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Iron Gate Studios provided a sneak peek at some of the new changes that will be coming to Valheim and its food system as part of its upcoming Hearth & Home update. This overhaul is meant to balance health vs stamina to allow players to be more creative and versatile in their playstyles.

Currently, eating food provides your character the same amount of stamina as it does health. But in Hearth & Home, food will now be split into three categories, based on whether a piece of food replenishes health or stamina. A red icon means that a piece of food will restore mostly health, while yellow indicates stamina. A white icon means both health and stamina will restore evenly.

The food bar will now be replaced with timers so that you can more accurately see how much time you have left before you need to each more. Food icons will still start blinking when they’re halfway depleted.

Iron Gate will go more in-depth later about how this new food system will affect the minute-to-minute gameplay. But broadly speaking, in order to build out your base and terraform, you’ll want to eat food that will provide you with enough stamina to keep building. However, make sure you also have enough health so that you can survive a plunge if you accidentally end up falling to your death. During battles, you’ll most likely opt for more health or stamina, based on your preferred combat style.

Valheim is currently available right now on PC through Steam Early Access. The Hearth & Home update is currently on track for a Q3 release this year.

Darksiders III is coming to Nintendo Switch, and it’ll be here in September. THQ Nordic has announced that the action game will launch on September 30, both digitally and in stores.

The Switch edition includes the base game and two expansion packs, Keepers of the Void and The Crucible. The game will retail for $40/£35/€40. The existence of Darksiders III for Switch is not a total surprise, as it was leaked on a Russian store in July.

Darksiders III was originally released in 2018, so Switch fans have been waiting for a while. The PS4/Xbox One edition of the game that launched in 2018 was developed by Gunfire Games, but it’s not immediately clear if that studio or another one is responsible for the Switch version.

It’s not the first Darksiders game on Switch, however, as the top-down action RPG Darksiders Genesis was released in 2020 for Switch (as well as PS4 and Xbox One). Before that, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition were released on Switch in 2019.

GameSpot’s Darksiders 3 review scored the game a 4/10.

“There are remnants of a good game here, buried within the vivacious combos of a combat style this game doesn’t want to embrace. Unfortunately, it’s buried far too deep to ever salvage,” critic Richard Wakeling said.

PS5 and PS4 owners will definitely want to check out Amazon’s latest game promotion, which discounts select PlayStation exclusives to Prime Day-level prices. You’ll also want to take a look at PS Direct’s August Savings sale for even more PlayStation game deals. A number of PS5 exclusives are featured in the sales, including a trio of great games for $50 each: Returnal, Demon’s Souls, and The Nioh Collection. We’ve rounded up the best PlayStation game deals at Amazon and PS Direct below:

PlayStation game deals at Amazon and PS Direct

• Days Gone (PS4) — $20 ($40)
• Death Stranding (PS4) — $30 ($40)
• Demon’s Souls (PS5) — $50 ($70)
• Dreams (PS4) — $10 ($20)
• Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) — $30 ($40)
• The Last of Us Part II (PS4) — $20 ($40)
• Marvel’s Iron Man VR (PS4) — $20 ($40)
• Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4/PS5) — $40 ($50)
• Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition (PS5) — $50 ($70)
• MLB The Show 21 (PS5) — $50 ($70)
• MLB The Show (PS4) — $40 ($60)
• The Nioh Collection (PS5) — $50 ($70)
• Returnal (PS5) — $50 ($70)
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS4/PS5) — $36.54 ($60)
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure Special Edition (PS4/PS5) — $70 ($90)

A couple of great PlayStation accessories are also on sale for solid prices. The PS5’s HD camera is $40, down from $60, while the DualShock 4 back button attachment is only $15.

Fortnite and Marvel are teaming up once again. This time it’s another member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora, who will be joining the ever-expanding roster of Fortnite crossover outfits, or “skins” as fans tend to call them. Here’s what you need to know about when Gamora is coming to Fortnite and how to unlock her early.

Fortnite Gamora Skin

Gamora will debut in the Fortnite Item Shop on August 14 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. Though a price hasn’t yet been revealed, we expect her complete bundle of in-game cosmetics to go for about 2400 V-Bucks, or about $20. Gamora will be sold alongside Star-Lord, who makes his long-awaited return to the game after previously debuting in 2019.

Players who leveled up their Season 4 battle passes enough also previously unlocked Groot with a Rocket Racoon Back Bling, meaning nearly the entire Guardians squad from the James Gunn era have come to Fortnite. (Just waiting on you, Drax.) Gamora’s full set will also include back bling, a pickaxe, and a glider.

It’s appropriate that Gamora arrives in Fortnite this season, since Doctor Slone and the Imagined Order are having such a tough time expelling the alien trespassers. Gamora knows a thing or two about fending off aliens.

Fortnite Gamora Cup: How To Unlock Gamora Early

As usual, Epic is giving players the chance to earn a major new in-game skin before it’s on sale. On August 11, a few days before Gamora’s proper debut, players can jump into the Gamora Cup from the in-game menu labeled Competitive.

In Duos, players will have three hours to complete 10 rounds of Fortnite battle royale and accumulate points. The winners within each region will earn the Gamora outfit and the Gamora Cloak back bling. While few will be so lucky (and skilled), the bar to leave with something in hand is much lower. Any teams that amass eight or more points in the allotted time will receive the Daughter of Thanos spray.

You can find the full rulebook and scoring system breakdown on the official Fortnite site, but suffice it to say scoring eight points in 10 rounds should be quite doable for even many casual Fortnite players, so if you’re a Guardians fan, it may be worth it to try your hand at Fortnite’s competitive scene.

Gamora isn’t the only superhero from another planet coming to Fortnite this week. Alongside his very own Superman quests, the Man of Steel makes his debut on August 12. If you need more Fortnite, don’t miss the Ariana Grande Rift Tour replay, then prep for this week’s Alien Artifacts.

It’s a well-known story at this point that, for many fans, No Man’s Sky has gone from somewhat disappointing to resurgent success, largely through frequent free updates from developer Hello Games. It looks like those content drops aren’t done yet, either: Hello Games just teased another one coming that’s called Frontiers.

In a Twitter post, Hello Games included Frontiers at the end of a list of every update to come to the game so far. The post is accompanied by a sizzle reel of many of the past updates, with a title card at the end for Frontiers that confirms that it, too, will be free for all players. This is about the smallest tease possible, so we have no idea what it’s going to entail yet. But if it follows past named updates, it should contain a substantial amount of new content.

In addition, seeing all of the updates listed out in one tweet puts in context just how much work Hello Games has done on No Man’s Sky since its original launch. The game was originally released way back in 2016, but it has gained a devoted following by essentially becoming a live game.

It appears that the Frontiers expansion is the fifth anniversary surprise that Hello Games hinted at back in May. If it arrives this year, it’ll be the fourth named update to be launched in 2021; Companions was added in February, followed by Expeditions in April and Prisms in June.

Best Buy’s latest video game promotion is one of its more interesting events in recent memory. For each of the next 10 days, Best Buy will offer one game for $10. The promotion will feature Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and PC games. Each game will only be on sale for one day before a new deal takes its place. Day one’s deal is Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, one of the Nintendo Switch’s best strategy games.

While Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is almost always on sale, we very rarely see it for less than $15, especially physical copies. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a tactics game that plays a lot like XCOM, but it’s far more lighthearted. Kingdom Battle pairs Mario and pals with Ubisoft’s zany Rabbids to create a wild and genuinely funny collaboration. A sequel, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, is set to release in 2022 for Nintendo Switch.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is only available for $10 until tonight at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET. We’ll update this article each day as new $10 game deals become available.

10 days, 10 games, 10 dollars promotion

Among the Fortnite Week 10 challenges, you’ll need to place video cameras at different ship landing locations. This is another story-driven quest that paints a fuller picture of Slone’s relentless efforts to gather data on the aliens. She’s been obsessed with driving them back all season, and though her efforts have not totally been in vain, she’s losing the battle. Still, she can’t stop now, and she’s enlisting your help when this challenge goes live on August 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. Here’s where to place video cameras in Fortnite.

Fortnite Video Camera Locations – Week 10

There are three different locations you’ll need to travel to this week to complete this challenge, and unlike some other quests, you must visit all three at least once to complete the challenge. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it in one round, though it’s fine if you do, of course. You’ll first want to head to Retail Row and place a video camera on the southern hillside looking down into town.

Once you’ve done so, head west to the next town over. At Lazy Lake, the same logic applies. Slone is running a covert operation, so the camera will be on the northeastern hillside looking down into the town to capture the best evidence.

From there head southwest to Misty Meadows and look for the camera interaction location at the far east end, once more atop a northeastern hill, within this lakeside town. Placing a camera at all three spots in any order will complete this challenge for you and get you one step closer to finishing off the Week 10 challenges.

Doctor Slone is hellbent on stopping the alien “trespassers,” but with Slurpy Swamp being abducted last week and more abductions likely on their way, it seems the Imagined Order’s boss is struggling to stay a step ahead of the invaders.

We’ve got about another month of Fortnite Season 7 to unravel before Season 8 premieres in September. Look to the skies this week not just for aliens, but for Superman too. Don’t forget to finish off the Rift Tour Quests while you’re at it.