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Wuthering Waves Echoes Guide
By Darrus Myles - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 00:38When building up your roster of characters in Wuthering Waves, a significant portion of the process will involve using Echoes. To aid your understanding, I present a wonderful guide that will help y...
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The Sims 4 is getting ready for a summer of sexy updates, starting with swimsuits
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 00:24The Sims 4 is preparing for a summer of slinky, sexy free and paid updates according to its newly revealed roadmap, starting with a refreshed batch of swimsuits today. There's not a huge amount...
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Prison Architect 2 developers part ways with Paradox months before it's due for release
By Graham Smith - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 00:19Prison Architect 2 was delayed last month from a planned May release date until September. Now it's changing developer. Double Eleven are parting ways with publisher Paradox Interactive after nine ye...
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Here’s a closer look at Retro-Bit’s Assault Suits Valken re-issue
By Zoey Handley - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 00:17I’ve written about Assault Suits Valken so many times now. More than I ever thought I would. When I played it under the name Cybernator as a kid, I didn’t think one day I’d be spouting novels about...
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How to get into the Gerudo Town secret shop in Tears of the Kingdom (TotK)
By Chris Penwell - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 00:15The Gerudo Town secret shop is hard to find in Tears of the Kingdom if you don't know what you're looking for. Once you find the Gerudo Town secret shop, you'll be able to buy the Desert Voe armor....
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XCOM, The Sims veterans found Midsummer Studios, a new team tackling the life sim genre
By Eric Van Allen - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 00:05If you've followed PC strategy games for a while, you may recognize names like Jake Solomon, Will Miller, and Grant Rodiek. You're certainly familiar with the games on their resumes; Solomon helmed...
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Minecraft is turning 15, so they're giving away some Character Creator items
By Graham Smith - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 14, 2024 - 23:51Minecraft is turning fifteen years-old and to celebrate Mojang are running fifteen days of giveaways from May 15th until May 29th. Apparently each day will offer up "a new free Character Creator item...
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How to upgrade Harvest Tools in Hades 2 to get more resources
By Cameron Woolsey - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 23:40Materials gathered in Hades 2 are used for witchy incantations, but it certainly can take a lot of time to gather and grow what you need. Your default Harvest Tools will only award you with so much...
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Hades 2 Boon Elements – How they work and best Infusions
By Cameron Woolsey - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 23:34Early on during your adventures in Hades 2, you learn about elements and how they relate to the godly boons you so often hoover up. Hades 2 Boon Elements offer you a new way to grow stronger with In...
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Dead By Daylight Spin-Off The Casting Of Frank Stone Gets Chilling Gameplay Trailer
By Marcus Stewart - Gameinformer | May 14, 2024 - 23:28The Casting of Frank Stone, the upcoming narrative horror game set in the Dead By Daylight universe by Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games, has its first gameplay trailer. The game was fi...
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Steam's latest Fest offers discounts on games you can play over and over forever
By Graham Smith - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 14, 2024 - 23:19Video games must be three hours-long or infinite and nothing in between. The latest Steam event is designed to celebnrate the latter. The Endless Replayability Fest runs from now until May 20th, "ce...
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Amazon Orders Tomb Raider Series From Fleabag Star And Writer
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 23:15Amazon isn’t just publishing the next big Tomb Raider video game. Today, the massive company confirmed the previously reported news that it is also making a live-action TV show based on the Tomb Raide...
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Supergiant Games Office Tour
By Alex Van Aken - Gameinformer | May 14, 2024 - 23:04Studio director Amir Rao gave us an office tour while visiting Supergiant Games for our Hades II cover story trip. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at the studio that previously brought you...
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Dead By Daylight's Sprawling Horror-verse Expanding With D&D And Castlevania
By Moises Taveras - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 22:45Believe it or not folks, the asymmetric horror multiplayer game Dead by Daylight is somehow eight years old. Over the years, the game has swallowed multiple horror properties into it, such as Scream,...
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For the first time in 10 years, this brutal survival game will let you avoid permadeath
By PC Gamer | May 14, 2024 - 22:40The Long Dark's next chapter also brings an interesting new "alpha predator" and ultra-hardcore "misery mode."
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Fan Makes Shadowheart’s Artefact Into An Xbox Controller
By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 22:37Custom, often impractical video game controllers are a tale as old as time. Who could forget the bizarre Resident Evil 4 chainsaw controller or when Square Enix released controllers shaped like Yuna’s...
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American Truck Simulator's Nebraska expansion out this week
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | May 14, 2024 - 22:30American Truck Simulator's determined trundle across the picturesque highways and byways of the United States continues this week with the launch of its latest paid expansion - and 15th explorable...
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Diablo 4 Season 4: Skip campaign or not?
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 22:12Each new season in Diablo 4 requires you to start a seasonal character in order to experience the season-specific content. Since you have to level your new character starting at Level 1 each season,...
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Final Fantasy 8 Is The Perfect Follow-Up To FF7
By Claire Jackson - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 22:05After replaying the original, 1997, Final Fantasy VII recently, I knew the next step for me was to immediately jump into Final Fantasy VIII. As my favorite game in the franchise, I can hardly resist a...
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Where to buy the Dead by Daylight Pools of Blood Dice Set
By Jamie Moorcroft-Sharp - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 22:01Following the gameplay reveal of the Dead by Daylight Dungeons & Dragons Chapter, Behaviour Interactive announced a new product for its growing line of merch: a set of dice inspired by Dead by D...
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How to unlock every Alliance Raid in Final Fantasy XIV
By Paula Vaynshteyn - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 21:56Final Fantasy XIV is known for its raiding community, who take part in Normal, Savage and Ultimate raids for intense challenges and endgame rewards. However, there is another type of Raid, more suit...
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Diablo 4's Massive Loot Reborn Update Is Live, Season 4 Patch Notes Released
By Cameron Koch - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 21:50Diablo 4 Season 4, Loot Reborn, is now live on all platforms, and it brings the biggest changes yet for Blizzard's ARPG across both the Eternal and seasonal realms. We've also gotten a very extensive...
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XDefiant will not use skill-based matchmaking in casual game modes
By Tim Harding - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 21:31XDefiant's release date is fast approaching. As it draws closer, we're learning more and more about the Call of Duty competitor. For example, the developers just posted a much-appreciated breakdown...
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Bloodborne Figma Action Figure Gets Big Discount At Amazon
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 21:29Sony might not be ready to bankroll a Bloodborne remaster for PS5, but who really needs it when you can make your own Yharnam adventures? Thanks to this affordable Figma action figure of the game's ti...
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A Bunch Of Slept-On Games Are About To Hit Game Pass
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 21:25May is shaping up to be a very, very good month for Xbox Game Pass—with some sleeper hits, like magic FPS Immortals of Aveum, and new games, like Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, arriving soon. And I bet X...
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Dead by Daylight Year 9 roadmap, All chapter, event, and Tome release windows
By Jamie Moorcroft-Sharp - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 21:24Year 9 for Dead by Daylight has officially begun, and it might well be the biggest year in the game's history. With a Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania Chapter, it's hard to say what out of eve...
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The Sims 4's new roadmap details the 'Season of Love' with two build kits and a romantic expansion
By PC Gamer | May 14, 2024 - 21:18The next season of Sims 4 DLCs is going to be a scorcher.
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Valheim heats up with new, ultra-deadly biome in Ashlands update
By Cass Marshall - Polygon | May 14, 2024 - 21:16Image: Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain Publishing Build up siegecraft and tear down fortresses Valheim is a fantastic sandbox survival game, set in a fantastical 10th realm of th...
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Recap: Dead by Daylight showcase spotlights DnD chapter, a new shooter, and more
By Jamie Moorcroft-Sharp - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 21:09Behaviour Interactive's Dead by Daylight 8th Anniversary livestream event included gameplay reveals and incredible news for Dead by Daylight fans from start to finish. There's a lot to go through, b...
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Roblox Classic event: Release date, game predictions, and more
By Kristina Ebanez - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 21:04The Roblox phenomenon began in 2006 and has increased in popularity with each passing year. If you've been an OG fan, you may be reminiscent of the game's past features, back when it looked similar...
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Hades Voice Actor Logan Cunningham On Finding His Voice, His Favorite Performances, And The Characters That Influenced Him
By Marcus Stewart - Gameinformer | May 14, 2024 - 21:00During our trip to Supergiant Games for our Hades II cover story, we had a chance to speak with one of the studio's original seven employees and its principal voice actor, Logan Cunningham. F...
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Madden NFL 25 Release Date, Early Access Info, Deluxe Edition, And More Reportedly Leaked
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 20:57The next Madden game will be announced this week, release in August, and include a $100 premium edition that gets players into the game a few days early. That's according to a leak from billbil-kun (v...
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8 Movies We Want To See In Chris Pratt's Proposed Nintendo Cinematic Universe
By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 20:53Nintendo wants to lean hard into movies. After the astronomical success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, why wouldn’t it? But Mario actor Chris Pratt is dreaming even bigger—He wants the company to thi...
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Doctor Who showrunner Russel T Davies confirms the importance of Susan Twist’s reappearances
By Paula Vaynshteyn - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:51Fans of Doctor Who everywhere are throwing theories around the internet about the true identity of The One Who Waits, and showrunner Russell T Davies has recently gone on the record to add fuel to t...
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10 Best Final Fantasy XIV seasonal events, ranked
By Andrea Shearon - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:47After more than a decade of celebrating Eorzea, Final Fantasy XIV has accumulated a lengthy calendar of recurring, limited-time events and a few that may be worth timing your sub renewals around. Wh...
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Some of Warzone’s most dominant players may have found their third in another champion
By Ryan Lemay - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:41One trio - Shifty, DiazBiffle, and Sage - dominated Warzone's competitive scene in 2023, until the departure of Sage earlier this year. The remaining duo might have already found their third though,...
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Hades 2: Moon Dust resource guide – What it does and how to get more
By Shawn Robinson - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:39As you progress through the Arcana system in Hades 2, you may want to get more out of certain Arcana. While getting a single Death Defiance is nice, having more would be great, especially for some o...
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One of D&D's most infamous villains is Dead by Daylight's next killer
By PC Gamer | May 14, 2024 - 20:37The man with the hand. The guy with the eye. You know who I mean.
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Baldur’s Gate 3: How to take out Dror Ragzlin
By Chris Penwell - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:37The three goblin leaders in Baldur's Gate 3 are tough to handle, especially Dror Ragzlin. He deals a ton of damage to anyone he hits. However, with the right preparations, you can make it through. H...
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Monkey Island Creator's Next Game Is A Mashup Of Everything We Love
By Moises Taveras - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 20:30Renowned game developer Ron Gilbert’s latest game is not at all what any of us might’ve expected. As spotted by Time Extension, the game’s been teased as “Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed...
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Where to find Mandrake Root in Hades 2
By Shawn Robinson - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:24If you're working through several runs of Hades 2 to complete certain objectives, you should get whatever resources you can along the way. You may need certain tools to get them, but snagging these...
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The GameStop memelord returns, stonks spike, market panics—and all he's done so far is post a bunch of mid memes
By PC Gamer | May 14, 2024 - 20:21The fund managers are not impressed.
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Unicorn Overlord's Unique Collector's Edition Gets First Discount At Amazon
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 20:18We've had some pretty great games throughout 2024, but one of the most visually striking titles and distinct games so far is Unicorn Overlord. Developed by Vanillaware, the studio behind the criticall...
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Call Of Duty Patch Notes Reveal Bug Fixes, Changes, Weapon Tuning, And More
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 20:09The newest patches for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone have arrived, ushering in the latest changes to the popular multiplayer shooters.Starting with Modern Warfare III, players can expec...
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Fallout 4's revised next-gen upgrade tested: fixed on Xbox, new options on PS5
By Thomas Morgan - Eurogamer | May 14, 2024 - 20:08Fallout's next-gen upgrade came out of the starting blocks with serious issues on all platforms, but a patch for PlayStation and Xbox systems on May 13th promises to fix the most glaring problems. We...
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How to find and plant seeds in V Rising
By Pam Ferdinand - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 20:04When first digging into V Rising, you’ll quickly get the opportunity to build a little vampiric stronghold all your own. One of the objects you can add to your castle right away are Growing Plots, t...
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The Hades II Digital Issue Is Now Live!
By Kyle Hilliard - Gameinformer | May 14, 2024 - 20:00If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now learn all about our trip to Supergiant for Hades II! Following the cover reveal our digital issue is now live on web brow...
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Diablo 4 Season 4 Tier List
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | May 14, 2024 - 19:58Each season of Diablo 4 adds new mechanics and features, but also reworks a lot of the classes. As such, some are better than others each season for leveling, farming, and end-game content. We've pu...
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Halo Composer Running For Congress 'Intends To Win' Because He's A 'Gamer'
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | May 14, 2024 - 19:45A few months ago, former Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell announced he was running for Congress. And in a new interview, the Halo and Destiny composer says he’ll succeed because he’s a “gamer” and also...
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Sony Names Two PlayStation CEOs, Says PS5 Growth Is Likely Over
By Steven T. Wright - Gamespot | May 14, 2024 - 19:42The PS5 might be outselling its chief competitor, but it seems that its overall sales have slowed in recent months. In a recent financial report, Sony said that PS5 sales are down 29% year-over-year i...
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