Turnip Boy is ready to commit more felonies in this comedic action-adventure game with roguelite elements. This time the career criminal is teaming up with the fearsome Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time! Shake down hostages, steal precious valuables, and explore the deep, dark depths and history of the Botanical Bank. To pull off the perfect heist, you'll need to purchase an array of dangerous and wacky tools from the dark web, including a diamond pickaxe, C4, and a radio jammer. However, bank robbing isn't easy, so be prepared for intense shootouts with security guards, the police, elite swat teams and more.

Kieran Culkin has revealed that he still hasn't seen his own Emmy-winning performance in the Succession series finale, speaking at a cast Q&A in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Entertainment Weekly reports. The finale aired at the end of May last year, but Culkin explains he was in Poland at the time and couldn't log in to Max.

Unlike some actors who choose not to watch their own work, Culkin said that missing the finale "wasn't on purpose," after having to confess during the cast Q&A that he hadn't actually watched the finished episode yet. "I was in Poland and I couldn’t sign into my Max account. It was an app issue. Then I went on vacation, then after that I was like, eh, that was like three months ago."

The lack of urgency around catching the series finale makes sense, considering Culkin was there for many of the finale's pivotal moments. While it's not likely he's going to have the ending spoiled for him, he's unsure on what parts of the footage they filmed actually ended up in the final episode. "I want to go back and see it," Culkin promises the rest of the panel, which included director Mark Mylod.

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Thunderful Group, a company group that includes the developer behind SteamWorld Build, and publishers of a huge number of indie games, has announced a restructuring that will see around 20% off its staff laid off.

2023 was a terrible year for layoffs in the games industry, and less than a month in, 2024 is already following a similar trend, with major layoffs at both Discord and Twitch in the last week. Just the latest company to announce impending layoffs, Thunderful Group is a Swedish company whose subsidiaries develop, publish, and distribute games and related products.

"The [restructuring] program aims at lowering costs and increasing focus on areas with the best future growth and profitability prospects," Thunderful's statement reads. "Actions will include both significant staff reductions and evaluation of divestment of non-strategic assets."

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The Season 1 Reloaded update is live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, bringing a new crossover with The Boys, the new Rio map for multiplayer, and more. This update also includes the TAQ Evolvere light machine gun. Here we'll guide you through all the ways to unlock this new gun.

How to unlock the TAQ Evolvere LMG

The TAQ Evolvere is described as a versatile and advanced, multi-caliber LMG capable of firing 7.62 or 5.56 ammunition. This new light machine gun can either be unlocked for free by completing in-game challenges or purchased as part of a cosmetic bundle.

The base version can be unlocked by completing any five weekly challenges from the Week 7 challenge list. There are 21 challenges in total for the week, spanning multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone, but you can mix and match any five.

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WarioWare: Move It is the latest entry in the quirky series, offering more than 200 "microgames" designed to get you up off the couch. It's a fun party game (thanks to support for up to four players), and right now you can get it for just $30 at Amazon--its lowest price since launching late last year. This will sell out fast--the deal already sold out at Walmart.

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Anyone familiar with the WarioWare series should already know what to expect with Move It. The game follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, having you and a few friends take part in lightning-fast microgames that last just a few seconds. Most of them are motion-based, as you'll be chopping bamboo, curtseying to onlookers, and performing other off-the-wall actions.

Our WarioWare: Move It review noted that, while not as good as some other entries in the series, there's a lot of fun to be had with this strange title.

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The next Plants vs Zombies game is slowly approaching but getting ever closer, just like a zombie. EA and PopCap have announced that Plants vs Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia has soft-launched in the UK, Netherlands, Australia, and the Philippines. This latest phase of testing will set the stage for a full worldwide launch sometime later this year.

While Plants vs. Zombies has been known better for its Garden Warfare series of shooters recently, PvZ3 goes back to the series' roots (get it?) as a tower defense game. You'll protect Neighborville from encroaching zombies, setting up the usual sorts of garden-based traps and defenses with returning favorite plants alongside new ones. PvZ3 also adds new elements like streamlined combat, a customizable Neighborville, and an episodic narrative with new characters and lore to expand the world. This game will also add puzzle challenges that will differ from the usual tower defense battles.

PopCap first announced Plants vs Zombies 3 in 2019, and it has undergone limited testing in various territories since then. This soft launch signals that it's getting close to a full release, though, so we should be ready to gather our flower power this year.

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Samsung announced its new Galaxy S24 smartphone lineup during today's Samsung Unpacked livestream. The new line includes the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S25 Ultra Android phones, all of which launch on January 31 and are available to preorder at Best Buy and Samsung.

While the three models differ in size, camera specs, and functionality, all three sport a set of similar features, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset with large vapor cooling--which should be great for gaming performance--as well as a collection of AI-powered capabilities. Samsung is pushing the AI features as the big draw of the S24 line, and all three phones will include "Circle to Search," which lets users draw a circle around an object in any image to search for it on Google, and even perform two-way live translations for text and phone calls. There's also a suite of AI-powered photo and video editing tools, including the ability to enhance video recorded at lower fps up to 120fps.

In addition to those features, Samsung also says it will support the new devices with OS generation updates and security patches for the next seven years, which is longer post-launch support than most smartphones usually get.

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The long-awaited Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl finally has a release date. After suffering multiple delays, the sequel to the iconic 2007 survival horror shooter releases exclusively on Xbox Series X|S and PC on September 5. Like other Xbox exclusives, Heart of Chernobyl will be available on Xbox Game Pass at launch. But if you're a big fan of the series, there are multiple different physical editions up for preorder. In fact, there are five editions, including a lavish Collector's Edition that's currently in stock at Amazon for $180.

Stalker 2 Preorder Bonuses

If you reserve a copy of Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl before its launch, you’ll receive a few preorder bonuses. This includes extended campfire content and multiple "Early Bird" bonuses: weapon skin, costume skin, and multiplayer badge.

Preorder Stalker 2 Standard Edition $60

This is the cheapest way to get your hands on Stalker 2. It doesn’t come with anything beyond the base game and eligible preorder bonuses. Digital copies can be found on the Xbox Store, Steam, and the Epic Games Store.

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Step up to the $80 Deluxe edition (digital only), and you’ll get the following exclusives, including an extra story-based quest.

• Additional quest
• Digital Art book
• Official Soundtrack
• One costume, three weapon skins (Solo campaign)
• Two costumes, three weapon skins (multiplayer)

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Also clocking in at $80, the limited-edition physical version of Stalker 2 comes with a bunch of collectibles:

• Steelbook (Limited Edition art)
• Letter from the developers
• Souvenir Zone Permit
• Sticker Pack
• Standard DLC
• Zone Map
• Poster
• Patches
• Token (dog tag)
• Keychain with firestarter

It's currently sold out at Amazon and is not available yet at other retailers.

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If you want even more collectibles, consider stepping up to the $180 Collector's Edition of Stalker 2. The Collector's Edition comes with everything from the limited edition as well as a Stalker statue and an art book. Here's the full list of goodies:

• Stalker Figurine
• Art book
• Steelbook (Collector's Edition art)
• Letter from developers
• Souvenir Zone Permit
• Sticker Pack
• Deluxe DLC
• Zone Map
• Poster
• Patches
• Token (dog tag)
• Keychain with firestarter

You can preorder the Collector's Edition at Amazon right now.

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It's not available to preorder at this time, but Stalker 2's Ultimate Edition costs nearly twice as much as the Collector's Edition. It comes with everything from the CE as well as a Stalker backpack and the Artefact Container Lamp, both of which look pretty cool.

• Stalker backpack
• Artefact Container Lamp
• Stalker Figurine
• Art book
• Steelbook (Ultimate Edition art)
• Letter from developers
• Souvenir Zone Permit
• Sticker Pack
• Deluxe DLC
• Zone Map
• Poster
• Patches
• Token (dog tag)
• Keychain with firestarter

The Ultimate Edition has to be purchased from the official Stalker 2 website.

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Bethesda Game Studios has reannounced its mobile game, The Elder Scrolls: Castles. In it, players will be tasked with building their own kingdom, similar to how Fallout Shelter plays.

The news comes from the official Bethesda Game Studios X/Twitter account, where the studio announced that it had been working on it "for the last few years." The tweet explains that in the game, "you'll build your own dynasty where every day in our world is a year in the game's world."

Those who wish to pre-register for the game can click here. Those who sign up will be "among the first to play." As of right now, The Elder Scrolls: Castles is available in the Philippines, but it'll "be available to more countries in the coming months."

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Season 1 Reloaded has arrived to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, but game-breaking bugs and other critical issues have forced delays to major parts of content for this midseason update. Here's everything you need to know.

As previously announced, Warzone's big update includes some major bugs affecting the game's playability. The developer is aware of multiple issues, including crashing, bugged loadout drops, an issue causing distorted geography, and the game's Precision Airstrike killstreaks no longer giving an alert to targeted players.

In a more recent update, the developer has announced a delay to Warzone's new Champion's Quest nuke challenge while other performance-related issues are being investigated.

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The Season 1 Reloaded update is live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, bringing a new crossover with The Boys, Ranked Play mode for multiplayer, and more. This midseason update also includes the new HRM-9 submachine gun. Here we'll guide you through all the ways to unlock this new submachine gun.

How to unlock the HRM-9

The HRM-9 is described as a 9mm submachine gun that boasts a "high fire rate and excellent handling and mobility." This weapon is included as part of a bonus challenge sector in the Season 1 battle pass, which includes a series of four challenges needed to be completed to unlock the HRM-9.

The challenges can be completed in multiplayer, Zombies, or Warzone.

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The Until Dawn video game, which itself is inspired by movies, is being adapted into a movie of its own. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg will direct the film from a script by Annabelle and The Nun writer Gary Dauberman. Blair Butler, who wrote the vampire movie The Invitation, wrote an earlier draft of the script.

Released in 2015, Until Dawn is a horror game featuring a branching storyline system that allows the game to have a multitude of different story possibilities and endings. It featured Hollywood actors like Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, and Peter Stormare, among others.

The game was written by Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, taking inspiration from iconic horror and slasher movies. It was developed by Supermassive Games

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The Season 1 Reloaded update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 includes a new crossover event with The Boys TV series, bringing more operator bundles, limited-time event challenges, and a brand-new Supe-themed multiplayer mode.

The last time Supes from The Boys invaded Call of Duty, their superpower shenanigans were limited to Warzone and MW2's DMZ mode. This time, players can have fun with wacky powers in Modern Warfare 3's limited-time Supe'd Up multiplayer mode.

This superpowered mode is a 6v6 match described as Kill Confirmed with a twist. In Supe'd Up, fallen players drop doses of Temp V instead of Kill Confirmed dog tags. Temp V is named after the super serum used in The Boys, giving Call of Duty players temporary superpowers like Homelander's laser eyes and A-Train's super speed. However, Homelander's laser eyes are only unlocked after reaching about 6 or 7 kills in a row, so it's pretty hard to reach that power in particular. Gameplay from the Supe'd Up mode can be seen in the clip below.

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Sharks have been basically unchanged for millions of years. Essentially a torpedo with teeth, the shark is a creature incredibly honed to its particular ecological niche of eating stuff while swimming fast. Though, according to the theory of evolution, it was created through a confluence of random events--millions of generations of slight variations and mutations slowly selecting for the best combination of elements--it was fine-tuned through that process to create something incredibly powerful and deadly. No adjustments have been needed since dinosaurs roamed the earth.

There are parasites that invade and take over the brains of ants, or eat and replace the tongues of fish. There are predators whose hides mimic the way sunlight dapples a forest floor to make it more difficult to pick them out among the foliage as they sneak up on you. There are insects that have grown for millennia to the specific purpose of using the flesh of another creature to house and feed their young, often while that creature is still alive and aware of what is happening to it.

Evolution is scary.

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Activision has brought back the Gaia skin for Call of Duty, a couple months after it was removed after people complained that it was too difficult to see, thus providing an unfair advantage in Modern Warfare III and Warzone.

The Season 1 Reloaded update brings the skin back, with a pretty significant change. The new version of Gaia is much less transparent than before, which in theory should make it easier to see during the heat of battle. Check out the video below to get a look at the new version Gaia, which fans have dubbed "evil Groot" because it resembles the Marvel tree character, sort of.

Gaia Skin is back. pic.twitter.com/RYLsL6nJY8

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) January 17, 2024

The Gaia skin was removed from Call of Duty back in November 2023. The aim was to "improve the visibility," but it's too soon to say how fans will receive the updated version of Gaia. This was just the latest update to the Gaia skin, as it was previously updated following its debut in 2022's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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The Season 1 Reloaded update for Call of Duty: Warzone has arrived, bringing more weapons, new features, and weapon balancing. Unfortunately, the big update also includes some major bugs affecting the game's playability.

One of the biggest issues for Warzone's update is a bug that happens when a player attempts to grab their loadout drop, which completely locks up the player's movement and causes a flickering of the map's environment. Crashing is also reported after interacting with the loadout drops.

Today’s update has broken Warzone completely.
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— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) January 17, 2024

Other reported bugs include visual bugs that cause random graphical roadblocks to appear on the map, and the game's Precision Airstrike killstreaks are no longer giving an alert to players who are under attack.

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Diablo 4 Season 3 is set to majorly shake up Blizzard's popular ARPG with the introduction of a new endgame activity that will incentivize players to do something that just might sound like sacrilege: slow down.

Speaking with some of the key minds at Blizzard responsible for Season of the Construct ahead of its launch on January 23, we learned more about some of the inspirations behind the season's major new additions, like the customizable Seneschal Construct companion. We also dove into new details on how the season will flesh out the story of a fan-favorite character from Diablo 3 and how Season 3 will look to provide players more options when it comes to farming for Diablo 4's endgame in the form of trap-filled Vaults that encourage players to play cautiously.

Season of the Construct will see players exploring deep beneath the sands of Kehjistan, in a mysterious ancient complex housing a powerful artifact, The Loom, that was once intended to aid the people of Sanctuary but has since become corrupted by the terror demon, Malphas. To aid players in their quest to defeat Malphas and his army of corrupted constructs, they will acquire a spider-like robot of their own, the Seneschal Construct, and dive into dangerous treasure Vaults to earn rewards. All the while, players will learn more about the fallen Horadrim and architects of the underground facilities and its constructs, Zoltun Kulle, as well as his apprentice, Ayuzhan.

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Payday 3 developer Starbreeze says that it knows players aren't satisfied with the state of the game and is implementing changes in the near future.

"Since launch, we’ve been reading your valuable feedback in forums, social media and in video comments in addition to the FeatureUpvote page," global brand director Almir Listo said in a statement. "This helps us massively and is crucial to the continued development of Payday 3."

Listo explained that Starbreeze is putting together a veteran team of developers from across different departments to make sure that Payday 3 meets fan expectations. The team is currently coming up with short and long term plans for the game.

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