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How to Get the Pirate Shop Access Token in Fortnite Treasure Hunters
A free Item Shop for 14 days is on the table, and it all hangs on a 1 in 700,000 roll from any chest.
Fortnite Treasure Hunters Chest Rewards: Every Free Cosmetic in Weeks 1 and 2
Week 1’s chest rewards are live, Week 2 lands on November 5, and the Pirate Shop Access token carries over at 1 in 700,000.
Fortnite Treasure Hunters Treasure Chest Locations: Map and Best Loot Route
Over 110 chest spawns, a 1 in 700,000 shot at free Item Shop access, and one route that opens 30 to 50 chests a match. Start at Lantern Landing.
Marvel's Wolverine Has Gone Gold Ahead of Its September 15 PS5 Launch
Marvel's Wolverine finished development today, 25 days before its PS5 release. Spider-Man 2 had a full month.
Sony Terminates Ternox Games' PlayStation Agreement Without Explanation
Sony cut off an indie developer with no explanation, and the developer's best-reviewed game just lost its planned PS5 release because of it.
A Star Citizen Livestream Meant to Reassure Backers Did the Opposite
CIG livestream meant to show off Star Citizen's "intended experience" instead showed a build too broken for its own developers to get through. Fifteen years and over a billion dollars in, that's not a good stream to have gone out live.
LEGO Skylines Is Reportedly Getting Revealed at Gamescom
LEGO Skylines just leaked, and if it's what it sounds like, I'm already rearranging my shelf space for city-builder brick sets. Nothing's official yet, but the pieces lining up here are hard to ignore.
Male V Coming to Fortnite in Cyberpunk Wave 3, Leak Claims
A new leak claims Male V is finally joining Fortnite's Cyberpunk 2077 collaboration, two waves after Epic left him out.
Diablo IV Is Reportedly Coming to Switch 2 on September 15 as the Age of Hatred Collection
Diablo IV looks like it's finally headed to Switch 2, and the leaked release date puts it about a month out.
Marvel Tōkon Leak Points to Rocket Raccoon as a DLC Character, Plus Classic Costumes for Four Heroes
A new leak suggests Rocket Raccoon is heading to Marvel Tōkon as a DLC character, and he won't be arriving alone.
Chris Hansen's Roblox Account Was Banned Live Onstage During a Child Safety Demonstration at CrimeCon
Chris Hansen's Roblox account was banned in the middle of a live demonstration meant to show how easily strangers can approach users on the platform.
Cancelled Xbox Game Contraband Found Hidden Inside a Fishing Game
A YouTuber found an entire test world for the cancelled Xbox game Contraband sitting inside a public beta build for Avalanche's fishing game.
PlayAsia Says Phantom Blade 0 Is Getting a Physical Release, but Take That With a Grain of Salt
PlayAsia's listing Phantom Blade 0 for a physical release, and normally I'd be thrilled, but this is exactly the kind of claim worth double-checking before getting attached to it.
Thief Designer Says Immersive Sims Should Stop Chasing AAA Budgets
Randy Smith Evergreen, a designer on Thief: The Dark Project and System Shock 2, says the immersive sim genre keeps building games for an audience that doesn't exist at AAA scale.
Saber's CEO Apologizes to One Writer, Then Picks a Fight With Another
Matthew Karch privately apologized to Stella Sacco for how he'd attacked her in the press, then used the same public statement explaining that apology to call a different writer "unsuccessful."
Edge of Memories Is Still Coming Out, Even Though the Studio That Made It Doesn't Exist Anymore
Midgar Studio, the French developer behind Edge of Eternity and the upcoming Edge of Memories, was liquidated by a French court on July 20, and the game is still scheduled to release later this year anyway.
Geralt's Voice Actor Says AI Is "Robbing" Him, and He's Not the Only One Saying It
Doug Cockle, who's voiced Geralt of Rivia since the first Witcher game, says AI voice cloning is costing him actual income, and he's one of several video game voice actors saying some version of the same thing this year.
Meccha Chameleon Just Crossed 20 Million Copies Sold
Meccha Chameleon just crossed 20 million copies sold, two months after launch, and it's still pulling in a bigger daily crowd than most games ever will.
Helldivers 2 Joins PS Plus Extra Today, and the Rest of August's Lineup Comes With a Catch
Helldivers 2 lands on PS Plus Extra today, August 12, but the bigger wave of additions landing August 25 isn't actually available everywhere.
Rideshare "Stimulator's" Former Lead Writer Says She Was Replaced by ChatGPT
Stella Sacco found out Saber Interactive's new driving game had been announced the same way everyone else did, and she was its lead writer for most of a year.