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How to get E-11 Blaster Rifle from Stormtroopers in Fortnite
By Madison Benson - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 15:53Fortnite's Star Wars event is now live, and with it comes opportunities to get multiple themed character skins, items, and more. You need to complete Star Wars quests to unlock certain rewards, with...
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Every Fortnite Star Wars skin, weapon, and more for update v29.40
By Michael Beckwith - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 15:41Fortnite's v29.40 update brings a bevy of new Star Wars content to the battle royale in time for Star Wars Day on May 4. The update should hopefully be live by the time you're reading this, so we've...
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Helldivers 2 Players Mad Over New PSN Steam Requirements
By John Walker - Kotaku | May 03, 2024 - 15:40Among the myriad scourges that make playing games in 2024 so tiresome, the need for multiple different accounts to various services ranks high. Helldivers 2 players have just been told by Sony that co...
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Minecraft armadillos: how to find and breed these adorable armored animals
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 15:38Minecraft has unleashed armadillos into the mix, and here's everything you need to know about them.
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Razer Face Mask Didn't Meet N95 Requirements, Company Fined Over $1 Million
By Evan Campbell - Gamespot | May 03, 2024 - 15:30The Razer Zephyr face mask might have looked cool--especially for Bane stans--but it wasn't protecting you from contracting COVID-19 to the degree Razer claimed. As such, the US Federal Trade Commissi...
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Helldivers 2 PC Players Will Be Forced To Link A PSN Account Starting This Month
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | May 03, 2024 - 15:14Helldivers 2 PC players will soon need to sign in to the game with a PlayStation Network account, making an optional part of the game mandatory for everyone moving forward. This requirement was origin...
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Fortnite’s Star Wars update is broken as players ‘do not have permission to play’
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 15:06The excitement around Fortnite's Star Wars event has hit high gear, but players jumping into the game to get involved are finding themselves locked out after being hit with "Matchmaking Error #1: Yo...
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The Wandering Village is living proof of TikTok’s impact on games
By Ana Diaz - Polygon | May 03, 2024 - 15:00Image: Straw Fawn Studio ‘We’ve seen just some amazing, amazing success stories on TikTok’ Sprinkled into TikTok’s endless feed of videos, you can find all sorts of content re...
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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account
By Wesley LeBlanc - Gameinformer | May 03, 2024 - 14:58Developer Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment have announced that Helldivers 2 on Steam will soon require a PlayStation Network account to play. All new players from May...
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Fortnite's huge Star Wars event lets you wear Yoda in a backpack, for a price
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 14:45Today brings Fortnite's biggest Star Wars crossover yet, with new content from the galaxy far, far away in all of the game's four main modes. Access to play most of this content is free, includ...
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ESRB Rating For Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Appears Out Of Nowhere
By Jason Fanelli - Gamespot | May 03, 2024 - 14:41Nintendo's release schedule for the remainder of 2024 is a major unknown; other than remakes of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (May 23) and Luigi's Mansion 2 (June 27), there are no first-party t...
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How to get Fortnite’s Chewbacca skin: Star Wars Rebel Adventure event
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 14:13Star Wars Day is upon us, which means an epic crossover event is happening in Fortnite. While Han Solo has been in the game for years, his trusty companion Chewie has been noticeable by his absence....
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More than half of Fortune 100 companies have bought Vision Pro units according to Apple. So it's sold at least 50 then
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 14:09"Does anyone want a go? Just me? I'll put it back in the box"
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Fallout: New Vegas director reveals that game balance is 'mostly vibes based', says he only used a weapons spreadsheet 'for maybe a couple of months'
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:57Imperfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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Carceri is a "chaotic Art-toy" from a former Metroid Prime 4 dev, inspired by Piranesi
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 13:52Carceri is a fizzy and kaleidoscopic, first-person "chaotic Art-toy" in which you explore/hallucinate an island resort that's also a concentration camp ("carceri" is Italian for prison) for sentien...
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Mini Settlers is a city builder that you can both enjoy and actually put down
By Kevin Purdy - Ars Technica | May 03, 2024 - 13:37No zoning, no pollution, no advisers—just squares, circles, people, and time.
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor five hour trial available on Xbox for May the fourth
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:28May the fourth be with you! Microsoft has announced a free five hour gameplay trial for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.This trial was announced as part of Xbox's long-running Free Play Days promotion, whic...
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All Star Wars LEGO Fortnite Quests
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 13:25Fortnite's annual Star Wars Day event is here, but it's not just battle royale that's going to a galaxy far, far away. LEGO Fortnite is also getting some intergalactic goodies, including a special s...
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Redfall Hero Pass DLC still missing a year after its release
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:22A year after the release of Redfall and some players are still awaiting promised DLC. The Bite Back Edition, costing £99.99 and still available on the Xbox store, includes the Redfall Hero Pass...
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AMD's CTO has written about 55 years of AMD innovation. And the most common topic is obviously 'AI' despite not really saying much about 'AI' for the previous 54 years
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:20Maybe keep that one for 'Celebrating the next 55 years of AMD innovation.'
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This viral Chatroulette-style browser game challenges you to figure out if your partner is human or AI, and I keep failing
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:18Human or Not is a gamified Turing test.
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Valiant infantry rejoice: Earth Defense Force 6 has a new launch date trailer
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 13:12The kids today might be all about their Helldivers 2 premium warbonds and tactical strikes, but back when me and the boys were defending earth against giant insects, all we had were massive riot shie...
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Alright, fun's over—Helldivers 2 wants you to link your Steam account with a PlayStation Network one, with Sony reminding players it was a 'grace period'
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 13:05I'm sure this'll go down smooth.
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The first official AI PCs are just about to land but they're not what you're expecting
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:59What, exactly, is an AI PC?
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Game of the Week: Not a Hero is another reminder of Roll7's brilliance
By Christian Donlan - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:53One of the hallmarks of a great studio - I'm deciding this as I type it, but it definitely sounds legit - is that they can take on surprising themes and topics and genres and still feel like themselv...
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Helldivers 2 PC players will soon need to link their Steam accounts to PlayStation Network
By Ed Thorn - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 12:40If there's one thing that'll rile people up more than a robot blasting them with a laser cannon, it's having to create a new account. That's something Helldivers 2 players will have to do pretty shar...
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A modder is beautifying Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite with cel-shaded visuals
By Brendan Caldwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 12:38Crossover fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite first sauntered onto various videogaming mechanisms back in 2017. We forgot to review it. Oops. But others did, sometimes complaining about the art...
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Helldivers 2 Steam players will soon need to link a PSN account, and they aren't happy
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:37Helldivers 2 publisher Sony has today announced that players on Steam will soon be required to link to a PlayStation Network (PSN) account. And, the news isn't going down well.The PlayStation maker s...
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Helldivers 2 is bringing back mandatory PlayStation accounts for PC players
By Michael Beckwith - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 12:33If you've been enjoying Helldivers 2 exclusively on PC since launch, whether due to preference or because you don't own a PlayStation 5, Sony is now demanding you get a PlayStation Network account a...
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Knuckles TV show has record-breaking opening weekend on Paramount+
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:29The Knuckles TV show has set a streaming record for Paramount+ on its opening weekend. The Sonic spin-off show starring Idris Elba in the titular role debuted last weekend on 26th April and, ove...
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Pools as a liminal space isn't scary, it's how impractical it all is
By Ed Thorn - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 12:21I gave that Pools game a go recently - you know, the first-person traipse through some liminal spaces that happen to be pool themed. At one point it was trending on Steam and since then it's garnered...
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What we've been playing - our favourite matchmaking moments
By Robert Purchese - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:09Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week we've gone with a bit of a theme: matchmaking. We'v...
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Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter XDefiant, aka Ubisoft's Expendables, will launch in May
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 12:09Good news, people whose day-to-day lives are woefully short on blingy Clancified squad-murdering. Ubisoft's elusive free-to-play shooter XDefiant finally has a release date, 21st May 2024. Or at le...
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There's still time to bid on this decommissioned petaflop supercomputer including 8,064 Intel Xeon CPUs but no cables—local collection only
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 12:09A friend of mine owns a pickup truck, would that do?
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Star Wars: Squadrons is 95% off and also, the perfect May 4th night in - shame the multiplayer's dead
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 11:47Happy May 3rd, Battlestar Galactica fans! Remember what John Dune said about living long and prospering? He said: Oh, look, objectively excellent dogfighter Star Wars: Squadrons is under two quid on...
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Cutesy fairytale citybuilder Fabledom hits 1.0 later this month
By Alice Bell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 11:39Fabledom somehow passed me by, but darn if it isn't leaving early access in about a week and a half. May 13th (unlucky for some) will see this fairytale kingdom city builder launch into 1.0, after a...
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MW3 and Warzone’s new BAL-27 has already been secretly nerfed
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 11:24The BAL-27 assault rifle was added to Warzone and MW3 on May 1, but just hours after it was introduced, it received a significant nerf that decreased its damage across the board. The BAL-27 is th...
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Co-op horror Content Warning now has a hat shop, new map, island upgrades and 13 fresh monsters
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 03, 2024 - 11:19Co-op horror game Content Warning - aka "Lethal Company but you're role-playing as an abandoned places streamer and all your party members are squealing like hogs and putting on daft accents and Br...
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Endgame Gear OP1 8K wired gaming mouse review
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 11:10A lightweight wired gaming mouse with zero drag and a superb polling rate, but a price that doesn't quite sit right.
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How to complete Helping Hand in Gray Zone Warfare
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 06:04Once you've completed the first four tasks that Handshake has to offer, he'll give you the task Helping Hand. Handshake believes local criminal forces are getting some outside help, and sends you in...
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Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 3
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 05:00Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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Nintendo keeps playing DMCA whack-a-mole with Yuzu Switch emulator copies on Github, but it'll never be able to fully stamp them out
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 02:19Yuzu's code is out there for good, but Nintendo can certainly make it harder to develop.
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BloodStained's final two Kickstarter stretch goals arrive next week, five years after release
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 01:29If, like me, you haven't been paying that much attention to BloodStained: Ritual of the Night since the buzz around its release started to fade, you might be surprised to see developer ArtPlay has...
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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Preorders Are Officially Live
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | May 03, 2024 - 01:21Disney Epic Mickey launched on Nintendo Wii way back in 2010. Now, nearly 15 years later, the game is getting a second life on Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X with Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed. Disney...
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One Piece: What episode does the Luffy vs. Kaido fight begin?
By Ryan Lemay - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 00:56Wano is the longest story Arc in One Piece, and features an epic showdown between Luffy and Kaido. Here is everything we know about the highly anticipated bout that will go down in history as one of...
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Xbox Game Pass’ May lineup has cute kitty cats and Tomb Raider
By Ana Diaz - Polygon | May 03, 2024 - 00:47Image: Double Dagger Studio Time to meow meow your way through the big city Two iconic video game characters join the Xbox Game Pass lineup this May: Lara Croft and an adorabl...
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After two long years in early access, my favorite indie Elder Scrolls-alike is getting its full release—and it'll let you fly around in your own airship
By PC Gamer | May 03, 2024 - 00:32The one thing Morrowind was missing.
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Nintendo's latest DMCA takedown notice eliminates 8,535 Yuzu emulator copies in one go
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | May 03, 2024 - 00:20A little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has managed to wipe out 8,535 Yuzu GitHub repositories - containing code from the...
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How to complete Medical Detective in Gray Zone Warfare
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | May 03, 2024 - 00:19The Medical Detective task is the third task you can get from the Vendor Gunny in Gray Zone Warfare, after completing the Leave No Man Behind task. For this task, you must find some evidence that hi...
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XDefiant finally has a release date, and it's just a couple weeks from now
By PC Gamer | May 02, 2024 - 23:52After multiple delays, Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter is ready to go.
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