Summary Much like its predecessor, a vital mechanic inHades 2is the gifting mechanic.Give an ambrosia and get a Keepsake in return, which you can take on your runs to make them easier. Of course, there’s more nuance this time around, with the gift-giving changing depending on the circumstances. Eventually, you’ll be able to offer some characters bath salts, which will invite them to spend some time in the hot springs with you, or some fishing lures, which will invite them to the docks....

There are plenty of ways to buy assorted goods you’ll need to progress inStardew Valley, and the wildcard option for the majority of goods available in the game is with the Traveling Cart. This merchant visits Pelican Town twice a week, and she brings with her a wide variety of goods. Though her stock is almost entirely unpredictable, the Traveling Merchant is a great way to find items outside their regular season, far earlier than you’d normally find them, or even for less than they normally cost....

Summary The PlayStation Store’s cycle of sales continues with one dubbedPlanet of the Discounts now live, and it includes more than 2,000 games, some of which have been discounted by as much as 80 percent. The sale is running until June 5, and with that many games available for less, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you want. One of the most heavily discounted games is likely one of the options that will sell the most during this particular sale -Fallout 76....

Summary TheFalloutTV series introduces a trio of new, interconnected vaults - 31, 32, and 33. We find out by the end of the show that 31 holds a bunch of pre-war Vault-Tec employees in cryostasis and that the other two shelters are breeding pools for when they awaken. Vault 32 found this out, with one of its inhabitants scrawling “we know the truth” onto the walls in their own blood after a mass suicide, but fans aren’t convinced that merely uncovering the purpose of the vaults is what led to their death....

Summary Ghouls have been part of theFalloutworld since the first game in 1997. But despite being a series mainstay, we never learned how a ghoul goes from having all of their senses intact to turning completely feral. Now, the Fallout show has provided us with an answer. It’s a pretty big change to the lore and one that will affect players if future games have ghoul companions. It could also have a huge impact on whether or not we get to play as a ghoul in the future, as many players have requested....

Summary Amazon’sFalloutseries is set tointroduce deathclaws next season, infamously tough monsters capable of ripping limbs from sockets as easily as pulling fusion cores from power armour. Everyone’s expecting those same mindless titans who humbled us at the quarry, making another Brotherhood of Steel paladin run for the hills. But what if they were intelligent and civilised instead? The image most fans have of deathclaws is enormous reptilians with claws the length of knives, ready to rip into our stomachs for a tasty internal organ snack....

Summary Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail,the latest expansion, is introducing a couple of new DPS jobs - Viper and Pictomancer. Both follow director Naoki Yoshida’s two core tenets that are vital when expanding the roster, 1) standing out from existing jobs and 2) being fun in a multiplayer context. There are plenty of other existingFinal Fantasyjobs that fans want to see brought over, like Time Mage andBeastmaster, but Yoshida says there aren’t many left which would work in the context of FF14....

Summary A video game series that has run as long asFinal Fantasyis always going to have an almost endless supply of merch attached to it. For the most part, the merch will be obvious stuff like action figures and t-shirts. However,Square Enixwill occasionally step out of its comfort zone and try something a little different by creating something like, oh, I don’t know, aFinal Fantasy 14massage stick with a Great Serpent on the end of it....

Lately, it seemsEA’smain priority has been trying to give players more reasons to roll our eyes at it – the last time I personally grumbled about the company was just weeks ago, when EA’s CEOsaid the company was considering putting ads in its games. Players have recently dug up evidence thatThe Sims 4will be implementing an ‘events’ system that will reward players for logging in regularly. There hasn’t been an official announcement just yet, butan unlisted videopublished over a week ago on the official Sims YouTube channel contains an in-depth tutorial on the upcoming system....

Everyone is simping forHades 2. In other news, water is wet and pigs can’t fly. This sequel was always going to set off our horny receptors, with the original introducing us to all manner of buff, charming gods from the Greek pantheon we couldn’t help but fall for. But Hades 2 takes it one step further thanks to a greater array of body types and a knowing appreciation for how flexible ‘sexy’ is as a term....

Nudity is a vulnerable thing. Without clothes, we are nothing but fleshy insecurities, pieces of ourselves we choose to show only to loved ones we care about and trust the most. It may be through sex, bathing, or something else entirely, but to present it all, elements of trust have to be earned. At least, that is what society has conditioned us to believe. When it comes to the pantheon ofSupergiant’sHades 2, however, the gods who call it home aren’t shackled by the same prudish social barriers held by mortals....

For most of the time I’ve played games onPC,Steamhas been a rock solid application. I’m not one of those PC console warriors who has a hate-on for theEpic Games Store— because, hey, free games — butValve’s product has undeniably always been more comprehensive and smoother to use. It starts up quickly, runs speedily once it’s open, and generally does the things I need a game launcher to do. What else do you want?...

Summary TheHelldivers 2community unlocked the mech suit stratagem in March afterliberating Tien Kwan, and only two days ago,they unlocked a second exo-suit for liberating Varylia 5. But you can’t have two mechs at once, meaning only one Helldiver can deploy them at a time According to community manager Katherine ‘TheBaskinator’ Baskin, “It’s due to resource management.” We want to un-cap the number of mechs [and] vehicles but more work is required....