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The Elder Scrolls VI Finally Gets a Status Check — From Xbox’s Matt Booty — Eight Years After Its First Teaser

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A scenic landscape from the game 'The Elder Scrolls VI' with a mountainous region stretches towards the horizon.

As of yesterday, exactly eight years have passed from that Bethesda E3 2018 when Todd Howard showed teasers for both The Elder Scrolls VI and Starfield. That move was specifically geared toward reassuring Bethesda fans that they weren't abandoning single player games with the release of the multiplayer game Fallout 76. However, in the years to come, Howard would make it clear that he really prefers not to talk about any of his games until they're relatively close to launch. In fact, he'd actually rather show them and then say 'they're available now', which happened with The Elder Scrolls IV: […]

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Crimson Desert Crosses 6 Million Copies Sold Since Launch

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Pearl Abyss has announced a new sales milestone for Crimson Desert, its open-world action RPG, which launched last March. It’s now at over six million copies sold, shifting an additional million-plus since April 15th.

“Your adventures and tales continue to make the journey of Crimson Desert even more special. Once again, thank you to every Greymane who has stepped into Pywel and experienced the world of Crimson Desert in their own way,” it wrote on Twitter.

And while “journey” isn’t something that you would typically associate with a one-and-done single-player experience, it’s more about the post-launch support. Pearl Abyss has released almost weekly updates since release, adding several new features, improving core systems, addressing performance issues, and much more.

These include new mounts, new abilities for Oongka and Damian, new mini-games like Pinball and the Crane Game, individual storage chests for different items, and much more. It really is too much to list, and there’s even more on the way between June and September, with plans to add New Game Plus and cross-save. The development team is even taking a stab at improving the story, which remains the game’s biggest weak point.

And if that wasn’t enough, DLC is also in the works. Nothing is known about it, whether it’s the cost, what new content it brings or when it will launch, but we’re excited all the same.

Crimson Desert is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out our re-review here, though keep in mind that it doesn’t even cover all the updates released thus far.

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New Hades 2 hotfix prevents some boons from being more useful than they were supposed to be and stops Artemis from singing wherever she likes

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Yet another Hades 2 hotfix has dropped out of nowhere this month – on PC, with a console release soon-to-come – but this one simply squashes bugs that accidentally made a few boons more useful than the Balance Gods at Supergiant Games intended.

The two boons that fell victim to Hades 2's latest hotfix are Hermes' Tall Order and Medea's Suffering on Sight (which is more a curse than a boon, but I digress). Tall Order was seemingly giving some players a big damage buff even before they gathered eight of the same element during a run, a surprisingly useful bug that's now been taken away.

Supergiant Games also fixed Medea's curse to stop it from dealing damage to enemies who were already lingering in new locations. Instead, it now works as intended: incoming foes will take between 1 to 999 damage while existing foes remain at full health.

Elsewhere in the hotfix, you'll no longer randomly find Artemis singing beside the Crossroads Cauldron. She's forever destined to sit next to the river to chirp her tunes, poor Artemis. And Dire Auto-Seekers are no longer "immune to being stunned if their armor was depleted in their defensive mode," the developer writes in its patch notes.

Hades 2's last hotfix was surprisingly big and even added features we've been waiting for since the roguelike hit Steam Early Access, but it also introduced at least one unintended issue "causing command inputs to sometimes not queue up as you cleared an encounter." That's seemingly been cleaned up, too, along with other unnamed "minor fixes."

Supergiant Games has now mostly moved on from its godly roguelike, it seems, as the studio was recently hiring for whatever comes next. Should Cronos allow the time to come, I'll definitely be tuning in to whatever the team dreams up next, whether it's in the form of a Hades 3 or another entirely original game.

230 runs later, Hades 2's ranking system has me feeling cheated out of a huge missed opportunity.



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As Destiny 2 waves goodbye in its final update, Warframe commemorates the beloved Bungie MMO with an in-game reward

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Warframe is commemorating Destiny 2 with an upcoming in-game reward made in honor of the MMO as Bungie releases its final big update.

Destiny 2 waved goodbye with its final update that dropped earlier this week. Although it'll remain playable, Monument of Triumph marks the long-running game's supposedly last piece of new content, and with no current plans for Destiny 3 at the studio, the update could potentially be the entire series' last hurrah for years to come.

But Warframe's not letting Destiny 2 sail into the Undying Lands without throwing it some figurative flowers. In response to one fan asking for a commemorative player title, Warframe director Rebb Ford tweeted that the team would "figure something out as fast as we can" a few days ago.

Alas, a few days later, Ford has made good on her promise: "On June 17, players can play an Alert on Telesto to Make Their Own Fate in Warframe. More details to follow," she writes alongside a screenshot of a new Honoria, Make Your Own Fate.

Fans also celebrate the fact that the new alert would take place on Telesto, which is also a pivotal location in Destiny lore and is the Saturn moon the game's iconic fusion rifle is named after, making this an extra sweet tribute to Bungie's MMO FPS.

"Shout out to Warframe folks sending kind words and love to Guardians," Destiny's principal communications manager, Dylan 'dmg04' Gafner, also writes. "Love seeing communities sharing stories and love for their games."

This isn't the first time Warframe devs have honored Destiny 2 – the looter shooter developers themselves previously noted how Bungie's shooter had an outsized impact on their work. "There is no Warframe without the legacy of Bungie games," Ford wrote in response to the game's final update. "Destiny was and is a force of nature, loved and held in the hands of so many people who, for a moment, were part of the biggest thing in gaming."

While Destiny 2's sudden end is sad, at least the game is going out on top. Players turned up to say goodbye in numbers not seen since Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion, and the shooter even managed to top Steam's top-sellers chart for a while.

For now, Bungie's working on seasonal updates for Marathon and is reportedly pitching new projects. Layoffs are also planned, it's claimed.

Destiny 2 finally has the all-in-one collection Bungie should've released years ago, and it's just $25 right now.



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Don’t Nerf One Of Dragon Dogma 2‘s Best (Worst) Features, You Cowards

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Dragonsplague just ain't what it used to be

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Silo is the perfect Severance replacement, and it releases on Apple TV in 3 weeks

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It’s been nearly 15 months since Severance season 2 ended with a devastating cliffhanger, and there’s still no release date for season 3. Fans waited three years between the first and second seasons of Apple’s hit sci-fi show, but hopefully it won't take another 21 months to get a third. Series star Adam Scott recently said that was too long and the Severance team is planning on releasing the new season sooner, but shooting hasn’t even begun yet. That means there won’t be more surreal stories about the employees of Lumon Industries until 2027 at the very soonest. In the meantime, however, Apple is dropping another great show for fans of twisty science fiction in just three weeks.



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