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Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch makes online-only missions playable offline, alongside some other useful updates

Patch 1.042 is set to arrive next week, on 4th August, and it’s bringing two major features to the monster-hunting action game. First, Event Quests and Challenge Quests will now be available to play offline. Event and Challenge Quests are essentially Monster Hunter’s sole live service element. These missions rotate weekly, and task players with […]

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Two arrested for checking into esports hotels and stealing RAM, making off with over $2,000 in profit in just one month

Two people have been arrested by Chinese police for allegedly staying at esports hotels for the sole purpose of stealing memory from rigs. Yeah, I was unfamiliar with esports hotels too. Initially, Li worked alone, staying at a hotel in Shihezi City, according to Guangming Online (via Tom’s Hardware). With the memory crisis in full

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Dragon’s Dogma 2 is getting a Fallout-inspired homesteading mod with fully customisable houses, and its creator has tons of big ideas for it

SonicaKP is a player who’s been working on some interesting mods that seek to expand the open-world action RPG beyond its mechanical limits. Last month, they uploaded RiftSpeak to Nexus Mods, a PC modification that “gives your Dragon’s Dogma 2 main pawn natural AI conversation and the will to act on it”. Now, they’re working

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Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem bolster a strong quarter for Capcom, as Monster Hunter and Street Fighter sales hit record highs

The report, which you can read on the Capcom corporate website, reveals that Pragmata has sold just over 2.5m copies since its launch in April. This seems to be an achievement in Capcom’s eyes, as the report states the game “performed well”, and that “Strong new and catalog title performance led to [year-on-year] growth in

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User-made maps from Steam top-seller Meccha Chameleon have been found to contain malware, just as the game’s official Discord server got hacked

The initial report was published on Thursday by an independent researcher going by Feint. In their rundown on Medium, they looked into one particular Steam Workshop map after a friend reported “seeing a command prompt window briefly appear” while the map was being downloaded. Upon analysing the files, they found “what appears to be a

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls had a Magik-al open beta weekend, as character popularity data reveals a surprising community favourite

Fighting game player and webtoon creator AlietteFaye gathered data on character usage from players at Vibranium rank and higher, and found that Magik proved the most popular character. In second place came Blade, then Magneto, followed by Spider-Man. Magik was also the most popular character in the leader position in teams (meaning the character you

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Baldur’s Gate 3 players on PC can’t decide if the latest third-person camera mod is a revelation or a crime against Larian’s original vision

Relysia’s mod was uploaded on 20th July to Nexus Mods. Since then, it’s hit over 6,400 unique downloads and gone viral on social media. It’s all explained when you look at one of the many gameplay videos people are sharing. For the most part, it looks remarkably convincing if you compare it to previous efforts.

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Rockstar Games and GTA co-founder chimes in on the raging physical games debate: “If people want that, companies should provide it”

This topic has been raging ever since Rockstar Games announced Grand Theft Auto 6 would not ship with a disc. This news was quickly followed by Sony revealing it would no longer produce physical discs for games after January 2028. Houser and Jones, who now both work at Absurd Ventures, were speaking to IGN at

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Bethesda yet again reassures fans that The Elder Scrolls 6’s roadmap is unaffected by recent Xbox layoffs

YouTuber MrMattyPlays sent the studio questions about a number of topics, and shared the answers in a new video (via PCGamer). In response to an Elder Scrolls 6 question, the developer simply said: “The roadmap [for TES6] is unaffected”. This may be a little hard to believe, given that several current staff members at the

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