gaming articles published September 17, 2024

September 17 articles

• After 29 years, the cult classic survival horror game that haunted my childhood dreams is getting its first official release outside Japan just in time for Halloween
• Arrowhead creative director agrees Helldivers 2 needs a harder difficulty mode after the 'buff everything' patch
• Blizzard has apparently decided the best way to combat the Hearthstone-is-dying narrative is by releasing a $60 Ragnaros hero skin
• The next Battlefield game has been in 'nearly daily' playtesting for 'well over a year,' and a large-scale community test is planned for early 2025
• EA has four "fully resourced" studios working on Battlefield multiplayer, single player, and a "new Battlefield experience" – "We're taking more time in the dev cycle"
• PlayStation Store Update Worldwide September 17, 2024
• This new FPS is like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines meets Borderlands and we can't wait to sink our teeth into it
• Helldivers 2's new major order tells players to take their newly buffed weapons and let 'em rip to "expand the net quantity of freedom" across the galaxy
• The next Sims game is doing invite-only multiplayer testing this fall
• Another Rockstar Launcher leak points to Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Redemption coming to PC
• Final Fantasy XVI and God of War Ragnarok drop for PC this week — AMD has preview drivers, Nvidia shows benchmarks
• EA says Respawn is working on "the final chapter" of Star Wars Jedi, and over 40 million people have played the first 2
• The Arcade1UP Mortal Kombat head-to-head table is $300 off right now
• A year later, barely any of Cities: Skylines 2's first-year DLC has actually launched and now it's all been delayed again
• The early hero of Helldivers 2's big September 17 update is the Thermite Grenade, which Arrowhead buffed from 100 to 2,000 democracy-delivering explosion damage
• PS5 Pro Elden Ring Potentially Runs Locked 60 FPS
• Core Keeper review
• Assassin's Creed Shadows is bigger than Mirage but smaller than Valhalla because Ubisoft only needed to make a small slice of Japan: "We're talking about Origins big"
• EA decides adding paid mods to The Sims 4 is a good idea, because it worked out so well for Bethesda with Skyrim and Fallout 4
• The Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't even been announced properly yet, but this Stardew Valley-like life sim was just confirmed as one of its first games
• GTA Online gets the anti-cheat support on PC it's sorely needed for the last 9 years, but Steam Deck players are paying the price
• Former Capcom, Ubisoft, and Riot devs team up for a co-op action RPG with a dash of roguelikes and a heaping helping of magical girls, and boy is it pretty
• Dragon's Dogma 2 patch introduces a casual mode, which stops your sick pawns from blowing everyone in a town up, among other things
• Helldivers 2's buff-happy patch is here, and I'm already feeling the flames of liberty burn bright once again
• My Time at Evershine is finally adding the multiplayer mode that fans of the cozy RPG sim series have wanted for years
• PlayStation 6 tipped to stick with AMD for one great reason
• Big Dragon’s Dogma 2 PS5 Update Adds Casual Mode
• New Xbox Layoffs Blasted by Union That Supported Activision Deal
• Creators can start uploading to Fab – the new marketplace for Unreal Engine and Unity
• Dragon's Dogma 2 now has a "Casual Mode" that makes the RPG easier, reducing prices and removing the "devastating calamity" that may befall Pawns
• First major patch of Helldivers 2's 60-day plan is a huge list of changes designed to do two things: Keep divers alive for longer, and kill Bots and Bugs much quicker
• Wordle hints and answer for Tuesday, September 17
• Assassin's Creed Shadows' gameplay will be affected by Ubisoft's fancy new weather tech, and the studio says its future games will incorporate it "in much more depth"
• Unknown 9: Awakening feels like a AA videogame from the late 2000s, and so far that isn't a bad thing