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Blizzard is investigating an issue where the Tree of Whispers is not correctly granting rewards.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have been spurred into investigating the game's three elemental dragons, after one player discovered they're hiding a neat little Triforce design on their backs.

While exploring the Adamantine Forge in 's Grymforge region, you may come across the Sentient Amulet. This amulet, which provides useful enhancements if equipped, might not initially seem conspicuous, but a rather sinister secret behind it causes you lots of trouble. However, the Sentient Amulet also involves the player in a secret quest that leads to helping the spirit of a cursed monk.

Microsoft Corp.'s partnership with artificial intelligence firm Mistral AI will avoid a UK antitrust probe after the watchdog said it didn't qualify for an investigation.

Blizzard has released a «Known Issues» list for Diablo 4 Season 4. Issues include the previously reported s missing on the Eternal Realm, Nvidia 40-Series crashing issues, and the unintended Legacy Gear being modified at the start of the Season. In addition, the team is working on a Hotfix that will go out in the next 24 hours that will correct the Boss Ladder drop rates, and allow Unique items to correctly drop from their respective bosses.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs has raised an alarm over a surge in complaints received through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) regarding digital arrest scams perpetrated by cyber criminals posing as various law enforcement agencies. These complaints include instances of intimidation, blackmail, extortion, and fraudulent activities under the guise of police authorities, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Narcotics Department, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Enforcement Directorate, and other law enforcement entities.

is already loaded with morbid details pertaining to the dystopian future of Night City but one fan has discovered one of the most brutal, and it only took them four playthroughs to see it. During the acclaimed expansion, V is tasked with going undercover during their investigation of Songbird and her allegedly traitorous crimes. In order to do so, the protagonist needs to adopt a new face and given the technological advancements of, it stands to reason that a simple mask won't be enough to complete the job.

The popular Hightech Toy event is making a hype-worthy comeback to the Archives in Goddess of Victory: Nikke. You’ll get to revisit this thrilling story and rewarding gameplay from May 16th onwards.

Blizzard is investigating an issue related to stats being lowered on Legacy gear in the Eternal Realm after today's Season 4 patch.

With the launch of Diablo 4 Season 4, players are diving back into Sanctuary to tackle the forces of Hell once more. Some players, however, noticed something missing from their Eternal Realm characters: their stockpile of Resplendent Spark.

After completing the Hunt for the Harbinger questline, players are able to stay awhile and listen to Magister Umbric discuss Alleria Windrunner's absence with the Void Elves — some are upset that she won't be leading them for a time.

The new mobile game Winning Derby from Hong Kong is coming under fire for alleged plagiarism from the well-liked Japanese game Jockey Girl Pretty Derby. Players of both the games have noted parallels in the character designs, visual style, and gameplay.

is an MMO tactical shooter where you are dropped into the open world of Lamang Island to survive following every trick you can. From exploring the Island's large map to taking on different missions, you might struggle to figure out how to approach the variety of tasks in the game at first. Even though some content isn't available in early access, there's still plenty to learn.

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While driving back from a camping trip in July 2009, Diane Schuler crashed her minivan into a sports utility vehicle. Reports indicate that Schuler drove in the wrong direction for nearly two miles before crashing her car into another vehicle. When authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered that Schuler was accompanied by her two children and three nieces. The tragic accident has been covered extensively in the HBO documentary .

Citizens of Dalaran, raise your eyes and observe as Archmage Drenden returns to Dalaran to rejoin its ruling Council of Six! Appearing at the start of The Harbinger questline of Patch 10.2.7, players not familiar with the books may wonder who this mysterious mage is, and just why they've been so readily welcomed into Dalaran's leading council.

Blizzard has released a post responding to reports of reduced target scaling of Destruction Warlock's Inferno talent which generates soul shards from Rain of Fire during AoE. While the reduced scaling of Inferno should be removed soon in Dragonflight Season 4, Blizzard is looking into a way to redesign Inferno in The War Within.

Helldivers 2 players are getting mixed signals from developers after a recent patch indirectly nerfed a fan-favorite primary weapon. 

With the release of Patch 10.2.7 Dark Heart, the final chapter of Dragonflight's storyline is available to play. We played through the questline to bring in all the details!

Each Tuesday, The Gauntlet in Diablo 4 rolls over to its new week, immortalizing the previous week's scores and refreshing with a new layout, new strategies to find, and new loot to earn. However, with this week's reset time come and gone and no new Gauntlet in sight, Blizzard has stated they're investigating the issue. Diablo Global Community Development Director Adam Fletcher stated on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Blizzard has begun looking into why the Gauntlet didn't reset, but did not give an ETA for the issue.

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Amazon is teaming up with Crunchyroll to kick off the new month with a deal they’ve dubbed the AniMay sale. Blu-ray and 4K UHD collections of some of our favorite anime are currently discounted by up to 52%. This sale includes essentials like the complete series of Cowboy Bebop, which is discounted to $26.99 (was $49.98), and the complete collection of the classic 1960s series Speed Racer, which is available for $17.49 (was $19.99). But you’ll also find deals on some slightly deeper cuts, which we’ve outlined below.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has issued a statement on recent changes to the way ricochet works in the game after members of the community pointed out one weapon in particular was killing players more than it should.

Blizzard has temporarily disabled battlegrounds in Cataclysm Classic while they investigate an issue.

Blizzard has commented on addon throttling in Patch 10.2.7, noting that it was a bug and it will be fixed soon.

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.

Pocketpair has announced that Palworld is going to be getting four new Pals, though they have not been named yet. They will be part of the updates coming this summer for the game, and it looks like a new area could be in the works too, but the PvP mode for Palworld is not likely to be released during the summer.

Promise Mascot Agency! has been revealed by the Paradise Killer developers Kaizen Game Works. Promise Mascot Agency! is an open world mascot management crime drama, where you play as a disgraced Yakuza lieutenant called Michi. He is sent to the bankrupt agency and is tasked with turning it into a profitable business.

One of the characters being explored in the War Within is none other than Magni Bronzebeard, who we haven't heard from much since Battle for Azeroth. Magni is further explored in the Ringing Deeps, the second zone of the War Within, and an important event happens to him!

Facepunch Studios has announced on Steam that it's removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related workshop items for its sandbox game Garry's Mod to comply with the Japanese company's demands. Earlier this year, an X user with the name Brewster T. Koopa posted that a group of trolls was filing false DMCA claims against the game to get Nintendo add-ons removed and to get add-on makers to shut down. The perpetrators allegedly used a fake email to impersonate Nintendo's lawyers to send DMCA takedown notices. Facepunch Studios said in its new announcement, that it believes the demands legitimately came from Nintendo and that it has to respect the company's decision and start taking down items related to its IPs.

As the weather (hopefully) turns nicer and the days get longer, it’s hard to think about being inside watching TV. Which is why it’s good that this week’s offerings are so easy to pop on at your leisure: Whether it’s the charms of Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives — based on a comic written by Neil Gaiman — or the hard-won pleasures of Shōgun’s final episode, or even the fighting spirit of We’re Here season 4 or Knuckles, there’s a lot to love this week.

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The (unofficial) theme of new TV this week: reality.

With the initial wave of datamining over, we've been able to update the new Xal'atath model coming in Patch 10.2.7 complete with spell effects. Behold the Harbinger in her full void-tastic glory! Getting to Know Xal'atath and Alleria Windrunner With the Hunt for the Harbinger questline coming in Patch 10.2.7, Khadgar and Alleria ask for our help in investigating the mysterious Harbinger and her Dark Heart.

We've datamined quest names possibly tied to a new Xal'atath questline in Patch 10.2.7, Hunt for the Harbinger. While this quest is not testable on the PTR, we can see the names of the steps and glean some hints about the storyline.

Margot Robbie’s production company LuckyChap, fresh off multiple Academy Award nominations for its blockbuster hit, Barbie, is taking on a new challenge — a film based on the board game Monopoly. The announcement was made Wednesday at CinemaCon. But unlike Barbie, where the climax centered around the toy’s original female creator as embodied by the diminutive Rhea Perlman, the circumstances behind the creation of Monopoly are fraught for an entirely different reason. Will LuckyChap rise to the occasion with another feel-good hit that opens the door to forgotten history, or will it work to further obscure the game’s origins?

A seller of hacked Pokemon has been arrested in Japan after selling custom save files for up to $90.

Blizzard has replied on the forums about the issues with Primal Storms, saying they are investigating and hoping to have them fixed by the next weekly reset.

This article contains spoilers for Netflix's Parasyte: The Grey

Blizzard has introduced new Account Restrictions in Season of Discovery for accounts which the first paid month has not yet fully passed. If you added game time for the first time to your account, you will not be able to trade with other players, use the auction house or in-game mails in Season of Discovery until the first 30 days have passed.

Among the many new collectibles added to in the 2.0 update are origami birds mischievous little helpers that like to hide throughout Penacony. The Dewlight Pavilion sub-area has ten birds you need to track down for the Verdant Manager. For your troubles, players will receive Clock Credits and Stellar Jade as a reward, in addition to getting to explore the Pavilion.

Intel has actively started investigating issues currently facing its 13th & 14th Gen CPUs such as gaming stability which affects thousands of gamers.

Back in 2020, filmmaking partners Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss released Boys State, a startling, compulsively watchable documentary that packs all of America’s political flaws into one competitive event. Embedding themselves in the 2018 Texas edition of Boys State, an annual leadership event where a thousand teenage boys are brought together to form a mock U.S. government, McBaine and Moss tracked a handful of participants as they vied for public office, learned terrible lessons about American politics, and alternated between acting like jaded statesmen and acting like teenage boys. One of the most obvious questions coming out of that documentary was: What does the girls’ version of this same event look like?

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly prevalent in the tech industry, questions about its impact on jobs and the economy are gaining traction. Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft, major players in AI development, are now collaborating to study the potential effects of AI on technology-related employment.

Early last year, while working on the next entry in the Life Is Strange franchise, a few developers at Deck Nine stumbled upon something that didn’t belong in their game: Nazi symbols.

With SoD Phase 3 launch, European players are currently facing login issues, which are impacting other games as well. Blizzard is aware of the issue and is investigating it.

Blizzard has announced that they are investigating and addressing an EU login issue preventing players from logging into the game.

Blizzard has noted that the Crafted Item Level on the 10.2.6 PTR is a bug and it will be fixed soon! We mentioned yesterday that Crafted gear is only Myth 2/4 at max quality on the PTR, when Season 3 was Myth 3/4. Blizzard has now mentioned that this is a bug and it will be fixed.

Police in Japan arrested on April 3 a 27-year old man suspected of threatening Nintendo staff, events, and spectators. Due to these threats, Nintendo announced in December it was canceling several events, like Nintendo Live and the Splatoon Koshien 2023 finals, and postponing others. Japanese newspaper the Kyoto Shimbun first reported the arrest. According to the report, the man admitted to the threats.

In recent years, there have been instances when governments around the world have asked Apple to aid in their investigations by unlocking the accused's iPhone, with some of them even approaching the court in a bid to convince Apple to follow their instructions. The company also revealed that it had indeed cooperated with governments in about 70 such past instances. However, in recent times, Apple has simply denied the requests, suggesting the importance it gives to privacy.

Colin Farrell says his upcoming neo-noir detective series Sugar and his Batman spin-off show The Penguin are polar opposites – with the later being a complete and total trip to the dark side.

Another addition to the Dark Riddle series! Yes, Dark Riddle 3 – Strange Hill has just landed on Android and is now open for pre-registration. If you love adventure puzzlers and mystery games with a dash of humour and sci-fi, then this one’s for you!

AT&T has taken swift action to reset customer account passcodes following the disclosure of a data breach dating back to 2019. The breach, affecting a staggering 73 million current and former users, marks a significant security lapse for the telecom giant, with leaked data including sensitive personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and social security numbers.

We all know that bugs represent an existential threat to the future of Super Earth and, by extension, to the players of Arrowhead's excellent Helldivers 2. However, the ongoing Galactic War effort is being undermined by one more treacherous than most. This makes determining precisely how much Liberty has been spread recently tricky and doubtless will impact morale.

Wizards of the Coast has released a statement confirming that it has suspended Fay Dalton, the artist behind Magic: The Gathering's Trouble in Pairs card from the Murders at Karlov Manor Commander set, while it investigates her alleged plagiarism.

Blizzard has announced that there will be FCM from Chaos Bolt (US) to Crusader Strike (US). In addition, new players may not create new characters on Chaos Bolt. The move is not currently available as Blizzard investigates a bug with the system.

Activision is reportedly in the midst of investigating a hacking campaign that's stealing login credentials from people playing its games. According to TechCrunch, bad actors have been successfully installing malware onto victims' computers and using their access to steal logins for their gaming accounts and even their crypto wallets. The video game publisher has apparently been helping victims remove the malware and regain control of their accounts, but it doesn't have enough information at the moment to say how the malware is spreading.

Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned.

The League of Legends esports scene has been rocked by an alleged match-fixing scandal so large that it has affected every team in a regional league.

Special characters called Allies can be unlocked in to help you during various missions throughout your adventure. As you complete different quests, you can earn the trust of strong NPCs willing to aid you in future endeavors with their unique skills. Those who manage to take every available Ally on at least one mission can obtain an exclusive trophy as a reward for their efforts.

An attendee of GDC 2024 says that her drink was spiked at a hotel bar, but authorities refused to investigate the matter. Snow Rui, president of the game publisher Hooded Horse, says that she was met with "complete indifference" from emergency services, with police reluctant to investigate and the hospital she was admitted to refusing to run tests for commonly used date rape drugs.

One of the key missions to help prove you’re the true Arisen in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is to figure out the real identity of the false Sovran. One clue you have as to figuring this out is hidden in the Nameless Village, though not all is as it seems there. The first step will be, of course, reaching this unassuming little town. If you’re running in circles trying to reach it, here are some better directions to get to the Nameless Village.

release date and time have been revealed. The episode will air on Crunchyroll. In the previous episodes, we saw Ryoh and Nerey arrive at Easton Academy, where Zero’s spell has frozen Nerey. Ryoh learns about recent events from Kaldo and Olter. Meanwhile, Olter investigates Cell War’s disappearance, suspecting another Innocent Zero member’s involvement.

Alan Wake 2's Case Board was given such overwhelmingly negative feedback during development due to its "anxiety-inducing" mechanical depth that it had to be toned down a ton for the final game.

NASA's diminutive BurstCube satellite is now making its way to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX's Dragon resupply spacecraft. It lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, BurstCube is poised to embark on a significant mission.

The Operator is an investigative puzzler that mixes the footage-scrubbing clue analysis of Her Story with the nail-biting crime mysteries of X-Files - and its newest trailer from the Future Games Show Spring Showcase shows off both!

Apple is facing another antitrust lawsuit — this time from the US government.

French regulators said Wednesday they were fining Google 250 million euros ($272 million) for breaching commitments on paying media companies for reproducing their content online and for using their material for its AI chatbot without telling them.

Sony is reportedly undertaking an internal investigation to determine how exactly the specs for Trinity, the codename by which the colloquially-named PS5 Pro is internally known, leaked so entirely over the weekend. The incident occurred during a third-party developer rollout, and while we may never learn the culprit's identity, there will undoubtedly be additional security ramifications for other third-party devs moving forward.

It’s been a while since our last new Star Wars show. But the long drought since Ahsokais finally coming to an end as Disney debuted the first trailer for The Acolyte on Tuesday. The new series is set during Star Wars’ High Republic era and will debut on Disney Plus with its first two episodes on June 4.

Sony is said to have launched an internal investigation into the leaked documents about the rumored PS5 Pro model.

Sony is reportedly investigating the PlayStation 5 Pro leak.

HoYoverse is back in the spotlight with exciting news for fans waiting for the release of the Zenless Zone Zero CBT.

In the vastness of space, galaxies journey through the cosmos, encountering mind-boggling challenges along the way. One such challenge is ram pressure, a force exerted by the gas and dust present in space. NASA and ESA-run Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an image showcasing the effects of this on a distant galaxy known as LEDA 42160.

Minecraft developer Mojang has warned players not to update the game through the official Xbox app on PC because it may delete their worlds.

OTT Releases this Week: The streaming landscape is ablaze with excitement as this week unfolds with a plethora of new releases across various OTT platforms. Whether you're craving spine-tingling mysteries, mythical adventures, or gripping historical narratives, there's something to satiate every binge-watcher's appetite. Let's delve into the lineup of captivating movies and web series set to grace our screens this weekend.

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New studio Critical Hit Games has announced the noir detective game Nobody Wants To Die for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, coming out later in 2024. The game is set in a future dystopian New York, the year 2329, where immortality is available for those that can afford it, able to swap bodies as they age. Essentially, it’s quite a bit like the novel and Netflix series Altered Carbon – the cinematic reveal trailer shows its own peculiar twists, though.

A single playthrough of the new Alone in the Dark game will take you around eight hours if you rush, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Literally.