Blizzard has sparked a backlash from Diablo 4 players after it nerfed some of the best farming spots in the entire game.
A recently-released hotfix, the ninth since the phenomenally-successful action role-playing game launched earlier this month, made further adjustments to elite monster density in dungeons.
Blizzard’s note accompanying the change fuelled the backlash: “We are standardizing the density of elite monsters that spawn in dungeons to ensure that no particular dungeon is clearly more efficient to run through than others.”
What this means is Blizzard has lowered the number of elite monsters in the dungeons it’s deemed are too popular for farming. In Diablo 4, elite level monsters drop the best loot and dish out the most...
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It's been interesting to watch the reaction to Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. After its expanded showing at last week's Summer Game Fest event, one attendee summed up the overall mood around the game with a dismissive, "It's just more Armored Core, isn't it?"
Well, yes. Handed what amounts to a blank check after a decade of hits including Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring, FromSoftware has opted to return to one of its earliest hits. This is FromSoftware being defiantly FromSoftware, ignoring the pressure to turn Armored Core into another Soulsborne game and making what it wants to make.
“The essential direction of [Armored Core VI] was to go back and take a good look at the core concept of Armored Core and what made that...
CD Projekt is launching its Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty this September, but alongside a chunk of new story content and an extension of the map, it's also revamping a ton of mechanics from the base game.
These changes, which include a completely rebuilt police system, brand new skill trees, and more, look to bring Cyberpunk up to what CD Projekt initially pitched for the game at its famous reveal in 2018.
An update, presumably version 1.7, will launch around the same time as Phantom Liberty (though no earlier than September 9) and include these changes to the base game, though it's currently unclear just how many of them will be free for all Cyberpunk 2077 players and how many will be locked behind the $30 / £25...
Persona 3 Reload is coming out on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 as well as PC via Steam, Atlus has announced.
The confirmation comes after Reload was announced as launching on Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and PC via Windows during Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase. However, Reload is not coming out on Nintendo Switch, with the console absent from Atlus’ list of additional platforms.
Persona 3 Reload, due out early 2024 and available on Xbox Game Pass at launch, is a remake of the beloved Persona 3. It features combat and graphics updated to resemble Persona 5, and enhanced audio with new English voiceover.
However, Reload does not include additional content from Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable, including the female...
The Last of Us Part 1 on PC is now Steam Deck Verified thanks to the game's latest update that also focuses on performance improvements, fixing various crashes, and more.
The news arrives via The Last of Us Part 1's v1.1.0 patch notes for PC, and the Steam Deck verification is a welcome addition, especially after Naughty Dog confirmed it wasn't a priority for the team around the game's launch earlier this year.
It should be a good sign that many of the issues The Last of Us Part 1's PC players have been experiencing have been addressed since this lower-priority item has now been checked off Naughty Dog's list.
The Last of Us Part 1 arrived on PC on March 28 and was almost immediately slammed on Steam for a various number of its...
Top of the morn, fellow bargain hunters! Welcome to our first taste of Starfield discounts, a game I've cleared my social calendar for. (Wasn't tough — it was non-existent anyway.) In retro news, today is quite the birthday bash for a bunch of must-plays. Be sure to peruse the below list, pick out the gaps in your library, and score them cheap.
This Day in Gaming
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
- Pikmin (GC) 2002. Sequel
- 007: Agent Under Fire (GC,XB) 2002.
- Zelda: Collector's Edition (GC) 2004.
- Forza Motorsport 2 (X360) 2007. Sequel
- American McGee's Alice (PS3,X360) 2011.
- Rayman Origins (3DS) 2012. Get
- Gravity Rush (PSV) 2012. Remaster
- The Last of Us (PS3) 2013. Remake
- Dead By Daylight (PC) 2016. -60%...
Since its creation, Black Voices in Gaming's mission has been dedicated to providing the spotlight for Black game developers in the industry. And one such effort includes hosting a showcase to spotlight upcoming indie games made by black developers. If you missed the organization's latest showcase, here's every game spotlight today.
Breeze in The Clouds
Announced last month at the Humble Games Showcase, Breeze in the Clouds is a new 2D hand-drawn platformer where you play as a corgi that is using his newfound power to fight pollution. The showcase gave us some new gameplay of Breeze in the Clouds.
The game's director and producer, SrBilyon Harris, appeared on stream to discuss what inspired him to create Breeze in the Clouds. Harris...
The first ever Dames 4 Games showcase has now come to an end after sharing a ton of wild and wonderful games, critically important interviews, and trailers highlighting women creators in the gaming industry.
The two hour long showcase was full of exciting reveals from all different genres and was kicked off with a message from host and co-creator Destinee Cleveland.
"Dames 4 Games was created to give women in the gaming community a chance to share their story, contributions, and love of games," she said.
"I wanted this show to highlight some of the things women have done in the industry and continue to do in the gaming community itself and as technical artists, as producers, as art directors, all the things we have done because we...
If you’ve managed to do all of the story content that Cyberpunk 2077 had to offer and have been wanting an excuse to hop back on and do some netrunning or samurai sword slashing, I’m happy to say that Phantom Liberty is going to offer you a lot to chase and then some. I was dropped into Dogtown, the new location you’ll explore in Phantom Liberty, and it’s filled with a new story, new gigs, airdrops that’ll include some coveted loot, new Cyberware upgrades in the form of Relics, new perks, and a lot more I’m probably going to discover when I return in September.
To kick things off, when diving back into Night City, you’ll receive a message and a mission from Songbird: Save the President of the New United States. She has crashed and...
The Xbox Games Showcase took the internet by storm this past weekend, but that isn't all Microsoft has in store for this Summer of Gaming as the Xbox Games Showcase Extended has arrived to give us a deeper look at such games as Avowed, Towerborne, Senua's Saga, Hellblade II, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, Microsoft Flight Simulator - Dune Expansion, and more.
This article will gather all the biggest reveals and announcements from the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to ensure you don't miss a thing, so check out all the details and videos below and let us know which games you are most excited for!
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's Dogtown Gets a Deep Dive
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty kicked off the Xbox Games Showcase Extended and...
There isn't much in Forza Motorsport that hasn't been ripped out, re-thought, and revamped. Graphics, physics, multiplayer, player scoring, and car building have all been re-architected in the next-gen reboot of Turn 10's long-running racing sim. But it's that last one, car building, that seems to be the piece that the development team is focusing on most.
"You don't buy your car so much as you build it," said game director Chris Esaki. So what does he mean by that? For starters, Car Points (CP) are the currency by which you purchase cars and parts, but when you spend them, they don't vanish; instead, the parts hold their value. In other words, Turn 10 is encouraging repeated tinkering and modifying so you can tailor your car to a...
Publisher Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Studios have announced the first wave of DLC for Dead Island 2, the same day parent company Embracer Group announced a drastic restructure that may impact both companies.
A number of free and paid-for additions to the zombie kill ‘em-up are out today alongside a quality of life patch. Players can now access the new Cosplay feature, unlocked during the Call The Cavalry quest. This includes new character skins. Elsewhere, there are six new premium character packs available. The patch adds several bug fixes and improvements revolving around client co-op, performance, and stability improvements.
Deep Silver detailed two expansions coming to Dead Island 2, each of which includes brand new...
Microsoft Flight Simulator's upcoming Dune expansion will actually let players fly around the planet of Arrakis.
Given a deep dive at the Xbox Extended Showcase 2023, Asobo Studio showed more of their collaboration with Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures to bring Dune to Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Beginning in the real world of all places, the team showed a real life and to scale Atreides Ornithopter before switching over to a model of one area of Arrakis from the film franchise.
The model was extensively detailed, featuring the should be miserable yet beautiful environments of Arrakis, from its dusty rock formations to its sprawling desert.
It also represented an area of the map being added to Microsoft Flight Simulator...
Mr. Run and Jump may be coming out on consoles and PC later this year, but the action platformer will also come packaged in an Atari 2600 cartridge, marking it the first new 2600 cartridge game in over 30 years.
Atari announced on Tuesday that the Atari 2600 version of Mr. Run and Jump, made by the company in collaboration with John Mikula, a developer from St. Louis-based indie studio Graphite Lab, will be sold in a limited-edition cartridge. The new game will be sealed in a high-quality box and come with an instruction manual. The cartridge is also engineered to operate on older hardware, especially the Atari VCS — if you still have one of those.
The Atari 2600 cartridge version of Mr. Run and Jump features 80 new screens across...
Announced during today's Xbox Games Extended Showcase, Phasmophobia will get a Console Early Access launch on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation VR2 in August of this year.
A reveal trailer confirmed a whole host of features, including optional crossplay, free content updates, seasonal events, and trophies. It also listed "unique ghost personalities," although it's not clear yet if that meant unique to consoles or was simply an exisiting feature of Phasmophobia, as other selling points included stuff like the rather ambiguous "customization."
The extended showcase also revealed both that Hi-Fi Rush will get a big update with new modes next month and that High on Life will get paid DLC. You can see everything that was...
Hi-Fi Rush is one of the biggest surprises of the year so far, and more content is on the way for Tango Gameworks' rhythm action game.
Revealed at today's Xbox Games Showcase Extended, two new game modes are coming to Hi-Fi Rush through the new Arcade Challenge Update. The first is a roguelite mode called "Power Up! Tower Up!", where Chai is downgraded at the start of a run, and players select rewards to level him up as they make their way through the Rhythm Tower. Beating challenges will unlock rewards, and this mode is intented to be a post-game challenge.
The second new mode is called "BPM RUSH!", which ramps up the BPM speed as you defeat endless waves of enemies and special targets. If you're good, you can ramp the tempo all...
At the Xbox Extended Showcase today, Squanch Games announced High on Knife, a new paid DLC for its 2022 first-person shooter High on Life.
In a new post on Xbox Wire, Squanch Games CEO and studio director Mike Fridley confirmed that the DLC is set two years after the events of the base game and that "everything is totally cool until Knifey gets a package from home. Don’t ask how or why Knifey is getting mail. It’s mysterious for a reason."
The Xbox Wire post also notes that the DLC will introduce new guns. One of them is named Harper, voiced by SNL's Sarah Sherman, and another confirmed is B.A.L.L., who is "a weird little pinball gun operated by a gaggle of tiny gibberish-speaking freaks" who is voiced by Alex Robbins, the narrative...
If there’s one thing Gord makes clear right from the get-go, it’s that surviving its dark and dangerous woods will not be an easy or comfortable experience. In my time playing this settlement-building survival game, I raised a village from nothing, fought off barbaric invaders, and made a dark pact with an evil God – all of which were equal parts stressful and rewarding. Covenant, an indie studio founded by a handful of former CD Projekt Red developers, clearly borrows a lot from the Slavic dark fantasy setting of their Witcher roots. But instead of playing an all-powerful warrior who makes his living slaying dangerous monsters, Gord asks you to manage a group of peasants fighting to survive against impossible odds, and that managed to...
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on January 18, 2024. A new side-scrolling entry in the long-running series, The Lost Crown is a stylish, fast-paced Metroidvania-style game. It’s available for preorder now in a couple of editions (see it on Amazon). Below, you’ll find details about what comes in each edition, what the game is, and more. Let’s get to it.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Nintendo Switch
Get it at Amazon - $49.99
Get it at Best Buy - $49.99
See it at Nintendo eShop - (not yet available)
PS5
Get it at Amazon - $49.99
Get it at Best Buy - $49.99
Get it at PS Store (digital) - $49.99
PS4
Get it at Amazon - $49.99
Get it at Best Buy...
Respawn Entertainment worked on Titanfall 3 "in earnest" for ten months before ditching it for Apex Legends, a former developer has revealed.
Mohammad Alavi, who became narrative lead designer on Titanfall 3 before it was cut, told The Burnettwork that much work on the sequel had been done.
“Titanfall 2 came out, did what it did, and we were like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna make Titanfall 3,’ and we worked on Titanfall 3 for about ten months, right? In earnest, right?
"We had new tech for it, we had multiple missions going, we had a first playable, which was on par to be just as good if not better than whatever we had before, right? But I’ll make this clear: incrementally better, it wasn’t revolutionary. And that’s the key thing, right...
Xbox has had a challenging couple of years, to say the least.
Redfall recently launched to middling reviews and criticism of the game's bugs, co-op issues, and performance, at a time when Xbox was already suffering from concerns and criticisms regarding a multi-year silence from many of its 23 internal studios. Up until yesterday's showcase at least, the narrative has been that Xbox's AAA efforts have been floundering. But it all begs the question: what could Xbox reasonably have done differently?
Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty, like his fellow executives, recognizes that Xbox has a lot to prove to those who have been watching it closely since its late 2010s acquisition spree. So following the Xbox Game Showcase, I ask him if...
It’s been about eight years since From Software introduced us all to Bloodborne and its horrifying blood-soaked streets, and I don’t mind telling you I’ve spent every waking minute since then thinking about its world, and waiting for news of a sequel. While there have been many offerings by other developers of games that seek to capture the “Soulsborne” vibe in various ways, few manage to capture the entire package. After spending a few hours with the Lies of P demo, I came away with the realization that I may have finally found something to scratch that itch I’ve had for so long.
I’ll admit, having Pinocchio as the protagonist wouldn’t have been my first pick, but it’s also obvious that developer NeoWiz isn’t exactly taking many cues...
Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion adds a whole new ending to the base game when it launches this September.
Game director Gabe Amatangelo told WCCFTech that, while Phantom Liberty itself has multiple endings and narrative paths to choose from, making certain decisions within it can unlock a sixth mainline ending in Cyberpunk 2077.
It has "different endings based on how things play out", Amatangelo said. "Then, based on the ending within Phantom Liberty, you can unlock a new ending in the base game." This ending "has to do with your new relationships and characters and situations".
Amatangelo added to this in an interview with IGN as part of Summer of Gaming. "As the trailer shows, Songbird brings you in with the promise of...
CD Projekt Red has snuck a subtle reference to the original Witcher game into the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty.
The DLC, which arrives on September 26, features a new area called Dogtown that's led by Colonel Kurt Hansen. This former military man leads his own faction of baddies called the Barghest, which also happens to be the ghostly dog monsters from the original Witcher.
Players who picked up 2007's The Witcher will remember Barghest as the glowing green dogs that haunted Geralt during his adventures around the Outskirts of Vizima, and their namesake in Cyberpunk sounds just as nasty.
"Barghest, which is the faction that's under Hansen, they'll knock you around if you get out of line," game director Gabe...
Embracer has said it needs to be "exploiting Lord of the Rings in a very significant fashion" by turning it into “one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world”.
The comments come amid a costly restructure of the gargantuan game business, which this morning announced plans to cancel in-development projects, shut studios, and lay off an unspecified number of staff.
In an open letter to the company’s 17,000 staff, CEO Lars Wingefors said Embracer will decrease spending across the board, reduce third-party publishing, and “put greater focus on internal IP and increase external funding of large-budget games”.
"We know we need to be exploiting Lord of the Rings in a very significant fashion and turn that into one of the biggest...
Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty has claimed Starfield already has fewer bugs than Skyrim, Fallout 4, or any other Bethesda game.
Speaking to Giant Bomb, Booty reassured fans concerned over the state of Starfield (perhaps following Redfall's shaky launch) who are more familiar with Bethesda games launching with several issues.
"We have an awful lot of people internally playing Starfield, working with Todd and the team," he said. "I see bug counts and just by the numbers if it shipped today, Starfield would already have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game ever shipped."
Xbox boss Phil Spencer chimed in too, adding: "we have every QA person in our entire company playing Starfield right now, looking at bug counts, looking at the...
Diablo 4 eaned over $666 million dollars in sales in less than a week following its full June 6 launch. Activision Blizzard also revealed that customers have already sunk the equivalent to 30,000 years of playtime into the game, while wiping out a staggering 2.73 billion monsters.
“On behalf of Blizzard, we want to thank the millions of players around the world who are immersing themselves in Diablo 4,” said Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra.
“Diablo 4 is a result of our incredible teams working together to craft and support genre-defining games, build legendary worlds, and inspire memories that will last a lifetime. We’re humbled by the response, proud of the team, and remain committed to listening to our players and...
Spoiler Warning: This article features spoilers for the Mass Effect franchise and the opening of Mass Effect 2 in particular.
BioWare's merchandise department is causing chaos again after releasing an incredibly bizarre Mass Effect 2 statue depicting, spoilers, Shepard floating dead in space.
As reported by Kotaku, The Mass Effect Shepard's Death Statue was revealed by BioWare and almost immediately pulled due to fan reaction.
The statue was pitched as a "conversation starter" that depicts "Commander Shepard expelled from a crumbling Normandy and hurtling through space to her untimely demise."
The statue prompted fan outcry, or at least mass confusion, which resulted in BioWare announcing it would be pausing sales on the statue...
Embracer Group has announced plans to close studios, cancel games, and lay staff off just weeks after a $2 billion contract deal fell through.
In an open letter to the company’s 17,000 staff, CEO Lars Wingefors said Embracer will decrease spending across the board, reduce third-party publishing, and “put greater focus on internal IP and increase external funding of large-budget games”.
“This morning we announced a restructuring program across the Embracer Group that will make us a leaner, stronger and a more focused, self-sufficient company,” Wingefors said.
Embracer is known as a massive games holding company that's gobbled up developers, publishers, and properties over the last decade.
"It is painful to see talented team members...
Short week this week, but it's filled with big bargains already. If you can tear yourself away from the Final Fantasy XVI demo for just two seconds, you can score deep discounts on a bunch of Ubisoft franchises. It's also a preem time to spend some Eddies on Cyberpunk 2077 (in preparation for the Phantom Liberty DLC).
This Day in Gaming
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
- Civilization Revolution (PS3,X360) 2008.
- Lollipop Chainsaw (PS3,X360) 2012.
- Cadence of Hyrule (DS) 2019. Get
- Persona 4 Golden (PC) 2020. Get
- Resident Evil 7 (PS5, XS) 2022. Get
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