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We’ve known for a while that Grand Theft Auto VI is coming out sometime in 2025, but when specifically in the year it might arrive has remained an open question. Some have held out some despearate hope that an early-2025 might happen, but it seems that’s not in the cards. Today as part of their latest earnings report Take-Two Interactive clarified that GTA VI is coming out in fall of calendar year 2025.

Following the recent Timeless Isle Frog nerf in Pandaria Remix, players have started to notice some sources of Bronze have received buffs to compensate. One of the increases we have noticed so far is the yield of Bronze Caches from completing achievements and daily quests from Infinite Bazaar NPCs. Bronze Caches have received a 25% Bronze yield buff across the board to compensate for the nerfs!

Hit level 70? Here's how to «Gear Up» your character in order to have enough power for Heroic raids and eventually Mythic Siege of Orgrimmar!

The universe sports a very particular style and aesthetic that's difficult to emulate so it's impressive that one dedicated fan of managed to so authentically recreate it. The boundless customization on offer in Maxis' life simulator is an invitation for creative players to mess around with its various systems and options to develop some genuinely impressive custom creations. It doesn't take much looking to discover plenty of characters and worlds built to resemble iconic pop culture productions like and, but this build may be the most impressive yet.

The Intel Core i9-11900K, a three-year-old CPU, running on DDR4 memory has set a new world record, dethroning the 14900KS with DDR5.

Earlier this month, beloved World of Warcraft speedrunner and Vanilla WoW World Record holder Joana, also known as FuriousPaul, passed away. The community has expressed its condolences in posts and comments all over social media over the last two weeks, remembering Joana's incredible achievements and his massive influence on the World of Warcraft community as a whole.

The War Within is bringing us to exciting new zones, introducing us to old friends and new, and most importantly, updating our professions! We're taking a dive into Fishing in The War Within's Alpha, reeling in fun new fish, cosmetics, and a new mechanic to spice up the profession!

Kai Cenat, the popular Twitch streamer who once accidentally incited a riot in New York with a giveaway event, has officially finished Elden Ring after a more than 160 hour marathon.

's latest foray into keeping players busy during the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG includes a special Remix event taking place within the popular expansion. is a timerunning journey that is live now for players to experience, but will only last until August 19, 2024. To spread the word about the exciting limited-time event, two of the developers behind the experience, Senior Test Analyst, Ciji Bambrick, and Senior Game Designer, Brian Dowling, recently sat down with Screen Rant to discuss what rewards and changes are happening to the world of Pandaria.

The Finnish Game Awards 2024 were held last night, with Remedy's Alan Wake 2 taking home Finnish Game of the Year.

There’s a brief moment in Act 3 of where players have the option to romance the Emperor and earn an achievement. The moment is fleeting and takes place while the character is asleep after searching through the illithid's belongings in the Lower City. Though there is currently only a small window where players can woo the mind flayer, it seems Larian Studios considered the possibility of making him a more romanceable character.

The ever-famous Zandalari Warbringer is once again a good target for players in Remix: Mists of Pandaria, dropping rep tokens that reward high amounts of reputation. Reputation is useful in Remix as it allows players to complete meta achievements which unlock limited-time cosmetic rewards.

With the week Helldivers 2 players just went through IRL, distracted by Sony's regrettable own-goal and subsequent reversal, it should be no surprise that the ongoing Galactic War effort has suffered similarly, with the situation looking worse all the time. Having failed to contain the Terminid Supercolony on Meridian, the Barrier Worlds in the Umlaut System have been lost; Super Earth has shifted its efforts to the wholesale decommissioning of Automaton forces, using the associated scrap to construct a new Strategem.

Relive epic adventures with an all-new event— World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria. Experience the wonders of Pandaria anew, but with fresh new loot— and (almost) unlimited power.

SoulSoBreezy interviewed Brian Dowling and Ciji Bambrick from the WoW Team about Remix: Mists of Pandaria. They revealed a lot of interesting information about the event that starts today, including details about obtaining Tusks of Mannoroth and Heirlooms.

Wowhead's Patch 1.4 Gear and Itemization Changes Overview is now live, detailing the massive changes to Diablo 4's itemization introduced in Season 4: Loot Reborn. Gear and Itemization Changes Guide in Patch 1.4 With nearly every aspect of gear and loot receiving at least moderate updates in Patch 1.4, we've put together a guide to explore the changes to Legendary Aspects, Uniques, Gear Affixes, the Codex of Power, and Gems, as well as the new Tempering and Masterworking systems.

Apple has maintained its iron grip in the ARM chipset space, particularly in the single-core department, when it was reported that the M4 completely dominated the Geekbench 6 charts. Unfortunately, some individuals are just not satisfied with these results and have gone to great lengths to ensure that the latest iPad Pro models attain a record that will take a while to be broken, and that is achieving 4,000 points in the benchmarking application. As for how Apple’s latest flagship tablet achieved this figure, all it took was a little help from liquid nitrogen.

Season 1 War Within Tier Sets from Nerub'ar Palace have received in-game items and are all available in Wowhead's Dressing Room! Click on the difficulty links to preview them on your own character. Which is your favorite set? Nerub'ar Palace Raid Overview

China’s largest semiconductor manufacturing firm, SMIC, has reportedly achieved a new milestone and too, without the use of advanced EUV machinery that gives companies like Samsung and TSMC an edge in the cutting-edge chipmaking space. The latest information claims that using DUV equipment, the 5nm process has been completed, and SMIC is ready to mass produce the first batch of wafers. Huawei was previously said to be working closely with its local foundry partner to introduce a new Kirin SoC that will be found in the upcoming Mate 70 series for October later this year.

Sony expects PS5 sales to gradually decline as the console has entered the second half of its console cycle.

With the latest The War Within Alpha build, the mount for the Glory of the Nerub-ar Raider achievement has been revealed — The Shadowed Swarmite!FlyingNerubian2 Mount (Black Body, Purple Saddle)Shadowed Swarmite Description: Source: Achievement: Glory of the Nerub-ar Raider Category: Dungeons & Raids Model id: 119490

We've datamined spells related to a new Fishing Tournament in the War Within — the Mereldar Fishing Derby! It's been a while since the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza from Classic. Mereldar Fishing Derby indicates that the event will take place on Saturdays and players can earn Derby Commendations and prizes. We've also datamined the The Derby Dash achievement which requires places to turn in «the quest» within a Time Limit.

Having to choose to pull for Wanderer or Baizhu in 4.6 can be tough, especially when considering the two characters can provide significant benefits to players' team comps – even if they exercise fairly different roles in parties. Both characters have been available in the game for quite some time, with Wanderer arriving as a playable unit in Version 3.3 and Baizhu making his debut in Version 3.6. Both of these characters in 4.6 banners have many pros, though they also have some cons that should be considered by players before making a decision.

Square Enix has admitted Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16, and Foamstars failed to meet its expectations.

For the past eight years, GamesIndustry.biz has been running a series of Best Places To Work Awards in the UK, US and Canada.

NVIDIA has shared more performance statistics of its next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture which has taken the industry by storm. The company shared several metrics including its science, AI, & simulation results versus the outgoing Hopper chips and competing x86 CPUs when using Grace-powered Superchip modules.

The Aurora supercomputer has finally broken the exascale barrier & achieved the fastest AI performance with its Intel Ponte Vecchio hardware.

Japanese publishing giant Square Enix is shifting its focus to "aggressively" pursue a multiplatform strategy in the future.

Yet another day-one game is coming to Xbox Game Pass later this month. Microsoft's subscription service has been praised for having a diverse range of titles, from indie games to major AAA releases, with its ever-changing roster usually having something available for all kinds of players. Game Pass is also often able to acquire titles that are yet to be released, getting them on the subscription service upon their launch as a further bonus for subscribers. This month already has the adorable, which sees a lost cat on an adventure to make its way home, and Ninja Theory's highly anticipated sequel,.

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is a sprawling role-playing game that usually requires hundreds of hours of gameplay before players can reach Level 80 and fight the infamous Ebony Warrior, but one player has condensed all that down to less than 10 minutes.

Folks, the fabled Resident Evil 2 Akuma Mode is real.

The Earthen Allied Race mount has been discovered in The War Within Alpha datamining — take a look at the Slatestone Ramolith, a mossy stone ram!

A gamer was hit with a serious case of nostalgia after rediscovering their oldest gaming achievement award, dating back to 1983. The gaming achievement is bringing back fond memories for some gamers, while younger gamers are marveling about the way Activision celebrated gaming achievements long ago.

Blizzard has posted the new development notes for Alpha 4 of The War Within, including the addition of Stormbringer Shaman for testing!

In any new expansion, players rush into new zones, looking for new secrets, new quests, and new enemies to defeat. Learning to get around these new zones is always important for efficient exploration — and in The War Within, players are rewarded for being thorough with an increase in Flight Path travel speed! Players who complete the Khaz Algar Flight Master achievement will be able to increase the speed of Flight Paths in Khaz Algar for their entire Warband.

Relive epic adventures with an all-new event— World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria. Experience the wonders of Pandaria anew, but with fresh new loot— and (almost) unlimited power.

The Battle.net shop has updated with several new items, including individual listings for previous Deluxe Edition-only toys, as well as the Lunar New Year Auspicious Arborwyrm mount from Retail WoW. Shop World of Warcraft Classic Items on the Battle.net Store

An early look at the M4’s performance did not deliver the best positive first impression because we believed that Apple lowered the clock speeds to achieve better efficiency. However, we are pleasantly surprised by the latest results, as Apple’s new SoC powering the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models runs circles around the M2, handily beats M3, and zips past the M3 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, which are two chipsets occupying a higher performance bracket. Let us look at the latest scores and see what impressed us so much.

Nintendo has suggested that the successor to the Switch will not arrive before March 31, 2025, indicating an April release at the very earliest.

Blizzard has published today's hotfixes for Dragonflight, including fixes for issues with Dungeons not rewarding the proper number of Flightstones and Crests, issues with players earning Season 4 achievements to trade crests up, and changes to the Blooming Dreamseeds quest, which now only takes 3 Dreamseeds instead of 5.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

After the success of the Fallout TV series, many of us are jumping back into the glorious atompunk wasteland of the fourth game in the series.

Upon completion of the final step of the Hunt the Harbinger questline, Radiant Warnings, players unlock Void customization options for the Winding Slitherdrake mount.

is a crab-based Soulslike and, in true soulslike fashion, there are still several things to go back to and finish once the credits roll. Despite the game's intensity, it is still a relatively short indie game that many players will hope to return to and, whether that means starting all over or completing 100% of the game, there is something for everyone to do.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Gotta go fast? Speed fiends might be interested to discover that there's a new bag in The War Within Alpha that increases movement speed in outdoor areas of Khaz Algar! While increasing outdoor movement speed in a specific area of the expansion isn't a particularly important bonus, Arathor Courier's Satchel stands out as the first of its kind — no other bag in WoW has had this kind of statistical effect, and it could be a test case for more varied bag bonuses going forward. Although it is unlikely that we'll see universal combat enhancements like increased strength, critical strike chance, or damage procs, there are a number of other minor supplementary effects or effects that only work in specific areas of the game, like an excavators satchel increasing capabilities in Delves.

Being a Helldivers 2 fan has been an absolute rollercoaster over this past weekend, with the game being the most loved live service game out there, to the most hated, and back again over the course of just a few days. Most of you will know that this was down to Sony's sudden implementation of its PSN account system, requiring Helldivers 2 players on Steam to sign up for the PlayStation Network if they want to continue playing.

Blizzard has released another round of hotfixes for Cataclysm Classic, including a fix for Blood Death Knights being hit by critical melee attacks and several Warlock abilities!

We have deployed two new features to help achievement hunters on Wowhead: Taivan achievement tracking on our Today in WoW section, and tracking achievement progress by using our tooltips via the Wowhead Profiler! Learn how to use both features with this post.

Rumors regarding the forthcoming Qualcomm chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, are circulating with anticipation. Expected to debut later this year, likely around October, the SoC has garnered attention, especially with recent benchmark leaks and insights from tipster DigitalChatStation.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Silent Hill is a pretty iconic title, what with it being the start of one of the most iconic horror franchises of all time (even if Konami constantly disappoints fans). Unfortunately, the older games in the series haven't exactly aged gracefully, and even the biggest fan of the original Silent Hills has to admit they're about as easy to control as a fighter jet.

In a hotfix earlier this week, Blizzard announced that the Darkmoon Faire will not be coming to town during the Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch. Instead, the event will make a return sometime after launch.

We previously highlighted the Earthen Heritage armor at the start of Alpha. With the latest Alpha build, we've datamined a more complete version of the Earthen Heritage Armor. Explore quintessential Earthen armor available for the new Allied Race in The War Within! Be sure to check out all the information on Earthen below including customizations, racials, unlock requirements, and more! Earthen Allied Race Overview — Racials, Customization, and More!

Blizzard has released a Hotfix for Cataclysm Classic which resolved an issue that prevented Bloodlust and Heroism from working, corrected heal-over-time and damage-over-time ticks, and extended The Children's Week holiday for one week.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

In a noteworthy development for the AI PC landscape, Intel has announced the optimization of more than 500 AI models for its latest Intel Core Ultra processors. This achievement signals Intel's commitment to enhancing AI capabilities within PC systems, without promotional flair.

Due to the impact several bugs have had on players, Blizzard has extended Children's Week by an additional week in Cataclysm Classic. Players will have more time to work towards earning What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been once the fixes are in!

Game streaming platform Streamlabs has released an official plugin for Open Broadcaster Software (OBS).

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make.

Intel explores a new domain for the future of processors and reportedly plans on building scalable silicon-based quantum processors.

World of Warcraft speedrunner and Vanilla WoW World Recold holder Joana, also known as FuriousPaul, passed away yesterday, as confirmed by a family member and the Twitter/X account of TomCatsTours. Back in January 2006, Joana fully recorded his sixth Level 1-60 speedrun on the Jubei'Thos server with a total playtime of 4 days and 20 hours — an astonishing record that was bound to last for over a decade.

The Nintendo Switch 2 may be clocked higher than expected in docked mode but "crazy low" in handheld mode to achieve better battery life, according to rumors circulating online.

DeNA has changed the name of subsidiary DeNA Digital Production to Pokemon Card D Studio as of April 26, 2024, the company announced.

Blizzard has released patch notes for Cataclysm Classic Patch 4.4.0, which detail the new Race/Class combinations, Reforging, and the new Archaeology Profession. Cataclysm Pre-Patch is expected to become available after today's scheduled maintenance. Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch Overview Guide New Race and Class Combinations — Cataclysm Classic

Here are the hotfixes that were pushed on the Weekly Reset.

Here are the hotfixes that were pushed on the Weekly Reset.

One of the achievements required for the Good Boy's Leash that has been gating a lot of people from the mount is Taking From Nature, which requires you to unlock all fishing nets in the Dragon Isles — Which requires completion of a daily quest at every fishing hole. The Grimtusk Fishing Hole, located in Azure Span, has been inactive since Week 1 of Patch 10.2.6, and many players missed it due to working on other achievements for the meta.

Todd Howard has said that Bethesda Game Studios is currently focused on finding ways to increase its output. 

With the latest Alpha build, we've uncovered a hidden achievement that gives us a better idea at what the unlock requirements for the Earthen Allied Race will be in The War Within! Be sure to check out all the information on Earthen below including customizations, racials, heritage armor, and more! Earthen Allied Race Overview — Racials, Customization, and More!

Make your way through the icy skies of Northrend in a chilly, new dragonriding racing event.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Huawei achieved another milestone with its Pura 70 series launch and that is sourcing 90 percent of smartphone components from Chinese suppliers. With the U.S. export control barring foreign companies from shipping parts to the company to use in various products, Huawei was adamant about cutting off overseas manufacturers and relying on local firms to get the job done. So far, the progress has been impressive, and only a few components remain to completely eliminate dependency on supply chain partners outside of China.

A variety of new items are flowering in this month’s Trading Post. Embrace the spirit of spring when you gild your back with the Wings of the Amber Monarch.

Switch peripheral maker Mobapad claims to have new information on the Switch 2, particularly with regards to its controllers.

Stellar Blade doesn't have just one ending - it has three. Each one changes the outcome for the characters greatly and has a different method of unlocking as you get towards the end of the game.