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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.

The Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail benchmark is here, giving MMO fans a glimpse into what their characters will look like after the graphical update in patch 7.0. While plenty are rather pleased about their Warrior of Lights glow-ups, some have been left looking worse for wear.

It's the last week of Dragonflight Season 3 and players have noticed that the Spiteful Mythic+ affix is doing about 60% less damage! If you compare logs from before Patch 10.2.6 to after Patch 10.2.6, you'll notice that the unmitigated damage of a melee swing from Spiteful is now ~225k (down from ~600k). They also have about 60% less health! This makes the Spiteful affix be basically just a nuisance that healers need to heal through rather than have any chance of killing players.

Capcom has detailed an upcoming patch for Dragon’s Dogmas 2 that makes a number of changes and fixes, but there’s no mention of the performance mode so many players are waiting for.

Insomniac Games has deployed Spider-Man 2 Patch 1.002.003 for PlayStation 5, offering fixes for various encountered issues within the game.

A new update for Dragon's Dogma 2 will effectively nerf the dreaded Dragonsplague disease, which has been a headache for players since launch.

The War Within data includes an interesting addition: a new heirloom ring. The data indicates that it will be a reward from the pre-expansion patch event or a new World Event present in Khaz Algar. It seems like this new heirloom will be similar to Dragonflight when you could obtain Unstable Elemental Confluence during pre-patch and still during the expansion. The ring is created using Lifeless Stone Ring, which casts Infuse Memories. This spell requires three reagents:

For all the positive things players have to say about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, one aspect of the game which we've seen nothing but ire directed towards is its confusingly worded retry screen, which players will be hit with in the event of a Game Over. Thankfully, this issue has been quietly addressed in the game's most recent patch, which fixed Platinum Trophy progression, making it at least slightly less confusing now.

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Starring Lara Croft (we're still not quite over that title) has just received a meaty new patch, and it's available to download now on PS5 and PS4. The headline addition is a new outfit for Lara, but beyond that is a huge laundry list of fixes and improvements.

Update: Final Fantasy 16 update 1.31 is available to download now on PS5, ahead of The Rising Tide's release on the 18th April. It weighs in at 2.8GB, and you can read the full patch notes below, in the original article.

GSC Game World has published PS4 patches for the three games that make up the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy. Following its surprise release last month, the developer has now updated the three titles with fixes that should address a variety of save, crashing, and bug-related flaws. The patch notes are the following:

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Baldur's Gate 3 team Larian Studios has confirmed it has two new games in the works as it looks to moves on from the Baldur's Gate IP. Having put together one of the greatest RPGs in a generation last year, the Belgian developer won't be making any new narrative content for the third iteration or creating a Baldur's Gate 4. Instead, it's two brand new games, which CEO Swen Vincke is calling the studio's «best work ever».

Recently Larian Studios made the surprise announcement that Baldur’s Gate 3 would not be getting any major story-driven DLC, as they’re moving on to a pair of original projects, but that doesn’t necessarily mean updates are ending. In fact, in a new blog post Larian has provided some fresh details about what players can expect from Baldur’s Gate 3 Update 7, which is currently in the works.

Stardew Valley 1.6 landed nearly a month ago, but the follow-up patches are continuing to deliver piles of new content and upgrades. 1.6.4 is now here, and developer Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone's promise of "some new mining-related stuff" might have undersold what we're getting here.

Despite having said a couple of times now that Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is ready to start concentrating on Haunted Chocolatier, he's still working away at improving his baby Stardew Valley. Lots of fixes and new content have been added in the last few months, and Barone has now announced that patch 1.6.4 is now out for PC.

The Patch 10.2.7 PTR splash screen indicate that Timerunning: Mists of Pandaria will release 1 week after the launch of Patch 10.2.7! We've datamined the Patch 10.2.7 splash screen:

Good boys grow up so fast! Taivan has returned to his original size in Patch 10.2.7. As mentioned by Blizzard, Taivan was made smaller to address a bug that will likely be fixed in Patch 10.2.7.

On the Patch 10.2.7 PTR, there's some tuning to Timerunning: Mists of Pandaria gems and raid tuning.

Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 is in the works, and it sounds like it's going big on evil endings for the game, even if you aren't playing as the Dark Urge.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order confirmed that it will be offering refunds to people who purchased theBeach Properties DLC, adding more content to the Ultimate Edition version of the game, delaying the launch of Cities: Skylines 2’s console ports and its first expansion, and focusing on free updates and patches in the short term.

Larian Studios has revealed its plans for Baldur's Gate 3, including what's to come in patch 7 and beyond.

Baldur's Gate 3's next patch is underway and it looks to be one of the biggest yet. Larian Studios is bringing us new evil endings with brand-new cutscenes and music, as well as official mod support and a whole boatload of bug fixes.

Baldur’s Gate 3 took the gaming world by storm in 2023. With a dense, resonant story populated by complex and lovable characters, frankly unbelievable player freedom, and a low barrier to entry whether you were familiar with the franchise or not, Larian Studios proved that there’s still a huge, hungry audience for the massive single-player adventure role-playing game.

Last month, a hacker wreaked havoc during an esports tournament of the popular shooter game Apex Legends, hacking two well-known streamers mid-game to make it look like they were using cheats.

On the first alpha build of The War Within, we were able to take a look at the pre-patch event for the first expansion of the Worldsoul Saga, Radiant Echos! This event will have you revisit old zones in Azeroth and face memories and enemies of the past. Check out all currently known details in this post!

MrGM interviewed Warcraft Vice-President Holly Longdale about lessons from Plunderstorm, experimental modes, and NA x EU cross-region play.

One of the new questlines in Patch 11.0 is a scenario where we see Magni once more! We completed the questline to bring you all the details.

Yesterday, Patch 29.2 went live with some changes to Weekly Quests, making them harder to complete but grant more XP. We had seen that many players routinely completed their Weekly Quests through their regular play, without even really engaging with the Weekly Quest system. Our aim with the adjustments was to give all our players goals to play towards, and to reward our most engaged players (who would likely still complete the Weekly Quests without too much difficulty) for their commitment to the game.

Blizzard has released updated Patch 10.2.7 PTR Patch Notes, noting several user interface and accessibility improvements for the Group Finder, dressing room previews, and Solo Shuffle scoreboards!

Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have quietly removed Denuvo DRM technology from Ghostwire: Tokyo on PC as part of a recent update.

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.

If you’re looking to complete the Purchase the Patch Up service from Characters of Mending Machines quest, you’ll need to know how to purchase a Patch Up Service in Fortnite.

Square Enix has deployed Final Fantasy XVI update 1.31 for PlayStation 5, packing various improvements alongside changes and bug fixes.

Blizzard has released full patch notes for today's Season of Discovery Hotfix. This hotfix includes many quality-of-life updates in addition to the previously stated Class & Runes changes.

The Fallout games, at least since Fallout 3, have been absolutely massive games in both scale and popularity. The post-nuclear-war setting is rife with interesting stories to experience and monsters to kill. Fallout 4 was the last single-player entry in the series before Fallout 76 took the game into a persistent multiplayer experience. A large appeal of these games is how you are able to actually role-play and immerse yourself in the game world, which isn’t so easy with other players jumping around in their underwear. Thanks to mods, it has never been a better time to revisit the last “pure” Fallout game.

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Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.

A Helldivers 2 dev says the studio is working on a handful of known issues, but fixing bigger problems is tricky when rolling out a new Warbond every month.

Helldivers 2's latest patch is here, aiming to fix bugs and improve the overall performance of the game. It also fixes an armour set, giving it the intended passive ability after it launched with the wrong one.

Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news in The Weekly Reset. This week they give us a 10.2.7 PTR news roundup and a look at Timerunning: WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria aka Pandamonium.

Sony is reportedly asking developers to get their games ready for PS5 Pro optimization, including existing titles and ones still in development.

A new Helldivers 2 patch has been deployed, finally fixing the CE-27 Ground Breaker armor.

Horizon Forbidden West AMD FSR 3.1 support is coming, but porting studio Nixxes has said that it's "sort of" waiting on AMD.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released yet another update for the PlayStation 5 and PC third-person co-op shooter, this time patch 01.000.203.

A new Helldivers 2 patch is live now, confirming that it's not just you - a whole bunch of weapons don't really work as intended.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-risk warning concerning various Microsoft services due to multiple vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products. These vulnerabilities affect a range of Microsoft software, including Windows, Office, Developer Tools, Azure services, Bing, System Center, Dynamics, and Exchange Server.

Over a week after Palworld's last big patch, developer Pocketpair has confirmed what the community already suspected: Pal damage got a big, big nerf. Luckily, that nerf was accidental and it's now been fixed with a new update.

With the launch of Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road on the public test realm (PTR), Bethesda has released the full 42 pages - yes, 42 flippin' pages - of patch notes for the 5.3 GB expansion.

Blizzard has added tweaks to Seal of Martyrdom for Paladins in the upcoming April 16 class tuning pass for Season of Discovery. Blizzard announced a few days ago that classes would be receiving some light tuning this upcoming weekly reset, and Paladins had a change to Light's Grace's Rune slot to look forward to.

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.

Tower of Fantasy (ToF) 4.0 patch trailer, titled “4.0 PV,” is in the talks. Before I get into the ‘why,’ let me tell you a little about the trailer. It shows a trip through time in Asperia, the game’s world. Structures that look like towers poke through the sky, and characters clad in futuristic garb fight with weaponized gadgets.

The latest Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth patch has quietly fixed an issue that's been confusing players since release.

AMD has added new patches and support for its upcoming RDNA 4 & RDNA 3+ GPUs within the latest Linux graphics drivers.

VR fans galore as two modders have created a WoW VR mod that adds support for VR to the final patch of World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King.

The full patch notes for the Final Fantasy XVI 1.31 patch going live later this week were shared online, detailing balance changes, quality of life improvements, and more.

Blizzard removed the mention of additional character slots to be available with Patch 10.2.7 from their blog post. This likely means this change won't be happening with Timerunning: Pandaria. Originally, Blizzard had mentioned in their announcement that additional character slots would be available with Remix: Mists of Pandaria. As Remix plays on normal realms, players are limited to the existing 60 character limit per WoW account. Thus, if someone is already capped on their character count, they will need to delete a character to play Remix: Mists of Pandaria, as the game mode requires a fresh character. It could be the case that they are still going to implement this change ultimately, as PTR changes happen often, but it is unlikely as the mention has been removed from their announcement blog.

There are plenty of stupid ways to accidentally throw your life away in Helldivers 2. You could stand under a dropship, drown in a lake, or run into an exploding bush, three things that personally killed me during my first few drops. I also accidentally burned my Helldiver alive by running through some ankle high flames, completely unaware of the recent complaints about how quickly fire is killing people after the game's latest patch.

As discovered on Reddit, a new boat travel path has been added in Patch 10.2.7. Rut'theran's Reminiscence sails from Belanaar Harbor in Bel'ameth on the Dragon Isles to Stormglen Village in Gilneas and back. Lord of His Pack Short Story

MSI has silently rolled out support for AMD's next-gen Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPUs for its AM5 motherboards with the AGESA 1.1.7.0 BIOS.

The Diablo 4 PTR allowed players to jump straight into Sanctuary for a sneak peek at changes coming in Season 4. Everything from new bosses to new itemization was on the table, and enough information was learned to make anyone's head spin. Our Class Leads took the time to analyze some of the buffs and nerfs experienced in the Patch 1.4.0 PTR, and shared their thoughts below on the good, the bad, and the future!

Pandaria Timerunning is bringing a ton of new recolors to old gear, including several sets of leveling cosmetic lookalikes — check out these models for robes, pantsuits, and more!

Among the cosmetic rewards available from Timerunning Pandaria in Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 are recolored versions of the class specific three-piece armor set and weapon arsenals available from the Trading Post! Previously datamined back in Patch 10.1 and again in 10.1.7 only one color for each class was available in the trading post, but now players can obtain the second set without spending Trader's Tender!

Diablo's 31st Season, Season of the Forbidden Archives is now available for play! While there isn't much for Patch Notes, this Season is one that is beloved by players. During the Season of the Forbidden Archives, Kanai's Cube will be entirely unrestricted! Diablo 3 Season 31 Patch Notes When selecting Legendary Powers in Kanai's Cube, you will be able to use any combination of Legendary Powers you wish! This means that you will be able to select 3 Weapon Powers, or 2 Jewelry Powers and 1 Armor Power, etc — instead of the standard 1 Weapon, 1 Armor, and 1 Jewelry Power. This restriction being removed allows for many wacky and wild combinations and the reemergence of some incredibly off meta builds.

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.

Blizzard has announced that everyone's goodest boy will return to his original size likely in Patch 10.2.7.

Players begin their Timerunning adventure with a set of basic green gear and may loot other equipment as they go, but can also upgrade their gear using the unique Bronze currency earned through quests and other activities during the Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 event! Fully upgrading Timerunning items will cost quite a bit of Bronze!

In the Public Test Realm for Patch 1.4.0 of Diablo 4, countless items, skills, and stats were heavily altered to prepare the game for its fourth Season, as well as to pave the way for the upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion. In addition to many of these changes, Implicit Affixes on Weapons have been adjusted as well. These are the fixed Affixes that are tied to the Weapon Type that cannot be altered, such as Vulnerable Damage on Crossbows and Critical Strike Damage on Swords. Many of these Affixes have been reduced significantly, and while it hurts to lose damage output from a change like this, it is a necessary change. Reducing these values along with other changes in Itemization will go a long way toward reducing the bloated damage values that affect the game negatively. By allowing players to deal millions upon millions of damage in a single hit, the sense of scale and player power is lost. On top of that, balancing gameplay becomes much more challenging — thus, it's only natural that Implicit Affixes receive some tweaks at the same time as the rest of the Itemization rework.

Here is a first look at some of the vendor rewards from WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria on the Patch 10.2.7 PTR. This includes a guaranteed way to get old toys that were RNG from Rares! The Ai-Li's Skymirror is an awesome toy and it's awesome that there will be another way to get it now!

Reverse: 1999 Patch 1.8, “Goodbye, Rayashki.” Releasing on April 11th, this patch takes you to early 20th-century Russia, a unique setting for a gacha game. While the core gameplay remains the same, the story in “Goodbye, Rayashki” is fresh.

Standing Stone Gamesreleased a new update for The Lord of the Rings Online’s earlier this week and unlocked tier 4 of The Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo raid.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director and long-time series producer Yoshinori Kitase hopes that the world of the seventh entry in the series will continue after the remake project will be completed with the third entry.

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.

Your favorite bee mount Honeyback Harvester's Harness and a few similar mounts have received updated animations in Patch 10.2.7, allowing them to walk/run on the ground when not flying. Affected Mounts This update affects a handful of mounts, as they all share the same animations.

Blizzard has released additional Patch 10.2.6 hotfixes for today which includes trinket & item changes ahead of Season 4's launch.

With Patch 10.2.7, Blizzard is revamping the Hunter Pet Stable, increasing its size, adding more information about the pets, among other quality-of-life improvements. Below, you can see the blue post highlighting the changes added in 10.2.7. Note that there are a couple of issues with the implementation, but those should be solved throughout the PTR cycle.

Blizzard has released Patch 10.2.6 hotfixes for today which includes Balance Druid bug fixes and Augmentation Evoker Log Hooks when buffing Feral Druids.

The Trinket tuning originally found on Patch 10.2.7 is now hotfixed onto live servers, nerfing popular trinkets ahead of Season 4.

The beloved Kor'Kron Dark Shaman ensemble is getting three recolors in the Patch 10.2.7 Pandaria Remix! The Kor'kron Shaman's Treasure is an incredibly rare drop for Shaman from Earthbreaker Haromm and Wavebinder Kardris in Siege of Orgrimmar. This coveted set has had players running this raid over and over for years — and now, we'll have three other color options to choose from during Pandaria Remix! Take a look at the models for each of the recolors below — which one is your favorite?

In the upcoming Season 4 of Diablo 4 players will be able to filter by Item Power. Players may use the search bar and enter a number to filter out for that specific Item Power. In addition, when you search for an item with any filter or search query, the number of matching results will appear on the individual Stash Tabs!