This catastrophic, lava-spewing Minecraft world is such a disaster that it only happens once every 500 million seeds

VNG co-founder Le Hong Minh's first taste of international competition was as a gamer for Vietnam at an early e-sport tournament in South Korea. Two decades later, he says he's ready to face the world's best again as he takes his tech company public. The firm -- headquartered in buzzing business hub Ho Chi Minh City -- is one of Vietnam's leading game publishers, but it also runs a digital wallet, cloud services, and Vietnam's most popular messaging platform.

The YouTube algorithm is a truly wretched piece of tech, but just as a broken clock is right twice a day, sometimes YouTube will cough up an absolute gold mine. I would confidently describe the hundreds of Elden Ring videos on veganiele's channel, which I randomly found earlier this week, as one such gold mine. This brave Tarnished has been beating Malenia, renowned as the RPG's hardest boss, with every melee weapon in the game, without taking a single hit and often fighting at level one, for over a year straight. 

For players on Nintendo Switch, seeds are a great way to generate new scenic and resource-rich worlds. The Trails and Tales update added new content to the game, but at its heart, is still very much the same game it’s always been. To generate its infinite worlds, relies on seeds: essentially random numbers used for world generation. Sharing seeds allows players to share their favorite custom worlds.

Iron Lung, an indie horror game so popular it's getting a movie adaptation starring Markiplier, has raised its pricing on Steam to $8 (£6.70), a price hike of two whole dollars. For some reason, this has upset people to the point where the game's developer David Szymanski felt the need to respond.

We're a month into the PlayStation Portal's life and stock is still incredibly difficult to come by. Yes, i've spotted flashes of the $199 handheld remote player at Amazon and Best Buy over the last few days, but my daily crawls haven't come up lucky in a long time. However, there's one retailer holding strong right now. Antonline currently has PlayStation Portal stock on the shelves but there's one pricey caveat... 

Asgard’s Wrath 2 is the most acclaimed VR game since Half-Life Alyx, mainly because of how it seamlessly adapts the open-world RPG experience onto virtual reality goggles.

It's been a while since I dove headfirst into a milsim, but Offworld Industries' bid to revitalize its WW2 spinoff of Squad makes me want to clear my calendar. Post Scriptum (2018) has been fully acquired by publisher and Squad developer Offworld Industries, who's slapped on a new label that better reflects what you're getting: Squad, but set in 1944.

After two years of recreating Bloodborne in Minecraft, one modder says the project is "getting there."

If there’s one thing we’ve learned recently, it’s that Survival MMOs cancertainly be a mixed bag. It’s common to see lackluster combat, mediocre building options, and a common pitfall of placing too much emphasis on punishing hunger and thirst mechanics. Once Human by Starry Studio and published by NetEase Games takes these features and finds a way to balance them to enhance the gameplay, rather than punish players for it. Let’s get into a deep dive of thissupernatural survival MMO.

Sam Esmail’s ended abruptly and confusingly for some and many people are scratching their heads trying to understand the ending. Here is Leave the World Behind’s .

Acer Nitro 16 | RTX 4070 | AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS | 16-inch | 165Hz | 1600p | 16GB DDR5 | 512TB SSD | $1,299.99$1,029.99 at Best Buy (save $270)This is one of the cheapest RTX 4070 deals around at the moment and there's a lot to like here. The Ryzen CPU has a full eight cores, 16 threads, and that GPU is a high power version, with a 140W limit. The screen is fast and boasts a nice 16:10 ratio. However, the resolution is a bit high for the RTX 4070, so you might need to use upscaling more often than you'd like, and the amount of storage is pretty mean. But if you want to save as much as you can but still get a decent gaming laptop, this one's hard to beat.

Trainwrecks aren't exactly rare in the gaming industry, but it's rare that they're this spectacular. After a suspiciously-polished trailer, The Day Before quickly became one of Steam's most wishlisted games.