Gaming

Diablo 4 players have long wanted to bring their Eternal characters into the Seasonal realm, and now they’re getting their wish, sort of

• Diablo 4's new Rebirth feature converts Eternal characters into Seasonal ones
• Converted characters reset to level one, losing power and gear
• Season 15 launches 15th September, after BlizzCon's fuller reveal

Blizzard is adding a long-requested feature called Rebirth to Diablo 4, allowing players to convert their Eternal realm characters into Seasonal characters instead of building a new one from scratch each season. The change addresses a persistent frustration for players, since Diablo 4 uniquely separates its permanent Eternal…

How to complete Deliver Some Sweetness in Disney Dreamlight Valley

• Summer Sizzle event task requires six daily villager quests to finish
• Quests come from Goofy, Remy or Ursula, one per day
• Rewards include the Summer Picnic Basket and Lake Dock recipes

A guide explains how to complete "Deliver Some Sweetness", one of the trickier duties in Disney Dreamlight Valley's Summer Sizzle event. Players must complete daily quests set by villagers Goofy, Remy or Ursula, with six such quests needed to unlock all the rewards tied to the task, making…

All tools in Big Walk and how to use them

• Big Walk guide lists all tools and their in-game uses.
• Tools split into inventory, communication, location and puzzle categories.
• Key cutter is required to complete the game's Tower Challenges.

Big Walk, a co-operative puzzle game, features a range of tools that players can use to communicate, navigate and solve challenges together. A Destructoid guide breaks the items down into four categories: inventory, communication, location and puzzle tools, explaining what each one does and when it is most…

Halo’s No Match for Activision’s Barebones Digital-Only Black Ops PS5 Ports

• Black Ops PS5 ports outsold all other PS Store games combined in July.
• Alinea estimates 11.2 million combined sales, with Black Ops 2 leading.
• Halo: Campaign Evolved managed only around 351,000 sales by comparison.

Digital-only re-releases of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 on PS5 outsold every other title on the PlayStation Store combined during July, according to estimates from analytics firm Alinea, despite receiving no meaningful improvements over their PS3 originals. The two ports reportedly attracted more PS5…

AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter

• AMD's data centre revenue over 8x its gaming revenue last quarter
• AI-driven demand now dominates AMD's overall business
• Gaming hardware sales relatively marginal against data centre growth

AMD's latest quarterly results show a stark divide in where its money now comes from, with data centre revenue dwarfing that of its traditional gaming business by a factor of more than eight. The figures underline how thoroughly the AI boom has reshaped chipmakers' priorities, with server and…

Pokemon Pokopia – How To Unlock The Portal Pod And Store Shared Items

Pokemon Pokopia’s new 2.0 update is live, and this introduces the ability to dive and explore underwater. This new content also adds several new items to the game, including the highly requested shared storage system called the Portal Pod. In this guide, we'll explain how to unlock and…

Game Freak promises Beast of Reincarnation improvements following mixed reviews, starting with “story pacing improvements” within a week: “We take your feedback to heart”

• Game Freak pledges fixes for Beast of Reincarnation after mixed reviews
• First update, improving story pacing, arrives within a week
• Studio promises further changes based on player feedback

Game Freak has responded to a mixed critical reception for its action RPG Beast of Reincarnation by announcing a series of post-launch updates, with the first patch focused on story pacing due within a week. The studio said it is listening closely to player and critic feedback, framing…

Beast of Reincarnation’s Dog Is A Huge Miss On Game Freak’s Part

• Polygon critiques Beast of Reincarnation's companion dog Koo
• Koo's constant alerts spoil exploration and hidden-item discovery
• Repetitive enemy barking and bland maps compound the frustration

A Polygon opinion piece argues that Beast of Reincarnation, Game Freak's new action RPG marketed as a "one-person, one-dog" adventure, is let down by its companion dog Koo, whose constant on-screen alerts strip away any sense of discovery. Although the game features large maps with side paths and…

It won’t fix the RAM crisis, but CXMT is poised to bring back mass-market DRAM production and gaming laptop brands are interested

• CXMT set to ramp up mass-market DRAM chip production
• Gaming laptop brands reportedly interested in sourcing from CXMT
• Move won't fully resolve the ongoing global RAM shortage

Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) is on track to become a significant new source of mass-market DRAM chips, at a time when global memory supplies have been squeezed and prices have surged. According to the report, several gaming laptop brands have shown interest in sourcing RAM…

Ewan McGregor reminds everyone there’s still a missing decade of Obi-Wan’s story left to tell

• Ewan McGregor highlights an untold decade in Obi-Wan Kenobi's story.
• Gap remains between the Disney+ series and A New Hope.
• Comments fuel speculation about further Obi-Wan projects.

Ewan McGregor has drawn attention to the fact that a significant stretch of Obi-Wan Kenobi's story remains untold on screen, despite the character's return in Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The comments reignite speculation about further Star Wars projects exploring the Jedi Master's years in hiding on Tatooine before…