Diablo 4 Season 5 will finally retool some of the game's bosses on August 6, making it so its massive world bosses aren't giant pushovers while also majorly reducing the damage done by boss enemies in the endgame Pit dungeon.Blizzard detailed all the changes coming as part of Season 5 in a recent livestream, and revealed that world bosses will have a new mechanic that was tested on the game's public test realm but wasn't actually listed among the changes--Resilience. This new system will "normalize" damage against bosses out in Diablo 4's open world, which should make it so players will actually have to engage with the boss and their attacks instead of instantly deleting the world boss the moment it spawns, as was the case in Season 4.As for the floor bosses in The Pit, the multi-level endgame dungeon introduced as part of the game's Season 4 Loot Reborn overhaul, they will have their damage reduced by a massive 66% across the board. In addition, the Shadow Pit bosses that spawn in for one-off attacks at higher Pit difficulties will now be much less likely to one-shot players who get hit. Instead, these phantom enemies will give players a stacking debuff that increases the damage players take, therefore rewarding careful players who are able to avoid being hit.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Mountaintop Studios just revealed Spectre Divide, which is a 3v3 tactical shooter. It plays a lot like Counter-Strike, but with a twist: Players can control two players simultaneously.Like many other tactical shooters, one team will defend while another will attack and try to plant a bomb. As explained by Mountaintop Studios game director Lee Horn, the game's defining feature is called "duality." This will allow them to control a second body that's referred to as a Spectre. Players will be able to switch between the two at any given moment.To help with the game's competitive scene, the studio partnered with Shroud, a YouTuber with a big presence in the competitive community, to be the lead gameplay advisor. Co-founder and CEO Nate Mitchell said that the studio consists of 70 and will be self-publishing.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Atom Tickets has rolled out a new promotion where people born on the 14th day of any month can get a ticket to the Nicolas Cage movie Longlegs for free. Why the 14th? The serial killer in the movie targets people born on the 14th.You can visit the Atom Tickets website and use the code BIRTHDAY14 to get a free ticket. You can claim only one ticket, and the fine print says your ID may be verified. The offer runs through August 4 or while supplies last. Longlegs is a horror-thriller from writer-director Osgood Perkins (Gretel & Hansel). The film follows an FBI agent hunting down a serial killer. The cast includes Maika Monroe, Kiernan Shipka, and Cage.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Microsoft and Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed is reportedly going to be delayed to 2025. While a release date was never officially announced, a leak from Microsoft itself said it would be a November 2024 release.According to The Verge, Microsoft is delaying Avowed due to Xbox Game Pass's "busy schedule" in the fall. While Avowed is reportedly in good shape, Xbox wants to create some breathing room for other games, such as the console exclusive Stalker 2, which is also due out in November, as well as October's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Windows Central has also corroborated the report, saying it received similar information.Another one of Xbox's exclusives, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, doesn't have an official release date, but it's reportedly sometime in December. It's unknown whether Indiana Jones will make it in the 2024 window or be pushed back to 2025 as well.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Gamescom is only a few weeks away, and Xbox has announced that it'll show off more than 50 games, including those from various companies like Bethesda, Blizzard, and third-party studios.As detailed by an Xbox blog post, during Gamescom, players will be able to get their hands on upcoming games such as Age of Mythology: Retold, Ara: History Untold, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Fallout 76: Milepost Zero, The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, and Towerborne. On top of playing those games, those who attend the event can also sit in various presentations for Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Starfield: Shattered Space.Those who check out the Blizzard Entertainment section can play as the Spiritborn class in Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred. In addition, attendees will be able to get their hands on various third-party games, such as Star Wars Outlaws, Space Marines 2, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, and more. There'll also be a wide selection of indie games, including Squirrel With a Gun and Creatures of Ava.Continue Reading at GameSpot

On August 20, actor and author Anjali Bhimani will be the Game Master for a TTRPG stream called The Puppy Roll that will be raising money for Petco Love, a charity that supports shelters and reuniting animals with their humans. The cast of players is stacked, featuring the likes of Critical Role's Mattew Mercer and Ashley Johnson and Resident Evil Village's Maggie Robertson. And the best part of all: All of the players are role-playing as their dogs."I will be DMing and my dog Charlie will make an appearance obviously as his Dungeons and Dragons character," Bhimani told me. "We also have cast members Matthew Mercer, Aabria Iyengar, Ashley Johnson, Emily Swallow from The Mandalorian, [and] Maggie Robertson from Baldur's Gate and Resident Evil. And as my co-host, we are very, very, very happy to be welcoming Jonathan Graziano, who is known in this beautiful crossover between Pet Talk and Dungeons and Dragons because he is the owner of the late Noodle the Pug and Noodle and the Bone's No Bone's Day was a big thing during the pandemic. He's going to be coming out and co-hosting with me, and we're going to have some surprise guests along the way as well." This is Bhimani's second time in the Game Master seat, having made her debut this past April in Lego Dungeons & Dragons Game Night--a one-shot adventure featuring YouTuber and cosplayer Ginny Di, actor Luis Carazo, The Lego Group design manager Jordan Scott, and Lego Ideas design winner Lucas Bolt--advertising the new $360 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon's Tale Lego set.Continue Reading at GameSpot

A collaboration most Minecraft players wouldn't have seen coming has been announced, with Minecraft and cosmetics retailer Lush teaming up for a collaboration. The collab features Minecraft-themed products from Lush, as well as an in-game series of bath bombs that fans can utilize, with special benefits attached to them.

Diablo 4 was officially announced in November 2019, with the game launching in June 2023. It promised to be the most ambitious and significant entry in the series yet, and Blizzard did a lot of things right and wrong for the game's launch period. Released in 1997, the first Diablo defined the isometric action-RPG hack-and-slash looting genre and every similar game since it has been referred to as a Diablo clone.

Diablo 4 has shown new footage of the Fell Council, one of the game's new bosses, which was seen for the first time in Diablo 2. The council will join the game with the start of Diablo 4's fifth season, addressing players' requests to see more Diablo 2 flavor in the latest entry of the series.

A recent Pokemon GO player found a funny surprise in the waypoint photo of a PokeStop. While these photos offer more information and give Pokemon GO players an idea of what they are looking for, the one that this player found had a Pokemon photo bombing it as well.