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August 2024 Archive

    1. The Plucky Squire offers familiar ideas in a lovely new arrangement
    2. Try Nintendo's Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club for free next week
    3. A "high number" of Destiny 2 players have had their usernames reset by an overzealous moderation tool
    4. GTA: San Andreas VR "on hold indefinitely" Meta confirms, nearly three years after it was announced
    5. Where's our Black Myth: Wukong review?
    6. The Elder Scrolls: Castles mobile game launches next month, pre-registration now open
    7. Coin Master free spins August 2024
    8. 2024 video game release schedule
    9. Wuthering Waves 1.2 Banners
    10. Tango Gameworks acquisition will transfer around 50 out of original 100 staff
    11. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered mod H2M shuts down after cease and desist demand
    12. Two Legacy of Kain games will be re-released for Evercade next month
    13. Get the beefy Intel Core i7-12700KF for £181 from Amazon right now
    14. Tim Sweeney: "No regrets" on Fortnite app store drama, as Epic Game Store launches on mobile in Europe
    15. Where to buy AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X CPUs: UK and US links
    16. Abby actress Kaitlyn Dever protected by extra security while filming The Last of Us season two
    17. Silent Hill: Ascension wins major award
    18. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged gets September release date
    19. Reverse 1999 codes
    20. What we've been playing - fitness games, old classics, and Dungeons & Dragons
    21. Shindo Life codes
    22. Pokémon launches adorable Japan plane safety video
    23. Fortnite new Victory Umbrella, the latest Victory Umbrella in this Fortnite season
    24. Pokémon World Championships 2024 research tasks, rewards and bonuses in Pokémon Go
    25. Pokémon Go event Pokémon list: All costume Pokémon, including party hat Pokémon, flower crown Pokémon and every Pikachu costume explained
    26. Genshin Impact 5.0 release date, 5.0 Banners and events
    27. Genshin Impact Kachina materials, kit, and Constellations
    28. Genshin Impact Mualani materials, kit, and Constellations
    29. Genshin Impact Kinich materials, kit, and Constellations
    30. Genshin Impact next Banner and current Banners, list of all Banners in Genshin Impact
    31. Genshin Impact 5.0 livestream codes, August 2024 codes and how to redeem them
    32. Zenless Zone Zero codes for August 2024 and how to redeem them
    1. Today’s Connections hint and answer on 16th August for 432
    2. Today's Wordle hint and answer on Friday 16th August for 1154
    3. Call of Duty might have seen its last 200GB+ install size as Activision announces optimisation plans
    4. Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded's enhanced stealth action gets an airing in first gameplay trailer
    5. Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date leaks
    6. Acclaimed biking game Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing sequel
    7. Games Done Quick's week-long Flame Fatales charity speedrunning event returns this Sunday
    8. GTA Online Weekly Update: 15 August 2024
    9. Amazon MMO New World's Aeternum overhaul is having an open beta next month
    10. GTA Online Podium Vehicle for this week, including how to use the Lucky Wheel
    11. GTA Online Gun Van locations
    12. Doom and Doom 2: are Nightdive's latest remasters the definitive editions?
    13. Everything we know about the Nintendo Switch 2
    14. Splitgate 2 plays great - but its new focus on objective-based 4v4 team games may be a turn off
    15. What is the Coin Master event today?
    16. The new Doom Anthology includes a BFG model, and is now up for pre-order
    17. Hugely-promising indie The Plucky Squire launches next month, day one on PlayStation Plus
    18. Persona 3's Episode Aigis DLC has left me with plenty of unanswered questions
    19. Pokémon Go Shinies - how to catch Shiny Magikarp, Red Gyarados, and what we know about other Shiny Pokémon
    20. This Sapphire Nitro+ RX 7800 XT is down to £403 from Amazon
    21. Quick! The M2 MacBook Air is at its lowest price ever from Currys
    22. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 delayed to 2025
    23. Wuthering Waves next Banner and current Banner, list of all Banners in Wuthering Waves
    1. Today's Wordle hint and answer on Thursday 15th August for 1153
    2. Today’s Connections hint and answer on 15th August for 431
    3. Amazon reportedly working on animated anthology TV series featuring Spelunky and other video game worlds
    4. Let's Build a Zoo studio is making a game dev management sim where you design your own MMO
    5. PlayStation Plus Premium games list for August 2024
    6. Here's your PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium lineup for August
    7. Treyarch shows off Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Terminus Island Zombies map in new trailer
    8. Pixel art adventure Arco's really good fun - but it's also very buggy at the moment
    9. Would the Borderlands movie have been better with Uwe Boll at the helm? Well, he seems to think so
    10. AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X review: mystifying performance
    11. Blade Ball codes
    12. Second Piece codes
    13. Arm Wrestle Simulator codes
    14. Untitled Boxing Game codes
    15. Basketball Legends codes
    16. Peroxide codes
    17. Why VRR is not a magic bullet for fixing poor performance
    18. Cabin Crew Simulator codes
    19. Two Point Museum turns a fresh slice of mundane life into a wacky British adventure
    20. Until Dawn gets suitably spooky PC, PS5 release date
    21. Dredge's The Iron Rig DLC holds up a mirror to Still Wakes the Deep, and comes off slightly worse for wear
    22. Fruit Battlegrounds codes
    23. Anime Defenders codes
    24. Grimoires Era codes
    25. Among Us adds Critical Role cosmetics, ahead of Ashley Johnson's role in series
    26. Crucial's nippy X9 portable 1TB SSD is down to £65 from Amazon
    27. Hopes fade for Switch 2 launch in early 2025
    28. Steam store descriptions won't be able to include links from "early" September
    29. Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 time and where to watch
    30. Zenless Zone Zero 1.1 Banner and event details
    31. Five of the Best: Offices
    32. Blox Fruits codes
    33. Kingston's NV2 1TB SSD is down to just £49 from Amazon
    34. Zenless Zone Zero next Banner, current Banner, and list of all Banners
    1. Helldivers 2 studio reveals 60-day plan of action following recent patch outcry
    2. Ash vs Evil Dead and John Carpenter's Halloween being turned into 16-bit-style platformers
    3. Alien: Romulus director says movie's scare-heralding phones are a nod to Alien: Isolation
    4. 2.5D Cyberpunk platformer Replaced delayed into 2025
    5. PlayStation lays out Concord live-service roadmap, commits to at least three seasons
    6. Black Myth Wukong release date and time
    7. Black Myth Wukong system requirements
    8. The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer cancellation reportedly wasn't a "bloodless endeavour"
    9. Roblox Pressure codes for August 2024
    10. Solo Leveling Arise Codes
    11. Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 release date and time
    12. Murder Mystery 2 codes
    13. Red Dead Redemption PC version detailed via PlayStation Store page
    14. Pokémon voice actress Rachael Lillis dies, aged 55
    15. Where to buy AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs: UK and US links
    16. Roblox Locked codes
    17. Genshin Impact 5.0 livestream date and time, 5.0 Banner leaks
    18. Look at this cute little 128GB SanDisk USB-C flash drive - it's just £11 from Amazon
    19. Grab this tray-mount AMD Ryzen 5 5600G for £100 from Ebuyer
    20. Procedurally generated detective sim Shadows of Doubt leaves Steam early access in September
    1. Lileep 100% perfect IV stats, shiny Lileep in Pokémon Go
    2. Stalker 2's 35-minute developer deep dive shows off its gorgeously bleak post-apocalyptic world
    3. Open-world Terminator: Survivors' Steam early access delayed into 2025
    4. John Carpenter's Halloween is getting two games from Evil Dead publisher
    5. Ubisoft hints at longer Assassin's Creed development times ahead of Shadows debut
    6. How to use Scavenger abilities in Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga
    7. Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga Datacards locations
    8. All Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga cheat codes list
    9. DF Weekly: AMD's Zen 5 - why isn't there a solid consensus in reviews?
    10. All NPC quests in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
    11. Pokemon Go Team Rocket Grunt counters and lineups in August 2024
    12. Anime Champions Simulator codes
    13. Anime World Tower Defense codes
    14. Valve hero shooter Deadlock still hasn't been announced, but had 16k Steam concurrent players this weekend
    15. Bikelife Miami 2 codes
    16. Pokémon Go Mega Evolution update and new bonuses, how to Mega Evolve and all Mega Evolutions list
    17. The best-loved PC fan company made a desk fan - is it any good?
    18. Past Wordle answers and all previously used Wordle words
    19. Anime Last Stand codes
    20. Eggy Party codes for August 2024
    21. Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush acquired by PUBG's Krafton, following Microsoft's studio closure in May
    1. The original Sonic Generations game is being withdrawn from sale as a "standalone title" next month
    2. Borderlands movie earned $4m on its opening day
    3. The Dark Souls 2 Lighting Engine mod delivers the remastered experience this game demands
    4. Fallout London is now the "fastest-redeemed" game of all time on GOG
    5. Geralt voice actor confirms he will be "part of" The Witcher 4
    6. Fortnite and Marvel confirm new crossover season starring Doctor Doom, as Disney integration deepens
    7. Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: The beginning of the end
    1. PlayStation is introducing user reviews on the PS Store
    2. Call of Duty Black Ops 6's campaign cutscenes have leaked online
    3. Fallout London's volunteer modding team to launch as a new indie studio
    4. GTA 6 won't be on a subscription service on day one because Take-Two's "decisions are rational," says CEO
    5. Can video games match the warmth of summer? No, but an Odyssey and a Wildlife Adventure are the next best thing
    1. Doom Eternal gets official mod support on PC with new mod browser and idStudio creation tools
    2. Max Payne 1 & 2 remake enters full production, Control 2 features in "playable form"
    3. The Crush House review - reality TV has never been this truthful
    4. Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews
    5. Game of the Week: Doom 2 is eternal
    6. Take-Two boss asks you to give the Borderlands movie "a chance", as "a lot of people worked really hard on it"
    7. Stray finally releases on Switch in November
    8. Arcane fans warned to avoid major spoilers, as majority of Season 2 leaks online
    9. Disney Dreamlight Valley roadmap includes Tiana, Timon and Pumbaa
    10. Time-travelling bring-a-gun-to-a-sword-fight Kingmakers isn't even out yet and it's getting movie adaptation
    11. Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn't give full control over companions as "in some ways it was detrimental"
    12. The marvellous Logitech MX Keys for Mac has been knocked down in price at Currys
    13. All Nintendo Switch Online games available to play right now
    14. Dead Rising will no longer reward players for taking "erotic" in-game photos of women
    15. Bungie acknowledges "uncertainty surrounding the future of Destiny" following layoffs
    16. What we've been playing - games that refuse to die, superb interactive fiction, and The End
    1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will let you climb out of your plane, walk a trail, and watch the sunset
    2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's "purely round-based" Zombies mode gameplay detailed
    3. Doom 1 & 2 "enhanced" bundle surfaces on Steam, with new episode from MachineGames
    4. God of War Ragnarök's PC system requirements are here - and you'll need to free up 190GB
    5. Vampire Survivors' minimalist survival action hits PS4 and PS5 later this month
    6. Honkai Star Rail codes for August 2024 and how to redeem them
    7. The making of Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 - the Ninja Theory interview
    8. Cygni: All Guns Blazing review - a thoughtful rejection of the arcade shooting rulebook
    9. Roblox responds to platform ban in Türkiye
    10. Arkane founder's new RPG shoots for "Fallout meets Dishonored" with a splash of Obsidian storytelling
    11. Pokémon Go Shadow Pokémon counters, how to beat Shadow Snorlax and how Purified Pokémon work
    12. Pokémon Go Adventure Week Collection Challenges, research tasks and bonuses
    13. Pokémon Go Community Day list, August 2024 time and date, and all previous Community Day Pokémon and moves
    14. Pokémon Go Leader counters: Arlo, Cliff, Sierra counters and strategies in Pokémon Go
    15. The Callisto Protocol publisher Krafton insisted on releasing it too soon, says director Glen Schofield
    16. The excellent Rode NT-USB microphone is down to its lowest price ever at Amazon
    17. The making of the Dark Urge in Baldur's Gate 3
    18. AMD's speedy Ryzen 9 7900X3D is a steal from Ebuyer right now
    19. Pokémon Go Giovanni counters, current line-up and rewards explained
    20. Haze Piece codes
    21. Pokémon Go Adventure Week Taken Over quest steps and rewards
    22. New Black Myth: Wukong trailer gives final look at gameplay ahead of release
    23. Suicide Squad flop leads to 41% drop in Warner Bros. gaming revenue
    1. Early Borderlands movie impressions brand it "disaster" and "huge misfire"
    2. Lone Echo and The Order: 1886 developer Ready at Dawn reportedly shut down by Meta
    3. Fortnite ditches long-standing promise Battle Pass items won't be available to buy later
    4. 197K Baldur's Gate 3 players banged Halsin in bear form, reveals Larian's anniversary stats
    5. Stardew Valley Green Rain explained
    6. Details from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer you may have missed
    7. Balatro passes 2m sales, with free major update due in 2025
    8. Borderlands 3 SHiFT Codes
    9. Sifu and High on Life lead Humble Choice games this August
    10. AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review: Zen 5 impresses, but 7800X3D still reigns for gaming
    11. Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 delivers maximum Warhammer to glorious effect
    12. Love and Deepspace codes
    13. Stardew Valley Fish and fish by season list
    14. How to fish in Stardew Valley
    15. The magnificent pitch of Super Dungeon Muncher is a sketch of future greatness
    16. UK actors' union Equity introduces minimum rates to address "systemic low pay" for video game performers
    17. Free-to-play tactical shooter Arena Breakout: Infinite launches into early access next week
    18. Fallout: London hotfix still on the way, along with "huge" update
    19. Final Fantasy 16 profile in latest Nvidia driver leads to speculation of imminent PC release
    20. Sega's acquisition of Angry Birds maker Rovio helps boost profits by 181.5%
    21. PlayStation 5 totals 61m units sold as hardware sales continue to fall
    22. Five of the Best: Sprints
    1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Zombies mode gets first trailer and story details
    2. Dead by Daylight's Castlevania collaboration adds Dracula and Trevor Belmont later this month
    3. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets September release on PS4 and Xbox One
    4. Genshin Impact Emilie materials, kit, and Constellations
    5. Acclaimed biking game Descenders is getting an extreme sports sort-of-sequel
    6. Microsoft Auto Super Resolution tested: a new AI upscaler has arrived
    7. Whisper it, but A Quiet Place now has an October release date
    8. Xbox Game Pass games list for August 2024
    9. Win a Cat Quest 3 pirate ship for your cat
    10. Getting PSVR2 working on PC isn't as easy as it should be
    11. Xbox Game Pass August line-up announced
    12. Cat Quest 3 - more winningly approachable action-RPGing, this time with pirates
    13. NZXT's fantastic H5 Flow PC case is going cheap at Amazon
    14. Fall Guys is now in Fortnite
    15. This AsRock RX 6950 XT is down to $420 from Amazon USA right now
    16. Stardew Valley Festivals and calendar explained
    17. Several upcoming Switch game pre-orders are discounted at Amazon UK today
    18. Bloober CEO "dreaming that gamers will trust us" to deliver Silent Hill 2 remake
    19. Nightingale studio "not satisfied with where the game is at", says Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn
    20. The spirit of Buster Keaton flies again in World of Goo 2
    21. Square Enix sales drop year-on-year, despite release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
    22. Lollipop Chainsaw remaster release date moved forward
    23. High on Life series in development from Curb's JB Smoove
    24. Drilbur 100% perfect IV stats, shiny Drilbur in Pokémon Go
    1. Star Wars Outlaws roadmap reveals Lando and Hondo for paid Season Pass
    2. Here's a look at Monster Hunter Wilds' Focus Mode and other gameplay bits
    3. How to complete Needle Knight Leda's questline in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
    4. Podcast: We've got two new feature series heading your way
    5. Catch up on Dune Messiah via Kindle for 99p, ahead of Dune Awakening later this year
    6. Phantom Blade Zero studio says it wants game to be "accessible to everyone" and has not "ruled out" Xbox
    7. DF Weekly: AMD's AFMF 2 driver-level frame generation update is well worth a look
    8. Sony Santa Monica is making its first new IP in over 20 years
    9. Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer takes you on a tour of its Hyrule
    10. Take a look at this Amazon deal on some zippy 7200MT/s Lexar Ares DDR5 RAM
    11. Honkai Star Rail tier list for best characters in 2.4 August 2024
    12. All Apple Arcade games available to play right now
    13. Zenless Zone Zero Qingyi materials, kit, and Mindscape Cinema
    14. Zenless Zone Zero Jane Doe materials, kit, and Mindscape Cinema
    15. Zenless Zone Zero Seth materials, kit, and Mindscape Cinema
    16. More evidence of "fully-fledged Half-Life game" revealed by Valve dataminer
    17. Baldur's Gate 3 developer initially started work on a follow-up as it was "the obvious thing"
    18. How to complete Hornsent's questline in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
    19. Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy finale will receive "revamped" Queen's Blood card game
    20. Valve working on new project with a codename fans are linking to Half-Life
    21. This 1TB Kingston Canvas Go Plus Micro SD card is under £80 from Amazon
    22. The Last of Us Season Two teaser gives first look at Kaitlyn Dever as Abby
    23. All Star Tower Defense codes
    1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 images leak online, including multiplayer maps and menu screens
    2. Visions of Mana running in 6DoF VR lets us live out the fantasy of a hybrid future
    3. Humble Games' final release before "restructuring" has launched a Patreon "in these uncertain times"
    4. Yearly Supporters, we've got a Pixel Pulps Collection giveaway for you
    5. Move over, Olympics - I did horse dressage in Red Dead Online
    1. Activision bans over 65,000 Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 cheaters
    2. Silent Hill: The Short Message has been downloaded 3m times
    3. Final Fantasy 14 mobile game is approved in China
    4. Apple's M4-powered iPad Pro delivers the triple-A gaming experience iPhone 15 Pro struggles with
    5. The Intellivision's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain summoned a franchise's low-fi, DIY spirit
    1. Pokémon Go Mega Rayquaza counters, weaknesses and moveset explained
    2. How to get a Meteorite and teach Dragon Ascent in Pokémon Go
    3. Obsidian's Avowed reportedly delayed from 2024 to early next year
    4. Eight years later, acclaimed 2D Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary just got a rock-hard Randomiser mode
    5. Wreckfest 2, Darksiders tease, Gothic 1 Remake gameplay, and everything else from THQ Nordic's showcase
    6. Blizzard has reportedly set up a "smaller" team to create AA games based on its franchises
    7. Valorant launches fully on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S
    8. Once Human's latest patch is here, but controller support still isn't
    9. Pokémon Go's rarest Pokémon and how to increase your chances of getting rare Pokémon
    10. Game of the Week: Kunitsu-Gami feels most alive when it's standing still
    11. Honkai Star Rail Skott debate answers
    12. We need Olympic star shooters Yusuf Dikec and Kim Yeji in a video game
    13. This beefy 1200W NZXT 80+ Gold PSU is down to £120 from Scan Computers
    14. This zippy 1TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD with heatsink is down to £94 from Ebuyer
    15. Until Dawn movie adaptation sees Peter Stormare reprise his role as Dr Hill
    16. Chivalry 2 "content and feature complete" as studio moves to new games
    17. How to Emote in Once Human
    18. Pokémon Game Boy Advance title joins Nintendo Switch Online
    19. Prison Architect 2 indefinitely delayed by Paradox
    20. New Destiny project Payback no longer happening, senior execs depart
    21. What we've been playing - changing perceptions, persevering, and making the familiar feel new
    22. Grab Logitech's excellent MX Master 3S for just £75 from Amazon
    23. Intel says "painful" decision to cut 15,000 jobs is one of the "most consequential changes in its history"
    24. Switch sales can't match 2023's Zelda and Mario success, as console nears end of life
    25. Honkai Star Rail March 7th Hunt materials, kit, and Eidolons
    26. Honkai Star Rail Yunli materials, kit, and Eidolons
    1. Bungie leadership reportedly 'overstated studio's financial prospects' to Sony, leading to need for layoffs
    2. Xbox's Gamescom plans include daily livestreams and over 50 playable games
    3. Hose down a cruise ship in PowerWash Simulator's latest free DLC
    4. Civilization 7 is getting a 20-minute gameplay showcase later this month
    5. Honkai Star Rail Moze materials, kit, and Eidolons
    6. GTA+ Rewards for August 2024, all rewards and benefits explained
    7. How to complete Redmane Freyja's questline in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
    8. Jackbox wants us to answer questions like "Which meat most wants to be called daddy?" in its new Naughty Pack
    9. Fortnite's Cybertruck is now out in the wild, and it's as glitchy as its real-world counterpart
    10. King Legacy codes
    11. Honkai Star Rail Lingsha materials, kit, and Eidolons
    12. Honkai Star Rail Feixiao materials, kit, and Eidolons
    13. Making games for Apple platforms "like an abusive relationship", say developers
    14. SteamWorld Heist 2 review - the return of this tactical gem feels a little lost at sea
    15. Here's our first look at Dynamax elements in Pokémon Go
    16. Nintendo offering extra two months on Switch Online membership renewals
    17. Anime Fighters codes
    18. "Bad faith" discourse "not worth engaging with", Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws creative director says
    19. Fallout: London mod switches football references to soccer, but fans kick off
    20. Bungie CEO criticised for spending millions on classic cars, as calls for leadership changes escalate
    21. Inside Eurogamer: Do you have any questions for us?
    22. Pokémon Go August Field Research tasks and their rewards explained
    23. Pokémon Go Spinda quest for August, all Spinda forms listed
    24. Pokémon Go Ditto disguises in August 2024 for helping catch the transform Pokémon
    25. Pokémon Go Shared Skies research quest steps and rewards
    26. Genshin Impact 4.8 Banners and events