May 9, 2024

It’s one of my favorite times of the month: new Helldivers 2 warbond day. After a community vote that went overwhelmingly in favor of no delay, Arrowhead released the Polar Patriots premium warbond today, adding four new guns and other goodies to its rapidly-expanding co-op shooter. You can unlock the items on the warbond’s first…

The Hunter prismatic class item is called Essentialism and is, quite frankly, a Big Look and therefore going to be the hardest to incorporate into different fashion styles.  (Image credit: Bungie) With less than four weeks to go before The Final Shape—the climactic expansion in Destiny’s decade-long saga—the flow of information coming from Bungie is…

Plenty of things in Hades 2 are similar to things from the original. Your hangout pals still include a dominatrix-coded rival who gets in your way, a fit sadboy, and a ghost whose nickname starts with D and turns out to be a significant character from myth. Mechanically there’s plenty that feels familiar too. You…

After making a lot of people very mad at it, Apple has apologized for a new advertisement and says it’s scrapping plans to air the minute-long spot on TV. The ad, called “Crush,” is meant to emphasize the thinness of Apple’s new iPad Pro, and features a pile of media devices and art-making tools, including…

Diablo 4’s lead class designer called trying to test an action RPG made to be played for hundreds of hours “a cursed problem” that would take “more hours than what you would normally expect someone to work at a job,” in an interview today with Diablo 4 streamer Raxxanterax. Jackson was answering a question about…

LinkedIn, the email spam service associated with a B2B social network, has made its move into gaming. Not with a LinkedIn-branded golf putting kit, which surely would’ve nailed the target audience: LinkedIn has started with three simple browser games that can be played daily and, here’s the kicker, track and share stats across networks. Yes,…

Marquee zombie survival shooter DayZ has a new expansion coming this fall, its first in nearly five years. DayZ Frostline will introduce the frigid new Sakhal archipelago, a sprawling 83km² map—that’s about 32 square miles of frigid islands and volcanic peaks. A debut trailer and screenshots show off industrial facilities, mines, pipelines, and oil derricks…

Even with its hands full on Warhammer 40K CRPG Rogue Trader, Owlcat Games has found time to add a ton of substantial DLC to its 2021 RPG epic, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Now WotR is set to get its swan song on June 13 with A Dance of Masks, a massive new epilogue chapter…

Somehow, it’s almost summer again, which means that the summer gaming showcase schedule is starting to fill out. E3 is gone for good now, but as we’ve learned in past years that isn’t going to stop all of gaming’s publishers, big and small, from descending upon the month of June to roll out their roadmaps…