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Tekken 8's Season 2 released to some of the most negative criticism the series has ever had. Some of the most common complaints are that the damage is too high, characters have been way overtuned (to the point where almost everyone is virtually overpowered), and the game feels more like a "party game" instead of a competitive fighter. Just two fifty-fifty mix-ups is enough to end most rounds for just about every character. There have been some smaller changes, but Season 2 still has a long way to go, which has been addressed by Tekken 8 producer Katsuhiro Harada. View the full article

The latest instalment of the renowned NaturalVision GTA 5 visual overhaul mod series will launch on May 15—which you may have noticed is today... Read more.View the full article

sharp-eyed Oblivion Remastered player has noticed that the game contains a uniquely patterned rug… the exact same rug, in fact, that they've got in their kitchen... Read more.View the full article

Curious what's happening with that cool-looking medieval zombie game that got revealed a couple of years back? Blight: Survival feels like a mix between Plague Tale, Hunt: Showdown, and Hood: Outlaws and Legends, letting you step into an alternate version of 14th-century Europe where the ****** Death is essentially now a zombie virus... Read more.View the full article

Tribe Nine is shutting down this November following its launch a few months ago on mobile and PC. View the full article

If you want fast-paced, goofy battles with friends in a cartoonish arena-style game, Nubs! Arena has you covered. While your default characters are cute little critters wielding anything from cans of beans to garden gnomes, you can change their peculiar appearances using skins. How do you get new character skins, then? By far the easiest way is to redeem Nubs! Arena reward codes for new items. Let's dive into every currently available code and find out where you can find more. Table of contentsAll Nubs! Arena codes listActive Nubs! Arena codesExpired Nubs! Arena codesHow to redeem codes in Nubs! ArenaHow to find more Nubs! Arena codesAll Nubs! Arena codes listActive Nubs! Arena codes There are currently no active Nubs! Arena codes. Expired Nubs! Arena codes There are currently no expired Nubs! Arena codes. How to redeem codes in Nubs! Arena Screenshot by Destructoid Here's a complete step-by-step guide to redeeming your Nubs! Arena reward codes: Go to Nubs! Arena's main menu screen.Click on Customize under your character level and avatar.Head to Redeem.Copy and paste your reward code into the box.Press Claim to receive your reward.How to find more Nubs! Arena codes As confirmed by a Nubs! Arena developer on Steam, more codes will arrive on the game's official Twitter (X) page over time. It's unknown what the code schedule will look like at the time of writing, but we can confirm that they'll come out sometime in the future. You can also keep an eye on the official Nubs! Arena Discord server and Reddit to hear about upcoming updates, current events, and potential code releases. You can also use these pages for casual chit-chat with the community or to look for a group to play with if your usual friend group is offline. At the time of writing, the game's launch day hasn't come with any reward codes or events with skins as prizes. We'll continue updating this page as we discover more Nubs! Arena codes and methods for finding them. The post All Nubs! Arena codes and how to redeem them appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Following the recent frustrations with the Rite of the Nine schedule in Destiny 2, Bungie announced major changes to the event which should make things much better for players. Despite Episode Heresy largely wrapping its content up weeks ago, Bungie has continued to add new things for Destiny 2 players to do, from the Heavy Metal Crucible event, to the recently launched Rite of the Nine activity. View the full article

Into To The Restless is a roguelite dungeon crawler where you build the dungeon as you go. I really enjoyed the demo, and the full game is out today. In a show of confidence I always appreciate, the demo is also still available. Launch trailer below. It's got a quote from one of my articles in it, although they opted not to use the phrase "like hailstones battering the word '****' into soft cement" for some reason. Perplexing times we live in. Read more View the full article

Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. ... Read more View the full article

Extraction shooters are, at this point, a dime a dozen. And for my money, you’ve got to really do something different to stand out in that increasingly crowded genre. That’s why I was eager to meet up with a couple of developers from the team at Good Fun Corporation so they could show me Hunger, their upcoming zombie-tastic Unreal Engine 5-powered first-person action-RPG that utilizes an extraction loop. Yes, the developers specifically phrased it that way, as they seemingly aren’t looking to be thought of as just another extraction shooter. And in fairness to them, based on what I saw of an impressive early build (the team’s Early Access launch is still far enough away that they weren’t comfortable giving me an on-the-record release window quite yet), Hunger is going to be anything but another generic extraction shooter in the Steam pile. Two things about Hunger piqued my interest immediately: its visual aesthetic and its actual visuals. Starting with the former, game director Maximilian Rea described Hunger’s look as “Renaissance gothic,” which seems like a fair way to sum it up. As you can see in the videos and screenshots in this article, Hunger mixes first-gen firearms with brutal melee weapons inside of filthy lived-in towns and glorious castles. And then, in terms of raw graphics, the foliage, lighting, and texture detail are all absolutely stunning. This is easily one of the best uses of Unreal Engine 5 I’ve seen so far. This is easily one of the best uses of Unreal Engine 5 I’ve seen so far. But, you might ask, how does it actually play? Sadly I can’t answer that quite yet, as my demo was just a hands-off first look, but it does seem built to last. In short, the team tells me, they’re aiming for the simplicity of ARC Raiders with the complexity of Escape From Tarkov. You begin in the Outer Ramparts, a social, violence-free hub within the Chateau where other players and NPCs alike roam. Like Destiny, you can switch to third-person perspective here if you like (though in proper combat, you’ll always be in first-person). Here you can shop with Piro, a quirky shopkeeper who wears a weird metal mask and offers items up for ***** on a tray that’s worn around his neck as if he’s some ********** girl from the 1920’s. Or you can add or remove items from your stash by checking in with Louis, the Stashmaster who also doles out the occasional quest. Reynauld, meanwhile, is the Expedition Master. He's missing parts of a couple fingers, indicating that he’s tussled with the zombies at least once, and talking to him queues you into an expedition (i.e. a raid). The initial Early Access release will have three maps: Jacques Bridge, Sombre Forest, and Sarlat Farm. Each is one square kilometer, and each one has a big dungeon beneath it as well. Expect six weather varieties per map, including noon (clear), noon (fog), sunset, and sunrise. More dynamic stuff will be added post-release. Rea explained that they’re aiming for 50-60 hours of content here, and then you unlock the Cauldron, a new area of the Chateau. You will learn your profession there. There are six professions: three gathering (like Scavenging, which means you’re a purveyor of metals and materials; a Conservator who finds mechanisms and trinkets to make tools or guns; and the Naturalist, who gathers herbs and spices to make food, drinks, and medicine) and three crafting (examples here include Metallurgy, Gunsmithing, and Cooking). You can have two professions at a time. The story of this map is that there was civil conflict when The End – the bacteria that led to the Hunger – began. As you play, there's lore to find and extract with. Missives and Maps, as examples of this, are Common, Rare, or Legendary. And if you extract with a Missive you can read it back in the Chateau and get a quest's worth of XP, and once you’ve found everything you can read the whole story of the game. The developers also plan to tell the story through NPC dialogue. "We try to infuse every aspect of the game with story," Rea told me. The Hunger all have different qualities and aspects, which means that going melee-only has the advantage of letting you be silent. Shooting, on the other hand, makes noise and invites more Hunger. The Bloater, as an example of one such Hunger, is a blob-like thing that explodes into a cloud of poisonous gas. Shambler hits, meanwhile, cause bleed damage. Going melee-only has the advantage of letting you be silent. Shooting, on the other hand, makes noise and invites more Hunger. There are a whopping 33 weapons between melee and ranged, from daggers, pistols, and rifles to maces and primitive machine guns. You can find exotic ammo for the guns that add additional damage effects to the bullets. And yes, there will be dedicated PvP experiences if you need to scratch that itch. Furthermore, there's a Mastery Tree, and as you level up from 10-100 you get a mastery point. This includes four trees: Physiology, Survival, Martial, and Cunning, and the developers hope this ensures there are multiple ways to progress through the game besides PvP. In fact, you can play solo or in duos if you want as well. "Being a solo or duo player isn't a death sentence,” Rea said. “In fact it's one of the quickest ways to progress in the game." You'll also unlock progression cosmetics as well when you level up, kill bosses, etc. And yes, there are cosmetics for every weapon and bag. Hunger won’t be free-to-play, which hopefully helps ensure its design principles won’t be compromised by pay-to-win nonsense, and there definitely won’t be any battle passes. They did mention a “Support the Developers” edition that would include extra cosmetics for whatever it ends up priced at above the $30 the team is aiming for on the standard edition. As to how long a session might last, Rea suggested that the low end of an expedition might be 30-35 minutes, hopefully ensuring that Hunger is an easy game to jump in for a little while with at night with friends, and then go to bed feeling accomplished and not feeling guilty for having hopped off of some live-service hamster wheel. If and when you die, everything you do contributes to XP gains, so the goal is for you to never have a pointless session. "If they've played for an hour, we want them to feel like they've meaningfully moved the ball forward for their character," Rea said. Hunger might still be a ways away, but from what I’ve already seen, it looks like the team – who also made Hell Let Loose – is cooking up something unique and worth keeping an eye on. We’ll have more on Hunger on IGN as development progresses. Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of both IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, so it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan. View the full article

GSC Game World has released a brand-new STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl update for May 2025, offering a huge list of improvements and bug fixes deployed within Patch 1.4. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl was first launched back in November 2024, serving as the fourth game in the STALKER series and the first entry in 15 years since 2009’s Call of Pripyat. Players are tasked with navigating the FPS survival horror within the post-apocalyptic exclusion zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. View the full article

Electronic Arts is moving away from its remote working policies and will push for a full return to offices, which will be gradually applied over the next 3 to 24 months, depending on where workers are located. Reportedly, the end of the remote work policies has upset Electronic Arts employees, as many had rearranged their lives in ways that will now be disrupted by the full return to offices. View the full article

Monster Hunter Wilds has already come a long way since its release, introducing several new challenge modes and the ever-popular Mizutsune for hunters to face off against. Addressing the difficulty complaints of its initial launch, Capcom has significantly raised the stakes for Wilds, with plenty of difficult hunts to test the skills of even veteran players. While Arch-Tempered Rey Dau and Tempered Mizutsune are just the difficulty spike I've been waiting for, there's still one aspect from Monster Hunter World I'm hoping makes a full return in the future. View the full article

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Act fast if you want a brand new free game, as Nubs! Arena from ex-Awesomenauts developers has released and it's free for the first 24 hours. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Borderlands 4 is the latest entry in the Borderlands series. Gearbox has shared a lot of information about it so far. One update will abandon a feature introduced in Borderlands 2. View the full article

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has added Doom: The Dark Ages to its content catalog. This is the 53rd new title to reach Microsoft's subscription service since the start of the year, as well as the eighth new Xbox Game Pass release in May. View the full article

A new Diablo 4 update has rolled out, and it hasn't taken long for players to spot some changes that weren't listed in Blizzard's blog posts. Diablo 4 patch 2.2.1 brings buffs to several classes, but it also includes some welcome quality-of-life improvements that weren't mentioned before, along with kickstarting a new Diablo 4 Mother's Blessing event offering bonus gold and experience. It's not all good news, however; an apparent stealth adjustment to one of Season 8's strongest boss powers has dramatically reduced the viability of a handful of builds. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Diablo 4 update brings buffs to all classes, and it's great news for Barbarians The 15 best games like Diablo The new Diablo 4 Berserk crossover skins will cost you up to $150 View the full article

What are the Doom The Dark Ages wolf statue locations? id Software loves an environmental puzzle, almost as much as it loves cramming secrets into every nook and cranny of its maps. The Dark Ages sports ******* levels than ever, meaning more space to hide its hounds. The Doom The Dark Ages wolf statue puzzles are a must-complete, as they yield top-tier materials in Rubies and Wraithstones. You're going to need plenty of these to unlock all of the Doom The Dark Ages upgrades for your Doom The Dark Ages weapons. Read on to find out where to find all the FPS game's good boys. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Is Doom The Dark Ages on Game Pass? This one Doom The Dark Ages setting will transport you back to the 90s All Doom The Dark Ages weapons and locations View the full article

We're getting totally spoiled with unique deck-builders lately like Moonsigil Atlas that I really can't wait for. And now Devolver Digital announced they're publishing Shroom and Gloom with a demo up now and it's glorious. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Warner Bros and NetherRealm Studios has announced the Mortal Kombat 1 Definitive Edition, which will contain all the DLC characters, new movie skins, "and more". This newly packaged version of the gory fighter is available now, and offers a chance for folks to hop in with all the content. But this news has been met with an intense negative reaction, and stands out as especially dire given the recent Warner Bros quarterly financial report. Read more View the full article

Ubisoft has been hit with hard times lately. Far Cry 6 let people down. Skull and Bones struggled to find form. Xdefiant never really got started, and has since been shuttered for good. But maybe things are starting to turn around. Assassin's Creed Shadows is a success, The Division 3 is in the works, and Rainbow Six Siege X is scheduled to arrive in June. Even Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's underloved and overlooked tie-in shooter from August of last year, is getting better. If it put you off nine months ago, or you've never tried it before, the new Star Wars Outlaws update fixes one of the most irksome combat problems and adds new missions. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Star Wars Outlaws deserves a second chance, and now you can try it free Star Wars Outlaws hits a new Steam high as it drops to its lowest price yet The Star Wars Outlaws Steam version has fewer than 1,000 players at launch View the full article

It may not break too much new ground, but The First Berserker: Khazan has proven itself a must-play for ardent soulslike fans. Boasting some enrapturing visual design and intense, parry-led combat reminiscent of Sekiro and Lies of P, it's won a 90% Steam rating from players, and deserves even more attention. In case you needed another reason to take a look, developer Neople has just unleashed a giant, free update that introduces the game's toughest test yet - ultimate challenge mode. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The First Berserker Khazan review - a bloodthirsty homage to Sekiro Nvidia's new GeForce GPU drivers cause problems with inZOI and Khazan, say devs The First Berserker Khazan is sitting on a better Steam score than Elden Ring View the full article

You don't have to listen to those impressive game soundtracks through tinny speakers anymore. It's time for an upgrade, thanks to this Razer gaming headset deal. The Razer BlackShark V2 Pro is now down to just $154.99, saving you 23% on Amazon's list price, and scoring you a headset that we're happy to rave about. In our Razer BlackShark V2 Pro review, we praised this headset across the board, thanks to its great sound quality and ultra-comfortable fit, making it the best gaming headset in our guide. This Razer headset is a solid upgrade over any budget model, so if you're looking for crystal clear in-game comms, you'll want to consider it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Be Quiet! Light Mount review - a gaming keyboard to be seen and not heard Best gaming keyboard 2025 Best mini gaming PC 2025: top small form factor PCs View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]