Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has defended Diablo Immortal’s heavily criticised use of microtransactions. In aLos Angeles Timesinterview, Ybarra said the inclusion of microtransactions allowed the studio to offer a free Diablo experience to many millions of players. “When we think about monetization, at the very highest level it was, ‘how do we give a free Diablo experience to hundreds of millions of people, where they can literally do 99.5% of everything in the game?...

Purple Switches and Lake Lapcat Cat Shines are the subject of this guide, in which we break down each of these Cat Shine challenges and their location within this region of Bowser’s Fury. PurpleSwitches Cat Shines By the end of this guide, you’ll knowwhere to find Purple Switches and Lake Lapcat Cat Shines, and for other regions you can click back to ourCat Shine locations guidefor the other locations. Hurry! Climb the Falls!...

Does Bravely Default 2 want to save us time or waste our time? It’s hard to say. Square Enix’s sequel goes to great lengths to iron out the minor irritations of traditional 90s JRPGs, only to double down on some major ones. It’s user-friendly yet stubbornly uncompromising, happy to offer a helping hand one minute then throw you to the wolves the next, like a turn-based good cop bad cop routine....

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on June 26, 2025. Originally developed for WindowsPCbyFiraxis Games, the new console versions are the work of port house Aspyr Media. The base game will be available for $59.99 / £44.99, however expansion content will be made available separately as part of theCivilization VIExpansion Bundle for $49.99 / £32.99. The Civilization VI Expansion Bundle includes Rise and Fall, Gathering Storm and 18 additional Civilization leaders....

Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War developer Relic Entertainment has announced a new ‘Advance Wars style’ turn-based strategy game, ‘Earth vs. Mars’. The game will release forPCthis summer, and has players defending planet Earth against the invasion of “bizarre and powerful creature-human hybrids”. “For decades, Martians have been secretly visiting Earth, abducting humans and animals to harvest their atomic essence,” Relic said. “Now, they’ve returned with a full-scale invasion, and it’s up to a ragtag group of commanders to lead Earth’s resistance....

Diablo 4’s ray tracing update will launch on March 26, Nvidia has announced. “Armor, water, windows, and other suitably reflective surfaces will now feature accurate, realistic ray-traced reflections and ray-traced transparent reflections, making battles in Sanctuary even more spectacular,” itsaid. “The many shadows of Diablo IV will be enhanced with ray tracing, adding extra detail to all scenes.” Microsoftrecently confirmed thatDiablo 4will be the firstActivision Blizzardgame to be added to Game Pass following its acquisition of the company....

Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Onyx gems are currently confusing players. The new black gemstones were added to the game as part of its December update, which also added the Toy Story realm and Stitch. However, while you’re able to easily see Onyx listed in the Gems section of the Collection menu, the game doesn’t actually tell you how to find it. Luckily, we’ve got the answer, so read on and you’ll be swimming in Onyx before you know it....

Enhanced editions of Doom and Doom 2 are on the way, it’s been discovered. Ahead of a likely announcement at Quakecon, which starts today, X userWario64has discovered aSteam listingfor the new enhanced editions. Update8th Aug 2024 / 8:20 pm Doom + Doom 2 is now availableonSteam, PSN, theXboxStore and theNintendoeShop. The bundle costs $9.99 and it appears that players who already own Doom or Doom 2 can download the new enhanced edition at no extra cost on that platform....

The new-gen console upgrade for Doom Eternal is now live as part of the game’s latest patch, and its includes a bonus gun skin that shows off the new ray-tracing functionality. Update 6 optimises the game forXbox Series X/Sand PS5, adding support for ray tracing, 120fps and 4K60fps modes. The new update also adds ray-tracing for PC owners who have hardware that supports it. But it also gifts players a free reflective skin for the Ballista weapon called “Raytracer”, which is designed to show off the new ray-tracing support....

Dying Light 2: Stay Human is off to a very strong start on Steam. ThePCversion ofTechland’s open-world zombie title, which is also available via theEpic Games Store, was released on February 3 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET (February 4 at 12am GMT). At the time of publication, it has 156,000 concurrent players, having reached a peak of 164,591 during its first 11 hours of availability. Only 50 other titles have ever attracted more concurrent players onValve’s online game platform, according to data published onSteamDB....

Electronic Arts has delayed the release of its new PGA Tour game and specified no new release window. In a statement issued alongside its latest financial results, the publisher said that the game had been moved out of its previously specified spring 2022 release window, but gave no reason for the delay. “We’re excited to bring championship golf to you and will be providing more information on our launch plans in the coming months,” it said....

Electronic Arts has offered an updated on DICE’s in-development Battlefield 6, telling investors on Thursday that the game is currently being tested and receiving positive feedback. Speaking duringEA’s latest earnings call on Thursday, CEOAndrew WilsonreiteratedBattlefield 6’s planned holiday 2021 release date and suggested that it could feature larger combat zones than in previous games, as has been previously reported. “DICEis creating our next Battlefield game with never before seen scale,” he said....

EA Sports College Football 25 is reportedly the best-selling American football game of all time in the US, in terms of revenue. According to Circana (formerly NPD) video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella, the game has now overtaken all other American football games in history in terms of US dollar sales. “The record was previously held by Madden NFL 07,” Piscatella wrote onBluesky. He also pointed out that the game is now the overall number two best-selling sports game in US history in terms of US dollar sales, bettered only byNBA 2K21....