After 13 years and at least 6 final updates, Terraria devs let you return to the final update that started it all - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

Beloved sandbox game Terraria is now 13 years old, and as we approach the launch of the game's sixth final update, the devs are inviting you to "check out the first final update."In the latest State of the Game blog, developer Re-Logic billed a recently added Steam beta branch as the "first final update." If you have Terraria installed on Steam, you can hop into the game properties, go to the betas page, and opt in to v1.1.2. That'll take you back to a version of Terraria where, as the devs put

Manor Lords poll kicks off community-wide debate as nearly 31,000 fans show up to debate what the city builder needs next - town walls, butchers, or bug fixes

After the game's developer opened up a public vote, Manor Lords players are debating what the city builder's next update should focus on.Yesterday, June 2, developer Slavic Magic opened up a poll in the official Manor Lords Discord server. The poll, as you can see below, will dictate what the city builder's next major patch should focus on, and the choices are either town walls, butchers, or simply bug fixes and quality-of-life/balance improvements.
Let's go to vote people from r/ManorLord

Helldivers 2 players clear their latest Major Order in style, collapsing an entire planet into a newly formed black hole that definitely isn't going to become a problem sometime soon

Liberty has once again emerged victorious, as loyal Helldivers 2 players across the galaxy have successfully eradicated the democracy-hating Terminid Supercolony on Meridia, using a volatile material that previously "spaghettified" 12 Super Earth scientists. Turns out that stuff is effective on a much larger scale than it was previously tested on because Meridia, in its entirety, has collapsed into an enormous black hole, and I'm sure there's no way that this can become a problem."VICTORY. Helld

Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog "will not be 'The Last of Us' studio forever" as work on "multiple single-player projects" continues after a multiplayer project was canned

Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has revealed the developer has "multiple single-player projects" in the works and won't remain 'The Last of Us studio' forever.In a new interview with the LA Times, the Naughty Dog president touches on the future of the studio. "I promise you, we will not be 'The Last of Us' studio forever," Druckmann says, which is a slightly odd statement, considering there have been two Last of Us titles and five Uncharted games from Naughty Dog over the years. Then again, the for

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The Acolyte release schedule: When is episode 1 on Disney Plus?

The Acolyte kicks off a new live-action Star Wars era in The High Republic. But when exactly is it streaming on Disney Plus? With June being possibly the greatest month in the history of television (The House of the Dragon season 2, The Boys season 4, and the latest episodes served up by The Bear all say hello), you'll need to pencil in The Acolyte episode 1 release date well ahead of time so you can fit everything in.Below, you'll find all you need to know about The Acolyte's debut on Disney Pl

AMD just announced even more CPUs for its 2016 motherboard socket at Computex, as well as 9000 Series Ryzen processors which arrive in July

AMD is known for great value when it comes to its desktop processors, but its Computex 2024 presentation just doubled down on that MO. Not only has the company extended its current-gen AM5 motherboard socket for its brand new 9000 Series CPUs, but it’s releasing even more products for the AM4 platform that launched in 2016.The AMD Ryzen 9000 Series will launch this July and will utilize a new Zen 5 architecture while remaining compatible with current motherboard chipsets the best CPUs for

My favorite thing about Breath of the Wild is all the mini-open-worlds it inspired, and another one just hit Steam with near-perfect reviews

Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip continues my favorite trend started by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.Breath of the Wild spread its DNA to countless other open worlds after its debut, with its unbridled freedom and open-ended objectives cropping up in othergames aplenty. But my favorite thing about Nintendo's risky sandbox is how it inspired the free-flowing, leaner open-worlds seen in A Short Hike, Sable, Alba, and much more.Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip takes that baton and runs wild with it, letti

Each new Multiversus fighter is locked behind a 38-hour PvP grind - except characters like The Joker, who cost twice as much

One Multiversus player estimates that it'll take nearly two full days to unlock each new character in the Warner Bros fighting game, with premium fighters taking twice that time.In a recent tweet, YouTuber WhyDo estimated that in order to unlock new characters past the first available fighters (several of which rotate out of use after each week), they would need to play more than 38 hours of PvP gameplay. Claiming that after 100 minutes of play (after completing challenges) they'd earned 130 poi

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Another promising survival game strikes Steam and it's already sold over 100,000 copies - if you're hungry for more after Palworld and Enshrouded

Survival games have been living up to their names lately - not just surviving but thriving this year - between Palworld's bonkers success, Sons of the Forest's 1.0 launch, and Enshrouded's unbelievably in-depth building. But another new entrant is continuing the streak.Soulmask impressed many with its 40-hour Steam Next Fest demo and the recently-released early access version lives up to the hype. For the uninitiated, Soulmask drops players into an open sandbox to do your typical crafting and sc

The wait for Silksong might suck, but these three Hollow Knight-inspired Metroidvanias should make it a bit easier

There's still no sign of Hollow Knight: Silksong, and while I'm hoping the Summer Game Fest schedule 2024 might change that, a recent Twitter trend has thrown up a pair of Team Cherry-inspired Metroidvanias that might help make the wait a little easier.Earlier this month, indie devs took to Twitter to show off their games and the inspirations behind them. There's a huge amount of variety out there, but with the wait for Silksong stretching ever longer, a couple of games caught my eye. The first

Rockstar Games owner predicts AI, which has already impacted jobs, won't steal any jobs: "It's actually crazy. It's not going to make people irrelevant"

Artificial intelligence and its use in game development has been a hot topic in the industry, with many creatives anxious about its impact on job security, players worried about how it could strip the humanity out of games, and some executives excited by its potential to make stuff faster and cheaper.Take-Two, the parent company of GTA 6's Rockstar Games and publisher 2K, will likely pursue the technology regardless. During an interview at TD Cowen's 52nd Annual Technology, Media, and Tele

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals which characters he took from Black Isle Studio's canceled Fallout 3

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has revealed which ideas made it into his game from his former studio's canceled version of Fallout 3.Sawyer's career got started at Black Isle, the legendary CRPG studio behind the first two Fallout games, and D&D RPGs like Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale. Towards the end of the studio's life, the team - including Sawyer - was working on what would have been Fallout 3, a project codenamed Van Buren. Black Isle would be closed down and the project

The Stranger Things and Baldur's Gate 3 double whammy has catapulted Dungeons and Dragons back into the mainstream, bearing gaming fruit in the form of crossovers with Minecraft, Dead by Daylight, and soon, a sick cosmetic set in Destiny 2.Earlier this week, developer Bungie announced a collaboration with rights holder Wizards of the Coast to let Guardians "use their bardic inspiration on fashion rolls with all-new in-game cosmetics." Titans will get to enjoy the regal Draconic set, Hunters have

Baldur's Gate 3 players ditch sex% speedruns to find out how many NPCs you can sleep with a single playthrough of the RPG instead

The latest Baldur's Gate 3 challenge is of the hornie*st variety, prompting the RPG's players to test how many companions and devils they can romance in just one run.This article contains story spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3's second and third acts.I'm a simple Baldur's Gate stan myself. In all of my many playthroughs, I always romance my beloved Astarion. Other fans are far more open to the game's many sex-related possibilities, opting to sleep with all flavours of NPC. A new challenge in which pl

Asus ROG Ally X officially arrives with twice the battery, more RAM, and a $799 price tag

Asus ROG Ally X just got its official reveal, and the revamped handheld makes good on the company’s promises of better battery life. In fact, the portable boasts double the capacity compared to the original, not to mention the laptop maker has packed a full-sized 1TB SSD and 24GB RAM into a brand new comfortable shell. It's also available to pre-order as of today, so you won't have to wait long for the Steam Deck rival.Scheduled to ship next month, the Asus ROG Ally is currently available

Pokemon Sapphire engineer miraculously builds a working computer using "only assets that already exist in the game"

Building preposterously ambitious devices inside a game, using in-game tools that were built for anything but nerding out in that way, is nothing new, but one engineer has taken the challenge to an impressive new peak and created a full-on calculator within 2002's Pokemon Sapphire.YouTuber adef is no stranger to tackling absurd challenges in Pokemon. He previously explained the mathematics behind the series' unluckiest moments and scientifically proved which Pokemon should be forced to learn the

3 years after its announcement, the Tomb Raider anime hits Netflix in October, and its new trailer looks just like my favorite Lara Croft game

The Tomb Raider animated series, which was announced in 2021and is set to take place after the events of the most recent trilogy, has a release date.In a trailer published earlier today, Tomb Raider's official account confirmed that Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft would be hitting Netflix on October 10, 2024. With Haley Atwell, best known for her turns as the MCU's Peggy Carter and for her role in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, in the title role, Lara is raiding across some pretty e

Roguelike hit Balatro's scrapped names include Hyperborean Hold 'em, Balatron, and other titles I can't stop thinking about

Balatro is the smash hit poker-themed roguelike that damaged global productivity when it released earlier this year, but it could've been a much smaller deal with a less catchy name like, let's say, Trial of the Fool, or one of the other rejected titles that its developer recently shared.Balatro's creator LocalThunk took to social media to share a shortlist of the game's potential names that were considered prior to release. Balatro is almost definitely the best name among them, deriving from th

Baldur's Gate 3 lead says his game's success is helping other RPGs, giving them "a little bit of leverage in the next business meeting"

Baldur's Gate 3 might not be the bane on AAA developers that it was initially positioned as - in fact, it might be more of a help than a hindrance for future RPGs.In an interview with GamePressure during the recent Digital Dragons conference in Poland, game director Swen Vincke denied claims that Baldur's Gate 3 "strikes fear in the hearts of AAA developers." That sentiment, which Vincke has firmly debunked, was borrowed from a July 2023 Twitter thread from developer Xalavier Nelson Jr, about La

Emergency Helldivers 2 hotfix addresses a nasty Major Order bug, so we can all go back to spaghettifying an entire planet

A Helldivers 2 bug - a software bug, not a Terminid - that was stopping players from completing the ongoing Major Order has been squashed in today's emergency hotfix, meaning we can go back to spaghettifying an entire planet.Helldivers 2's current Major Order is putting players to work to quite literally blow up an entire planet, the buggy super colony Meridia, using the experimental Dark Fluid substance that accidentally "spaghettified" in-game citizens last week. High Command deemed Meri

Astro Bot triples the PlayStation cameos with "over 150" VIP bots, restoring hope for a Bloodborne breadcrumb

Astro Bot will have "over 150" cameos from across the PlayStation pantheon, restoring hope that Sony might finally acknowledge Bloodborne again.The adorable platforming mascot returns in the simply titled Astro Bot, launching later this year, following up the secret best PS5 game Astro's Playroom, which comes pre-installed in every PS5 console (so you have no excuse to skip it!) In a brisk three-hour romp, Astro's Playroom courted so many adorers thanks to the innovative ways it used the console

Bloodborne was a no-show at this week's State of Play, but hey, Bloodborne Kart - I mean Nightmare Kart - is out today

The same group of vocal FromSoftware fans desperate for PlayStation to reveal something, anything Bloodborne related were once again let down this week when the State of Play was completely absent of any such thing.If I'm hearing the FromSoftware community right, it seems they really, really want Bloodborne on PC or a Bloodborne remake/remaster, neither of which were revealed during the May 2024 State of Play. However, if there's a remedy for that beyond simply replaying Bloodborne for the

26 years after it debuted on PS1, veteran Resident Evil developer's cult classic "open world" platformer is returning on modern platforms

Forget everything you saw at State of Play last night - the true bombshell PlayStation announcement of the week is the return of Tomba, the Sony-published platformer that's spent the past few decades gaining a cult following.Tomba: Special Edition is officially set to hit PS5, Switch, and PC on August 1, with a PS4 version to follow some time later. The new edition will offer analog control options, a rewind feature, the ability to save anywhere, and a robust museum section filled with old adver

Gearbox bought the IP for roguelike icon Risk of Rain, planned a free-to-play mobile spinoff with a new dev, and has now canceled it before it's even out

Gearbox Publishing is ending development on its mobile Risk of Rain spinoff before its official launch.The Borderlands studio acquired the rights to the Risk of Rain IP back in November and immediately revealed plans for a free-to-play mobile gacha game called Risk of Rain: Hostile Worlds. The game spent about six months in regional Early Access on various mobile platforms but failed to make much of a splash in the general gaming market. Now, Gearbox Publishing has announced it's ceasing develop

New One Piece spin-off puts heroines Nami, Robin, Vivi, and Perona in the spotlight

One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda is lending his creative juices to a new spin-off featuring the women of the beloved adventure manga/anime. The spin-off, titled One Piece: Heroines, is a collection of prose short stories accompanied by illustrations, and was announced by publisher Viz Media through social media.While Oda is listed as "creator" of One Piece: Heroines, it will actually be written by Jun Esaka, with art by Sayaka Suwa. It's unclear exactly how Oda fits in, but he's definitely putting

Silent Hill 2 remake will "expand this world" and show "new elements that were previously inaccessible" by ditching the original's fixed camera

A senior developer working on Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake says the loss of the original game's fixed-camera perspective will open up new elements for fans to explore for the first time.Like the Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes, Silent Hill 2 is being modernized with a more traditional (nowadays) over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, and although I'll miss the tension-building merits of a fixed camera, I'm excited to explore the game's iconic locations without those restraints. Dur

A 300 TV show is in the works - and Zack Snyder might be back to direct

It's been 17 years since the film's release, but that's not stopping Warner Bros. from developing a TV show based on the historical action pic 300.Per Variety, the show would serve as a prequel to the 2007 film – and director and co-writer Zack Snyder is in early talks to helm and executive produce, with the series produced under his Stone Quarry banner.300, based on the 1998 comic book series of the same name, hit North American theaters in 2007 and grossed $456 million against a budget o

Arkane Austin goes out with a tribute to its roots as Redfall's final update references the 30-year-old imm sim genre it championed with Prey and Dishonored

Bowing out with Redfall's final update, Arkane Austin is flexing its immersive sim heritage one last time.Arkane Austin was sadly closed as part of Xbox's brutal studio closures earlier this month, with Redfall's final update marking a bittersweet end to the team behind genre-defining immersive sims like Dishonored and Prey. And rather fittingly, the update itself pays tribute to Arkane's own history as a modern champion of the immersive sim genre as well as Looking Glass Studios' System Shock,

Spyro remake devs are officially "partnering with Xbox" on their next game, and the teaser already has fans convinced it's a new Spyro game

The rumored partnership between Xbox and Toys for Bob is now official, and fans of Spyro are already latching onto the tiniest clues in hopes that a new entry in the beloved platformer series is on the way."We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering with Xbox to publish our next new game," Toys for Bob says in a tweet. "We're still very early in development, so you might not hear from us for a bit - but know that we're working hard on an experience we're so sooo inspired about! Can't wai

Looking to save $707 on Pathfinder 2e? Humble has you covered

It seems like the unbelievable discounts on Pathfinder sourcebooks just don’t stop coming, thanks to the TTRPG’s continual appearance in Humble’s mega bundles. This time around though, the savings have really been kicked into overdrive.
The new limited-time ‘Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Grounds Experience’ bundle is jam-packed with $737 worth of content for just $30. You won’t just get access to some of Pathfinder’s most essential sourcebooks and