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NVIDIA have released driver version 570.153.02, a new bug-fix release for their current main stable driver version for Linux gamers. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

I wrote about Ludaro back in mid April, and now you can try this new chaotic spin on Ludo yourself, as they've just released a first demo for it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

As far as package-shipping simulators go, Deliver At All Costs more closely resembles drunk driving than it does Death Stranding. There's no need for complicated weight management or careful navigation through its 1950s small-town USA setting; instead, this kooky courier quest loads your pickup truck with increasingly quirky cargo and sends you careening through road signs, fences, shopfronts, and countless pedestrians, with almost every dispatched delivery quickly devolving into a full-on destruction derby. It’s a riotously good time for a while, but it soon starts to sputter out and eventually breaks down well before it reaches the end of its 10-hour journey when its nonsensical sci-fi story fails to pay off and this world turns out to be far more rewarding to reduce to rubble than it is to actually explore. There is a plot connecting all of its street-shredding shipments, but honestly the less said about it, the better. You’re Winston Green, a likeable fresh hire at the We Deliver corporation who’s seemingly on the run after a mysterious incident in his past. Though it begins as a sort of goofy workplace comedy it soon makes jarring tonal shifts into corporate crime conspiracies and eventually a preposterous tale of time travel, before crashlanding into a fast-tracked climax that left me feeling about as hollow as someone who’s tried to make a meal out of packing peanuts. Deliver At All Costs’ story is a bit like a box of flatpacked furniture delivered from IKEA; it’s full of interesting parts to pore over, but once you’ve put it all together it seems noticeably wonkier than you expected and it’s clear that there’s more than a couple of screws loose. The real star is the staggering destructibility of its world, which is viewed from your choice of two top-down angles. Pretty much everything above ground can be satisfyingly smashed asunder as you tear around in your delivery truck turning every apartment block into a potential Jenga tower. There’s admittedly an overly fragile and weightless feel to it all – it’s a bit like crashing through houses made of cards rather than bricks and mortar because you rarely feel the impact or lose momentum – but punching my own shortcuts through everything from hotel lobbies to tennis courts and tombstone-covered graveyards kept me consistently amused for at least the first half of the drive. I gleefully sped around chewing through scenery like I was Nicholas Cage in Face/Off. Pretty much the only time I pumped the brakes was when I had to keep something from spilling out of my truckbed, or whenever I hit one of the abrupt loading screens that separates each district of the three cities that make up its decently sized open-world map. Can’t Hardly Freight Deliver At All Costs’ 20-mission-long chain of violent cargo hauls aren’t so much door-to-door as they are wall-through-wall, but that’s not to say I didn’t face some resistance along the way. Different challenges are introduced in keeping with the object that’s dumped into the back of your truck or dragged behind you with a winch, and a few entertainingly wacky work orders had me laughing out loud. In one mission reminiscent of Pixar’s Up, I was hired to transport a bouquet of helium balloons, which meant that even the smallest bump in the road launched me into a clumsy aerial drift that left me struggling to stay on terra firma like a mailman on the moon’s surface. In another, I had to steer around a leaking tank of napalm that was igniting a growing wall of fire behind me, turning a simple pick-up and drop-off into a citywide game of Snake that blew me to smithereens if I attempted to double back on my delivery route.Then there was the time I had to drag a new statue of the local mayor towards the town square without it getting bombed by the swooping seagulls dropping their own special deliveries. I gleefully sped around chewing through scenery like I was Nicholas Cage in Face/Off. Unfortunately, though, there are almost as many duds in the mix as there are standouts. Being asked to drive recklessly to scare a limousine full of crooked executives doesn’t really come as a break from the norm when you’ve been otherwise hurtling around like a madman during each and every other job, for example. A mission to photograph a series of cows being abducted by a UFO can be passed simply by mindlessly spamming the camera button. Meanwhile, the on-foot retrieval of your stolen truck from under the nose of a patrolling security van becomes less of a daring infiltration into a scrapyard and more of a walk in the park because Deliver At All Costs’ stealth system is non-existent, to the point where you can just stroll in there unopposed with minimal thought or effort. That’s not to say the rest of the on-foot action is much better – pretty much whenever you’re forced to leave your car for more than a moment it becomes a dull stretch of basic platforming where your only actions are walk, jump, climb, and shove. Haul or Nothing Elsewhere in Deliver At All Costs there’s rarely any substantial consequences for your actions, and that makes it start to get dull sooner than it seems like it should. If you accidentally flip your car over it will automatically right itself. If you bust a tyre you can hop out and instantly repair it with the tap of a button. If you bring down an entire building because you’re doing doughnuts through all four corners of its foundations you will almost certainly draw the attention of the police (who, the intro movie explains, are all but non-existent in this island town), but you can instantly lose that heat by leaving your truck and diving into a dumpster – even without necessarily breaking the line of sight. In fact, even if you’re caught, you just instantly respawn with no punishment served anyway. On the one hand, the general lack of rules or repercussions gave me the freedom to drive as recklessly as I wanted to, but it also meant that almost everything felt noticeably low in stakes. Sometimes, in fact, Deliver At All Costs is so forgiving that it completely sucks any tension out of the task at hand. Steering your delivery truck from one side of the city to the other with an armed atom bomb couched in its cargo bed shouldn’t just have you flirting with danger, but buying danger a drink, beckoning danger onto the dance floor, and giving danger an open-mouthed kiss. But in practice, it’s surprisingly lacking in intensity: there’s no ticking clock to pressure you into keeping your foot clamped down on the accelerator, allowing you to take things as slow and steady as you like. That means the only challenge here is to not drive like a maniac. Even when I did accidentally bump into a car and blow myself to bits, generous checkpoints meant that I was back on the road with my unstable payload with minimum penalty to my progress. I don’t want a game to be overly punishing, but there’s a happy medium to be struck that this one never manages to nail. Sometimes Deliver At All Costs is so forgiving that it completely sucks any tension out of the task at hand. Elsewhere, and despite the consistently impressive amount of environmental detail to be found throughout its toy town world from Christmas tree-lined main streets to a giant drive-in theater projecting ****** and white films, there’s not a great deal of interesting activities to amuse yourself with when you’re off the clock. There are a further 10 side missions to be found dotted around the map, but few of them are particularly memorable. There’s a basic circuit race to place first in and a couple of missing persons to track down, but there’s little here to match the more creative courier tasks found in the main story path. Well, there’s one enjoyable exception that had me piloting a satanic sports car straight out of Stephen King’s Christine. Deliver At All Costs could’ve used a lot more like her to make its map call me back for more. There are other unique vehicles to track down too, but these are uniformly disappointing on a number of counts. For one, their locations are clearly marked on the map from the outset, so you’re not provided with the same thrill of discovery of, say, a Forza Horizon barn find. You also don’t have a garage to store them in, and nor can you use them for a delivery mission, so they’re mainly there for a brief joyride before being ditched in favour of a return to your trusty We Deliver truck. Worse still, they don’t provide any real point of difference to make them even remotely worth the minimal effort to uncover – they each handle more or less the same, and there are no unique emergency missions to undertake in the ambulance or dessert drops in the ice cream van to trigger like you might find in a Grand Theft Auto game. They’re just sort of… there. Another underwhelming factor is the upgrades you can weld onto your truck using spare parts found throughout the world (as ridiculous as it may be to open a giant chest to find someone has stashed a single roll of duct tape in it). They seem like they should open up new possibilities for mayhem and creativity in a world that’s as eager to be knocked down as this, but these, too, are disappointingly limited in their use. The crane is handy for the job that sees you load a giant marlin onto your truck and then literally fishtail your way to a drop-off point, but both it and the winch you get access to afterwards can’t actually be used outside of a mission to mess with objects at will. You can’t, say, attach the winch’s tow cable to a random car or pedestrian and drag them around town just for kicks like you can in Saints Row or Just Cause. You can supercharge your car ***** to blast the windows out of shopfronts, but you can't use the cargo bed catapult at all outside of a handful of specific story moments. There’s a lot of potential for Deliver At All Costs to achieve the same sort of freeform fun that we see in games like Goat Simulator, but it just doesn’t give you enough flexibility to really revel in it after you’ve grown tired of blasting into people’s living rooms like a Kool-Aid Man on wheels. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

They say that if you ignore your detractors, you also have to ignore the praise. But I'm proud that my boss told me I'm a good courier. "I am a good courier", I think, ramming a remote control corvette destined for a local child's chimney into a pedestrian's shins, knocking them skyward, zipping away before the sound of soft bones on hard concrete catches up with me. "The best courier," I nod, reversing my truck into a beach-front bar on the way to fumigate a truckful of rotting melons. "The best damn courier in town!", I exclaim, honking my newly-installed cursehorn, shattering nearby windows and streetlights into glinting injury confetti. Sometimes, confidence is more valuable than a measured perspective on things, and if you need to focus on the praise to block out the little voice telling you the way you're driving to these sun-kissed surf guitars is less Dennis Wilson, more Charlie Manson, so be it. Deliver At All Costs has me thinking a lot about confidence, in fact. It invokes GTA with a linked series of open maps, constantly ******-whispering your attention away from main and side missions with the promise of the hallowed fuckaboutsesh - smashable suburbia detailed down to the individual fence picket taking the place of rocket launchers and car pile-ups. But tragically, it's also cursed with a lack of confidence that this is enough. It wants to be something more. Read more View the full article

Now we're cooking with asbestos: Warhammer Skulls, the yearly power armoured excite-o-thon hosted by Boltgun actor Rahul Kohli, returns this Thursday. It's traditionally a time of reveals and revelry, with the Mechanicus sequel a likely contender for the spotlight this year. You can watch it live on TwitchHam at 17:00 BST/12:00 EST/9:00 PST. Here's a teasytrailyhypeyshouty in the meantime. Read more View the full article

****** Ops 6 already gives Call of Duty fans some pretty versatile and dynamic movement options thanks to its Omnimovement system - a far cry from the more grounded and static games of recent years. However, we may soon see CoD creep even further towards the advanced movement mechanics we saw in some of its more futuristic titles from the 2010s. Dataminers have tunneled deep into ****** Ops 6 and have found that wall running is hiding in the game - and it could potentially be in preparation for CoD 2025. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: ****** Ops 6 Season 4 release date estimate and latest news Best BO6 loadouts for the current meta Every ****** Ops 6 Zombies easter egg View the full article

A most recent leak outlines Microsoft's alleged plans to launch a console-like front end for Windows, allowing users to install Steam via the Microsoft Store, and release an Xbox emulator for PC. While some details align with previous rumors, readers should take the information with a sizable grain of salt. Read Entire Article View the full article

FuRyu announces a mobile port of the action RPG Trinity Trigger set for release at the end of this month. View the full article

Nightdive Studios has published a new Deep Dive interview for System Shock 2 going over the game's sound design and SHODAN's voice with Terri and Eric Brosius ahead of the remaster's launch next month. View the full article

Even though your pile of shame’s already teetering and your backlog is the size of a felled sequoia, who are you and I to resist yet another bargain? Today's gaming treasure trove spans mischievous birds, noir cyborgs, and wizarding wonders, all at prices that’ll have your wallet breathing a sigh of relief. Whether you’re deep in console country or loyal to your trusty PC, there’s a little something here to make your day but ruin your bandwidth. This Day in Gaming In retro news, I'm lighting a 15-candle cake for WarioWare D.I.Y., one of my favourite Nintendo DS time-wasters. Nintendo essentially handed players the keys to the microgame factory and somehow didn’t burn the place down. Armed with a stylus and too much free time, you could compose janky 8-bit music, draw unhinged sprites, and script chaotic games that lasted all of five seconds but felt like fever dreams. The tutorials starred Wario’s development crew trying (and mostly failing) to teach you game design basics without causing a workplace accident. Honestly, it was less Super Mario Maker and more Mario Paint meets GarageBand on a sugar high. It even let you upload your madness online, meaning no DS cartridge was safe from your homemade horrors. A beautiful, timeless mess. Aussie bdays for notable games - LostWinds (Wii) 2008. eBay - WarioWare D.I.Y. (DS) 2010. eBay - Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands (PS3,X360) 2010. Get - L.A. Noire (PS3,X360) 2011. Get - Transistor (PC) 2014. Get - Fire Emblem Echoes: SoV (3DS) 2017. Sequels Contents NintendoXboxPlayStationPCPC GearLEGOHeadphonesTVsNice Savings for Nintendo Switch Nintendo players can dash into Sonic Frontiers for A$49, a sprawling open zone adventure that lets the blue blur stretch his legs like never before. Or stir up some trouble in the minimalist mayhem of Untitled Goose Game, a local Melbourne creation that nabbed a BAFTA and inspired real-life goose protest signs. Sonic Frontiers (-51%) - A$49Sifu (-70%) - A$18Lego Ninjago Movie (-45%) - A$49Shin Megami Tensei V (-32%) - A$54Dragon Ball FighterZ (-44%) - A$50Untitled Goose Game (-50%) - A$15 Expiring Recent Deals The Witcher 3 Comp. (-75%) - A$19Lego Skywalker Saga (-80%) - A$17Dead Cells (-50%) - A$18Yooka-Laylee (-80%) - A$6Blasphemous (-75%) - A$9Unicorn Overlord (-36%) - A$61 Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card. Switch Console Prices How much to Switch it up? [/url] Back to top Exciting Bargains for Xbox Xbox Series X owners should absolutely look at Robocop: Rogue City - Alex Murphy Edition, now just A$10. The devs brought back Peter Weller himself to voice Robocop three decades after the original. Meanwhile, Ori and the Will of the Wisps remains one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful games of the generation, with animation influenced by Studio Ghibli. Robocop- Alex Murphy Ed. (-90%) - A$10Metaphor: Refantazio (-27%) - A$83******: The Old Country (-12%) - A$79Ori and the Will of the Wisps (-67%) - A$13No Man's Sky (-60%) - A$35 Xbox One Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (-51%) - A$39It Takes Two (-65%) - A$20Unravel Two (-75%) - A$7 Expiring Recent Deals NBA 2K25 (-68%) - A$38Seagate Expansion Card 1TB (-25%) - A$230UFC 5 (-65%) - A$39EA Sports FC 25 (-55%) - A$49Star Wars Outlaws (-64%) - A$40Red Dead 2 (-67%) - A$29Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (-90%) - A$10Mass Effect Leg. Ed. (-90%) - A$9 Or just invest in an Xbox Card. Xbox Console Prices How many bucks for a 'Box? [/url] Back to top Pure Scores for PlayStation PS5 players can get a discounted trip to Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 at A$71, now finally in the form fans were promised back in 2020. 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He plays practically everything, often on YouTube. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

DOOM: The Dark Ages mixes up the gameplay of its predecessor in more ways than one, offering a substantial amount of customization to keep its gameplay feeling fresh. Not only are there plenty more ranged weapon upgrades to choose from in DOOM: The Dark Ages, but the game finally brings with it several new melee options to choose from and upgrade, each with its own specialty uses. To afford these upgrades, you'll need to explore the ever-expansive levels of DOOM: The Dark Ages to find the right currency for the job. View the full article

The new Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE has just hit the shelves, and its Stream Deck functionality could make it a hit.View the full article

Diablo 4 players have criticized the game's "lack of content" and "aggressive" monetization practices in Season 8: Belial's Return. Season 8 has been eventful for Diablo 4fans, but some members of the community are rethinking their stay. View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail lead game designer Chengnan An has shared that the RPG has not reached its full potential yet, and it will take years to achieve this. As one of HoYoverse's most popular games, Honkai: Star Rail continues to draw in millions of dollars in revenue with every update as it releases new characters and content. View the full article

rather sensational YouTube video appears to have set off a mild Steam review bombing directed at the Borderlands series... Read more.View the full article

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel. General Fixed transitions snapping backwards in the Welcome Wizard. View the full article

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes: General Improved controller hotplug detection for some third party devices. Linux Fixed Game Recording and Remote Play video streams showing green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs. View the full article

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently answered some important questions about the Gommage, including what happens when someone has their birthday after the number goes down, and when the first disappearance was recorded. Though this information is not available in the game, it provides further context for players to better understand one of the major plot points of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. View the full article

Survival horror dungeon crawler Labyrinth of the ****** King is neck-and-neck with Avowed and Oblivion Remastered as my personal game of the year so far, which I absolutely did not expect when I loaded it up on my Steam Deck before a flight (I ended up playing it all five hours). But even more surprising is that its small development team is already promising new additions just a week after launch... Read more.View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Сборник S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Legends of the Zone Trilogy — Enhanced Edition выходит уже завтра, и блогер ElAnalistaDeBits решил показать, как ремастеры постапокалиптических шутеров GSC Game World соотносятся с оригинальными играми.View the full article

The Hell 3 mod for the original Diablo has officially been completed, finally delivering the full-fledged experience in what is one of the most ambitious fan projects for Blizzard's 1996 action role-playing game. Since its inception nearly 30 years ago, Diablohas been the benchmark for ARPGs, with four mainline releases and a selection of expansions. View the full article

Some of the best LEGO sets that have ever been created are now retired. While you can still find ways to buy them online, it is nearly impossible to find them below their original retail price. So if you find yourself face to face with a LEGO set that really sparks joy, it's best to pick it up before it's gone forever. That being said, there are some rare cases when you can still find a set for below MSRP even after it gets retired. One such case is this current discount on the Green Hill Zone LEGO set at Amazon. It isn't much of a discount, but we don't expect it will still be at this price for much longer now that its been over five months since it was retired. LEGO Sonic The Hedgehog – Green Hill Zone ***** The LEGO Ideas Green Hill Zone set originally came out back in January 2022, but it wasn't until January of this year that LEGO retired the set. IGN actually had the chance to build back in 2022 when it first came out three years ago and we loved the build. It's a fun tribute to the iconic video game level from the series and one of our favorite Sonic the Hedgehog LEGO sets and is great for any fan of the franchise. As far as I can tell, Amazon currently has the lowest possible price on this set if you're looking to buy it new, but Walmart also has it available. Ebay has a few different options on used versions for almost half the price, but you may risk missing pieces if you take that route. Considering it is still discounted, Amazon likely has quite a bit of stock left for this set, but as soon as that starts to dwindle you can expect prices to go up fairly quickly. LEGO is no longer selling this set, so once it's gone you'll only be able to purchase it at a markup unless you get lucky. More Recently Retired LEGO Sets on Amazon Once LEGO officially retires a set, they tend to hang around at other retailers for a bit longer. This makes Amazon one of the best places to buy LEGO thanks to their extended inventory of these products. There are a number of other recently retired sets you can currently still purchase right now. We've featured some of the most popular ones below: View the full article

Save the World could be coming to Nintendo consoles at last, according to information on the Fortnite game code for Switch 2 Joy-**** features. Fortnite became available on the Nintendo Switch in June 2018, nearly seven years ago. It was not a seamless addition, as there were a few downsides, especially at the start of this journey. Firstly, many players had already played on a PlayStation console and were not able to use their accounts on the Switch due to restrictions; cross-progression and cross-play were completely disabled. This meant that some gamers had to make brand-new accounts if they wanted to play Fortnite on the Switch or Xbox. View the full article

I really wish there was any bit of good news or a general positive vibe around Bungie's upcoming shooter Marathon, but it's just about all terrible right now. After an utterly lackluster alpha test, Marathon and Bungie have been thrust into even more negative limelight following yet another plagiarism incident at the studio, and it may serve to be the proverbial nail in the coffin for the game over four months before it even launches. Image via Bungie Forbes reporter Paul Tassi echoed what many in the industry (and those who have played it) have been feeling since the alpha, and it's that Marathon isn't going to succeed. It's just not. And as if it couldn't get any worse, the game's impending failure could have a cascading impact on Bungie's other game, Destiny 2, which seemingly does have a future and some good vibes going within its community. "This will hurt Bungie and its actual healthy child, Destiny," Tassi said of Marathon's assumed flop. "There will be layoffs. There will be Sony takeover of leadership as they bail out with millions in vested cash." The impact of Marathon flopping, a game that likely has tremendous internal expectations at both Sony and Bungie, will undoubtedly affect the rest of the company, and this could mean delays, cancelations, or just plain chaos spreading within the studio and having an adverse effect on Destiny 2 as well. And that just sucks. Tassi expanded on Marathon's big expectations and very low chance of reaching them in a YouTube video, stating he heard from sources within Bungie that the game needs to be a top-five title in 2025 to be considering a success. That just isn't happening, and that likely wasn't happening even before the alpha and plagiarism fiasco. That sort of forecast likely was never possible, regardless of the game's potential, and is just the latest example of unrealistic expectations for games when it comes to profitability. Destiny 2, meanwhile, has hype behind it. Bungie recently announced a whole year of content in the game, including The Edge of Fate DLC in July and Renegades in December, along with two more expansions coming in 2026. It's even gotten the Lucasfilm stamp of approval for Renegades, a Star Wars-inspired story, and the game got some shiny new skins to prove it. Image via Bungie It would really, truly ***** to see Destiny 2 take the brunt of Marathon's failure, especially considering how exciting the game's new expansion and direction seems to be looking, and that's without even getting into the unfortunate truth that jobs and lives at the studio will be affected ten-fold. Marathon's collapse would be a low-point for Bungie, which could mean a low-point for Destiny, of which the franchise has already had several. And after that, I really don't know what happens at the studio next, but it won't be good. The post Marathon might flop so hard it could affect the future of Destiny 2, and that’s a brutal truth appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Амбициозный шутер Doom: The Dark Ages от издательства Bethesda Softworks и разработчиков из id Software поражает простых пользователей и специалистов графикой уже сейчас, а скоро в игре появится и трассировка пути.View the full article