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Here’s one we’ve been waiting a long time for. Black Myth: Wu Kong, first announced with a stunner of a 13-minute gameplay clip back in 2020, finally has a release date. Announced today during Summer Game Fest, Wu Kong is out on PC on August 20, 2024, just a hair over two months from now.

The CG cinematic above indicates that Wu Kong will be releasing on Steam and the Epic Games Store as well as the PlayStation 5. It also gives a peek at the physical deluxe edition, which includes a pretty spiffy-looking scroll as well as a headband “wind chime” necklace that I’m skeptical we’ll see anyone wearing. But hey, you’ll also get an in-game reward called the “Trailblazer’s Scarlet Gourd.” Who can resist a bonus gourd? 

Black Myth: Wu Kong has accrued a mighty followin…

The next Magic: The Gathering set—The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth—is billed as a crossover, but it’s more like crossing the street than hopping to universes beyond. Magic has been getting pretty weird when choosing dance partners the last few years, with Transformers and Fortnite being some of the oddest choices. But there have also been well received and enjoyable picks, like the Magic The Gathering Warhammer crossover, and a pair of Dungeons & Dragons sets that felt a bit like flipping through Richard Garfield’s dusty high school yearbooks.

So it’s only natural that Wizards of the Coast would take a whack at the grandfather of modern fantasy, and we’ve gotten a look at the art and cards, from the Shire to …

Inkblot Obra-Dinn-like adventure game The Collage Atlas originally released as an iOS exclusive in 2020, but when its Apple Arcade contract expired last year, the striking pen and ink game became unplayable. To keep it alive, its creator released a Steam version last month.

The architect of this post-modern duotone walking simulator, John Evelyn, began by creating renders of each game world object in Unity and then painstakingly drawing out each texture by hand. 

In an interview with The Verge, Evelyn discussed how he fell in love with pen and ink art: “I liked all the incidental details and the accidents that come out along the way,” he said, even though “sometimes it goes horribly wrong!” The inkblot visuals impart a rich depth of texture, something tactile and person…

If you told me a year ago that a character from a Baldur’s Gate game would have an officially-sanctioned crossover with a major wrestling event, I’d have given you the blankest of stares. But, here we are—Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3, everyone’s favourite mammoth tiefling lady, has made an appearance in the Ring of Honour.

In case you’re unfamiliar, Ring of Honour has historically stood with titans like WWE (in which Athena fought as Ember Moon), and while it had a brief shut-down in 2022, it’s since been picked up again. Athena herself has had a prolific career in wrestling spanning almost two decades. 

Over the weekend, Athena fought to keep her title as the women’s champion (a crown she’s held for over 482 days, with a win streak of 48 matches) against Hikaru S…

The League Championship Series is the top tier of professional League of Legends esports, and one of the biggest pro esports leagues in the world. But according to esports journalist Mikhail Klimentov, it could soon be facing a work stoppage, as the LCS Players Association is calling for a vote on a walkout.

The trouble began earlier this month when Riot announced that it will no longer require LCS teams to field a team in the North American Challengers League, a “developmental” league announced in 2022 made up of 10 former Academy teams—the previous developmental league—and six “Provisional Teams” made up of amateur players. It’s basically a feeder league for the LCS, and each LCS team was required to field its own NACL team along with its main roster. 

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Logan Paul is one of the biggest influencers in the world, and a one-man brand whose tentacles touch everything from wrestling to podcasts to sugar water. He and fellow influencer KSI have recently scored a major mainstream hit with their endorsement of an energy drink called Prime, but this success has overshadowed one of the dodgier elements of Paul’s recent past: a crypto-based videogame that promised the Earth (or, at least, that it would exist), made millions, and now looks very much like a scam.

The whole CryptoZoo scam was exposed by investigative journalist CoffeeZilla in January of this year or, as we put it at the time, Logan Paul just did too many shitty things to fit in this headline. That’s because, following the detailed report into this scheme, Paul threatened to su…

I’ve been having a great time in Nightdive’s System Shock⁠—it’s been one of those “actually having trouble putting it down” games for me. It’s technically impressive too, with great performance and a lightweight install for an Unreal Engine 4 game, but I’ve definitely encountered a few glitches in my playtime.

And every single one I can remember has been taken care of in the game’s first patch since launching on May 30. The biggest was a nearly progress-blocking bug in the Maintenance level’s cyberspace section: it would slow to a crawl and eventually crash toward the end, and just last night I managed to muddle through by rushing past its final enemies. The game still crashed shortly after exiting, but I got that sweet autosave meaning I didn’t have to run it…