Borderlands 4 players have discovered a way to skip huge chunks of the map in a technique dubbed “cricket jumping” — but a developer at Gearbox has warned action may have to be taken to patch it out of the game if it starts causing issues.

As demonstrated by streamer Bahroo, Borderlands 4 players can propel themselves across the map by using a glitch at The Prospects’ Ripper Drill site. To do this, you stand on the top of the drill, line yourself up in the direction you want to travel, with your back towards the direction you want to travel, tab out of the game, then fire. Your character hurtles through the air, which, in combination with Borderlands 4’s glide ability, lets you pass over significant areas of the map.

As noted in a social media post, cricket jumping will play a crucial role in Borderlands 4 speedrunning. But will it last? Creative Director Graeme Timmins responded on social media to say “I’ve got my eye on this.”

But it sounds like cricket jumping is here to stay, at least for now.

“My only worry is streaming issues or if this introduces instability,” Timmins continued. “Not out to ruin people’s fun, but can’t have it cause tech issues. For now tho, not going to do anything until proven issues arise.”

I’ve got my eye on this. My only worry is streaming issues or if this introduces instability. Not out to ruin people’s fun, but can’t have it cause tech issues. For now tho, not going to do anything until proven issues arise.

— Graeme Timmins (@ProdigyXL) September 20, 2025

Timmins went on to address a complaint from one Borderlands 4 player at the lack of updates for the console version of the game compared to the PC version, which has seen two post-launch patches.

“Console testing and certification is more involved than pushing out PC builds,” Timmins explained. “It just takes longer with 1st parties making sure we’re sending out good quality patches. It’s coming and we’re doing everything we can to make it happen quickly.”

Borderlands 4 console players are keen for a patch to address some glaring technical problems. Last week, the tech experts at Digital Foundry confirmed a gradual worsening of framerate with continuous playtime, even on PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox Series X.

As revealed in a new video published to YouTube, Digital Foundry found performance starts dipping after around 30 minutes to an hour, which it called “too intrusive on the overall experience, too regular an interruption.” Even after a completely fresh boot, the game is still prone to framerate drops.

Gearbox development chief Randy Pitchford has acknowledged the problem on social media, promising incoming improvements. As a workaround, Pitchford suggested console players quit Borderlands 4 and restart. Digital Foundry’s Tom Morgan confirmed this does restore performance, but criticized the situation, saying “resetting the game every hour should really not be an expected solution for players.”

The PC version, meanwhile, is still on a mixed Steam review rating, with most of the negative comments revolving around PC performance. Digital Foundry has said its initial analysis of Borderlands 4 on PC shows significant stutter problems, and have advised against running the game on its ‘Badass’ graphics setting, which suggests there are indeed problems with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

Gearbox has said addressing PC performance is a “top priority” for the studio. In the meantime, the studio pointed to a Borderlands 4 Nvidia Optimization guide on Steam, advising players how to optimize their graphics settings for “better performance and framerates” on PC with the Nvidia app, although users report mixed results.

Gearbox has also issued a piece of advice to PC gamers that to me reads like an effort to prevent players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game’s performance as soon as they’ve changed their settings: “Please note that any time you change any of your graphics settings, your shaders will need to recompile. Please keep playing for at least 15 minutes to see how your PC’s performance has changed.”

If you are delving into Borderlands 4, don’t go without updated hourly SHiFT codes list. We’ve also got a huge interactive map ready to go and a badass Borderlands 4 planner tool courtesy of our buds at Maxroll. Plus check out our expert players’ choices for which character to choose (no one agreed).

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘Concerned Ape’ Barone has warned fans that it will “be a while” before the highly anticipated Stardew Valley 1.7 update is ready.

Barone confirmed we’d get a Stardew Valley 1.7 update last month at the Stardew Valley concert, although at the time, he stressed there was “no release date, no estimate, but it’s happening.”

Now, however, Barone is working to contain the excitement, responding to fans asking for “maybe a sneak peak [sic]” to say “more will come, I just don’t want too much hype at this point.”

Last time, PC players were able to jump into the free 1.6 update several months before those on console and mobile, but for 1.7, Barone says he will “do my best to minimize the delay between [releasing on PC and other platforms] so as not to have the same problem as last update” and keep Haunted Chocolatier on track, too.

Back in May, Barone admitted that he “didn’t want to just be the Stardew Valley guy,” explaining that was why he’s currently working on Haunted Chocolatier. We shouldn’t expect a release date anytime soon, though — there’s “still a lot to be done,” Barone recently admitted, particularly as he feels it’s “got to be better” than Stardew Valley.

We enjoyed our time with the farm simulator when we reviewed it way back in 2016, awarding it 8.8 “Great” in our original Stardew Valley review. When we revisited the game in 2024, however, we hailed it a 10/10 “masterpiece,” writing: “Stardew Valley is not only the best farming game I’ve played, it is one of my favorite games of all time. That myself and others keep returning to this eight-year old gem each time it gets even the smallest update speaks to how it’s truly a masterpiece in the genre it both reinvigorated and has come to define.”

It’s not too late to get stuck in before Update 1.7. Our Stardew Valley Beginner’s Guide is fully updated for the 1.6 update, which added new crops, new fish, and plenty more – including the Raccoon Family Quests that unlock a new shop and valuable rewards. For veteran farmers who have maxed out all their skills, our Mastery Points guide can advise on next steps, and if you’re headed to Ginger Island, here’s where to find all Golden Walnuts.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

Henry Cavill’s seemingly innocuous picture showing his leg injury sustained while training for the Highlander reboot has sent Warhammer 40,000 fans into a frenzy after speculation the former Superman actor’s social media post contains three(!) separate nods to his upcoming — and super secret — Amazon project.

Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, the result of a deal struck between Games Workshop and Amazon for Prime Video movies and TV shows based on the famous grimdark setting, is shrouded in mystery. While it’s hugely exciting for fans, especially given Cavill’s well-documented love of Warhammer 40,000, we do not know which character he is set to play, or even which story the initial project will tell. We don’t even know which era of Warhammer, specifically, we can expect to see in live action form.

Cavill has chosen his words carefully whenever he’s asked about Warhammer 40,000 in interviews. In June, Cavill touched on the “complexity” and “trickiness” of adapting the Warhammer 40,000 IP. But, he insisted, he was loving the challenge.

Bringing Warhammer to life “is a dream come true,” Cavill said, “but it’s different from what I’ve done before, in the sense I haven’t had my hand on the tiller of things before. It’s wonderful doing that. It is a tricky IP, and a very complex IP, and that’s what I love about it. The challenges that come with putting this on the page in a way that is doing justice to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is a challenge I’m enjoying enormously.”

But could Cavill’s social media post hint at what to expect from his Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe? Some fans think so.

The most obvious tease here is in the second picture, which shows books for the Horus Heresy tabletop game strewn about on Cavill’s table. For the uninitiated, the Horus Heresy is the Space Marine civil war that took place 10,000 years before the current Warhammer 40,000 setting. It is the foundation of 40K’s grimdark universe, and reveals how the carrion Emperor ended up on the Golden Throne.

If this photo is indeed a tease for an adaptation of the Horus Heresy, it would be a significant undertaking for Amazon. The galaxy-spanning war was epic in scale, involved planet-cracking battles, enormous super soldiers, and all sorts of mind-bending space magic. Delivering the Horus Heresy as a TV show, while exciting, would be a hugely expensive proposition if done at the scale suggested by the Black Library books. We’re talking The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power production values here, perhaps even greater.

But the Horus Heresy isn’t the only tease in Cavill’s photo. Squint at the first picture, the one with Cavill’s rugged face and his dog, and you’ll see in the background, just above his head, the Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan box set sat on a shelf.

This is the current setting for Warhammer 40,000, which revolves around the Ultramarines chapter of Space Marines defending the Imperium against the terrifying Tyranid threat. It also just happens to be the premise of the hugely successful Space Marine 2, which launched to massive sales this time last year.

Could this be a fun Cavill tease for his Amazon show? Perhaps it is set to adapt The First Tyrannic War, during which the Imperium makes first contact with the Tyranid race and all hell breaks loose?

But there’s more! Cavill posted his pics alongside a poem, Invictus by William Ernest Henley. Invictus, you say? Well, he’s only one of the most famous Ultramarines there ever was, and a hero in the war against the… Tyranids.

Indeed, Saul Invictus (now deceased in the official timeline) was the Captain of the Ultramarines Space Marine Chapter’s elite 1st Company. He was killed defending his chapter homeworld of Macragge by the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Behemoth during the First Tyrannic War.

Let’s go over that last part of the poem:

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Is Cavill set to play Captain Invictus in an adaptation of the First Tyrannic War? Some Warhammer 40,000 fans think so, simply due to the poem lining up with the Leviathan box set.

Of course, all the Warhammer bits and bobs in Cavill’s pictures may just be innocent window dressing and mean absolutely nothing. And it’s worth noting one character who’s often mentioned by fans as a great fit for Cavill — Eisenhorn, from Black Library author Dan Abnett’s saga of the same name — is not teased here. At least, not that we can see. An adaptation of Abnett’s much-loved Eisenhorn series would perhaps be a more realistic proposition for Amazon, not least because its main characters (Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor) are human inquisitors, not hulking Space Marines, and their story is more grounded.

In July, Games Workshop said in a financial report that fans shouldn’t expect any significant news on the Amazon work any time soon — and that it would be “several years” before anything comes of it.

“On 10 December 2024 we announced the conclusions of our negotiations with Amazon for the adaptation of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe into films and television series, together with associated merchandising rights,” Games Workshop said.

“The project continues in line with our contractual agreement with Amazon. This same contract prohibits us from sharing any specific details or commercial terms.

“We have great partners who continue to display their commitment to present Warhammer authentically and at the scope and scale befitting our fantastical setting. This is a long-term partnership with Amazon and there won’t be any significant news in the short term — these things take several years to bring to market.”

So we’re left with scraps to mull over, such as recent comments from Dan Abnett about NDAs and upcoming books.

In the meantime, Games Workshop pointed to the well-received Warhammer 40,000 episode on Amazon Prime’s animation show Secret Level, which it described as “a taster of Warhammer IP in digital form on the small screen.”

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

It’s all well and good to grab ridiculously expensive Pokémon TCG cards regardless of the climate, and I’m absolutely writhing in jealousy at those who can.

But imagine going back in time and pulling one of those epic chase cards straight off the shelf? Of course, you could today if you hate your bank account that much, but what about the most expensive Pokémon cards in packs right now?

I’m talking about Pokémon TCG bangers that you can pull in a booster pack today, and there are loads. We’re focusing on Black Bolt / White Flare, Destined Rivals, Prismatic Evolutions, Twilight Masquerade, and Surging Sparks for today, so let’s have a deeper look at the mad bangers you could pull from an in-print Pokémon TCG booster pack.

Just to note, the chances of pulling these cards are extremely slim, so if you plan on spending massive amounts of money on Booster Bundles, Booster Boxes, and ETBs, bear in mind that the actual value of the card itself is usually cheaper than ripping packs. Unless you’re mega lucky, of course.

12: Team Rocket’s Moltres ex – 229/182