Despite Leon having been heavily rumored to be in Resident Evil 9 to some degree, he was completely absent from the game's reveal trailer. Instead, the trailer introduces FBI agent Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Resident Evil Outbreak hero Alyssa Ashcroft, who Nakanishi has said is "the new ཧmain character."

Naturally, that has done very little ⭕to quell the chorus of Resi fans insistent that the next installment will let them play as their f🍨avorite Raccoon City copper, their optimism largely buoyed by from noted leaker Dusk Golem claiming there are at least two playable characters in the game and that Leon is in fact "the main character."

Still, in Capcom's new on Resident Evil Req🐷uiem, Nakanishi once again strongly suggests Leon isn't in the game, going as far as to call the bonafide horror icon a bad fit for the genre.

"We always thought about making Leon the protagonist, but making a horror♕ game based around him is difficult," Nakanishi says. "He wouldn't jump at something like a bucket falling. No one wants to see Leon scared by every little thing. So he's actually quite a bad match for horror."

This is bait. I can see it in Nakanishi's eyes. Resident Evil Requiem is launching a month before the series' 30th anniversary; what better way to pay homage to its roots than to bring back the original protagonist? And the focus on the RPD? Get outta he💝re.

I don't doubt that Grace will play a significant role in the story, and she very well could be the main protagonist,🦂 but I'm more convinced than ever that Leon's coming back.

In fact, now that I'm thoroughly overthinking this, I'll be surprised if he doesn't come back as a playable character, purely because Capcom is doing so much to conceal and now seemingly tease his appearance. ♏It'd be pretty anticlimactic for all of these sheꦡnanigans to culminate in a non-playable appearance.

For what it's worth, I checked in on Dusk Golem after watching this new video and , "I'm 100% Leon is the protagonist still." And to be fair, Nakanishi doesn't explicitly say Leon won't be in the game, or even that he won't be the main character! It wouldnꦦ't be terribly unusual for a game creator to outright lie in service of a good surprise reveal, but it seems Nakanishi wants to maintain his good name if and when Leon is revealed.

We'll find out when Resident Evil Requiem launches on February 27 for PS5, Xbox Series🍌 X, and PC. Or, possibly before that, because leaks and all.

Resident Evil Requiem's demo tops the series' scariest moments with what might be the most upsetting monster Capcom’s ever devised, and as a horror baby I'm afraid of how much I want to play it

The change was noted by players earlier this week, and brought to wider attention by . I fired up my 360 earlier to confirm and - after a꧋ surprisingly difficult process trying to sign online - found that sure enough, the dasܫhboard swaps over to a new configuration the second the console touches the internet.

On the updatedꩲ dashboard, you'll find one panel with an image of Xbox's current-gen consoles and a QR code with the caption "Experience next-gen performance. Upgrade today." That QR code will take you straight to . It doesn't look like there's a proper system update alongside this change, with the new panels simply slotting in after even the quickest server check-in.

It's been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:nearly a year since the𓃲 Xbox 360 store shut down, and the only way to buy digital 360 games these days is with the selection of titles now available on modern Xbox consoles. The notion that Microsoft can't support game purchases on the old console but can still drop you an occasional ad for their new machines… Well, it's under༒standable in an objective sense, but it just feels bad, man.

The dashboard change does come with one nice benefit, though, as the box art that shows on the 🧔primary game launch button is no longer all stretched. Score one for clean UI, but if anybody at Microsoft is listening, I gotta tell you… I need the original 360 blades back so bad. Please. One last gesture of goodwill for the truly nostalgic. Just let me go back to the original dashboard. For old times' sake?

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ಞ"I'm pleased and proud because, like every developer, I hoped to make something th⛦at lives on in peoples' minds for so long. I was lucky enough to achieve that. I'm amazed because I never expected or even dared to hope that Deus Ex would be so long-lasting, yet here we are."

"Note that I said 'we,' Spector continues. "It's a truism in game develop𓂃ment that ideas are easy, shipping is hard. A𒊎nd you don't ship anything, let alone anything good, without a great team."

Spector says that though "the Deus Ex concept may have been mi♓ne," the game and "all kudos aimed at it𝓀" belong to "the great, great team that bought into a vision and made it a reality."

Reluctant he can't name "everyone who worked on the game," Spector singles out a few key lead contributors, like lead designer Harvey Smith, lead programmer Chris Norden, art director Jay ♏🧸Lee, lead writer Sheldon Pacotti, and audio director Alex Brandon.

These and other devs "improved on every idea I had," Spector says, "and led the team to execute ag🦂ainst those ideas at a level I never dreamed possible."

Without them, "there probably wouldn't have been a Deus Ex at all," Spector says. "There cer🎐tainly wouldn't have been one that would warrant a birthday remembrance."

Because "we didn't just make a game," he reckoꦬns. "We made a game that seems to have inf🍎luenced games that followed. And we created a world people wanted to revisit over and over again. So here's to the next 25 years."

Deus Ex has had a rough time of it in the past few years, with a would-be entry reportedly g♒etting ca💫nned by Embracer last year after two years of development. Even the series' actors have told the IP owners that they've "dropped the bal🐭🧸l."

But the impact of Deus Ex extends far beyond the IP itself. Much of the immersive sim bible still used today was penned by the original game, those ripples of reactivity have reached countless other games and genres, and the folks behind modern installments like Deus Ex: Human Revolution are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:now working with the Fable 4 crew.

Spector, meanwhile, has a new game coming from his new studio OtherSide Entertainment: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thick as Thieves, a PvPvE multiplayer "stealth actio🎶n game, with a capital S and a capital A."

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We saw an early build of Thick as Thieves just recently, and were mightily impressed by its commitment to cheese.

Mouse: P.I. For Hire is one of the more original looking shooters on the horizon, sporting an aesthetic that looks like it hitched a ride on one of those anthropomorphic steam trains all the way back to 1929. It's definitely one way to get some atte♏ntion on what appears to be a genuinely inventive FPS/met🐎roidvania hybrid, even beneath its Golden Age cartoon surface.

Anyway, developer Fumi Games revealed a new Mouse: P.I. For Hire boss in a brief Twitter clip today, and in so revealed Cavꦛill's yoked antagonist as the main inspiration.

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The Relic trait in question is this: "Attack power♒ permanently increased for each evergaol prisoner defeated." This effect just over a week ago. You could buy a static Relic, a yellow-type Grand Luminous Scene, with this effect from a new merchant unlocked by defeating the previous Everdark boss, and people quickly noticed just how powerful it is.

The wording is, per FromSoftware custom, a little wonky. But have worked out that this Relic buffs your damage by 5% each ti🍒me you beat a gaol boss. There's a difficulty gradient to these bosses, but most of them are pretty easy – some almost laughably so – and even the harder ones are nothing compared to the big Nightl🔴ords.

There's no duration on this buff; each boss you kill – rather, each encounter you clear, because multi-꧒boss gaols don't award multiple stacks at once – provides a permanent, always-active damage buff, and there doesn't seem to be an upper limit. Not only that, the buff appears to get better multiplicatively, with players reporting a buff greater than 30% with six gaol clears.

You can only kill so many gaol bosses in a run of Nightreign, limited not just by time but also how many gaol keys you can find, but it's not that hard to clear at least 🔥four. Gaols provide lump sums of Runes, too, making them worthwhile anyhow.

You can't equip multiple Relics w♛ith this effect to double or triple the boost, but you can enhanꦍce it indirectly to take your damage straight to the moon.

For example, another Relic effect gives you a Stonesword Key at the start of a run, guaranteeing an easy Gaol clear. Everyone in your team can potentially br💯ing a Stonesword Key in with them, meaning you have three Gaols available without even hunting for keys – most commonly sourced from chests in cathedrals or atop forts.

Because this relic is a permanent♋, multiplicative damage modifier, it stacks incredibly well with other effects and genꩵeral character investment. The stronger you are, the stronger it is.

It's so powerful, in fact, that I'm convinced FromSoftware𒆙 handed it out specifically to counterbalance the difficulty bump from the Everdark fights🦄, perhaps learning from the difficulty blowback at the game's launch. Most other damage boosts are either weaker or more specific than this, so it's rapidly become a go-to staple among experienced players.

If you don't have this relic and you missed the previous Everdark boss, you should be able to unlock it just fine by beating the🐷 latest Everdark boss – which, again, ought to be easier than it was last week since many players are running around with damage aplenty.

Ironeye is Elden Ring Nightreign's most useful character, but their anti-soulslike style bores me to tears.

Back in December 2024,🤪 Epic said on Twitter that it "filed a lawsuit against a player who cheated in our tournaments. This player used cheating software and hardware and tried to avoid getting caught by using multiple accounts."

Today, the company says "the Judge ruled in our favor after the cheater ignored our lawsuit. The player is required to pay $175,000 and we’ll donate what we collect to charity. They are also 🦹banned from playing Fortnite forever."

While Epic did not provide any more details about the legal action on social media, has a bit🦩 more info from the lawsuit itself. Sebastian Araujo is named as the cheater, with Epic alleging that the player had participated in 839 tournaments over the course of four months, winning "at least $6,850" in cash prizes.

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That includes Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, who posted a of some of his experiences early in Hytale's development. When the studio was still operating independently, Collins-Laflamme says he "was burning maybe 350k to 4ꦿ00k a month on Hytale development - somewhat sustainable - but that was before Hypixel Skyblock and the server was on a decline so I needed funding soon to keep going at such pace."

Collins-Laflamme posits that "maybe that sense of limited funds urgency was a good thing looking back on it," but the stress of that financial pressure was certainly substan🌸tial. Riot began gradually investing in the studio in 2018, and fully acquired it in 2020. Collins-Laflamme himself left the studio in 2019.

"I think the p🧔ressure of having the Riot Games label + mega viral trailer, bigger funding and higher expectations made us all doubt ourselves bℱack then," he says. "On a personal level, I couldn't live up to these new high expectations and was given an option to leave by Riot."

Despite that, Collins-Laflamme says he was confident in Riot's support. "Unknown public fact," he says, "I was offered WAY MOꦑRE money from a different company and walked out the moment of deal close (many people can attest to that) but decided to go with Riot in the end because I truly believed that they would give the team a better chance at success and more funding for the game."

Elsewhere in his post, Collins-Laflamme says Hytale seemed "maximum 2 years away" 🍌from release in 2019 before its scope started dramatically expanding, with other former devs criticizing "unrealistic ambitions" from higher-ups. Speaking on the producers Hypixel hired after the acquisition, he largely echoes comments from another former developer who said the studio's problems ꧑"were all internal" and shouldn't be laid at Riot's feet.

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Since the original Persona 5, we've also had its Royal re-release, the Dancing in Starlight rhythm game spinoff, its Strikers action RPG, Tactica strategy RPG, and now, the free-to-play Phantom X is availab🃏le in way more territories than before.

Looking at its concurrent player count records (), the Black Wings Game Studio-developed spinoff of Atlus' favorite child managed to hit a peak of 41,622 within 12 hours of its launch. Given that we're currently midday on a weekday, I suspect that could well r🃏ise further in the days to come.

It's worth noting that not all of those aforementioned P5 games are actually available on St✨eam, but it's still outdone the ones on there, including the best version of the main game, Persona 5 Royal, which launched to back in 2022.

Admittedly, it did have a bit of a disadvantage in the sense that its PC release came three years after its initial launch on consoles (two years outside of Japan), but even so, it's still being beaten by a free-to-play take that's infused with gacha elements. That said, the fact that The Phantom X is free is a gigantic factor hanging over this w🌱hole player count thing.

As for Persona 5 Tactica, well, that one didn't have a particularly strong start on Steam. With a concurrent players, it was never going to be incredible competition, but even so. wasn't much s𒊎tronger at 8,730.

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The newest Major Order is all about tackling the "large-scale, coordinated Automaton offensive" that has "launched without warning." We may have repelled the Illuminate invasion and saved Super Earth, but our enemies are still numerous.

A account shows a Hulk propellin🐽g itself skyward before levelling its f𒊎lamethrower at the brave camera operator.

I ho♋ped it was a false alarm, but players on Reddit actually began repo🅰rting these new threats hours before the video went up.

"Hulks can jump! I repeat, HULK CAN JUMP NOW!" writes one terrified, I ⛄mean valiant, Helldiver. Their video shows a Hulk leaping an impressive distance, closing the gap between them very qཧuickly. It's almost like it was showing off to the Helldiver (who was using a jetpack) that it had one too.

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Hulks were never slow, de⛎spiꦆte their size, and this newfound mobility just makes them even more deadly.

"This is 100% real, I just checked it myself in game," one person . "The Jet Brigade got sick of people mocking🔯 it and decided 🔯to bring out the fuck you 2000," adds another.

The Jet Brigade is an Automaton faction that sports jetpacks for advanced aerial maneuver🤡s, but they've never managed to equip a 🐠Hulk with one – until now. "Bots went full Titanfall on us," a Redditor with exceptionally good taste, if I do say so myself.

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currently 💙has 160,000 cat sitters, more than absolute heavy hitters like GTA 5 and Apex Legends, but Irox Games CEO Marcel Zurawka told that the app is "not even paying a developer for us... If you just look at the numbers, it's actually losing us ♌money in the end."

Bongo Cat is a free-to-pla🍌y game that only makes money from inexpensive microtransactions that let people lay down a couple quid for cosmetics, which is nice. Thing is, according to Zurawka, Bongo Cat's only drummed up $12,650 in its first three and a half months of release - definitely not enough money to cover one developer's yearly salary.

Though Zurawka doesn't actually care whether or not Bongo Cat itself makes tons of money. It was made in a couple of weeks and, more importantly, it exists more as an "insane marketing tool" for the devs' next game: Oku, a watercolor adventure with the aesthetics of Okami but the flowy mꩵovement of Flower.

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"It's an insane marketing🐽 tool," Zurawka continued. "We are now converting people to the next game from us."

The stunt drove 50,000 wishlists and follows for Oku, which puts the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming indie game at around 750 on Steam's Most Wishlisted chart. Great for Irox Games, but i🥂t probably paints a bleak picture for the dozens of hopefuls looking to b𒉰reakout on the storefront every singe day.

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As it turns out, Rematch players on Reddit have realised that the optimal way to move around the pitch isn't by running - quite the opposite. It turns ouꦫt jumping for invisible headers and flopping around the field is the bes💟t way to get about. out, and from their findings, it was almost a full second quicker to get across the field on average.

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Unfortunately, Sloclap doesn't like to flop (as seen by Sifu and Rematch sales figures, am I right fellas?) as the official Sloclap Reddit account commented on a video of the bug, saying "We're aware this is an issue and an unpopular unintended tech. We're planning to push a fix very soon, before ⛦this weekend." So if you want to live free like the ܫflop you are, you'll need to get it out of your system before Saturday I'm afraid.

Rematch dev says FIFA is "so disconnected from how it actually feels to play football," but his game "feels more dead-on."

"Peak managed to exceed our expectations of player count and hype by like.. a lot," Landfall Games and Aggro Crab (collectively Landcrab) say in a on Steam which includes the latest numbers. The game has, at time of writing, ꦆclimbed up to become the globally.

Aggro Crab was already stunned at the success Peak has had a few days ago, when it announced its "stupid jam game" had sold one million copies in six days, and outsold its brilliant take on the Soulslike genre, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Another Crab's Treasure. It's now❀𒀰 doubled that number in half the amount of time, living up to its Very Positive rating on Steam.

To thank players for t🦩he positive reception, Landcrab confirms the developers are now "looking into possible updates" for the game. "It's very early stages," it adds on Steam, stating that it won't be sharing "exact details" on what to expect yet. "We're still prioritizing bug fixes and stability first," the developers confirm.

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You don't need to go digging through the game to find what it looks like, either. Kojima Productions showed off the cool collab in a new social media post, which sees Sam Porter Bridges eat one singular slice of pizza until the rest is shaped like the arcade icon. Coincidence? Hel🅠l no. Sam then starts playing actual Pac-Man, sound effects included, on the game's actual map.

Of course, Death Stranding 2's map isn't shaped like the arcade cabinet's straightforward corridors, so you'll instead be munching up ghosts along the map's various borders, which is very cool. Even cooler is that eating up the ghosts will make in-game BTs also disappear, meaning Pac-Man himself exists as an actual entity in K☂ojima's universe.

There doesn't﷽ seem to be any guide on how to unlock mini-game so far - at least not from my Google searches - but it looks like it's connected to the game's pizza delivery system, so just help the pizza man and hope for the best, I guess.

Hideo Kojima's no stranger to adding whatever, really, to his games. Heck, Death St🧔randing 2✨ even features a cameo from Usada Pekora, the ultra popular vtuber who just so happens to also be Koji💜ma's favorite. There might be a fe൩w more out of pocket secrets waiting in the full game, too.

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Karlach actor Samantha Béart recently spoke to in an interview, in which they mentioned that "fans had no influence" on them returning for the improved ending, which was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:added in a post-launch patch. They mentioned that Baldur's Gate 3 was initially set to clash with the release of Bethesda's space-faring RPG Starfield, before the D&D romp ended up being brought forward by a month, and noted that "I don't think we expected 🔴people to rush to the end as quickly as they did." Ultimately, tꦐhey said, 𝔍the improved ending was "very much planned."

Now though, on Twitter "clarifying that Karlach's final ending was indeed in response to fan feedback, with conversations starꦬting around August 2023."

Furthermore, he adds: "Karlach's writer cares deeply about the character and her fans. We released a month early because we always aim for a blue✱-ocean release."

He doesn't mention Starfield by name, but Larian was 🌌previously very open about it being "an extremely bu🦋sy period for RPGs" when moving forwa♌rd Baldur's Gate 3's launch, noting that "we had new Zelda, then Diablo for the first time in something like a decade, with Starfield and Cyberpunk’s releases coming up as well."

Giveཧn all the awards Baldur's Gate 3 went on to win that year, including the prestigious Game of the Year accolade at The Game Awards, I'm sure most would argue that it ended up being most players' favorite RPG between it and Starfield anyway, but Larian could never have known that at the time.

Baldur's Gate 3 player tragically loses 50-hour Honor Mode save in Act 3 to some rain that Larian added in just to screw with us: "Hate my favorite game so much."

"During my time working on Hytale in 2016-2019, it was maybe to the absolute maximum 2 years away from a 🐭PC release with the legacy engine and viꦅsion," he said in . "I still have videos, screenshots and old client builds to attest to that. All developers from that time that I've talked to say the same."

Collins-Laflamme was from former Hytale principal engineer Kevin Carstens, who implied "feature creep" was at the heart of the game's protracted troubles. "Systems that were already far ahead of Minecraft a⭕t the time were completely re-invented to make them 'even better' resulting fuck all," he said🔯 bluntly.

While he doesn't know "exactly what happened in the past few years," from his time at the helm, Collins-Laဣflamme says "the team back then was locked in and cracked beyond anything," making the kind of rapid progress that✃ you wouldn't expect from a game that was cancelled after years with nothing to show for it publicly.

"The momenꦆtum was insane, we were in a stage where ton gameplay elements were getting introduced every single week and the game was shaping up fast towards release," he says. "There are already dozens of stories like this from former devs coming out in the past few days. and we didn't need to release in a 'perfect state,' in my opinion."

This assessment echoes much of the disappointed Hytale community's response to the game's abrupt cancellation, namely: the studio probably could've released something and iterated on it in an Early Access-like format. Instead, from the dev accounts that have been shared, it sounds like perfect became the enemy of good and ꦫit all came to noth🦄ing after a bloated production.

A , who worked on the game "during its early-development days," seems to detail some of those promising features, including: b🥃locks that could stream video in-game, real-time block painting, submerged blocks "way before Minecraft," and playable "mini-games on a single block."

"Back the🌠n, Hytale ’s ambition kept ballooning; the story mode grew bigger and bolder," Sphax said. "In hindsight, I wonder if 🌟ambition without guardrails eventually sank the project..."

Hammerin🔴g the nail right in, Carstens : "I am certain we could have hit the market with Hypixel style minigames + modding suite but without a story / campaign in 2021 if production and design didn't start to torpedo the potential due to their unrealistic ambitions."

responding to a Hytale fan mourning the game, Collins-Laflamme stressed that "there are no other games like this" and "the amount of content the game had was immense" even during his tenure p♛r♊e-Riot.

"Everyone loses by not getting Hytale, there are no winners. Even those who are capitalizing to promote their games this week in the replies / other soc meds would have greatly learned from what was accomplished. A unique artistic experience that only a handful of people ꦫgot the chance to be a part of.

"I have tried ALL games like Minecraft / Hytale out there, all of them. None gave ♈me the feeling of walking around in Hytale. No one has managed to merge art of all kinds like Hytale did. From art to engineering, coming together to create a beautiful world. Wish there was something that could be done but it’s pretty much too late at this time."

Ex-Hytale dev tells fans who waited 7 years only for the Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG to get canceled they "should be angry at the mismanagement" at Hypixel Studios, not Riot: "The issues were all internal."

As posted by when you return to the DHV Magellan as Sam, you'll emerge on the bridge and see it's completely dark, before Dollman appears and says "happy birthday buddy" and the rest of your൲ crew on the DHV Magellan emerge and wish you a happy birthday too… Including Sam, they're talking to you, th💟e player.

Afterwards Heartman 🎉brings you a lovely cake which gets knocked over by Charlie's robot mannequin body emerg♉ing from the ground, and the party is ruined.

Except it's then 🍎that the game's primary villain, Higgs, emerges on the DHV Magellan, and sings happy birthday to you with the rest of the crew – who are unphased by their number one hater appearing on board their ship. Higg🐻s and Sam then blow out the candles on the pizza Higgs brought, Sam slaps it out his hands, and then wakes up in his bed.

Of course this isn't the first time Hideo Kojima has played around with the player's birthday. In Metal Gear Solid 5 there's where Venom Snake comes back to a deserted mother bas𝓰e, only to find out the crew have thrown a surprise party for him. Kojima must really like surprise parties.

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The lawsuit related to people being charged for in-game items they didn't want, be that through a lack of confirmation before V-Bucks were exchanged for cosme꧅tics or a child using a parent's credit card without their knowledge. Also represented are people who had their accounts locked after challenging purchases they didn't want.

that if you filed your refund claim before February 14,✅ 2025, then your payment is already being processed. Currently, these add up to 969,173 paymen🐻ts and $126 million, but there's more on the table.

Claims made after February 14, 2025 are being reviewed, so there's noth💞ing more for you to do just yet. And if you've not applied at all, 🐼then you can at the . You need to be 18 or older and in the US.

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Bubbers on Twitter had previously managed to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:chain together 770 tricks in the air, thanks to a glitch in Free Roam that lets players use a Mushroom to shoot upwards at the edge of the Mario Circuit track, and then use a Feather to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:somehow defy the laws of gravity. At the🐻 time, Bubbers said they could "absolutely find a way to do tricks infinitely in the air", and they actually have.

In a new post on Twitter, Bubbers shares a video of them chaining front flips together, all while going round and round in circles on one particular spot in the🦂 air. "By hitting this spot, you lose no altitude and can spin in a vortex inside this track in an infinite loop forever," they explain. If you decide to watch, be warned that it can be a bit nauseating ꦦto look at – they've given an "epilepsy warning" themselves. And make sure you've got the sound on for some insightful live commentary from Shy Guy, too.

"I can now rest on this," Bubbers , seem𓂃ingly satisfied they managed to make good on their previous vow. I'm just impressed that someone had the patience to confirm there is a spot in a track where gravity doesn't exist anymore.

It looks like Nintendo hasn't taken aim at the glitch then, as the latest update has "adjusted courses selected" when selecting "Random" during online play to essentially force players into one of Mario Kart World's main (and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:somewhat disliked) features, the intermission laps.

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Alongside a trailer for the mod's 2.0 update, the 🃏team announced that Smash Remix now features lines courtesy of Jeff Manning, who provided his booming voice to the N64 original. He's the one who would shout "Time!" or the name of your chosen fighter or, most notably, "" with enough force to let your neighbours know what was going on next door.

That's really cool, sure, but what's even cooler is the epic, 15-minute trailer that may as well be thought of as a short movie. It begins with Luigi and a herd of Yoshi racing to rescue a kidnapped Mario, shortly before Princess Peach joins the fight, flips the script, and saves her mansel in distress. We then see some quick, sick shots of her moveset in a montage that wouldn't look too out of place in one of Super 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Smash Bros. Ultimateౠ's brilliant trailers, polygonal assets aside. See it below, please.

She and the rest of the cast - alcoholic squirrel Conker and Star Fox's Peppy included - then gather at her castle as Mario and Sonic duke it out on a karting track, which is just there to usher in a second new fighter announcement: Crash Bandicoot. Certainly sounds like a fever dream, but all of that only happens in the first three minutes alone. It's bonkers.

Super Smash Bros. has always been known for internet-breaking trailers, and this fan-made one definitely lives up to series steward Masahiro Sakurai's work. There's so much damn commitment to the bit. Crash introduces new features in a room that's modelled after his game's level select screen, for example, and there's even a whole skit at the end where a cursed Lanky Kong reacts to his own announcement . I legitimat🎀ely can't believe that A) this trailer is real and B) it's as entertaining as it is.

Smash Bros director says "it's fair to assume there will be another one," and he can't imagine anyone else making it

We seem to be getting one of these new big bads each week. The first, Adel, Baron of the Night, was a buffed up version of the absolutely nightmare-inducing Gaping Jaw Nightlord. One sicko managed to beat it to death with his bare hands, but most of us found it pretty tricky.

The new one is Fulghor, Champion of Nightglow – basically the Darkdrift Knight on steroids. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Everyone's reaction was the same: "Oh no." But, after actually playing against hi🔥m, people report he's not that hard at 𒅌all.

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"First try, not even close to as hard as juiced-up Gaping Jaw," writes one fan. That's good going for any FromSoftware boss, let alone one designed to be more diffiꦛcult than the others.

"He’s both easier and cooler than Adel," a player. "I agree with this. I feel as though Fulghor is easier but it's just more fun to do,"🎃 another. "Chasing a boss for 20 minutes to get a few hits in is boring. Feel as though Fulghor could have been har♔der or had flashier moves, but I'm having way more fun repeating runs against him than Adel."

There is a player with a more measured reaction to the new big bad. "This was tough but fair," the🙈y . They claim that lightning attacks do less damage than they did against the base♍ form, and that while the new Fulghor is fast, the fight is more like "a marathon or a war of attrition" than a sprint.

If you use your ultimates to interrupt his AoE attacks and use some poison or bleed effects as well as the lightning damage, you should be able to conquer 🎃it in no time. Let's just hope that FromSoftware doesn't decide to release a hotfix making the fight even harder.

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Now that Death Stranding 2 is out, naturally Kojima Productions is ready to move on to one of the many 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Hideo Kojima games, but there are still some people working on the game as it goes into post-release mode. In fact, Kojima Productions was quick to get changes out, as a brand new update with patch d dropped yes🌟ౠterday. And this monumental patch changes… uhh… something?

Very quickly fans flocked to the to figure ♎out just what the new update did to the game, as Kojima Productions didn't release pꦜatch notes to go along with it. But would you believe it, no one else knows either. The only thing that has been reported is an issue where , but considering it apparently goes back to 4K when you put the system in rest mode and boot it back up, it's safe to assume that was an unintended issue.

During my playthrough of the game I experienced audio issues where music wouldn't start playing during specific moments, so hopefully this patch remedies﷽ that, but without notes we'll not know. Or maybe this is a Kojima ruse, and this update actually does some weird thing like destroy your game disk if you die, install GTA 6 onto your hard drive, or make the room stink like tar when you get pulled into a BT fight. Or perhaps it just made some incredibly minor improvements. Who's to say?

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After the devs said players if they don't want to last week, they quickly U-turned and promised PvE-only areas in the Deep Desert would be coming "soon" just a couple of days ago.

Some PvP changes went live yesterday in a test patch, turning off PvP for nearly half of the Deep Desert, and now a separate hotfix (version 1.1.0.17) is live implementing certain changes in the main branch, fans are delighted at how quickly Funcom has added them. On Reddit, notes their surprise a🌞t how "incredibly fast" Funcom got the update out, while commend the speedy "turnaround time." Another : "I am shocked. Usualꦍly this would take literal months from other certain developers."

The new, large PvE zone in the Deep Desert still has "localized pockets of PvP" according to the , as Control Points a🧜nd Shipwreওcks will remain PvP areas throughout the map.

However, the PvE changes also expand to available loot, as in the PvE🙈 area only loot that is "balanced towards shared loot and PvE activities" can be found, leaving some confused. Plasteel Plates, for example, can only be found in PvP zones. Some feel the the point of the patch, which is seen as a step towards allowing P𓆏vE players to engage in endgame content without having to participate in PvP. asks, "then what's the point of all this?"

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"Death Stra𒅌nding 2 is out now," the Metal Gear Solid auteur wrote in a heartfelt social media , before falling into his usually cryptic ways. "It's raining today – maybe because I regard myself as the 'Rain guy', I guess.

"Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the game. During the pandemic, there were moments when I truly felt like we might never finish this game… To have maꦦde it to this day is overwhelming. Thank you all so much!"

All things considered, Death Stranding 2 had a pretty smooth turnaround. The first game's contemplative cross-country hiking divided everyone in 2019, and then got a🃏 pretty beefy director's cut with extra content. So a five-ish year gap between sequels – all while a global pandemic slowed production down in the middle – actually seems quite prompt by AAA standards.

This isn't the first time Kojima's talked about how the pandemic affected him personally, either. He recently recalled how empty an almost entirely digital existence felt, which was especially apt considering that Death Stranding was all about reconnecting the world via a fictionalized take on the internet. And although the Death Stranding 2 script was done by the time we all went into lockdown, Kojima's resolve to make games "that 🧸don💜't already exist" in the future was only strengthened (even if he sometimes douඣbted whether 🔯he could finish On the Beach at all).

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Nintendo has released a new update for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 launch game, and dropped the patch notes . Among them are fixes to legitimate issues like "an issue where you continually hit the wall near the finish line of Boo Cinema when transfor𒊎med into Bullet Bill," and "an issue where you sometimes can't recover q☂uickly after falling off the course in Dino Dino Jungle."

However, those fixes aren't what 𒅌have the fanbase in an uproar, as Nintendo also added a note that it "adjusted course𓂃s selected in 'Random' when selecting next course in a wireless VS Race."

Previously, you would be given a choice between three tracks that include intermission l🧸aps (although you'd occasionally get a non-intermission choice), and Random, which would then guarantee you a new track where you would skip the intermission and play a typical Mario Kart three-lap race. With this new update, the chances of you gett🐷ing an intermission anyway have been upped.

It was by one player that this update ch🍎anged it so that you would now only get a random option from the three choices available. However, it turns out they just had extremely bad RNG as they saying that you can, in fact, still get three-lap races from selecting Random, it's just that the three intermission tracks are also packed into the fold. It's unclear whether the three pre-selected tracks have a higher priority, otherwise th🦂is player would have had absolutely terrible luck.

It's also unclear why Nintendo has made this change, but given how many online lobbies were packed full of players only selecting random, it probably wants that to stop so that people actually play one of the main features in Mario Kart World – the intermissionsܫ. However, it'd be nice if Nintendo realised this is only happening because they want to play a full three-lap run of courses – as opposed to an extreme𓃲ly short lap of it after a straight road – and offered a solution.

Step aside, Cow: Mario Kart World's new fan-favorite racer is Spike, a goofy guy with a haunting stare and some fantastic speedy stats.

Speaking to Edge, creative director Pierre Tarno said that "the decision to do R🍸ematch happened way before Sifu was released." Sifu, for those not familiar with developer Sloclap's back catalogue, is a kung-fu action game with a unique aging system. It was a commercial success, racking up one million sales in its first month, but it was also an obvious follow-up to its predecessor, Absolver, which was a slightly more open-ended kung-fu game.

In spite of its different subject matter, howeve⛦r, the team knew Rematch would be its next game after Sifu a long time ago. "It was not a question of 'oh, Sifu did very well – what are we doing next,൲" Tarno says. In fact, he explains that a small team was actually working on prototyping Rematch almost a year before Sifu's release.

The game's history stretches back even further tha🌠n that, however. Tarno first pitched Rematch after completing Absolver in 2021. At the time, Sloclap was too small to handle two projects at the same time, so the project that would become Rematch was 🎃pushed back.

Even if Rematch maintains a lot of the physicality that shaped Sloclap's previous games, it's still a dramatic shift in genre. For Tarno, however, that's as it should be – "chasing𒉰 the safe bets is a death sentence," he says. "I think gamers are on the lookout for new, original experiences."

Referencing genre juggernauts like FIFA and Roꦜcket League, he points out that "these games are different giants in all these fields, and they do what they do super well. And so I think we just want to do something different."

Elsewhere, Tarno explains the differences he sees between Rematch and FIFA, suggesting that his competitor is "disconnected" from how it actually feels to play football. Attempting to offer something new, he points out that his game is a little more of a "football player simulator" than FIFA's tactics-driven approach, further outlining his desire to steer c🍸lear of something that had come before.

Forget FIFA, Rematch is the most authentic football game I've ever played – right down to the very worst bits about playing IRL.

Gear⛦box recently showed off one of its Primordial Vaults - dungeons, basically, that host hordes of baddies to shoot, lots of loot to collect, and a massive boss waiting at the end. One of the only vault guardians we've seen so far is an ugly, metallic fella called Inceptus who can stab you with its steely tails before wrapping itself in a cocoon, which is wher⛦e the disagreement stems from.

"You asked for hardღer bosses," the official Borderlands twitter account said, before promising that "nothing goes harder than Inceptus."

That's certainly a bold claim, but it's not even one Randy Pitchford agrees with. Ever the contrarian, th🍒e studio head chimed in to say, "Actually… I can think of some bosses that go harder. Inceptus is pretty hard, though."

As if that wasn't enough, creative director Graeme Timmins also Borderlands 4 "is a little more﷽ intense than previous games," but for anyone who uses the silly sci-fi series to relax and chase bigger numbers until your pupils turn to raisins, don't worry. The fourquel is apparently "still more casual than hardcore" and, of course, you can adjust the difficulty whene🤡ver you like.

Borderlands 4 has "more skills per character than in Borderlands 3 and 2 added together," Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says: "We're working late on Fridays for you"

The game, wh🃏ich is a parody of those old PS1 Harry Potter games you might remember, now has optional missions for players to complete which range from the usual ("collect x amount of biscuits") to the more amusing ("eat 10 rocks without dying"). Completing missions will give players Spy Emblems, which can be used to upgrade Wizard Boy for skills like multiple jumps and the ability to eat any item you can grab. I think this spells disaster and hilarity…

The game now also has a scalable inventory – a feature which developer John Szymanskiꦍ says was "hardജ to get together" in the since objects in the game can be shrunk down, grabbed, or stashed. "We hope you get a lot of use out of this one (and stash a lot of explosives)," he adds.

A new area called the Spy Lair has been added, which is where players all spawn at the🅠 beginning of each day. It also has a machine where Wizard Boy can change his upgrades, but there will be even more "cool stuff down the line" coming to the area. Finally, the update also includes a new HUD and UI changes, 𝐆as well as changes to visual effects on spells, potions, and explosions, plus bug fixes.

This is only "about half" of what Szymanski and his brother Evan have been working on, according to the update notes, as all of the changes "influence how we wanted to do the [upcoming Spider Dungeon]'s design". There might be "another several months" before the Spider Dungeon is finished, but there's certainly enough here for Wizard Boy enthusiasts to🌞 check out.

Secret Agent Wizard Boy, described as a "comedic sandbox with a complet𝓡e lack of safety nets or boundaries", was a hit here at GR+ during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:last year's Steam Next Fest, thanks to an infinite cloning spell that lets you multiply literally any object in the game. The new update is being received just as well with players, with say🎶ing the game left them "in lingering physical pain from the sheer amount of laughter" they had.

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Speaking with GamesRadar+, The Outer Worlds 2 creative director Brandon Adler says that "the first game was the most important reference" behind Obsidian's upcoming RPG sequel. That should come as little surprise – rare is ꦫthe follow-up that pays literally no attention to its predecessor – but there's another major inspiration that Adler also admits is one that fans might be a bit fed up of hearing about.

"We looked at all kinds of things," he says. "I know people are probably tired of me saying this, but Fallout: New Vegas was a big inspiration for us." If you're not up to speed with why people might be tired of hearing that, it's because Obsidian made New Vegas. That history with Fallout meant that when the studio came out with a stylized, anti-capitalist, contained sci-fi RPG, it was relatively easy to draw a line fr꧑om Bethesda's RPG series to Obsidian's burgeoning effort.

In the end, I don't think it was a very go𝓡od comparison, but that's another article. Thankfully, Adler had another reference up his sleeve: "the newer Deus Ex games." The gameplay in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided is some that Adler says he "really loves." It's a timely🐠 reference, given that the iconic immersive sim series is in the midst of its 25th anniversary celebrations, but since its future is still in some degree of doubt, The Outer Worlds 2 might be your best chance to experience Deus Ex for a while.

I have to say, a lot of what Adler is saying is making me increasingly excited for The Outer Worlds 2. There seems to be a real focus on sandboxy multiplayer, and an attempt to make you really dial into your own personal playstyle that🌃 I'm looking forward to despite having not entir🤪ely gotten on with the first game.

How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"

In an interview with GamesRadar+, franchise director Tymon Smektala said that "when we were releasing Dying Light 1, we were this underdog studio that no one expected to do such a kickass game as Dying Light was." While he acknowledges that "you could say it wasn't the most high-budget, most-AAA, high-budg🗹et game," it's hard to suggest that Techland wasn't punching above its weight with its debut game.

Sadly, Smektala admits that it lost some of that magic when it came to Dying Light 2. While he points out that the studio's follow-up "was a commercial success," he admits, "maybe we made some missteps." Some of those mistakes, he suggests, were that "we juꦏst wanted the game to be a little bit too accessible" to a wider audience, and in chasing that, Techland "sacrificed some of the Dying Light DNA."

It's a well-known adage that a game for everyone is a game for no one𒅌, and in its attempt to make Dying Light 2 "the kind of high-budget, AAA game" that Dying Light 1 wasn't, Techland fumbled its more dedicated followers. "Our 🅺fans were telling us 'that's not it, that's not what made you so special,'" he says.

Still, Dying Light 2 was more of a stumble than a fall, and with Dying Light: The Beast, Smektalaꦰ says Techland wants to find a middle ground between its two previous games. "We want to deliver both. We want to deliver the AAA quality, but at the same time, we want to deliver proof that our mojo is not gone, that our mojo is not there, and we know what makes Dying Light, Dying Light. A🌠nd if players say 'wow, this feels like Dying Light 1, and it looks so amazing, it's such a polished game', then I think we'll be very, very happy."

This isn't the first time Smektala has acknowledged the parts of the Dying Light experience Techland has nailed - or flubbed. Elsewhere in the interview, he notes that there are "areas of perfection" in Dying Light that fans would be devastated if The Beast undermined. But he maintains a real sense of confidence in the series, noting that he's surprised he hasn't seen more of Dying Light's ideas reimagined in the rest of the industry. That's📖 the kind of attitude you don't get to have unless you feel you've made some wav🍨es - or that your game is "kickass" enough to have attracted some real attention.

"For us, it really is Dying Light 3": Techland admits Dying Light 2 "lost the horror, lost the tension," but says The Beast is "the best Dying Light that we have ever made"

"Square collapsed after Sakaguchi left," Uematsu said on a recent episode of his Together with NOBIYO podcast, as translated by . Sakaguchi was a guest on that💦 episode, and the two reminisced on their time together at the company. "To put it simply – he is the big boss. Always has been and always will be," Uemats🌱u explained.

Sakaguchi and Uematsu both work👍ed at Square going back to the '80s, and would famously collaborate on 1987's Final Fantasy. "We didn’t even have a proper corporate organization, yet everybody list📖ened to him. It’s a kind of quality you just have to be born with," Uematsu said of Sakaguchi.

"Maybe 💙Sakaguchi isn’t aware of this, but the situation at Square was awful aꦰfter he quit," Uematsu said. "He left and the organization suddenly collapsed. I thought to myself – Oh no, I should get away from here."

Of course, Sakaguchi was something of a figurehead of Square's troubles at the time, since the Final Fantasy film that he helmed ended up being something of a financial disaster - one so substantial that it delayed the already-planned merger with Dragon Quest publisher Enix. Sakaguchi resigned from his p♒ositio🐈n at Square in 2001, though he'd continue to be credited as an executive producer on various Final Fantasy games until 2003.

Uematsu himself left Square - by then properly rebranded as Square Enix - in 2004, working as a freelancer ever since. He's composed a few tunes for his old employer since then, but he's had far more prolific contributions to projects like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Fantasian, all of which were developed by S🐬akaguchi✤'s studio, Mistwalker.

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As spotted, the house of Warcraft recently rolled out Hearthstone's "first interactive pet," the adorable King Krush, which looked like a huge win ♏until the pricing and loot box rates behind this pet were revealed. You can either hit 0.1000% odds or pay up to a maximum of $158, and even fans of a digital card game aren't liking the optics there.

The King Krush ꩵpet is tied to Hearthstone's new Darkmoon Faire Treasures system, which . "First pull is free!" , doing Blizzard no favors with all the drug dealing similes going around.

King Krush, and a suite of other Darkmoon cosmet🅰ics like Diamond and Signature Legendary cards, will be available from July 8 through July 29. "Every time the Faire comes around, there will be a fresh selection of treasures that may include a new Pet, Mythic Hero Skin, and other curious collectibles," Blizzard explains.

There are 10 total rewards in each rotating Darkmoon pool. You are guaranteed to get all 10 if you do 10 pulls, but you only have a few weeks to do those pulls. If this sounds like a classic FOMO time frame designed to incentivize spending and cultivate sunk-cost feelings, no𝓀t unlike League oꦬf Legends' equally unpopular $200 gacha skin, that's because it is, but we're not done.

Your first pull is, indeed, free, but after thatಞ, "the cost increases with each additional pull." Blizzard lays out the odds of hitting each Darkmoon reward, and the escalating costs of each pull, in .

Here are the key points. You have a 0.1000% chance of pulling King Krush at a base, but since the pool is on a knockout system, each non-Krush pull will up the odds slightly. With two things out of the pool, you have 0.3922% odds at the pet, per Blizzard's example. made a handy-dan💟dy Darkmoon simulator, complete with expense 🉐and updating odds trackers, to show how these pulls play out.

You may notice that almost every single simulation will end with getting Krush last. That's because, at🌠 best, with just one other rare thing in the pool, you'll have maybe a 6 - 7% chance of getting the pet.

This is where the cost of each pull comes into play. Assuming you do all 1📖0 pulls, you'll be out $158 worth of the Runestone currency, according to Blizzard's own shop USD conversions. Most of that comes from the final pull, which costs $50, though the ninth pull isn't much cheaper at $▨30, and the eighth is $25 anyway.

"We can't wait for you to explore the enchanted relics and arcane delights of Darkmoon Faire Treasures," Blizzard said. "As with all new featur꧒es, we look forward to hearing your feedback to ensure it feels 𝄹fun and rewarding for collectors."

So far, the feedback has not been peachy-keen. Hearthstone pl🤡ayers were not thrilled with the odds and prices here, , its predatory gacha design, and proposing cheaper an𒉰d more .

"King Krush deserved better than being paywalled for $158," reads the top reply on Blizzard's tweet, from Hearthstone content creator . "This is the first pet ever, why would you not make it more accessible? So disappointing for such an adorable boy."

$475 for one character in a video game: Genshin Impact adds new gacha disclaimers after FTC orders it to make costs and currencies less confusing.

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A full console ban means you can't access any online services from any account on that system. As , that means no eShop or virtual game card access, effectively cutting you off from playing any digital games you've previously purchased, unless they wer😼e installed on your console prior to the ban.

"Contacted support and they're work🌠ing to fix it now," Funaoe24 says, as proof that it✱ happened. "The guy over the phone was laughing at the username."

At least Nintendo customer service has a sense of humor about it, but would you really get banned for a name featuring a very lightly saucy queer culture loanword? There's a load of doubt in the comments about that, with some folks suggesting that Funaoe24 was more likely using a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:de♑vice like a MIG Flash cartridge t🍒o get a ban - a claim that might be backed up by the user's post history in older 3DS and Switch ✃1 modd📖ing subreddits.

"As someone who has been talking for hours to Nintendo support, I can assure you this is not the case and even they're not sure what happened," . "It's been escalated though so I have to wဣait for a Nintendo emp♑loyee to get back to me but the chance I get unbanned I was told was incredibly likely as soon as they get permission to do so."

For me? I absolutely choose to believe the story of the Twink Link ban is true. I want to keep my heart open to joy, and there's far more happiness to be foun✅d in the idea of a Nintendo customer service rep laughing at our twinky hero than in pretty much any alternative.

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Stygian Onslaught is essentially a boss rush mode where you use three teams of four units, with no overlap between them, to fight soupe♐d-up versions of bosses. For the first Stygian rotation, those bosses are the Hydro Tulpa🍎, Lava Dragon Statue, and Secret Source Automaton. The mode doubles as a special, secondary domain for every type of artifact, dishing out extra artifacts at set Resin intervals, so it's definitely worth doing.

There are six tiers of difficulty to the activity, with each ti꧟er increasing the stats of the bosses. Normal, Advancing, Hard, Menacing, and Fearless difficulty follow a pretty standard difficulty curve, with Fearless feeling comparable to, and maybe slightly harder than, the hardest floors of the Spiral Abyss.

It's the sixth tier, Dire, which is accessed after beating Fearless and unlocking the "Perilous Challenge" option, that's knocked players flat. Dire massively increases boss HP, almost exponentially so, making it considerably more difficult to kill them within the 120-second timer, to say nothing of the 180-second total timer for the true pinnacle challenge.

Having played since launch, I have a pretty well-invested Genshin Impact account, and I'm still struggling to clear this thing on Dire. Thanks to five years of semi-regular battle passes and Welkin passes, I have almost every ch𓆉aracter, about two dozen five-star weapons, and a couple of Constellations on some five-star characters, all with good artifact builds (minus Skirk, who I'm still building after her recent debut). 𓆏I breezed right through Fearless, but Dire presents a much steeper DPS check. It isn't completely out of my reach, but assuming it is doable, it will take some legitimate practice and optimization.

Loads of other players have had a similar experience. Even a Fearless clear is proving difficult for some players – in part bec🍒ause these bosses demand specific elemental counters, so if you don't have strong characters of those elements you're basically out of luck. It also doesn't help that you start Stygian Onslaught encounters with zero energy for characters' Elemental Bursts, adding a warm-up stage to fights and favoring energy-agnostic characters like Mavuika and Skirk.

In the Genshin Im♓pact Twitch category, I've been watchin🍨g streamer and reputable theorycrafter struggle and ultimately fail to get a single Dire boss kill even with good long-term account investment.

"My goodness, the spike from fearless to dire is astronomically huge lmao," one pღlayer says in a . "Truly whale certificate𒐪."

There is hope, though. that you can just barely clear Dire mode without wildly egregious spending – all you need are perfect meta teams with top DPS characters, signature five-star weapons, max Constellations on four-star sꦐupports, and – screw it – a full team of five-stars to counter the Secret Source Automaton.

I'm sure that sounds egregious to some players – and those players absolutely have a point – but compared to the Dire clea😼r I saw , who has spent upwards of $100,000 maxing out every character and weapon, that's not unreasonable. Regular oil baron a blazing fast Dire clear featuring teams worth more than my car.

At the same time, I've seen plenty of players say they're struggling even with teams worth more than my car, which goes to show how technically demanding this mode can be. And even then, it's recent character🀅s, especially those boosted by the restrictions of the mode, that clear more easily.

The good news is that you only need to beat Fearless to obtain all the main rewards from Stygian Onslaught. Heck, you can get all 450 Primogems just by beating Hard, and with help from matchmaking, other players can give you a boost. Beating Menacing at all and beating Fearless ♔in single-player just nets you two Dust of Enlightenment used for Genshin's new artifact reroll system, which is nice.

Clearing Dire unlocks limi🎃ted-time weapon cosmetics, while beating the challenge within 180 seconds adds a special shiny effect to them. Each Stygian Onslaught lasts for a whole six-week patch, so you can enjoy these cosmetics until 5.8 before you have to unlock them again by cleari💯ng the next rotation.

"📖Yeah, nah, I've been playing for🐭 5 years without weapon skins," one fatigued player put it. "I'll be find without them now. I'm beat."

Stygian Onslaught gives hardcore players and spendthrift whales a place to measure their characters, the highest tiers are only gatekeeping limited-time cosmetics, and it dishes out a few extra artifacts every patch. Personally, I'm reasonably pleased with it so ﷽far; it's meaningfully different to Spiral Abyss, and it's an actual coherent challenge unlike the garbage plate that is Imaginarium Theater, Genshin's previous stab at permanent combat content. It's not amazing, but it is something new to do that actually has bite.

"You will never lose another '50/50'": Open-world RPG Neverness to Everness takes a sledgehammer to Genshin Impact standards, promising guaranteed characters with better rates and no weapon banner.

As explained in a new video from speedrunner Linkus7, Wind Waker has a glitch that lets you reach out-of-bounds portions of the g𒁃ame's dungeons. The out-of-bounds areas don't actually load any collision data, so you'll just fall endlessly - unless you land on a chest,ꦬ which for some reason does remain loaded as a solid, but invisible object.

This glitch is present in the original game and has been known about for years, but there's never been any real way to make use of it, because there's no way to force the res🌳t of the level to load in after you've landed on the chest. Playing the Song of Passing, which changes the🅷 time of day, should be able to force the stage to load, but instead, it simply crashes the game.

But on Switch 2, the devs have simply disabled that crash. You can now do the out-of-bounds glitch, land on the chest, play the✨ Song of Passing, and continue playing the level as normal. This is specifically helpful in the Earth Temple, which Linkus7 estimates can now be completed in about two minutes.

The other change is even more basic: it's the GameCube emulator's built-in controller remapping. Wind Waker spe🙈edrunning relies on a trick where you rapidly swim back and forth. Do it fast enough, and Link starts building up absurd levels of negative speed - so much that you can launch yourself away from the starting island without the aid o🙈f a boat.

But this trick is no joke, requiring you to "basically pause buffer the game, frame-perfectly, for about three [or] f♏our minutes," Linkus7 explains. There's another way to do the trick, though: simply "flick the analog stick 20 times per second." That, of course,✃ is "ridiculously hard and only a few people in the whole world can do it."

With the official GameCube emulator's built-in conꦑtroller remapping options, however, you can simply map one of the analog stick directions to a button, hold a direction, and rapidly tap the button to shimmy back and forth and easily build🧸 up that negative speed.

Linkus7 says this trick is now something "even you could do at home, trust me." And I can pretty much confirm that - it's still not easy to do if you're unpractised, but I did manage to knock out one brief super swim iꦓn just a few minutes of trying.꧒ For proper speedrunners, who can now perform the trick throughout the game, with trivial ease? It's a complete game-changer.

For now, the Wind Waker speedrunning community is split🌠ting runs into GameCube and Switch 2 categories in an effort to encourage players to compete on the new console, build new routes, and enjoy essentially free world records. Once the exact details of the Switch 2 routes of have been worked out, the ไcategories may be reintegrated.

The Switch 2 version of Wind Waker still isn't a perfect place to speedrun, as it's missing support for the GBA link through the Tingle Tuner, which was key to the old GameCube routes, and the fairly substan🧜tial input lag in Nintendo's GameCube emulator is likely to throw ಞoff some runners. But even with those caveats in mind, it looks like we're about to enter a whole new era of Wind Waker speedrunning.

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Speaking at Square Enix's latest shareholder meeting, Kiryu is asked if he's wise to fan sentiment that Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion has marked a decline in quality that has seen players part with the M𝔍MO.

While Square Enix typically posts the full transcript of these meetings in the weeks fꦚollowing, those in attendance are already . As per Google Translate and DeepL, one such highlight is Kiryu reportedly sharing that Square Enix is indeed aware of everyone's frustrations, before adding that Dawntrail marks the start of a new saga for the MMO, and that the team is committed to ensuring everyone can enjoy the game beyond its next big expansion.

Additionally, Kiryu says he's also aware of concerns that Yoshida is juggling too many p💦rojects to focus on Final Fantasy 14. While the past years have seen Creative Studio 3 also contribute to Final Fantasy 16, Fantasian Neo Dimension, and upcoming releases like Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles, K🌳iryu says the work that Yoshida is doing in his other roles will end up benefiting Final Fantasy 14 in the end.

Kiryu's comments follow 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Yoshida's recent remarks during a livestream that "quality of service has declined recently," with the need for additional hotfixes to flatten bugs inc🅺reasing. Yoshida also dedicated a part of that stream to sharing what the Final Fantasy 14 team was doing to remedy frustrations with Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration, including a pesky raid that's only been cleared 400 times in 23 days.

Taking a step back, it's all part of a bigger picture. Final Fantasy 14's 🍸Dawntrail expansion didn't dazzle everyone at launch as complain𓄧ts over story and clas🌼s design grew louder.

The combat design seen in raids and dungeons has been a bright spot and the story has improved, although the roadmap is testing plenty within the community. Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration had been warmly anticipated as the sort of midcore content🤡 everyone had been desperate for, bu🌄t it ended up coming around a year after Dawntrail released.

While Square Enix hasn't off🌠ered official numbers on🦂 how Final Fantasy 14's player base is doing, an with sway within the community confirmed what many had thought – not great.

It's worth noting that Final Fantasy 14's 7.2 pa🌳tch initially landed well with players before issues with Occult Crescent and Cos✨🥀mic Exploration sank things somewhat, but it's clea🎐r there's work to be done to steady the good ship Final Fantasy 14 again – and it would appear fewer know that more than Square E▨nix.

Asked for another turn-based Final Fantasy in the wake of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success, Square Enix says turn-based RPGs are its origin and its future.

Our daredevil, Bubbers, posted a video to Twitter showing them using a Mushroom to boost Shy Guy up the edge of a track and then using a Feather🐠 to somehow cut gravity and let them glide about up in the air for a ridiculously long time.

They use their newfound weightlessness to chain several hundred front flips, all while Shy Guy utters its nonsensical noises. Their flight𓆉 only ends when the game decides it's had enough and shoots them back to the🎐 track.

"New World 🐠Rec🙈ord: 770 tricks in the air," Bubbers tweets triumphantly. "I can absolutely find a way to do tricks infinitely in the air. Mark my words," they add.

The glitch that makes this possible has been around for at least three days. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:We first spotted it on Reddit, with one player proclaiming, "I think I broke the game." It can be executed i✱n different parts of the map and with different characters, but the Mushroom and F😼eather seem necessary. Try it out for yourself before Nintendo likely patches it.

Not everyone is as impressed as me, thouꩵgh. "Doesn't really count since it's a bug. Eh nice try bucko," replies one player. Bubbers responded with of their racer managing 73 air tricks in a row by bouncing off of clouds and walls. Still nice.

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🧔, Bellamy says "our MTX approach is harming RuneScape, and it's time that we took action." Committing to many more years ahead for the now 25-year-old MMO, Bellamy stresses "this isn't a fluffy thing to saജy" but rather a pledge that "the era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is coming to an end."

"When our work is do♛ne, we want every single player to feel the same ownership that we fostered so well in our approach to Old School," Bellamy adds, tipping his hat to the not MTX-free, but generally MTX-agnostic sister MMO Old School RuneScape. You can notably buy OSRS membership Bonds for real money and then sell them for in-game gold, but this also lets players pay their way with gold and the exchange rate is nothing wild, so this hasn't been a real problem for the game.

"If we want to go from where we are today, where, bluntly, our population 🐈isn't really growing, to decades of a booming community, then it's time we take some big swings, even when they aren't easy or simple," Bellamy says.

According to its 2024 microtransaction survey data, Jagex says 42% of current RuneScape players feel microtransactions hurt their ꧑experien🎐ce, 86% of buyers are unhappy with the MTX casino that is Treasure Hunter, 60% of ex-players say MTX hurt their experience, and 63% of ex-players would be more likely to return if MTX problems, especially buyable levels, were addressed.

How do you undo 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:years of microtransaction poisoning? In thi♊s video and , Jagex lays out a few initial measures to combat the MTX plague.

"Thi♔s will be difficult, and it will take time," Jagex writes. "There's a lot involved in getting this right and doing it responsibly while making sure we sustain the game."

Beginning in July, and continuing for "tꦑhe next three months," Jagex will trial "Experiments" targeting pain points with microtransactions. These Exp👍eriments will last a couple of weeks apiece, with Jagex collecting player feedback and data around each test.

First, Treasure Hunter, where players can spend daily or buyable keys on various rewards including rare items and skill experience, will be disabled entirely. Instea🔴d, Jagex will be "offering bundles of Stars and Kn♑owledge Bombs for direct purchase (capped at one bundle per day)."

Next, microt﷽ransaction-based skilling items will be disabled, including Proteans, Dummies, and Lamps that dish out levels. This will overlap with the game's autumn double XP event, ensuring players actual♔ly have to play the game to earn XP.

Thirdly, "past cosme🐲tic overrides" will be available "for direct purchase all at once," includin𓆏g some previously tied to the RNG wheel of Treasure Hunter.

Lastly, Jagex says ꦑit's looking at cosmetic-free worlds which would put everyone's fashion on an even playing field and tighten the game's visual identity. "Whi﷽le we don't have an exact launch window for this yet, we expect to release no later than August and run them until the end of our Experiment window," Jagex says.

Jagex very clearly isn't removing all of thes🌜e microtransactions entirely – presumably, as the developer says, because "it's no secret that MTX in RuneScape currently represents a major part of how we fund the game" – but instead seemingly reducing their impact on game integrity by making them less invasive, random, or expe🐻nsive.

"We will use this opportunity to approach MTX in a way👍 that is healthier for the game," the studio says. For g🌳ood measure, it adds: "We will not use this opportunity to be more aggressive in offering XP benefits outside the core game loop."

Associate design director Mod Ryan says the team "must add꧂ress the unhealthy relationship of microtransactions within our game design."

The initial response from RuneScape 3 players, judging from the comments and ratings on YouTube and Reddit, is a pretty positive one. Of course, if you'd been walking through a desert for years subsisting only ꦺon the tears of rattlesnakes, I'd imagine you would perk up at the promise of a bottle of water.

Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets, so the months ahead will likely 💦determine if these microtransaction changes are enough to convince RuneScape players that the game is improving. But as a p𓃲lan, this is certainly miles ahead of where RuneScape has been for years.

Responding to one player saying "I'll believe it when I see it" on Reddit, : "Thank you for this comment. It's totally warranted based on our past and it's not something overly negative. We've made that bed base🅘d on our history. We're happy to earn trust through action,♍ not blindly expect it. I hope you are pleasantly surprised later this year. Looking forward to hearing from you then!"

And if you're concerned, Jagex says "everything you've heard about today has zero impact on our content development or Roadmaps. Absolutely zero. The team that currently works on microtransactions are the team working through this project and every Experiment. No developers or resources have been moved to this project from existin🅷g content and it will 𒆙stay that way. The Roadmap is protected and remains our top priority, always."

"Cowardly and disgusting": RuneScape veteran joins players laying into Jagex CEO for cancelling Pride events over reported fear of backlash, which has created backlash.

While we are all waiting for the rumored 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halo: Combat Evolved remake (that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:could be arriving on PS5) launched back in May. If the name didn't give it away, it's a Halo fan game that brings the franchise into the Vampire Survivors formula, complete with characters, weapons and enemie෴s from the beloved Microsoft series.

Of course, with🌌 fan games it can go one of two ways, the classic route of the game being taken down (see: AM2R, ), or in other cases a company like Sega will embrace the fan community, even c𓆉ollaborating with them, as we saw with Sonic Mania.

Well don't worry about Spartan Survivors being taken away anytime soon, as the devs that the game has the seal of approval from Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries). "Really love to see the passion you and your team have poured into this experience" a Halo Studios rep told the Spartan Survivors team, adding, "it really is 🥂fun and we look forward to getting further in our play through and unlocking more stuff."

The team revealed that Halo Studios "requested us to add a minor update to the legal disclaimer in the game's credits and the store pages," but outside ♏of that they are free to go wild. While the game is available free on Itch.io at the moment, the that it's coming to Steam in July, mobile and Xbox "later this summer," and also of the game, fulfilling the prophecy!

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"One big part of our Expanse experience is [conveying] that space is a veryඣ dangerous and unwelcoming place to be," Alexander M🤡ishulin tells .

There's a lot that can kill you in the s🔴how and books; a g-force-induced stroke while engaged in a space battle; the alien Protomolecule; running out of oxygen; other people; and a whole host of mishaps that could befall you.

Part of the game I'm most excited for is being a Belter. You can choose an origin between the exploited asteroid dwellers, the stuck-up Earthers, or the technologically-advanced and ideological Mars born. Apparently, your origin will affect how others react to you, but you'll also get a chance to choose which side of the political 🦄web y🦩ou want to be on, so you could betray your people. I'd never betray the Belt, though.

Just like Mass Effect, you'll get to take two companions with you on each mission to assist. The trailer shows this off really well, with one piloting a combat drone and another wielding a ballistic shield, shoulder-mounted weapon, and some sort of jetpack that turns the shield into a battering ram. Thཧey're also clearly from different parts of the solar system, showing your crew won't all be denizens of the same planet.

"I'm not saying we are taking something from, say, Persona 5, but the approach, the idea that characters are front and center of the story and how they evolve all through the story up until the end is a little bit similar," Mishulin says. The Mass Effect 5 director has already given it his seal of approval.

The crewmates you don't take by your side🦩 won't just chill on your customizable ship, though. They'll help out and complete other mission objectives, maybe even going in as secondary support teams, Mishulin says.

As well as the character-driven story, the way you build and play your character is inspir𝄹ed by Soulslikes. "The RPG system is very open, allowing you to build whatever character you like," Mishulin explains. "It's part of our vision of the game to al♏low you to experiment and find things you like."

The aim is to make you consider which weaponജs work with your build and abilities so that you'll figure out what works best for how you've designed your character. The choices you make will also be impactful. The game is set after the first season of the TV show and the first book.

"You will be seeing with your own eyes the repercussions✱ of Holden's actions, all the situations like The Canterbury, and how it affects people in the belt, people in the inner planets," Mishulin says. "You will be having your own adventure with your own goals, choices, consequences in the same universe [with] all the major events unfolding in this universe alongside your story."

Now, there's a whole solar system with lots of ac💧tion in it, but I am concerned with just how impactful our choices will really feel given the game will assumedly have to eventually go in the same direction as the show and books. We'll 𝔉have to wait for a future trailer or demo to find out more.

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Wildcard built a "pretty cool vertical slice" of Ark 2 prior to the launch of Survival Ascended, as studio co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz tells , "but we felt that as a team, it would be very difficult to follow that all the w♒ay through to a complete game with both our experience level and [our scope] as a company."

Stieglitz says that the team "put the vertical slice on hold a couple of years ago to make ASA, and we've been only nibbling at it s🌺ince then." A "small portion" of the team is continuing to work on Ark 2's combat, as Stieglitz says "it's very difficult to do Soulslike combat in a multiplayer PvP context."

The last concrete word we had on 澳洲幸运5开奖💎号码历史查询:Ark 2 was that it'd launch in late 2024, but that news came in 2023 - presumably right around the time the project had essentially been put on hold. But, as Stieglitz explains, the studio is now🍸 trying to find the right time to shift resources from Survival Ascended onto Ark 2.

It'd take "18 months of hardcore team focus to [turn] that vertical slice i𝔍nto an early access game, when we get to put the vast majority of our team back on it," Stieglitz says, noting that an early access version of Ark 2 could launch "hopefully within the next two years."

For now, it seems Studio Wildcard is at least intent on continuing to build the story of Ark 2, since the upcoming Lost Colony expansion is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:set to bridge the gap in🔯to the sequel's plot. How long it'll be before we actually ge🦄t to play that sequel is a whole 'nꦯother question.

Ark remains one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival games out there.

PvE now covers map rows A, B, C, D and half of E, developer Funcom reveal🥃ed in an , hopefully easing the worries some players have of running into griefers in the area.

It's been a quick turnaround for Funcom, after the devs said players if they don't want last week, then backtracking and saying that PvE-only areas in the Deep Desert would be coming "soon" just a couple of days ago.

The expanded PvE area is not the only change Funcom is making to Dune: Awakening in the test patch. As well as bug fixes,🤪 sandworms will now "linger for a bit around spicefields that have been recently harvested from" and players 🅺will be able to claim land in any sietch, the developer says.

If you want to help test out the ne💜w changes, the Public Test Client will be open "for a week or two" until the dev is ready to roll out patch 1.1.10.0 to the main game. Character progression will save in the Public Test Client too, so if you want to help test future patches you won't have to start over again and can continue from w🍃here you were with the character you made in this test.

Players have criticized Dune: Awakening for an endgame that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"unfairly favors large guilds" over solo players and smaller groups, but that hasn't stopped 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:one million players from taking to Arrakis in two weeks.

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As , 14 people from the Nintendo-owned motion capture and animation company Nintendo Pictur💝es feature in Death Stranding 2's credits – truly a sight to behold in a game published by PlayStation's Sony Interactive Enterta꧃inment.

Although sta🍬tes (in a machine-tra🔜nslated message) that its goal is to help customers "know about Nintendo characters," it's clearly not limited to just contributing to Nintendo franchises – Sam Porter Bridges has never been seen hanging out with Mario, after all. Nintendo actually acquired the company back in 2022 – it was previously known as Dynamo Pictures, and contributed to Persona 5, Monster Hunter World, and many more before then.

Since the acquisition and name change, this is the first game not published by Nintendo that the company has worked on, which makes for a unique situation. As VGC points out, there's a chance that the company c𓆉ould have been working on Death Stranding 2 as Dynamo Pictures before the acquisition – it worked on the original game under its old name, after all. We'll just have to wait and see if the company appears in any more non-Nintendo game credits going forward.

One thing is for sure, though – this certainly doesn't mean that we have a Switch 2 ve🍌rsion of Death Stranding 2 inbound, although it'd definitely be impressive to see the game run on Nintendo's new console.

Regardless, Nintendo Pictures has contributed to something great. Death Stranding 2 is one of the best-rated games of the year so far, although fans have been joking about how director Hideo Kojima must be feeling about that given his previous worries about the game being too likeable.

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One of the Hitman Worl🧸d of Assassination trilogy's biggest standouts was its elusive targets, which are time-sensitive missions that have you attempt to assassinate a specific target in a one-and-done mission where failure means it's gone forever (well, it did, until IO started doing reruns and introduced Elusive Target Arcade).

Speaking to (via ), IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak says: "We obviously have tons of experience now from ✃World of Assassination, and tons of experience on how to extend a single-player experience by giving desirable free ♌content to players."

😼While he says that "the first objective with 007 First Light is to come out with the best possible, most impactful journey for gamers," he adds that once that's all sorted, "you could expe🅰ct that we'll be applying some of our learnings from World of Assassination to Bond."

Obviousl♉y, James Bond is a bit more fantastical than Agent 47 – who is extremely methodical even when dressed as a giant flamingo. Abrak acknowledged this will play into the future of 007 First Light, saying, "That gives us more challenges to play with… besides the 🐓things that we are able to do in Hitman, we can do more actiony things and more kinetic challenges in Bond."

Granted we haven't seen any live gameplay from 007 First Light yet, but from the gameplay snippets seen during the announcement trailer, it certainly looks like a far more action-packed game than Hitman.

We spoke with IO's 007 franchise director Jonathan Lacaille during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025, who said "We are leaning a lot on what IOI does best."

Speaking to , Béart discusses the expanded ending Karlach received in a post-launch update to Baldur's Gate 3. "I don't think🧸 we expected people to rush to the end as quickly 🦄as they did and put everything up on YouTube," they say.

At the time, Larian 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:addressed criticism of Karlach's ending, stating it trimmed the epilogue "because we were afraid the ending cinematics were becoming too long." The developer also hinted it was "incorporating feedback" into orig👍in characters' epi🌱logues, but Béart ruled out the idea that the story content added for the fiery tiefling in Patch 2 was a result of player feedback, as they alsꦐo reveal they were asked to work on the additional ending for the game "pretty much as soon as it was out." They add: "It was very much planned," clarifying that "fans had no influence" on them returning for it.

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Mario Kart World player discovers you can defy the laws of gravity in Free Roam with a bug that allows you to float across the map: "I think I broke the game."

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That comes from Square Enix's latest shareholders' meeting, which saw president Takashi Kiryu and company tackle a few burning questions. As per tradition, an English transcript should be available 🤪through the investor portal in due time, though those covering the meeting in person are some of the highlights (thanks, ).

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