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Raven Software has pulled the latest update to Call of Duty Warzone today, after it was found to have created problems on the platform.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the first critical darling of 2024. In my own four-and-a-half star review, I call Ubisoft’s new game “a monumental achievement in approachable, seamless Metroidvania design.” I definitely recommend you pick that game up once it launches on January 18. And I think that it’s a fantastic fit for Nintendo Switch in particular.

Epic Games founder and majority stakeholder Tim Sweeney took to Twitter to congratulate Microsoft for overtaking Apple as the world's most valuable company by market value. He also criticized Apple and Google in the same tweet.

A Red Dead Redemption 2fan found something very interesting in their childhood home. It’s an old photo that might look familiar to anyone who has played Red Dead Redemption 2.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's DLC, more than any other games in the series before, is crammed with special little interactions that play out mid-battle if the player meets certain conditions. For instance, if you use Ogerpon in the first fight with your bitter rival Kieran in the Indigo Disk DLC, the Pokemon that he despises you for catching, he'll get angry and question you about why you're so dedicated to tormenting him.

By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.

When Old School RuneScape player IcarusLives made a new character on the MMO, they had just one plan in mind: farming. Their new Ultimate Ironman account, locked out of trading with other players or even banking their own items, would be a Farming-only skiller account – already a catastrophic commitment in and of itself. Their new name? Is Farmer. Beautiful.

There’s at least two things you can tell from the title of Expeditions: A MudRunner Game. First, this is a game about getting out there, into the wilderness, and seeing what you can discover, while conquering an unwelcoming landscape. Secondly, this is part of the MudRunner franchise, a vehicular series that is more focused on meticulous detail, driving in tough terrains, and transportation, than it is about racing, drifting, or being particularly fast. This is a new beginning, but fans of the franchise shouldn’t worry; it’s still you and your tyres against the world.

A new Sony patent could allow players to get stuck into games while they're downloading, splitting big installations into chunks. The patent focuses on getting fans playing a game as soon as possible, instead of leaving us with long wait times on launch day.

Back in the early access of Baldur's Gate 3, a player by the name of Solfalia wrote a heartfelt thank-you to Larian Studios. His father had been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and it was unlikely that he would be able to play the full game: «This is more than an Early Access for me, it's another adventure I can go on with my old man and make some good memories.»

Final Fantasy VII Remake zoomed in on the 1997 classic JRPG, making a complete game from the opening hours alone. The upcoming Rebirth will continue the trend, further fleshing out the latter's expansive middle section and giving characters like Sephiroth an appropriately upsized role.

Apple Inc., facing a ban on imports of its watches that generate billions in annual sales, is seeking alternate paths to overcome the patent-infringement loss that forced the most popular Apple Watch models off shelves over the holidays. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant won a temporary reprieve from a federal appeals court Wednesday, two months after the US International Trade Commission ruled the smartwatches infringed patents held by medical-device maker Masimo Corp.—and one day after the device's US sales halted. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 returned to Apple's US retail stores, and will be available online by noon Pacific Time on Thursday, the company said.

Since theFirst Strike event wrapped earlier this month for EVE Online's FPS module, EVE Vanguard, CCP Games has been crunching the data. Ahead of the holiday break, theteam laid out its early 2024 roadmap and talked about what they have learned from the first of many tests.

A GTA V NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation mod is now available online, doubling the game's performance while bringing the most stable image yet, thanks to DLAA implementation.

The New World team is looking back on 2023, breaking down some interesting player stats, while also giving a glimpse ahead and what's to come in 2024. 

In Diablo 4's hardest dungeon, you have 10 minutes and one life to kill the hardest enemies in the game. A little over a week after its launch, a Chinese player named Xingluoah was able to conquer the final and most brutal tier of the Abattoir of Zir using a newly discovered exploit, a perfected build, and the wrong pair of pants.

Naughty Dog have officially stopped development of The Last Of Us Online, a multiplayer game based on their celebrated McCarthyite (no, not that McCarthy - I mean the novelist) post-apocalyptic action-adventure. Announced in the dusty days of 2018 as a multiplayer mode for The Last Of Us: Part 2, it evolved into a standalone experience with new characters and a new setting, but Sony reportedly scaled the project back earlier this year. Naughty Dog have now formally called it quits, stating that supporting a live service project such as this would have “severely impacted” future single-player game projects. Sony never locked down platforms for The Last Of Us Online, but a PC release was surely on the cards, though I would have expected the game to launch first on PlayStation, as with the original Last Of Us and Uncharted 4.

There have been countless broken builds in Warzone over the years, but few can match the Snakeshots. These hand cannons terrorized players of all skill levels and were an absolute menace in close-quarters combat.

Larian Studios will continue supporting Baldur’s Gate 3 next year, according to CEO Swen Vincke.

Not every game needs to be a tense, dramatic experience. This has been the spirit that has driven the success of the likes of the ever-replayable , where a fun adventure is as much based on relaxation and lightheartedness as it is the drive to explore and progress. , from developer Bontemps Games and publisher Humble Games, is the latest game to provide this kind of experience.

The Lord of the Rings Online's Crafting Guilds have made it to its latest expansion,Corsairs of Umbar, in a patch this week. Meanwhile, the residents of Combe are prepping for its latest attempt at its Forester crafting event.

The writing director on Baldur's Gate 3 has revealed Larian's "not done yet" and that more updates will likely roll out in the future, including one with new races. 

In 2019, Nintendo released its classic Game Boy game The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Switch, and gave it the full remake treatment, with gorgeous, toylike 3D visuals replacing the minimal sprites of the 1993 original. But, as demonstrated by a new fan-made remaster, there’s another way to bring old games like this to modern hardware — one that retains the original look but is, in its way, just as impressive.

The Day Before has gone down as a monumental disaster, unable to match the likes of DayZ. Speaking of DayZ, the Soviet-inspired, zombie apocalypse game continues to be a shining beacon in the genre, with the developer acknowledging its success.

A former Rockstar animator who worked on Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 has weighed in on why the GTA 6 developer focuses on releasing new games for console first and then PC second. 

Jaheira actor Tracy Wiles has started her Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough, streaming her progress on Twitch. I've only caught her first stream, which centred around building her character with the help of fans in chat, but it was great fun. Of course, we're all waiting for the moment she meets herself in-game, but until then, it was great to see Wiles experience the game, especially as she meets the characters played by her co-stars.

As you might've heard, Baldur's Gate 3 took home GOTY Thursday night at The Game Awards 2023, but what you might not have seen amid the celebrations is a new patch for the RPG that dropped right in the middle of the show.

Arkane Lyon, the studio behind Dishonored and Deathloop, is working on a third-person Blade game with Marvel, but it sounds like we won't be playing it for some time to come.

Developer Sharkmob, makers of the battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodhunt, have revealed a new open-world extraction shooter called Exoborne.

Irvine-based developer Frost Giant Studios has smashed the Kickstarter campaign goal for its debut game, the real-time strategy title Stormgate, in less than fifteen minutes. Now that it's been around 14 hours since the campaign went live, the current total of pledges is at $718,996, or 718% over the base goal.

One of the more fun threads that has been woven throughout the current run of Batman has been the return of Vandal Savage. While the Caped Crusader has had his hands full dealing with threats as varied as Failsafe, the Joker, Insomnia (remember him?) and Catwoman, Savage has been making big swings.

In a rare break from tradition, Rockstar dropped the GTA 6 trailer roughly 15 hours ahead of schedule in direct response to a leak. 

The Lord of the Rings Online has a bit going on this week as it is launching its Yuletide Festival and getting its Treebeard legendary server to Helm's Deep with a new level cap of 95.

Fortnite is making a huge change to how Shield Potions work in Chapter 5 and allowing players to use them while moving instead of forcing them to stand still.

Elden Ring producer Yasuhiro Kitao has provided an update on the game’s upcoming expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree.

The final chapter of the Emerald Dream's storyline, New Beginnings, has several interesting conversations can be heard by those who stay a while and listen....Thank you to Lyna for running the best pug I've ever been in, allowing me to get the Fyrakk kill and this quest line!

With less than two months before the expected announcement of the RTX 40-series Super models, it's being reported that Nvidia is putting a halt to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti lines. The idea is, of course, that these will be superseded by the 4080 Super and the delightfully named 4070 Ti Super.

I recently went hands-on with some of the latest gaming hardware from BenQ at a festive preview event in London, England. Situated in the basement of an Art Deco hotel in the city’s historic Soho area, the gilded archways and elaborate decorative wallpaper made for a surprisingly chic choice of locale for a peek at some of the manufacturer's current gaming product lineup.

One of the key selling points of farm sims is the satisfaction of seeing things grow. That might literally be your crops growing, but it might also be the size or layout of your farm or the web of processing and agricultural systems you've connected. This stuff is just plain engrossing to set up and marvelous to admire. 

The actor who played Michael De Santa in Grand Theft Auto 5 got swatted while live-streaming online, with fans blaming game developer Rockstar Games.

After 10 years, Valdis Story: Abyssal City still sits in my brain like an oddly comforting Mind Flayer tadpole, and with it being $5.24 in the Steam Autumn Sale, you have no reason not to join me in the bliss of this criminally underrated Metroidvania. 

Ned Luke, the actor behind GTA 5 main character Michael De Santa, has been swatted while playing the game for fans in a Thanksgiving livestream.

The actor who played Grand Theft Auto 5 co-protagonist Michael De Santa was swatted while streaming GTA Online, but has defended developer Rockstar Games despite fan outcry to the contrary.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is only two weeks old, and while it set engagement records for the new trilogy, there have been several issues. Terrible spawns, which resulted in some maps being disabled in Hardpoint, inconsistent Battle Pass XP gains (which are now fixed), and more have cropped up. The latest is an exploit which allows players to sprint while prone.

The voice actor behind GTA 5 protagonist Michael De Santa has reportedly been swatted while trying to stream GTA Online. 

Lethal Company - the game in which you exit a dropship, enter an abandoned factory, pick up exactly one (1) piece of salvage, and are immediately eaten by something made entirely of teeth - is getting a VR mod. Created by DaXcess and rodabafilms, it will surely only make life more oppressive for people deserted by their co-op buddies and left to fend off giant spiders with a shovel, not that I'd know what that's like.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer Games says it’s investgating a new exploit called ‘Snake 2.0’.

In these, post-Covid days, we are heavily reliant on calling customer care services for every small query or problem. However, when looking for the customer care number, we often do a peremptory Google Search and dial the first number that appears on the list without giving it a second thought. It proved costly for a doctor who was caught up in an online cab refund scam. In a hurry, a Delhi doctor fell into a trap laid down by these criminals while trying to connect to the cab service customer care, which he found online. In the shocking event, the man, named Pradeep Chowdhury, lost over Rs. 4.9 lakh while asking for a refund due to the overcharging by the cab driver. Check out how the case took place.

Xbox Series sales in Europe have dropped considerably compared to last year, while PS5 sales experienced a major boost year-on-year.

Sledgehammer Games is finally working on a fix for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s infamous Gaia Operator outfit — a.k.a. the “Groot” skin.

Cities: Skylines 2 came out last month, and while a sequel to a mega-poplar citybuilder should have been cause for concrete celebration, the reviews were sadly mixed. Most of the criticism was directed at the game’s performance woes (not teeth-related, apparently) and bugs (which are always a problem in cities, no?) In an effort to iron out the game’s technical problems and implement the mod editor, Paradox and developers Colossal Order have now delayed post-launch content included in the Expansion Pass.

Bethesda has a reputation for these big, deep, open-world RPG you can get lost in for years. They have a legacy of large, technically impressive worlds filled with detail and places to explore. To this day, Skyrim endures as a world people want to return to—which 12 years after launch is genuinely impressive.

Gabe Newell has defended game delays with his own version of that fake Miyamoto quote.

Online maps have become a daily essential especially while navigating through an unknown place. With the help of online maps, we can travel anywhere without much of a hassle. The problem arises when we travel to a low network area and can't access the online maps. Thankfully, Apple has provided users with the ability to access Maps offline in the latest iOS 17 update. With this update, you can get access to essential information such as opening hours, ratings, turn-by-turn directions, and estimated arrival times even without a Wi-Fi or mobile data connection. So, if you have an iPhone 15, you can travel to farthest places without worrying. There are three ways you can download offline maps on your iPhone 15. Check how to download offline maps on iPhone 15.

Famed Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto once said, so the story goes, «A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.» Did he really utter those words? Apparently not. But Valve founder Gabe Newell shares the sentiment: He said so, in very plain terms, in the new Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary that released today on YouTube.

The highly successful and critically acclaimed fantasy RPG Baldur's Gate 3is getting its own physical deluxe edition, filled with all sorts of goodies as well as disks for the game itself. 

Over the past year or so, Maxis has slowly revealed more details on The Sims 5, which is currently called Project Rene. One of these details has been that it'll have multiplayer, although the team hasn't quite hinted at what this might look like until recently.

Hyperkin's up-to-date version of the legendary 'Duke' Xbox controller is currently down to a record-low price at Amazon US. But stock is selling through fast, meaning you may want to act now if you want to secure the gamepad for yourself.

Web3 game community Game7 said in a report that Asia Pacific has become the hub for Web3 game development while the U.S. dominates Web3 game funding.

Valve recently announced the Steam Deck OLED, a lighter version of its gaming handheld equipped with Wi-Fi 6E and a longer battery life. However, as with the Nintendo Switch when it received its OLED model, one has to ask: What about a true successor to the Steam Deck? What about the Steam Deck 2?

The developer of a promising cRPG dubbed Australia's answer to old-school Fallout has delayed the game just days before it was due out.

Sony is reconsidering the live service plans it made earlier this year, while Gotham Knights' publisher says it wants to go all in. 

Bethesda's Starfield is awash with things to eat or drink, from half-eaten club sandwiches to bits of steaming alien gizzard, but chugging your fill has always been fussier than it needs to be, involving a trip through the game's irritating menus. No more! The next Starfield patch, which is currently available as an opt-in Steam beta, will let you guzzle things without opening your inventory, on top of various tweaks to the game's graphics and quests.

Years of anticipation finally became reality last night when a videogame company posted a video of somebody in a sharp trench coat and mirror visor walking down a dim hall, swivelling dramatically to eyeball the viewer, then casually drawing a pistol and walking into a roomful of unfocussed Potential. This is Mass Effect 5, actual title possibly Mass Effect: Epsilon - "epsilon" being the Top Secret Codename of this hidden page on the Mass Effect website. What does it all mean? I don't know. It's a nice coat, though, isn't it? I like those padded red lapels.

If you enjoy puzzle games, I have an exceptional one for you. To celebrate the launch of The Talos Principle II, you can grab a key for the original Talos Principle, a first (or third) person puzzle game, on Steam right now as part of IGN Plus.

World of Warcraft hosted its What's Next panel yesterday at BlizzCon 2023, with the development highlighting the next expansion, The War Within.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has released a new hotfix for the city builder that attempts to improve overall performance on PC while fixing numerous bugs, and removing an "offensive" in-game radio advert.

An enterprising Final Fantasy 14 fan has set out to complete the MMO’s story content using only a party of healers, with additional rules thrown in to make the task more difficult. They were quickly made to regret the decision. 

Remedy Entertainment has provided development updates on a number of its upcoming games, includingControl 2 and the Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.

Fresh from the release of Alan Wake 2 - and apparently with a view to driving me nuts, because I haven't had a chance to play Alan Wake 2 yet - Remedy have shared some titbits about future projects. These include the modestly-known about Control 2, a sequel to the paranormal Brutalist telekinet 'em up that is seeing "good progress", and the forthcoming remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2, on which Remedy are collaborating with GTA and Max Payne 3 developer Rockstar.

We have been going through a few years now with Sony and Microsoft acquiring companies. While Microsoft had made a massive purchase with Activision Blizzard, one of the big companies Sony managed to land was Bungie. The developers behind Halo and Destiny are now under the control of Sony, and it looks like this studio is being downsized. Sony reportedly cut down the video game studio. Bloomberg made the announcement earlier today where author Jason Schreier noted that Bungie released an email alerting of a staff and team meeting. 

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.

Following a free weekend on Xbox, Diablo 4 is free to download and play on PC from today through October 30th. Meanwhile, the Diablo Immortal team has issued a warning to cheaters.

Iron Lung has just had a major update that includes a 'Markiplier mode'. This indie horror game grew in popularity after the YouTuber did a full playthrough last year that gained over 8 million views, and he enjoyed it so much that he is currently directing and starring in an Iron Lung film adaptation. The latest update adds a handful of cheats, 'Markiplier mode' being the silliest new addition. Once activated your vessel is plastered with multiple Markiplier meme faces from top to bottom.

Nestled in a cozy backstreet in the heart of Central London, the compact headquarters of British esports group EXCEL forms the unlikely backdrop for the launch of a new hardware brand.

It’s the final boss fight and everyone at the table is crying — but not because anyone has died. It’s because of how performer Sea Thomas is handling a game-changing moment between their character, a half-drow aasimar bloodhunter named Øka Hyen, and the season’s big bad. “Hitsagutan, after all of this is over, my mother is making soup,” they say. “I really think you would love it. Shank and radish stew. I’ll take the meat out of my bowl and put it in yours.” This is their attempt to leverage their personal relationship with the big bad to talk her down, rather than launching an attack or presuming violence to be the only form of resolution. And it’s just one of dozens of moments from Transplanar RPG that set it apart from other actual-play shows.

The voice behind Lae'zel in Baldur's Gate 3, Devora Wilde, has been streaming her playthrough of the game, which recently led up to one of the most confusing headlines I've ever had to write. Last night on stream, while playing as a Pink Lae'zel - or Dev'zel the Githyanki Fighter - Wilde got to indulge in every actor's dream of sleeping with none other than themselves. Though the experience seemed to really mess with her head.

If you want some early Tango Gameworks horror, you can pick up 2014’s The Evil Within for free through Epic Games Store right now. However, the offer won’t be on forever, so you best pick up a copy before it’s too late.