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Return Of The Jedi | Helldivers 2's Star Wars Clone Wars mod pack took "eight weeks of brute force" to make, and its creators aren't done
The end goal? It sounds like a total overhaul.
Mark Warren
Senior Staff Writer
Mark (he/him) did two degrees, one in Journalism and one in English, at the University of Sunderland. His mum is quite proud. Or, at least, she seems to be. During his journey through the terrifying abyss of games journalism to this point, he’s seen some things that’d make lesser men quake in their boots. From negotiating the shark-infested waters of freelancing to jumping into the maelstrom of gaming news at Gfinity, he’s somehow survived it all. Now having landed upon the shores of VG247, he’s very much in the making friends with sporting equipment and growing disgusting facial hair phase of his career. If you must know, he likes playing RPGs, going for long walks, and occasionally forcing himself to read pretentious books about philosophy instead of comics.
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LAE-HELL YEAH | Wahey, Baldur's Gate 3's next big update drops in September - with official mod tool testing starting today
The power to do things like giving Gale a reverse mohawk a bit more easily - it's coming soon.
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FEATURE FIGHT | Manor Lords dev asks what should be in next patch, serious beef between butchers and walls naturally ensues
Meat men and women vs the ability to cower behind something - man, it's a tough one.
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VOID GAZING | Helldivers 2 players destroy Meridia, left staring into the void waiting to see if the Illuminate will arrive
"These sounds don't sound very democratic to me..."
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BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGG | Destiny 2's The Final Shape might require about five times the space of one Elden Ring to install via Steam
Yep, get ready to potentially uninstall all those crap games you bought during the last sale and are pretending you'll play.
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BUGGING OUT | UPDATE: Helldivers 2 Meridia Major Order sees players overwhelmed by bug hordes spawning right on top of objectives
Arrowhead is "aware of the issues", according to Discord moderator.
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BREAKING OUR SILENCE | We watched the 13 minutes of Silent Hill 2 remake gameplay and it looks...OK
Yep, that's a man named after a city in north east England wandering about scary locales for a bit.
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ACCOUNT RE-OPENED | Why are people angry about God of War Ragnarok requiring a PSN account on PC?
Yup, after Helldivers 2 and Ghost of Tsushima's PC port, we're doing this whole thing with PlayStation again.
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SAVE BONUSES! | Monster Hunter Wilds offers first look at gameplay at State of Play
Wahey, here's your latest update on the next entry in the Monster Hunter series, set to arrive in 2025.
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GENERATION GAP | Sony says PS5 is its "most profitable generation to date", even if half of its total active players are still on PS4
It's also not planning to move away from releasing its "tentpole" single player games on console before they eventually hit PC.
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STAT SPEAK | New Helldivers 2 CEO responds to calls for more stat "transparency" by reminding folks "it's not Arma at the end of the day"
"I think it's good that players have a good understanding of how things work - but some of it should be fuzzy IMO."
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FIGHTING FOR POINTS | F1 24 review: Breaking the DRS train a little, but not a huge amount
EA and Codemasters’ latest offering does include some interesting changes, but the main one feels like it’d ideally just be a solid foundation.
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HOLY MOLY | Helldivers 2 Major Order sparks more Illuminate speculation, may lead to a planet being spaghettified by a black hole
It looks like we'll get to see what'll happen to Meridia soon, too, given the progress Super Earth forces have already made on this directive.
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GT-AWAY IT GOES | GTA 5 set to depart PlayStation Plus after six months, in terrible news for the three people who're still yet to play it
They'll be devastated, I'm sure.
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HOUSE ALWAYS WINS | "I thought to myself, why don't I do it?" - inside a Fallout New Vegas fan's campaign to get Mr House on the Vegas sphere
“The only thing that will stop me from doing it, minus a lack of funds, would be if MSG Sphere outright didn't allow me to display anything at all.”
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FORT-LLOUT | Fortnite's Fallout stuff arrives today, because we all need to see a guy in power armour chug Nuka Cola while hitting the griddy
There's also a dude made of peas as a skin, because Fortnite.
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MECHING IT HAPPEN | Helldivers 2 players are on the way to earning a new mech, with a cool jet or bomb-based stratagem possibly to follow
Arrowhead's been taking pitches for an Eagle stratagem, and by god have folks been pitching.
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BLOPS IS BACK | UPDATE: Yup, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is the name of 2024's CoD title
Thanks Activision, now please apologise to those poor dudes on Mount Rushmore.
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FUUUUUTURE | Sony's vision for the future includes a controller that looks like a ring light with joysticks, and, er, Horizon Zero Dawn
In ten years time, you apparently might be playing an ok game from 2017 on a floating screen.
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FRESH STRATEGEM | Helldivers 2 boss wastes no time outlining plans to improve game, starting with need to get more devs playing
"It's hard to make the right decisions if the eyes aren't on the road."
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SUPER EARTH SWITCHUP | Helldivers 2 boss Pilestedt steps aside as CEO in order to focus more on helping develop the game and its community
"It’s not only right for me, but it’s also right for the organisation."
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NEKKER NOSTALGIA | Witcher 3 mod lets you explore the first Witcher game's Vizima, less than a day after REDkit made it possible
Taking Geralt back to where it all began is pretty cool, even if the streets are empty.
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ELDEN BRING IT ON | Watch the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree story trailer here
We're all just here, waiting for FromSoft to sweep us up in a lore hurricane.
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SWITCHING PORTS | Nintendo acquires the latest studio to depart Embracer's lovely, hunky-dory friendship group
Shiver Entertainment, known for its ports, will be continuing to deliver those for platforms like the Switch.
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NOSTALGIC NYOOMS | Buckle up, Need For Speed Unbound's new Underground-inspired drag and drift races have just arrived
Hey, it's an old thing that we all liked once, and might like again now.
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SHRAP THE CHANGES | Helldivers 2 devs taking "more time" to cook up its next weapon balancing patch, with an Eruptor revamp on many wishlists
Also, that spear tweak lots of folks have been after for a while looks like it'll be in the next big patch.
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EXPANSION PACK | Baldur’s Gate 3 developer opens new Warsaw studio, as work on "two very ambitious RPGs" properly gets going
Larian's made its first foray into Poland, a country definitely not known for good RPGs, at all.
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BRUTAL BARS | This Mortal Kombat 1 mod will let you settle Kendrick Lamar and Drake's beef in extra-fatal Def Jam style
Step aside, Johnny Cage, we've got a rap feud in need of a fair resolution.
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UPDATE FALLOUT | Thankfully, Fallout 4's next-gen update part two sounds like it shouldn't have caused too much trouble for Fallout: London
Also, GOG sounds pretty psyched to be the place you'll have to go to get the massive mod.
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HADES AND SEEK | Hades 2 director teases that "clues as to where things are going" major update-wise are already out there for folks to find
You'll just have play the game "deeply enough" - that's definitely a phrase - and hope they pop up.
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CALL ME MAYBE | Reports now say Call of Duty 2024 is definitely, for real, coming to Game Pass
What's happening with the series about shooting the people? Honestly, who knows at this point.
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MINE-TAL KOMBAT | Minecraft anniversary easter egg lets you celebrate by physically fighting the Minecraft movie - kind of
Jack Black, come get these square hands!
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SHRUG EMOJI | Do you understand what Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is saying here about Roll7 and Intercept? Someone make it make sense
"We didn't shutter those studios", publisher says about studios we all thought it'd shuttered.
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IT'S COMING | Take-Two narrows down GTA 6's release date to fall 2025, as GTA 5 breezes past an incredible 200 million copies sold
The publisher's "highly confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience".
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CONNECT CLEARED UP | Don't worry, Assassin's Creed Shadows is playable offline in its entirety, even if you'll need an internet connection to install it
Just in case you were unsure, Ubisoft's decided to clear things up.
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NEW WAR, WHO DIS? | After Helldivers 2 players come up short in latest Major Order, Arrowhead casually declares that "The Second Galactic War" is upon us
Everything up until now was apparently "merely an elaborate special operation". There's no satire going on here.
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RUS-SUL SUL WILSON | LA Chargers use The Sims 2 to announce their 2024 NFL schedule, and yes, there's a pool steps-based murder
I genuinely can't stop sniggering at the Broncos wishing well gag, or how well Harrison Butker's been roasted.
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SYNC SIGHTSEEING | Assassin's Creed Shadows will make you actually take in the nice views from its tower-top sync points
Also, its stealth missions can change based on the weather, meaning you might have to think about icicles.
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BOOM-HAJ | Look, Fallout 4's next-gen updates might have made things tricky mod-wise, but here's a Fat Man that fires cuddly IKEA sharks
Don't worry, PC wastelanders, it's all going to be ok.
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS | Watch the Assassin's Creed Shadows reveal trailer here
If it helps, you can pretend Jim Trinca's in the room while you watch and he's going 'cor, that's some history' every five minutes.
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NEW NIER NEAR? | Yoko Taro and other NieR devs tease new project that "might be NieR, it might not be NieR"
It's probably not NieR, but it could maybe be NieR. We'll probably learn NieR to release.
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SPAWN SWITCHUP | Helldivers 2 devs plan to revamp enemy spawn rates again, as more baddies than intended continue to overwhelm folks
Things'll be going back to the way they were prior to a recent patch, possibly with a few tweaks.
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BLUE VS GREEN | PlayStation 5 outsold Xbox Series X/S nearly 5-to-1 the last quarter, according to estimates
Console sales may be on a bit of a downward trend as a whole, but the PS5 seemingly continues to outdo Xbox's offering.
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RADIOACTIVE ROOMBA | Remember the Fallout TV Show's iconic Roomba Robobrain? It's coming to Fallout 4, but devastatingly not as an adorable follower
There are few things in life I need more than another Robot Wars reboot entirely populated by these lil dudes.
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NUMBERS | Helldivers 2 sold 12 million copies in 12 weeks, its players have casually killed about 100 times as many bots as that in the past few days
It's now PlayStation's fastest selling launch game ever. Numbers.
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TARGETING TROUBLE | Fallout 4's latest update has stopped explosive piggy banks turning into red signs, but VATS issues persist
Most of the changes are to do with graphics, but your misbehaving goofy guns have proven to be the exception.
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TENDER CARE | Helldivers 2 patch adds optional account linking to the game's settings and changes the Tenderizer's colour
Having a host leave your session should also now be less of a thing to worry about.
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2 BECOME 1 | PlayStation's Jim Ryan replacement is two CEOs as company splits retired boss' role
Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino have gotten the nod to replace the retired digital bobblehead man.
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BACK IN THE SADDLE? | As we await more GTA 6 news, it looks like a Red Dead Redemption release on PC might finally happen
Johnny boy might be back on the trail of his old gangmates soon.
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STAR WARS TROOPERS | Helldivers 2 Star Wars mod will let you and your nerdy mates do some Clone Wars roleplaying while you kill bugs
Also, here's a mod that'll let you enlist Master Chief into Super Earth service.