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Hot Wheels Unleashed was a distinctly pleasant surprise when it launched a couple of years ago, marking a much-needed departure for put-upon motorcycle developer Milestone. While the game handled like a dream – and had some stunningly rendered toy car models, particularly on the PS5 – it lacked variety and had a strange post-release content model, which straddled the line between live service and traditional Season Pass.

There are several new characters you can meet in Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion. These notable characters will be working alongside you, or even against you, throughout the narrative, and one of the new characters you can meet is Alex. She was on Solomon Reed’s previous team when they operated with the FIA, and she’s been undercover in Dogtown, working as a bartender.

is an enormous game with a ton of content. Although much of 's lore is well-documented, some areas of the game are far more mysterious. Whether it is omissions from its direct predecessor,, or questions that emerge during a playthrough that remain unanswered, the game is filled with curious ambiguity and an infuriating lack of answers to many pressing questions.

Nvidia has reportedly been raided by French authorities, presumably in their Courbevoie office.

gives players the opportunity to decide the fate of Tomisar, a House Va'ruun higher-up, at the end of the side quest "." House Va'ruun is one of three playable religions in, which players can pick from when they begin a new game. Each one has its ups and downs, benefits and detriments, but whichever one a player picks, they're pretty much stuck with it. Unlike many of the other factions in the game, there's no official quest to join any of the religions. Players mostly brush up against them as part of side quests that involve their claimed territories or sworn members, in this case, Andreja.

As a result of the enormity of , there are countless hours worth of interesting things to do, places to explore, and Easter eggs to discover, so much so, that most players will never uncover some of the most expertly concealed content hidden around the Kingdom of Hyrule. series is known for providing Link with a dynamic, almost living and breathing world filled with a plethora of secrets to investigate and unearth, and the series' latest installment,, is no different.

When a videogame lets me dramatically punch someone in the middle of a conversation, it takes a lot of restraint to resist the urge. The opportunity arises a couple of times in Cyberpunk 2077, and nobody is more deserving than Fingers, Night City's scummiest ripperdoc, who V encounters during the main story. 

VED is a story-driven RPG that features a turn-based combat system and painterly visuals, and it slashes onto PS4 sometime in 2024. We got a glimpse at its grim, magical world in a new story trailer.

When looking at the breadth of war games out there, the ones that inspire players to buy, paint, and field massive armies in skirmishes with each other, few names loom quite so large as Warhammer 40,000. But with Rogue Trader, Owlcat Games is giving the 40K universe a slightly different treatment. And to me, they look like the right studio to do it.

This year EA is rebranding FIFA franchise following a licensing dispute with the organization, instead opting to release EA Sports FC 24 this year. It’s a change most fans are taking in stride – What’s in a name, right? – but it turns out there are some wider consequences to EA dropping the FIFA license.

The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a new episodic adventure series from a reformed version of Telltale Games and Deck Nine (the team behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm and True Colors). Like the Telltale series of old this one largely focuses on story and player choice, which also means consequences, including characters dying. That said, with the right choices, you can largely avoid bad results for your team.

The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a new episodic adventure series from a reformed version of Telltale Games and Deck Nine (the team behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm and True Colors). Like the Telltale series of old this one largely focuses on story and player choice, which also means consequences, including characters dying. That said, with the right choices, you can largely avoid bad results for your team.

The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a new episodic adventure series from a reformed version of Telltale Games and Deck Nine (the team behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm and True Colors). Like the Telltale series of old this one largely focuses on story and player choice, which also means consequences, including characters dying. That said, with the right choices, you can largely avoid bad results for your team.

Subtlety Rogues have received a fairly substantial rework with the Dragonflight 10.2 PTR. Our Subtlety Writer, fuu, breaks down all the early changes as Blizzard attempts to create more talent options, emphasize cooldowns, and improve resource pacing.

If you're jumping back into Cyberpunk 2077 with the release of Phantom Liberty today, be aware that it's possible to lock yourself out of the DLC's main quest.

Following a tumultuous week for Unity, in which the company infuriated a significant portion of the development community by making dramatic changes to its engine licensing terms — only to then partially walk them back on Friday — at least one studio has had enough, with developer Neognosis announcing it'll no longer be porting its acclaimed Wipeout-inspired racer BallisticNG to Switch as a direct consequence of Unity's actions.

Since the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT, generative AI chatbots have seen an astronomical surge in popularity. Consequently, more and more tech companies have been developing their own conversational bots, with Google, Microsoft, and Tencent just to name a few. Meta Platforms also has a plethora of AI projects in development, and a handful of them could be announced at the Meta Connect 2023, its annual event that will be held on September 27-28. As per the reports, the tech giant could unveil a new AI chatbot featuring multiple personas, aimed at younger users.

It’s no secret that companions are one of the best parts of Baldur’s Gate 3, whether you’re romancing them or just trying to build an ideal party. NPCs have always been a fun part of RPGs, but Baldur’s Gate is really on to something with just how layered the companion backstories and interactions can be. That said, even the most enjoyable NPCs can behave in unexpected ways, leading to occasionally frustrating but often hilarious results.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out next week, but you can play the 2.0 update now. It's added a whole host of tune-ups like vehicular combat, new skill trees, balance tweaks to the RPG system, and a revamped police force—but who cares about that? You can do cool rocket jumps on your motorbike now, which is much more important.

Valve has explained why they have no plans to upgrade or make an updated Steam Deck anytime soon.

It is a commonly held belief that fighting game stories are, categorically, bad. Stories are not what people come to fighting games for, the logic goes. They are an optional indulgence, and a compromised one at that, because they must always account for why, for example, a giant military cyborg would ever fight a kangaroo.

Embracer Group is a video game company which owns over 70 studios around the world. Things haven’t been looking good for its studios lately, as they have been suffering from layoffs and closures.

Bungie has in recent years been very aggressive in its pursuit of Destiny 2 cheat makers, and not at all shy about saying so. Based on the opening line of its most recent legal action (via Torrentfreak), filed against the makers and sellers of the Ring-1 cheat, it has no intention of stopping anytime soon.

Matt Murdock may be dead - but not for long. After sacrificing himself in the penultimate issue of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Marco Checchetto's Daredevil run, Matt Murdock will somehow return to life. And the consequences of his resurrection will bring Hell on Earth as writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Aaron Kuder take over with an all new Daredevil #1.

Ifeoma Ozoma was ousted from her role at Pinterest Inc. due to what she said was retaliation for speaking out about pay equity disparities. The experience didn't just cost her a job. She ended up leaving Silicon Valley entirely.

New gameplay and details on customization for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon are available, but that’s not all. FromSoftware previously confirmed multiple endings, and a new PlayStation Blog post revealed that players can make decisions which impact the plot.

Last month, an interview with Twitter cofounder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, was posted online, where he claimed that the Indian government threatened the microblogging platform that it will shut down its offices in India and carry out raids if they did not block accounts that were critical of the government during the farmers' protest. On Friday, July 21, the Central government accepted sending a notice to Twitter, warning it of ‘significant consequences' after the social media company failed to block 167 of the 3,750 URLs it had ordered to be taken down.