It’s claimed that former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra wanted to bring about some massive changes to hero shooter Overwatch, as well as reduce microtransactions in action RPG Diablo 4 before his departure from the company earlier this year. PC Gamer reports that in Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s new book about Blizzard, it’s mentioned in the final chapter that Ybarra was planning to “reboot Overwatch,” which sounds like a pretty enormous deal. It’s not clear what form this might have taken – after all, Overwatch 2 has only been out for two years (less than that when Ybarra was still at Blizzard), and it straight-up replaced its predecessor. Attitudes about Overwatch 2 haven’t always been, uh, fantastic since its launch – the hero shooter is still tarnished with a ‘Mostly Negative’ rating on Steam after a rough start last summer – so perhaps a reboot could have helped give it a fresh start?Then there’s Diablo 4, and Ybarra’s supposed old plans to “cut d…

The Tomb Raider series has now sold more than 100 million copies over its three decade history, so three more Lara Croft adventures are getting a much-deserved, and much-needed, glow-up.This year, series stewards Crystal Dynamics and remasterers Aspyr Media updated Tomb Raider 1-3 with modern sensibilities. The pair are now giving more Lara Croft games the same treatment with Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, which repackages the late PS1 games The Last Revelation and Chronicles, together with the series’ first PS2 outing Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. The remastered pack gives each game a nice visual overhaul to beautify characters, environments, spiky traps, and ancient artefacts – the trailer below even boasts of some really nice looking shadow work. It also includes my favorite feature from the first set of remasters: the ability to toggle between the new and old graphics on-the-fly. 

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered – Announce Trailer – YouTube

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The Silent Hill 2 Grand Market keypad code can be found close to the locked door, but you won’t that know until you get it. Even then you won’t find a lock combination, just a note narrowing down your number options. If you want to open the door and get inside the Grand Market, which is an optional objective, here’s what to look for. After finding the Silent Hill 2 Auto Parts key to get into town, this is probably one of the first things you’ll find as you explore. Silent Hill 2 Grand Market Keypad code The Silent Hill 2 Grand Market Keypad code is 4444 and can be found by a blue truck not that far from the Market itself. The location of both the Silent Hill 2 Grand Market Keypad and code are here:  The keypad code for the Grand Market in Silent Hill 2 is only a little way away from the door, but with little to connect the lock with the location where you find the combination clue, it could be easy to miss. Head to the keypad code note location on the map  an…

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Best Tonic Upgrades

Act 1 Tonic Upgrades

You’ll get Destiny 2 Tonic Upgrades for Eido’s lab as you complete Major Fieldwork quests, but you’ll want to unlock the best ones first. These first five upgrades in Revenant Act 1 mainly focus on bolstering your ability to gather reagents, letting you get these crucial Destiny 2 brewing ingredients from things like bounties and dismantling weapons, but the most useful upgrade improves your chances of discovering new tonic recipes, which has many long-term benefits. With all that in mind, here are the best Destiny 2 Tonic Upgrades to get first as well as what they all do.Best Destiny 2 Tonic Upgrades If you just want to know which Major Destiny 2 Fieldwork quests to complete first to get the best Tonic Upgrades early, here’s the order I recommend:Extraordinary Tonics: Hugely useful for discovering more tonic recipes which will help you unlock Minor and Major Fieldwork quests faster.Blood Drive: S…

343 Industries has rebranded simply as Halo Studios to kickstart a “new chapter” in the iconic series’ long history, which includes multiple games in development.Announced at this weekend’s Halo World Championship Series 2024, the series steward unveiled its plan for Master Chief’s bright future. The entire team is now switching to Unreal Engine 5 and ditching its proprietary Slipspace tech. A research venture called Project Foundry is laying the groundwork for multiple Halo games. And, the studio’s rebrand is more of a turning page for the series as a whole.”If you really break Halo down, there have been two very distinct chapters,” studio head Pierre Hintze, who took over after Halo Infinite’s wonky launch, explains in an Xbox Wire blog. “Chapter 1 – Bungie. Chapter 2 – 343 Industries. Now, I think we have an audience which is hungry for more. So we’re not just going to try improve the efficiency of development, but change the recipe of how we make Halo games. S…

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How to defeat a Realmwalker

How to complete a Seething Realm

Diablo 4 Realmwalkers are a formidable new foe, summoned to Sanctuary by the hatred of Mephisto, and it’s impossible to miss these lumbering colossi as they stomp through regions to cause terror. They’re an important addition to Diablo 4, as when defeated they spawn portals to the Seething Realm, where you can battle through special dungeons to earn powerful Seething Opal Elixirs. You also need to defeat a Realmwalker and complete a Seething Realm to progress a Vessel of Hatred questline, so here’s everything you need to know to complete those tasks.How to defeat a Realmwalker in Diablo 4 More Diablo 4 guidesDiablo 4 Mercenaries
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Diablo 4 PetsTo defeat a Realmwalker in Diablo 4, you first need to watch out for a notification of Hatred Rising in a particular region, then search the map for the icon and prompt shown above. These events …

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All weapon locations

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Is the Great Knife in the Remake?

The Silent Hill 2 Remake weapons you can find aren’t exactly common – there’s six weapons in total: two mandatory melee weapons, three guns and a secret chainsaw that you can find on NG+. But if you’re determined to be as well-armed as possible in the Silent Hill 2 Remake – finding the handgun pistol, shotgun, rifle and chainsaw – we can show you where to find all of them. If you’d rather not have to depend on James’ skill with a rotten plank, we’ll show you how to find the locations of all weapons and guns in Silent Hill 2.Where to find all weapons in Silent Hill 2 Remake There are four main weapons you can find in the Silent Hill 2 Remake, not including the wooden board and metal pipe that the game forces you to take at preset moments within the main campaign. Below we’ve listed all of them and their locations:Handgun – Wood Side Apartments 2F, Room 217Shotgu…

Paradox Interactive chief creative officer Henrik Fåhraeus says the canceled life sim Life By You wasn’t actually better than The Sims 4 in any major way.Life By You was positioned as a direct competitor to The Sims 4 before it was canceled in June 2024. However, in a new interview with Game File (paywalled), Fåhraeus admits it failed to deliver.”An early access game needs, I think, needs to be really, really polished and fun, what’s there, at least,” Fåhraeus says. “You can have a lot of missing stuff in the late game and be very thin on content. But it needs to be a really good experience. And I don’t think this could have been that for the foreseeable future.”I also don’t think that it was actually clearly better than Sims 4 in any of its main areas.”As if it needs to be said, that’s an incredibly damning statement from the top of a game’s publisher positioned to compete with The Sims 4. And believe it or not, it’s debatable whether this is the most damning thing w…

Though I’m by no means an expert on Warhammer 40K lore, I’ve played enough Tomb Kings in Total War: Warhammer 3 to recognize dusty old Necron activity when I see it. So imagine my surprise when, far from the splendor of Avarax and sprawling jungles of Kadaku, Space Marine 2 revealed that the Chaos-warped planet Demerium was actually a Necron tomb world, just one of many places in the universe where millions of ancient alien-android warriors lie dormant. During the level Dawn’s Descent, telltale hieroglyph-style markings adorn a dig site far beneath the planet’s surface, and inquisitive marines can find data slates that suggest something very angry has been awoken by the Adeptus Mechanicus. For those who don’t follow 40K too closely, the dingy tunnels are merely a nice change of pace from the rest of the game – claustrophobic and almost creepy, it’s one of the few instances where it feels like something tougher than a space marine is lurking just out of sight. For those aware…

Beyond Galaxyland, a sci-fi adventure inspired by everything from classic JRPGs to the kooky world of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is out now on PC and consoles, offering a galaxy-spanning experience.A 2.5D RPG boasting some beautifully detailed pixel art that brings the worlds of an entire galaxy to life, Beyond Galaxyland focuses on Doug, an unfortunate high-schooler who’s whisked away from Earth to an entirely new solar system: Galaxyland, a whole system styled like an intergalactic zoo. Accompanied by his now pistol-wielding pet guinea pig Boom Boom and a sentient robot, Doug finds himself in the midst of a Universe-conquering plot by an all-powerful entity known only as ‘The End’.Doug’s efforts will take him all over Galaxyland; from snow-covered wastes to tropical jungles, to neon-soaked sci-fi cities, the game brings entire planets to life, complete with all the detail and sci-fi stylings of the games and films that inspired it. Classic JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and Fina…