GamersHeroes Monday, September 1, 2025 4:38 PM Featuring an open world and fast-paced, destructible car combat, the Kickstarter launch for Mad Mechs' Mad Metal is ringing in Labor Day with style. The post Open World Car Combat Title Mad Metal Kickstarter Live appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, September 1, 2025 1:25 PM The team at EA SPORTS recently did a deep dive around the big changes coming to NHL 26's Hockey Ultimate Team (HUT). The post NHL 26 Hockey Ultimate Team Deep Dive Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Monday, September 1, 2025 3:55 PM
I went hands-on with the Square Enix RPG and it doesn't disappoint in handheld mode The post The Beginning Of <i>Final Fantasy VII: Remake</i> Wowed Me All Over Again On Switch 2 appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Monday, September 1, 2025 3:51 PM
AirTags don't get much buzz, but they're one of Apple's coolest products. The post This 4-Pack of AirTags Is Selling for Pennies, Amazon Just Wants Them Off the Shelves appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Monday, September 1, 2025 3:02 PM
This excellent HP laptop is down to just a fifth of its original price. The post This 1TB HP Laptop Is Now $499 Instead of $2499, Amazon Just Cut $2000 Off the Price appeared first on Kotaku. |
PCGamesN Monday, September 1, 2025 12:59 PM The Lego games all have a special place in my heart. There's something so relaxing about jumping into a brick-based adventure in a familiar setting. This goes doubly for Lego The Lord of the Rings, which combines my favorite book with the comedy action of a Lego caper. However, I haven't played the game in years. It's one that I've been meaning to go back to, but never get the chance. I downloaded it on my Steam Deck when I got that, but the game simply wouldn't run. That's just changed, though, as the game's latest update has made it Deck Verified. |
PCGamesN Monday, September 1, 2025 12:31 PM Fancy grabbing yourself a top-spec Razer gaming mouse at a fantastic price? The Razer DeathAdder V3 is now on sale for half its original price, bringing it down to just $34.99, which is its lowest ever price on Amazon so far. This Razer clicker is one of our favorites, gaining a recommendation on our best gaming mouse guide as the best ergonomic wired option for gamers. It's just one in a long line of DeathAdder mice that we've tested, and we're a fan of its larger, ergonomic shape for casual, comfortable gaming. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Razer Blade 16 2025 review, Razer DeathAdder V3 review , Best gaming mouse |
PCGamesN Monday, September 1, 2025 12:31 PM One unlucky gamer has reported that their ASRock motherboard has fried not one, but two AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPUs. According to the report, despite already claiming a replacement CPU from AMD for the first burned-out 9800X3D, the gamer has now seen a second one fail using the same ASRock board. Worryingly, it looks like this gamer was also running the recent ASRock motherboard BIOS update that the company believed fixed this issue. The 9800X3D is our favorite choice for gamers right now, topping our best gaming CPU list, but if you're using it with an ASRock motherboard, you'll want to make sure it's up-to-date with the latest BIOS updates first. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 1, 2025 12:23 PM  NetEase have shut down T-Minus Zero Entertainment, a studio founded in 2023 by former BioWare developer and Star Wars: The Old Republic executive producer Rich Vogel. The studio had been working on an online multiplayer sci-fi action game, with contributions from a number of ex-BioWare and Bethesda staff including Fallout 76 design lead Mark Tucker and senior producer Scott Malone. However, that project and T-Minus Zero Entertainment's on-going existence are not a good fit for "current market conditions". |
Siliconera Monday, September 1, 2025 3:00 PM
Blaze Entertainment's Evercade platform continues to roll, defying the odds and sustaining release support for years. What do the two new Evercade cartridges, Roguecraft DX and NeoGeo Arcade 1, offer? Let's break it down for you!
Roguecraft DX
A recently-developed Amiga indie, Roguecraft is an isometric roguelike that sees you encountering and navigating the one-screen rooms of labyrinth-like dungeons. The edition included here is the "DX" version, which adds a few levels and some leaderboards and achievements. You can see through the manual, as well as the game itself, that the small dev team really loved making this game. It brings a lot of nostalgic elements of the Amiga scene into a game that's decidedly inspired by modern roguelikes.
The controls are simple. You point the D-pad into an enemy to attack, and use the A button to access the inventory row. This is nice! There might have been just a bit of work to make this control well on the Evercade, and we appreciate it after working through the platform's other computer collections. (We appreciate Blaze's continued dedication to companies and platforms that are almost exclusively popular in the UK! But many of us didn't grow up with them, so adding a bit of accessibility is beneficial.)
It's also turn-based and thinky, which is something a handheld does extremely well and something we've brought up before as a weakness of the platform's library. You can choose from three characters: the simple Warrior, the slightly weaker Rogue with a teleport ability, and a paper-thin Wizard with a ranged missile attack. The Warrior is great for learning the game's enemies and quirks, and the other two are best suited as challenge runs once you've gotten a handle on things.
NeoGeo Arcade 1
We've talked before about the platform's new deal to bring SNK games to new Evercade cartridges and hardware. We're big fans of the MVS, so it's nice to see! Even if the games themselves are available in a ton of places at this point. (And also we wish someone else owned SNK.) This first arcade collection goes for quality over quantity, licensing a few high-profile games.
For most players, The King of Fighters 2000 is probably the headliner. Sort of a culmination of the original iteration of SNK's work, it was the last KoF before its bankruptcy. There are endless debates from fans about which entry is best, but we think 2000 is a good choice for its balance of depth and classic feel. One note, though: since it is pushing the MVS hardware to its limits when possible, it uses a flashing semi-transparency effect that doesn't quite work on a modern screen with a high refresh rate. The included manual features pages of special move listings for characters! This is both nostalgic and a nice touch.
We may have enjoyed Metal Slug and Shock Troopers more. These two run-and-gun games are different in perspective, but offer a similar appeal. They're also… not the best in their series? They're fine, but in choosing the first games as the representatives of the whole, you do miss some of the later upgrades. For example, Metal Slug has the franchise's trademark lush animation and ever-lovable rocket lowncher, but it's lacking in mechanical depth and doesn't have the optimization later entries got to help with frame rate dips.
Also included: action-platformer Magician Lord, beat-'em-up Sengoku and scrolling shooter Ironclad. The last two are slightly deeper cuts, and worth your time if you've never checked them out. As an early release, Sengoku can be a bit clunky, but it has some ideas. Ironclad doesn't have that problem, with dual-layer fighting and a look that really holds up.
These two new Evercade cartridges, Roguecraft DX and NeoGeo Arcade 1, are available now. For more information and impressions about the system and its games, check out our Evercade archive.
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Destructoid Monday, September 1, 2025 3:25 PM
The S-rated Corvette ship in No Man's Sky is the best spaceship you can get in the Voyagers update, but acquiring it won't be easy.
For starters, you can't just go into a space station to purchase an entire Corvette, let alone an S-tier. Unlike standard spaceships, you must craft a Corvette at Space Stations using the available workshops.
Let's look at how you can obtain an S-rated Corvette in No Man's Sky.
How to get an S-rated Corvette in No Man's Sky?
I am unsure whether you can craft an S-rated Corvette spaceship right away. The easiest method, and something I used, is to get a basic C-tier Corvette. It still has plenty of space, and you can get even more by enlarging it with more modules.
Once you've built your Corvette, you can upgrade it directly from the Space Station. It works in the same way as your non-Corvette spaceship, which is applicable for upgrades. However, you'll need to spend many more Nanites to complete the upgrades.
You have different modules to craft your Corvette. I have built three of them, which can sometimes affect your ship quality. However, using Nanites is the easiest way to upgrade your Corvette to S-tier. You'll need plenty, so keep that in mind.
We have a detailed guide if you want to craft your first Corvette. This process is available to you once you find the Anomaly. Beginners will be able to access the workshop from Expedition 19, which should go live soon.
If you already have access to the workshop, you'll need modules to craft your Corvette. You can purchase the modules directly from the workshop in exchange for Units. You can also exchange the lower-rarity modules to get better ones. Additionally, there are multiple ways to obtain modules without spending money on your units.
Once done, upgrade the ship from the Starship upgrade portal in the space station until you reach S-tier. Make sure to claim your Corvette first so that it can be upgraded.
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Destructoid Monday, September 1, 2025 2:02 PM
The EFIGS Leagues Completionist objective is a sweet way to secure extra endgame cards and rewards in EA FC 25 Ultimate Team as we wait for the new title.
The objective requires you to play and fulfill certain conditions daily to secure all the rewards. Let's quickly look at what's on offer, and we will keep updating this guide as more cups unlock in the upcoming days.
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Complete list of EA FC 25 EFIGS Leagues Completionist objective rewards
There are five different sets of rewards to unlock as part of this objective. Doing so will get you packs, evolutions, and two FUTTIES items.
Completing the full objective set gets you the FUTTIES items of Edin Dzeko and Jarell Quansah. Both are 98-rated items with endgame stats that you can obtain for free.
All EA FC 25 EFIGS League 2 rewards
The EFIGS League 2 has three tasks to complete.
Completing all three tasks will earn you the 98-rated Justin Kluivert FUTTIES item for free.
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Destructoid Monday, September 1, 2025 12:58 PM
Auto-trade is live in Path of Exile 2, which is part of the third major update of the game's early access, and it allows you to mediate the purchase and sale of different items.
The latest addition, already announced in advance, is perfect for those approaching the endgame (of what's available in the current build). It saves you from micromanaging your purchases and sales, but you'll have to clear a fair bit of early-game content to use the system.
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How to enable Auto-trade in Path of Exile 2?
You must appoint Ange as a Merchant NPC to enable this unique system. You'll have to complete the Hostile Takeover quest to do that task. Completing this quest allows you to get Ange as the Merchant NPC, who then acts as your mediator for establishing and completing all automatic trades.
How to use Auto-trade in Path of Exile 2?
Before the update arrived, we had to trade using the Premium tabs. The Premium tabs have now been converted to Merchant tabs (if you owned them before the update and acquired them via microtransactions). You can also purchase more Merchant tabs from the shop via microtransactions.
First, select an item or items that you want to sell. Go to Ange, which will allow you to trade items or exchange currency. Choose the items you wish to trade, and then place the goods in her inventory. Next, set the price you expect to receive from your items, and Ange will automatically list them on the servers.
Now wait for the sale to complete, and you'll get a notification when it does. Return to Ange, and you'll get your currency from her. You'll need at least one Merchant tab to use the system (this includes any Premium tabs that have been converted).
Purchasing the items remains similar, as you scout them on the website. Instead of Whisper, you'll get a Secure Item option. Click on it, and you'll be taken to the seller's hideout. Pay the correct amount, and complete the trade to add the item to your tab.
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Destructoid Monday, September 1, 2025 12:38 PM
I have reason to believe Silksong's launch will be close to the top five of all time in Steam peak players. I'm not saying this just because of sheer wishlist estimates, but because of past releases of the same scale that fell between the one and two million concurrents range.
You could argue that the most obvious way to estimate Silksong player numbers on launch day, Sept. 4, is to look at wishlist numbers. However, Steam doesn't reveal wishlist counts, just followers. You could trust third-party websites that estimate Silksong is close to 5 million wishlists, but even if that's close to reality, it doesn't mean everyone who's wishlisted the game will buy and play it as soon as possible. That's why I believe it's easier to look at other games that were just as hyped as Silksong and how they performed after release. All numbers in this story are based on SteamDB's peak charts.
Looking at followers alone, we could argue Silksong's peak will be between 700,000 and 1 million players. That's the all-time high of other highly anticipated single-player titles with similar followers, like Cyberpunk 2077 (1 million), Elden Ring (953,000), and Baldur's Gate 3 (875,000).
However, Silksong will cost $19.99, significantly less than the price range of all these other games, which range between $39.99 and $59.99. So, I believe Silksong has better potential to convert wishlists into early purchases because of price alone. If that happens, I'm sure Silksong will easily break past 1 million concurrent players.
Any game's peak audience, including Silksong's, is partly influenced by the country where most of its player base lives. While Steam Charts and SteamDB don't show player counts per region, we can estimate by how many reviews a game has in each language. The more Chinese reviews a game has, for example, the more players from China it should have.
Two of the three games that broke the 2 million all-time Steam players have a high number of Chinese reviews: PUBG and Black Myth: Wukong. Hollow Knight's Chinese to English review ratio is closer to that of Palworld, the third game that broke the 2 million barrier. Assuming the audience of Silksong will be roughly the same as Hollow Knight's, and considering that Silksong will be on Game Pass on launch day just like Palworld, I believe Silksong has the potential to get close to 2 million concurrent players.
But unlike Palworld, Silksong is exclusively a single-player game. We won't see friends inviting each other like we saw in Palworld. Multiplayer helps boost the number of concurrent players, so Silksong not having it could result in fewer concurrent players than Palworld.
All the games I've mentioned are on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, just like Silksong will be. But Silksong is the only one on the list that will also be on the Nintendo Switch, a console that is already the perfect fit for Hollow Knight. It's reasonable to expect people who played Hollow Knight on the Switch will also play Silksong there, making it one more console for Silksong's playerbase to dilute into and reduce its Steam peak.
Silksong's price and wishlist estimates are why I think it will have more than 1 million concurrent Steam players. The regions where Silksong is popular, the fact that it's a single-player game, and its release on all big platforms aside from PC are why I think it won't get past 2 million.
My guess is that Silksong will probably have its all-time peak between Sept. 5 and 7, the weekend of its release. That's when people who started the game early on Sept. 4 will still be playing, while those who were too busy will use the weekend to kick things off.
All these estimates are just speculation, of course, because I'm an analytics nerd and it's fun. In the end, as long as you believe you'll have fun with Silksong, you should get the game and play it whenever you want, regardless of how many people are doing the same.
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Destructoid Monday, September 1, 2025 12:07 PM
City builders have always been a fun time, but the real peak for me was way back in the day with Sim City 2000. My word, I sunk endless hours into that game. Mostly just starting new games, because I couldn't keep my city profitable at first, but still, a fun time.
Not too long ago, I spent some hours with Cities: Skylines and its sequel, and it was fun enough. But honestly, it quickly became more of a traffic planner than a city builder. Traffic jams everywhere, all the time.
I also found myself with a consistent lack of educated employees, despite eventually constructing educational buildings on just about every block out of sheer frustration. These businesses with missing employees would eventually close down, and leave me to hunt for these condemned buildings and bulldoze them to create space for new businesses.
This and many other issues quickly sucked the fun out of the Cities franchise for me. Maybe city builders are best left in the past.
Then I found Tropico 6 in the PlayStation Plus catalog. I remember watching my older brother play previous titles in the series, and I thought they looked boring. But I had this sudden itch to play a city builder on console (or else I could always boot up Manor Lords on the PC). So I downloaded Tropico 6, and I don't regret it one bit.
Am I just getting old, or is this a city builder worth its salt?
Tropico 6 is actually a really good city builder
Having never played a Tropico game, I always thought of them as meme games. Simple, silly games not meant for serious gamers (says the guy with almost 150 hours in Stardew Valley). But upon booting up Tropico 6 for the first time, I was a little overwhelmed by the tutorial. There was a lot to remember.
Now, being overwhelmed by a tutorial is usually a sign of bad game design, but city builders are different. You want to feel overwhelmed in the beginning, because that means you're facing a game with some complexity. And while more simplistic city builders are fun enough, they lack the staying power of more complex titles.
Little did I know that I would discover one of the most fluid and complex city builders I'd ever played.
It doesn't have quite as many moving parts as something like Cities: Skylines II, but Tropico 6 brings a different flavor to the table. The kind where you can play however you want, and there are countless possibilities.
Do you want to be a benevolent leader who cares for the needs of the people and strives for prosperity? A tad vanilla, but to each their own. Do you prefer to build a prison island where the inmates are your main source of income? Go right ahead. You can be an authoritarian dictator who hosts "fair" elections by adjusting the polls and arresting your opposition.
And that's just off the top of my head. There are endless blends between these playstyles, and probably a whole lot more that I haven't even thought of yet. For now, I'm having loads of fun with the game, pushing the limits and seeing just how far I can go before an all-out coup destroys my rule.
While I work towards building a one-million-dollar Swiss bank account, I highly suggest you check out Tropico 6 if you haven't yet, especially if you've never played the series before. It's currently on the PlayStation Plus catalog for free, so give it a go while you can.
However, if you're a fan of the series, the communities I've visited seem to think the latest entry in the series actually falls a bit short. I'm curious as to what you think. Drop a vote on the poll below, and leave me your thoughts on the series—or other great city builders you've recently played—in the comments down below, and let's get a discussion going.
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Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Monday, September 1, 2025 5:16 PM According to Sony. The post 007 First Light State of Play Officially Announced appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Monday, September 1, 2025 4:48 PM Shows the opening movie. The post Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Gets New Opening Movie appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Monday, September 1, 2025 3:57 PM Via its Epic Games Store listing. The post Lords of the Fallen II PC Requirements Revealed appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Monday, September 1, 2025 3:24 PM Announced on social media. The post Hollow Knight: Silksong Launch Details Officially Confirmed appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
iDev Games Feed Monday, September 1, 2025 6:10 PM XOXO Showdown - Where classic Tic-Tac-Toe gets a thrilling modern makeover! Battle AI opponents, challenge friends online, and unlock rewards in this strategic... |
MonsterVine Monday, September 1, 2025 6:00 PM September is finally here, and I'm very pleased to bring you some of the more intriguing indie games I had the chance to play this month. We're into actual video game season, though, which means big releases are coming up! I like to space out my big releases with smaller releases. So why don't we […] |
MonsterVine Monday, September 1, 2025 4:00 PM Coming fresh off last year's Dread Delusion, Lovely Hellplace is back at it, but this time with a tactical turn-based RPG. While sharing the same aesthetic as their previous game, I wasn't entirely sure if it's set in the same world, but it's still just as enchantingly stunning with its Morrowind-inspired style. A Haunting World […] |