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Legendary Entertainment Lands Rights To Military Thriller Books ‘Tier One’

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EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment is set to adapt a series of military thriller novels after landing the film and TV rights. The company has acquired the rights to the Tier One series, written by Brian Andrews and Jeff Wilson. The news comes a day after Legendary Entertainment completed its buyout of Wanda Group’s stake in the […]

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Julie Bowen On Why She Didn’t Think She Would Land ‘Modern Family’ & Why She Didn’t Think She Was Funny

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Julie Bowen looks back at her start in comedy and reveals that she didn’t think she was funny. In a new interview, the Modern Family star recalled her team booking auditions for comedic roles, which Bowen didn’t think were suited for her. “They sent me out on comedy auditions,” she said on The Three Questions […]

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9 Demos You Need To Play During This Month’s Steam Next Fest

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Steam Next Fest, which kicked off in 2021 as the successor to the Steam Game Festival, remains one of the best ways to see what good games are on the horizon. The event, which runs several times a year, gives players a chance to try out demos from a slew of in-development titles. We’ve been through the latest batch to…

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Diablo 4's Next Update Will Make Its New Seasonal And Endgame Activities Even Better

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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred's next update is looking to bring some major improvements to its new endgame and seasonal activities, with Realmwalkers set to receive some significant changes alongside the new endgame Kurast Undercity activity.

The first expansion for Blizzard's ARPG, as well as its sixth season, are now in full swing after releasing on October 8. An update scheduled for October 17 will bring a huge helping of bug fixes to the game roughly a week after launch, alongside some nice quality-of-life changes and improvements to rewards.

According to the patch notes, one of those activities that will be improved is the seasonal Realmwalkers. Currently, they lumber about and slowly spawn enemies. When enough are defeated, the Realmwalker can be slain, after which a portal to the "Seething Realm" is opened where players can gain even more rewards. Come update 2.0.3, the Realmwalkers will be receiving a significant speed buff, and they'll spawn more enemies more quickly. Realmwalkers will additionally have a chance to spawn a Treasure Goblin, and Blizzard notes that other "miscellaneous changes" have been made to make the event progress faster overall. Speeding up the Realmwalkers should mean players get to the Seething Realm, where the meat of the event is, more quickly than before.

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This Steam Next Fest RPG about lonely road trips gets my recommendation after I chugged 2 liters of soda to survive an all nighter with an N64 game in my trunk

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Sometimes, you just wanna toss an N64 cartridge in your trunk and drive cross-country to game with an old friend, and as unlikely a concept for a video game as that might seem, it's exactly what you do in Keep Driving. This RPG's offbeat approach to its unusual subject matter instantly charmed me, and while there are some rough edges in its Steam Next Fest demo, I can't wait to see more.

You start by naming your character and choosing a few character traits, like your current job status and how good your relationship with your parents is. From there, you load up your trunk with a bit of Resident Evil-style inventory Tetris, and select your next destination from a map. Your car starts up and gets moving without your input, leaving you to sit back and respond to the various events that unfold.

The heart of the game is in random events, where you might get stuck behind a tractor, see a bit of roadkill, or have to deal with an argument between the hitchhikers you've picked up. These events threaten limited resources like energy, car durability, and gas with a lineup of little icons across the bottom of the screen, and you've got a list of skills you can use to wipe out those icons before they drain your resources.

It is, admittedly, a pretty abstract system to wrap your head around, and even in game it took me more than a few rounds to come to grips with. But once it starts to click, there's a lot of fun strategic decisions to make. One of the hitchhikers I picked up - a traveling musician - had an ability that would let me spend energy to turn incoming damage icons into music notes, which also destroy adjacent icons when taken out. Paired with my starting ability that let me regain energy after events, it turned into a powerful combo.

I'm not sure a full icon-swapping game would really capture my interest, but it all works together with the game's aesthetic to build interesting stories. I ran out of energy at one point when overusing the music ability, falling asleep at the wheel while that musician hitchhiker just kept making up songs about roadkill. I chugged a two-liter soda bottle I'd picked up two towns ago for the pick-me-up I needed to reach the next city.

The Keep Driving demo on Steam is a little rough around the edges - it can be a little difficult to parse what's happening in the (very pretty) UI, and my initial session was cut short by a bug that kept me from being able to close the map. But I want to go back and see more. The devs cite games like FTL and Oregon Trail 2 as inspirations, and it's those sorts of games that I think Keep Driving most evokes - little sandboxes whose random events smartly come together to make stories out of the mundanity of travel. 

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Conan Exiles recaps the story beats of Age of War chapter four as the Age of Heroes looms

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Conan Exiles is now just two days away from its NPC-revamping Age of Heroes update, but that also means some of the general story beats that were woven between then and the release of Age of War: Chapter 4 might have been missed, especially for those who aren’t regularly playing the survivalbox. Luckily, Funcom has […]
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