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Where to find every Tortured Gift Of Mysteries during Helltide events Looking for all the Mystery Chest locations in Diablo 4?Blizzard’s latest action RPG is absolutely packed with post-campaign endgame content, and a significant portion of thatDiablo 4content revolves around Helltide events. These events occur every couple of hours in certain regions of the map, and one of the biggest reasons to venture into these deadly Helltide regions is to find and unlock rare Mystery Chests (or to use their full name, Tortured Gifts Of Mysteries) filled with oodles of valuable loot....

Microsoft considered buying Sega, Bungie, and more The legal battle between Microsoft and the US Federal Trade Commission continues to plod along as theFTC seeks to stopMicrosoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. Last week’s proceeding gave us some interesting revelations aboutrevenue shares, Starfield development, and Indiana Jones exclusivity, but juicy inside baseball details continue to ooze out. Internal documents from the proceedings have begun to surface online, so let’s run through everything we’ve learned from the last couple of days....

Continuing the story this August Alternate history shooterAtomic Heartis getting its first (out of four) DLC pack on August 2nd, developers Mundfish have announced. The Annihilation Instinct DLC picks up right where the base game left off, plopping us into the steely Mendeleev Complex and the surrounding swamp areas to dent some more mechs. Take a look at the new tools on offer below: All four upcoming DLC packs will be available as part of the Atomic Pass which is available as a separate purchase onon Steamfor £35/$40/€40 (or as part of Atomic Heart’s Gold and Premium Editions)....

Do her knees even bend? Pizza Hut cashier, fashion icon, bestselling toy, game developer, and US Marine Sergeant are some of the accolades that Barbie has accrued over the last six decades (raising serious questions about whether or not she’s experienced crunch or the horrors of war.) And now she can add one more to the list, as she’s joining the brilliantForza Horizon 5. Or more accurately, her beautiful pink car (and Ken’s less beautiful grey Hummer) is joining the game....

Updates will continue Earlier this month EA confirmed reportsthat they were in talks to transfer developmentof long-running MMOStar Wars: The Old Republicfrom its creators BioWare to an external studio. Today, BioWare confirmed that Broadsword would be taking over development, and that “not every role” would move with the game. “I’ve been working closely with Keith Kanneg, who leads the SWTOR team, to give the game and the team the best opportunity to grow and evolve....

And an interview with Keanu Reeves Cyberpunk 2077expansion Phantom Liberty got a new trailer and arelease dateduring this month’s Xbox Games Showcase. If you watched Xbox’s extended showcase a few days later then you would have seen more of the game and of one of its stars, Keanu Reeves. Let’s assume you didn’t watch that, though. Let’s assume that you, like me, were by that point too exhausted from 90 second trailers to tune in....

Making players more powerful from the start Diablo 4’s first major patch, 1.0.3, is out now. It fixes a lot of bugs, but its main goal is to re-balance and buff every class and to “smooth out the leveling experience” by increasing the power of certain skills. “We’re continuing our efforts to make all Class builds feel fun and powerful with another round of balance updates. In particular, we have seen community feedback stating that Basic Skills aren’t impactful enough in combat,” says a developer noteon the full patch notes....

A peek behind the customisable curtains Project Rene - akaThe Sims 5- seems a long way off, but that isn’t stopping Maxis from showing the game in its early, in-development state. The second episode of their community stream, BehindThe Sims, continues from the first by showing lots of different prototype features, including glimpses of a new lighting model, new emotive animations, daily routines, hair customisation and more. Here’s the video in full, which also includes details ofThe Sims 4’s upcomingHorse Ranch expansion pack....

Playing Quantum Break on Game Pass put it into perspective for me After making their name withMax Payne’s joyous gun bonanzas, Remedy Entertainment now seem pretty over guns but can never quite hang up their holsters. I’ve been playingQuantum Breaksince it arrived on PC Game Pass, and I’m finding their oft-forgotten time-bending shooter is yet another modern Remedy game full of boring gunfights even as it gives you supernatural powers that could replace guns....

Looks like Dead Space, plays like… who knows? Cinematic space horrorFort Solisis now releasing on August 22nd, publisher Dear Villagers have announced. The game follows engineer Jack Leary, who arrives on an isolated mining station on Mars. All seems to be going smoothly until, of course, some scary stuff happens, which forces Leary to hold out until the morning. Fort Solis is split between four chapters, letting us binge it like a Netflix show or take the spooks piece-by-piece....

Season: A Letter To The Future sold 60,000 copies, but failed to meet commercial expectations ScavengersStudio have laid off more than half their staff after photography-biking adventureSeason: A Letter To The Futurefailed to meet commercial expectations. In an email to employees shared withGamesIndustry.biz, CEO Amélie Lamarche said “the game only sold 60,000 copies during its first five months, which falls far short of what the studio needs to survive.” Lamarche notes that discounts, critical praise, and game updates didn’t move the needle, and now only 16 employees are left at the studio after downsizing....

Soccer Kids is not the game I’d expect them to make next Following phenomenally frightful survival horror gameDarkwood, Polish team Acid Wizard Studio are now making… a football game? They’ve just released a free public alpha forSoccer Kids, inviting everyone to try their turn-based tactical footie game starring schoolkids in 90s Poland. This is extremely not what I expected next from the studio whose debut gamemade Adam backtrack to kill his own dog"because the world is convincing and I didn’t want to leave suffering animals lying around the place if I didn’t have to....

An incredible deal for the Ergear EGCM1 dual monitor stand. Monitor arms are brilliant. I’ve got three in my office, somehow, where they elevate my screens above my desk so that I can use all of the space below for my keyboard, mouse and other knicknacks without needing to awkwardly position things around the base of a monitor stand. They’re a total game-changer that I couldn’t go without - and thanks to this deal on Amazon US, soon you won’t have to either....