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No matter what type of lord you want to be in Manor Lords, you will need to play nice early on. You will only have access to so many materials and resources in your village's early stages, so trading is essential for not only upgrading and advancing, but also keeping your loyal population happy. To sustain yourself in the early years, trading will grant you access to much-needed support, as well as a great source of income if you have a surplus of materials to sell. To make sure your storehouses are well-stocked, you will need to learn how to set up a profitable trade operation.

Dragon's Dogma 2 performance issues may be caused by a baffling design decision, judging from some recent discoveries by modders.

Additional details about the setting of the rumored Resident Evil 9 might have surfaced.

Silver is one of the most important resources you can find in Hades 2. Unlike most others that drop after clearing a room, this precious metal must be mined from deposits around the map, leading to the question of how you can gather it. You may come across a glowing stone with the “Collect?” prompt, only to be told you cannot gather it without a special tool. That tool is none other than the Crescent Pick, but unlocking it is a bit obscure. It won’t take you many runs to get what you need, so just follow our lead so you can start collecting Silver to make new weapons with.

A new rumor suggests that the infamous Galactus of Marvel lore could be returning to Fortnite in a future event. Epic’s massively successful multiplayer battle royale has seen its fair share of equally successful crossovers, and Marvel has been a constant source of these since Black Widow and Star-Lord first appeared as playable character skins back in Chapter 1 Season 8. A vast array of heroes and villains from across the Marvel universe have dropped into Fortnite, often to promote a new MCU show or movie.

One creative The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has recently managed to put together an adorable fishing boat. Their cute contraption later made the rounds online, adding to the countless feats of engineering that Tears of the Kingdom fandom has managed to date.

Over the course of its many years of updates and expansions, Sea of Thieves has had a few notable crossovers with other pirate franchises. The Pirates of the Caribbean crossover let you team up with the legendary Jack Sparrow, but the Monkey Island content felt like it came out of nowhere. For those unaware, Monkey Island is a series of pirate point-and-click games that were as funny as the puzzles were obscure. Thankfully, you don't have to intuit that you need to combine a cat whisker with a mason jar to bypass a skeleton guard to get to this new content, but it is more challenging than you might think.

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island has received a new update on Switch, Spike Chunsoft has confirmed. The update brings quite a bit of new content to the game, including dojo challenges, a new playable character, new Sacred Tree dungeons with six new modes though the sixth is a mystery. A further content update is due in the summer too. The content update notes are below.

A new Dead Island 2 NVIDIA DLSS 3 mod is now available for download, bringing significant performance improvements to the second entry in the series developed by Dambuster Studios.

A gamer created their own version of the Master Cycle Zero in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Nintendo-developed game offers players the ability to construct various objects to aid them in their adventures through the vast and open world of Hyrule.

The latest rendition of the Rebirth Island map brings several new easter eggs to uncover in Warzone. One of these easter eggs takes you to multiple parts of the map to complete a series of tasks in order to gain access to a unique weapon Blueprint. In the main building at the Industry Point of Interest in Sector G3, you will find the Redacted Blueprint for the DG-56 Assault Rifle locked behind a glass case.

The Banana Shrine can be a bit tricky to find in if you don't know its precise location. You will also need to complete the Shrine so that you can use it for your Golden Walnut collection. The Shrine can be found on Ginger Island, where you can discover new fish species, meet new NPCs, and unlock other secrets.

The Prime Video adaptation of has been a massive hit among fans, and its two creators are already teasing the possibility of a second season.

The Keycard Easter Egg makes its return to Rebirth Island in Warzone’s Season 3 Update. This small quest was first introduced back during Call of Duty: Vanguard’s rendition of the beloved Resurgence map and tasks players with finding 3 keycards, each of which can open a Vault found near the southwest coast of the island. While it remains mostly the same as its previous iteration, there are a few changes that both returning and new players will want to know about so that can get all of this high-tier loot which includes Cash, Perk Packages, Advanced UAVs, and Loadout Drops.

When it comes to iconic locations in the Kingdom Hearts series, you don't get much better than Traverse Town, other than perhaps Destiny Islands, Twilight Town, and maybe Hollow Bastion, if you're really pushing it. It marked the start of Sora's bafflingly complex journey all those years ago, and its exclusion from Kingdom Hearts 3 didn't sit right with a lot of fans.

There’s more to Dragon’s Dogma 2 when the credits roll. Before completing the story, you’ll want to discover how to access the true ending — a secret route that’s only available if you’re really paying attention at the end of the game. This should be obvious, but there are going to be huge spoilers as we explain the specific steps required to reach the next phase of the game. There’s a lot more to complete before you reach the real ending. Prepare yourself, because we’re entering another world in Dragon’s Dogma 2.

What is Call of Duty these days? I'm not sure. But I do know you can currently buy the weed-loving Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong from Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone's in-game shop.

Fortnite may be crossing over with Planet of the Apes in time for the new movie, at least according to a reliable industry insider. There have been plenty of guest characters from across the realms of film, television, and even other video games in Fortnite, with one of the most recent ones adding the titular heroine from The Legend of Korra as a playable character skin.

The season two finale of Invincible has a cheeky little easter egg that canonises Mark's appearance in Fortnite and explains how he got to the Island in the first place.

The main story quest of New World is set to wrap up with the recent release of Season 5. The New World story has been on pause for many months, but Season 5 is set to conclude the narrative, potentially setting the stage for a new one.

The Warfarer is an Advanced Vocation you can unlock in that lets you equip any of the weapons or abilities of other classes. Even though this archetype has lower base stats than other Vocations, using every class' skills makes the Warfarer perhaps the most versatile profession in the game. You'll have to complete a quest for the right NPC to make Warfarer available for your characters.

One of the Advanced Vocations you can unlock in is the Magick Archer, a class that uses powerful spells to create unique ranged attacks to destroy your enemies. Characters with this profession wield a stringless bow that fires magical arrows at different targets. These arrows can hone in on a monster's weak points, heal allies, and even make large Area of Effect (AoE) attacks against enemy groups.

Awaken Astral Blade is a larger-than-life Metroidvania with massive monsters, precise platforming, and more earth-shattering magic than you can shake a gated map at. Its latest trailer is jam-packed with all of the above and more, tracking some of bionically-enhanced protagonist Tania's turbulent journey to reveal her origins and fate – while kicking scores of alien enemy butt along the way.   Better still, Awaken Astral Blade now has a release window – Q3 2024 - as revealed at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase.

Since allows players to craft anything, many popular crafting options include popular shows like. Though different paths can produce since it is a Netflix live-action anime and manga, the quickest option is to go down the Anime thread to craft it.

News that The Sims was getting a big-screen adaptation – with Barbie's Margot Robbie executive producing, no less – made waves on the internet overnight.

Unreal Editor for Fortnite has received new assets that allow enthusiasts to make their own LEGO Creative Islands. Their arrival has been accompanied by the release of three additional LEGO Islands in Fortnite.

If you've ever wanted to take your Warzone experience on the go, well now you can. The Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile release date is here!

Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence by Ubisoft has delayed its launch yet once again. The third-person shooter was supposed to roll out later this month, but that’s not happening now. The launch date has now been pushed to December 2024. I know, it’s quite a drag!

Pandora’s box has been opened, unleashing the myths and mortals of Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2! Olympian legends — like thunder god Zeus and Hades king of the underworld — now rule the Battle Royale Island with otherworldly rage. Turn the tides against them like Poseidon in Chapter 5 Season 2: Myths & Mortals, out now!

Following the billion-dollar success of the first Super Mario Bros. Movie, series owner Nintendo and animation studio Illumination have announced another film "based on the world of Super Mario Bros."

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's new lifestyle content has more in common with the Ishgard Restoration Project (collective grinding) than one might expect. 

Skill Fruits, found on peculiar trees scattered throughout the Palpagos Islands in , offer powerful skills you can teach your Pals. These fruits are not limited by their elemental type, meaning a fire Pal can learn a water skill and vice versa, allowing for diverse customization. While Pals naturally acquire Active Skills, these inherent abilities often fail to create the most effective Pal build.

Stardew Valley Update 1.6 is right around the corner, and now developer Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone has teased fans that there is a lot more to it than they think. Many fans thought that Update 1.5 would be the last major update for Stardew Valley, so the announcement of Update 1.6 came as a pleasant surprise.

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is finally set to launch in full next month following the decision to delay the game late last year.

Stardew Valley fans speculate that the game’s upcoming 1.6 update will introduce Prairie Island, a brand-new area, to the map. Theories regarding the 1.6 update have been circulating since its announcement, and many Stardew Valleyplayers are looking forward to confirmed new content as well as rumored changes.

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The nominations for this year's Gayming Awards 2024 have been announced, and somewhat predictably, Baldur's Gate 3 has managed five nominations across four categories. 

[UPDATE] The official Dead Island 2 Twitter account has confirmed the news.

Though is filled with a ton of game mechanics with less emphasis on the lore or narrative, the giant tree in the top left of the screen has sparked the interest of many of the 19 million people who have hopped into the game since it was originally released. Without a direct story in beyond the Journal entries scattered throughout the Palpagos Islands, it's left to players' imagination as to what the giant tree is and what it could mean for the game's Pal population.

The series is one of the biggest video game hits to come out of the early 2010s zombie boom in the market, leading to several spin-off games and eventually the 2023 title Although none of the games ever quite garnered critical acclaim, most generally met a positive reception thanks to fun gameplay and the use of an effective Old Hollywood B-movie tone. managed the largest launch in franchise history across Xbox, PlayStation, and the Epic Games Store, and it's moving to Steam on April 22, 2024, to expand those sales even further.

If you didn’t already think Disney was taking over the world, their latest announcement alongside Epic Games should terrify you.

Nexus Mods, arguably the biggest repository for game mods on the Web, has crossed the impressive milestone of 10 billion downloads.

In Nexus Mods' words: «A beast of monstrous proportions is approaching.» Today, the mod distribution site — home to some of the best community made video game additions (looking at you Shrek and Thomas) — will hit 10bn downloads.

The Palpagos Islands in Palworld are a massive swath of land waiting to be explored. You will spend plenty of time catching a team of Pals in the early going, as well as collecting plenty of materials to build up a base and upgrade your gear, but exploration will always pull you out into the dangerous wilds. While you’re out there, you will eventually happen upon various treasure chests with the promise of some great loot inside. These chests come in different types, with each requiring a unique type of key to be opened. The rarest of these chests need a Gold Key, which is obviously the hardest to find. In fact, you can look high and low and never find one. There’s a trick to getting these special keys, and we’ll share all those juicy details.

Shared-world puzzle game Islands of Insight now has a release date: 13th February.

Dondoko Island is a significant part of 's appeal, but how and when the experience can be accessed in-game isn't immediately obvious. The series, formerly published as in the west, has long been known for featuring memorable and unique side content and mini-games to accompany its more dramatic main stories. promises an even longer and more robust experience than any of the past games have ever delivered, and Dondoko Island might be the selling point that jumps out the most.

Islands of Insight will launch for PC via Steam on February 13 for $29.99, publisher Behaviour Interactive and developer Lunarch Studios announced. A new demo will be available during Steam Next Fest: February 2024 from February 5 to 12, but users can register on the official website from February 2 to 4 to receive an early access code.

Final Fantasy 14 recently added a new furnishing item that hearkens back to the iconic square grapes from Endwalker’s original release. The Labyrinthos Grape Lamppost outdoor furnishing, added in Patch 6.55, lets Final Fantasy 14 players immortalize the meme outside their homes and Island Sanctuary forever.

One Palworld explorer has found a location in the game that is rich with valuable resources — specifically ore and coal nodes. Palworld combines the monster-catching and survival genres, which encourages base-building, and as such, resources are a valuable asset for players to gather.

With the 2024 Toyko Fan Fest in the books, Final Fantasy 14 released Patch 6.55, Growing Light Part 2, which brought the story of the Endwalker expansion and several side quests to a close. In addition to the stories, Final Fantasy 14 made some changes specific to the PvP mode called Shatter and some Jobs were nerfed in Frontline mode.

Upon logging into Fortnite, a quick flick of the mouse or joystick will reveal a library of user-generated content crafted using Fortnite’s Creative tools. While many of these are genuinely impressive experiences with considerable audiences, it’s clear that Fortnite is suffering from a severe lack of content moderation.

Keen to avoid some of the mistakes of Final Fantasy 14’s post-Endwalker content run, Square Enix is ensuring Dawntrail gets the flexible open-world content fans have been missing.

A part of the world of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask has been reimagined in Minecraft, as one player has meticulously built Clock Town. While this Minecraft build has a more blocky appearance, it recreates many iconic areas from the ill-fated town from one of the darker Legend of Zelda games in the series.

The second volume of the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker art book series is coming in June, and Square Enix’ Manga and Books publishing arm is taking preorders.

Nobody wants to die in video games, but the best games keep killing us and we keep coming back for more. Some of our favorite games of 2023 were brutally difficult – and instead of listing the games we thought were the hardest, we’re going to get a lot more specific. In 2023, there were some pretty awesome levels. And these are the 10 tough levels that killed us more than anything else. Death in a video game can be its own blessing. It just means we get to play even more video games.

Seemingly not content with swallowing up Animal Crossing and spitting out its own farm-and-craft minigame, Final Fantasy 14 has apparently now guzzled down Starfield and is readying to unleash its own way to sink dozens of hours into galactic wandering.

Get in, nerds: We’re going planet-hopping. That’s essentially the premise of the new casual content, “Cosmic Exploration,” announced for the new Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail expansion. 

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In , flying dinosaurs are must-haves for their superior mobility and ability to traverse The Island compared to their grounded counterparts. Critical for scouting missions or just getting from one place to another quickly and safely, most people's first flying tame will be a massive step up from whatever grounded mount they'd likely be using up until that point.

Back when I was running the game for my local Dungeons & Dragons group, I would always pride myself on bringing something handmade each time we got together around the table. Maybe it was a leather-bound book filled with vintage David Sutherland illustrations of the Tomb of Horrors, or a 3D map of a few rooms from Castle Ravenloft with just the right assortment of miniatures from my collection. As a lifelong fan of D&D, Rick Perry knows that impulse well. But as production designer and creative producer on Dropout’s Dimension 20, he’s operating at a scale that’s on another level entirely.

There are multiple mysteries and locations for you to explore in LEGO Fortnite. One of the stranger mysteries is the rift islands you can find floating in your LEGO world and what you’re supposed to do when you find them.

Tools are how you’re going to collect and gather many of the resources you find in LEGO Fortnite. Eventually, you’ll need to upgrade each of your tools to gather some of the higher-quality resources you’ll need to find for your village.

Developer Starbreeze has announced a new game, codenamed Project Baxter, a cooperative multiplayer game presumably in the style of its PAYDAY series. Further, Starbreeze has managed to snag the official Dungeons & Dragons branding. However, we don't expect the studio to treat the RPG setting as reverently as Larian recently did with Baldur's Gate 3.

Ark: Survival Ascended is finally available on Xbox Series X/S, PC and PS5, and Studio Wildcard has updated post-launch plans. In its Extra Life 2023 Recap, it confirmed that Survival of the Fittest would debut on December 20th for all platforms.

The endgame content of includes many different activities, including one where you can get a 100% complete exploration score tied to the game's open-world areas. Anyone who has finished the main story or wants to take a break should consider roaming around Teyvat. You'll be able to pick up various loot and other useful items by simply traveling to places you've never been to before.

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The Last of Us Part 2 introduced a new location called the Seraphite Island in Seattle, Washington. As the Cordyceps outbreak first began to spread, the island's inhabitants cut themselves off from the rest of the city and rejected military aid, choosing to instead follow a so-called prophet, becoming the aptly named Seraphites.

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Coral Island includes every feature you’d expect from a farming sim game while remembering its Indonesian roots with its novel diving mechanic. We know the basics of fishing, farming, and mining all too well, but what is this new activity all about?

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A Fortnite dataminer has seemingly uncovered Chapter 5's map in the files for Fortnite: OG, giving us a look at the next big change that's coming to The Island.

In Coral Island, it’s all about finding the right balance between cooking and your other activities. You don’t need to spend all day in the kitchen. Cook when it’s convenient and integrate it with your daily gameplay.

Last year Apple introduced the revolutionary Dynamic Island with the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models. Apple has continued this feature with the iPhone 15 lineup. This amazing feature is a convenient way to view Live Activities in progress and receive alerts right on your home screen. You can see the Dynamic Island on the top of your screen when your iPhone. Check out how to use the Live Activities feature on iPhone 15.

ARK: Survival Ascended has undergone a remarkable graphical overhaul, making us realize ASE actually looked like a potato. ASA brings an unprecedented level of visual realism to The Island that’s to die for.

Crystals are hidden away in treacherous corners of The Island in ARK: Survival Ascended. Their scarcity, combined with the dangers that often guard them, makes crystal harvesting an adventure in itself.

The best world seeds for 's 1.20 update can sometimes be found in the Bedrock Edition, or the version of the game available on most console and PC systems. These seeds can range from gorgeous landscapes featuring fresh biomes to challenging places with limited resources. Important structures, unique areas, and more can be discovered by those who choose specific seeds as the spot for their next adventure.

Every month, Netflix adds lots of new content to its library of films and TV shows. But to make room for the fresh stuff, some of the shows and movies you'd always wanted to watch—and have had in your to-watch list for months or years—suddenly disappear.