Bungie has announced that Destiny 2’s annual Guardian Games event will return next week, featuring new earnable rewards, freebies, and more.
The free in-game event will begin on May 2 and last for three weeks until the end of Season 20 on May 23. The competition will once again allow players to earn medallions for completing a series of activities in Destiny 2, including a class-based version of the PvP mode Supremacy.
Nintendo has announced that Switch hardware and software sales were “below expectations” for the first nine months of its latest fiscal year (April-December 2024) and is also now expecting to sell fewer Switch consoles and games than it previously forecast.
Whereas Nintendo initially announced it was expecting to sell 12.5 million Switch consoles for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, it now expects sales to reach 11 million. Additionally, Nintendo originally modeled 160 million game sales for the fiscal year but is now expecting 10 million fewer, or 150 million.
Despite the lower-than-expected results for the latest period, Nintendo said the Switch “continues to be enjoyed by many people.” Nintendo management said Switch sales have been “stable” for a platform in its eighth year, noting that the Switch Lite: Hyrule Edition, which was released during the holiday, showed “steady growth.” Nintendo management also reminded people that Nintendo released multiple Switch O…
Read moreIt’s been teased since the end of Season 3, but now Cobra Kai fans are about to finally see the return of maniacal billionaire Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) in all of his rich and evil glory. And while it may seem like it took a long time to get to the point of Kreeze (Martin Kove) calling in his fellow Vietnam war soldier (and the primary antagonist of Karate Kid III), Silver’s return to the franchise has been part of the creative team’s plan since the beginning of the show.
“We love the Terry Silver character from Karate Kid III. We’ve talked about his character from the beginning, you know, from before writing the first episode,” co-showrunner Hayden Schlossberg told GameSpot. “You just don’t know at what point he’s going to enter in the early days. We didn’t say, ‘Okay, it’s gonna be Season 4.’ You really have to kind of plan things out. We knew that we wanted to have a lot of fun with that character and we wanted to devote the story space to that …
Read moreWith this week’s nationwide release of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 fans will say goodbye to not only James Gunn’s tenure at the studio but also Dave Bautista and Zoe Saldaña as Drax and Gamora, respectively. The entire release of the movie has centered around saying goodbyes, but it might not be the last time for a certain cast member.
“It would be strange to continue [Star-Lord’s] story without James,” Pratt told Total Film. “He’s done such a masterful job in the first three films. We really found the voice of Peter Quill together and without him, obviously, I would never have had this opportunity. He writes it, he directs it, he dreams up the music, it’s his imagination on screen. So, to continue to tell the story, it would really be important to honor what he’s done in the first three films and to honor what the fans have grown to love about the character and not simply do it because people might show up to pay for it, you know?”
Pratt’s first outing as S…
Read moreHalo Infinite added the much-anticipated Forge mode in November, and, despite remaining in a beta state, the map- and mode-making tools have proven to be very popular with the community. It’s also been announced that the Halo Infinite playlist containing maps and modes made by fans using Forge is the most popular in the game overall.
Developer 343 Industries has announced that as of January 2, 2023, Halo Infinite players have collectively built more than 1 million creations using Forge. Additionally, players have together logged more than 8.5 million custom game matches since the Custom Game Browser launched in December 2022. The Custom Game Browser lets people seek out and find custom game types created with Forge, and there are some really fun and unique ones out there.
Halo’s Forge tools debuted back in 2007 with Halo 3, and have been updated and improved in subsequent Halo launches leading up to Halo Infinite’s robust Forge tools.
Halo Infinite fans can check o…
Read moreSince its surprise launch in late November, Halo Infinite’s multiplayer has been serving up weekly challenges for players to complete and hunt down an exclusive cosmetic. This week is no different, and should be of particular interest if you love engaging enemies from a distance.
This week, you can work towards an exclusive skin for the infamous Halo sniper, the S7. The Abby Lime skin bathes the rifle in darkness, with a bright contrasting green splashed across the scope and muzzle. There’s also a faded red pattern on the magazine, which just makes the deadly weapon look even more so.
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Read moreFormer Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has suggested that tipping culture could benefit games, with some “special” single-player games leaving him wishing he could give more money to developers after completing them. Ybarra noted that “most will dislike this idea,” with many consumers already tired of tipping culture coming to other industries.
Ybarra introduced the idea in a tweet, as picked up by IGN, saying he had been thinking about it for a while as he was playing more single-player games.
“At the end of the game, I’ve often thought, ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second,'” Ybarra explained.
“Some games are that special,” he added, listing games such as Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Elden Ring among the games he would be tempted to pay a little extra for.
“I know most will dislike this idea,” Ybarr…
Read moreThe latest set of drivers for Nvidia’s graphics cards are here, improving Halo Infinite and preparing users’ hardware for Icarus, the upcoming co-op survival title from DayZ creator Dean Hall’s studio, RocketWerkz.
Halo Infinite’s improvements come along with new optimal settings in GeForce Experience for Inscryption, Farming Simulator 22, Crab Game, and Ruined King: A League of Legends Story. While what’s being changed in users’ GeForce Experience settings isn’t entirely clear, the result should be a frame rate boost for each game.
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Read moreJournal is a memorable game, but not a particularly good one. This creation of developer Richard Perrin and his company Locked Door Puzzle is noteworthy for its hand-drawn graphics, superb music, and vaguely morose teen-girl atmosphere that stays with you well after you wrap up the brief two-hour story. But the potential impact is watered down with too many after-school-special plot points and a disjointed narrative style that is way too avant-garde for the lightweight material.
Initially, however, Journal is very intriguing. The story centers on a nameless teen girl who finds that all of the pages of her daily journal have somehow gone blank. You start with a metaphysical mystery that might be termed The Case of the Erased Journal, but things veer off on a tangent almost immediately, with the journal being forgotten due to the girl’s many other problems at school and at home. Her mom and dad have split up, windows have been broken, tests have been cheated on, and snow globes …
Read moreFlexwood is a mid-tier resource in Lego Fortnite that is primarily used for making rare (blue) pickaxes. This resource is not easy to find early on and requires you to have a certain level of tool to harvest it. Flexwood is also used for certain village upgrades and for building more advanced structures. Here’s where you can find flexwood in Lego Fortnite and what tools you will need to harvest it.
Flexwood is found in the dry valley, which is the desert region in Lego Fortnite. Unfortunately, biomes are randomly located when you generate a new world, but there are a few ways to help locate the region. First, it seems like the dry valley is in the opposite direction of the snow region, of which you can typically spot the snowy mountains from the vantage point of your starting village. Once you have reached the point where you need dry valley resources, the NPCs in your village will occasionally mention which c…
Read moreVideo chatting app Houseparty has expanded its livestreaming tools by letting Fortnite players on PC and PlayStation consoles stream gameplay to up to nine of their friends.
The feature is only available for PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. There’s no word on if it will become available to other platforms. Epic Games said it will “let everyone know if we’re able to support more platforms in the future.”
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