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Blizzard have revealed the January 2024 Trading Post which includes the Time-Lost Salamanther, Jeweled Copper Scarab and much more!

The January 2024 reward for completing the Traveler's Log is the Golden Mobile Timepiece! Time is on your side with this month’s signature item—the Golden Mobile Timepiece transmog.

Earlier this month, developer Bethesda Game Studios revealed on the Starfield subreddit that it was working on new ways to travel, mod support, and more for the game. Now, the company has expanded on its 2024 plans for Starfield in a new end-of-year update, including additional ship customization. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 players rejoice — you no longer need to worry about your favorite characters’ faces becoming distorted and stretched during cinematics to the point that their eyes are transformed into harrowing “pits of flesh.” Hotfix 15 is live now and addresses a whole bunch of issues.

While Starfield was heavily criticized by many, the game managed to become quite popular in the months following its release.

Bethesda’s spacefaring role-playing game, Starfield still has many updates to come, according to a new blog post from the developer. The blog post shares that Starfield has enjoyed the biggest launch in Bethesda history, with 13 million players since September. Future updates will release every six weeks or so, and include “everything from quality-of-life improvements to content and feature updates.”

Whether you love it or hate it, Starfield is one of 2023’s most notable releases. For all the things that it does well, there’s loads of stuff that Bethesda could improve upon, too. It sounds like improvements should be coming in 2024, though, according to the company’s latest announcement.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Queen's Blood card game sounds a lot like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's beloved minigame Gwent.

2023 delivered us the ultimate gamer’s dilemma: smooch or spaceship?

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is resurrecting the series' staple world map for the first time since Final Fantasy 9, over 23 years ago.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is setting out to be a massive game, and it will require a lot of time to see everything it has to offer.

It’s 2023 and my miles-long PlayStation 2 backlog is still eyeballing me, but there sure were a lot of good games on PS5 this year worth jumping on — with a few of those available on PS4, too.

With all the unique LEGO Fortnite creations, are we really surprised that one player already discovered how to create a catapult?

Just when players think they have reached the end of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, the game throws another curve Pokeball by revealing a secret ending. This hidden end may fill in all of the gaps left behind in the game’s original story.

We've loaded up Greatfather Winter's sleigh with a bounty of delightful deals—become a whole new you with discounts on select game services, and stock up on a variety of pets, mounts, and more!

The multi-headed Hydrapple is an all-new Pokémon exclusive to the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet — Hydrapple is also one of the trickiest new Pokémon evolutions in the game so far, requiring a very specific set of actions to unlock him. And this is one weirdly cute Pokemon. An evolution of Dripplin — a Pokémon only available in the Teal Mask DLC — Hydrapple comes with five heads and an awesome signature move.

Fallout 76 is still going strong. The developers have been pushing out new updates and content to keep our former vault dwellers interested in returning to the wasteland. As we exit 2023, the developers behind the video game reveal what players could expect to see when we head into 2024. As you can expect, the updates will continue to toss out more questlines for you to get entangled with. But beyond those quest lines will be a new area. Prepare to pack up and prepare for a new adventure deeper into the South. 

Before players meet Rauru in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, they see his arm. At the very beginning of the game, Link doesn’t really know what’s going on, but he wakes up with a mysterious appendage that’s not his — and that allows him to harness incredible powers. It’s not much later that Link meets a spirit version of Rauru, the first king of Hyrule and a character who belongs to a race of creatures called the Zonai. In lending Link his arm, Rauru gave the hero the means to go out into the wide world of Hyrule and realize the carefully laid plans of Princess Zelda.

Finally, you’re not stuck with stacking items only up to 30! In the latest LEGO Fortnite update, players can now stack certain items up to 50.

Developer and writer Chris Avellone, formerly of Interplay and Obsidian Entertainment, has recently been musing on Twitter about some of the roads not travelled during his time at the latter studio. One of Avellone's biggest credits is his work on Fallout: New Vegas, regarded by some as the finest 3D Fallout and the closest in spirit to the original isometric games, and—as spotted by GamesRadar+—he says after that Obsidian wanted to do the same: but for The Elder Scrolls.

A huge Starfield speedrunning breakthrough came about thanks to a YouTube commenter who discovered a skip by accident.

Metal Gear fans have surprisingly got a lot of joy from Taylor Swift's birthday plans this year as the singer heads to Outer Heaven to celebrate. 

Seeing something from a series or franchise you love get the Lego set treatment is a pretty big deal, especially if you plan on buying those sets and building them yourself. Multiple elements from the Marvel and Star Wars universes have been turned into Lego, as has Mario and half the Mushroom Kingdom. All such big franchises that you might think since No Man's Sky isn't on that same level, it might not be considered for its very own Lego set, but that's where you're wrong.

Former employees of the recently closed Free Radical Design, an Embracer Group-owned British video game developer that was responsible for the iconic TimeSplitters first-person shooter (FPS) series, have been sharing concept art for an unannounced project.

Nearly 298148 asteroids have been discovered to date by NASA, which uses its advanced ground and space-based telescopes and satellites including the NEOWISE telescope, Pans-STARRS1, and Catalina Sky Survey. Using this advanced technology, the US space agency has tracked an asteroid that is expected to pass Earth by a close margin today, December 18. It is the only asteroid that will come close to Earth today. From size to distance of approach, know all about this close encounter with Asteroid 2023 XL11.

Everyone remembers their first time in Sanctuary — those iconic guitar chords, the feel of dread in Tristram, and the first time they ever heard «Stay a while, and listen.» The Diablo series evokes powerful memories, creates countless friendships, and has become a beloved franchise for both Blizzard and players alike. While no one thing alone can make these games iconic, everything fits together like puzzle pieces: from music, to level design, to quests, all the way to our favorite characters. Harrison Pink, Senior Quest Designer II for Diablo 4, knows better than most about the impact of Diablo on those who play and work on these games. Having been with Blizzard for almost seven years, Pink is now saying goodbye to the company in favor of greener pastures — so let's take a look at some of his incredible contributions to our favorite series!

It seems that adventurers are not done exploring The Land of the Morning Light, as Black Desert announced a new region for the area, as well as a new class and more during this weekend's Calpheon Ball.

Ever since the first Steam Deck came out, I’ve been a fan. I bought the Deck in the first wave of units, getting mine a few weeks after it initially launched in 2022, and it has certainly been put through its paces with me. I’ve traveled the world with my Steam library following me wherever I went, from Iceland, Canada and more. I’ve loved this device, even with its limitations.

Santa Monica Studios' free God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC is proving to be much more than merely a tacked-on roguelike experience, surprising players with its narrative heft and implications for Kratos and the future of the God of War franchise. Santa Monica didn't do itself any favours by mainly focusing on the mechanical in its unveiling trailer, but you can't keep a good story down.

Recently we went hands-on with Ubisoft's upcoming Metroidvania, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It's slashing its way onto PS5 and PS4 in January, bringing the series back to PlayStation for the first time since 2010. But after all this time, how is this latest adventure shaping up? And will it be worth that 14-year wait? Well, from our two hours with the game, we'd say fans of the series have a fun and vibrant adventure on their hands, and we personally are looking forward to jumping back into it.

While browsing my friends list on Bluesky, I came across a post about the “Marriott Bonvoy Land’’ in Fortnite. Curious as to what that would even look like, I went down the rabbit hole, expecting to suffer through a strange nightmare world of inescapable hotel rooms, or maybe knocking through the walls of a luxury suite with a giant sparkly hammer for a sniper rifle and Slurp Juice.

Somehow, LEGO Fortnite players have discovered how to build a teleporter creation that replicates fast travel. I have no idea how they did it, but it happened.

There’s something shameful I must admit about myself: I’m a native of Miami, Florida. It’s where I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up, and even after leaving, I look back on my time a lot.

I may not put much thought into Christmas lists today, but back when I was a kid they were practically an art form. From the presentation to the content itself, I pulled out all the stops to draw attention to whatever it was I coveted at the time.

The time of the Winter Convergence is near. Where the sky lights up in brilliant colors, mysterious rocks fall to the ground, and people spread presents and cheer across the island. But alas, this is also when dark creatures and wicked spirits of the season look to bring an Eternal Winter upon all of Aeternum, encasing everything in ice and snow.

[UPDATE] Bethesda Game Studios has now responded to the Starfield update 1.8.88 thread on Reddit to reveal plenty of details on the game's patch roadmap for next year.

Looking for something to balance out the wholesome tone of the holiday season? Well, you’re in luck. The Little Nightmares Android version just arrived and this dark adventure should bring the creepiness to your Christmas.

One of gaming’s oldest genre’s had a remarkable 2023. It contained several long-awaited releases, a number of delightful surprises, and a stunning sequel that will be remembered as an all-time great. We knew it would be a good year for RPGs going in, but we didn’t know that it would be this good. Role-playing games of all different types were represented this year – turn-based and action, strategy and open-world, Japanese and European. It was a feast for fans of the genre, made all the more surprising that one of its anticipated releases spent less time in the limelight than many would have expected.

Harkening back to the age of Strider and Shinobi, Ninja Issen is a side-scrolling hyper ninja action game set in a futuristic, cyberpunk city, topped off with a retro graphics filter and one-versus-many combat. Embark on a journey of revenge, time travel, and old school gameplay for the modern age with Kiba, a skilled ninja falsely accused of a murder he did not commit.

Developer Bethesda Game Studios is working on bringing mod support, city maps, and «all-new ways to traveling» to its recently released sci-fi RPG, Starfield. It announced this by way of a Starfield subreddit comment from the official developer Reddit account, as reported by IGN. The team says it's working on other things, too, like quest fixes, hotfixes, and more. 

Eddie Murphy is back as foul-mouthed Detroit-made detective Axel Foley, 30 years after he last played him, in the first trailer for Netflix's upcoming Beverly Hills Cop sequel. 

After more than a decade of going on and on about the “board gaming renaissance,” it’s safe to say that tabletop role-play is finally having its moment in the spotlight. But while Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL fiasco has clearly lit a fire under many players eager to make a change, the fact of the matter is that a sizeable cohort of writers and designers have been toiling away at excellent games for years now. Their tireless efforts have yielded a bumper crop of excellent, some might say genre-defining, TTRPGs. Just like board games, a few modern classics have also cropped up: Look no further than The Quiet Year and The One Ring, both making their second appearance on this list.

Bethesda Game Studios plans to update Starfield every six weeks or so in 2024, a studio representative posted on the game’s Reddit forum. This comes after Bethesda addressed several issues in a patch on Monday, one of which fixes a bug that gave player ship’s a “pet asteroid” — space stuff was getting stuck to ships.

CD Projekt Red fulfilled a five-year promise last week when it added a fully functional metro system to Cyberpunk 2077. While the feature does wonders to make Night City feel more alive, I was surprised to learn just how little California’s public transportation infrastructure has improved in the game’s alternate-reality future.

While you're out spreading holiday cheer, to any Demons which may draw near, be sure to look for a gruesome decoration, for what's inside may call for celebration! How to Collect All Diablo 4 Midwinter Blight Cosmetics Midwinter Ward Buff Duration to be Increased Players who have been on the hunt for the Red-Cloaked Horror will have surely come across the Frigid Husks that dot the landscape. These totems made of human remains contain not only, but have a chance to spawn a Treasure Goblin as well!Don't let 'em get away! It is not currently known if players have a higher chance to find Treasure Goblins from Frigid Husks if they have been on the Good List from Santa this year or not.

Some Doctor Who fans think Jodie Whittaker is set to make an appearance in the upcoming Christmas special 'The Church on Ruby Road'.

It feels like we are finally coming out of culture’s obsession with zombies. Sparked by the success of The Walking Dead, this craze has lasted for a surprising amount of time given how decayed and rotten many of the media representations are. It’s refreshing to see the subject given a new twist though, and Undying offers a more personal and emotional take on the usual undead apocalypse. Rather than a buff soldier or hardened survivor, you play as Anling, a mother trying to protect her son, Cody, during the initial outbreak of a zombie virus. Right as the game begins Anling is bitten and must try to balance the worsening symptoms of infection with her responsibility to look after and teach Cody. The result is a truly harrowing narrative that speaks to a more human perspective than is common in this genre.

An animated series about Wakanda and its historical heroes is in the works at Marvel. 

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has shared his Diablo 4 character after hitting level 100 during Season 2.

Welcome to our last major update of 2023, Splintered Souls. This update introduces Familiars to fight alongside you, the Southern Dreadlands Zone and Sentinel’s Stand Zone Event, 3 new Inferno Difficulties and 5 new Helliquary Bosses, and a flaming flood of additional content.

In, players will need to cut down Cactus plants for Flexwood: a special resource used in mid-game crafting recipes. Cactus plants can only be found in the Dry Valley desert biome and can only be cut down with upgraded tools. Harvesting Flexwood isn’t actually too difficult, but you’ll need to track down some rare resources to upgrade your tools to the right level.

The Pokémon Company has announced a new amusement park that will open near Tokyo.

Lego Fortnite has brought a new experience to Fortnite since its launch and has encouraged players to build in new, creative ways through its survival crafting content. But while many are building huge houses or settlements in a Minecraft-esque fashion, some players are seeing just how far they can stretch the tools at hand to create the next best thing. 

In a new development, NASA's Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), responsible for monitoring the skies and watching various Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), has shed light on an asteroid that will pass Earth closely today, December 12.NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has designated this space rock as Asteroid 2023 XO1. The space agency uses its advanced ground and space-based telescopes such as NEOWISE telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Pans-STARRS1 and Catalina Sky Survey to discover, track and categorize these space rocks. Know the details of this close encounter with Asteroid 2023 XO1.

On paper, 1995’s Cool Riders sounds great. It was the follow-up to 1993’s Outrunners, which itself was a multiplayer follow-up to 1986’s Out Run. Only this time, it’s on motorized bikes. Then you see it, and you realize Cool Riders is one of the least cool games to exist.

The Brite Bomber is a helpful guide when you first arrive in LEGO Fortnite, giving you small tips and tricks to make your journey easier as you begin your initial steps in this LEGO world. However, Brite Bomber does disappear at some point, and her location is a mystery.

Players may have thought the glide ability was the closest we’d get to flight in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, but we thought wrong. The upcoming Indigo Disk DLC will let us unlock the ability to truly fly on Koraidon or Miraidon.

Following the Community Council Live Chat on December 8, a member of the Community Council asked a series of questions on the forums to which WoW Classic Senior Producer Josh Greenfield responded. Sharing some insight on the development of Season of Discovery and Cataclysm Classic, which you can read below --

If you have someone in your life who’s often zipping off to exotic locales, or just traveling frequently for work, there are some amazing gifts you can get for them that can make their downtime during travel pass them by a little quicker.

At this moment in time, No Man’s Sky is easily one of the best sandbox games around. We’re long past those dark days when the overhyped game underdelivered to the pain of waiting fans. Now, with the holiday season upon us, Hello Games is giving us one more chance to replay this year’s limited-span content.

Doctor Who’s final anniversary special, 'The Giggle', introduced the concept of 'bi-generation', and it’s thrown the whole Whoniverse into chaos. Now, we’re going to get into spoiler specifics below, so make sure you’re up to date on all things Who before going any further.

Amazing to think that as the iconic plumber approaches his 40th anniversary, right now might be the most popular Mario has ever been. Between The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossing $1 billion at the box office and the Nintendo Switch becoming the third best-selling console of all time, Mario and everything that comes with him is in more homes and minds than ever before. Odds are Nintendo will shift a lot of Mario merch this holiday season, including a Warp Pipe Snack Bowl now available exclusively through the Nintendo store.

If you're a few hours into your LEGO Fortnite survival playthrough, you'll have hit a point where to upgrade your Village more, you'll need to get some Marble. But where can you find it?

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has a massive world that you can explore either on foot or by using a mount. But occasionally, this might not be quick enough for some players, and fast travel could be the better option.

Midwinter Blight is nearly upon us, and players will be able to dive into the festitivies to earn cosmetics, new titles, and more. It makes sense, then, that players will want to know how to get the most bang for their buck with, the Midwinter Blight event currency.

Behold, the SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store and pre-registrations on Google Play. Developed and published by the German-based company HandyGames, it is priced at USD 9.99 / €9.99 / £8.49. The adventure will explore the “Wish World” where SpongeBob and Patrick travel to aid their friends and prevent chaos in Bikini Bottom.

If you skipped out on No Man's Sky this year then now's your chance to jump back in and see all the goodness they rolled out, as developers Hello Games are taking the holiday season to replay all the expedition events and offer up their rewards. There's even a return of a 2021 expedition, complete with limited-edition golden starship to claim.

Well now, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. Clearly wanting to end the 60th anniversary specials with a bang, the latest episode from returning showrunner Russell T Davies, titled The Giggle, saw David Tennant's Doctor and Catherine Tate's Donna Noble take on the Toymaker, played by Neil Patrick Harris. 

Visions of Mana has been confirmed by Square Enix, with publisher confirming that the game will be released in 2024. Visions of Mana is the first mainline entry in Mana series for 15 years, and will be going back to roots of the series. There is not much about the story but we do know the main character is Val, the new soul guard, who is travelling across the world with his friend as she embarks on a pilgrimage to the Tree of Mana.

On December 20, Genshin Impact’s next major update — version 4.3, “Roses and Muskets” arrives, with the Fontinalia Festival event, new playable characters, quality of life and feature improvements, and more.

The Wings of the Amber Monarch cosmetic back piece that we previously covered has been updated with a 999x Trader's Tender cost likely indicating that it'll be a monthly Trading Post Traveler's Log reward similar to Grotto Netherwing Drake or Ash'adar, Harbinger of Dawn.

In the latest Patch 10.2.5 PTR build, new portals have been added to Bel'ameth allowing quick travel to and from the Emerald Dreamway and Stormwind!

Thanks to DDV’s Cozy Edition, all players got a Capybara delivered to their mailbox. While I won’t question the logistics of this shipment, I’ll help you get a wild Capybara in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Visions of Mana has been confirmed by Square Enix, with publisher confirming that the game will be released in 2024. Visions of Mana is the first mainline entry in Mana series for 15 years, and will be going back to roots of the series. There is not much about the story but we do know the main character is Val, the new soul guard, who is travelling across the world with his friend as she embarks on a pilgrimage to the Tree of Mana.

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.

Visions of Mana, a new entry in the long-running action role-playing game by Square Enix, is coming next year on PC and consoles.

Archetype Entertainment, the Wizards of the Coast studio founded by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, unveiled its debut game called Exodus at The Game Awards 2023.

An artificial intelligence startup targeting air travel has raised $34 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz to more aggressively pursue deals with the Department of Defense.

Seven years after the launch of No Man's Sky, Hello Games is finally looking towards a new horizon. The developer appeared at The Game Awards 2023 to showcase Light No Fire – a brand-new co-op adventure that looks like a daring cross between Valheim and Death Stranding, routed through an expansive fantasy world akin to Pandora or Middle-earth. 

As actual play continues to mature, Larian Studios basks in the success of Baldur’s Gate 3, and Warhammer 40,000 gets its deepest video game treatment yet, it’s not a stretch to claim that we’re on the cusp — if not already in the throes — of a role-playing game renaissance. Seen one way, it could mean stiff competition for the next developer to throw its hat in the ring. Through another lens, however, it could be the perfect time for a symbolic comeback. The creative minds at Archetype Entertainment are hoping for the latter.