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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers Liu Cheng’en boss guide Here’s how to beat Ming General, Liu Cheng’en in WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers. Image credit:Leenzee/VG247 At this point in WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers , you’ll have explored much of Cloudspire and no doubt died to landmines and explosive archers multiple times. Now, it’s time for you to die to Ming General Liu Cheng’en several times too, but hopefully, with the help of this boss guide, it won’t come to that....

Wuthering Waves Chixia Build The right weapons and Echoes for the fiery gunslinger. UPDATE: We’ve added some extra information to this guide to help you with the best Chixia build. Expect some more details on her best Team Compositions, Echo stats, and ascension materials. The best Wuthering Waves Chixia build turns the free, fiery gunslinger into a potent main DPS for your team, without having to invest too much time in finding the right fits....

Wuthering Waves Havoc Rover Build Building Havoc Rover? Here’s the best Echoes, weapons, and stats you should look out for. Image credit:VG247/Kuro Games I don’t know about you, but I’m quite used to shelving my main character in games like Wuthering Waves . My Honkai Star Rail MC rarely sees the light of day, but the best Havoc Rover build in WuWa is - right now - incredible to use as a part of your Team of Resonators ....

Xbox Game Pass’ additions for September are basically Christmas for lovably boring prats who revel in the thrills of the simulated commute It’s me, I’m the prat who likes this kind of thing. Now stop shouting at me. Image credit:Xbox/Raw Fury STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING. I know, I say that a lot - certainly more than I should to readers who could literally be anywhere in the world and doing anything at the times I end up addressing them....

Xbox is bringing 30 titles to gamescom and you can watch a Starfield presentation on the big screen Xbox is gearing up for gamescom 2023 with a nice lineup of games. Xbox is bringing 30 titles games to gamescom 2023 this month, and if you are heading to the show, be sure to stop by the Xbox booth to give some a try. Games on hand will include Towerborne, the newest adventure from the developers at Stoic, along with the latest content update to The Elder Scrolls Online and Microsoft Flight Simulator....

Xbox update threatens upheaval for unauthorised controller users Starting in November, third party controllers are going out the window. It’s not good news all around. Later this month, the Xbox Series X / S will be undergoing a massive change that 99% of users won’t notice. Nonetheless, it threatens to leave players with niche hardware out to dry. This all started when users noticed a new error code when using their third-party accessories....

You can soon get an Xbox Series X that looks like SpongeBob - if you can afford it That is quite the price tag. Image credit:Microsoft/ Nickelodeon You, yes you, could be the owner of an Xbox Series X that looks like SpongeBob Squarepants , if you have a spare $700. Sorry, hang on, let me just read back what I just wrote to myself. Yeah, no, that’s right apparently - $700 for an Xbox that looks like SpongeBob, an amount that must be a joke, surely?...

You know that ‘This is Fine’ dog meme? The original cartoonist is launching a Kickstarter to fund a “charming platformer” based on it Handled by Numskull Games and from the mind of the original comic creator, a platformer is hitting Kickstarter. Image credit:Numskull Games You know that one meme? The one with the dog, surrounded by fire, stating “this is fine” despite all the non-ideal stuff going on around him? It’s a popular little comic, one that has cemented itself on the internet as an all-timer reaction image....

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Gerudo Town Heart Piece Hidden above Gerudo Town, this Heart Piece is easy to miss! Image credit:Nintendo/VG247 Down a secret ladder above the palace in Gerudo Town in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom , Princess Zelda finds a hidden cave with a tempting prize: a Heart Piece. However, to add it to her total, she’ll need to solve a fiddly puzzle involving boxes, boulders, and one of the most useful Echoes in the whole game!...

ZZZ Hugo build and teams The best W-Engines and Drive Discs for Hugo Image credit:HoYoverse | VG 24/7 A strong ZZZ Hugo build is rather annoying to put together, thanks to HoYoverse’s neglect in adding enough W-Engines and A-rank character during the RPG’s first year. Hugo is strong, sure. However, he also needs a specific stat mix and teammates to make the most of his kit, and it’s not easy to find the right balance....

“It’s good that we were still allowed to exist at all” After the Oblivion remaster leak, Skyblivion project lead confirms the team will keep working and “stay positive” “Luckily this thing was all about passion from the start and it still is.” Image credit:Bethesda/Skyblivion In case you were living under a rock yesterday, a bunch of screenshots and details about the long-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster leaked via Virtuos Games’ website....

“Put him in a room, let him cook” Civilization 7 developer Firaxis announces it’s hired one of the series’ top modders, with players hoping that’s good UI news “Waaaaay back in high school, I started modding Civ 5, and honestly, that’s what started me down this path of working in game dev.” Image credit:Firaxis Here’s some important news for folks who’ve been waiting for Civilization 7 to get some key changes since it released to mixed reviews ....

“The community - they can’t control what I do” Excommunicated Smash Pro announces tournament Announced on his Youtube channel, Zero will allow players including “hand picked individuals” that are otherwise banned from wider competition. Former Smash Bros pro player Zero has announced his intentions to run his own tournament, years after they were banned from the vast majority of tournaments due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Explained briefly in a four minute video titled “I honestly can’t believe I’m doing this…”, Zero states that he’ll begin hosting his own tournament “based on popular request”....

“The whole studio was burning the candle at both ends” - Two of Halo 2’s most important designers reflect on the beloved sequel’s working conditions “We really didn’t know what was going to happen.” Image credit:Bungie Halo 2 had a bit of a troubled development, and now a couple of important designers have shared their perspective on working on it. It’s well known by this point that there was a lot of crunch on Halo 2 - the first game had been a big success, and Bungie was growing, but not in a way that provided support in all the ways that were needed....

“We don’t want to wait that long either” - As we all crave fresh Fallout, Todd Howard says Bethesda’s looking to find ways to up its output Wahey, it sounds like there’s at least a chance we all might get to play a new Fallout game in less than a decade or so. Image credit:VG247/Bethesda Yup, while we have had Fallout 4’s rather, er, troubled next-gen update to dig into, and Appalachia to rediscover, the show’s highlighted the need for more regular entries....

“We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted” - Fallout: New Vegas’ director on Obsidian’s goals in the face of bug criticisms and Fallout 3 comparisons “You always have to prioritise things.” <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/fallout-new-vegas_yo5KBrO.jpg?width=570&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=““We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted” - 1”> Obsidian knew what it was in for as it was developing Fallout: New Vegas , but that didn’t stop it from sticking with its guns....

“We’d be remiss to not act on that” Positive feedback on Warframe 1999 protoframes has the team thinking of the future. Speaking with head of community director & live ops Megan Everett, the love of protoframes is a “testament to being risky and getting weird with it” Image credit:VG247 Warframe 1999 : Techrot Encore comes out today, a much-anticipated follow-up to the weird and wonderful 1999 expansion which added romance, grunge, and a tank with tentacles....

9 years later, Guillermo Del Toro is still unhappy with Konami about PT and Silent Hills Can you blame him? Image credit:Konami To mark the ninth anniversary of the P.T. demo, Guillermo Del Toro has done what he often does best and shared a rather brazen tweet about the game, and it’s publisher, Konami. P.T. was a demo for a fully-fledged Silent Hill game, Silent Hills, from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro that was released in 2014....

After Elden Ring, Sekiro, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, a key member of FromSoft is saying goodbye to the studio Yuka Kitamura’s name is synonymous with FromSoftware’s modern era, but she’s no longer with the studio. If there’s one thing fans and non-fans of FromSoftware agree on, it’s that the studio’s games contain some stellar music. Even as early as the Dark Souls series, through Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice , Bloodborne all the way to Elden Ring you’d be hard pressed to find a single game without its own list of iconic tracks....

After half a year of layoffs and closures, more than 240 Bethesda workers come together to unionise “We are so excited to announce our union at Bethesda Game Studio and join the movement sweeping across the video game industry.” Image credit:VG247/Bethesda It’s a big day for the labour movement in the games industry, as 241 Bethesda staffers have formed a union. Yesterday evening, Bethesda Game Studios workers announced it had formed a union under the Communication Workers of America (CWA), making it the first studio to fully do so since being acquired by Microsoft ....