Starfield's exploration has made its way into the real world

Starfield fans are hard at work tracking down 1001 unique Starfield posts spread around the world, as the sci-fi RPG inches closes to launch this September. The race is on to see if the community can track them all down before the game launches on September 6. As the world wakes up today, numerous screenshots of distinct posters are being posted to the official Bethesda Discord, where everyone's discoveries are being collected. Right now, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian territories have their own channels dedicated to this real-world easter egg hunt, while the Americas are yet to join the fold. Take the UK, for example. Ever since the Discord channel was created yesterday, fans have been hard at work scrawling the London underground system for any sign of these 1001 billboards. User Illusionz managed to find and post two straight away, while other users soon sweeped up two remaining posters in other stations. These can be identified as unique ads due to clear numbering in the bottom right corner, as well as the different background present on each billboard. Read more
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Diablo 4 Dev Reveals Whether Diablo Immortal’s Blood Knight Class is Coming to the Game

While the new Blood Knight class in Diablo Immortal has been an eyebrow-raiser among fans, Diablo 4 developer, Rod Fergusson, has revealed that players shouldn't expect to see the sanguine champion in the franchise's latest chapter. With Diablo 4's Season of Blood unveiled on August 22, among the myriad of fixes and quality-of-life features that it promised, the community couldn't help but notice its overt vampire theme.
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PlayStation Plus' headline game for September has leaked, but it's a bit disappointing

As is tradition by this point in time, September's PlayStation Plus Essentials main game has leaked. It's another month, and another PlayStation Plus leak from billbil-kun, this time claiming that the big name title for September's Essentials tier is 2022's reboot of Saints Row. Billbil-kun noted that they couldn't fully confirm what the other two titles might be just yet, so there's a chance you'll have to wait until an official reveal on those ones. Saints Row might not be the best addition for some of you either, as for many it was one of the bigger disappointments in 2022. Across the board, the Saints Row reboot received pretty middling reviews, with our own review not being any different. One point of criticism our own James had at the time is that "you can feel like you’re doing the same thing over and over. While there are a lot of different Side Hustles and activity types, there are a lot of instances of the same activity all over the map and your businesses require around 7-ish repetitions of the same kind of mission to max out." Read more
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Amazing Overwatch 2 Clip Shows Wrecking Ball Luring Over Half a Team to Their Deaths

An amazing Overwatch 2 clip shows a Wrecking Ball player wiping out half of the enemy team with the strategic use of one of his abilities. This Overwatch 2 clip is both impressive and hilarious, as it showcases the player’s skill and sheer luck.
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Logan Paul Bashes Oppenheimer Despite Near-Universal Acclaim

Oppenheimer has found a needle in a haystack, as Logan Paul disliked the successful film. The criticism comes as the film exceeds its esteemed predecessors at the box office and fixes itself as a pop culture staple.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Creates Silver Bokoblin Killing Machine

A Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has used the Ultrahand ability to make the ideal Silver Bokoblin killing machine. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have utilized the Fuse and Ultrahand abilities to make unique creations since the game launched, and this may be the most helpful for defeating Silver Bokoblins.
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Want an Elden Ring film? This is even better

Are you confused by Elden Ring’s lore? In that case, you clearly haven’t been watching VaatiVidya on YouTube, who has dedicated an immense amount of time and effort to produce some of the best Elden Ring lore videos available. Not just lore or Elden Ring, either. VaatiVidya has created entire movies that turn complex, scattered lore into linear storytelling for most FromSoftware games. However, their latest endeavor is ‘An Elden Ring Movie: Age of the Stars’ which tells the increasingly complicated story of everyone's favorite witch, Ranni, and her companion Blaidd the Wolf. Age of the Stars starts with a beautiful animation from Xavier Lesieu, using the artwork of John Devlin. Read more
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Rumor: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Reveal Might Have Leaked New Warzone Map

While the latest looks at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have put the spotlight on the game's single-player, some players are suggesting parts of the new Warzone map may have been accidentally shown as well. Sledgehammer Games gave a small taste of what is to come in the game's new single-player, from the traditional, linear-style missions the series is known for to the new Open Combat Missions. It was in showing off the latter of these two, though, that some players suggest the studio may have let slip the first look at the new Warzone map.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Open Beta Dates Confirmed

Activision confirmed the dates for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer beta test, which will take place in two parts this October. While the game will have an open beta period across all platforms, Activision is also offering early access to the test as part of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 pre-order bonuses.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunners are seeing how fast they can have sex in-game

Baldur's Gate 3 is a grand, sprawling RPG from Larian Studios that has had many of its players tied up since its release. While many of us are exploring what this fantasy world has to offer in terms of secret paths, loot, and its overarching story, some players are seeing how fast they can have sex with their companions. Fair enough. I can’t say that I’m surprised, and I can’t say that I blame them either. Some of the companions available in Baldur’s Gate 3 switch up their attitudes towards you so quickly that I’d be lying if I said my curiosity wasn’t piqued by just how fast players can go from mere acquaintances to swapping saliva. Read more
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Elden Ring Discovery Makes Flame, Cleanse Me Incantation More Useful

A new discovery in Elden Ring can make the Flame, Cleanse Me Incantation way more useful during combat encounters. Elden Ring is an extremely challenging game, as users will likely die multiple times over the course of their playthroughs, so any advantage gamers can get is worth keeping in mind.
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Awesome Destiny 2 Ornament Idea Would Let Players Rip and Tear Through the Galaxy

A new Destiny 2 ornament idea would allow players to wield a gun inspired by one of Doom Eternal's iconic weapon designs. Bungie introduces new weapon ornaments every season in Destiny 2, and the developers occasionally allows players to vote for ornament designs that could appear in the game.
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Baldur's Gate 3 proves David Cage right about LA Noire

The quality of Baldur's Gate 3 performances, and the technology and expertees used to render them so beautifully on screen, is one of the best things about it. And that’s high praise considering that there’s one hell of a lot to love about the best RPG of the decade so far. We make the case for this extraordinary work, and why it’s so crucial to recreating the D&D experience, in the video below. It’s particularly impressive because of the game’s sheer size. You could argue that there is better performance capture work elsewhere, for example in The Last of Us Part II, where millions of dollars per pixel is spent on producing photorealism in very controlled environments, most successfully in cutscenes. And it’s incredible work, no doubt. But Baldur’s Gate 3 is much wider in scope, and leaves much more up to the player in terms of where and when dialogues can be triggered, even taking into account permutations like the height of the player character (which, in a game with loads of different races, can vary wildly). So, while it isn’t as photorealistic or quite as granular as TLOU’s motion captured performances, it has a lot less control over where the player looks and a lot fewer places to hide. So, for my money it’s an incredible achievement, and a real step forward in what games of this size and scope can achieve. But a lot of that is down to the fact that BG3 is not a game that has come from the AAA studio system, as Sherif points out in his latest op-ed. The game’s development was funded partly via a long stint in early access, on the back of Larian Studios having built up enormous trust and goodwill amongst CRPG fans by simply making a lot of very good games over the years. Read more
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Barely Anyone Has Completed Overwatch 2 PvE Story Missions on Legendary

Overwatch 2 just revealed that more than 98% of attempts to complete the new PvE Story Missions on Legendary difficulty have ended in failure. These new Overwatch 2 PvE missions are surprisingly difficult and will influence how Blizzard designs future co-op content.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds May Fix Original Series Plot Hole

As a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, Paramount Plus' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is capable of course-correct elements that used to give fans pause, including a question concerning Khan.
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Modern Warfare 3 Bringing Back Fan Favorite Game Mode from Call of Duty: WW2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is bringing back the fan-favorite War Mode, along with the Ground War and Realism multiplayer modes as well. This was revealed via an official announcement by Activision, which also revealed gameplay and campaign details about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Leak Reveals Pre-Order Bonuses

A new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 leak reveals several pre-order bonuses that players may take advantage of when the new title launches. The new pre-order bonuses were leaked ahead of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reveal event in Call of Duty: Warzone on Thursday, August 17.
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Genshin Impact unveils your next two husbandos, Neuvillette and Wriothesley

Genshin Impact may have earned itself the nickname "Waifu Impact" back when it first launched, but the devs at HoYoverse have demonstrated a remarkable adaptability when it comes to changing direction in order to give the fans what they want. And, as it quickly transpired, Genshin fans are typically way more excited at the prospect of a buff boyfriend than a waify girlfriend (although to be fair, there's plenty of room for both in a playable roster that now contains upwards of 70 characters). Neuvillette and Wriothesley are the fourth and fifth new characters announced for Version 4, which is due to launch tomorrow (August 16) with the introduction of Fontaine, the Hydro Nation of Justice. The new characters for Version 4.0 have already been revealed as Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet, so given this latest announcement's timing it's highly likely that N and W (as I'm now calling them for short) will make their appearance on Version 4.1, expected in late September. The following character intros were released on Twitter yesterday, with a focus on the lore backgrounds of both. Neuvillette is the Chief Justice of Fontaine, because goodness knows gamers love a hot lawyer; while Wriothesley is essentially head prison warden at the Fortress of Meropide: Read more
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Diablo 4 1.1.2 patch speeds up Malignant farming, fixes the damn A Boon in the Tide bug

Now that we're in the post-patch 1.1.0 era of Diablo 4, Blizzard has been making good on its promise to share patch notes ahead of the release of patches. The next update, patch 1.1.2, arrives Tuesday, August 15 on all platforms. 1.1.2 is not going to be as big as either of the recent patches, so don't expect any major balance tweaks or massive new features. Instead, the update focuses mostly on fixing bugs. That said, it does bring a welcome tweak to Malignant Heart farming. When you kill a Malignant Monster, they drop a Malignant Heart. Activating the heart (which spawns a tougher version of the same monster) used to take five seconds. After the patch, it will now take just two seconds - which should speed up that grind just a little. Read more
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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Tease New Tera Type in Upcoming DLC

The Pokemon Company teased that a new Tera type would be added to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in the upcoming DLC, The Indigo Disk. The tease was briefly shown at the end of a three-minute trailer during the conclusion of the 2023 Pokemon World Championships, which left many Pokemon Scarlet and Violet players guessing what this new Tera type is and what it could do in battle.
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Will Baldur’s Gate 3 be any good on PS5?

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a runaway success on PC that has taken a lot of people – including its creators – by surprise. For the record, I always had faith that this game would be Larian’s “Witcher 3 moment” – when an acclaimed but niche studio finally goes stratospheric with a release that becomes the watercooler game of its day. It’s been a long time coming: Larian are masters of their craft. But we don’t yet know how the PS5 version will compare to its PC brethren, in terms of visual fidelity or its gameplay experience. Except we can make a few educated guesses in terms of how the PS5 version will shake out, because this isn’t anyone’s first rodeo when it comes to console ports of best-on-PC games. We know how BG3 will control on the PS5’s DualSense controller because it’s natively supported in the PC version: with the correct on-screen prompts and everything. And, we know roughly how the PS5 compares to equivalent PC hardware in terms of performance. Granted, 1:1 comparisons are impossible here because PCs and consoles are different beasts, designed to do different things. But in the video below we predict that the PS5 version will look similar to the PC version running at medium settings with some kind of resolution scaling - possibly AMD’s FSR 1.0, which is currently available as an option on PC. Though we can’t know for sure how it’ll look until PS5 code comes in, we can answer the other part of the equation – how does it play? – pretty confidently, barring some sort of disaster where the game’s performance affects how it feels to control (not likely - see below). The controller support is excellent. Larian have done a fine job of arranging the myriad options available to traditional keyboard & mouse users onto a gamepad interface without the experience feeling lesser or compromised. The system revolves around all the important menus being mapped to triggers and bumpers – including an extensive and infinitely customisable in-combat radial menu where you’ll be spending most of your time agonising over your next move. Read more
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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Most Popular Classes and Races Have Been Revealed

Larian Studios just offered fans a peak at some of the numbers from the first weekend of Baldur's Gate 3 being officially out, and this includes data on the most popular choices for classes and races. The long-awaited, third entry in the Baldur's Gate series is finally out of early access, and it's quickly winning over gamers and critics. In just a week, Baldur's Gate 3 has become one of the highest-rated PC games ever and is seeing players join the adventure in droves.
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Lords of the Fallen's biggest achievement is how it rethinks the Souls-like death loop – PREVIEW

You are fighting a boss – a grudge-bearing religious sort, in a graveyard, that’s not a million miles away from Father Gascoigne, if I’m being honest – and you whiff an attack with your zweihander. The penitent one carpes the diem and impales you, skewers you like a pig. You’re down. Dead. Usually, you’d respawn at your bonfire, or shrine, or lantern, or Site of Grace, or whatever flavour of checkpoint you’re using today. But in Lords of the Fallen, the game continues. You are a revenant, now. A soul unhitched from its flesh, cast into the dark realm – the Umbral. In Lords of the Fallen’s land of Mournstead, there are parallel realms, inter-connected and ever-present. The world of the living (Axiom) and the world of the dead (Umbral) co-exist, and house their own unique pathways, enemies, characters, treasures. To die here isn’t an ending, but a new opportunity. “There are several layers of uniqueness in our game, right?” smiles Saul Gascon, head of studio and executive producer at Hexworks when I ask why the developer wanted to mess with a sacred part of the Soulslike gameplay loop. “The most obvious one, and the most high-level, is the Umbral. The whole Umbral concept was designed to twist the death loop to make you (as creative director, Cezar Virtosu, always says) ‘play your own death’. Read more
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Builds Controllable Bird

One particularly imaginative The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player managed to leverage the game's Ultrahand ability to construct a giant mechanical bird that's not only functional but pilotable. Their incredible mech is just the latest example of the endless creativity that Tears of the Kingdom fans are showing in their attempts to take to the skies.
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New Xbox Special Edition Controller Now Available

The Stormcloud Vapor variant of the Xbox Wireless Controller is now available for purchase. The special edition Xbox controller was originally revealed on August 1, and the wait is now over.
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Secret Invasion Director Fears 'Death Threats' From Marvel Fans

Secret Invasion director Ali Selim announced his intention to go into hiding due to expected death threats from Marvel Cinematic Universe fans. This flight comes on the heels of the show’s rapid-fire revelations, reveals, and conclusion.
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Stardew Valley Players Debate Which Farm Layout Is the Best in the Game

Stardew Valley fans are debating which one of the seven available farm layouts is the best in the game. A few of the choices may surprise some Stardew Valley players, while other farm layouts have been fan favorites for a long time.
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AEW Fight Forever: Pro Gamer vs Pro Wrestler - who will win?

AEW: Fight Forever is beloved by wrestlers and gamers alike, but what happens when the two are brought together? And how do they compare? Both careers demand total dedication to meet the demands of a hungry crowd, but while one calls for the discipline of a healthy mind and body, the other mainly calls for a lot of shouting and a reliance on convenience food. Check out our fascinating documentary, below, that delves into the personal and professional lives of Simon Miller and Jim Trinca, who are both dedicated professionals in their respective fields, but with a crucial difference: one of them is always in the gym, and the other is called Jim. Keen to give the game a go yourself, and see if you have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with a professional wrestler (albeit, a virtual one?) You’ll have a choice of 60 professionals to test your mettle against (that’s 46 men and 14 women). And you’ll get to play out your very own career, if you’ve got fortune and fame on your mind, or just focus on battering anyone you don’t like in exhibition matches, if that’s more your style. Read more
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Builds Rocket-Powered Cart to Try and Get Through Lost Woods

An inventive Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player attempted to get past the fog in the Lost Woods using a rocket-powered cart. The fog in the Lost Woods has the magical property of resetting Link’s position if he tries to move through it, making this area of the map one of the hardest locations to reach in Tears of the Kingdom.
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Diablo 4 won't use up all your VRAM after the next patch

Although it was not explicitly mentioned in the recently published 1.1.1 patch notes, Blizzard confirmed that the update is indeed going to have a fix for a long-running Diablo 4 problem. The problem has to do with how Diablo 4 manages VRAM. At its worst, it can cause the game to crash once it's run out of VRAM to use. Before that happens, however, the game is going to chug and stutter unnecessarily, even when there should be enough VRAM for it to use. The problem actually existed at launch, got fixed, then returned again in a recent patch. It also affected PlayStation 5 users, but all of that is thankfully going to be taken care off soon. Read more
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Invincible Season 2 Mid-Season Break Explained By Robert Kirkman

Following the Invincible season 2 season announcement, creator Robert Kirkman explained why season 2 will go on hiatus after its fourth episode airs: The episode will act like a mid-season finale.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Achieves 'Powerless Flight'

A Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has achieved "powerless flight" with the help of a caged Rito. Of all the unique Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom creations that have been shared, some serve purposes like traversal, combat, and farming, and this player has found a way to get around that requires no power.
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Diablo 4 horses will be a lot less terrible soon

Blizzard has heard our cries! The developer is making a number of highly-requested (and logical) improvements to the horses of Diablo 4. The feel of riding horses through the game's open world, the cooldown times associated with mounting/dismounting are all among the points the developer addressed. Horse talk was one of the key topics discussed during the most recent Campfire Chat stream, where the developer acknowledged how annoying it is to, well, just ride your horse around. For one, horses seem to get stuck on the tiniest bits of geometry, and come to a complete stop when they do. This is going to be one of the more difficult things to fix because it involves a number of changes to collision and other areas outside of the horse mechanics themselves. But it's something Blizzard is working on. Read more
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