Best of 2021 – Day Two: New IP, Sequel, Remake, Surprise, VR

Quick Links Over the next eight days, Hardcore Gamer will be revealing its Best of 2021 Awards leading up to our Game of the Year. Today we present you with the Best New IP, Sequel, Remaster/Remake, Surprise and VR Game. To create the year’s best new IP, it takes more than just a lack of a popular franchise. It takes a captivating world that sucks players in, a cast of entertaining characters, unique gameplay elements and more....

June 28, 2025 · 5 min · 918 words · Brooke Reyes

Black Ops 6 has a skin that is Apex Legends’ Pathfinder and fans are not impressed

Black Ops 6 has a skin that is Apex Legends’ Pathfinder and fans are not impressed Black Ops 6 has a skin resembling Pathfinder from Apex Legends, and COD fans are less than impressed by it. As Call of Duty,Fortnite, and Apex Legends have competed against each other in the battle royale world, there have been a few accusations of copying one another. It typically has to do with in-game features rather than anything else, but there is clearly some inspiration between the trio....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Daniel Berg

Can You Repair Boots in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach?

Quick Links Boots are some of the most important pieces of equipment in all of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. In a game about traveling long distances by foot, at least until you unlock faster and more creative means of travel, taking care of your footwear has never been a more vital component. It’s the same in real life, but for Sam Porter Bridges, it’s a necessity that could mean life or death, and when they become damaged, you will need to stop and think about what to do next....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Nathan Weiss

Certiport offering Apple-designed App Development with Swift certification program

Certiport, a leading provider of learning curriculum, practice tests, and performance-based IT certification, has announced a new global program for secondary schools and higher education. The App Development with Swift Certification curriculum is built on Apple’sEveryone Can Code program. It arrives this Fall to allow schools to validate student Swift programming language skills. Designed by Apple engineers and educators, the full-year App Development with Swift course takes students with no programming experience and teaches them how to build fully functional apps....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 270 words · Aaron Strickland

CES 2008: CES Unveiled

CES 2008: CES Unveiled CES Unveiled is a press only event tonight where several vendors will be showing their wares prior to CES. This is great for the press because it allows us to get more coverage of everything that will be at the show and it also allows us to mingle more closely with the vendors without them having to worry about impressing the consumers that get into the show....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Paul King

Delta Force Preload Now Available on Steam: File Size and Requirements Revealed

Delta Forcetook everyone by surprise with its previous open beta offering a tense first-person shooter with an emphasis on destruction, large-scale battles, and solid weapon feedback. The Delta Force Open Beta for PC is now available to preload through Steam, and it will remain active till the game’s launch across all platforms in 2025. Delta Force Preload Now Available on Steam You can now directly downloadDelta ForcefromSteamor through the Delta Force client which can bedownloaded from the official website....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Jordan Hunter

Eula’s Special Dish and how to cook it in Genshin Impact – Stormcrest Pie

Eula is the captain of the Knights of Favonius' Reconnaissance Company and a descendant of the controversial Lawrence Clan. Despite being raised as a noble, she seems to be quite adept at the kitchen. Her Special Dish is called the Stormcrest Pie, a half-moon version of the traditional Moon Pie. How to get Eula’s Special Dish Recipe in Genshin Impact You can get the Recipe for Moon Pie as a reward for reachingMondstadt Reputation Level seven....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 300 words · Sarah Skinner

EvilVEvil Review – An addictive shooter with plenty of bite

EvilVEvil is a title by Toadman Interactive that offers fast, frenetic first-person-shooter combat with class abilities and Vampires! The Swedish studio’s most notable title is Immortal: Unchained, which is a Soulslike. This new title is a big departure from what’s come before, and while EvilVEvil has its fair share of problems, it is a title I see myself enjoying long after the review period. Become a superhuman badass even with a potato PC EvilVEvil is a co-op shooter with light RPG mechanics, like leveling up to unlock weapons and perks....

June 28, 2025 · 7 min · 1403 words · Megan Black

Google Drive for iOS updated with activity stream, incoming view, faster uploading and more

The officialGoogle Drive appfor iPhone and iPad has been updated to version 3.1 with several added features. An all-new incoming view displays files that have been shared with you as they arrive, alongside an activity stream for viewing changes to files and folders made by you and others from the details panel. We’ve recapped some of the other changes and have the official release notes after the break… The new version of Google Drive has faster uploading of pictures and videos, and you can configure files or folders so that anyone with a link can view, comment, or edit them....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · James Johnson

Gracioso cassette player review: Simple, easy, affordable

When you think about portable technology these days, you probably ponder on how technology has become progressively smaller and more capable of holding digital files in a way that makes it easier to carry around large amounts of data, like in oursmartphonesthat fit easily in our pockets. But when you think back to the way you used to listen to music, in standardized formats that were still fairly small but more often enjoyed at home, things like portable cassette players were the way to enjoy that music on the go....

June 28, 2025 · 6 min · 1132 words · Misty Lawrence

Great PS5 Crucial SSD deal gets you an extra 1TB with up to 40% off

Ever since PlayStation unlocked the ability to upgrade a PS5’s internal storage, we’ve been scouring the ‘net for great deals on compatible SSD cards. After all, next-gen games take up a sizeable amount of the existing space and having to uninstall and reinstall favourites is a pain. Thankfully, theBlack Fridaysales have started and one card from Crucial is available with a very healthy discount indeed. The PlayStation 5-compatible Crucial P5 Plus has as much as 42 per cent saving at present, depending on where you’re from....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 386 words · Alexis Lowery

Here's a look at Steam Deck's box art

The release ofValve’s Steam Deckmight be a way off yet, but we’re getting more andmore informationas the launch date draws near. The latest tasty nuggets are once again direct from Valve. This time in the form of a look at the official packaging the Steam Deck may arrive in. Ina blog post, Valve has shown off a sneak peek at the final packaging we can expect to see in February. On the outside it might need seem terribly exciting at first but there’s a lot more going on here, including some of that classic Valve humour....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Dr. Jennifer Jimenez

Here's How Much It Would Cost Elon Musk To Avoid Buying Twitter

Here’s How Much It Would Cost Elon Musk To Avoid Buying Twitter Elon Musk’sTwitter purchasedeal has gone through so many twists and turns now that it isn’t exactly clear whether Elon Musk still truly wants to purchase the social media website at all, or if he ever really did. At least not for the full $44 billion promised to complete the sale. On May 13, over two weeks after the original announcement that the Twitter buy had successfully gone through its early stages, Elon Musktweetedthat he would prefer to put the deal on hold for the foreseeable future....

June 28, 2025 · 5 min · 938 words · Joy Woods DDS