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Even after 12 years of Project Zomboid, we don't know very much at all about the world beyond Knox Country. Pay close attention to the radio and TV broadcasts, and it sounds like the undead plague has spread across the entire planet. But with all communications off air before mid July, and then the inevitable power cuts, it's impossible to truly understand just how screwed the final, spiked-bat-wielding survivors truly are. With The Indie Stone still hard at work on the unstable iteration of build 42, and new, official updates that include ragdoll physics and an improved camera, a gigantic Project Zomboid mod casts an eye away from Knox and over to France. Essentially an unofficial PZ spin-off, unfortunately, the situation in Europe is just as bleak. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best Project Zomboid mods Major new Project Zomboid update transforms gun combat, cars, and hunting New Project Zomboid mod makes whole game harder by adding smarter, tougher NPCs View the full article

Cyberpunk 2 may not be out before 2030View the full article

CD Projekt Red has revealed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has surpassed 60 million copies sold, and this figure indicates that the RPG is close to overtaking Bethesda's 2011 title, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. A decade after the game's initial release, The Witcher 3 continues to see impressive daily player counts, and with the recent release of an official modding tool, many former fans have been returning to the title in droves. View the full article

Skyrim player has discovered what some are calling the most boring NPC in the game, but some might call him a hero. YouTuber Mike, who also goes by The Gaming Dad, happened across the character at the East Empire Company Warehouse in Solitude... Read more.View the full article

World of Warcraft Classic Season of Discovery is officially done releasing new content, though the servers will remain open indefinitely. Despite rumors of a ninth phase, World of Warcraft is shifting development away from Season of Discovery in favor of its next Classic project. View the full article

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess was my 2024 game of the year. Sure, there was Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and even Balatro, but Capcom's bizarre tower defense action game hybrid was something new. Developed by Capcom Division 1, the team behind one of my all-time favorite series, ****** May Cry, it's faithfulness to Japanese culture and highly stylized demonic Seethe make it gorgeous to look at, while its hard-as-nails strategy gameplay and slick, almost dance-like combat make it hard but not overly punishing. If you've completed the game already or, like me, want another reason to dive back in, the brand-new Wayward Journey mode is perfect for you - but beware, it's tough as hell. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Kunitsu-Gami dishes out freebies for hitting 500,000-player milestone Kunitsu-Gami has fantastic reviews but fewer players than it deserves Kunitsu-Gami Path of the Goddess review - truly unique View the full article

Tweaked, balanced, and perpetually adjusted, Counter-Strike 2 feels as much like an instrument, or a piece of fine glassware, than it does an FPS game. If Valve alters one little value over here, it tips the scale and upsets the tuning all the way over there. But there was a time when Counter-Strike was rougher, readier, and more reckless, when you could pick a gun and sprint into battle without having to compare damage values per second, or pay close attention to the minutiae of level geometry. Multiplayer shooters have become either painstakingly complex ballroom dances, or, in cases like Escape From Tarkov and Gray Zone Warfare, punishing pseudo simulators. Sudden Attack belongs to a different time, and now it's coming back. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

What's the best F1 25 Japan setup? Suzuka is another fan-favorite that comes early in the Formula 1 season. In My Team, the new season of Braking Point, or online races, you'll inevitably be jumping into the Japan GP earlier than other events. As you might expect, the setup required for Japan is very different to other F1 25 locations. This year's racing game is one of the best we've seen in years, but there are also various new gameplay and simulation elements that you need to get used to. With the right setup, you should be comfortable in no time at all. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best F1 25 setups F1 25 Bahrain setup F1 25 China setup View the full article

What's the best F1 25 Bahrain setup? Early in the season, you move away from the classic locations in Melbourne and Shanghai, heading instead for the deserts in the middle east. While not a traditional track, the Bahrain GP has become a staple of the F1 calendar. Since Bahrain is focused on long straights and high-speed sweeping corners, you'll need a different setup to most other tracks in F1 25. The racing game has various options you need to play around with to ensure you can go as fast as possible. Below are our choices for the changes you should make. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best F1 25 setups F1 25 Japan setup F1 25 China setup View the full article

Corsair has updated its mini gaming PC lineup with a new model that squeezes a pair of 240mm AIO coolers into its tiny chassis. This gives the new Corsair One i600 a significant advantage over the i500, which only had a 120mm AIO cooler to keep its CPU in check, meaning both the CPU and GPU are liquid cooled, despite the tight confines of the chassis. We're not just talking about a low-end CPU or GPU either - this new mini gaming PC comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which has 24 cores, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, the best graphics card in its league, meaning this rig has plenty of gaming power on tap. Proving that you don't lose much by going for a small PC these days, the Corsair One i600 also comes with a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM in its top configuration, as well as a pair of 2TB NVMe SSDs, giving you 4TB of high-speed storage. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This fast and fancy 32GB Corsair RGB DDR5 gaming RAM kit has a bargain price now Save a massive $70 on my favorite gaming keyboard, the Corsair K70, but be quick Save a massive $60 on this superb Corsair wireless gaming mouse View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

A couple of AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT benchmarks have just appeared on the Geekbench browser, suggesting that the new gaming GPU is already being tested in advance of reviews. Not only that, but the results imply that the new graphics card is considerably quicker than AMD's last budget gaming GPU, the Radeon RX 7600. You can still find the Radeon RX 7600 listed on our best GPU guide, thanks to its low price. However, this AMD GPU's days are now looking numbered with the Radeon RX 9060 XT release date on the horizon. In the meantime, though, let's take a look at this benchmark leak and see what the numbers reveal. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best graphics card 2025 - top gaming GPUs AMD claims most gamers don't need more than 8GB of VRAM, after new GPU launch AMD Radeon GPUs are finally getting decent frame gen, thanks to new FSR 4 update View the full article

Level 5 has recently unveiled the official patch notes for Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time's next update, which will be available for all platforms on May 29. This upcoming Fantasy Life i patch will mostly fix bugs and adjust some of the game’s content, improving the experience for players. View the full article

After years of development and uncertainty over whether the DLC would come to fruition, the long-awaited Five Nights at Freddy’s DLC for Dead By Daylightis almost officially here. The Public Test Build (PTB) is out for players to test drive Springtrap throughout Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, which includes a series of security doors that allow Survivors to access cameras across the map and allow the Killer to teleport instantly through them. The inspiration behind this gameplay, which harkens back to the core gameplay of FNAF, came from the king of Five Nights himself: Markiplier. View the full article

A week following its release, a new indie game called Poco boasts an immense 92% approval rating on Steam, while also being completely free to play, with no hidden costs. Although Poco has already generated some decent traction on Valve's storefront, the small team behind this Steam release says there are no plans to monetize the game. View the full article

"I think the results of Nightreign are going to tell us how players feel about this kind of game"View the full article

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now up to an incredible 60 million copies sold, CD Projekt has announced as part of its latest financial report. The 60 million figure includes sales of the base game and the GOTY version, but excludes expansions sold separately. It’s close to overtaking the latest sales figure we have for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In a June 2023 interview with IGN, Bethesda development chief Todd Howard said Skyrim had sold over 60 million copies. So, we now have a potential tie for the best-selling role-playing game of all time. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched in May 2015, and recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Here’s Adam Badowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt, on The Witcher 3 sales milestone: Without a doubt, the third part of Geralt’s adventures marks a pivotal point in our history. The game earned hundreds of awards and solidified our studio’s standing, but more importantly, it brought untold hours of adventures and emotions to millions of games the world over. I am proud to announce that since its release The Witcher 3 has sold over 60 million copies, securing a place among the bestselling video games in all history, and motivating us to carry on with intensive work on the next trilogy set in this universe. That’s a reference to The Witcher 4, which is currently in full production. 422 out of 730 developers at CD Projekt are working on the sequel, which won’t be out until 2027 at the earliest. Last week, Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt, hit back at criticism of The Witcher 4 focusing on Ciri — and told so-called fans of the franchise to "read the damn books." "That's just stupid," Cockle said of the backlash against The Witcher 4, sparked due to it featuring Ciri as its protagonist for the first time instead. "It's not woke," Cockle continued, speaking during a video published by Fall Damage. "There's nothing woke about it. [Ciri]'s a cool character from The Witcher, and they're gonna focus on that character, and that's awesome." Speaking exclusively to IGN ahead of The Witcher 4 reveal, executive producer Małgorzata Mitręga said Ciri was “the very organic, logical choice.” “It was always about her, starting from Saga when you read it in the books. She's an amazing, layered character. And of course, as a protagonist we said goodbye to Geralt previously. So this is a continuation. I guess for all of us it’s like she was meant to be. That was always her.” And in February, the director of The Witcher 4 clarified that a new video featured the same in-game model of Ciri after some had thought her face looked different. We’ve got plenty more exclusive content on The Witcher 4, including a trailer breakdown and an interview with CD Projekt where the developer explains why The Witcher 4 will avoid a Cyberpunk 2077-style launch disaster. 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

Crystal of Atlan is an action MMORPG from developer VI-Games that wants to put its own unique spin on the gameplay of the genre. It features a focus on class-based build diversity, fast-paced aerial combat, and chaining together abilities to build up your combo meter. It's available to download for free right now, but if you're looking for more info before you dive in, we've got you. Let’s start with the classes. Diverse Class Paths for Personalized Builds There are five base classes available at launch, all unlocked for free at the start of the game: the melee damage dealing Swordsman, ranged attacker Musketeer, magical Magister, martial artist Fighter, and summoner Puppeteer. Each class branches into specialized subclasses, with a total of 11 subclass options and more than 20 unique abilities to experiment with and tailor to your preferred style. For example, the Swordsman branches into the Magiblade or Berserker. They’re both melee damage dealers, but the Magiblade adds magical abilities (which you could probably guess from the name), and the Berserker can sacrifice health to generate shields and increase power as you get closer to death. Regardless of the subclass you choose, each of the skills you unlock have individual cooldowns. You can mix and match those skills at any time, letting you come up with unique character builds and find skills that chain together well to build combos. Seamless Ground-to-Air Combat Innovation Traditional MMO combat focuses on ground-based attacks with a fairly simple stand-and-attack style. Crystal of Atlan differentiates itself by including a heavy focus on the Z-axis, introducing a system that encourages you to seamlessly transition between ground and aerial combat. You can attack and dodge in mid-air, allowing you to pull off aerial combos and adding a new dimension to each battle and a level of responsiveness to moment-to-moment gameplay. You can jump to avoid attacks, then chain that into aerial combos to keep the pressure on enemies. So you’re rewarded for staying on your toes, reacting quickly, and using all your abilities to fluidly chain attacks together. That focus on ground and air combos also informs the design of Crystal of Atlan’s varied environments. All of the game’s maps, from the fantastical Wonderland to the mechanical Chrome Military Factory, have an open 3D layout to allow freedom of movement. Couple that with smooth animations and you get a combat system that’s fluid and fast-paced. Cooperative Challenges and Social Progression As you might expect from an MMO, there are a variety of dungeons you can tackle with other players. You fight through packs of normal enemies before getting to the end and facing off against a boss with unique mechanics. That’s all pretty standard, but Crystal of Atlan mixes things up by requiring synchronized team coordination. There are numerous dungeons with interaction-based mechanics that require teamwork to solve problems. Naturally, if your whole group is tackling such a dungeon for the first time, you’ll need to communicate and help each other figure out what to do. Once you’ve gotten the hang of it, you can take on a mentor role in future runs, but everyone will always need to work together. There’s also a fleet system, which is basically like guilds you’ve probably experienced in other games. It’s a key part of Crystal of Atlan's social ecosystem, allowing you to link up with friends to tackle co-op gameplay together or just hang out and chat. Competitive PvP and Creative PvE Challenges If you’re the competitive type, there are also options for PvP combat. There are 1v1 and 3v3 battles, with attributes, skill damage, and skill cooldowns balanced so there’s no competitive advantage. It’s all about skill. While Crystal of Atlan is an MMO at heart, it has plenty of content for solo players too. In classic MMO style, there are hub areas where you can see lots of other players. These areas are where you’ll find quests to complete and new zones to explore. Adventure Mode takes you through the game’s main story, which unlocks in stages. You can tackle these stages solo, and they have a variety of different goals. Some will be focused on combat, where you need to defeat groups of enemies or take on a boss. Others introduce new elements, like requiring you to use stealth to sneak past enemies or use platforming to progress through the area. There are plenty of other modes you can tackle solo or co-op. The main one is the Arena, where you can fight alone or with a partner and gradually work your way up through tiers of opponents, earning escalating rewards as you do. If you manage to get through all the tiers, you can reach the Finals for the ultimate reward. To sum it all up, Crystal of Atlan is an MMORPG that mixes together classic staples of the genre with evolved gameplay to keep things fun, fast, and fluid. It launches May 28 on PC, PS5, iOS, and Android, with crossplay across all platforms. The PS5 version has an optimized HUD layout to avoid clutter and utilizes the haptic feedback of the DualSense controller. It also has a remapped UI for controller input, using a function wheel you’re probably familiar with from other games. There’s HDR support for enhanced lighting, and PSSR is enabled on the PS5 Pro for sharper visuals and more stable frame rates. For more info on the world, classes, and features of Crystal of Atlan, you can check out the official website. Or to join the community and get news updates, you can follow them on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Discord. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Sound the "it's happening" klaxon, folks, because it's happening: CD Projekt announced today that Cyberpunk 2—which, by the way, the studio is now calling Cyberpunk 2 instead of Project Orion—is now in the "pre-production phase" of development... Read more.View the full article

"Summon one another as spirits, cross the gaps between worlds, and engage in jolly cooperation." The immortal words of Solaire of Astora have echoed across FromSoftware's Souls series and beyond. It's a rallying cry to band together during adversity; a reminder that, no matter how impossible a challenge, the wider community is just a summon sign away. Until Elden Ring Nightreign, its multiplayer elements have historically amounted to transient encounters with strangers that either help or harm. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Elden Ring Nightreign release date and time, preload, and latest news Here's exactly when you can play Elden Ring Nightreign Is Elden Ring Nightreign on Game Pass? View the full article

Even with hundreds of hours in the game, some Stardew Valley players are still discovering a strange trick that can completely revolutionize your farm layout. Everyone's approach to Stardew Valley is different: some players prefer to focus on friendship, romance, and marriage, while for others, it's all about optimizing your farm's production. I've always fallen into the latter camp; although I enjoy all the character storylines, I've seen them all by now. Each time I start a new playthrough, my goal is to make as much money as I can while also discovering new details. View the full article

A new Genshin Impact leak has revealed the first information about the characters set to arrive in the next major region. Genshin Impact has followed a pattern of introducing one major region per year, with Natlan being the most recent addition. View the full article

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Artificer's Intuition, a blue MTG card that was printed just once, twenty years ago, has suddenly jumped up in price, rising from $4.10 on Friday to $11.30 today, according to the market tracker at MTG Goldfish. The card has a home in the 99 for the upcoming Esper commander 'Noctis, Prince of Lucis', who will be part of the main Final Fantasy set. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG Final Fantasy release date, card spoilers, and latest news This Final Fantasy MTG card gives Standard a new infinite combo New Final Fantasy MTG card encourages gambling View the full article

Those waiting for news regarding State of Decay 3 may want to tune into the Xbox Games Showcase on June 8. It's been a long road for the third entry in Undead Labs' zombie survival series, with the last game coming out in 2018, which was already five years after the first. Fans may finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief, though, as signs suggest the release date for State of Decay 3 may not be too far off. View the full article

A new leak from Honkai: Star Rail is hinting at the addition of a brand-new enemy to the game as part of the upcoming Fate/Stay Night collaboration. HoYoverse initially announced the landmark crossover event late last year, confirming the first-ever in-game collaboration coming to Honkai: Star Rail. The event saw plenty of rumors throughout the following months about what the crossover could contain, ranging from new playable characters to an entirely new "Servant" mechanic. Now, HoYoverse has started to unveil everything players can expect from the highly-anticipated event. View the full article