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The ships flyable during the Free Fly Event in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Is Now Free to Play For a Week as New Video Features in-Game Branding

Star Citizen is now free to play for a week thanks to the latest Free Fly event celebrating Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year.  Players will be able to create an account on the official site …

February 9, 2024 | 05:30 EST

Art of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption
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Grand Theft Auto V Has Sold Over 195 Million Units, Red Dead Redemption 2 at 61 Million Units

Take-Two Interactive Software announced its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year, related to the period between October 2023 and December 2023, on top of an update to sales…

February 8, 2024 | 04:24 EST

A player standing outside their wooden homestead in Enshrouded
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First Big Enshrouded Patch Packs in a Ton of Bug Fixes and More

Open-world survival-crafter Enshrouded has received its first major patch, and it comes with an absolute ton of bug fixes and tweaks. Major bugs that have been squashed include "several rare crashes…

February 6, 2024 | 08:58 EST

Star Citizen F8C Lightning on Daymar with Crusader in the Distance
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Star Citizen Will Be Free to Play for a Limited Time Starting Later This Week

People and media say many things about Star Citizen, but as usual, the best way to judge a game is to try it for yourself. Later this week you'll be able to for free for a limited time.  Cloud…

February 6, 2024 | 04:07 EST

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The Witch of Fern Island

If you've ever wanted to go from fledgling magic wielder to full-fledged Witch, The Witch of Fern Island may be your speed - especially if you're into Life Simulation games! Fern Island is full of…

February 4, 2024 | 09:00 EST

A F8C Lightning in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Devs Reveal Alpha 3.23 Could Be Massive With Many New Features and Improvements

The developers of Star Citizen revealed a large spread of new features and improvements targeting the upcoming Alpha 3.23 update, and there's a lot on the menu.  The reveal was made during the…

February 3, 2024 | 11:44 EST

The Protagonist of The Witch of Fern Island, Abrill
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Open-World Life Sim The Witch of Fern Island Reveals Full Release Date

Today Polish developer Enjoy Studio announced that its upcoming cozy open-world life sim The Witch of Fern Island has an official release date. The game, published by Freedom Games, will leave early…

February 2, 2024 | 10:48 EST

Zero gravity traversal in Star Citizen
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New Star Citizen Video Shows Alpha 3.23 Features, New Free to Play Event Coming This Month

Today Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games resumed its video releases following the usual post-holiday pause, and it's all about the upcoming Alpha 3.23. Specifically, the video focuses on…

February 1, 2024 | 08:09 EST

An armored figure standing at a blacksmith's forge in Enshrouded
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Enshrouded Crosses the Million Player Mark in "Just Four Days"

Keen Games has announced that Enshrouded has managed to pass a pretty significant player milestone in just a few short days. According to a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Enshrouded passed…

January 29, 2024 | 10:48 EST

The Vault block in Minecraft
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Minecraft Reveals New Vault Block Coming in Next Major Update

Today Mojang revealed a new kind of block that will soon be introduced in the test versions of the massively popular sandbox game Minecraft and will ultimately arrive in the upcoming major update.…

January 26, 2024 | 11:11 EST

The character used in promotional materials for the Fntastic game The Day Before
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The Day Before Developer Fntastic Blames "Hate Campaign" for Controversial Game's Failure

Fntastic still isn't done with The Day Before, it seems, as the studio has released a lengthy rebuttal to some of the accusations being leveled against it. In a post on the Fntastic X (formerly…

January 24, 2024 | 09:41 EST

Image of a Character in Enshrouded
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Enshrouded Final Preview - Survival Progression at its finest

I'm someone who loves checking out new survival games, partially because I'm (currently) the Guides Editor here at TechRaptor, but also because each one has its own take on the genre and offers a…

January 24, 2024 | 04:06 EST

Enshrouded Guide - Cover Image Character Standing Outside of the Cinder Vault with an Ancient Spire and the Shroud in the Distance
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Enshrouded Guide | Tips and Tricks for Beginners

This Enshrouded Guide will help you get started with the game and teach you some basic tips and tricks to help you survive the ruined world of Embervale. Enshrouded is a survival and action-…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get a Backpack in Enshrouded - Hunter Standing Next to a Tanning Station at Night in a Stone Building
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How to Get a Backpack in Enshrouded

This guide will tell you how to get a Backpack in Enshrouded and which items you'll need to find to increase the size of your inventory. You're sure to collect lots of resources and craft tons of…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get Shroud Sacks in Enshrouded - Standing at the Border of an Early Game Shroud Zone
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How to Get Shroud Sacks in Enshrouded | Best Farming Locations

Our guide will tell you how to get Shroud Sacks in Enshrouded and the best way that you can reliably farm these precious items in the deadly Shroud. Some of the best resources in Enshrouded aren't…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get Shroud Cores in Enshrouded - Cover Image Respawn Point Near an Elixir Well in the Shroud
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How to Get Shroud Cores in Enshrouded

In this guide, we'll tell you how to get Shroud Cores in Enshrouded and the best way that you can reliably farm them for powering up your Flame Altar and crafting important items. You'll collect…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get Water in Enshrouded - Cover Image Well Outside of a Stone Building in the Nomad Highlands
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How to Get Water in Enshrouded | Renewable Water Sources

This guide will tell you how to get Water in Enshrouded, the best way to get Water, and how you can get a renewable source of Water for your base. Having a good source of food is important in …

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Storage Guide - Cover Image Chests Crates and a Barrel in the Attic of a Stone Building
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Enshrouded Storage Guide | How to Get Bigger Chests

Our Enshrouded Storage Guide will tell you how to get storage, how it works, and how to get your hands on larger chests with increased storage capacity! You'll collect a ton of loot throughout your…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Building and Comfort Guide - Cover Image Table and Cabinets Inside of a Stone House
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Enshrouded Building and Comfort Guide | How to Increase Comfort

This Enshrouded Building and Comfort Guide will tell you how the building system works, how Comfort works, and how to increase your Comfort score. Though there's a lot of places to explore on the…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Cooking and Food Guide - Cover Image Fireplace and Over in a Stone Building
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Enshrouded Cooking and Food Guide | All Cooking Recipes

In this Enshrouded Cooking and Food Guide, we'll tell you how food works, how to cook it, and how you can make every cooking recipe! An army marches on its stomach, and Enshrouded is no different. A…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Shroud Survival Guide - Cover Image Character Standing Just Outside of the Shroud in Revelwood
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Enshrouded Shroud Survival Guide | How to Enter the Deadly Shroud

Our Enshrouded Shroud Survival Guide will tell you how the Shroud works, how to enter the Deadly Shroud, and give you tips on surviving this deadly fog. The "Shroud" is a big part of Enshrouded --…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Class and Skills Guide - Cover Image Skill Tree with Some Skills Activated
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Enshrouded Class and Skills Guide | Best Skills to Take

Our Enshrouded Class and Skills Guide will explain how Classes and Skills work and tell you some of the best Skills to take in the game! Surviving the world of Enshrouded is going to require more…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Crafting Guide - Cover Image Workbench Next to Several Storage Chests in a Stone Building
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Enshrouded Crafting Guide | Where to Craft Every Item

Our Enshrouded Crafting Guide will teach you the basics of Crafting and show you where you can craft all of the items in the game. Though you can loot a lot of cool stuff all over the map, you'll…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Server Guide - Cover Image Bronze Block Sculptures in a Blue Room
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Enshrouded Server Guide | How to Host and Change Settings

Our Enshrouded Server Guide will go over how to setup a server for the game, including hosting one yourself or buying an external one. We'll go into more detail below on how you can host a server…

January 24, 2024 | 11:41 EST

Enshrouded Flame Upgrade Guide - Cover Image Flame Altar in the Middle of a Building
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Enshrouded Flame Upgrade Guide | Every Flame Altar Upgrade

In this guide, we'll tell you what you need for every Enshrouded Flame Upgrade and how your Flame Altar helps you survive the ruined world of Embervale. Enshrouded puts players in the deadly world…

January 24, 2024 | 10:01 EST

Enshrouded Map Guide - Cover Image Map with Important Icons at an Angle with the Nomad Highlands in the Background
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Enshrouded Map | All Flame Shrine and Shroud Root Locations

This guide shows you the full Enshrouded map for the Early Access launch version of the game with all Flame Shrine and Shroud Root locations we've found! The Early Access launch version of …

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Enshrouded Farming Guide - Cover Image A Well A Seedbed and Corn in the Nomad Highlands
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Enshrouded Farming Guide | Best Crops to Grow

This Enshrouded Farming Guide will tell you how to unlock farming, how the farming system works, and the best crops to plant on your farm! While you can forage plenty of resources in the world of…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Where to Find All Resources in Enshrouded - Cover Image Cutting Down a Hardwood Tree in Revelwood
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Enshrouded Resources Guide - Where to Find Them All

Our guide tells you the best way to find all of the Enshrouded resources you'll need for crafting including wood, ore, plants, monster loot, and more! Quicklinks: Aloe  Alchemical Base  Amber  …

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Image of the Enshrouded Menu With a Character In Full Guard of The North ARmor for the Pieces of the Past Achievement

Enshrouded Guard of the North Armor Guide - Pieces of the Past

Enshrouded is full of danger, and a solid set of armor and weapons is the only way to make your way through this game. In the earlier part of the game, some of the best armor is the full set of "…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Unlock Craftspeople NPCs in Enshrouded - Cover Image Carpenter Alchemist and Blacksmith Standing in a Room
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How to Unlock Craftspeople NPCs in Enshrouded

This guide will tell you how to unlock Craftspeople NPCs in Enshrouded along with all of their workbenches and items that we've found. Much like Terraria, a big part of Enshrouded's early game is…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get a Grappling Hook in Enshrouded - Cover Image Using the Grappling Hook to Cross the Bridge North of Longkeep
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How to Get a Grappling Hook in Enshrouded

This guide will tell you how to get the Grappling Hook in Enshrouded, how to upgrade it to an Improved Grappling Hook, and how you can use it to get around the world (and your base). The world of …

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

How to Get Metal Scraps in Enshrouded - Cover Image an Assortment of Loot in Rookmore in Springlands
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How to Get Metal Scraps in Enshrouded

This guide will tell you how to get Metal Scraps in Enshrouded and where you can reliably farm this essential crafting resource. A big part of Enshrouded is getting all of the resources you need to…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

Image of a Character in Enshrouded Gliding over the Revelwoods With A Ghost Glider
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Enshrouded Glider Guide - How to Craft & Upgrades

Our guide will tell you how to get a Glider in Enshrouded -- and how you can make an even better Glider to travel much further than before! The world of Enshrouded is quite massive, even at its…

January 24, 2024 | 10:00 EST

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Release Date Announced and Pre-Orders Available Now

Today GSC Game World announced the release date of the highly anticipated game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, We learn that the game by the popular Ukrainian developer will launch on PC and…

January 16, 2024 | 11:56 EST

Key art for Tower of Fantasy update 3.6 depicting several of the game's characters
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Tower of Fantasy Update 3.6 Brings New Map and More Later This Month

Developer Hotta Studio and publisher Level Infinite have revealed details for Tower of Fantasy update 3.6, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Arriving on January 30th, the update will…

January 16, 2024 | 09:00 EST

A close-up of Sakamoto Ryoma in Team Ninja's Rise of the Ronin
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Rise of the Ronin Reveals Its Three Major Factions and Their Key Players

Team Ninja has revealed the three key factions that are vying for dominance in the world of upcoming action RPG Rise of the Ronin. The game will be set in the turbulent Bakumatsu period of Japanese…

January 15, 2024 | 09:49 EST

Dragon's Dogma 2 and Geforce RTXX 4080 Super
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Dragon's Dogma 2 and More Support DLSS and Ray Tracing as Nvidia Announces RTX 40 Super Series

Today Nvidia hosted its press conference at CES 2024 and had a few interesting announcements including new graphics card models and more games supporting its core technologies. We start with the "…

January 8, 2024 | 01:21 EST

Mark Hamill's character in Squadron 42 and Star Citizen Logo
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Star Citizen Just Achieved Its Biggest Crowdfunding Year Ever and 6 Years of Growth

Another year has passed for Star Citizen, and it's time to take a look at its crowdfunding tally to see how it has progressed in 2023.  Fans of the game have pledged just north of 117.5 million…

January 1, 2024 | 09:09 EST

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Meets Dungeons & Dragons in Gorgeous New Year Art

It's no big mystery that the Dragon's Dogma series draws a lot of inspiration from Dungeons & Dragons, and today Capcom released a new Dragon's Dogma 2 illustration that shows exactly that.  The…

January 1, 2024 | 12:14 EST

A tractor beam in action in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Boasts Features and Progress Achieved in 2023

While Star Citizen's long development cycle has become a bit of a meme, it's doubtless that the game has continued to make steady progress throughout its history.  Today developer Cloud Imperium…

December 25, 2023 | 01:51 EST

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Fallout London Delayed to 2024, But It Looks Incredible

Today the team behind the massive Fallout London mod for Fallout 4, announced that it won't be released in 2023 as it was previously announced. We do get a new release date, and it's April 23, 2024…

December 24, 2023 | 01:20 EST

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The Day Before Will Completely Shut Down in January as Steam Will Refund All Players

Mytona announced today that The Day Before developer Fntastic has officially operations, which is going to lead to the shutdown of the servers. According to the announcement made on Steam, the game'…

December 22, 2023 | 11:46 EST

Artwork for the Creepy Jar game StarRupture, featuring characters mining resources and shooting enemies
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Green Hell Developer's New Game Officially Named StarRupture, New Details Revealed

Green Hell developer Creepy Jar has revealed the official name of its upcoming sci-fi survival game, and that name is StarRupture. Revealed as part of the 2023 PC Gaming Show, StarRupture was…

December 19, 2023 | 10:20 EST

Star Citizen Alpha 3.22 and San’tok.yai and Drake Cutter Rambler
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Star Citizen Alpha 3.22 Released With New Ships, Content, and Features Aplenty

Today, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released the newest update for the game, alpha 3.22, titled "Wrecks to Riches." The title indicates one of the major features included in the…

December 14, 2023 | 07:57 EST

A heavy-duty truck sitting in a garage in Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
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Expeditions: A MudRunner Game Release Date Set for March

Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Entertainment have revealed the Expeditions: A MudRunner Game release date. The game, which was originally unveiled during this year's Gamescom Opening Night…

December 14, 2023 | 09:55 EST

Two Christmas-themed characters aiming weapons at a Christmassy zombie with a Christmas tree in the background in the Dying Light 2 winter update
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Dying Light 2 Winter Update to Bring Festive Content and More Next Week

Techland has released new information about the Dying Light 2 winter update, which is scheduled to arrive on December 19th. In much the same vein as the summertime update, as well as crossover…

December 14, 2023 | 08:46 EST

The Armadillo and Wolf Armor in Minecraft
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Minecraft Shows Off The Armadillo and Wolf Armor, Available Now in Beta and Preview

Today Minecraft's developer Mojang provided an extensive look at two new elements coming to the game, the Armadillo and the Wolf Armor. The Armadillo was the winner of this year's mob vote and…

December 13, 2023 | 02:28 EST

The Sole Survivor talking to his robot companion in Fallout 4
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Fallout 4 Current-Gen Update Delayed to 2024, Bethesda Announces

Bethesda has announced that the long-awaited current-gen (or next-gen) update for Fallout 4 has been delayed. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), the studio acknowledges that fans have been…

December 13, 2023 | 11:44 EST