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Singing a specific genre in BitLife is more challenging than you'd expect. Pursuing a music career is already difficult, with the bonus of relying on RNG to find the exact genre you need. There's some luck involved, but we have a few tips to make the search easier. Table of contentsHow to become a rapper in BitLifeHow to become famous in BitLifeHow to become a rapper in BitLife Becoming a rapper in BitLife requires purchasing the game's musician special career pack. You can buy it for real money through BitLife's ingame marketplace or pick up Boss Mode, letting you obtain all current and future job packs. Owning the musician pack enables you to train your singing skills and audition to become a singer, giving you a chance to become a rapper. It's impossible to do this without the pack. If you own the musician special career pack, you'll find a Musician job option under Occupation and Special Careers. Here, you can audition to join a band or become a solo artist. Although rap bands exist, you'll usually find it easier as a solo artist. Screenshot by Destructoid However, not just anyone can become a professional singer. First, you'll need to take singing classes by heading into Activities, Mind and Body, and Voice Lessons. If your character is a child or teenager, you can take them for free with permission from your character's parents. These classes will raise your skills, with around 90-100 percent mastery required to pass your solo artist auditions. To make things easier, you can start on a new character who has a music special talent. You'll find this on the character creator menu, making it easier to progress in randomized instruments. Having this talent doesn't guarantee you'll have an easier time with singing, specifically due to its random nature. To offset this, you can remake characters until you notice one that gets massive skill buffs per lesson. This strategy is entirely optional, but it can help if you don't want to take a ton of voice lessons or plan on mastering other instruments later. Once you master singing, head into the Musician special career tab and apply to be a singing solo artist. If you don't succeed right away, age up and try again next year. After passing an audition, you'll get an offer to sign an exclusive contract listing the genre, cash advance, royalty rate, and term. If the genre isn't rap, turn it down and keep going until rap appears. Signing the contract will officially make you a rapper in BitLife. How to become famous in BitLife Now that you're officially a professional rapper, it's time to become famous. You have two options: use the Hollywood Star to become famous instantly or work your way up to stardom. Screenshot by Destructoid If you have the Hollywood Star, you can instantly become famous in any job that has fame. At most, it'll take you aging up once or creating an album for it to activate. However, you need to buy this item from BitLife's marketplace for real money. Alternatively, you can work hard as a rapper until you become famous. Generally speaking, performing concerts and creating albums for a few years is enough to make you famous. As long as you increase your popularity over time, you'll eventually receive a "you are officially a famous rapper" notification, unlocking exclusive fame options through your Activities list. The post How to become a famous rapper in BitLife appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel has officially revealed a brand-new login campaign arriving to the game in the coming weeks, featuring both Gems and a special Royal Finish card as rewards. The massively popular digital TCG from Konami boasts a wide array of different cards for players to acquire, pulling from the more than 10,000 cards available in the physical TCG. Each month brings new Selection Packs adding even more cards to the game, while Secret Packs offer a permanent method for players to easily build decks. Now, fans will be getting some special rewards soon. View the full article

A month after launch, a small percentage of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered players have completed the main questline. But for a game like this, that’s not particularly surprising — fans are saying they’re way too busy doing other stuff. I’m one of those fans! I’ve been playing and enjoying Oblivion Remastered since it shadow-dropped on April 22, and upon leaving the sewers and handing over the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre at Weynon Priory, I’ve done everything BUT the main questline. I’ve joined the Fighters Guild, explored Cyrodiil, and completed loads of side quests. I’ve even tried to brute force my way out of the map, as one player managed to do. Why? Well, the side quests in Oblivion are brilliant fun (I won’t spoil any story stuff here), but I'm also trying to avoid the main quest (and potentially difficult parts of it like Kvatch) for the time being while keeping leveling up to a minimum. So, I’ve decided to enjoy Oblivion until I get bored enough to play the game properly. Although there is no properly with a Bethesda game like this one, is there? That’s why they’re brilliant. You do what you want whenever you want, and the game still works. It seems a lot of other players are doing the same thing. “I'm BUSY doing OTHER STUFF like hunting for SLAUGHTERFISH in Lake Rumare,” the wonderfully named redditor MrCrispyFriedChicken said in response to the percentage completion stats for finishing Oblivion Remastered’s main questline. “I spend 160 hours in already and Kvatch is still waiting for me,” added Roffear. “I'm one of those weirdos who actually likes the Oblivion gates so I purposefully don't finish the main quest until I've found all 60 gates in my world and closed them,” said Ellert0. “44 hours and an actual in-game year, and I haven't even been to Weynon Priory,” said PlayaHatinIG-88. “Those poor Kvatch city guards never stood a chance.” At the time of this article’s publication, a paltry 2.97% had completed Oblivion Remastered's main questline on Xbox and a slightly better 4.4% had on Steam. Why the difference? I presume that’s because Xbox factors in Game Pass, which will have seen a number of players dip their toe into Oblivion Remastered before bouncing. Steam players are all in, of course, because they actually bought the game outright. Either way, it’s still a low percentage for Oblivion Remastered, which has so far seen over 4 million players. But in truth most video games have a surprisingly low campaign completion rate, whether it’s an epic, 100-hour open-world fantasy role-playing game like Oblivion Remastered or a five-hour story like Call of Duty. Indeed, a lot of games have a surprisingly low percentage of players who stick around after an hour or so or continue playing after the tutorial. Such is the fickle nature of the gamer. For Oblivion Remastered, the stats may be skewed further because it’s a remaster of a beloved game many of its players finished back in the day. If you completed Oblivion's main quest 20 years ago, perhaps you’re less inclined to do it again now, and would rather focus on all the pretty new visuals and upgraded bits and bobs. Or, as one player has done, spend seven hours lining up books to get a Dominoes chain reaction just right. Thaddeus122 said they were almost 100 hours in and hadn’t even completed three of the main quests. They have, however, completed the Arena and the Mages Guild. And the rest of the time? “Leveling, getting money for homes, closing all the Oblivion gates, the Nirnroot quest, a bunch of little quests. To be fair, also don't fast travel anywhere.” Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Dead by Daylight has a new collaboration coming up, but probably not one you'd have guessed: It's Assassin's Creed Shadows. The collaboration was announced, along with a date of May 27 for Shadows' next big update, via Assassin's Creed social media accounts... Read more.View the full article

Strauss Zelnick thinks it's best to leave developers like Rockstar Games aloneView the full article

Epic Games has announced that Fortnite's Ballistic mode will now give players the option to surrender in the middle of a match, which may help people who feel a round is beyond recovery. Fortnite is currently in the middle of its Galactic Battle mini-season, which has introduced characters like Mace Windu, Emperor Palpatine, and Jar Jar Binks to the game. View the full article

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Alongside multiple Season 2 updates, Marvel Rivals has given players the option to gift costumes from their favorite characters to any of their friends. Cosmetic bundles offered through the Store can be purchased for someone else, giving them access to new skins for any hero. However, the process behind gifting skins is a little complicated, with several requirements and steps you have to follow. View the full article

Every once in a while the developers at Facepunch, developers of survival game Rust (and also Garry's Mod), have a hack week. They work on silly stuff, goofy ideas, and strange concepts that might not make it into the game. Moonshot ideas, if you will, that are kind of goofy but also kind of brilliant in their own right... Read more.View the full article

Playing chess is child’s play these days: Just fire up your browser, go to Lichess or Chess.com, and the world’s your oyster. But even as traditional chess video games have fallen by the wayside, there are many fun variations on the theme to experience. From roguelites to puzzle games, management titles and even fantasy RPGs, there are many great chess-themed video games to try. Here’s my top five. Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate The ****** king is left all alone in their castle, and the entire White army is bearing down on their home. Thankfully, he still has his royal shotgun. [Hidden Content] An extremely silly concept that makes for a surprisingly fun puzzle roguelite, where you alternate moving your king and shooting your trusty shotgun. Upgrades and odd alternate rules ramp up the challenge and the enjoyment factor, ensuring that your showdown with your White counterpart will be a duel to remember. If you’re not sure how well firearms mix with your chess enjoyment, there’s a demo on Steam you can try. Majestic Chess I give precisely zero percent odds that you have heard of this game before. It is a shame, because it is such a cute and cool mix of fantasy and chess, and while it is clearly geared at kids in tone, it is a surprisingly fun romp and a great way to tutorialize even intermediate-level concepts of the royal game. Image by Sierra Entertainment via Moby Games It is definitely of a different era (you have to – gasp! – read a lot of text), and it can be a bit of a bother to get it running on a modern computer, but it is a genuinely charming way to introduce a loved one to chess with a lovely art style and nice music, with fun items like the Pipes of Befuddlement (that forces your opponent to make a random legal move on their next turn) or the Grail of Bishop Renewal (that does exactly what you would expect it to), it is still a jolly good time. And hey, if you are actually good at the game, it is an enjoyable romp for an afternoon’s delight. Kung-Fu Chess Real-time chess without turns—it’s a silly concept, but a tremendous amount of fun in multiplayer. That said, there are still some timing and sequencing limitations to keep in mind: you cannot move multiple pieces at the same time, and there is a short delay before you can move again. [Hidden Content] There are no checks and there is no stalemate rule – as is the case in most chess variants, your goal is to capture your opponent’s king. The origins of Kung-Fu Chess go back to the early 2000s, and this multimove variant actually has some quite significant depth and a high level of play. 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel I am not too proud to admit it: this game broke my brain and therefore I have very little actual commentary to offer on it. The title says it all, really: You play multiple simultaneous chess games across various timelines and boards, and you need to win once to win everywhere. [Hidden Content] “The first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions,” 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel was a pandemic sensation, and if you really want to rack your brain, it is a great choice – but fair warning, you will need some actual chess knowledge to truly enjoy it. Master of Chess There’s Football Manager, there’s Tennis Manager, there are a million different management games – so, why not chess? A solo developer project, Master of Chess lets you help navigate a chess prodigy’s career, deciding on training regimen and tournaments to enter. [Hidden Content] While you can play out the games yourself against the computer, what I found the most enjoyable way to engage with Master of Chess was to play the mode where you are only asked to input a move in critical situations. This way, your low-level player will actually make big mistakes against strong opposition, and the puzzle situations that emerge are genuinely compelling because you watched the whole match blossom out in front of you along the way. Once again, there's a demo for your consideration. Pawnbarian One more puzzle roguelite for the road. Pawnbarian is an entirely turn-based affair, with cards and upgrade mechanics making it a much tighter puzzler than Shotgun King, and with much less of the whimsy. [Hidden Content] It is a great dungeon crawler experience, nevertheless. It’s a deep and challenging game with great replayability, and a fun way to play something chess-adjacent solo. The post The 6 best chess-themed video games appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

A recent Honkai: Star Rail leak is hinting at the gameplay for upcoming Fate/Stay Night collaboration characters Saber and Archer, teasing how the two new characters will play. HoYoverse finally lifted the veil for the sci-fi RPG's highly-anticipated first crossover earlier this month, confirming two new characters will be coming with the collaboration. Two of the Fate franchise's most iconic characters will be joining Honkai: Star Rail's playable cast during Version 3.4, introducing both Saber and Archer. Now, new leaks are giving a better idea of how each character will play. View the full article

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It doesn't take long to build up a massive inventory in Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, but whenever you're making space, there's one unassuming material you should hang on to. In typical Elder Scrolls fashion, the world of Cyrodiil is filled to the brim with items and materials to earn, loot, and steal, and you'll likely find yourself frequently offloading them to avoid hitting the encumbrance threshold. Even if you keep a few of every material on hand for crafting purposes, it usually makes sense to sell the excess, especially when the value seems decent. View the full article

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 contains hours of side content that, although optional, feature some of the best loot and often additional story details you'd otherwise miss out on. That's why it's well worth exploring as many side areas as you can while making your way across the Continent. Whether you're after better gear, new upgrade materials, or simply curious about the expansive and mystical world of Clair Obscur, there are certain optional areas that you definitely should not skip. View the full article

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick is unconcerned about the mixed reception of Sid Meier's Civilization 7, which continues to draw polarizing reactions months after launch. While he acknowledged the game had some issues at launch, the executive believes Civilization 7 now has a bright future ahead of it. View the full article

Gloomwood developer Dillon Rogers has released gameplay footage of upcoming tweaks to the game's monster serum transformation system. What's new is that we'll be getting even more chances to use the monster juice, but I just hadn't realized how far reaching the system as a whole really was... Read more.View the full article

A prominent Fortnite leaker has revealed that Godzilla could be coming to the game's Creative mode in the near future, which would give players new ways to interact with the iconic monster. Fortnite is currently in the middle of its Star Wars-themed mini-season, which is called Galactic Battle. View the full article

drift is an upcoming "offroad vaporwave racer" that is, clear as daylight, powered by pure vibes, with a retro-inspired palette that may resonate with people who are interested in relatively lo-fi driving games like Art of Rally—games more about the feel of driving than ultra-hi-res landscapes and cars... Read more.View the full article

Infinity Nikki has finally responded to fan feedback over the controversy of Version 1.5, offering clarification and compensation for its numerous gameplay issues. December 2024 saw the meteoric rise of Infinity Nikki, as the game resonated with players across the globe to become the sixth most profitable gacha on mobile devices. Given that the main platform for Infinity Nikki is the PC, it's fair to say that Infold made immense revenue from excited fans and eager newcomers. View the full article

Despite being made up of the familiar DNA of classic turn-based RPG games, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 managed to offer a unique take on the genre with breathtaking visuals, becoming a massive hit shortly after release. While Expedition 33 had the same length and a comparable, if not better, level of quality than most triple-A titles, the most surprising and beneficial aspect of Expedition 33's release was just how surprisingly cheap it was. Developed by the breakout indie studio, Sandfall Interactive, there was plenty of talent behind Expedition 33 that could have easily warranted going higher than its $50 price. View the full article

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Early Access begins in a few hours on PC and consoles, and Level-5 releases two more Life Songs. View the full article

In Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber SlimX's deep dive into the game's out-of-bounds secrets, he revealed a super-niche Act Three world state that beggars belief, one where the Tiefling refugees are all zombie versions of themselves, but show up in their usual locations acting like you saved them. This requires indulging in a quite frankly deranged combo of "good" and "evil" playthrough choices:.. Read more.View the full article

Answering the Call is the first quest you can complete in Palia's Elderwood expansion, and it will introduce you to the new region. To begin the quest, you'll have to make a fair amount of progress if you've just started playing the game. Once you've cleared the main story quests (the main vault quests and four additional ones), you'll gain access to the Elderwood region. This guide will highlight all the required steps for completing the Answering the Call quest. How to complete Answering the Call Quest in Palia Once you unlock Elderwood, there will be a special cutscene, followed by meeting Einar. Einar will tell you that the Cosmos Protocol Lockdown is no longer in place, and you'll have to meet with Subira. This starts the Answering the Call quest automatically, and you'll find Subira at the Night Sky Temple. The temple is pretty easy to locate, and it's southwest of the Leafhopper Hills. You'll also find Hekla and Jina with Subira, but she will leave to check the new location. Go to the north of the temple to interact with her once again. Subira will inform you that you'll have to find seven logbooks around the temple. Screenshot by Destructoid The key is to find a password of seven characters. Each logbook includes one of the secret characters, and combining them will form the password. Record NameHow to FindSecret Letter PasswordRecord 1Right behind where you find Subira in the templeQRecord 2Go west from where Subira is located. Break the wall with your pickaxe, and then turn right to pick up the recordsRecord 3Break the west wall, and the record will be on the ground near the water pipe7Record 4Get on top of the north wall, jump over a small gap, and the item will be lying on the ground?Record 5Go east on the second floor, and get down to the first one. You can pick it up from the west wall after breaking through itvRecord 6Break down the third wall you find west, and pick the record up%Record 7You will find it from the east wallJ Once you've collected all the clues, climb the north wall underground to come across the hidden room. Subira will tell you about the console, where you'll need to enter the code. If you have figured it out from the table, the correct code is Qs7?v%J. You'll have to enter the code in the exact order. If you miss out on a single character, you'll have to restart the entire process, which begins by retrieving the record logs from the very beginning. You'll have to check each console tab for more information about the chamber. Gather all the clues you can, speak with Subira, and this will mark the end of the Answering the Call quest. This will mark a long line of quests that you can find and complete in the Elderwood region, and the Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow hidden mission is one of many. The post Palia Answering the Call Quest walkthrough: How to find the password appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

The eChampions Mystery League objective is live in EA FC 25, and you can win bonus rewards in Ultimate Team for your grind. The objective coincides with the start of the knockout rounds for the eChampions League, which will pit the best esports pros against each other. While you can up your game and learn new skills for the pros, solving the objective will also help you get more rewards. This guide will help you figure out the mystery league. EA FC 25 eChampions Mystery League objective guide The basic premise of the eChampions Mystery League objective is pretty simple, but it has a specific condition. Score five goals using a Finesse Shot with a Player from the mystery league in any UT game mode. The name of the league will be hinted at during the broadcast of the eChampions League - Knockout Stage. The main task is to guess what the league in discussion is. This isn't an easy task at all, as there are plenty of official leagues present in EA FC 25. Once you've correctly guessed the league, select a card of a footballer from it. Turns out, the mystery league is Liga Portugal. Image via EA Sports Score five goals with Finesse Shot using that player (from Liga Portugal) across any Ultimate Team mode. It's not necessary to score all five goals in the same game. You can break it down and complete the goal requirements from as many matches as possible. Make sure you complete the objective before it expires from Ultimate Team. Once complete, you'll get an 83+ x2 Rare Gold Players Pack, and a coin boost to help your cause. It's always beneficial to have additional packs during TOTS, as you can always land a Team of the Season card if you're lucky enough. Hence, it's pretty cool to complete the objective as early as possible, especially since we have already cracked the mystery league. The post EA FC 25 eChampions Mystery League revealed appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article