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Nvidia is going after AMD with its own CES 2024 event, but at least it's not wrapping the entire thing up in a cloak of AI-ness. Instead, it's calling this a «Special Address» in which we are being told it will «focus on consumer technologies and robotics.»

In just a few hours, NVIDIA will host its CES 2024 "Special Address" livestream where it plans to unveil its RTX 40 SUPER GPUs & more.

Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki «Yoshi-P» Yoshida has said that the reason there's no firmer release date for expansion Dawntrail than summer 2024 is because he would rather not give one than give one that has to be delayed. Fans were expecting a release date at the Japanese Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest 2024 this weekend, as has become tradition.

Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida has revealed that many highly requested features coming after the launch of Final Fantasy XI: Dawntrail.

Last week, Path of Exile 2’s Game Director Jonathan Rogers sat for a livestreamedinterview with streamer Kripparrian, and the two discussed PoE2, what’s new, how they’re evolving and balancing combat, monster designs, adding WASD combat and much more. This comes as today, there is another live stream with Rogers and Mark Roberts happening today.

Ned Luke, the actor best known for portraying Micheal de Danta in Grand Theft Auto 5, has been swatted for the second time in two months while livestreaming his playthrough of GTA 5.

The modernized and remade PC version of tactical shoot 'em up R-Type Tactics 1 and 2 is clearly not coming this year as previously listed. Developer Granzella has announced that R-Type Tactics I — II Cosmos is in fact coming in fall 2024, instead, during a recent livestream.

Christopher Judge inherited the blades of chaos in the God Of War reboot and its direct follow-up God Of War: Ragnarok, but the actor claims he’s uninterested in voice-matching earlier renditions of the character, played by Terrence C. Carson. 

With 2023 coming to a close, let's look at what's next for Diablo 4 in 2024! We have summarized all known future updates for Diablo 4 so that you can keep an eye on what happens in the world of Sanctuary within the coming months and beyond. Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred: Everything We Know So Far

The Like A Dragon (formerly Yakuza) series is more popular than it's ever been at the moment, and its newfound success has convinced developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios to return to its older and more niche titles and give them a fresh coat of paint. Like a Dragon: Ishin came to the West for the first time earlier this year, and Yakuza: Dead Souls fans had hoped the zombie-slaying spinoff would get the same love down the road.

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By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

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The Genshin Impact 4.3 release time is upon us. The next chapter of Fontaine, "Roses and Muskets," will introduce the new five-star character Navia, who's been a key figure in the region's central quest, with new four-star Chevreuse to come in the second half of the update. 

Square Enix has confirmed that SaGa Emerald Beyond! is going to be released on April 25th, 2024. The news has come from the SaGA Glimmerfest 2023 35th anniversary livestream. Two main characters from the game have been detailed including Tsunanori Mido and Ameya Aisling, along with their companions and allies.

One Dota 2 pro player was seemingly on Valve’s naughty list, having been gifted a chunk of coal and a permanent ban while livestreaming. 

With Sonic the Hedgehog 3 set to introduce Shadow, it's no surprise that fans are hoping the film takes inspiration from Sonic Adventure 2. In fact, some fans have taken this further, hoping the movie features Sonic Adventure 2's iconic theme song, Live & Learn by Crush 40.

One of the most interesting things about the latest Metaphor: ReFantazio trailer is that it seems to show action and turn-based combat. Of course, Atlus is well known for its turn-based mechanics — Persona 5 being a standout example — and so it was largely assumed that Metaphor would follow suit. However, that's not quite the case.

HoYoverse has hosted the next major livestream for Honkai: Star Rail’s upcoming v1.6 update, named Crown of the Mundane and Divine, which is scheduled to release on 27th December. Another colossal update for the uber-popular gacha, the content will include three new playable characters, fresh story content, and a previously unseen environment on the Herta Space Station. But the developer also teased content further into the future, including the new planet, Penacony.

The Game Awards are always going to be something that is hotly debated for various reasons. But one thing that you must give them, even if you don’t want to, is that because of their platform and being streamed all over the place, they have done incredible numbers from when they started in 2014. They got 1.9 million viewers that first year, which isn’t too bad considering the period. But when you fast forward to 2023, you see just how big things have gotten, as the latest show had 118 million viewers worldwide. That’s a 15% increase from the previous year and proof that the show is still growing.

The Game Awards 2023 broke the event’s viewership record with an estimated 118 million livestreams.

Square Enix has confirmed that SaGA Emerald Beyond! is going to be released on April 25th, 2024. The news has come from the SaGA Glimmerfest 2023 35th anniversary livestream. Two main characters from the game have been detailed including Tsunanori Mido and Ameya Aisling, along with their companions and allies.

Congratulations to the Chinese Diablo 4 player Xingluoah, also known as MrSuiXing, who has just cleared the highest tier in the Abattoir of Zir, Tier 25, on his Hammer of the Ancients + Whirlwind Barbarian! Xingluoah's Douyin Livestream Xingluoah's Bilibili ChannelXingluoah's World First Tier 25 Abattoir of Zir Clear and Setup, downloaded for viewing clarity. Please check out the original video to support Xingluoah! The original video of their clear can be found on Douyin or Bilibili.

These days, fighting games live and die based on their online playerbase, and yet, Mortal Kombat 1 did not launch with crossplay support. Thankfully, that will change relatively soon though, as NetherRealm Studios announced in a recent livestream that crossplay between PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5 will be coming in early 2024 (perhaps unsurprisingly, the ill-fated Switch version is left out).

We've joined forces up with Loupedeck and Streamlabs for a mighty streaming giveaway. We'll be handing out a Loupedeck Live S customizable livestream controller and a full year's Streamlabs Ultra subscription to one lucky winner. 

Did you know that House Flipper 2 once beat Lies of P as Steam Next Fest’s most-played demo? Well, it did, and now, it’s about to come out very shortly. Supposedly a comprehensive upgrade to the middle-of-the-road original, House Flipper 2 is about to prove its worth.

To celebrate the ongoing FC Pro Open esports tournament, EA Sports FC 24 Mystery Nation Easter Egg rewards are on offer in Ultimate Team, and everyone can join in the fun – as long as you know what the Mystery Nation Easter Egg solution is!

It doesn’t feel like 5 minutes since the last time I had to do this, but here we are once again with the Genshin Impact 4.3 livestream! With Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero in the works, we’re in a constant cycle of reporting new HoYoverse news – and it’s quite exciting, but I may be biased.

Hopefully, you’re not tired of new and upcoming roguelikes yet! Megacatrogue has just launched and is a pounce ahead of genre similars we have seen so far. If the game title didn’t give it away, you get to play as a cat, and in 3D!

The Genshin Impact 4.3 livestream runs through what to expect in the next chapter of the Traveler's journey through the watery region of Fontaine. As an added bonus, those who tune in can grab livestream codes that they can redeem for Primogems, to use when wishing for new characters and reruns of older ones.

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The Game Awards takes place on Thursday, Dec. 7 and, for the third year running, we’ll be watching along on our Twitch channel and hosting our own awards!

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Poncle have announced a new DLC for our best roguelike of 2022: Vampire Survivors, in collaboration with Innersloth's Among Us. This new DLC called Emergency Meeting is set to arrive on PC on December 18, 2023.

It's that time of the year again, The Game Awards 2023 is right around the corner so if you want to tune in live - here's when The Game Awards start and where you can watch it.

Update: Despite the official wording from the official Level-5 livestream, the delay to DECAPOLICE may not be quite as significant as first thought. The game's official Twitter account now claims the PS5, PS4 title has only been pushed back to 2024 instead of «post-2024», as was stated during the showcase.

Despite being one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world, Twitch has more than its share of problems. Recently, the company announced 180 employees were being laid off, and now it’s having to cease operations in Korea.

Twitch has announced it will end operations in South Korea at the end of February 2024, and blamed the high cost of operating in the country.

Twitch will be ceasing operations in South Korea due to the “prohibitively expensive” operational cost of running the streaming platform in the country, CEO Dan Clancy said Tuesday. According to the blog post, Twitch will stop service in Korea on Feb. 27, exiting a country known for being a global center of gaming and esports.

Twitch is shutting down its business in Korea and claims that operating in the region has become "prohibitively expensive."

Twitch has announced that it will end its service in South Korea in February.

AMD is hosting its "Advancing AI" event in less than 24 hours where the company will unveil its latest and greatest in the AI segment while launching its brand new Instinct MI300 accelerators.

Twitch has revealed that it will be shutting down completely in Korea in 2024, claiming that the business has been operating in the country at a significant loss.

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It's not fun for developers when trailers leak early for their games, but I imagine even less so when your studio has something new to share as rarely as Rockstar does. The studio planned to premiere the first GTA 6 trailer tomorrow morning. People were so excited about it that thousands were sitting around in the livestream chat 24 hours ahead of time to get hyped about the game. Then, earlier today, the full trailer leaked onto X with an ugly crypto watermark glazed over the center of the screen.

Ark: Survival Ascended, the Unreal Engine 5 remaster of Ark: Survival Evolved, had a heck of a launch in early October. With 600,000 copies sold after only two weeks, it looked like it'd quickly march right up the list of the most played games on Steam, where the original dino survival game perched for so many years.

Blizzard really, really wants you to know Diablo 4 isn't going to add any pay-to-win elements. In fact, the ARPG's lead developers are so keen on making that point clear that they repeated it no less than six times during a recent livestream.

The first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer will be revealed tomorrow, but some fans clearly can't wait. Even with a day to go until it drops, more than 40,000 people are waiting around on the Rockstar YouTube channel, waiting for the trailer's premiere.

Final Fantasy 15's director has revealed why he left Square Enix back in 2018.

This week is the week of The Games Awards, aka Geoffest, aka the Ke3ghleys - an absolute banquet of trailers, release dates and game announcements for the Maw. There are a few reveals in the offing. Some, we already know about, and may even have written up in advance; others, we'll learn about together with your good selves when the livestream begins at 4.30pm Los Angeles time on 7th December, which equates to 12.30am on 8th December (ouch) in the UK. There's the trifling matter of the first GTA 6 trailer on 5th December, too.

When CD Projekt Red reintroduced Cyberpunk 2077 to the gaming industry at E3 2018, it did so with a trailer that opened on the image of Night City’s convoluted subway system. Now, half a decade removed from that iconic moment (not to mention three years after the game’s rocky launch), the studio is finally ready to add an honest-to-goodness metro to its game’s gritty, neon-soaked setting.

Back in September, senior editor Wes Fenlon praised Cyberpunk 2077's astonishing turnaround but said he still yearned for a fully functioning metro system so he could properly enjoy the grimy majesty of Night City. Today CD Projekt served up some good news for Wes: It's coming in the surprise 2.1 patch that was announced yesterday.

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting some widely requested features, including a fully functional metro system. As of version 2.1, players looking for max immersion will be able to ride the metro in real-time, rather than just rely on fast travel points.

Cyberpunk 2077 is finally getting a fully functional metro system next week, thanks to patch 2.1 which will go live to mark the release of the Ultimate Edition.

In their Campfire Chat livestream, Blizzard has showcased multiple runs through the Abattoir of Zir, a new temporary endgame challenge that looks a lot like Diablo 3's Challenge Rifts, which will be released on December 5. November 30 Campfire Chat Summary Itemization Changes Planned for Season 4 During the showcase, Community Manager Rich Bantegui showed the recipe for Bloodforged Sigils which are needed to access the Abattoir of Zir: To craft a Bloodforged Sigil, you will need and Gold.

During the recent Campfire Chat livestream, the developers clarified that a run in the upcoming seasonal event Abattoir of Zir ends as soon as anyone in the party dies. Abattoir of Zir Blog Post Released Abattoir of Zir Runs End When You Die — BlizzCon Interview Roundup Previously, Associate Game DirectorJoe Piepiora mentioned in a BlizzCon interview with Screen Rant that a run in the Abattoir of Zir will end as soon as you die.

During today's 1.2.3 Campfire Chat livestream, the team revealed new content coming to Diablo 4. From Abattoir of Zir, Midwinter Blight, and Season 3 teases, this Campfire Chat was chockful of new content coming to the game, including upcoming changes to Helltides! Patch 1.2.3 Campfire Chat Summary Itemization Changes in Season 4

As part of today's livestream, Grinding Gear Games revealed one of the new classes coming to Path of Exile 2 next year, the Mercenary. The class uses a crossbow and incorporates lessons learned from shooters, including adding WASD movement to the ARPG.

In a livestream today developer Grinding Gear Games made a slew of announcements, including a first look at a new playable class in its upcoming ARPG Path of Exile 2: the mercenary.

With the recent rumors swirling around in the community, Blizzard reiterated during their Campfire Chat livestream that there will be no pay for power coming to Diablo 4! Diablo 4 Campfire Chat Summary — Patch 1.2.3, Abattoir of Zir, Midwinter Blight Diablo 4 Future Updates Calendar Blizzard has stated in the past that Diablo 4's monetization model will not be pay-to-win and won't include items that can be bought in exchange for player power.

During their Campfire Chat livestream on November 30, Blizzard announced that they would make massive itemization changes in Diablo 4 with the release of Season 4. Itemization has been the hottest community topic since Diablo 4's launch. According to countless examples in Blizzard's official forums and social media, itemization in Diablo 4 feels overwhelming and meaningless simultaneously. Diablo 4 Campfire Chat Liveblog

The Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3 Campfire Chat has concluded. Here we've summarized all of the upcoming content, features, and quality-of-life changes coming to Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3, and beyond! Diablo 4 News Hub Diablo 4 Guide Hub Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3 will go live on Tuesday, December 5th! Patch notes will become available tomorrow, December 1st.

The Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3 Campfire Chat is about to begin! Join us as we liveblog all of the upcoming content (including Abattoir of Zir), features, and quality-of-life changes coming to Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3! Diablo 4 News Hub Diablo 4 Guide Hub Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.3 will go live on Tuesday, December 5th! Patch notes will become available tomorrow, December 1st.

We're counting down the most anticipated PC games coming in 2024 and beyond during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, but not everything in the show is yet to come. Featured during today's livestream was Sands of Aura, a top-down action RPG that hit 1.0 in October. Developed by 12-person studio Chasu Entertainment, Sands of Aura didn't ping my radar until recently.

Xbox and PlayStation gamers have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to player-to-player trading in Diablo 4. Trading gold between players on console has been a hassle since the launch of the game in July, but console players have finally made their voices heard.

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a free update alongside its 'Ultimate Edition' next month, and the devs will reveal what's in the new update tomorrow.

Critical Role is pretty much the biggest livestreamed D&D campaign, by sheer popularity and volume alone. Starting halfway through the group's home game in 2015, to call the game's rise to popularity 'meteoric' is an understatement. It's gone from an experiment by Geek & Sundry to its own enterprise with heaps of merch, a charity foundation, officially-sanctioned D&D settings, board games, its own unique systems like Candela Obscura, and a very solid animated series with two seasons and counting. And, according to a recent interview with Dicebreaker, we could get a Critical Role videogame, too. Responding to a question as to whether he'd like to make the leap to a digital world, Critical Role's DM Matthew Mercer responds with a bit of caution, saying it would «require the right idea, the right development studio and the right budget.» However, he goes on to say that he'd «love to see that in the future, should all those stars align». Coming from anyone else, saying 'sure, we'd love to make a game' wouldn't even register on my radar. Everybody with a world and characters they care about would love to make a game, it's just that games are both extremely difficult and wildly expensive to make. Looking back on Critical Role's history, though, I think it's very possible. If Critical Role as a company sets its mind on it, it's even likely. Back when The Legend of Vox Machina animated series was being funded, Critical Role put up a kickstarter with a humble goal of $750,000. It beat that goal, raising $1 million. Sorry, correction—it raised $1 million in its first hour. In total, the Kickstarter for The Legend of Vox Machina broke $11.3 million in funding, which is about 1,500% of the original goal. Not only would a Critical Role video game be able to easily get a huge wad of Kickstarter cash to get things started, it'd sell like hotcakes if it was even a little bit good. It also helps that Critical Role already has good ties to the industry, on account of the fact its entire cast are self-described «nerdy-ass voice actors.» Mercer, for example, voiced Minsc in Baldur's Gate 3—and you've likely heard his voice in a thousand other places before. Overwatch, Fallout 4, Pillars of Eternity World of Warcraft, League of Legends, The Legend of Zelda—he's been in the industry since 2002. If I went through the whole cast's portfolio (like how CEO Travis Willingham is Kingpin in Marvel's Spider-Man and Thor in like, most things that need voice acting for Thor, or how Ashley Johnson is Ellie from The Last of Us, or how Laura Bailey is Jaina Proudmoore) I'd be here all day. 

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Capcom has announced Dragon’s Dogma 2’s release date.

The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has given his two cents as to the controversy surrounding the Best Indie Game category at the show.

The Dragon’s Dogma 2 showcase planned for today will reveal the game’s release date, according to its director.

The 2023 MAMA Awards, or Mnet Asian Music Awards, will take place this month at Japan’s Tokyo Dome. It will be a two-day event, where K-pop artists like ENHYPEN, Street Woman Fighter 2, TVXQ, ATEEZ, SEVENTEEN, ZEROBASEONE, and (G)I-DLE will perform.

Capcom has revealed that they will be sharing the Dragon’s Dogma 2 release date in its showcase tonight.

One of the more memorable moments in the 2022 Game Awards came courtesy of a kid who crashed FromSoftware's acceptance of the Game of the Year award for Elden Ring. Don't expect something similar to happen in 2023, though, as TGA founder and host Geoff Keighley said during a recent Q&A livestream that «we definitely have plans» for better security at this year's event. Last year's stage-crasher was a bizarre prankster—he thanked his «Reformed Orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton» for the win—but ultimately harmless. A similar disturbance interrupted Gamescom Opening Night Live in August when two attendees rushed the stage and spoke into Keighley's microphone «Bill Clinton wants to play GTA 6,» an apparent nod to the Game Awards stage-crasher. But the ease with which these people infiltrated two major gaming events laid bare the fact that someone who isn't harmless could do the same thing. Sadly in this day and age, that's something organizers of public events like The Game Awards have to bear in mind. «Yeah, we are,» Keighley said when asked if security would be beefed up this year to prevent stage crashers. «We don't want to talk about that stuff too publicly, just because it's security and we definitely have plans, and we're trying to do all we can to keep me safe, but also everyone watching the show, in the audience, participating in the show and everything. »So yeah, it's something we're certainly thinking about. We appreciate the concern. Believe me, that's something that's top of mind for us, but we also want to put on a great show that celebrates these games, and celebrates our love for videogames. So that's an important thing to keep in mind as well. But I appreciate the concern around that."

The next Diablo 4 Campfire Chat will cover the Abattoir of Zir, Midwinter Blight, and Itemization updates coming in Season 2! Diablo 4 Abattoir of Zir Guide Midwinter Blight Season 2 Guide

The host of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, has acknowledged the confusion surrounding which games can be considered eligible for the Best Independent Game category, and says it’s “it’s a really complicated thing to figure out.”

Geoff Keighley, the host of The Game Awards, says that the awards show will have tighter security this year to help keep everyone safe.

The Race for World First is officially over! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles have provided Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the end of the race, with Echo emerging as the victors!Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guides. The Race to World First is finally over, which means it's time for the final RWF Recap Video with Dratnos & Tettles. Yesterday's video was missed due to Echo staying up until past 4am local time in their desperate attempt to kill the boss. Little did they know that neither they nor Liquid both would be unable to kill the boss before going to bed. This decision was prompted, in part, by a nerf which came in at about 9pm local time, which made them think an already killable boss was now in danger of dying in their sleep. That didn't come to pass, as Phase 3's final dance was exponentially more difficult than the start of the phase, leading to several sub 10% wipes by both Liquid and Echo culminating in several exciting hours of progress while both guilds were at 1.7% best pulls. Echo ended up securing the kill first with only milliseconds to spare before the raid would have died to a seed! Dratnos and Tettles agree that this was the best Race to World First so far, and can't wait for the competition to continue in The War Within! We hope you've enjoyed this coverage!

The actor who played Michael De Santa in Grand Theft Auto 5 got swatted while live-streaming online, with fans blaming game developer Rockstar Games.