Mario Kart Worldcame out just 32 days ago, but already, one player has racked up over seven days worth of playtime. u/subwayeatfleshhvery casually asked the community “How many hours do you have?”, attaching a screenshot of their enormous 175 hour tally. Unsurprisingly, barely anyone bothered to answer their question—they were too distracted by that ungainly figure. “Bro that’s almost 6 hours a day every single day (on average),” u/BroeknRecrds replied....

Summary Ultron has finally come toMarvel Rivalswith the Season 2.5 update, but it seems he has taken the community by surprise. When the character and his specs were initially revealed before the update, players weren’t too excited.Many felt that the damage and healing numbers were too low, and the iconic villain would become a rarely selected character. As NetEase has been known to do, it took the community’s opinions into consideration and buffed Ultron a day after the update....

Monster Hunter Wilds' PC version is finally getting the performance fixes it so desperately needs thanks to Title Update 2. While the update introduces new Monsters, quests, equipment, and weapons, PC players will be glad to see that it also brings several fixes for the VRAMissue that has been plaguing the game since launch. Things haven’t been great for Monster Hunter Wilds lately. After arecord breaking launch, it’s all been downhill....

The lines between consoles are more blurred than ever, but they’re still there, particularly when it comes to the line betweenNintendoand pretty much everything else. That’s why it’s incredibly surprising to discover that Nintendo gets a shoutout in the credits ofDeath Stranding 2. Death Stranding 2 won’t be released until tomorrow, but some people have been lucky enough to have already been in possession of a copy of the sequel long enough to have played through the game....

Earlier this month, Steam amended its publisher guidelines toprohibit “content that may violate the rules” set by credit card companiessuch as Visa and Mastercard. Dozens of adult games were soon purged from the platform. A group called Collective Shout later claimed responsibility, stating that it had pressured payment processors directly to take actionafter Steam failed to respond. While many of the games removed were controversial, often graphic adult visual novels detailing incst, rpe, and slavery, players wereconcerned about the precedent being set and the potential for future censorship, as the group had previously targeted games such asDetroit: Become Humanfor depicting child abuse, andGTA 5for allowing the murder of female NPCs....

Amidst all the big announcements and highly anticipated demos atSummer Game Fest, you sometimes get to see a game unlike anything you’ve ever played before, and it ends up becoming the one you can’t stop thinking about. That’s my favorite thing about SGF. I loved beingone of the first people to play Pragmataand gettingthe inside scoop on Resident Evil Requiemright after it was revealed. But when I left SGF after four whirlwind days of gaming, the one I’m most excited about is a 2D puzzle parkour game about stealing African vases....

The director of the upcomingResident Evilmovie, Zach Cregger, has admitted that he’s not trying to be too “obedient” with the game’s lore, since he knows fans will “come after” him online no matter what. Althoughalmost every Resident Evil fan has their attention focused solelyon the upcoming ninth mainline game,Resident Evil Requiem, that’s not the only big thing for the series that’s in the works right now.There’s also a new movie coming out, but this one is a lot more exciting than theprevious underwhelming adaptations....

In my 30 years as a gamer (please clap), the thing I’ve learned about haptic technology is that it’s always a gimmick until it’s not. WhenNintendoreleased the N64 Rumble Pak in 1997, everyone thought it was a chunk of plastic that made your controller heavy for not much benefit, and now it feels weird to play games without rumble. The DualSense’s haptic triggers also sounded pretty silly at first, but it’s ended up being one of the PS5’s defining features....

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Quick Links Check out theRogueblox codeslisted below to claim free in-game rewards and boosts; they will give you a helpful start as you jump into the game. Just remember, these Roblox codes expire quickly, so be sure to redeem them as soon as you can. Keep in mind that we’re always on the lookout for new codes and regularly update this list, especially after game updates, so you don’t miss out on the latest rewards....

I first saw Stronghold Crusader being played over my granddad’s shoulder. We’re going back a long time here, all the way back to 2002 when the original game was first released, 23 years ago, which would’ve made me seven years old. Which seems like the perfect age to be admiring video games over a relative’s shoulder rather than actually attempting to play them myself: there was quite a lot of that during my upbringing, whether it was my granddad with games like Stronghold, my friend’s older brother with GTA 2, or my best mate with Sim City 3000....

Summary In exactly one year and seven days, we’ll all — hopefully — be playingGrand Theft Auto 6. That’s becausethe game was unceremoniously delayed to July 22, 2025, a datethat Take-Two and Rockstar Games are both confident in reaching, andone that Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believes is closer to a six-month delay due to how late the game was planning to release in 2025. Speaking of Zelnick, when GTA 6 does finally come out, don’t expect him to hop on the sticks and join us in Vice City....

Quick Links Like the original Death Stranding,Death Stranding 2: On The Beachhas quite a lot of Preppers. These are isolated shelters all across the map filled with individuals who don’t represent anything greater than themselves and whatever they’ve decided to pick up in their time away from everyone else. Sam’s job is to connect them all to the Chiral Network. A large chunk of them will be met over the course of the story, though there are quite a few still that you will have to go out of your way to meet and connect yourself....