As per a press release from Stellaris publisher Paradox Interactive has stated that the new expansion will launch for Stellaris on PC on April 15. As you’d expect from that title, this new expansion allows you to become part of the endgame crisis that threatens the state of the universe (if you so desire). In order to feed the dark demons and indulge in a bit of galaxy destroying yourself, though, you’ll first need to horde Menace, ascend through the ranks of the diabolical ones and, eventually unlock the Aetherophasic Engine; a grim machine powered by the last bits of thrashing life from a dying star....

When you begin the game, the first event of this kind you’ll encounter will be the Egg Hunt festival, which takes place a couple of in-game weeks after you first move to Olive Town. How to prepare for the Egg Hunt The Egg Hunt takes place on Spring 15, paralleling Easter Sunday. The residents of Olive Town will start reminding you of it (some might say a bit obsessively) a couple of days beforehand....

According to the figures, declines were reported with net profits a bit flat, year-over-year (yoy). Nintendo noted a decline of 3.6% in sales yoy, despite its dedicated video game platform bringing in ¥1.64 trillion ($12.3 billion). This figure includes accessories, hardware, and software, the latter of which also encompasses downloadable versions of packaged software, download-only software, add-on content, and Nintendo Switch Online. Mobile and IP related income (smart-device content and royalty income) brought in ¥53....

Paying attention to what the little sprites are trying to tell you could lead to some interesting loot. These new fairies are different to the pets you can collect to help light your way around dark places, but can still be caught if you’re that way inclined. What do the Pink Fairy, Blue Fairy and Green Fairy do in Terraria 1.4? With the release of Terraria 1.4 on PC, there are now three kinds of fairies that can spawn: a Pink Fairy, Blue Fairy, and Green Fairy....

“We understand there has been some confusion about an in-game-store exclusive award for the Vault Edition,” the statement from the official Call of Duty account reads. “Therefore, we’ve decided to reward all players that currently own or purchase any version of the MWII Vault Edition with 10 hours of double XP tokens and 10 hours of double weapon XP tokens.” If you didn’t have these tokens in your account at the time of writing, you should now....

Wanderer is a powerful Anemo character who excels at strong attacks and benefits from different boons depending on which elements his skills interact with. While he doesn’t have a place on Dendro teams, he doesn’t really need anyone else. Even if you don’t luck out with his signature weapon, you have plenty of other choices - even a 3-star catalyst - to help him shine. Genshin Impact Wanderer When is the Wanderer banner?...

To help you get all you can from the N / R festival, we’ve written up this N / R festival deck list that’ll help you win games within the permitted perimeters. N / R Festival deck: What is a Triamid deck? For our N / R festival deck, we’ve chosen to go for a Triamid deck. Triamid cards are all rock types, and have effects that not only buff other Triamid cards specifically, but also other non-triamid rock monsters....

Striking Distance really cares a lot about horror. The staff have been ruthless in studying the psychology of fear, and have boiled down the tenets of human dread to how we respond to atmosphere, tension, brutality, helplessness, and humanity. Taking each of these five strands and tinkering with them individually, Striking Distance reckons it’s made one of the scariest games ever made – no matter what your own personal tolerance for horror is....

Last year, it was shut down. Now it’s back from the dead and it’s hoping to entice players back by… wait… hold on… the developer wants players to pay to play it more than once per day? Hahahaha. No. Talk about culling your playerbase. To be fair to the developer, it has tried a bunch of different ways to entice players back. It released The Culling 2 before pulling it from sale almost immediately and relaunching the first game....

If you jumped into The Division 2: Warlords of New York yesterday, you may have run into a bug that prevents Community Leader NPCs from talking to you. Community Leader NPCs can be found across the major safe houses in New York, and speaking to them is necessary to progress the story. They’re often the first or second step in your investigation to narrow down the whereabouts of Keener’s four main lieutenants....

Back in February of last year, rumors stated Nintendo wanted to add Sora as a character to the game, but the request was denied by Disney Japan. So either the rumor wasn’t true or Nintendo and Disney worked something out. Game director Masahiro Sakurai said during today’s stream it took a bit of work and time to include him, more so than other fighters, so maybe the rumor was true after all....

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles was part of Capcom’s 30-minute E3 2021 presentation today, we were given a look at some gameplay mechanics. In this particular trailer from E3 2021, Capcom walks you through both familiar gameplay mechanics as well as new features including investigating crime scenes with the Dance of Deduction and persuading the jury with Summation Examination. Using Dances of Deduction, Ryunosuke and Susato will need to work together to untangle Sholmes’ “over-enthusiastic assumptions” and discern the truth....

What you may not have counted on, however, is for the blu-ray disc to contain nothing more than a license to start the download. At least, that’s case here. The disc-based version of Modern Warfare 2, specifically the PS5 version, has been discovered to contain only 70mb of data. That’s about enough for… a texture? In other words, you’ll need to download the entire game once you have your copy, because Activision shipped out practically empty discs....

Instead, what is equally worth bringing to light is just how involved item descriptions – and their gameplay ramifications – have gotten in a modern FromSoftware game. The studio’s work has always relied on this sparse manner of storytelling, where the bulk of what’s interesting happens in the margins. The deeper you dig and try to connect the dots, the better your understanding is going to be about the state of the world and its inhabitants....

You are, of course, reading our weekly hidden indie gems feature where the aim is to bring you a couple of new indie games on the horizon, and some that can be played this weekend. Hot indie games week of August 17 Black Myth: Wu Kong Small Chinese teams continue to impress with production values you’d expect from Western AAA developers. The latest project out of the Chinese development community is Black Myth: Wu Kong, a martial arts action game in development for PC and consoles....

Now we have an idea what The Witcher: Monster Slayer will look like once it’s made available on iOS and Android. CD Projekt posted a gameplay trailer for the title on Twitter. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Here’s a sneak peek of #TheWitcherMonsterSlayer gameplay. P.S. For the best experience watch it on your phone vertically. pic.twitter.com/G9uFlWZYtO — The Witcher: Monster Slayer (@TheWitcherMS) August 31, 2020 If you want a better look at the trailer, it has been posted on YouTube as well....

That’s going by a video posted by YouTube user rubhen925 – as spotted by the @_XboxNews Twitter account – which shows the silver-haired and incredibly sexy Geralt zapping from one part of The Witcher 3’s world to another in just seconds. On current hardware, there’s normally a loading screen before the player is transported to another area of the world. The video is apparently of a version of Witcher 3 without optimisation, with the improved loading times coming as a result of the console’s SSD, which provides faster read/write speed....

A Reddit user named herrick17 recently shared a post titled, “I think I found a Twilight reference lol.” At first I was sceptical - “think” is not the strongest word in the dictionary. But then I had a look, and, as it turns out, it’s not just a reference. It is 100%, unequivocally, absolutely Twilight fan fiction. Check out the screenshot below, which shows a passage from an in-game book called “Moribundia: The Vampire’s Last Likeness....

“Fashion fits more than you might think,” u/FancyFellerRDR2, an extremely active member of the Reddit community r/RedDeadFashion told me, “For example, when I play dishonourable I will use an outfit from a gang that robs and murders. If it’s in Valentine, I’ll use an O’Driscoll gang outfit, and around Rhodes I’ll use a Leymone Raiders one.” u/FancyFellerRDR2 tends to make outfits as specific and as detailed as possible, but that’s not the only way to play....

I mean, just look at it! This Kirby and the Goal Door statue is exceptional. This is simply a nice, big statue of the nice, big pink puff. I can’t stop smiling when looking at it! It’s just that cute! It’s so cute, and I know you just feel compelled to pre-order it. Well, good news, as pre-orders are live for the adorable little guy today. Look, there’s even a video: At First 4 Figures, you’ll be able to get the exclusive edition of the statue, which has some neat additional effects going on....