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Helldivers 2 players are getting bodied by their own shots ricocheting back at them, but there's more going on here than meets the eye.

Baldur's Gate 3 launched last year to widespread acclaim, and you can count Mr. Skyrim, Starfield, and The Elder Scrolls 6 himself to its many admirers.

Whenever Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead releases a big balance update for the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter, the community debates the various nerfs and buffs as it gets to grips with the evolving meta. After this week’s release of patch 01.000.300, which tweaked a long list of weapons, stratagems, and enemies, the debate was especially vociferous.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

With Cataclysm Pre-Patch set to release tomorrow, and launch just a few weeks away, Blizzard has released a breakdown of how the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch (4.4.0) will differ from the original Cataclysm (4.0.3a) release. Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch Overview Guide

Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.300 is out now and the overarching impact of it is balance changes for weapons, enemies, and stratagems. Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.300 has also made changes to the Spread Democracy mission too. And there will be no more posing for all either as only those who get extracted will have their victory poses played at the end of the missions.

It took a little longer than usual, but Helldivers 2's latest patch has finally dropped, giving us some new tweaks to certain weapons, an increase in difficulty for solo players, and some general balance changes. It's a pretty standard patch, but we all know how Arrowhead likes to leave the odd new addition out of the patch notes, and one such nerf seems to have hit Shield Generator Backpack users pretty hard.

Helldivers 2's latest patch makes a wide range of balance changes, but one in particular has left players scratching their heads. For some reason, the devs are implementing a feature that makes more enemy patrols spawn if you have fewer people in your party, making solo runs far more difficult.

Bethesda has issued a clarification amid confusion surrounding the much-anticipated free next-gen update for Fallout 4, confirming who does and who does not qualify for the upgrade.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released a significant patch for the game that makes big balance changes to weapons, stratagems, enemies, and missions.

Square Enix has warned Final Fantasy XVI players that it's aware of a potentially progress-impeding bug, specifically affecting players trying to boot up a New Game+ run. The good news is that the developer is prioritising a fix and will push out a patch once a resolution is found.

Stellar Blade has launched to huge acclaim this weekend, but not every fan is delighted with Shift Up’s PS5 debut. Eagle-eyed players spotted some changes to a couple of costumes in the final product, prompting accusations of censorship from publisher Sony. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time the Japanese giant has requested changes in PlayStation games, as more titillating cutscenes in titles like Devil May Cry 5 were inexplicably edited on PS4 in the past. This decision was later reversed.

A group of Stellar Blade fans have accused developer Shift Up and publisher Sony of "censoring" the game. This comes as some of Eve's outfits were found to have received changes in the day one patch, with fans arguing that the alterations amount to censorship.

Primary stat increasing augment runes are returning in The War Within, with the Crystallized Augment Rune. Hopefully they won't be quite so rare this time around! First added in Warlords of Draenor, Augment Runes are consumables providing a minor increases to strength, intellect, or agility, similar to food buffs in not normally persisting through death but with the added downside of being much less widely available.

AMD's high-end Navi 4X GPUs featuring the RDNA 4 graphics architecture were reportedly going to feature 50% more shader engines than Navi 31 "RDNA 3" chips.

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered developer Aspyr has confirmed the Lara Croft posters removed from the recent PS5, PS4 collection will be restored in its next patch. Without saying when the update will land, the team explains that the posters were «inadvertently removed» as a result of «several texture and graphical updates to the HD version».

Stellar Blade, the latest PS5 exclusive, is out now on Sony's current-gen console. This is a big budget, out-and-out action game — something of a rarity these days — and it's been met with a slew of high scoring reviews. Needless to say, a lot of PlayStation fans have been waiting for this one.

The next-gen update for Fallout 4 is finally live, bringing Bethesda’s 2015 RPG up to par for modern consoles and PCs. But what exactly does next-gen update mean, especially in 2024?

Blizzard has announced updates on damage and healing issues in Awakened raids.

Sony has confirmed that the Stellar Blade in-game art alluding to a racial slur will be patched out with a day one update, saying it was «unintentional.»

Two-and-a-half years after it was first announced, the big next-gen patch for Fallout 4 is finally here - and a lot smaller than fans were hoping for.

Fallout 4's new next-gen update has been met with a collective shoulder shrug as the long-awaited upgrade is a lot smaller than fans were hoping for, but Bethesda sort of makes up for it by adding in some of the RPG's absolute silliest weapons yet. 

Fallout 4 is in the midst of experiencing a resurgence, thanks to the launch of the new Prime Video show that adapts the post-apocalyptic wastelands for TV for the very first time. With anyone jumping into the games as a result, naturally many are curious about Creation Club.

The 2.2 livestream codes are already available, though for a limited time, offering you a chance at getting several different in-game items, including a fair sum of Stellar Jade. The live-service turn-based RPG by HoYoverse periodically gets patches that bring new waves of content for players to explore – this can be in the form of more story quests, limited-time events, and even playable characters. With Version 2.2, the game is about to reach the pinnacle of the Penacony storyline. In addition, new characters have already been confirmed for the update.

The Fallout 4 next-gen update is here, and PS Plus owners have been left wondering if they can get it now it's out on Xbox and PC.

Fallout 4's next-gen update has finally dropped after months of waiting, and you can definitely tell it's made by Bethesda. Despite somewhat managing to shake its infamous reputation of launching broken games with Starfield, Bethesda is back and buggier than ever with the release of Fallout 4's next-gen update, as players have been reporting a variety of issues all day, particularly on PC.

It's not very often that you can get Escape from Tarkov fans rallying around a common cause, but developer Battlestate Games has managed to do just that with the recent reveal of the Unheard Edition, announced alongside the game's latest patch. Setting players back a pretty whopping $250, Battlestate has come under fire for locking away an exclusive new PvE game mode, as well as several gameplay-related perks, behind the special edition.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

You’ve toppled the undead armies of the Lich King and ended Arthas' reign. Now, Deathwing, The Worldbreaker, bursts from the heart of the Maelstrom, unleashing his rage. Reignite the fire and help usher in a new Azeroth. 

Blizzard has released a blog, detailing all of the new content coming to WoW Classic in the Cataclysm Pre-Patch, including the new Races, new leveling experience, and a list of all of the new Race/Class combinations! Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch Overview Guide New Race and Class Combinations — Cataclysm Classic

Despite being a very good game, Granblue Fantasy: Relink got a bit lost in what was a chaotic release schedule earlier this year — but developer Cygames will be hoping that the action RPG's first big update will get people's attention. Launching on the 26th April (that's tomorrow at the time of writing), patch 1.2.0 adds a bunch of new stuff to the game.

Sony and Shift Up have put out a new Stellar Blade trailer to mark the PS5 exclusive's launch, with the release date set for tomorrow, 26th April 2024. Like a lot of launch trailers, the two-minute slice of footage features a lot of cutscenes and stretches of gameplay we haven't seen before, so you might want to skip it given the full launch is so close. Still, you can catch it above.

As promised by Capcom earlier in the month, Dragon's Dogma 2 has a new update on PS5. Patch 1.10, which weighs in at a very manageable 563MB, features adjustments to various aspects of the game, like making dragonsplague easier to spot, and improving pawn behaviour.

The PS5 exclusive action game Stellar Blade launches tomorrow, 26th April, and as with most game launches these days, a day one update will arrive alongside it. While the patch will no doubt fix some bugs and get the title in better shape for release day, this one also throws in a big new feature: New Game+ mode.

Editor's note: Blizzard later confirmed that there are no plans to convert Sidereal Essence or Defiler’s Scourgestones.

Every new patch has its share of bugs, both beneficial and detrimental, but this one is working out well for players as it appears that the Azure Vault is awarding three pieces of Mythic+ gear instead of the normal two, making it a very efficient key to farm for players looking to gear up fast in Dragonflight Season 4! The start of a new season is a busy time for many players, engaging in new world content, tackling more difficult raids, and chain running dungeons to farm crests and gear.

Aspyr has released Update 2 for Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection six weeks after its disastrous launch.

Patch 29.2.2, launching later today, contains big updates to Hearthstone and Battlegrounds.

Fallout 4's current-gen update has just launched, but players who own the game through PlayStation Plus have reported that they're unable to download and access the latest patch.

Two years after it was announced, the Fallout 4 next-gen update is finally here, implementing brand-new performance and quality modes on Xbox Series X and PS5.

Residual damage effects are bugged in Awakened Raids causing them to deal about a quarter of their expected damage. This makes Evokers and Rogues do less damage than expected. If you're doing Awakened Raids, there's a large bug with «Residual» damage spells reducing their damage by about 75%. These spells are ones that deal «X% of Y's damage» and largely affects some of the following items:

Residual damage effects are bugged in Awakened Raids causing them to deal about a quarter of their expected damage. This makes Evokers and Rogues do less damage than expected. If you're doing Awakened Raids, there's a large bug with «Residual» damage spells reducing their damage by about 75%. These spells are ones that deal «X% of Y's damage» and largely affects some of the following items:

Those who have Fallout 4 via PlayStation Plus do not appear to be able to download the next-gen update for free.

Sixteen months after first being revealed to the world, the new Fallout 4 next-gen update has arrived on console.

Capcom has released a patch update for Dragon’s Dogma 2 that tones down the threat from Dragonsplague, the viral sickness that can be caught — and carried from one player’s game to another — by pawns, the game’s AI-controlled party members.

Capcom has released a new update for its open-world fantasy game Dragon’s Dogma 2 that nerfs the dragonsplague, among other things.

A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live on PC and consoles, introducing some gameplay tweaks and fixes.

Two new items have been added to the Patch 10.2.7 PTR: Bones of Mannoroth and a Cosmetic version of the Tusks of Mannoroth. The Tusks of Mannoroth is one of the rarest transmogs in the game with the drop chance of this item estimated at around 0.1% to 0.3%. It has been made slightly easier with a Siege of Orgrimmar Skip in Patch 10.1.5, but at those drop rates, it'll still take a long time to farm. In the latest Patch 10.2.7 PTR, two new items have been datamined, the first being a cosmetic version of Tusks of Mannoroth.

Although the weekly quest in Valdrakken awards half a Spark of Awakening used to craft max level gear, it appears players can earn another half this week as random loot from dungeons and raids too, allowing them to upgrade a piece of gear in the first week of Dragonflight Season 4! While previous Seasons also allowed players access to a full spark within the first week, the extra half was awarded from a quest, making it pretty hard for players to miss. This time, however, it's not quite so obvious, as one of the splinters isn't attached to a quest at all.

With this week's Patch 10.2.7 Dark Heart PTR build, a new datamined mount has been found, the Savage Ebony Battle Turtle! This turtle is currently tagged as coming from a possible promotion, but it is currently unknown what promotion it'll come from. There are two other Savage Battle Turtle mounts, the Savage Blue Battle Turtle and Savage Green Battle Turtle, and both of these came from the Trading Post.

In preparation for the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch, Blizzard has elaborated on conversions for Justice Points, PvP currency, and more. Players can expect this system to go live after the weekly maintenance next week.

The latest update for the Tomb Raider Remastered Trilogy has strangely removed two "Laura Cruz" posters from Tomb Raider 3's Sleeping With The Fishes level, but only when playing with modern graphics.

Stellar Blade is a game dripping in controversy at the moment, with arguments all across social media regarding the figures of its leading characters. It's a title that would do well to avoid even more controversy than it already has, which has made the discovery of a racial slur on a wall of one of the game's buildings all the more unfortunate.

Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks has revealed the final free content drop in its post-launch roadmap will take the form of a roguelite modifier system, and it's available on PS5 today. When beginning a fresh playthrough or jumping into New Game+, you'll now have the chance to change the way the game plays and operates across seven modifiers.

Sony has just released the latest PS5 system software update — always a glorious day on Planet PlayStation. Coming in at just over 1GB, it's available to download and install now. The question is, as always, what does the update do?

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been updated to support a new graphical mode running at 40 frames-per-second while boasting higher resolutions. Available to download now on PS5 as part of patch 3.2, the mode can be used on 4K TVs that support up to 120Hz. Prior to this, Avatar PS5 only had Quality and Performance Modes, but this new option looks to feature the best of both worlds after the 2.4GB download.

Both Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions have received a new update that introduces armadillos, new wolf variations and more.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is riddled with issues on Nintendo Switch but developer Rabbit & Bear has said it's aware of the problems and addressing them as a "maximum priority."

Gigabyte has officially spilled the beans on the next-gen AMD Zen 5 Desktop CPU family which is now confirmed as Ryzen 9000 series.

Blizzard has announced that they are increasing the number if character slots to 65 with Patch 10.2.7!

In addition to the previously announced Class adjustments, Blizzard has released full patch notes for today's Hotfixes.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to make a wide variety of choices, whether that's moral decisions or even just deciding the order in which you approach the game's quests. However, one player has discovered that it even takes into account which companions make it to the end of the game - and changes the dialogue for those who beat it without any of them.

With all Dragonflight Raids and Dungeons returning in Season 4, players will have renewed access to some favorite trinkets; however, there are likely changes to these beloved items since you last equipped them. Taeznak, our guide writer and one of the implementers of trinkets and cantrips for Simulationcraft, discusses all the Season 4 trinket changes and how they compare to past iterations.

Developer Moon Studios has rolled out the biggest No Rest for the Wicked patch to date, packing improvements to visuals, performance, loot, and much more.

Nixxes and Guerrilla Games have deployed Horizon Forbidden West Patch 1.3 for PC, packing new features, optimizations, fixes, and visual improvements.

AMD has made huge strides on Linux with its latest patch release, bringing in the fundamental firmware files for its anticipated RDNA 3+ GPUs.

As a part of the April 23rd Patch Notes, Blizzard stated that Seal of Martyrdom will now be able to «twist» with other seals such as Seal of Command. Seal Twisting seems to be making a reappearance as a part of the extensive feedback that Season of Discovery developers have been receiving over the last several weeks.

This is not a drill: Team Fortress 2 has received a brand new update in 2024, and fans are ecstatic, despite the patch notes themselves being very brief. 

May 7th is the release date of Patch 10.2.7 Dark Heart! Introducing new Dragonflight content, the patch is likely to be the expansion epilogue, setting up events leading into The War Within. Another major feature for players to look forward to is Mists of Pandaria Timerunning, a brand new way to level characters and earn dozens of new and old cosmetic rewards at the same time! Patch 10.2.7 Dark Heart Overview

Baldur's Gate 3 has a great character, but it's surprisingly limited in areas. While you have plenty of hairstyles, tattoos, and makeup shades to choose from, you only have a few body types - and none of them have any kind of chub.

Capcom has shared a list of patch notes for a Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 update that'll drop at some point later this month, and chief among them is news the game's dragonsplague mechanic will be reduced in frequency and made much more easily noticeable. The patch notes confirm the infection will be spread at a slower rate and your Pawns' eyes will glow a lot more, making the disease a lot easier to deal with.

With Blizzard officially revealing the start date for Mists of Pandaria Timerunning, they've also given us a good idea of when it will end, as The War Within Alpha client lists the event running from May 16th to August 19th! While this is not yet officially confirmed and nothing on the Alpha is definitively final, the fact that the start dates match makes it likely that the end dates will as well. This gives players three months to enjoy the remixed content and chase its huge collection of rewards. WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria Timerunning Overview These dates also tell us that Patch 10.2.7 is set to release one week prior, on or around May 7th, although the other retail content coming with the patch has yet to be revealed.

While most of the weapons from War Within are themed around the zones and cultures of Khaz Algar, weapon models to match both Night Elf Heritage Armor tints have also been added. As the Night Elf story continues its extended epilogue of renewal, we've seen many Kaldorei rewards in Dragonflight's final patches, from Darnassian Transmog to weapon transmogs around Bel'ameth. Although the Night Elf Heritage Armor questline awarded some traditional glaive appearances, those can only be transmogged by classes that can use one-handed swords and did not match the Heritage Armor set.

Stardew Valley’s 1.6.4 update is now live on PC, bringing with it an impressively long list of bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and fresh content, along with the mysterious removal of two ‘inappropriate names’ from the game’s random name generator.

Dragon's Dogma 2 developer Capcom is still working away at making the title the best it can be, attempting to fix less than satisfactory elements of the game such as its performance and other little annoyances. One of the bigger problems players have run into since launch is Dragonsplague, the disease that your Pawns can contract that will wipe out entire towns if they aren't thrown into the nearest body of water.

Another fun collection update coming in Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 is the ability for players to customize their own Personal Tabard, following a short questline in Valdrakken! Just like the Guild Tabard, players will be able to customize their personal tabard with its own icon, colors, boarder, and background, sharing all the same options between them, but this also means that players should no longer feel the need to create their own one-person guild just to show off their favorite design! As noted by MrGM, the tabard is unlocked account-wide, though the designs are character specific, allowing each character to customize the tabard as they see fit, using helpful Tabard Designer NPCs located in major faction cities or a new designer in Valdrakken.

Blizzard has updated the Season 4 Patch Notes, noting that the number of Catalyst Charges are resetting with the weekly reset and each character can get 1 Dinar per week.