Legendary MMO speedrunner can finally play the game again after a 1,758-hour record for one of Old School RuneScape's most brutal challenges - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

Polishing off of one of the most demanding video game speedruns you could possibly come up with, Old School RuneScape player he box jonge recently maxed out one of the MMO's Ultimate Ironman accounts in a mere 1,758 hours and 45 minutes.You may know he box jonge as the holder of the 771-hour speedrun record for maxing out a normal, unrestricted OSRS account. The goal in both cases is relatively simple: get all 23 in-game skills to their max level of 99 and obtain the coveted Max Cape. Jong

Blizzard didn't want Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class to be another MMO-grade "pet class" where you just outsource all the fun stuff

Diablo 4 developers weren't interested in making the game's first new class an MMO-grade, World of Warcraft-like, Hunter-esque one where you outsource all the fun to your animal companion.For the uninitiated, Blizzard Entertainment recently announced that the series is getting a brand new class in the form of the Spiritborn - jungle predators that can call upon Spirit Guardians that take on the shape of jaguars, gorillas, eagles, and giant centipedes to help you bash beasties."One of

Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon would love to play Astarion again: "Live action or game, I don't care – an advert for grape juice"

Neil Newbon, the actor who plays Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, has said he would "love" to reprise his role as the fan-favorite sexy vampire.The Astarion actor gushed over the character in a recent interview with BAFTA, where he was asked about his career's next steps. "There are definitely people I'd love to work with," Newbon said, pointing to God of War rebooters Sony Santa Monica, Marvel's Spider-Man makers Insomniac Games, and The Last of Us studio Naughty Dog as examples. Also, "Bethesda st

Cyberpunk 2 director is "quite sure" people haven't found all of the secrets in The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077

There might still be secrets and Easter Eggs left to find in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and/or Cyberpunk 2077, years after both came out.Cyberpunk 2 associate game director and Phantom Liberty lead Pawel Sasko guessed as much during a recent interview with the Flow Games podcast. When asked about whether there are any lingering secrets left for fans to find in either game, Sasko said he's "quite sure there are.""I know a about a couple of examples right now, from the top of my head, that I never s

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Microsoft hits back at the FTC's "misleading" letter that called Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded" service as a result of the Activision Blizzard buyout

The Federal Trade Commission wasn't all too happy about Microsoft's recent changes to Xbox Game Pass, arguing that it was a "degraded" service as a result of the company's massive Activision Blizzard acquisition, just as it had argued in court. Microsoft hasn't taken he criticism lightly and has now hit back by calling the allegations "misleading."Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it was going to raise prices on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, while essentially replacing the base console tie

The Sims 4 Lovestruck reinvents Tinder with Cupid's Corner, EA's upcoming fully functional dating app for Sims

The Sims 4 is about to reinvent its romance system for good as EA's spiciest expansion pack yet nears launch, with Lovestruck adding everything from love languages to a Tinder-like app for Sims.There are so many things to look forward to in the Lovestruck expansion for The Sims 4 and its accompanying free base game update - but one feature stands out in particular. Dating has never been easy for Sims, with players having to prompt just about every relationship action and most NPCs just not cutti

After 8 years and more than 30 volumes, one of my favorite slice of life manga is entering its final arc and I don't know how to feel

For years now, one of the most reliably sweet, funny, and overall relaxing manga series in my reading rotation has been Komi Can't Communicate, a straightforward but occasionally absurd story about an almost competitively anxious girl struggling to make friends in high school, and who finally starts to make some headway with help from a boy named Tadano. It's consumed nearly an entire shelf in my manga library, and every new volume is always a short and simple treat. So the news that this manga'

As Windows bug stalls global flights and hospitals with blue screen of death, Warframe dev thinks the timing for “our Y2K-themed demo is a little too on the nose"

A bug impacting systems running both Windows and CrowdStrike security software is causing what one expert guessed could be "the largest IT outage in history," grounding flights and stopping trains globally with the portentous blue screen of death, unintentionally making a new Warframe demo feel poorly, or perhaps perfectly, timed."IT team trying to protect the Warframe TennoCon demo PCs from a global blue screen of death panic the day before we show our Y2K-themed demo is a little too on the nos

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With the determination that makes MMOs special, Old School RuneScape player kills 16,000 chickens by hand for a week because "I like my feathers covered in blood"

After more than 10 years of game journalism, one of my favorite parts of this job is seeing all the ridiculous challenges that gamers think up and pursue for no particular reason, from 1,700-hour speedruns to absurd game-breaking corner cases in Baldur's Gate 3. Timeless MMO Old School RuneScape remains a premier source of this sort of behavior, as evidenced by one player who recently spent a week needlessly killing 16,000 chickens by hand just to prove a point.I've reported on and spoken

After lending his skills to mega mod Fallout London, Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon says he wants to do "Bethesda stuff – I love Fallout, man"

Baldur's Gate 3 alum Neil Newbon revealed his eagerness to work with developer Bethesda in a new video with BAFTA, sharing his love for the Fallout series."I'd love to work with [God of War developer] Santa Monica. Insomniac, I'd like to work with. I'd love to work with Naughty Dog," Newbon said in the video. "Bethesda stuff — I love Fallout, man. I'd love to do that." Earlier this year, the Astarion actor announced he was on the voice cast for Fallout London, a huge Fallout 4

Larian finally throws its hands up as one 1,400-hour Baldur's Gate 3 player beats every backup possible, including a magic fish, to doom the world and find new content

Nearly a year after Baldur's Gate 3's full release, dedicated players are still unearthing rare interactions tied to fail-safes and backup fail-safes designed to prevent us from unwittingly breaking the game. The latest find comes from 1,400-hour sleuth Proxy Gate Tactician, who found a lucky merchant, magic fish, spontaneous kobolds, and a true soft lock tied to some of the most important items in the whole RPG: the Netherstones.The Netherstones are, uh, borrowed from the RPG's three main

The Witcher's '90s comics are getting an English translation more than 30 years after they were first published

The Witcher was a popular franchise long before the games and TV show transformed it into a major global franchise. It began as a series of novels by writer Andrzej Sapkowski which debuted in 1990 and quickly found a firm fan following. Three years later a comic book series, written by Maciej Parowski and illustrated by Bogusław Polch, was published in the pages of Polish magazine Komiks. Those stories have never been translated into English – until now.As first reported by GameSpot,

Dev behind some of the best retro throwbacks on Switch turns an April Fools joke into a gorgeous Zelda-like with ’90s anime vibes

When they noticed it was April Fool's Day, fans were disappointed that developer Inti Creates' teaser for a 2D mech adventure called Divine Dynamo Flamefrit was only a joke. But the developer has now released a full trailer for Divine Dynamo to prove that the game is very real, and coming this year.The debut trailer, released July 18, contains similar footage to the April Fool's teaser, showing its 16-bit protagonist Yuuto Hino spinning his sword into monsters loitering in Zelda-style cryp

My favorite controller alternative is getting a sequel, and I couldn’t be more excited

I’m a bit of a weirdo, because while I review controllers for a living and love them dearly, I play most of my games these days on a PC with a funky keypad that looks a bit like a robot claw. The Azeron Cyborg is an ingenious little accessory that combines the best parts of a gaming keyboard with the ergonomics and thumbstick movement of a gamepad.As someone who’s never felt at home using the WASD keys, I gravitated to the best PC controllers as soon as I began playing games on PC. B

While we wait for Simpsons: Hit and Run to leave PS2 purgatory, one modder flawlessly brings the cult-classic open-worlder to PS Vita

The Simpsons: Hit and Run might not have found its way onto modern consoles, but one modder has been working hard to get the yellow peeps onto two handheld systems.Using the game's source code, modder ZenoArrows has unofficially ported the cult classic game to the PS Vita and Nintendo Switch. All you need to do is have the actual PC version's source code downloaded - not the leaked source code, because those aren't from "the final version" - and then head over to GitHub to follow the install ins

Director Ridley Scott gave Alien: Romulus star just three blunt yet hilarious words of advice

Soon the newest addition in the beloved Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus, will hit the big screen, but with a brand new cast taking a story set between two legendary movies, there is bound to be a little bit of nerves. But that’s okay as producer Ridley had some advice for newcomer Romulus star David Jonsson."Yeah, he was just like, ‘Don’t be sh*t.’ Something along the lines of that!" said Jonsson in an interview with Rolling Stone UK. Now, we can guess that Scott pr

DC reveals its full slate of October 2024 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more

It's October in DC's solicitations land, but it might as well be Christmas. As you may have read earlier this week, DC is going big with its new All In initiative, which will be refreshing (but not rebooting) all of its regular comics, while also launching the new Absolute Universe range. We've got all the details and covers for those books here, along with so much more.As well as new jumping on points and new creative teams, DC's October solicitations see the end of the Absolute Power arc

The actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion immediately signed up to play 10 of the 12 in-game races while partway through doing performance capture for Final Fantasy 16 - because he knew it was linked to Dungeons & Dragons.Neil Newbon, who portrays Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, revealed in the interview with BAFTA below that he was partway through filming performance capture in Hungary for Final Fantasy 16, when he heard about an interesting new project in the works elsewhere."They sen

Logan star Dafne Keen addresses her surprise return in Deadpool and Wolverine: "It was like eight years hadn't passed"

In a shock reveal, Marvel unveiled Dafne Keen's return to the MCU in Deadpool and Wolverine, thanks to a new trailer for the upcoming threequel.Until now, Keen's return has been a closely guarded secret, but she's seen reuniting with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the new footage."I was a bit freaked out," Keen told Entertainment Weekly of arriving on the Deadpool and Wolverine set. "I was like, 'I will have forgotten how to play her. She's not in me anymore.'"Keen also revealed t

Elden Ring's upcoming patch promises an important fix: crediting translators "missing in the end credits" after Shadow of the Erdtree

FromSoftware plans to properly credit Elden Ring translators scrubbed from the post-game credits.As Eurogamer first reported, the game's credits appear to have been revised after the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and removed the names of individual Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish translators working under Bandai Namco America, instead opting to credit them via a generic Special Thanks message. Bandai Namco Asia also seems to have omitted names for Thai lang

Elden Ring yapper beats Shadow of the Erdtree DLC using voice controls, taking down the final boss in a flurry of "wow," "panic," and "shrimp"

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is no joke, but that's not stopped talented Soulslike masoch*sts everywhere from taking on brutal challenge runs to turn things up another notch. One streamer has now managed to beat the expansion using only voice commands, and it looks unbelievably stressful. Be warned, there are spoilers ahead for the DLC's final boss.Twitch streamer Larxa has been tearing through Shadow of the Erdtree this past week with no physical controller in sight thanks to a unique

CDPR vet reflects on a classic RPG problem: The stats-over-fashion "clown meta" in Cyberpunk 2077, which lots of players hated but almost nobody knew how to fix

The developer-player relationship can sometimes have a parental quality to it, with fans being prone to tantrums without knowing what would soothe them. At least, that's been the experience for one Cyberpunk 2077 developer, who says fans are good at identifying problems, but not solutions - especially when it pertains to something he calls the game's "clown meta.""Players, in most cases, can quite well say 'what I don't like' [...], but they often won't be able to tell you exactly how to f

Logan star Dafne Keen returns to Marvel in shocking new Deadpool and Wolverine trailer

Deadpool and Wolverine has released a new trailer just days before release – and it includes a huge, shocking return.Dafne Keen is back, presumably as X-23, and she's seen talking to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the footage. Check it out below.The whole trailer has far more of a sombre, serious tone than you'd expect from the Merc with a Mouth, with an emphasis on Wolverine's status as an iconic X-Men member and the people Wade Wilson loves. It's pretty heartwarming.Deadpo

Former BioShock director Ken Levine spoke about Alec Baldwin and Emma Stone for roles in the sci-fi series, but he's unsure gamers really care about Hollywood actors

Former BioShock series lead Ken Levine says he had conversations with Alec Baldwin and Emma Stones for roles in the series, but the former wanted "half a million dollars" for the role of Andrew Ryan.Levine was recently interviewed by Dan Allen Gaming in the video below and quizzed as to why he's never worked with A-list Hollywood actors in any of his games. "I could be wrong, but I don't think gamers care," Levine said of Hollywood actors in video games, while adding that there are obviously "so

The First Descendant names and shames thousands of players in its first "crackdown on abusive users"

The First Descendant developer and publisher Nexon has delivered permanent bans to thousands of players in what the company calls its first-ever "crackdown on abusive users."As part of the crackdown, in its online notice, Nexon announced that more than 1,300 players have been perma-banned for creating, distributing, and using "unauthorized programs." In other live services, those programs would normally include aim bots that give players a competitive upper hand, but The First Descendant is a pu

Gladiator 2’s emperor actor teases the "wild" sequel and how his character is surprisingly inspired by punk star Sid Vicious

With everything from sharks in the Colosseum to rhino fights appearing in the first trailer for Gladiator 2, the sequel has already set itself up as an epic follow-up. Now, one of its stars tells GamesRadar+ that we haven’t seen anything yet with the "wild" Ridley Scott movie.The White Lotus actor Fred Hechinger, who plays co-emperor Caracalla opposite Joseph Quinn’s Geta in the sequel, is in the trailer sporting a unique look. With bright red hair and pale make-up, he looks a far cr

The Rings of Power's The Stranger actor never asked the showrunners if he was playing Lord of the Rings character Gandalf

The Stranger is Gandalf; at least, that’s what most people seem to think. However, Daniel Weyman – who plays the mysterious character in The Rings of Power – doesn’t want anyone to commit to The Stranger being anyone in particular just yet."It wasn't a question I ever asked of the showrunners," the actor tells Total Film and GamesRadar+ when quizzed about whether he knows, or even cares, about who The Stranger really is. "That's a question people might have in their sitti

The Boys creator teases "apocalyptic" final season: "They need to come together and save the world"

Warning! This article contains major spoilers for The Boys season 4. If you've yet to catch up, turn back now!Eric Kripke says The Boys season 5 will present "the show's version of the apocalypse".After the explosive season 4 finale dropped on Prime Video, the show's creator broke down what that ending means for the titular anti-Supe gang, and teased what to expect from the next chapter."You know, I think the finale of season four really shows you that we've been planning five years all al

The Acolyte’s [SPOILER] look was inspired by a Guillermo del Toro horror movie and Gollum’s early designs

The Acolyte ending may have wrapped up a fair chunk of the story in a galaxy far, far away – but a surprise villain is still waiting in the wings.Now, creator and showrunner Leslye Headland has opened up about the reveal of the mysterious figure, and what inspired its distinctive look.Spoilers for The Acolyte finale follow. You have been warned!In The Acolyte finale, a shadowy, imposing – yet oddly frail – figure emerges from the shadows of Qimir’s island cave. Star Wars

Scalpers targeting a limited-time Final Fantasy 14 promo event are hoarding boba to try and flip a mount to the MMO's community for up to $150 a pop

Square Enix has unveiled a limited-time collaboration campaign with boba tea chain Gong cha and the event's adorable reward - a mount that scalpers are already selling for over $100 online.Amid Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's new content, a Shadowbringers-themed mount is back in the limelight thanks to a collab campaign between the MMO and a global tea franchise. As detailed in Square's announcement regarding the event, "Three collaboration drinks inspired by FF14 characters will be available durin