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A little over a month ago, Bungie claimed Destiny 2 would receive an even more challenging Nightfall difficulty during Season of the Worthy called Grandmaster. At the time, the developer gave no significant details as to what the mode would be like. But now, with the latest issue of TWAB, Bungie finally explains what players can expect out of the difficulty, and it’s pretty interesting. First off, Grandmaster Ordeal will be the final and hardest difficulty of the Nightfall: The Ordeal playlist....

The year is off to a rough start for CD Projekt. Net profit at CD Projekt Red fell 64.7% compared to the same time last year, down to 32.5 million zlotys ($8.87 million USD). That’s according to the company’s most Q1 financial statement that was just released today. It marks a stark departure from 2020’s results which were largely boosted by pandemic lockdowns. “Lower than usual net profitability is mainly due to continuing depreciation of Cyberpunk 2077 development expenditures, work on updating the game, and R&D activities related to future projects,” said chief financial officer Pitor Nielubowicz....

With DC FanDome airing this weekend, top-tier gaming chair manufacturers Secretlab are providing fans with the ultimate throne to honor the Clown Prince himself. The official Secretlab The Joker Edition chair will be launching alongside the DC event this Saturday. After the success of the Secretlab Dark Knight Edition - that of course, came in black - and the limited edition Birds of Prey chair, the company wanted to produce the DC hattrick by involving the Clown Prince of Crime....

China is in the news again, under allegations that its government is detaining minority groups and forcing them to work making Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony products, Video Games Chronicle reports. The Chinese government originally detained more than a million Uighur Muslims for reeducation in “vocational training centers” to “combat religious extremism.” That was, at least, their cover story. As we’ve learned, however, the Chinese government doesn’t have the most honest track record, and a study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reported that the close to 80,000 of those Uighur Muslims are now in forced working conditions....

Cloudpunk - the pixelated open-world adventure through a vertical cyberpunk city - was one of my most anticipated games of the year, and it delivered on expectations even more than I thought it would. It wasn’t perfect, but for my money, it is one of the best games within the cyberpunk genre this year; a genre that is being saturated within the industry due to the current hype surrounding the upcoming release of Cyberpunk 2077....

If you were trying to download Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam earlier this morning, you were likely quite surprised to see the message, “Oops, sorry!” That’s because CS:GO was accidentally removed from Steam along with a bunch of other games in an apparent glitch over at Valve HQ. We don’t have the full details of what happened, but SteamDB owner Pavel Djundik noted a sudden spike in games disappearing off the platform at around 2 AM EST....

Yesterday, the Xbox One and PC exclusive Cuphead launched for fans who had been anxiously awaiting the title’s release since its official announcement during E3 2014, and the publisher Microsoft and developer Studio MDHR are understandably keen to celebrate. Now, as one part of their commemoration of the vibrant run and gun shooter game’s availability, the companies have decided to officially release the title’s launch trailer. As seen below in the Cuphead launch trailer, fans are immediately thrust into the title’s colorful in-game world, with all of its visuals inspired by traditional hand-drawn cartoons of the late 1930s era, as players are able to control the titular character Cuphead, or his friend Mugman in either single-player or local co-op play....

The original Danganronpa Trilogy, plus a standalone board game mode pulled from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. Danganronpa’s multiple releases have already seen a few iterations across multiple consoles (PSP, Vita, PC, so on), but this marks the first time we’ll see Danganronpa on Nintendo Switch. The visual novel trilogy will also see an expanded version of the third game’s board game, Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp, in its own standalone game, so you’ll really be getting four games with Decadence....

YouTuber, ATwerkinYoshi, plays Dark Souls 3 using only a dance pad as a controller, beating the game in 44 hours and 26 minutes and dying over 350 times. Dark Souls 3 is a game that is known to be punishingly hard, but that doesn’t mean fans of the game haven’t already been doing everything they can to ramp up the game’s extreme difficulty. There was the player who beat the game without taking a single hit from the game’s enemies, the one who beat the game using only voice commands, and the guy who managed to defeat the Abyss Watchers using a dance pad....

Dead By Daylight is filled with a variety of currency types that can be hard to track and make sense of. Usually, most games that have in-game currency, tend to stick to a generally established formula: you either have the regular currency, obtainable by playing the game, or the premium currency available for purchase through microtransactions. In free-to-play games, the former is especially hard to come around. The formula gets a little more complex in Dead By Daylight....

There are quite a few achievements to obtain in Dead By Daylight. In the base game alone are 61 and the DLC have increased that number to a whopping 148 and counting. The difficulty of these trophies range from simply playing the game to excruciating grinds that take hundreds of matches. For players interested in scooping up a few trophies or wondering how difficult it is to obtain a platinum here are the easiest and hardest to pick up in the game....

The sighting of a Dead Island 2 pre-order listing leads to speculation that the game will make an official appearance at E3 2019. There are suggestions that publisher Deep Silver will use the annual industry event to announce the Dead Island 2 release date. On the Microsoft Store, fans of zombie action-adventure series Dead Island can now pre-order Dead Island 2 for Xbox One. The listing shows a price of $59....

Despite the fact that gamers still know relatively little in regards to what Death Stranding is supposed to be about, the forthcoming video game from Kojima Productions is easily one of the most highly anticipated titles in recent memory. Now, should a listing on the retailer Walmart Canada’s website be accurate, then fans may not have to wait too much longer for the PlayStation exclusive to launch. As it so happens, the game could be coming in the middle of 2019....

Arkane’s Deathloop is shaping up to be one of the studio’s most ambitious releases. The upcoming first-person action game is set in a time loop, combining single player and multiplayer elements. One player will be tasked with assassinating a group of NPCs before the loop resets, while the second player will hunt down the first (if in MP). Deathloop’s concept presents a lot of challenges, but those challenges aren’t just limited to its gameplay....

Destiny is a polarizing franchise for a lot of gamers, but given the game’s massive popularity, every decision Bungie makes about their futuristic RPG shooter is sure to get a debate going, and the series’ omnipresent sidekicks are no exception. Just last week, Bungie announced Peter Dinklage’s departure from the series as robotic companion Ghost, alongside the news that Nolan North would be taking over, a move that has been as divisive as it was unexpected....

One of the most popular recurring events from the first Destiny game was the Iron Banner, which will soon make its Destiny 2 debut. As announced by Bungie, the first Iron Banner event for Destiny 2 is right around the corner, kicking off on October 10th at 2am Pacific time and wrapping up on October 17th at 2am Pacific. In Destiny 2’s first version of the Iron Banner, two teams of four will compete against each other in the Control match type....

Destiny 2 faces a tough problem: How to welcome new players who might not have seen the game, while also satisfying veteran players who have invested hundreds of hours. Although much of the attention within the Destiny fan base right now is focused on the new Rise of Iron expansion, there is a looming cloud in the background. We don’t have a firm release date, but we know that Destiny 2 is coming, and with it will bring a new start for Bungie’s mega-franchise....

What could be considered to be the Destiny 2 beta’s biggest glitch yet has been found—a method that will grant the infinite use of any roaming Super. For those subclasses in the beta, that would include the Sentinel, Gunslinger, Arcstrider, and Dawnblade. Thankfully, the glitch can only be performed in just one activity in the Destiny 2 beta, The Inverted Spire strike. There is no way to perform it in PvP, which will keep the exploit out of any head-to-head matches....

With Season 12 ending in a few days, Destiny 2 has finally unveiled new information surrounding its upcoming season, Season of the Chosen. As with every new season in Destiny 2, Season of the Chosen brings with it some changes and updates that will add new loot to chase. Alongside new loot, Bungie is also taking a look at some old and underused exotic armor pieces. The Cult of Aeon exotic armor pieces are a series of exotic gauntlets: Aeon Swift, Aeon Soul, and Aeon Safe for Hunter, Warlock, and Titan classes respectfully....

Throughout its 7-year history, the Destiny franchise has drawn from a number of sources for inspiration. But typically while fans suspect that a certain piece of gear, story point, or environmental design is inspired by another piece of media, they can’t always be sure. Bungie’s Tom Farnsworth has revealed once piece of Destiny 2 content that was inspired by a classic video game level. On Twitter, the Destiny 2 Season of Arrivals lead confirmed that the Corridors of Time mission/area in the game is inspired by the Lost Woods from the Legend of Zelda....