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On April 15, Discord’s new Terms of Service changes went into effect, and there’s one major addition: an arbitration clause. What does it mean for users? It’s an important change easily lost in the fine print for anyone on Discord — and those in the know have a chance to opt out of the new agreement before May 15.

Well, I know it’s not quite a fan-favourite anymore, but let’s be real. This game (especially its animation) has seen better days. I’m talking about Artery Gear: Fusion. Maybe this game isn’t in its prime anymore, but it’s dropped a collab that looks … good! It’s Artery Gear × Megadimension Neptunia VII.

Moon Studios may be known for its hit Metroidvania games, but its new action RPG, No Rest for the Wicked, is now available in early access, and former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra believes its "bold direction" is what the genre needs to "stay relevant."

16 more games are heading to PS Plus through the Extra and Premium tiers this month, and as is often the case, there's quite a lot of variety on show. April's offering is headlined by not one, not two, but three brand new releases on PS5 and PS4: the incredibly highly rated Dave the Diver, the promising Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, and Animal Well. Although technically, ZAU is out a little later in the month, and Animal Well is out in May.

Harold Halibut is a bit like visiting an aquarium for the umpteenth time — yes, it's visually interesting, offering a glimpse into a submerged alien world, but once the initial intrigue is gone, you're essentially on a long, and quite dull, walk. This narrative-focused sci-fi adventure starts off with a promising premise and enchanting art style, but it doesn't take long before the facade falls to reveal what is ultimately a protracted and shallow game.

Over the past couple of months, a streamer known as Silithur has somehow been beating Elden Ring with nothing but a single button and Morse code, adding his run to the ever-growing list of strange and wonderful items the game has been completed with. He garnered attention back in February, by rather comprehensively beating Margit, and he's been gaining fans on his long and arduous trek to the Elden Beast.

A couple of years back, VIZ Media and Marvel Comics joined forces to put a fresh manga spin on some of the superhero giant's most popular characters. Now those stories have found a permanent home on the VIZ Manga digital service.

Some Fallout TV show viewers think Amazon's series might have made two particular endings to Fallout 4 canonical in the wider universe.

Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt says the game's ammo boosters were inspired by his time serving in the military.

Ben Starr, the actor behind Final Fantasy 16's Clive Rosfield (the best Final Fantasy protagonist, if you didn't know) has called out Final Fantasy 12 for having the worst version of Cid in the series.

Paladins encounter a surprising character during a Phase 3 Rune questline — Gregory, a Death Knight who has regained his own free will, and yet still chooses to follow Arthas.

The official Helldivers 2 Discord server recently set up a poll channel to gauge players' opinions on various updates and features, and after seven hours its inaugural polls indicate that the game's community hopes to see a little more oomph from its Warbonds and marksman rifles.

WoW Classic's Cataclysm servers are bringing back heaps of what you remember from the 14-year-old expansion, but not everything. An infamous line where Garrosh calls Sylvanas a "b***h" has been cut despite making a return just one month ago.

Peach Momoko's Ultimate X-Men is starting to feel more and more like an X-Men comic with April 10's Ultimate X-Men #2, which starts to add in some recognizable mutant elements to the alt-reality title.

Epic Games has made some changes to Fortnite, removing the game's item rarity system.

One of the biggest additions of Patch 10.2.6 was the Good Boy's Leash, giving Taivan as a mount. Taivan was a very big mount for dog standards, almost as big as a mammoth mount, but he has received a nerf overnight — He is now much smaller. Looking for tips on how to obtain Taivan? Then check our A World Awoken achievement guide! A World Awoken Dragonflight Meta-Achievement Guide — Taivan Mount Taivan became a fan favorite of players in Dragonflight due to the questline we meet him in, in the Ohn'ahran Plains.

All of us have gaming opinions that go against the grain or zeitgeist around certain titles. Oftentimes, it’s because your personal opinion on a title is negative — I was like that with Sonic Frontiers — but it can go in a more positive direction. For me, a game I’m a very positive outlier on is Back 4 Blood, a Left 4 Dead successor developed by Turtle Rock Studios and published by WB Games.

Earlier this year, The Elder Scrolls Online announced that it had made more than $2 billion in customer spend, and its studio director says that figure got highlighted partly to help shine a light on that game's ongoing success.

Super Mario fans have been enjoying a resurgence in RPGs at the moment, with the remake of Super Mario RPG that launched last year and the upcoming release of a Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remaster that's coming next month. It's pretty clear that Nintendo has been diving into Mario's RPG offerings to see what fans still like, and a recent survey has suggested that it may not be done just yet.

Dragon's Dogma 2's pawns have received some changes, making them more useful than ever. But one of these changes doesn't really seem to have any practical use outside of messing around as, for some reason, the devs taught them how to play catch.

Final Fantasy 15's director believes that game developers should familiarize themselves with generative AI.

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Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

Slack is one of the most used communication tools for businesses and teams. It eliminates the need to send emails, or make phone calls, for most things within a team. Now, the communication tool has added a new GIF feature to make work fun between teammates. GIFs have become increasingly popular for sharing emotion- and action-packed views and opinions even though emojis have been ruling the popularity charts for long. Now, on Slack, you can share GIFs with your colleagues to make a telling point or two. Know more about Slack's GIF finder feature.

Shortly before launch, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi confused many fans of the series by explaining that the development team made two versions of each side quest all because of Red XIII. We didn't know why at the time, as we weren't aware of the voice change that Red XIII goes through a little ways into the game itself, first hinted at in Under Junon and then again in Costa del Sol.

Diablo 4 players aren't impressed with the new endgame dungeon, calling the Gauntlet "pointless" and "uninteresting." 

With Helldivers 2's first balance patch upon us with nerfs for some of the democracy 'em ups best gear, the developers behind it all have taken a moment to talk weapon philosophy. 

There’s an obvious question at the heart of Spaceman, Netflix’s science fiction movie where Adam Sandler’s forlorn astronaut character spends half the story talking to a tennis ball communing with a giant alien spider that he names Hanuš. But even without watching the movie, viewers may wonder: Is Hanuš actually real?

How much would you spend to be able to smell the things you can see on your screen? If your answer was a sensible “absolutely nothing”, you’re about $150 off. That’s exactly what GameScent is offering. And no, we don’t know why.

The release date and poster for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Parasyte have just been announced. However, fans are not as excited as initially expected.

No matter how good a console might be, your experience with it can always be enhanced via accessories. Even if that console is the 130 million-unit-selling Nintendo Switch. CRKD released one of the best Switch accessories to date last year, the Nitro Deck. Available in an array of colors and a handheld accessory that doubles as a pro controller. That accessory has now been improved upon via the Nitro Deck+, and you can pre-order the latest offering from CRKD right now.

Managing your own interstellar civilization in Stellaris is as deep as it is challenging. No two plays are the same, and there are dozens of ways you can eventually achieve victory — but even more ways to see your empire fall. Being a mix of 4X and strategy game mechanics, this isn’t a game for the faint of heart. Once you begin, every choice has weight and consequences. But what if you could make things a little easier on yourself? The game isn’t going to give you any slack, and there’s no shame in tweaking the experience to your liking. Here are all the cheats and console commands to help you rule the galaxy.

Dicefolk is an incredibly cool roguelike, but I don’t think it makes a great first impression. Upon booting the game up and jumping into your first run, you’re presented with the adorable art style, sure, but the first turn of combat simply presents you with some dice and three little dudes. It’s all a bit baffling, but there’s something special here once you learn what it all means.

Elden Ring's director believes Dark Souls 2 ultimately helped the overall series, partly because it had different directors.

Analysts believe that Sony will be releasing a PlayStation 5 Pro this year.

If you can believe it, Skull and Bones is actually here. The Ubisoft live service project, which had been hit with so many delays over the years, is playable right now on PS5. The question, then, is whether you're eyeing the open waters yourself.

The 2024 DICE Awards, organised by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, has just happened. Back in January, the nominees for the industry awards were announced, with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 leading the charge. Now, Insomniac's sequel also takes home the most wins, succeeding in six of the nine categories in which it was nominated.

The Apple Vision Pro has divided opinion ever since the company showcased it at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023. At the time, people only judged it on its price, features and its competition. But now that Apple has started selling the Vision Pro, users have got a chance to try it and formulate their opinions. While some are calling it the tech of the future, others have criticized it as an “isolated experience” and some have indicated discomfort while using the gadget. In fact, some of the early adopters of the Apple Vision Pro are having second thoughts too and are returning the headsets for several reasons. Bloomberg columnist Mark Bloomberg tells the tale and adds a twist at the end.

In Apple’s latest Q1 2024 earnings call, it was revealed that nearly 30 percent of the technology giant’s iPhone revenue for the quarter was thanks to its presence in one market, China, and given its recent 13 percent shipments decline in the region, the company stands to lose out on a ton if its market share continues to be threatened. Unfortunately, that looks to be the case here, with analysts believing that Huawei’s comeback is creating a torrent of problems and other reasons for that sales slump.

Helldivers 2 has proven a smash hit on both Steam and PlayStation, as players fend off hordes of bugs with guns, explosions, and the kitchen sink. You'll need all of that if you want to survive, as Helldivers 2 is proving to be quite a tricky game when it comes to difficulty. Most players are making through the game with relative ease, though there is one type of mission that is proving a little too chaotic for players to deal with.

Red Dead Redemption 2's lawless sandbox is home to countless weird and wild occurrences that you can't help but laugh at. One new example has a player shave main man Arthur Morgan's head, only to use an exploit to have his hair explode like an ultra-fast time-lapse video of grass growing within a second. 

It's been 24 years since the original Xbox launched, but its 'father' says fans are still worrying about the same thing following the latest console tease. 

Last month’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions were decent. But this month, PlayStation really brought the goods if you’re an RPG fan. While the headliner for the month is the newest Need for Speed title, Need for Speed Unbound, the true gems in my opinion are the addition of Tales of Arise, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

A new trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is here, and it shows some seriously epic action as the main monsters are forced to team up against a terrifying threat. 

It seems that whenever something becomes popular, AliExpress isn’t far behind and knock-off merchandise can be ordered across the globe. Palworld, it seems, is no exception to this law of the internet and this has frankly terrifying consequences.

One of the more heartbreaking revelations of Naughty Dog's recently released Grounded II: Making the Last of Us Part II documentary was the extent to which unwell The Last of Us fans took their grievances. The worst of it, according to Abby actor Laura Bailey, was «real hardcore death threats», some of which were even directed at Bailey's newborn child.

It's more than fair to say that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been dividing opinions, and so we're very interested in hearing what you lot have to say about it. A far cry from the Batman-based, single-player shenanigans that put developer Rocksteady on the map, this co-op shooter has been a talking point for quite some time — especially since it was revealed to be a live service title months ahead of release.

In my opinion, the thing that separates board games and video games is that one of these experiences is very singular and solo, while the other is more social. Video games happen on a TV, where your experience is dictated by the console you have access to, or the connection of your internet. Board games are very tactile, and the experience you have is similar to the experience anyone else is going to have in a purely physical way. Video games are virtual. Board games are physical. You don’t get to enjoy the physical and tactile when on Board Game Arena!

In a captivating turn of events at the Mathrubhumi International Literary Festival, viewers were treated to a unique encounter as an AI-generated replica of Shashi Tharoor took on the role of interviewer, engaging the real-life MP himself in a dialogue that blurred the lines between reality and technology. Here is what transpired at this engrossing encounter:

So, you’re a new independent game developer who wants to create an MMORPG— the greatest one that has ever existed. You’re going to have dragons and spells and castles and armies, or perhaps spaceships and laser guns and hundreds of planets, all wrapped up in a “living, breathing world” with thousands of players building a society together. 

It’s been a great few years for cozy games, games where you settle in, build relationships and home, farm, fish, and create a life you’d enjoy. While most of these are single-player games or have a basic multiplayer element, a cozy MMO just opened up its beta, albeit with mixed success: Palia.