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What if I told you there was a fantasy farming sim steeped in Chinese mythology that marries the chill, cozy vibes of Stardew Valley et al. with RPG features like "epic battles" and companions?

In Diablo 4 Season 3, there will be plenty of activities to keep players occupied, including the new dungeon type — Vaults, new boss fight — Malphas, and new over-world activity — Arcane Tremors. Aside from these new pieces of content, one original endgame activity is receiving an upgrade in Season 3; Helltides will be nearly always on! Season of the Construct Patch Notes Everything We Know About Season 3

Included in the recent Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.0 Patch Notes, Blizzard noted many changes coming to Item Power ranges in Season of the Construct. Namely, the developers communicated that Nightmare Dungeons at Tier 90 and above will only drop Item Level 925 gear. Diablo 4 Season 3 Patch Notes 925 iLevel Gear Easier to Get

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans.

Naughty Dog's is a devastating tale of parallel protagonists. Its inciting incident is a brutal torture sequence, and the game only spirals into more stomach-turning violence from there on. By the time reaches is unflinchingly bloody finale, it's difficult to feel as though something has actually been accomplished after experiencing a narrative that has only plummeted wildly into chaos. 's core tenet seems to be a warning that violence only begets violence, and the game's focus on insatiable revenge only leaves those involved with traumatic uncertainty.

Giving ’s Dr. Ratio a proper build and a strong team comp can significantly improve his performance on the field as a main DPS. Dr. Ratio is a 5-star unit introduced with Version 1.6 that uses Imaginary DMG and follows the Path of the Hunt. Due to his Path, Dr. Ratio is optimized to deal a large amount of damage to individual opponents rather than spreading it to multiple targets. His Element also makes him valuable, since there are many high-level opponents weak against Imaginary, but not many Imaginary DPS other than Imbibitor Lunae in .

If you’re scratching your head wondering how to breed Pals, then you’re in luck – we’ve got Palworld breeding explained for you, and will go over all the basics including how to make cake, navigate the Breeding Farm and encourage your Pals to mingle.

Time Crystals are Mount Qaf's currency in . Time Crystals can buy high-quality gear and amulets. They're also easy to get if you have an adventurous heart and a willingness to explore. However, there are some useful strategies if you need to quickly farm more Time Crystals to afford a particularly interesting amulet or item.

Farming materials for Dr. Ratio’s character Ascension in can be a long and tiresome process, but it is extremely valuable in case you want to take the 5-star character to his limits in combat. Dr. Ratio is a 5-star that uses Imaginary Damage and follows the Path of the Hunt. His choice of Path makes him a DPS unit in the turn-based RPG by HoYoverse. Due to his element and Path, this character is great to have around, and luckily, you can get a free Dr. Ratio in until the end of Version 2.1.

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This upcoming indie takes the farming sim fun of Stardew Valley and combines it with the chaotic gameplay of Fall Guys. 

Radical Forge has officially unveiled Southfield — a colorful and chaotic farming sim which looks a little bit like what’d happen if Stardew Valley was combined with Gang Beasts or Human Fall Flat.

With Early Access only 24 hours away, the Palworld countdown is on. Curious when the dark Pokemon-like releases in your time zone? Read on. 

Among many other new features, Cult of the Lamb‘s Sins of the Flesh introduces a brand new option to the game: custom clothes. However, it comes at a cost – Cotton.

A new farming game is planting the seeds of recent PC hits like Stardew Valley, Human: Fall Flat, Satisfactory and, yes, Minecraft and hoping to have them grow into an entertaining co-op offering that’s as cozy as it is chaotic.

The developers of an upcoming Stardew Valley-style League of Legends spin-off have said they know what life sim fans' expectations are, so they made sure to include the staples of the genre - farming and fishing. 

The main currency of is Gems, or special items that can be farmed to purchase various materials and upgrades. Vault Breakers, Runes, and other resources needed to pull banners are all bought through the number of Gems you have. A few tricks to obtaining many jewels at once can prevent you from always undertaking a tedious grind for this currency.

Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is the latest game from League of Legends indie game label Riot Forge, and it’s decidedly different from everything that came before it. While Riot Forge games likeThe Mageseeker, Convergence, and Song of Nunu have been more intense action League of Legends affairs, Bandle Tale is a comedic, cozy adventure with gameplay that shares more in common with Stardew Valley than League of Legends.

The Cult of the Lamb update, Sins of the Flesh, comes with a handful of new features that you can check out for free. One of the tough things players have been trying to figure out is how to level up the broom, and how to do that quickly.

Audio cues can sometimes be crucial for success in games. Developers frequently design the sound environment for their experiences to be not only rich and immersive, but to also contain hints about approaching enemies or danger. Players who are hard of hearing can miss out on this, and it's not fair for them to be disadvantaged due to a disability. A product called Audio Radar launched at CES 2024 and it can help turn sound signals into visual cues, so that gamers with hearing loss can «see the sound,» according to the company AirDrop Gaming LLC.

With the unveiling of the 2024 WoW roadmap, we speculated about the potential return of Challenge Modes with the Timerunning Pandamonium event coming in the Patch 10.2.7: Dark Heart update later this spring. We've since discovered a new spell in Patch 10.2.5 related to Timerunning that could shed some light on what we might expect from the new event and how it could have potential ties to the greater Worldsoul Saga. WoW 2024 Content RoadmapTimerunning Challenge Mode Speculation

Hello! Welcome to the 310th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we look at ways to make steady gold with minimum time as well as a neat little addon to help see how much money other players have had. We also have a roundup of 2023 by Penguin2gt and other gold makers and a nice little niche flip with Encrypted Twilight Texts! My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

Stepping away from the constraints of corporate life and into the farms in Stardew Valley should be a meditative, healing experience - unless you mistake the shipping container for a chest, in which case the game takes a horror turn as you lose the most valuable possessions. 

Old School Runescape players are on another level, man. The game's flooded with zero-sum games where the house always wins: yet compared to the person who gathered 1 million of the same crappy fish, this is small pennies. Despite this, I'm still somehow surprised whenever somebody goes so far out of the way just to prove a point.

Well it's not every day that a PC Gamer writer stumbles across an indie horror collection themed around an alt-history and deeply cursed version of PC Gamer, but here we are (thanks Dominic Tarason for the spot). PC Cursed is an impressively elaborate and free grab-bag of 22 indie horror games which comes complete with a 60-page version of the imaginary magazine and even printable CD inlays (because the whole schtick is that this is a lost 1998 cover disc).

TeamKill Media, the developer behind last year's Quantum Error, has revealed Son and Bone, its PlayStation 5-exclusive first-person shooter where you kill dinosaurs. It's due out some time this year and you can watch the announcement teaser below. 

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.

Tales of Seikyu, an upcoming co-op fantasy farming sim blending Rune Factory vibes with Japanese folklore, is the first new game of its kind to really catch my attention in as long as I can remember.

In Roblox Car Crushers 2, you must demolish your cars to earn money. It’s one of the most unique but satisfying games you can play on Roblox. There are many ways and different machines that you can use to destroy your vehicles. Doing so gets you money that helps you unlock newer and better vehicles.

Hold onto your virtual swords and get ready for an adrenaline-fueled gaming spectacle! As the battlegrounds of Honor of Kings open their gates to South Asia’s dynamic and diverse landscapes this February. The air is charging with anticipation, and the clash of swords echoes in the distance as this mobile MOBA giant prepares to conquer a new realm. The Honor of Kings South Asia release in February is about to redefine the meaning of digital conquest.

Palworld, the open-world survival and crafting adventure from developer Pocketpair that looks a lot like Pokémon with guns, is launching into early access on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Game Pass next Friday, 19th January.

Palworld got the gaming world's attention with its promise to give Pokemon the one thing it was always missing: guns. Now its Early Access launch finally has a release date, and it's just over a week away.

You won’t have much time to spare in Coral Island. You’ll be plenty busy running a farm, healing the corals, and saving the giants. You’d think after freeing them from their statue forms, they’d let you be, but it turns out the giants want something else: a disguise.

Tavernlight Games is getting ready to release its open-world sandbox MMORPG Ravendawn next week on January 16th. The official launch trailer has been released, along with some details about getting things rolling with name reservations.

While the list of games like Stardew Valley just keeps growing, the list of games made by Stardew's creator is still percolating. Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone's own next game Haunted Chocolatier is still deep in development, but it turns out that a former Stardew contributor is also working on a new life sim that may even arrive this year. The as-yet-untitled game definitely looks like a Stardew descendant, but this one's set in a city and has a lot of its own neat ideas on expanding the typical life sim script.

One streamer spent 200 hours beating an absurd, hyper-difficult variant of Minecraft's most popular challenge, only to have the crowning achievement rendered meaningless by an update that landed just a week after it was all done.

Longcheer Game’s upcoming RPG, Ark Battle Girls, is out for open beta testing exclusively for Android users. Longcheer is the publisher of well-known games like Ollie’s Manor: Pet Farm Sim and Idle Defense: Dark Forest. Keep reading if you want to join the beta test action!

An upcoming farming sim will take place in a magical world of spirits and monsters where you restore a deteriorating countryside inn and explore the town and region populated by people, monsters, and more.  The game plans to launch with cooperative play, and it'll also have a neat-looking twist: By wearing ancient masks, you can use the power of creatures and monsters—one example is using the rooting power of a boar to till fields.

The big festivals in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful happen every so often as you play through the game. Unlike other farming simulators, such as Stardew Valley, these festivals do not have notable dates and times within the game. They don’t happen at specific times, but these are important events that you do not want to miss in the game.

In the picturesque Forgotten Valley in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful, love is in the air. While the player’s character is the only one who can get married, several potential couples in the game share a special bond.

Players will have secrets to unlock when upgrading their tools in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. Each tool obtained at the start of the game has unusual potential, if the correct steps are taken to unlock them.

While most farming sims require social presents, Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life takes gift-giving to a whole new level. Players will find the usual need to offer potential love interests desired tokens, but this same attention is needed for every NPC in the game, otherwise they will miss out on important items and moments locked behind friendship levels.

MementoMori, the AFKRPG dropped the news about an unusual upcoming crossover in February 2024. They’re teaming up with a couple of Bank of Innovation games, both living and dead! Don’t believe me? Keep reading to know more!

MapleStory developer Nexon is being hit with a sizable fine by the Korean Fair Trade Commission over what the body says are deceptive loot box practices.

A game that’s cute, has great aesthetics and is about desserts? Count us in! Sweet Farm: Cake Baking Tycoon is a new game that has just launched on Android. It’s published by Pixel Federation Games, also known for titles like Emporea, Train Station and Diggy’s Adventure.

The Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has had a wealth of side games, ranging from small side ventures to massive undertakings. Many people have fond memories of managing a rising business or running a cabaret club in previous entries. But Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is going somewhere new with Dondoko Island.

The adventure isn’t over after a single playthrough in Lords of the Fallen. After saving the cursed lands of Mournstead, you’re free to continue exploring or skip straight into New Game Plus – and if you’re planning to return, there are weapons you absolutely need to try. The best weapons in Lords of the Fallen are totally up to your own interpretation, but after blazing through bosses and completing all the endings, we’ve found ten weapons and magical catalysts you’ll need to deal insane damage. Some of these weapons can wreck bosses in seconds.

Herba Mystica is a must-have item when you’re playing Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It’s what you’re going to use throughout the end of the game, especially to make some of the best sandwiches, and there are some good ways to farm Herba Mystica in The Indigo Disk.

Fantasy Tales: Sword and Magic, the exploration MMORPG by Ling Ren Games, is about to drop on Android, iOS and Steam. So, go ahead and pre-register now to snag some awesome goodies. Here’s the game on the Play Store.

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After farming materials for her and going through Chevreuse’s character Ascension stages in , you can optimize her as the support and healer unit that she is. Chevreuse is a 4-star Pyro polearm character introduced as both an NPC and a playable character in Version 4.3. In the story, Chevreuse is the captain of a special patrol unit in the Nation of Fontaine and operates as something akin to an investigator. The 4-star hero was at the forefront of the campaign of the flagship event in 4.3, named “Roses and Muskets”, alongside Ayaka Kamisato and a list of other important characters.

Stardew Valley's creator has seemingly confirmed a New Year's Eve event will feature in update 1.6.

Hello! Welcome to the 308th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we take a look back over 2023 and discuss all the major things that have happened over the year to completely change the face of gold making as we know it. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

Valve has released their annual Best of Steam 2023, a showcase of what was played most and made the most money broken down into roughly grouped tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In a year of absolutely great games, some of these chart-toppers aren't surprises, but dang I'd never have guessed that Half-Life, the 1998 classic, would make the top tier of the most-played Steam Deck games by daily active players.

Welcome to day ten of our special Twelve Days of Mounts series, 2023 edition! With the holidays upon us, we are doing a series of highlights on remarkable or easy-to-collect mounts added in Dragonflight. Today's highlight is the Time Rift mounts! Dragonflight 10.0 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.1 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.2 Mount Guide

The Red-Cloaked Horror has declared everyone in the Fractured Peaks as naughty, so his holiday job is done — the Midwinter Blight event is about to end! With less than 48 hours to go, players looking to sneak in one last cosmetic purchase don't have long before Gileon and the Blighted monsters leave Sanctuary for the season. Midwinter Blight Holiday Guide With the full scope of everything the Midwinter Blight has to offer costing a total of 450, it'll take some serious farming to start from scratch right now — but thankfully, targeting a few more pieces is very doable before the event ends. Here's the breakdown of what each reward costs from Gileon using as currency:

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“Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but inside it’s so delightful…” As much as these words are commonly associated with winter snowstorms, inclement weather and the general harshness of the great outdoors are year-long concerns. Be you gripped in the icy embrace of winter or hit with the heat of a summer’s sun, there’s one tried and true method to keep warm or stay cool, and that’s settling in at home with video games by yourself or with friends. And when things outdoors are getting nasty, it’s the comfy games that hit that sweet spot the strongest. Whether you’re curled up on the sofa or bed, with DualSense controller or PlayStation Portal in hand, here’s some suggestions of games to boot up when you need some soothing experiences to battle the dreariness of the outside.

 At a New York City dive bar on a recent December night, Pitbull blared from the sound system, and a gathering of like-minded young people had passionate debates about morals and the future of humanity. The local community of effective altruists was holding its “end of year celebration.”

Welcome to day eight of our special Twelve Days of Mounts series, 2023 edition! With the holidays upon us, we are doing a series of highlights on remarkable or easy-to-collect mounts added in Dragonflight. Today's highlight is the Slumbering Worldsnail Shell! Dragonflight 10.0 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.1 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.2 Mount Guide

It appears as if Nintendo is beginning to restrict the Wii U and 3DS’s ability to play online ahead of schedule (via Nintendo Life).

Welcome to day four of our special Twelve Days of Mounts series, 2023 edition! With the holidays upon us, we are doing a series of highlights on remarkable or easy-to-collect mounts added in Dragonflight. Today's highlight is the Temperamental Skyclaw! Dragonflight 10.0 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.1 Mount GuideDragonflight 10.2 Mount Guide

eCongrats, you are the owner of a Nintendo Switch! It’s a wonderful position to be in, as the console has a robust, delightful library of games. Plus you not only get to play them on a television screen or monitor; you can also take the console with you wherever you need to go. And it doesn’t hurt that there are tons of cute Joy-Con colors, a great pro controller, and lots of themed peripherals for fans of all stripes.

Steam’s Winter Sale is absolutely packed with savings on games big and small. But the more obscure or overlooked gems are often stuck beneath the pesky algorithm. To save your wrist from the pain of endlessly scrolling, we’ve compiled ten games you’ve probably never played before, all on sale for under $10. 

Nothing beats the rush of killing that Uber boss and seeing your loot slot-machine out like Gold did from Wirt's body back in Diablo 2 — after all, aren't we all a bit Treasure Goblin inside? It makes it all the more crushing, then, when the loot is nothing worthwhile, especially with the amount of time gathering boss summoning materials takes. Not everyone uses trade to purchase those materials, and while some players have dozens of sets of Duriel summoning mats, not all are so lucky! Blizzard has stated that they've heard the feedback on both receiving duplicate Uber Unique drops and on the accessibility of Boss summoning materials, and are looking into the situation for the future.

In Pokémon Scarlet andViolet’s The Indigo Disk DLC, you may be tasked with creating a four-star sandwich while you’re grinding out group quests. You’ll need some buddies and specific recipes to successfully making this level of sandwich, but don’t worry, we have the answers.

There were few moments as iconic, during the birth phase of 3D gaming, as the first time Link stepped onto Hyrule Field in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It was 1998, and games like Virtua Racing, Doom, Descent, and Nintendo’s own Super Mario 64 had already made epochal strides in graphics technology and the possibilities of 3D space. But this was something else.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver has an action-packed, epic new trailer – and it teases a massive battle still to come. 

The Indigo Disk DLC requires your Pokémon to blaze up to Level 80+ if you want to crush the Blueberry Academy Elite Four, win the Championship and defeat the secret of Area Zero. The final DLC for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet pushes your Pokémon to their limits. By the end of this story, some of your Pokémon can easily reach Level 100. And you’ll need it. Thankfully, leveling up is easier than it’s ever been thanks to a useful Chansey farming method. These Pokémon can be defeated in one hit and give your team +7,000 XP per defeat without any additional upgrades.

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.

Old School RuneScape is unique among MMOs for too many reasons to list here, but a big one is its variety of account types. You have normal, unrestricted accounts and then multiple versions of Ironmen with special limitations. Ironmen can't trade items at all, Group Ironmen trade items only with their teammates, and Hardcore Ironmen lose their status after a single death. For my money, the most difficult account type would be an Ultimate Ironman since they can't trade or bank items, meaning they carry all their valuables at all times (outside of a few workarounds) in the same 28 inventory slots. 

Diablo 4's newest season has been its most generous yet and Blizzard just dropped a hotfix that makes it even better. The action RPG's hardest endgame boss, Echo of Duriel, will now drop the game's most powerful items, Uber Uniques, at twice the usual rate until the season ends on January 8.

The multi-headed Hydrapple is an all-new Pokémon exclusive to the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet — Hydrapple is also one of the trickiest new Pokémon evolutions in the game so far, requiring a very specific set of actions to unlock him. And this is one weirdly cute Pokemon. An evolution of Dripplin — a Pokémon only available in the Teal Mask DLC — Hydrapple comes with five heads and an awesome signature move.

I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019's best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I've been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking off a series of devlogs giving a look at the game's features, inspirations, and, naturally, development.

Cozy and colorful farming sims have a new entry with the charming cat-venture , which takes traditional tropes and mixes them up with clever mysteries and a cute cat-theme. Developed by indie devs Bluecurse Studios and published by Armor Games Studios, is a wholesome and calming experience to play. It not only has the fluffy cows, decorating, and farming that are apparent at first glance, but it maintains a humor and general feeling of cheer even in the darkest depths of the mysterious forest and beyond.

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The challenge is on in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, as The Indigo Disk DLC introduces the Blueberry Pokedex. Like in Kitakami, this new expansion offers a wide variety of returning species, while also introducing some new options for players to catch.

We've all had frustrating experiences in multiplayer games. Heck, it's not that unusual for the worst of them to upset you in real life for a brief spell, and perhaps inspire some intemperate messages or uncivil voice chat. But for one Diablo 2 player, KrimzontheRed, the insult dealt by a bunch of gankers in the game's hardcore mode was simply too much. They wanted revenge and, even in hell, that is a dish best served cold.