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Retailer GAME, the UK’s last dedicate chain of games stores, may need to close up to 40 stores in what it is calling a “rationalization program.” Last year, GAME’s parent company Sports Direct revealed that there were concerns about the business viability and whether it would be able to survive for much longer. It would appear that this is a significant step in the attempt to save the company as a whole, but trimming potentially underperforming stores....

Street Fighter fans have been waiting to get their fight sticks out for next-gen since the earlier announcement of Ultra Street Fighter 4 for PlayStation 4. Now comes work that there is a host of features that will make the PlayStation 4 version truly the ‘ultra’ edition of the game. A post was put up today on the PlayStation Blog that gives a rundown of a few key features that the PlayStation Exclusive next-gen release of Ultra Street Fighter 4 will have....

As Valorant Act III begins, a new patch will be making some alterations to the game. Some of these are pretty interesting changes that will have a considerable impact on gameplay, while others are simple bug fixes. Stand-out changes include alterations to the Classic alt-fire mode. The weapon’s right-click fire accuracy has been reduced while jumping, running, and walking. So, if you were the type to break out the Classic for fast-paced pushes, you may be out of luck....

This update only brings a few bug fixes. Update 3.01 has arrived for Valorant, and here’s the full list of changes and fixes added with this patch. Act 3 has only just begun, but Riot Games has already issued the first patch containing bug fixes after the new season’s launch. This patch doesn’t contain any major additions or balance adjustments, so don’t expect any huge new features. Instead, this patch only contains a small selection of bug fixes....

Vanderpump Rules‘ Katie Maloney and her husband are now officially divorced. Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz’s divorce comes less than a year after they separated and 12 years together. Find out the details of the couple’s divorce below. Katie Maloney And Tom Schwartz’s Divorce Court documents obtained by Page Six show that Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz finalized their divorce on Wednesday, October 12. The Vanderpump Rules stars were married for six years....

Franchise collaborations have become increasingly common whether they’re fighting games or battle royale shooters. Even Fall Guys has gotten in on some wacky collaborations. Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is now in that same camp with its new Yakuza Collaboration Pack. Announced today, the Yakuza Collaboration Pack comes to Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown on PlayStation 4 on December 8. It features a total of 19 costumes based on popular Yakuza characters....

Apart from innovation in the flagship segment, such as the Vivo NEX 3, the company has now made an aggressive push in India’s budget segment. What started with the Vivo Z1 Pro and Z1x in the sub-Rs. 15,000 segment earlier this year has now trickled down to an even lower and competitive price segment. The Vivo U20 sports a 3D curved design, which is highly resemblant to the Realme 3 Pro....

At the time of the Vivo X60 series launch in China, the company confirmed that it will launch another variant in the coming weeks. The Vivo X60 Pro+ arrives as the newest addition to the X60 series. While the standard X60 and X60 Pro were the first phones powered by Exynos 1080 chipset, the Vivo X60 Pro+ is the first Snapdragon 888-powered phone in the company’s portfolio. The Vivo X60 Pro+ boasts the same premium design as the Pro variant....

Shred the opposition in the most brutal fashion! The Ghoulsaw has been known to eventually come into Warframe even before the Sevagoth update. It looked really interesting and would also be a new inclusion of melee weapon types in the game. Assault Saws really aren’t the type of weapon you’d see space ninjas using, but it sure is a welcomed one. This weapon was introduced in Update 30.7 which also marked the reintroduction of the popular Plague Star event....

Huge changes are coming to Warframe’s melee system, as Phase 2 of the melee rework will arrive with The Old Blood update. Phase 1 can be viewed as just a minor rework in light of all the changes that are coming in Phase 2. To help ease us all into it, Digital Extremes have posted a detailed Dev Workshop to the official forums for us to read. There are a few highlights of the rework that I want to run through here, but you should certainly read the full post over on the forums....

Bandai Namco Japan has released a second trailer of the upcoming Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory, a new turn-based RPG that expands the universe of the original Cyber Sleuth by focusing on the hacker community. The new trailer features some helpful translation in English and presents each of the new characters, including the unnamed protagonist, who is seeking to prove his innocence after being framed for a crime he did not commit....

With the development of gaming as a hobby and eventually competitive sport (Esports), it is expected that each niche will develop its own jargon. Whether it’s an RTS, MOBA, MMO, or any other gaming genre, there are different ‘languages’ that players invested in perfecting them will use as catch-all terms to describe mechanics and concepts. Fighting games are no different. In fact, as some of the first games to be recognized as competitive, fighting games have developed their own colloquial terms very early on, with some of them reaching as far back as the 90s....

Every new season of Diablo 3 introduces new, limited-time features to the game that help change up how people play. For Season 24, it was ethereal items. For Season 25, it’s Soul Shards. So, as you start grinding through this new phase of Diablo 3, what are these new Soul Shards? All about Soul Shards Soul Shards are basically a new socketable item for the game. Socketable items are things like gems, runes, and jewels that have been used throughout the franchise to buff character stats, but for a price....

Karma is a hidden stat in Bitlife that only becomes revealed when a character dies under their happiness level, but what does it mean? What does Karma do in Bitlife and How to Raise it Karma is a stat that can increase and decrease based on the actions you do in the game, whereas bad actions will lower it, and good actions will raise it. Along with this, your karma level will also help you live longer and get through bad events such as becoming sick....

When players get the queasy moodle in Project Zomboid, it means that they are on the first stage of being sick in the game. If players are queasy, their health will also drain faster and faster as they progress through all four stages of being sick. Also when health drains, it usually means that players are sick and infected with the Zombie Virus. If players are infected with the virus, it is too late, and the sickness can not be cured....

The gaming industry is dominated by Tencent. Based in China, the company is best known for its connections to League of Legends, but its reach is far greater. Now, ByteDance, another booming Chinese company that’s most well known for its social media platform Tiktok, is breaking into the gaming industry. First reported by Bloomberg, ByteDance has been assembling a team of gaming developers and talking about distribution rights. ByteDance has already launched more casual games, but this represents a bigger step, but with Tencent already at the head of the gaming empire, it could be a rough path....

Update 4.0.0 is here Update 1.15 has arrived for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and here’s the full list of changes and fixes added with this patch. On PS4 the version number is update 1.15, although officially Ubisoft names it patch 4.0.0. This patch should be available now on all platforms in the early morning of May 25th, 2021. The download size is quite large as it’s 23 GB in size for PC, PS4 and Xbox One!...

It’s unfortunate news for those who loved musical games that used instrument controllers. Publishers Ubisoft revealed that the company plans to delist the 2011 Rocksmith game from all digital storefronts by early November. That includes removing it from Steam, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. All DLC for the 2011 Rocksmith will also be removed from the Xbox 360 store on October 17. The DLC will also be delisted in the rest of the digital storefronts....

New fighters and a lot of fixes Update 10.00 has arrived for UFC 4, and here’s the full list of changes and fixes added with this patch. This is a big one fellow fans, as two new Fighters are implemented into the game and lots of gameplay tweaks are present. Update 10.00 brings Veteran Bantamweight Rob Font, currently ranked 3rd in the division and Rising Heavyweight star Ciryl Gane, who is now the 4th ranked Heavyweight....

Work smarter, not harder. Once you become a semi-powerful vampire in V Rising, you can enlist the help of servants and thralls to do your bidding and collect resources for you. V Rising is still a survival game, so gathering resources and keeping your Castle Heart powered is a problem that all vampires have to deal with. Thankfully, servants can eliminate a large chunk of the tedious grind so you can focus on taking down bosses and acquiring powerful new gear....