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A few days ago, Kotaku published a report suggesting Grand Theft Auto 6 may be delayed to late 2025 or even 2026. We didn't report on it because it seemed ephemeral rather than substantial, which Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (formerly of Kotaku himself) has now confirmed.

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It all comes back to Malevelon Creek. Helldivers 2 players smashed the latest major order, and now a new one's come in to shut down an Automaton factory on planet Tibit, but we're going to have to punch through some other planets first, and the infamous Malevelon Creek is marked for liberation once again.

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

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Unholy Death Knight guide writer, Taeznak, offers an early review of the Rider of the Apocalypse Death Knight Hero Talents that offer strong thematic gameplay as a harbinger of death but also highlights some of the major issues with the core Unholy toolkit.

Barbarians are seeing some large changes in the Diablo 4 PTR and Patch 1.4.0 notes, including nerfs to Charge, Weapon Expertise rebalancing, and general bug fixes. Diablo 4 PTR Patch Notes: Patch 1.4.0 Barbarian Class Overview

Diablo 4's Patch 1.4.0 adds 12 new Unique items to the game! This includes one new Uber Unique and one Unique available to all classes and 10 class-specific Unique items (two for each class)! Diablo 4 PTR Patch Notes: Patch 1.4.0

Minions are back on the table for Necromancers in the upcoming Diablo 4 PTR and Patch 1.4.0, with huge incoming buffs and various bugfixes being implemented. Diablo 4 PTR Patch Notes: Patch 1.4.0 Necromancer Class Overview

Blizzard has just released the patch notes for the upcoming Diablo 4 PTR Patch 1.4.0, including the itemization rework, class changes, and much more! The PTR will start on April 2 and lasts until April 9.

Patch 29.0.3, launching today, includes the following balance changes to Standard and Battlegrounds.

Want to see enemies farther away in Plunderstorm? Turn on this setting to be able to avoid enemies, or find your next targets from a distance! If you've been watching some Plunderstorm streams, you might notice that some streamers can see enemies' names from a much farther distance away than by default. Players have found out how to do this by changing a setting:

Sony has successfully won a patent infringement lawsuit in which it was being sued for $500m, after a US District Court judge ruled in the PlayStation company's favour.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Arcane Mage guide writer, Porom, offers an early review of the Spellslinger Mage Hero Talents that carves out a clear identity for Arcane but struggles to provide more active gameplay interactions.

Images allegedly showing the white, digital-only Xbox Series X reported to be in the works earlier this year have leaked online.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Windwalker Monk guide writer, Babylonius, offers an early review of the Shado-Pan Monk Hero Talents that doesn't revolve around any one particular ability but does still raise some major questions. How will it interact with the troublesome Storm, Earth, and Fire and will the maximum health hooks cause conflicts with health buffs and gearing?

It's big news for Helldivers 2 players as sex has seemingly been unbanned, just days after many loyal Helldivers received in-game messages telling them that all procreation applications were being denied. 

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Vengeance Demon Hunter guide writer, Itamae, offers an early review of the Aldrachi Reaver Demon Hunter Hero Talents that start off with a mostly passive ability that evolves into a rewarding well-rounded reaper of death.

Blizzard has done a massive amount of Dragonflight Season 4 Mythic+ dungeon tuning which includes added a checkpoint in Halls of Infusion!

If you missed out on last week's pre-order deal for Princess Peach Showtime! from QVC, you’re in luck. For a limited time, you can save $10 on the new Nintendo Switch platformer at Woot, discounting its usual $60 price to $49.99.

In Phase 3 of Season of Discovery, the Blood Moon, a World Event in Stranglethorn Vale that was introduced with Phase 2, will be updated with new rewards to reflect the increased level cap and upscaled event. Our Blood Moon Guide has all the information you'll need in order to master this PvP event, and will be updated with the latest and greatest Phase 3 information: Blood Moon Event Guide Some of these new rewards include powerful class items tailored for each specialization! Besides a specific exception for Hunters, you can wear ONE Blood Moon item at a time, so keep in mind you'll have limited choices for gearing with these incredible items. Spoiler warning!

Blizzard announced that Phase 3 of Season of Discovery will launch on April 4! We have datamined all the new runes and Class changes that will be implemented in Phase 3. Blizzard announced that there will be 6 new Runes per Class in the preview video, which was released yesterday. Season of Discovery Phase 3 Overview Season of Discovery Phase 3 Preview Video

Android has a huge, huge problem with platform segmentation, which is made even worse by some apps. Some app developers don't really care that much about targeting newer Android versions, or at least not immediately, thinking that it's not a priority. The problem is even worse considering there's a lot of apps being used today that still target ancient Android versions, with Google doing little to nothing to prevent it. Now, with Android 15, Google is going to tighten up things for developers.

Qualcomm, Intel, and Google have reportedly formed a new "strategic" coalition in an attempt to dethrone NVIDIA from the AI markets.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Restoration Shaman guide writer, Theun, offers an early review of the Farseer Shaman Hero Talents that call upon the ancestors to aid you and your allies, but what does an ancestor exactly do and why aren't there more ties to existing ancestral spells?

As you level up your Vocations and character in Dragon’s Dogma 2, you will earn XP and Dcp. The former will contribute to you leveling up and passively getting stronger, while the latter needs to be spent on unlocking new skills for your current Vocation. There are 10 total Vocations you can eventually unlock and use, and each one has a dozen or more skills to unlock and test out, and yet you can only use four at any given time. That’s a lot of possible skills to try out and potentially waste your DCP on. Instead, we’ll help you min-max your build right from the start by recommending the best skills you should get for each and every Vocation in the game.

Today, CD Projekt RED announced that a free Cyberpunk 2077 trial will be available for a limited time later this week on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X consoles.

Mega Block’s Xbox 360 replica set was difficult to find in stock when it first got our attention back in September. But not only is it currently available, it’s selling at $50 off. This 3:4 scale model of the Xbox 360 is an homage to Microsoft’s second gaming console, and it costs $99.99 at Target (was $149.99).

Helldivers 2's CEO has reaffirmed the game's commitment to friendly fire, confirming that the ability to completely one-shot your allies "will never change."

Capcom has released a list of fixes and updates it will make to Dragon’s Dogma 2 “in the near future” — including the much-requested option to start a new game when save data already exists.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Preservation Evoker guide writer, Voulk, offers an early review of the Flameshaper Evoker Hero Talents that's unique and distinct from Chronowarden but the gameplay may hinge on whether the signature ability Engulf can be echoed.

Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet's Google, a first for the industry.

In a setback for the highly anticipated NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, the joint endeavour between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has hit a snag, pushing back its launch schedule with the target now shifted to late April.

Blizzard has revealed a few new Legendary Aspects and Aspect changes coming in Patch 1.4.0 with Season 4. Let's take a look at what is new and what has changed for some of the Aspects in Diablo 4. Season 4 PTR Overview — Campfire Chat Summary Itemization Update Summary All of these changes are subject to change before they hit live servers on May 14. Some of the Legendary Aspect descriptions can be incomplete. This is only a small portion of what is to come for Aspects with Patch 1.4.0. The summary does not include changes to value ranges as those are being overhauled across the board with the reworked Codex of Power. Some potential changes to Aspects that could be spotted during the Campfire Chat may have also not been included due to the new Codex of Power system shortening descriptions of Aspects, which leads to parts of their description being left out.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Blood Death Knight guide writer, Mandl, offers an early review of the Deathbringer Death Knight Hero Talents that start off with a mostly passive ability that evolves into a rewarding well-rounded reaper of death.

Larian Studios head Swen Vincke has confirmed that it's not Wizards of the Coast's fault that the team is moving on from Baldur's Gate and that it's simply something the studio wanted to do.

The much-anticipated GTA 6 release may face a significant setback as reports indicate its development is falling behind schedule. Initial excitement sparked by the game's announcement in December 2023, with a targeted release for 2025, may now be overshadowed by concerns about meeting this deadline. The problem is reportedly stemming from GTA 6 development issues.

According to a recent construction notice, Nintendo's official museum opening will be missing its targeted March 2024 and will be ready for next month. Nintendo had first announced its plans to open a museum back in 2021, with the intent of sharing its «product development history and philosophy» among all gamers. This museum was going to put a wide variety of Nintendo products on display. The museum style facility was first announced as «Nintendo Gallery,» and it was going to be built on the site of its old Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto.

More Plunderstorm hotfixes have been pushed to live servers today which now also includes Rime Arrow and Faeform nerfs.

Samsung’s struggles in bringing up the yields of its 3nm GAA process were well-known, but there is a positive update that a tipster provided, claiming that the Korean giant’s foundry has managed to increase that number to three times the original figure. This means that the previous 10-20 percent yields of the 3nm process is now hovering between 30-60 percent. While these are improvements, the company continues to trail behind TSMC, and there are rumors claiming that Samsung placed more stock in its second-generation 3nm GAA process.

GTA 6 could be delayed to 2026, per Kotaku.

The recent Developer Campfire Chat has announced some of the upcoming changes to Diablo 4, which are simply massive in scope. There are barely any systems that are left untouched — and one of these sweeping reworks targets the Helltide event, which is getting considerable quality of life and mechanical changes! Itemization Update Summary — Diablo 4 Season 4 Legendary and Unique Drops Tradeable in Season 4 A number of these much-needed changes are brand new, but some bear direct inspiration from the popular Blood Harvest event from Season 2 — read on to find out more.

A long-running website for Pokémon fan game enthusiasts has shut down after being served a DMCA takedown notice.

MediaTek might be the first company to confirm the use of NVIDIA's next-gen RTX & AI GPU IP for its upcoming Dimensity SOCs for automobiles.

Samsung continues to make strides with microLED technology, but for the moment, the company has limited these displays to its mammoth-sized TVs, and as you can tell, these units cost a small fortune. The Korean giant is rumored to bring the same technology to a Galaxy Watch variant, with a tipster stating that its intended launch target is 2025. Unfortunately, with Apple previously reported to be experiencing its own struggles and withdrawing development altogether, a shadow of doubt may be cast on Samsung’s own plans, irrespective of the fact that the firm has immense experience with developing multiple display forms.

Some hotfixes have applied some ability tuning to the Plunderstorm Battle Royale which includes a nerf to Fire Whirl. Edit #1: This article originally said players «move at 70% of normal movement speed». It has been updated to the correct text as «move 70% faster».

By and large, Korean developers have a reputation for announcing wildly ambitious MMOs that rarely ever actually materialise. Without sounding too sceptical, we can’t help but wonder whether Chrono Odyssey will fall into that bracket. Due to be published by Kakao Games, this new trailer has been attracting plenty of attention for its stunning dark fantasy vibes – even though there’s zero gameplay or even a target release date.

A new PS5 patch is available now for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth which makes further improvements to the title’s presentation. Despite being critically acclaimed, many have been disappointed with the quality of the sequel’s visuals – especially in Performance Mode, which targets 60 frames-per-second. In addition to improving the graphics, the update adds a ‘Sharp’ and ‘Soft’ filter, allowing you to finetune the title’s looks.

BBC mulls in house AI model from text archives; MIT develops AI tool for 30x faster high quality image generation; AI could automate 84% of government jobs, says study; Yotta data services targets global AI market with cheapest compute rates- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

There’s nothing quite like a night at the theatre. The escapism, the fantastical narratives, the impressive stage design; all of this awaited Princess Peach as she was invited to the Sparkle Theater for what promised to be a wonderful evening in Princess Peach: Showtime!. However, rather than having to put up with someone talking throughout, or a screaming child in the front row, Peach has to deal with Madame Grape and the Sour Bunch invading the building and corrupting everything.

At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Holy Paladin guide writer, Clarius, offers an early review of the Herald of the Sun Paladin Hero Talents that enhance the base toolkit without additional bloat or keybindings. While Herald of the Sun doesn't dramatically alter the playstyle of Holy, it's a well rounded set of talents that offer a preferred alternative to Lightsmith.

Memories Off is a long-running series of romantic novels which first debuted on the PlayStation in 1999. Despite spawning multiple sequels, and being localised into languages like Korean and Traditional Chinese, it’s never actually launched in Western territories – well, until now. PQube is on the case, with SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky targeting a 2024 launch on the PS4.

The community has discovered some unannounced class tuning with Patch 10.2.6 which includes a buff to Beast Mastery and a nerf to Survival Hunter. It seems that that intended Survival Hunter buff may have accidentally been given to Beast Mastery with Patch 10.2.6!

Some hotfixes have been pushed to live servers which reverts the Beast Mastery and Survival Hunter changes to their previous values.

The community has discovered some unannounced class tuning with Patch 10.2.6 which includes a buff to Beast Mastery and a nerf to Survival Hunter.

You’ll come across some difficult enemies in Helldivers 2 in both the Terminid and Automaton enemy factions.

How about this for a reveal trailer, then? Plaion has announced Nobody Wants to Die by Critical Hit Games, an upcoming futuristic detective escapade set in a dystopian New York. The action takes place in 2329, where you’ll assume the role of agent James Karra, who’s hunting a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.

Sony may have revised its PS5 sales estimate for the current financial year, which will end on 31st March. But unsurprisingly it still wants to sell as many systems as possible, which means it’s going to make one last push for that all-important 21 million units target it’s been eyeing. And how does it intend to do that? One last round of price promotions.

Plunderstorm has been out for a couple hours and players are already forming experience. From our experience so far, here's the best skills to try to get a Solo Victory in Plunderstorm!

There have been many rumors floating around about the PS5 Pro and what the specs might be for this console. However, if the rumors are true, then that means the CPU for the Pro console will only have a slight improvement from the normal PS5 everyone has now. But Kepler, who is an AMD insider, has said that this could mean the next-generation console is going to be backwards compatibility and that they are keeping that in mind while making this upgraded PS5 console.

We've also datamined some Dragonflight Raid tuning ahead of the upcoming Awakened Season which includes another nerf to Volcanic Heart on Mythic difficulty.

Mistweavers are getting some new talents in Patch 10.2.6 and here's what the talent tree looks like in Patch 10.2.6! Both nodes are located at the bottom left of the spec tree.

The Pokémon TCG Classic box is the best way to experience the game in its original glory, and it’s currently discounted to its lowest price yet at Target. Originally $399.99, you can pick up this collector’s box for just $292.99, which is nearly $30 cheaper than the previous best discount at Best Buy. The 180 first-gen cards included in this set are sure to bring back memories for some players. However, the rest of what’s included in this set is a more mature approach to the trading card game.

League of Legends’ champion roster has grown so big and varied over the last fifteen years that occasionally, a concept just doesn’t land, or a character ages poorly. Skarner is one of these champions. A crystal scorpion from the desert region of Shurima, Skarner was the last of his kind and the source of the magical technology known as hextech. Riot Games has bestowed the sad purple scorpion with his own VGU, or visual and gameplay update. Now, Skarner emerges with three tails, for thrice the stinging, a sleek new look, new powerful abilites, and some intriguing lore.

Flat2VR Studios is a new developer dedicated to turning flatscreen games into VR experiences.

Blizzard has posted Patch Notes for Patch 10.2.6 which includes class tuning and tuning to returning Tier Sets and Trinkets.

Target is offering a great opportunity to stock up on essential board games for less. If you add two games participating in the sale to your cart, the retailer will knock 50% off one that’s of equal or lesser value. Some of our favorite tabletop titles are included in this promotion. For instance, if you wanted to pick up the fourth edition of Twilight Imperium and its expansion, Prophecy of Kings, you’d only pay $167.99 instead of the usual price of $204.99 for the star-spanning epic.

Irdeto, the company behind the controversial Denuvo DRM utilized in many PC games, just announced a new technology meant to combat game content leaks in the video game industry.

For the first time in nearly two decades, Princess Peach headlines her own game in the soon-to-be-released Princess Peach: Showtime! for Nintendo Switch. Peach’s previous starring adventure, Super Princess Peach, debuted on Nintendo DS in 2005, and inverted the typical story of a Super Mario Bros. game, tasking the princess with rescuing dudes in distress Mario and Luigi.

LinkedIn is planning to add a games section to its social media platform.

The main internal goal of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler is to deliver 4K, 120 frames per second and 8K, 60 frames per second gameplay, although it won't be achieved on PlayStation 5 Pro due to hardware limitations.

The PlayStation 5 Pro CPU 10% boost over the base model's could have something to do with PlayStation 6 backward compatibility, according to a well-known AMD leaker.

China recently saw the launch of the KX-7000 CPU family from Zhaoxin which is aimed at desktop PCs for the domestic market segment. These chips have now seen their first benchmarks appear in the Geekbench database.

Additional details on the PlayStation 5 Pro specs emerged online today, highlighting boosts for CPU and system memory performance and other GPU details.

The rising tide of AI scams targets vulnerable populations; US hosts first military AI conference with global allies; Israeli startup harnesses AI for antibody discovery; AR Rahman advocates AI as tool for music enhancement, not job displacement- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

The hiatus is over and the Florida Joker has reignited his feud with gaming giant Rockstar Games. Lawrence Sullivan, known for his striking resemblance to a character in the GTA 6 trailer, took to TikTok on March 16, 2024, and he expressed disinterest in engaging with the gaming franchise. Yet, just a day later, on March 17, 2024, Lawrence Sullivan aka Florida Joker resurfaced with another video directed at Rockstar Games.

Yesterday, YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead detailed the specifications of the PS5 Pro console in a new video. As our readers know all too well, Moore's Law Is Dead doesn't exactly have a perfect track record when it comes to hardware leaks, thus causing many to doubt the veracity of the leaked specs.

The War Within expansion introduces Hero Talents as a new update to World of Warcraft classes. They are an evergreen form of character progression for each class specialization that introduces new powers and class fantasies. Feedback is critical to us as a part of creating an impactful and fun addition to the game, so we are sharing our goals for Hero Talents with the community to get first impressions of them and learn how well we’re meeting those goals.

Blizzard has posted 12 new Hero Talent Trees revealing the first Demon Hunter, Monk, and Shaman Hero Talent Trees and all the remaining Death Knight, Druid, Evoker, and Warrior trees! The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Masters of the Air tells the story of the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group, also known as the Bloody Hundredth, which used its fleet of B-17 heavy bombers to cut a swathe of destruction from the English Channel to Berlin during World War II. The nine-part Apple TV Plus miniseries, which airs its final episode Friday, is basically everything that baby Charlie — his nose pressed against the pages of obscure history books all throughout middle school — could’ve ever hoped for. But, now that it’s over, I think I’ve found a way to extend the experience just a little further thanks to B-17 Flying Fortress Leader, an excellent solitaire board game from Dan Verssen Games.

You can now register a time to go spend money at the hugely-popular Pokémon Center pop-up store, which returns to ExCeL London in April.