Destiny 2 The Dawning 2024 Exact Start Date and Time, End Date, and more

It’s happening, folks:Destiny 2‘s Dawning 2024 event is coming at us fast, and it’s absolutely loaded with new guns, goodies, and cosmetics for us to chase after. Down below, we’ve assembled a comprehensive set of information about The Dawning 2024, such as the start and end dates. In the broadest of strokes, The Dawning 2024 will be a more-or-less standard continuation ofDestiny 2‘s annual winter-season event. Players can expect themed sets of fancy new armor Ornaments, new shaders, seasonally appropriate guns, and loads more....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Regina Young

Destiny 2’s Season of the Lost has me back in the saddle again

Did I ever really leave? The Season of the Lost has begun inDestiny 2, which to non-Destinyplayers, might not mean very much.Destiny 2lore is filled with proper nouns and sometimes-ambiguous terminology that can mean a great deal to those in the know, and not much to those who haven’t been closely following along. And somehow, with Season of the Lost, I’ve moved from being in the latter camp to the former....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1491 words · Brandi Becker

Empire of the Ants will come scurrying onto PC and consoles in 2024

It’s a small world after all… Publisher Microids, in association withRochelaisindie studioTower Five, has released the first screenshots for the intriguing-looking insect adventure Empire of the Ants, which is currently in development for PC and console platforms, with a tentative 2024 release window. Based on Bernard Werber’s 1991 sci-fi novelLes Fourmis,(“The Ants”),Empire of the Antswill see layers don the form of a soldier ant, charged with leading its lost colony to safer, finer pastures....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Robert Campbell

ESPN: eSports are not actually sports

Okay Are eSports real sports? ESPN’s intrepid leader doesn’t seem to think so. “It’s not a sport — it’s a competition,” ESPN president John Skipper said Thursday at the Code/Media Series conference in New York. “Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition.Mostly, I’m interested in doing real sports.” The dismissal is curious, given ESPNpartnered with Valveearlier this summer to broadcast The International, the world championship forDota 2, and how the network airs stuff like cup stacking, competitive eating, spelling bees, and poker tournaments....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Charles Mullins

Ex-Dtoid editor has the touch, makes me want Epic Mickey

David Houghtonis one of my favorite videomgame journalists; he’s got an great analytical eye, and he knows how to express his excitement without coming off as insincere. It figures that he would be the one to make me interested inEpic Mickey. Honestly, up until now the game was getting on my nerves. Making stuff “dark” just to attempt to keep up with the tastes of “mature” gamers is one of my big pet-peeves....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Tanya Mccarty MD

Fox News talks Fat Princess: Terrible fat jokes ahoy

Fox News “researchers” clearly read videogame blogs, because there’s no other way those guys would have found out about theFat Princess“controversy”and the pretend feminists who stomped their trotters and moaned about it. If you think Fox News would use “this silly videogame,” as they put it, to continue the station’s long-standing grudge against gaming, you’d be wrong. After all, a chance to mock thosedirty left-wing feministsis going to rank higher on Fox’s agenda, and as theabove clipdemonstrates, they took that chance in both clumsy hands....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 244 words · Bobby Rodriguez

Frostivus isn’t cancelled! The Dota 2 holiday begins soon

Also, ranked matchmaking is coming Last year, Frostivus, what I assume to be the most amazingDota 2holiday ever, wasCANCELLEDdue to those jerk Greevils. Then we had the “Greevling” instead, which was a decent alternative game mode for a while, though it largely depended on how awesome your Greevil was. Regardless, that’s all in the past now! This year,Frostivus is good to goand, just like the blog post says, nothing can possibly go wrong....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Danielle Osborne

Get set for Festivale in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

You make me feel like dancin’ It’s almost time for the snow to thaw in the bright and cheerful world ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Already waiting in the wings is the newest seasonal update, which will see Nook Islands prepare for the colorful coming of Festivale! Beginning January 28, Nook Island-dwellers will have the opportunity to pick up a selection of limited edition party-going clothing from the Able Sisters, as well as some feel-good animations with the arrival of new reactions “Viva,” “Let’s Go,” “Feelin’ it,” and “Confetti....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · James Owens

Giveaway: Sock it to your backlog with a new copy of Socketeer!

When will the free games end?! More games should really star adorable robots who use their enemies’ weapons and abilities against them as they hack, slack, burn, and crash their way through space stations infested with sentient AI hell-bent on deprogramming you once and for all. But since more games aren’t exactly that, at least we’re able to give away a whole mess of keys forSocketeer, a game that is about all of that!...

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 252 words · Kelly Fernandez

Here’s a recap of our PlayStation VR launch coverage

There’s still a few more games to go When the PlayStation VR launches on October 13, it’ll bring over 20 games along with it. Several are ports of existing VR PC games, several are exclusive, and a few don’t require PSVR to play. As time goes on and more titles become available to us, we’ll update the below list so you may make a judgment call on whether or not the move to VR is right for you....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 99 words · Heather Smith

Hildibrand will return in Final Fantasy XIV’s latest patch as fans anxiously await Eureka

4.25 will give us a few things to do Right now I’m still working my way through God Kefka inFinal Fantasy XIV, but with Patch 4.25 I’ll have even more to do on non-raid days. Arriving on Tuesday March 13, the patch will see the return of fan-favorite Hildibrand — who I must stress was such a favorite that Square Enix decided to include him more than they were even planning to — as well as the arrival of The Forbidden Land, Eureka Anemos, colloquailly referred to as “Eureka....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 262 words · Sean Martin

How to get all the free characters in Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium

Girls’ Frontline 2: Exiliumis the latest entrant to theworld of gachas, and you can begin your journey with a few free characters. Like every gacha, the main way to get new characters is by drawing on the banner. In Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium, the characters are commonly known as Dolls (keeping in tradition with the first title). The banners have an element of randomness to them, and they will require resources to draw....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Daniel Snow

How to get Carrots and Carrot Seeds in Stardew Valley

There are four new crops inStardew Valleyas of the 1.6 update and one of them, Carrots, might seem elusive at first but they’re pretty easy to find once you know where to look. There’s a couple of ways to get Carrot Seeds, so let’s look into it. Carrots aren’t worth much, selling for between 35 and 70 Gold depending on their quality level, but they are good for keeping your energy up, especially early into a new playthrough....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Angela Baker