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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that there was a bit of a mixup with the Democratic Detonation warbond that went live yesterday: Somehow, the CE-27 Ground Breaker medium armor rolled off the line with the wrong passive. We noted when the warbond was released that the Ground Breaker armor has the Servo-Assisted…

Will Eric Barone ever stop working on Stardew Valley? Someday, perhaps, but as Viggo Mortensen famously said, it is not this day: Because this day, Barone announced that another new patch is in the works that’s expected to be out this week. Stardew Valley’s long-awaited 1.6 update was a massive undertaking, adding a new farm…

The surprising news that came out of Bungie yesterday is that The Final Shape, the decade-long saga’s climactic expansion, is adding an entirely new subclass that will enable guardian’s to mix and match powers from all of the existing subclasses. (My emphasis there is to reflect how excited this made our resident Guardian (aka PC…

The developers of the newly-launched Gigantic: Rampage Edition have apologized for persistent server issues that are preventing players from joining the game, and say they’re putting together a “compensation package” to make up for all the headaches. After closing its doors in 2018, Gearbox’s MOBA-hero shooter Gigantic made a surprise comeback in 2023, a purportedly…

Some videogames are obvious candidates for big-screen translations, and some are not. The fishing-horror game Dredge, I think, falls into the latter category, but guess what? A Variety report says a movie based on Dredge is now in the works. It’s not that Dredge isn’t a good game. It is in fact very good. We…

In response to complaints from players about slow or missing medals, Helldivers 2 community manager Twinbeard said the game’s reward system will get an “overhaul” in the future that should make the awarding of medals for completed major orders faster and more reliable. Complaints about missing medals have been kicking around for ages. Arrowhead Games…

After being gone for more than a year, it looks like Blizzard’s biggest games are on the cusp of returning to China. Researcher and analyst CN Wire and the South China Morning Post have both reported that a new deal between Blizzard and NetEase, its former publishing partner in the country, is expected to be…