Developer Stardock has just revolutionized the way you explore the Galactic Civilizations 4 map with its major 3.0 overhaul. The new patch, which is built on more than a year of player feedback, includes better map generation, more responsive enemy AI, additional layers of strategic possibility, and a wealth of careful balance adjustments. With hundreds of changes listed, the Galactic Civilizations 4 Hyperlane Update is a major milestone for the latest instalment in the 22-year-old series, as it goes up against similarly large overhauls from the likes of Paradox's Stellaris. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Space strategy game Galactic Civilizations 4 gets a big new campaign in next DLC Stellaris and Civilization 6 unite as iconic strategy game hits Steam Galactic Civilizations 4 expansion finally gets a full release date View the full article
The launch of the new Warhammer 40k Darktide class, the Arbites, is about to transform the dynamic of the grimdark co-op FPS. Fatshark's brutal, chaotic horde shooter is the futuristic, heavy-metal sibling to Vermintide 2, and despite some early teething problems it feels like it's now in a good spot. Steam reviews are positive, a big update is set to improve both progression and new-player onboarding, and now the first Darktide DLC is ready to unleash a fresh presence upon proceedings. I took an early look at the Arbites in action, and I can't wait for the full release. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grimdark co-op FPS Warhammer 40k Darktide's first new class is the Arbites Warhammer 40k Darktide and Rogue Trader team up for crossover and ***** Warhammer 40k Darktide gets huge new update, adds COD Zombies style arena mode View the full article
The Epic Games store delivers another free hit, this time offering up the hit 2018 sim, Two Point Hospital. The beloved 2018 title was the first entry into the Two Point series, which lets players develop and manage various establishments. Two Point Hospital was followed by Two Point Campus, where players managed a university, and the most recent title, Two Point Museum. View the full article
A newElden Ring Nightreign mod available for download will allow you to practice against all the bosses, including the eight Night Lords, without having to complete a long runback. Players should be aware, however, that incorrect use of the mod carries the risk of getting banned from playing the game. Nightreign's three-player-focused co-op roguelike has been delighting and frustrating fans since its release, and this mod aims to let players get the most out of the experience, but using it online will likely result in a permanent ban from the game. View the full article
MindsEye is a new third-person shooter from ex-Rockstar executive's studio, Build a Rocket Boy, and its release yesterday may be the most problematic and controversial launch of 2025. Developers at MindsEye have already issued several apologies for the state of the game at release, and it's hard to say if the game will be able to recover from such a rocky start. So far, it doesn't look very promising for MindsEye, and even with limited data from Metacritic reviews, the game's launch state is not going to be the last issue players face. View the full article
Mindseye has experienced one of the more dramatic launches in videogames this year. As the first game from Build a Rocket Boy, a studio led by former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption producer Leslie Benzies, expectations were initially high for the project. When the game came out earlier this week, however, it made more of an impression for its many significant technical issues than it did for its approach to open-world action. Now, after several days of complaints, Build a Rocket Boy has issued a statement outlining a timeline for trying to get the game into better shape. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Mindseye reviews hit 42% as GTA producer's latest goes viral for wrong reasons Mindseye system requirements New sandbox shooter Mindseye comes with 45 hours of extra content at launch View the full article
Before The Forest, before The Long Dark, and back when Project Zomboid was still in its infancy, there was Don't Starve, the pioneering survival game by Klei. 12 years later, the original is still a Steam icon, boasting superlative reviews and thousands of daily players. But Don't Starve Together, the standalone multiplayer spin-off, is even more popular. Cruel, tough, and wonderfully stylized, one of the biggest icons of the entire survival genre is now even better thanks to a fresh, free update, which adds a new boss, ties off a long-running questline, and makes controller inputs much better. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Co-op survival hit Don't Starve Together is $5 right now, and worth your time 9/10 Steam co-op survival game gets big free update, and it's on ***** Cult of the Lamb joins Don't Starve Together in upcoming collab View the full article
The Conductor Junction Evolution is a brand new paid upgrade in EA FC 25, and it allows you to reinforce your midfield. Costing 100,000 coins, it's not exactly cheap, even at this stage of the game. That said, the evolution offers substantial improvements to your selected item, which include stat boosts, playstyles, and roles. If you're confused about the best cards for this evolution, read on. Table of contentsEA FC 25 Conductor Junction Evolution requirementsEA FC 25 Conductor Junction Evolution upgradesBest players to use in Conductor Junction EvolutionEA FC 25 Conductor Junction Evolution requirements Here are the requirements of the Conductor Junction Evolution in EA FC 25. Overall Max. 92Position CAMMax PS 10Max PS+ 3Pace Max. 97Passing Max. 98Dribbling Max. 98EA FC 25 Conductor Junction Evolution upgrades There are five levels of upgrades, and here are the requirements. Level 1 upgrades Rarity In-Progress EvolutionSM +3 ★ (^4)Role++ CAM Playmaker++PlayStyle Tiki Taka (^9)Overall +2 (^94)Pace +4 (^92)Agility +12 (^92)Dribbling (attr.) +12 (^96) Level 2 upgrades PlayStyle+ Tiki Taka (^3)PlayStyle Incisive Pass (^9)Overall +2 (^94)Shooting +5 (^92)Passing +7 (^94)Reactions +16 (^91) Level 3 upgrades WF +4 ★PlayStyle Finesse Shot (^9)Overall +1 (^94)Pace +4 (^92)Physicality +4 (^88)Balance +12 (^92) Level 4 upgrades PlayStyle+ Incisive Pass (^3)PlayStyle Relentless (^9)Overall +1 (^94)Physicality +4 (^88)Passing +5 (^94)Ball Control +12 (^96) Level 5 upgrades Rarity TOTS EvolutionRole++ CAM Shadow Striker++PlayStyle+ Finesse Shot (^3)Overall +1 (^94)Pace +4 (^92)Shooting +5 (^92)Composure +16 (^91) Level 1 upgrade conditions Play two matches in any mode using your active EVO player in game. Level 2 upgrade conditions Play two matches in Rush, Rivals, Champions, or Squad Battles on Min. Semi-Pro using your active EVO player in game. Level 3 upgrade conditions Play two matches in Rush, Rivals, Champions, or Squad Battles on Min. Semi-Pro using your active EVO player in game. Level 4 upgrade conditions Win one match in Rush, Rivals, Champions, or Squad Battles on Min. Semi-Pro using your active EVO player in game. Level 5 upgrade conditions Win one match in Rush, Rivals, Champions, or Squad Battles on Min. Semi-Pro using your active EVO player in game.Best players to use in Conductor Junction Evolution Here are some of the best players to use in this evolution. Aitana Bonmati TrailblazersZico Immortals IconPhilip Billing Fantasy FCGianfranco Zola Immortals IconYouri Tielemans TOTS Honorable MentionsAmad Diallo Future StarsLionel Messi SuccessionPhil Foden ThunderstruckNeymar Jr. Mia Hamm Winter Wildcards Your club’s evo chain candidates can provide unique solutions exclusive to your Ultimate Team squad. The post Best players for the EA FC 25 Conductor Junction Evolution appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
There's a perfect balance between turning your brain off entirely, and keeping it somewhat idle. Where games like Civilization require all of your attention, cozy games like Stardew Valley let you cut down trees, smooch villagers, and generally soak up some much-needed good vibes. Two Point Hospital positions itself somewhere between the two, letting you manage the daily operations of a cartoon infirmary while presenting some challenge, but nothing too hardcore. If you're looking for a chill game to play during the summer holidays, or simply something new, you can pick it up for free on the Epic Games Store right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best tycoon games to play in 2025 Huge Total War Warhammer 3 discounts lead ***** Steam ***** ***** Steam ***** gives you its hottest modern hits for cheap View the full article
I've said it before and I'll say it again: LA Noire is the best videogame ever made. Its magnificent storytelling, faithful historical setting, and treatment of veteran life in post-WWII America puts it head and shoulders above any RPG I've ever played - and the soundtrack certainly helps, too. But, last year, Critical Hit Games' Nobody Wants to Die came along, almost giving LA Noire a run for its money with its snazzy art-deco cyberpunk setting and brain-teasing mysteries. While it still doesn't touch Rockstar's epic, it's an absolute must play. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nobody Wants to Die review - a dazzling tech-noir debut New cyberpunk game Nobody Wants to Die fills the hole left by CDPR New detective game is LA Noire, but with a cyberpunk twist View the full article
It's going to be a long wait before we see a PCIe 6.0 gaming SSD, according to the head of SSD controller manufacturer Silicon Motion. In an interview, the company's founder and CEO, Wallace C. Kou, says that we're not going to get a PCIe 6.0 SSD "until 2030," with PCIe 5.0 SSDs providing the ceiling of storage performance in desktop PCs for the next five years. Silicon Motion makes the controllers for many of the best gaming SSD designs around right now, including the new super-fast WD ****** SN8100, which already gets close to saturating the PCIe 5.0 bus with its immense sequential read speed of 14,900MB/s. We've also already seen a PCIe 6.0 SSD demonstrated at Computex, but when it comes to PC gaming hardware, it looks as though there's not much interest in progressing to this new standard for SSDs. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Save up to $129 on Secretlab gaming chairs and desks in this unmissable ***** A 32-core AMD Ryzen gaming CPU with "tons of V-cache" is reportedly in the works Scalpers now want $23,000 for this gold Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card View the full article
The wait is finally over for console users: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4 will be launching on consoles soon. The fourth chapter in the mascot horror adventure by Mob Entertainment arrived on PC on January 30 this year, but series fans who use a console were out of luck. Console users will soon be able to return to the creepy Playtime Co. headquarters and continue the story behind the horrors that took place there. View the full article
Lords of the Fallen just got a fresh update, version 2.0.29, as the devs keep working to smooth things out across the board. The June Lords of the Fallen patch brings improvements to stuttering issues, a bunch of bug fixes, and tweaks to PvP matchmaking, among other things. View the full article
An Elden Ring Nightreigndataminer has uncovered the true numbers behind the game's leveling system, revealing that hitting max level during a run isn't all it's cracked up to be. Elden Ring Nightreignlaunched in late May to ample fanfare as the multiplayer co-op follow-up to 2022's Game of the Year and potential "Game of the Generation" contender, Elden Ring. The game offers eight different playable Nightfarer characters that serve as their own classes, and players are tasked with leveling up enough over the course of two in-game days to be prepared for a final showdown with one of the game's ferocious Night Lord bosses. View the full article
With visuals closer to the original Fortnite than grittier games like Call of Duty or Battlefield, the new Heroes of Valor is a fresh third-person shooter. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
A new limited-time ***** on the Secretlab store will save you up to $90 on its iconic Titan Evo gaming chairs, and up to $129 on its Magnus Pro gaming desks. Better still, there are plenty of exclusive designs available as part of this *****, including Cyberpunk 2077, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends. We consider the Secretlab Titan Evo to the best gaming chair around, while the Secretlab Magnus Pro has our vote as the best gaming desk too, so it's safe to say that when Secretlab has a huge ***** on, it's well worth taking notice. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Gaming SSDs won't get much quicker for at least five years, says drive maker A 32-core AMD Ryzen gaming CPU with "tons of V-cache" is reportedly in the works Scalpers now want $23,000 for this gold Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card View the full article
Following an update on June 11, some gamers playing The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered are reporting issues with booting up the game on multiple platforms. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered's existence was heavily rumored for quite some time, and the fresh version of the beloved RPG was shadow-dropped by Bethesda on April 22 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. View the full article
As Valve announced back in April, they've now added accessibility feature support to game pages on Steam pages and filters for searching. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Dune: Awakening is back online after patch 1.1.0.13 was rolled out. The patch — which sought to implement a "number of backend changes to improve client and server stability" — was deployed after servers were taken offline for a couple of hours earlier today. Players should also expect some "minor fixes," the details of which are listed below. (If you don't see the latest patch, Funcom recommends you restart your Steam client). The update comes as Dune: Awakening deals with an influx of new players. Although Head Starters have been visiting Arrakis since June 5, Dune: Awakening released for all players on June 10. And within hours of going live, Funcom's survival MMO had clocked up over 142,000 concurrent players on Steam: 142,050 to be precise. Dune: Awakening – 1.1.0.13 Patch Notes CHANGES Made several backend changes to improve the client and server stability.The option to betray Jocasta Cleo in the “Impact of Ecology” contract has been temporarily removed due to reports of players being unable to retake the contract after betraying her.Updated dialogue lines of the “Planetologist: Advanced: the Search for Kynes” contract to reflect the fixed issue where the players who defected from the Atreides faction couldn’t progress if they picked it up before defecting. FIXES Fixed an issue where players couldn’t change the description of their guild, the name of the sub-fief console, or a base blueprints.Fixed an issue where the “Limit CPU Usage” graphics option would not apply to all quality presets. Ahead of launch, Funcom confirmed the console version of Dune: Awakening isn't expected now until "sometime in 2026"). We've also reported on how Dune: Awakening players found a way to ride sandworms, even though it's not an officially supported feature. To help you survive on Arrakis, we've got Dune: Awakening resource guides that'll help you find iron, steel, aluminium, and more. If you're just getting started, check out all the Dune: Awakening classes you can choose from, and keep an eye on our in-progress Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step guide to the story. You can also see what we make of it so far in our Dune: Awakening review in progress (spoilers: we're having fun). Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article
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Fans of Minecraft have a lot to look forward to this month, with Mojang recently announcing that the Chase the Skies game drop will launch across all platforms on June 17 alongside the release of Vibrant Visuals on Bedrock Edition. This upcoming Minecraftcontent drop was originally teased earlier this year during the annual Minecraft LIVE event and will introduce the adorable new ghastling and happy ghast mobs to the game, among a handful of other additions. View the full article
Who are the best Dune Awakening masters? During the character creation process, you must pick a master under whom you have previously studied. It's a part of your backstory, the part we never actually see, but it's a crucial choice that determines your skills in the early game. All Dune Awakening skills can be picked up throughout your time in the MMO as you can find and learn from every master. However, picking the right one before you even start Dune Awakening could make or break you as you take your first steps in the harsh wilderness of Arrakis. To help you pick the best master, here are all the Dune Awakening classes, arranged from best to worst. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Where to find Dune Awakening Erythrite Crystal and get Cobalt Paste Dune Awakening smashes on Steam with more than 140,000 players, great reviews Dune Awakening base building guide View the full article
There are two reasons you shouldn't watch the trailer for Still Wakes the Deep's just announced DLC Siren's Rest. The first is that, well, it'll probably spoil at least some of the events of the base game given that the expansion is set more than a decade on. The other is for the subset of you that have just the worst case of submechanophobia, because the trailer is absolutely full of man-made objects under water. You've been warned, don't come crying to me if you don't heed me, I'll just say I told you so. Read more View the full article
2003 FPS Postal 2 is etched onto the annals of PC gaming history, for better and worse. The famously foul first-person shooter from Running With Scissors remains a noteworthy part of the culture, earning itself a controversial reputation and cult following for its blend of brutal action and bad-taste humor. Having been given a 20th-anniversary overhaul two years ago, it's now returning once more, as the studio announces plans for a full remaster. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Controversial shooter Postal 3 gets FPS remake, approved by devs Postal dev is "not against" videogame piracy After 20 years, PC's foulest FPS gets a big update and hits Steam Deck View the full article
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Developer Stardock has just revolutionized the way you explore the Galactic Civilizations 4 map with its major 3.0 overhaul. The new patch, which is built on more than a year of player feedback, includes better map generation, more responsive enemy AI, additional layers of strategic possibility, and a wealth of careful balance adjustments. With hundreds of changes listed, the Galactic Civilizations 4 Hyperlane Update is a major milestone for the latest instalment in the 22-year-old series, as it goes up against similarly large overhauls from the likes of Paradox's Stellaris. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Space strategy game Galactic Civilizations 4 gets a big new campaign in next DLC Stellaris and Civilization 6 unite as iconic strategy game hits Steam Galactic Civilizations 4 expansion finally gets a full release date View the full article