021, after the composer uploaded unreleased Destiny music to YouTube. Recent years have seen O'Donnell demonstrate an increasing interest in politics, after a lengthy ******* spent establishing his own game development studio, Highwire Games, that worked on VR title Golem back in 2019, and controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah, which launched in early access form in 2023. O'Donnell's Halo themes will also be heard again later this year with the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, which will bring Master Chief's adventures to Xbox, PC and PlayStation. Photo by Paul Conrad/WireImage. Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social View the full article
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the popular free and open source voxel game engine powering some really fun experiences and a critical update is out now. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Mindustry is a free and open source open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements, with a major new update finally out. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Book of Travels had an interesting idea as a slower, more exploration focused online RPG that didn't hold your hand but it never really took off. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Following the release of information that reportedly revealed how much money GTA Online is making, Take-Two’s stock price enjoyed one of its strongest days so far this year. Earlier this week, the hacker group ShinyHunters threatened the GTA maker, saying it would release confidential data about the series if its demands weren’t met. Following the threat, Rockstar confirmed that the breach was legitimate, but claimed it would have no material impact on the studio or the development of GTA 6. Read More... View the full article
Sony's PlayStation Plus games lineup for May 2026 has leaked online, led by Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Reported by the ever-reliable billbil-kun from Dealabs, Sony's next batch of games will also include Ubisoft's The Crew Motorfest and Sports Interactive's Football Manager 26 Console. If you're yet to play the first Horizon title, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is the shinier PlayStation 5 version of Guerrilla Games' adventure, launched back in 2024. This includes its Frozen Wilds DLC plus various technical options and visual upgrades to make it look more like its sequel, Horizon Forbidden West. "Horizon Zero Dawn presents us with a beautiful world full of unforgettable challenges," IGN wrote in its review of the game's original release back in 2017, scoring it highly. The Crew Motorfest, meanwhile, is Ubisoft's taken on the open-world driving genre popularized by Forza Horizon. It features a sunny version of various Hawaiian islands and launched to positive reviews back in 2023. "It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," IGN wrote in our The Crew Motorfest review. "To be fair, Motorfest is a robust racer with a confident sense of style, a quality arcade handling model, and a long list of generally well-planned events right out of the box. However, the shift to a smaller map has seen it lose a part of its old identity, boats and aircraft feel like they’ve been sidelined, and some of its event Playlists work a lot better than others." Finally, there's Football Manager 26 Console, a game which needs little introduction. It's Football Manager, on console, and the latest version to boot. As ever, Sony is yet to make this list of games official — though is expected to do so later today. We'll update again when it does so, and slot in details of any further additions. Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social View the full article
Based on a hit prototype game Tiny Towns that had over 100K views on itch.io, Combolands is a deckbuilder where cards are buildings and the map is your deck. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Season 2: Summit is now live in Overwatch, and it brings a host of new skins for you to obtain. With Sierra being the main attraction of this season, we have a new look for her. But Blizzard has also added skins for more characters to obtain. There are different ways to get the skins, and this guide will put all the information you need in one place. How to get all new skins in Overwatch Season 2 The most effective way to earn the new skins in Overwatch Season 2 is the Battle Pass. If you are on the free version, the choices you'll have will be limited. If you opt for the paid upgrade, you'll be able to get more skins for your collection. You'll have to spend 1,000 Overwatch Coins to upgrade your pass. TierSkinRarityFree/Premium1Spring Fairy MoiraLegendaryPremium20Spring Fairy LifeweaverLegendaryPremium30Spring Fairy WuyangLegendaryPremium40Spring Fairy SymmetraEpicFree50Spring Fairy TorbjornEpicPremium60Spring Fairy EchoLegendaryPremium70Spring Fairy TracerEpicFree80Spring Fairy AsheLegendaryPremium If you want more skins for your buck, you can get the Ultimate Battle Pass. This version can only be purchased with real-life money, and it comes with two extra skins. Painter Sierra (Legendary)Spring Fairy Illari (Legendary) Image via Blizzard In-game Shop The in-game shop has several bundles on offer that you can purchase with Overwatch Coins. BundlePrice (Overwatch Coins)Starter Pack 2026 (Season 2)1000Sakura Hanzon1900Sakura Freja1900Kanhizakura Junker Queen1900Sakuja Genji2600Sakura Juno2600Kanhizakura Emre2600Sakura Mega Bundle6900Crimson Court Pharah1900Crimson Court Widowmaker1900Crumson Court Doomfist2600Crimson Court Kiriko2600Crimson Court Anran5900Crimson Court Mega Bundle The Mythic Shop also hosts two Mythic skins for Soldier 76 and Genji. Both these skins have unique effects that unlock as you level them up. The post All new skins in Overwatch Season 2 and how to get them appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Among various progression items you need to level up and customize your character in Paradox, it can get confusing where to get everything and what each item does. Add cosmetic items to this and the list goes on. Luckily, here's a full Paradox item list and guide on how to get and use everything. Complete Paradox Item List Below you'll find a list of all items in Paradox including every progression item and all cosmetics. I'll list how to get and use each item. That said, note that almost all items can also be acquired through trading. Item NameDescriptionHow to Get Skill CoreReveals up to 5 skill cards for you to choose a new skill. You will only see skills for which you are eligible as per your stats.Bosses / Boss Raids Kisuke Fight Missions Skill CrystalReveals up to 2 skill cards for you to choose a new skill. You will only see skills for which you are eligible as per your stats.Bosses / Boss Raids Kisuke Fight Missions Skill GemReveals up to 3 skill cards for you to choose a new skill. You will only see skills for which you are eligible as per your stats.Bosses / Boss Raids Kisuke Fight MissionsWhispering WillowRequired to acquire talents. Go to Inori (NPC) to use them.Leveling Up Mask RemnantNecessary to become a Vizard as a Soul Reaper.Eternal Flame Trial Wipe EssenceWipes your slot and allows you to create a new character on that slot.Market NPC (KT) Robux Store Codes HogyokuRequires 15 Shattered Hogyoku to make. Necessary for progression like unlocking Hollow Full Resurrection.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Raids Ranked Shattered HogyokuRequired to make Hogyoku.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Raids RankedPartial RemnantRerolls your Arrancar Partial Res.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Raids RankedThe Holy GrailGrants +3 stat points. Only useable once per character slot.Bosses / Boss Raids Raids Ranked Stat ResetResets your stat points. This takes away all the skills you learned from the stat points. You will skill crystals back for the skills you had.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Codes Ranked Robux Store Special Weapon RerollRerolls the weapon type used in your shikai/bankai/res/schrift/volt.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Codes Ranked Robux StoreWeapon Skin RerollAllows you to summon a new weapon skin.Eternal Flame Trial Codes Robux StoreShikai Call RerollRerolls your Shikai call out as a Shinigami.Robux Store Codes Clan RerollRerolls your current clan within your faction. Cannot revert the change after use.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Codes Ranked Robux Store Ability RerollRerolls your shikai/bankai/res/schrift/volt. Cannot revert change.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Codes Ranked Robux StoreVizard Mask RerollRerolls your Vizard mask.Eternal Flame Trial Bosses / Boss Raids Codes Ranked Robux StoreBankai Outfit RerollRerolls your bankai mode outfit.Robux Store CodesGender SwapSwaps you to the other gender.Robux Store CodesSoul ShardUsed to unlock Race passives/Evolve your Race via Reishi ZonesReishi Zones Requires Max Potential +TicketFace Reroll Hair Color Reroll Face Mark Reroll Mark Color Reroll Eye Color RerollRerolls your face and hair cosmetics.Robux Store CodesHow to Store Items in Paradox You can store items in Paradox at the Bank NPC, which is located in Karakura Town. Once you do that, you'll be able to access those items from your other character slots. Doing this will help you immensely accelerate your progress on different slots. How Farm Items in Paradox Image by Paradox Trello The best way to get plenty of items in Paradox is to spam Boss Raids or Eternal Flame for any type of rerolls. You can start Raids solo or with a party by talking with Jinha (NPC), who is available in every realm. You can also just wait for random world boss spawns, but that is simply too inefficient. As for the Eternal Flame Trial, it's the best way to farm any type of reroll in the game. Well, that does it for our item guide for Paradox. To find more guides related to this experience, visit the Paradox section on our website. The post All Paradox Items List & How to Get appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Eredivisie and MLS TOTS cards are coming soon to FC 26 Ultimate Team, with some exciting cards to obtain. They will be the first two minor leagues to feature in this year's TOTS celebrations. So far, EA Sports has remained tight-lipped about what's coming our way this year. However, we can already have a fair idea based on the leaks that have appeared on social media. Table of contentsAll Eridivisie and MLS TOTS players in FC 26 (leaks)FC 26 Eredivisie and MLS TOTS release countdownAll Eridivisie and MLS TOTS players in FC 26 (leaks) Here's the list of all Eredivisie players that have been leaked so far. Joey Veerman: 96Ayase Ueda: 96Mika Godts: 95Saibari: 94Schouten: 93Mauro Junior: 92Valente: 92Van Rooij: 91Ihattaren: 91Meulensteen: 90Watanabe: 89Koeman Jr: 89Sano: 89 Here's a list of all the MLS players that have been leaked. Lionel Messi: 96Diego Luna: 94Denis Bouanga: 94Surridge: 94Evander: 94Berhalter: 93Anders Dreyer: 93St. Clair: 93Ayala: 92Blackmon: 92Najar: 91Glesnes: 90Roldan: 89Arfsten: 89 The overall ratings are yet to be confirmed, so take them with a grain of salt. Moreover, some of the highest-rated items will also have four playstyle+. FC 26 Eredivisie and MLS TOTS release countdown The Eredivisie and MLS TOTS cards will launch simultaneously with Serie A TOTS cards on Friday, April 17. This is the same date when Trophy Titans ends, and the following countdown will expire once the new promo goes live. [hurrytimer id="1204877"] The countdown is based on the following timings. 10am PT12pm CT1pm ET6pm UTC7pm CET This is the usual schedule that EA Sports follows for all promo launches. It will be interesting to see the shift in power curve as we officially move to the era of three playstyle+ in this year's Ultimate Team. The post All FC 26 Eredivisie and MLS TOTS players and release countdown appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Dramatic Labs / Bruner House have abruptly announced that Star Trek: Resurgence from 2024 is already being delisted. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
While Valve are working to get SteamOS 3.8 Beta into stable with lots of big changes, a small SteamOS stable update has been released. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
We've covered here before on individual US states setting up their own age verification laws, and now a new US Congress bill has been proposed for it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Starfield has seen “lukewarm” sales on PlayStation 5, according to one analyst, who is now questioning Microsoft’s strategy of releasing its games on PS5 after they’ve already come out on Xbox and PC. According to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, Starfield had sold 140,000 copies on PS5 as of a week after launch. Bethesda has yet to announce a sales figure for Starfield on PS5, or generally for that matter. The last we heard, in November 2024, Starfield had seen over 15 million players across all platforms. “While these would be decent numbers for many ports, it’s not fantastic for a port of the biggest Bethesda RPG in a decade (although launch-aligned, it's selling faster than other Xbox games that came to Xbox in the past six months, minus CoD),” Elliott said. “Still, Starfield's lukewarm PS5 sales obviously raise questions about the long-term viability of Xbox's delayed multiplatform releases (Starfield came to PS5 2.5 years after Xbox/Steam).” For context, Playground's Forza Horizon 5 has sold an estimated 5.7 million copies on PS5, which, according to Alinea Analytics, has generated $320 million in revenue. Forza Horizon 5 launched on PlayStation in April 2025, three-and-a-half years after Xbox. According to Alinea Analytics’ data, Starfield has sold an additional 55,000 copies on Steam as a result of the launch of the Free Lanes update, which went live alongside the PS5 version. That amounts to $2.3 million of revenue, reportedly pushing Starfield’s total Steam revenue past the $200 million mark (a figure that includes an estimate of 3.7 million copies sold on Steam before the DLC drop). Of course, that doesn’t paint the whole picture of Starfield’s commercial performance. The Bethesda sci-fi RPG also launched on Xbox and, as a Microsoft-owned title, straight into Game Pass. Elliott said the Xbox version of Starfield had sold over 1 million copies despite Game Pass “cannibalizing sales.” Elliott estimates that Starfield has brought in over $300 million in revenue across all platforms since launch, a figure he said probably isn’t good enough for a high-profile Bethesda game. “In the context of a Bethesda budget and a decade-long development cycle, Starfield has likely barely broken even,” he said, adding that the recently released Crimson Desert is on track to overtake Starfield’s lifetime copies sold by the end of 2026. Crimson Desert has sold 5 million copies so far. “Ironically, this wouldn’t be true if Starfield had launched day-and-date on PS5 and had not been on Game Pass on Xbox and PC,” he added. Microsoft tends to launch its games on PS5 at the same time as Xbox and PC these days, but there are exceptions. Playground’s Forza Horizon 6, for example, launches on Xbox and PC in May, but on PS5 at some point later this year. 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
Crimson Desert has now sold 5 million copies, marking a significant milestone less than a month after its release date. Pearl Abyss’ single-player open world action adventure launched on March 19 and sold 2 million copies in a day. It then hit 3 million sales in five days, and now, just over a week later, it reached 4 million. Now, it’s added another million on top, with no sign of slowing down. “Thank you to every Greymane who has joined us on this journey, experienced the world of Pywel, and supported the game,” Pearl Abyss said. “Reaching this milestone would not have been possible without your support and we are truly grateful.” Sentiment around Crimson Desert has improved significantly since launch, with Steam user reviews rising from ‘mixed’ to ‘very positive.’ Pearl Abyss has released significant updates remarkably quickly — in fact, I would say the pace of game-changing patches has, for a big, triple-A single-player open world game, been unprecedented. Yet another group of sweeping improvements was made over the weekend, and I wouldn’t put it past Pearl Abyss to release a similarly significant patch out this weekend. What’s clear is that Crimson Desert is a hit. According to the Korean business press, Pearl Abyss spent seven years making Crimson Desert, with development costs coming in at 200 billion won (approx. $133 million). Earlier in April, Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics, said in a Substack post that Crimson Desert had made $200 million across platforms (PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S). But that was two weeks ago, so we’re looking at even ******* numbers now. The natural next question is whether Pearl Abyss will expand the game with DLC, or even an expansion. Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young has said there are no solid plans for any DLC, and cast doubt on the possibility of official mod support, but a Nintendo Switch 2 version is apparently being explored. We’ve got plenty more on Crimson Desert, including praise from the director of The Witcher 3, a hidden food consequence system that a modder has restored, and an impressive character creator mod. We recommend you take a look at our guide to Things to Do First in Crimson Desert, plus Things Crimson Desert Doesn’t Tell You (we’ve got 28 and counting!). We’ve also got a guide to the Best Early Weapons we recommend picking up, the Best Skills to Get First (including a handy explainer of the skills system), and 34 Essential Tips and Tricks to help you succeed in Pywel. 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
Hades 2 has received an update timed alongside the PS5 and Xbox release of the game, making it easier to romance a fan favorite. In Hades 2, the player can form bonds with various NPCs, some of which can lead to romantic relationships. Each of the characters that the player can bond with has a special set of conditions that must be met in order to romance said character, with some being more difficult than others. Read More... View the full article
For all the trials, tribulations, and controversies that Destiny 2 has suffered at the hands of controversial updates and strange vaulting of content, it remains one of my favorite sci-fi FPS games on the market. Few developers can nail atmosphere and gunplay as Bungie can, and while recent expansions haven't been as good as I hoped, they're still plenty of fun - especially the Star Wars-inspired Renegades. If you're looking to completely catch up with the story so far (at least, the story that's still available), the Destiny 2 Expansions Bundle from Humble Bundle is a budget-friendly way to do it - and you'll get a discount for Bungie's Marathon, too. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Bungie delays major Destiny 2 update that was set to clash with Marathon, but its three-month pushback has stunned me Bungie fixes bizarre Marathon pre-order bug that could auto-install Destiny 2 onto your PC The Destiny 2 Portal is a disaster, and a 2016 GDC talk shows that Bungie already wrote off a similar idea a decade ago View the full article
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