The Roots update in PEAK has added mushrooms of all types, and you can even jump on some of them to travel across the biome. While mushrooms in the Roots biome have different uses (some are pretty dangerous for your health), you can also use them to guide your movement. If you're in the mood for some high-flying action, you can jump off them and try to bounce at least 40m in the air to earn the Mycoacrobatics badge. How to obtain the Mycoacrobatics badge in PEAK There are different ways of obtaining this badge, but the requirement is always the same: jump at least 40m off the ground from a mushroom. The easiest way to complete the objective is by using Bounce *******. When you pick up this mushroom, it shrinks in size. Plant it in the ground, and it will grow back. Make sure to place it in a location with an open clearing. This will let you jump high enough. Image via Aggro Crab To hit the 40m mark, you'll have to select a point from where you're going to jump on the Bounce *******. This point needs to be as high as possible from where the ******* is. The greater the distance, the higher the jump. That said, you should be careful not to land outside the Bounce *******, as you can take fall damage and even die in the process. You can do the same with other mushrooms that spawn in Roots. However, you won't get a similar height on your jump, which makes it hard to obtain the Mycoacrobatics badge. Of course, you can also consume certain mushrooms to unlock new in-game effects. The Shroomberries, a brand-new addition, have random effects that rotate daily. You can consume all five of them on the same run to unlock the Advanced Mycology badge. The post How to bounce up 40m off a mushroom in PEAK – Mycoacrobatics badge appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
We had a chance to chat with Hayasaka Masaaki, Producer of Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake about approaching remakes, new content, accessibility, his recommended play order, porting to multiple platforms, a potential Switch 2 physical trilogy release, coffee, and more. View the full article
Gearbox released a new update for Borderlands 4, a smaller update overall but one that makes quality of life adjustments to 2 of the 4 Vault Hunters. The launch of Borderlands 4 was just the start of the journey for players, as Gearbox Software laid out its plans to keep the game feeling fresh between weekly updates, free events, and the eventual arrival of major DLC expansions. View the full article
General Fixed an issue where the performance overlay would sometimes not appear in Baldur's Gate 3 Temporarily re-disabled experimental wake-on-bluetooth support for Steam Deck LCD while issues with spurious wake-ups are investigated Fixed an issue that could prevent updating from specific older builds of SteamOS Fixed a bug with the Discover app in desktop mode that could cause update failures in some scenarios View the full article
With a solid launch date announced, it finally felt like we could let a Take-Two earnings call come and go without hearing the phrase 'GTA 6 delayed' ever again. How wrong we were. Rockstar's parent company has just pushed back the GTA 6 release date once more. Initially set for May 26 next year, it felt within reach, but now we have more than a year to wait all over again. A new date has been set for Thursday, November 19, 2026. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: GTA 6 release date and time, trailers, and latest news Grand Theft Auto's Dan Houser would be "sadder" to see Red Dead Redemption 3 happen without him than GTA 6 GTA 6 couldn't have been made by AI because it lacks Rockstar's "extraordinary" creativity, Take-Two boss says View the full article
Rockstar Games has confirmed that the Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been pushed back to November 19, 2026. When Rockstar Games first revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 to the masses, the plan was for the game to release in 2025. Many assumed that Rockstar was specifically aiming for a fall 2025 release date for Grand Theft Auto 6, but eventually it was announced that the game had been delayed to May 26, 2026. View the full article
"There are very big markets – China, Eastern Europe, Latin America – where local platforms are simply stronger in trust, in loyalty, in payment behaviour"View the full article
Grand Theft Auto 6 has officially been delayed again until Thursday, November 19, 2026 (via X) according to an official post from Rockstar. View the full article
With every new extraction shooter that hits the market, there are bound to be plenty of comparisons to monoliths in the genre, with ARC Raiders being no exception to the rule. While ARC Raiders does share plenty of similarities to games like Escape From Tarkov with its core gameplay loop and mechanics, ARC Raiders offers plenty of changes to spice things up. View the full article
World of Warcraft has officially shared its reasoning for the sweeping addon changes in Midnight, revealing that it hopes to level the playing field so that players with third-party tools no longer have a competitive advantage over those using only the base UI. Blizzard wants to restrict what sort of addons fans can use to help them in combat, while still letting them personalize their World of Warcraft experience. View the full article
The Roots update in PEAK appears to be of the worst kind if you're an arachnophobe, since we now have to escape from spiders. While you can avoid the eight-legged freaks during your ascent, there's no such luxury if you wish to complete the Web Security badge as part of the new update. Let's look at how to escape the spider in the new update and obtain the badge by doing so. How to complete the Web Security badge in PEAK While it's not a smart thing to deliberately get trapped in a spider's web, you might have to do so to get the Web Security badge. First, get to the Roots biome since the spider can only be found there. It's naturally possible that you could get entrapped in a spider web. Spiders typically stay high on the ******* mushrooms. They will swoop down when you stand under them directly; I would advise always looking above when you're traveling in Roots. If you want to emphasize completing the badge, go stand under a mushroom with a spider on it. Screenshot by Destructoid The spider will attack and try to entangle you in its web. Once the web starts building around you, start tapping the space bar as rapidly as you can. Do it fast enough, and you'll be able to come out of the web successfully and complete the Web Security badge. Fail to do so, and you'll get trapped and die. Getting trapped (even temporarily) in the web can inflict poison on your stamina bar. The longer you stay trapped, the greater will be the poison damage. When you're trying to escape the web, be careful about your surroundings. You can accidentally fall and take more damage, which can also leave you dead. If you're playing in a party, keep a few healing items spread out among all of you. That will allow your friends to either heal you or revive you if you die. To make matters more interesting, you can also use the Book of Bones on a dead friend and revive them as a skeleton, completing the Applied Esoterica badge in the process. The post How to escape from a spider’s web in PEAK – Web Security badge appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Upgrading your workshop is one of the most important goals for any raider in ARC Raiders, and getting to some of those top levels is going to take a lot of effort. One item that is necessary for these industrial expansions is the Rusted Gear, and exceedingly rare component that can only be found out in the world. But some locations tend to have better odds of dropping it, so here's where you should go to get yourself a few of these items. How to find Rusted Gear in ARC Raiders The Scrap Yard is a good early spot to check for Rusted Gears if you don't want to risk it on The Blue Gate. Screenshot by Destructoid Rusted Gear is a random drop that can be found in just about any container in the game. However, Industrial zones tend to have greater odds of spawning it, as do specific types of containers such as cars, whose hoods have a small but non-zero chance to give one of this item. The best overall locations for finding Rusted Gears would be the Warehouse Complex in Blue Gate, specifically its underground sections that have tons of cars to search through. Hoods seem to have the best odds, but any searchable container is worth checking, given that the item is so rare that you could very well look through hundreds of cars without finding it. Additionally, the Scrap Yard in Dam Battlegrounds has tons of car wreckages and other Industrial stashes that, like the Complex, could spawn Rusted Gears. Again, the odds are super small, so check every single container that you come across to maximize your odds. You should also always bring a proper Augment that has Safe Pockets to ensure you don't die and lose an item that took you several runs to find. The post Where to find Rusted Gears in ARC Raiders appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
ARCs are not just your enemies: they are a valuable source of high-tier items that are necessary to keep this little underground project of ours going. We humans have a symbiotic relationship with these machines, and exterminating them completely wouldn't be advisable. One items that the people of Speranza need are the Snitch Scanners, required for numerous crucial upgrades, much like other ARC parts like Hornet Drivers, for example. If you were on the lookout for some of these, here's what you should do. Where to get Snitch Scanner in ARC Raiders You can summon ARCs with the Scanner to give your enemies extra things to worry about. Screenshot by Destructoid Snitch Scanners are, as the name implies, dropped by Snitches, the circular ARC that constantly scans for new threats and then calls in three more ARCs from orbit to help it out if it turns hostile. It's always flying around the map looking for trouble, though I've noticed many more of them on Buried City than on any other map. To get the Scanners, simply attack the Snitch and take it down, then loot its chassis. You might also discover husks and remains around the maps that should drop Scanners as well. The best way to kill a Snitch is to bring it down before it calls in any reinforcements, and to do that shoot at its "wings." It has three separate segments, each having some sort of "lightbulb" attached, and destroying two will send the thing flying to its doom super quickly. If you want to farm some extra ARC materials, though, let it call in the reinforcements and take them all down together. The supports are usually two Wasps and a Hornet, which isn't the strongest bunch. The post How to find Snitch Scanner in ARC Raiders appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
What a strange time to be alive: Netflix and production company A24 are reportedly turning messy co-op cooking romp Overcooked into a reality competition, and I'm not going to immediately assume it will be terrible... Read more.View the full article
Mass layoffs at Square Enix are now underway, and they could potentially affect over 100 employees at the company across the US and the ***. Over the years, Square Enix has made itself known for franchises like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, and while that growth has expanded the company to overseas offices, it appears as though it has chosen to pull back certain operations. View the full article
Battlefield 6 players looking to rank up character profiles quickly are in luck, as a Double Career XP ******* has quietly been activated for the FPS. However, this batch of Double XP in Battlefield 6 is only available to PlayStation 5 users currently. View the full article
Square Enix is undergoing mass layoffs today, potentially impacting over 100 individuals, alongside a broader effort to consolidate its publishing organization and focus its development work in Japan. Via public posts from former employees as well as confirmation from internal sources, IGN has learned that employees in the *** and US are being informed of the layoffs today, with an unknown number of US employees being dismissed by the end of the week, and a possible 137 jobs at risk in the ***. Under *** law, Square Enix must undergo redundancy consultations to see if any jobs can potentially be saved, so the final number in the *** could be smaller. It is not yet clear which teams were impacted by this, or to what extent. Internally, a slide presentation now publicly available was also shared with employees earlier today, offered a progress report on Square Enix's ongoing "reorganization of overseas organizations", of which this restructuring seems to be a part. Per Square Enix, the strategy has already involved "clos[ing] overseas development studios and shift[ing] toward consolidating development functions in Japan." As a part of this, Square Enix already sold Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montreal, Square Enix Montreal, and a number of associated IPs to Embracer Group. It also already laid off workers across its Western operations in 2024. That leaves Square Enix with the Life Is Strange, Outriders, and Just Cause franchises currently managed by its Western studios, as well as the publishing of Powerwash Simulator. In that same presentation, Square Enix also shared that it expects 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027. The company has stated in the past that it intends to be "aggressive in applying AI" across both development and publishing. IGN has reached out to Square Enix for comment. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. View the full article
Warhorse Studios' blockbuster RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is free to play on Steam from November 6 to November 10. As announced in a post on the game's official X account following the developer's latest livestream, the studio is giving players full access to the base game experience for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 during this window, making it an easy opportunity for anyone who has been waiting to see how Henry's story continues or to test the sequel's expanded systems before committing to a purchase. View the full article
Lost Hellden from Artisan Studios (Astria Ascending) is in the works for 2026 release on PC and consoles, and it will also be coming to mobile in the future. View the full article
A Balanced Harvest requires you to find information related to agricultural research in ARC Raiders, but it can be confusing if you don't know what to do. You have to get the A Balanced Harvest quest from Celeste. Let's look at how you can complete it and what its associated tasks are. Table of contentsARC Raiders A Balanced Harvest quest walkthroughA Balanced Harvest quest rewards in ARC RaidersARC Raiders A Balanced Harvest quest walkthrough The A Balanced Harvest quest can be broken down into three essential parts. Go to the Research & Administration buildingLocate Lab 1 on the upper floor above the receptionSearch for any traces of the agricultural research project Screenshot and remix by Destructoid First things first: we have to reach the correct quest location. In this case, it's the Research and Administration building. I have marked its location on the Dam Battlegrounds map (the marked location is from where you'll find the stairs) and also added an image of what the building looks like. Screenshot by Destructoid Take the stairs and go all the way up till you come through the first door. Head inside, go past the canteen, and take the next door. From here, you have a corridor going straight and another one going left. Take the one that goes left. Doorway through the canteen. Screenshot by Destructoid Follow the corridor, and Lab 1 will be at the end of the first right turn (on your right). Head inside, and go through the first room to the second one. You'll find the agricultural research project papers on a table. Stand close to it, and you'll get the chance to scan the papers. Agriculture research papers in ARC raiders. Screenshot by Destructoid Complete the scan, and that'll mark the end of A Balanced Harvest in ARC Raiders. A Balanced Harvest quest rewards in ARC Raiders Here's the complete list of rewards you get by completing A Balanced Harvest. Three Advanced Mechanical ComponentsThree Medium Gun PartsOne Steel Spring If you're looking for quests to complete, both Our Presence Up There and Communication Hideout are excellent choices. The post How to complete A Balanced Harvest in ARC Raiders appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
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The Roots update in PEAK has added mushrooms of all types, and you can even jump on some of them to travel across the biome. While mushrooms in the Roots biome have different uses (some are pretty dangerous for your health), you can also use them to guide your movement. If you're in the mood for some high-flying action, you can jump off them and try to bounce at least 40m in the air to earn the Mycoacrobatics badge. How to obtain the Mycoacrobatics badge in PEAK There are different ways of obtaining this badge, but the requirement is always the same: jump at least 40m off the ground from a mushroom. The easiest way to complete the objective is by using Bounce *******. When you pick up this mushroom, it shrinks in size. Plant it in the ground, and it will grow back. Make sure to place it in a location with an open clearing. This will let you jump high enough. Image via Aggro Crab To hit the 40m mark, you'll have to select a point from where you're going to jump on the Bounce *******. This point needs to be as high as possible from where the ******* is. The greater the distance, the higher the jump. That said, you should be careful not to land outside the Bounce *******, as you can take fall damage and even die in the process. You can do the same with other mushrooms that spawn in Roots. However, you won't get a similar height on your jump, which makes it hard to obtain the Mycoacrobatics badge. Of course, you can also consume certain mushrooms to unlock new in-game effects. The Shroomberries, a brand-new addition, have random effects that rotate daily. You can consume all five of them on the same run to unlock the Advanced Mycology badge. The post How to bounce up 40m off a mushroom in PEAK – Mycoacrobatics badge appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article