Month: September 2018

Hollow Knight is finally hitting the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 25 in the digital, content-packed Voidheart Edition.

Announced by developer Team Cherry, Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition will include the core game and its four additional content packs: Hidden Dreams, The Grimm Troupe, Lifeblood and Godmaster. It’s unclear if any exclusive content beyond these packs will be coming to the Voidheart Edition.

No price was announced for this version of Hollow Knight, though pre-orders for the PS4 version will begin on September 14, with a 20% discount for PlayStation Plus members. For reference, Hollow Knight for the Switch released earlier this year for $15 US and it also included the four content packs at no additional cost. This version of the game sold over 250,000 copies in its first two weeks.

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How many tombs could a Tomb Raider raid if a Tomb Raider could raid tombs? Beats us, but we do know that IGN has reviewed a whole lot of Tomb Raider games in the past two decades. As you can see in the slideshow below, there’s been no shortage of adventures by everyone’s favorite gender-swapped Indiana Jones knockoff, and she’s had more than her fair share of ups and downs. Take a look and let us know which ones you remember as being awesome and which as… less so.

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Treyarch and Activision opened the beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout yesterday and immediately received a flood of negative feedback about how items are picked up. Treyarch has heard its players loud and clear, though, and will make changes to the battle royale mode before the final game launches.

The way things currently work, Blackout players have to aim precisely at items like ammo and weapons and then press and then hold a button to pick them up. Various players have complained that this mechanic feels clunky and unintuitive, slowing them down and leaving them vulnerable to being eliminated. Posting on Reddit, Treyarch outlined its plans to smooth things over some.

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The Fortnite 5.4 Content Update has removed the controversial Drum Gun with no warning or notice when the patch went live this morning.

For weeks, Fortnite players have debated the Drum Gun’s superb usefulness in a variety of different situations and what lengths Epic should go to balance the weapon. It features a quick and easy spray technique with a fast rate of fire that can mow down nearby enemies and even those at longer ranges. It can also rip through enemy buildings putting other assault rifles to shame and making the Minigun and Light Machine Gun obsolete.

While recent nerfs brought the Drum Gun’s accuracy and falloff damage down a bit, the weapon continued to spark debate among the community.

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