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GamersHeroes Monday, September 16, 2024 9:52 AM
    

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics manages to make a name for itself with an impeccable way to play as Earth's Mightiest Heroes and World Warriors.

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Kotaku Monday, September 16, 2024 9:50 AM
    

Sony has chosen the chip manufacturer for the PlayStation 6 and it's AMD, according to a new report by Reuters. Concerns around backwards compatibility with the PS5 were apparently one of the factors in the decision-making process.

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Kotaku Monday, September 16, 2024 9:15 AM
    

I've heard Star Wars Outlaws described as the most "okay" game of all time, with nothing overtly exceptional standing out in its 16-hour campaign. I disagree to some extent. Ubisoft may not always strike gold, but they understand how to make an entertaining popcorn game that leaves you wanting more. Although that more …

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Kotaku Monday, September 16, 2024 8:55 AM
    

It's becoming a pretty set pattern at this point: Nintendo has a first-party big-name Switch title due out in a couple of weeks, then news breaks that copies of the game have already leaked online. It's happened yet again with September 26's The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom—a ROM of the game apparently first…

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:53 AM
     New Cities Skylines 2 DLC delayed because CO wants to fix base game

Whether you were hoping for them to land at the end of September or if you've paid for them already, the upcoming Cities Skylines 2 DLC packs, Modern Architecture and Urban Promenade, have just been delayed. Created by the city-building game's community, these asset sets were originally scheduled to arrive on Monday September 30, exactly two weeks from today. But now Colossal Order says they have been pushed back so that the developer can focus on resolving issues with the CS2 base game. The Bridges and Ports expansion has also been delayed.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:45 AM
     Throne and Liberty release date, trailers, gameplay, and latest news

When is the Throne and Liberty release date? Throne and Liberty is another MMORPG being brought over to the west by Amazon Games, and is a high action, fantasy experience full of the usual dungeons, guilds, and valuable loot. There are also a range of unique features that have made Throne and Liberty so popular in Korea already and that we'll discuss here, along with the up-to-date Throne and Liberty release date.

As with many games lately, the Throne and Liberty release date is another to have been delayed slightly from its original announcement. If you're still unsure when the new MMORPG is set to hit the west, we've got the latest information here. We also take deep dive into the Throne and Liberty trailers and discuss the gameplay you can expect from the fantasy game, so sheath your sword, sit back, and take all this new game has to offer.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:39 AM
     All Monopoly Go events, tournaments, dates, and rewards

What is the next Monopoly Go event? With so many limited-time events in Monopoly Go, it can be hard to keep track of the rewards you can get your hands on. Monopoly Go events can last anywhere from a few hours to a week, so bookmark this page as we'll keep it regularly updated with the next events and their start and end dates.

Monopoly Go is the latest online board game sweeping the globe, but completing all of these events won't be easy without some free Monopoly Go dice links, so check out our daily updated guide for some freebies and rewards before you get started on the next Monopoly Go tournament.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:20 AM
     The best Minecraft bridge designs in 1.21

What are the best Minecraft bridge designs? Thanks to the restrictions of building with blocks and straight edges, some structures are just more difficult to wrap your head around in Minecraft. While bridges can look good, and often better, as a straight horizontal line, you might want something a little more shapely.

Then comes the decision of what type of bridge to build in Minecraft. Rope bridges are perhaps the most difficult to replicate, but often suit the surroundings, while large stone bridges might be a blight on the landscape in the building game. Whatever you're looking for, and wherever you're looking to build it, here are the best Minecraft bridge designs to get you started.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:13 AM
     How to defend the antenna in Space Marine 2

How do you defend the antenna in Space Marine 2? The Tyranid-trampling horde shooter has more than its fair share of challenges. Between keeping the overwhelming number of smaller insectoids at bay and fending off Carnifex, there's a lot to keep track of. Perhaps the game's greatest obstacle, especially when playing on the hardest difficulties, surfaces when you're tasked with defending multiple structures from gargoyles.

At the end of the second Space Marine 2 story mission, Skyfire, your squad will not only have to dispatch the avian threat tearing its way through the integrity bars of four antennae, but you'll also have to contest with waves of tyrannids that get progressively more difficult. It's a miserable job solo, as your AI companions can go AWOL when dealing with the gargoyles, but taking full advantage of the tools the game gives you makes it doable. Read on to learn the tech you'll need to succeed in one of the co-op game's biggest trials.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 8:44 AM
     All Throne and Liberty morphs and how to get them

What are all the Throne and Liberty morphs? While most MMOs typically include mounts to navigate their worlds, NCSoft's Throne and Liberty lets you transform into mystical beasts that can dash, glide, and swim across Solisium at the press of a button.

Morphs are the best way to get around in Throne and Liberty, letting you descend from high places, reach remote islands, and even flee from danger in the free PC game. Most morphs are effectively cosmetic skins, but certain ones provide unique effects. So, whether you'd prefer to transform into a saber-toothed tiger, a unicorn rabbit, or an otter wearing a hat, here are all the Throne and Liberty morphs and how to unlock them.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 8:14 AM
     NBA 2K25 codes September 2024 - all locker codes

September 16, 2024: We checked for new NBA 2K25 codes.

What are the active NBA 2K25 codes? It's another year in the NBA 2K calendar, and as is tradition there are plenty of freebies to collect. Over the lifetime of each game in the storied basketball series, 2K dishes out a slew of locker codes that can be punched in, rewarding you with everything from free packs to top-rated stars as the season progresses.

In NBA 2K25, you can expect a similar slurry of goodies to come your way, helping you make the most of your time in the sports game. Of course, NBA 2K25 locker codes don't last forever, so you'll have to act fast when a new code does pop up. Fortunately, we're keeping our eagle eyes eagerly on the latest codes, which you can find below.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 8:01 AM
     The Throne and Liberty system requirements are wrong on Steam

The Throne and Liberty system requirements on Steam are low. So low, in fact, that an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card is nowhere to be seen. While MMORPGs tend to sit on the lower end of the scale when it comes to system demands, this didn't seem right, and thankfully, it isn't. The Steam page for Throne and Liberty doesn't match up with the game's website, so let us take you through what hardware you'll need to run Amazon's latest MMO.

As expected, you won't need the best graphics card to run Throne and Liberty, and you won't need one of the latest CPUs either, with a quad-core Intel Core i5 7700 listed in the minimum spec.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:59 AM
     Ex Destiny 2 lawyer says Sony made Bungie get its

It's been an intensely troublesome few months both for Destiny 2 and its creator Bungie. In July, more than 220 Bungie employees were laid off, while a further 155 were moved to other roles within Sony Interactive. Despite the launch of The Final Shape expansion back in July, player sentiment has also grown measurably worse. As it stands, Destiny 2 has a 'mixed' rating on Steam based on recent reviews, and has lost a significant amount of its player base, at least on Valve's platform. Now, a former Bungie employee lifts the lid on how the Sony acquisition has "forced" Bungie to change its approach to Destiny 2, and suggests that several upcoming changes may actually help the troubled multiplayer FPS.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 8:04 AM
     The best multiplayer games to play with friends 2024

What are the best multiplayer games? Intricate gameplay and glistening visuals only go so far; humans often provide the biggest surprises with schemes that transform even the most average game into an unforgettable experience you'll be talking about until the end of time.

Fast and frantic or tense and calculated, the best multiplayer games come in all shapes and sizes. Whether it's vying for control of the payload in an FPS game or fighting for survival in a co-op game with your friends, these experiences wouldn't be the same without a bunch of real people. We've curated a list of the best PC games with multiplayer functionality so you can go around killing, maiming, or, occasionally, helping random people on the internet.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 8:03 AM
     New Steam management sim gives you full control of a TCG shop

Trading card games are too expensive these days. I recently got back into Magic The Gathering, and the prospect of spending anywhere above $5 for a booster pack makes me physically recoil in fear. You can get better value for your money, but then you're spending an unholy amount of cash on physical cards. Still, nothing beats going into your local shop, browsing the new sets on offer, and playing a couple of games. But if you've always wanted to run your own TCG shop, or get the thrill of opening boosters without spending inordinate amounts of cash, the newly released TCG Card Shop Simulator is answering the call.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 9:16 AM
     Free Monopoly Go dice links September 2024

September 16, 2024: We've added two new Monopoly Go dice links for free dice rolls.

How can I get Monopoly Go free dice links? The household favorite board game has been reimagined as a free-to-play app on smartphones, allowing everyone to experience the thrills of Monopoly on practically any device. Everything that makes the board game special is here in Monopoly Go, so you'll be collecting properties and building hotels as you go around the board, and there are a variety of multiplayer minigames to get through along the way.

You're going to need to get your hands on Monopoly dice rolls, but they are difficult to come by no matter how far you are into the board game. There are ways to earn additional dice rolls, including logging into the game every day to collect daily bonuses, progressing further in the game, and inviting friends to try Monopoly Go. While you can also spend real money to unlock more dice rolls, you may want to give our list of Monopoly Go dice links a try instead, especially if you're waiting for the next Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event. Take a look at all the currently active Monopoly Go free dice links for today.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:37 AM
     Indiana Jones and the Great Circle release date, trailers, latest news

What is the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle release date? Announced back in January 2021, not much was known about the upcoming Indiana Jones game apart from Machine Games, the developers of the modern Wolfenstein games, was handling it. Given Machine Games's affinity for blasting up Nazis, this pairing feels like a natural fit for cinema's greatest archaeologist.

We finally got a glimpse of the action-adventure game at Xbox Developer Direct 2024, showing off one of the most anticipated upcoming games set to launch later this year. There's quite a lot to unpack in the presentation, including information about the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle release date, gameplay, and what to expect from the story.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:27 AM
     Overwatch 2 tier list - the best characters to play in 2024

Who are the best Overwatch 2 heroes? With 41 heroes to pick from, starting in Blizzard's hero shooter can be pretty daunting, and it's not always easy to tell how strong your chosen character is when you're constantly coming up against different counters and team comps.

Of course, just because we say a hero is a must-pick doesn't mean you can't do a better job with your preferred main character, but most players should be able to look at this Overwatch 2 tier list for a quick snapshot of who to play and why. Join us as we rank every hero in the free PC game, from the titanic tanks to squishy supports.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:23 AM
     DDR5 gaming RAM is about to get much faster, thanks to this new tech

Gaming RAM maker Asgard has just unveiled its fastest DDR5 memory kit yet, with its new kit rocketing along at 9,600MT/s (megatransfers per second, which is like the effective MHz frequency). Moreover, the company has claimed 10,000MT/s kits will soon be available, thanks to new CUDIMM technology.

While most of the memory we recommend in our best gaming RAM guide is clocked far slower than this, more and faster memory is of course always welcome, and that's where the PC games hardware industry is going thanks to some clever new tech.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:35 AM
     The 16 best dating sims on PC 2024

What are the best dating sims for PC? These simulation games and visual novels all feature carousels of cute, courtable characters ready for romance. Whether you're moving into a sleepy seaside town searching for love or ready to find that spark with a kick-flipping dinosaur schoolmate, players have more options now than ever to date around.

While dating is at the forefront of these simulators, great examples of the genre are feature-rich, captivating settings, underlying intrigue, and unique art direction, some of which could even be considered the best PC games overall. The top dating sims tend to twist the traditional visual novel style and fork it into a new genre, such as adventure games or dungeon crawling - and, believe it or not, one or two even take inspiration from horror games. Regardless of where you want to look for love, this list has you covered with the best dating sims to play right now.


PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:58 AM
     All confirmed games coming to Game Pass in 2024 and beyond

What are the upcoming Game Pass games on PC? New titles constantly appear on the platform, and as more developers jump on board with Microsoft's subscription service, it can be easy to lose track of the best of the bunch. Our complete list of games coming to Game Pass charts new releases in 2024, so you can play your most anticipated PC games on day one without spending a cent more than your subscription fee.

Game Pass on PC presents an excellent opportunity to take the best PC games for a spin without worrying about triple-A price tags. Equally, you can take a chance on the most experimental and unorthodox indie games that might otherwise go overlooked on other platforms. Whether you're a fan of fast-paced FPS games, spine-chilling horror games, or immersive RPGs, the best way to keep up to date with all the games coming to Game Pass in 2024 and beyond is right here on PCGamesN.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:03 AM
     Will there be another Black Ops 6 beta?

Will there be another CoD beta? As sure as the sun rises and sets each day, a new Call of Duty installation is almost guaranteed for each new year and, with it, a few days of multiplayer early access. It's a chance for players to get on the ground early and try out new mechanics, new guns, and new maps.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 was first teased towards the end of May 2024, and within two weeks we saw the FPS game's official reveal at Summer Game Fest. Earlier rumors of a Gulf War themed Call of Duty were proved right, and the Black Ops 6 release date takes us back to the 1990s.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 6:46 AM
     Save up to $100 on Secretlab gaming chairs, in early Black Friday deal

Yes, would you believe it, we're already getting early Black Friday deals. But while we lament the ever-forward march of time, you can at least bag yourself a brilliant bargain on your next gaming chair upgrade, thanks to Secretlab. With this new Secretlab gaming chair sale you can save up to $100 on select chairs.

There's good reason to be hyped about this particular sale, as the Secretlab Titan Evo sits atop our best gaming chair guide, and it's included in this deal. Other Secretlab chairs are included too, though, so there's a style and price to suit a range of buyers.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:07 AM
     CoD Black Ops 6 release date, story, and new trailers

What is the Black Ops 6 release date? There is a sizable portion of the Call of Duty fandom that rejoices whenever a new Black Ops game is on the horizon - hailed as the more cerebral branch of the first-person shooter, it doesn't only bring best-in-class multiplayer gameplay but also a renewed focus on the single-player story.

Black Ops isn't afraid to push the limits of Call of Duty, and going from everything we've seen so far, the newest multiplayer game entry is looking to go beyond anything we've seen before. We've collected all the information available on the FPS game, including the newest Black Ops 6 trailers ahead of the BO6 release date.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 7:37 AM
     Building game Mars First Logistics gets Cities Skylines 2's best trait

We underappreciate roads. When you think about it, the concept of a flat, paved lane for travel might just be the single most important human invention in history. Irrigation and electricity are all well and good, but roads have made travel and communication trivial. Cities Skylines 2 gets it. You're placing and using roads all the time, and making them work right keeps an entire metropolis going. It's no small task, but nothing beats watching a smooth traffic flow. If you want to build roads in a new game then, the latest Mars First Logistics update is absolutely for you.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 6:21 AM
     The 24 best Baldur's Gate 3 mods

What are the best Baldur's Gate 3 mods? The modding community working on Larian games has a storied history when it comes to DOS and Baldur's Gate, and the BG3 community is no different thanks to official mod support for the DnD game. We've delved into the BG3 mods that are available to add even more to the already massively entertaining game to find the very best ones.

As we explore in our Baldur's Gate 3 review, the RPG game is filled with interesting and unique experiences, including hours of content that most players will likely never see, which includes most of the Baldur's Gate 3 endings. Somehow, though, the modding community has still found gaps worth filling to improve your Baldur's Gate 3 experience.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 6:50 AM
     How to downgrade Fallout 4

How do you perform a Fallout 4 downgrade? Patches and updates can sometimes make or break your gameplay experience, especially if you're partial to mod playgrounds like Bethesda's Fallout 4. The most innocuous change can have dire consequences for your favorite mods, and in some cases only a downgrade can get them working again.

Fallout London is one such mod. The popular passion project hit a roadblock following the surprise Fallout 4 next-gen update that caused a compatibility clash with many of the mod frameworks that power it. Thankfully, developer TeamFOLON has made it easier than ever to perform a Fallout 4 downgrade to roll back those changes. Given that Fallout 4 is one of the best PC games of all time, it stands to reason you own the Steam version. We've got a Fallout 4 mod to downgrade it on Valve's platform, along with manual instructions if you want to downgrade Fallout 4 without installing Fallout London in the process.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 6:43 AM
     Best standing desks in 2024

The best standing desks can be transformative for your health and comfort, letting you move around to improve circulation, posture, and focus. All of which they can do without needing you to take a break from your work or gaming.

The best stand-up desks are height adjustable, and most use electric motors to move the desktop up and down so that you can switch from seat to feet quickly. Depending on how much you spend, some also come with built-in USB sockets, cable management features, cupholders, and even RGB lighting.

Getting up from the best gaming chairs comes with ergonomic health benefits that will make time spent at your desk more enjoyable. Whether you want a desk for your home office, the best gaming desk, or a choice that fits both, we've been trying and testing the best standing desks from brands like FlexiSpot, Secretlab, Herman Miller, and more to help you decide.

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PCGamesN Monday, September 16, 2024 6:46 AM
     Best PC controller 2024

What is the best PC controller? These gamepads push our buttons - in a good way – as they each offer a great alternative to the classic clicking and clacking of the mouse and keyboard. We at PCGamesN spent hours testing all these buttons, triggers, pedals, and more, to ensure we're giving you the best advice on which controller to use for your PC games.

Keyboard and mouse purists may scoff at the notion that a controller should be part of any gaming PC setup, but it's hard to deny the convenience and ergonomic benefits these perky pads offer. In this list, we've included options for the best PC steering wheels, the best PC joysticks, and much more, covering every type of controller for every type of gamer.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 9:42 AM
    

To survive in looter-booter Pacific Drive you have to keep the paranormal station wagon you drive around in good nick. You're constantly repairing corroded doors and swapping out busted engine parts with cobbled-together technology. But maybe this tinkering was a little too much. Our review praised the game for its "trunk loads of atmosphere" but called the constant need to craft stuff "laborious". If you also felt this, then good news. An update now lets you fiddle the difficulty options a generous amount, say developers Ironwood Studios, making the game easier and bringing crafting needs right down.

Buuut... if you thought the opposite - that the game wasn't hard enough - you can now tick a box that makes hitting yourself with the trunk door kill you stone dead.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 9:40 AM
    

If you're a fan of rhythm games and fun bops, then you might want to bookmark ol' Hyperbeat. Set in a wireframe world, you're to chop, dodge or ride notes as you slam your "hyperknight" through a tunnel at high speed. There's a subtle, dreamy story element to your musical journey, with confusing dialogue and a nice cherry blossom tree. Hmmm, curious. Anyway yeah, it looks rad.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 9:00 AM
    

Tiny Glade has been a constant presence on TikTok for the last year or so. It's never far away. In between burrito recipes and hymns to the Fujifilm X100v, this gorgeous toylike art tool's gamely turning stretches of balmy meadow into semi-ruined castles, semi-ruined villages and semi-ruined citadels.

Dreamy and slightly haunted, it's conjured words like "bewitching" and "spellbinding" in the comments sections, too. It makes sense, really. Tiny Glade's a game about making rustic dioramas and then photographing them. It's not hard to imagine some exiled magical person might live in here among the rocks and reeds and wild heather.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 8:02 AM
    

Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists opens with paired quotes from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Mad Max: Fury Road - a blend of influences that would typically get you kicked out of the Creative Writing Club for being simultaneously too fancy and too obvious, but the game beyond the epigraph looks pretty swish.

It's "a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order". It uses a square aspect display ratio calibrated to give wizened Game Boy enthusiasts the shakes, and is made up of 200 single-screen rooms that "slot into the larger puzzle-box of the world". Also, you play a thorn witch who looks a bit like 1950s Tinkerbell, with a touch of Betty Boop. Here's a trailer.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 6:59 AM
    

Efforts to render Mars commuter-friendly proceed apace as Mars First Logistics embraces the magic of trains. The latest update for the physics-based open world build-a-car game introduces a mountable theodolite, which lets you stitch together monorail networks you can then ride about on.

If monorails strike you as frivolous, don't worry. It's more of a Shelbyville idea. And in any case, the theodolite also lets you construct networks of pipes, power lines and rail-less tarmac roads - the ready-salted crisp of the road family. It's a chonky expansion that, in the words of lead developer Ian MacLarty, has only "scratched the surface of where this new system could go". I am predicting an eventual pivot into either themepark management or factory simulator.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 6:00 AM
    

I am lost in my own factory. From every direction, every angle, conveyor belts and smelters and assemblers obscure my senses and envelop my being. Twenty hours ago I placed my first manufacturer somewhere around here. Back then it represented the state of the art, hatching me a pristine batch of 1.25 computers every minute - now I've forgotten where I put the damn thing, after delving into my factory's guts to hook that piddly yet still useful batch of old relics up to my main production line. I'm building supercomputers now, and the many manufacturers that make those are hungry.

Something is always hungry in Satisfactory, and that hunger pulls you from task to task in a near-seamless and frankly beautiful daze of ever-escalating industry. It is mesmerising and it is fearsome, and after five years of early access it's finally complete.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 5:38 AM
    

Happy this week, everybody! The squirrels are trying to kill me. There's a massive horse chestnut tree outside my flat, and whenever I walk under it they drop conkers on my head. The squirrels are clearly Maw cultists. They want to give me a concussion and choke off the supply of video game news to the Maw, which will then manifest fully and bring about an age of darkness. Well, the joke's on you, squirrels, because I used to play grass hockey as a kid and I've been hit in the head by hard round objects a million times over. How else do you explain my choice of career? Anyway, here's a curated list of PC games that are out in the next five days.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 5:12 AM
    

Goichi 'Suda51' Suda - of No More Heroes and Killer7 fame - reckons a focus on Metacritic scores is bad for creativity. Speaking to GI.biz recently alongside survival horror genre maker-upper Shinji Mikami, Suda expressed his frustrations with the review aggregator platform's cultural cache.

"Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores. It's gotten to the point where there's almost a set formula – if you want to get a high Metacritic score, this is how you make the game," Suda51 told Gi.biz.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, September 16, 2024 4:12 AM
    

For all the nightmarish enshittification modern life throws at us, we can at least feel warm and fulfilled about the resurgence of demos. Bountifully they await on Steam, like a friendly worker offering you toothpick-skewered cheese chunks at your local supermarket. And, oh, would you look at that: this cheese has some guns in it. Deeply customisable guns! SULFUR is a shooty roguelike with some excellent goblins and a deep RPG equipment system. And, if the Steam reviews are to be believed, some players are squeezing out dozens of hours from the demo alone.

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Twinfinite Monday, September 16, 2024 9:00 AM
    
Aliens, Yokai, and Cryptids, oh my!

Twinfinite Monday, September 16, 2024 6:14 AM
    
Even with these, I still don't have enough to pull for Juvia...

Twinfinite Monday, September 16, 2024 5:57 AM
    
The State of Play(Station 5 exclusives).

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Always tip your landlord.

Twinfinite Monday, September 16, 2024 4:03 AM
    
Freebies? Don't mind if I do.

Twinfinite Monday, September 16, 2024 4:00 AM
    
BangBang Survivor or Survivor.io - which is better?

Siliconera Monday, September 16, 2024 9:35 AM
    

Nintendo Switch Holiday Bundles Include OLED Mario Kart 8 Deluxe One

Nintendo announced it will offer two Nintendo Switch holiday bundles in 2024, and both of them will include Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. One is a standard model, while the other is an OLED one. They will both be available in stores in October 2024. 

While the models included in the 2024 Nintendo Switch holiday bundles are similar, the main difference is the price. Both of them net someone a Switch model. That gets you the system with the blue and red Joy-Cons. It also includes the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe download code. You get 12 months of a Nintendo Switch Online Individual Membership tier subscription, which means it applies to only your account, so you can play MK8D or other games online. The OLED one gets you one with white Joy-Cons. You also get the download code for the racing game and Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The standard one costs $299.99, and the OLED version is $349.99.

Nintendo shared a brief teaser video that also showed the two different boxes for these two models. The imagery is similar for both.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1835664963232248053

The standard version of this bundle should look familiar. It's almost identical to the one released in 2023. The only difference is that last year, only three months of Nintendo Switch Online was included in the package.

The new Nintendo Switch Online holiday bundles with standard and OLED systems and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will launch in the US in October 2024.

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Siliconera Monday, September 16, 2024 9:00 AM
    

Honkai Star Rail Coming to Honkai Impact 3rd in 2024

HoYoVerse announced that there will be elements of Honkai: Star Rail coming to Honkai Impact 3rd. There's no exact release date for the upcoming crossover yet, but we do know that it will appear in the game when the 7.9 update arrives later in 2024.

To help provide some context for those unfamiliar with Honkai Impact 3rd, the latest version update was 7.7. It launched on September 5, 2024. In addition to the new story segments, its major addition was the inclusion of the Theresa Apocalypse Battlesuit. This means we should see it within the next few months.

There are no details about what the crossover will consist of just yet. There's only a vague image showing both games' logos and a teaser trailer with characters like the Trailblazer, Welt, Jing Yuan, Bailu, Kiana, and Senadina.

Here's that logo:

https://twitter.com/HonkaiImpact3rd/status/1834933876751274473

And this is the trailer showing familiar faces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6V8Dg3U0s&ab_channel=HonkaiImpact3rd

It's been a while since there was a crossover for Honkai Impact 3rd, and there haven't been any in Honkai: Star Rail just yet. The last Honkai Impact 3rd one involved the Trigger anime movie Promare. Battlesuit costumes and a Stigma inspired by the film appeared. 

Honkai Impact 3rd is available for PCs and mobile devices. Honkai: Star Rail is on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices. 

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