Valheim is Holding a Solo Speedrunning Deathless Competition

Any convention regular is probably already familiar with the Bag of Holding, the durable, versatile canvas bag that can contain a seemingly infinite supply of shame swag in its pocketed interior. Unfortunately, the product was exclusive to ThinkGeek, a site that shut down back in 2019. In spite of an overwhelming demand for this awesome accessory, new ones haven’t been available since then.

After multiple delays, Payday 3 finally arrives this month, but if you just can’t wait to get your hands on the game, a free open beta is being held this weekend. The Payday 3 Technical Open Beta won’t require you to have pre-ordered the game – anybody on Steam or Xbox Series X/S can jump in (PS5 is excluded for whatever reason). Starbreeze does warn the beta build is from a few months back, so it doesn’t necessarily represent the final state of the game – the beta is more about testing the capacity of the Payday 3 servers.

The humble Cleric might be the least-popular Baldur's Gate 3 class, but that hasn't stopped the game's resident Sharran from being a key part of the game's world record speedrun.

The national board of actors' union SAG-AFTRA has sent a strike authorization vote to members over the renegotiation of its Interactive Media Agreement. The potential strike would affect voice acting and motion capture work for major publishers in the industry.

The annual Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) speedrunning charity gaming event is returning in January. It’s going to be an in-person affair once again, the first time since COVID. It all takes place in Pittsburgh at the Wyndham Hotel from January 14th to the 21st. Despite the change to an in-person format, you’ll be able to stream the festivities via the Games Done Quick Twitch channel.

Hawked is an upcoming PvPvE extraction shooter from My.Games. The team has announced the first cross-play open beta starting this week, with details on how to participate.

A release date for Rick and Morty season 7, the first without co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland, has been revealed.

Valheim update Hildir’s Request has arrived on live servers. If you’ve been waiting for the big overhaul to move to the game proper, it’s now time to jump on and find Hildir in Valheim. The sister to Haldor, Hildir the merchant follows in his profession – but has run into troubles with missing stock in the Viking co-op survival game. The update also includes the introduction of difficulty modifiers, and developer Iron Gate is running a Valheim contest titled the Trial of Tyr for the toughest hardcore players to prove themselves.

Blizzard has released a new set of hotfix notes addressing untalented Haunted Soul, resetting cooldowns between rounds of Solo Shuffle, and the previously announced change to Mind Soothe.

A patch for the open world survival game Valheim went live on the public test server back in June that, among other things, added world modifiers that enable players to change the game's difficulty in various ways. With that update, called Hildir's Request, now fully live, developer Iron Gate is celebrating in an appropriately viking-ish fashion with the Trial of Tyr, a speedrun competition that challenges players to race through the entire game—in hard mode—on their own.

The race to see which Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner can get to the game's first sex scene the fastest is heating up quickly.

In the wake of Baldur's Gate 3's success with fans and critics alike, a new form of speedrunning has emerged, and it's saucier than you might expect. Players are engaging in a new type of speedrun for the game, where the goal isn't to finish the main storyline but to seduce one of the game's companions and successfully canoodle by reaching one of the game's sex scenes.