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Microsoft introduced its own dedicated showcase this year with Xbox Developer Direct, and so far, we’ve had the debut show, a Starfield Direct, and a big Xbox Showcase this year. In the future, you can expect even more of these livestreams as Microsoft prepares to talk about its upcoming games more regularly.

“What I can say is we’re going to have more beats to talk about more of what we do because the content lineup is so strong,” Xbox head Phil Spencer said to IGN. “And I say that completely recognizing that 2022 wasn’t so strong, but we have our biggest booth here at Gamescom and we have a huge presence Come from Sports betting site VPbet . So I think what you’re going to see from us, where maybe last couple of years we’ve been more on an annual [cycle] in terms of when we talk about our games around, I still call it E3, around the E3 timeframe, this year, we did Developer Direct in January, we did our showcase,…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s final Zombies map Forsaken has arrived with Season 6, and this new round-based map brings some great throwback Easter eggs in the map’s arcade. Players can find tokens and play various arcade games, including a Call of Duty: World at War cabinet that teleports you inside the game’s Nacht der Untoten Zombies map.

How To Play Forsaken’s Arcade Games

To play a game inside Forsaken’s arcade, you’ll first need to complete the map’s main objective of lifting the lockdown on the facility. Our Forsaken starter guide will walk you through the steps needed to lift the lockdown as quickly as possible Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Once you’ve pressed the button in the Observation Tower to lift the lockdown, you can then use the zipline to travel back to the town and into the arcade.

How To Obtain An Arcade Token

You’ll need an a…

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced it will pay $100 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The original settlement was $10 million but new lawyers were hired and pushed for a much bigger payout, which is now coming to fruition.

The settlement funds will be provided to more than 2,000 former and current female employees at Riot. Women’s rights attorney Genie Harrison, who argued on behalf of the workers, told The New York Times that the settlement terms are fair and that she feels proud to have worked on the case.

“I’m very pleased that we were able to provide what I think is a fair settlement,” she said.

The Los Angeles Superior Court still needs to approve the settlement. If that goes through, it could send a message to California companies that all industries in the state need to provide “equal pay and workplaces free from discr…

In one play session, I’m honing my skills with my main man Zangief. In another, I’m walking a fully customized avatar through a bustling city, its streets lined with AI-controlled strangers I can challenge to battle at my leisure. In a third, that same avatar is dropped into a massive room filled with arcade cabinets and other players looking for a fight. Street Fighter 6 learns an immediate lesson from the content-bare release of its predecessor, as it offers a variety of significant features and modes right out of the gate. It is a robust fighting game that is of premiere quality. Street Fighter 6 is incredible; a return to form for the franchise that welcomes both new fighters and seasoned pros.

SF6 splits its content into three hubs: Fighting Ground, which most closely emulates the classic SF experience; Battle Hub, where players can congregate to challenge each other and compete in tournaments; and World Tour, which is a sprawling, globe-trotting story…

Outer Wilds was a self-contained narrative puzzle of a game, but it looks like the creators still have more story to tell. A Steam listing has appeared for DLC called “Echoes of the Eye,” and publisher Annapurna dropped a coy hint that it’s not a mistake.

Twitter user Simon Carless flagged the Steam DB listing, and shortly after Annapurna Interactive retweeted it Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The publisher probably wouldn’t signal-boost a false rumor without identifying it as false, so that suggests there’s something to this leak.

It’s only a Steam DB listing, though, so it’s unknown if this will come to other platforms where The Outer Wilds has appeared. Those include Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, the latter two of which are also playable on their new-gen counterparts, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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Hearthstone is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, March 11, 2024. Below, we look back at how it helped pave the way for the common adoption of loot boxes, and maintained them as the industry came under heavy legal scrutiny.

When Hearthstone was announced in 2014, its approach to virtualizing the CCG experience seemed fair, even user-friendly. Just like a real-life paper CCG, you could pay for randomized card packs, have fun ripping them open and discovering your new finds, and then they’d be nicely organized into a collection. You could even trash duplicates for “arcane dust,” a resource that lets you craft new cards. It wasn’t a great exchange rate, but it felt fair enough as an alternative to opening a full-fledged trading marketplace–which Blizzard had good reason to avoid. What Blizzard couldn’t have predicted was how its CCG-inspired monetization strategy would soon help to define an industry trend–a trend that the public eventually …

Destiny 2’s weapon crafting can help create some amazing tools of destruction, but the process of doing so is one that developer Bungie wants to overhaul so that it can be more fun. In the studio’s latest blog update, Bungie explained some of the changes that will be applied to weapon crafting in the Lightfall expansion.

Deepsight weapons, which require you to kill several thousand enemies before they’re fully useful, are being fine-tuned for next year. Uncraftable weapons won’t drop with Deepsight resonance from Lightfall and Bungie is looking at “alternate ways” for players to get crafting materials. The core idea is that players will to want to try new weapons for other reasons, not just to earn crafting currencies.

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Valve has announced Steam Families, a new Steam feature that wraps up the pre-existing Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, as well as some brand-new family features. The new feature allows Steam users to create a family of up to six household members in order to share games and implement content controls.

Users can create a family and invite up to five other members, who can be assigned as either an adult or a child. All users in the family will have their games shared in a family library, which works similarly to Steam’s old Family Sharing feature.

Anyone in the family will be able to play any game in the library provided someone else isn’t playing it already. If two people want to play the same game at the same time, then two members of the family have to own a copy of the game. When playing shared games, each member will have their own save games, unlock Steam achievements for their own account, and have access to workshop files.

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Amazon is offering impressive early Black Friday discounts on a long list of board games. Whether you’re looking for a new edition of Monopoly, want to dive into a tabletop version of Skyrim, or explore a cooperative adventure in Arkham Horror, tons of great games are on sale. This includes both core sets and expansions–so even if you already own some of these titles, this is a good chance to pick up an expansion that’ll breathe new life into your game nights.

Update: Some of the games featured below are included in Amazon’s Buy Two, Get One Free Board Game Sale. Check out GameSpot’s big list of notable B2G1 free board and card games.

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The second act of Destiny 2’s first new episode, Echoes, adds two new guns to the list of weapons you can acquire from the episode’s activities. Like other episode weapons, you can eventually earn the ability to buy those two guns from Failsafe, the Echoes vendor. However, the ability to “focus” Echoes engrams into Aberrant Action or Corrasion isn’t immediately available with the launch of the episode. Instead, you have to earn it as a vendor upgrade by completing Failsafe’s tasks.

The ability to unlock focusing for Aberrant Action and Corrasion are now available as of Week 9, with the lengthy Specimen ID: NES005 mission coming into the game. It’ll eventually give you the vendor upgrade for Failsafe you need to earn these new guns, but there are a few long, grindy steps involved.

Both guns are pretty notable: Aberrant Action is a rocket-assisted sidearm and just the third of that type of gun in the game, while Corrasion is a heavy p…

Capcom’s upcoming Monster Hunter spin-off, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, releases July 9, and anyone planning to pick it up can now take advantage of a great preorder deal available only for Steam. Right now, Fanatical is slashing nearly $10 off the price of Monster Hunter Stories 2 Steam keys, dropping the preorder price to $51 instead of $60.

Anyone who preorders Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin will also get a Kamura Maiden Outfit for Ena. If you pick up your preorder from Fanatical keep in mind that you’ll get your Steam key for the game via email closer to its launch. Note that only the standard edition of the game is being discounted by Fanatical.

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Sony launched the Inzone Buds late last year, offering a sleek and small alternative to traditional gaming headphones. These earbuds are aimed at PC players, though they also work well on PS5. Since they’re equipped with the same drivers as the popular WH-1000XM5 earbuds and utilize Sony’s excellent noise-canceling tech, they’re an easy recommendation for those who discerning listeners who prefer earbuds. Fast forward to today, and the Inzone Buds are getting their first discount, bringing the price down to $178 (down from $200). Yes, they are still pricey, but some users will be able to use the Inzone Buds as a high-end replacement for general, non-gaming earbuds.

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When you’re looking to upgrade from the Bedar ship early on in Skull and Bones, your eyes might wander to the Sentinel. This rank two ship is a part of the Cutter, is in the small size class, and its ship type is Support, meaning it’s perfect if you like to keep your party’s vessels healthy.

Just like all ship blueprints in Skull and Bones, the Sentinel Cutter requires a blueprint before you’re able to build it at the Shipwright’s shop in Sainte-Anne. Unfortunately, the game doesn’t offer much in the way of finding the blueprint. While you can track the Sentinel blueprint, you need to know where to find its location on the map.

Below, you can see exactly where to purchase the blueprint for the Sentinel Cutter in Skull and Bones.

Sentinel Cutter blueprint location in Skull and Bones

The Sentinel Cutter blueprint is located at an outpost called Lanitra, which is found right near The Giant’s Leap and Angaya Coast regions on the map. More s…

Anyone who has watched a Star Wars film or TV show has dreamed about owning a lightsaber, and right now, you can get a big discount on this elegant weapon wielded by Jedi during more civilized times. As a bonus, you don’t even have to worry about accidentally disarming yourself with one of these replicas, as Hasbro’s official line of Black Series lightsabers sport all the visual and audio effects of those props without most of the risk attached to them. Please don’t poke fellow Star Wars cosplayers in the eye with one of these.

• Star Wars Black Series: Force FX Elite Luke Skywalker Lightsaber — $165 ($279)
• Star Wars Black Series: Force FX Elite Darth Vader Lightsaber — $164 ($279)

Like Darth Maul, these props’ prices have been cut by almost 50%. Normally $279, you can pick up either Darth Vader’s or Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber for just $164 and $165, respectively. These are sold as adult role-playing props, which basical…

Bethesda will talk more about its upcoming Indiana Jones game next year. Executive producer Todd Howard wants to say more about it right now, but he’s not allowed to.

In an interview with Esquire, Howard briefly touched upon Machine Game’s upcoming Indiana Jones project. “I am a giant Indiana Jones fan. It can be brought to video games in a unique way,” Howard explains. “The game is obviously: you’re exploring stuff. It’s about him. So if you’re playing the game, how do you feel that you are indeed playing versus just watching?”

At the end of the interview, he followed up with, “We’ll talk next year.”

The interview also mentions that Howard’s favorite Indian Jones adventure is Raiders of the Lost Ark. He pitched an Indiana Jones game to Lucasfilm in 2009, but it didn’t work out back then. Now, Disney has his back and Howard stated that it will be a “mash-up” of different genres. While he is the executive producer on the game, Howard isn’t involved on a daily …

A new Walking Dead video game has been announced, and it’s launching soon. The Walking Dead: Destinies re-tells “critical moments” from Seasons 1-4 of the AMC series through a third-person action-adventure game. The game gives players a number of choices to make, like electing who leads the group, if you choose to make the governor your enemy or friend, and more.

The game kicks off with players controlling Rick Grimes, who awakes in a hospital and surrounded by zombies. Like on the show, players need to make friends and battle baddies as they trace the story and locations from the TV series. Players will visit places like Atlanta, the Greene farm, and the prison.

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