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This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)
Scottish grandmother Cath Bowie’s hunger for bloodshed is celebrated by thousands. Recently named the world’s oldest female Fortnite steamer by Guinness World Records, Bowie began playing the battle royale behemoth under the nom de guerre grumpygran1948 in 2017. Now streaming for an audience of over 24,000 followers, she was introduced to the game by her…
World of Warcraft: Forever dev has ‘no sympathy’ for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: ‘If you’re genuinely confused, remember that it’s our database, we can see every character you’ve created’
One of the developers running the World of Warcraft: Forever beta has no patience for the people who think they can get away with naming their characters something inappropriate. I was surprised at how many awful player names I’ve seen while playing the beta over the last week. WoW usually has a pretty strict filter…
What insiders say Halo Studios was up to before losing Halo: ‘The next Halo game was years away’
In the wake of Microsoft gutting Halo Studios to a skeleton crew and passing off the series to Activision, new reports from insiders tell a believable story about what was happening in Halo Studios as the plug got pulled. The accounts come from The Verge’s Tom Warren (longtime Microsoft beat writer) and YouTuber Rebs Gaming…
I feel like I’m running a corner store in Dredd or Cyberpunk 2077
Papers, Please: Your decisions as a shopkeeper have an effect. If you spot someone on the wanted list coming in to your store, you can report them to security for a reward—but keep in mind they may be members of the resistance fighting against the cruel dystopia. Dredd: With customers coming in from the poverty-stricken…
Five Ways to Build a Better Used-Car Business in Used Cars Simulator
Summary Out Now on Xbox Series X|S. Inspect, negotiate, repair, customize, resell. Five tips for smarter deals, exploration, and bringing the chaos. Buying a cheap car is easy. Figuring out whether it is actually a good deal takes a little more work. In Used Cars Simulator, every vehicle can be an opportunity – or a…
For Warhorse’s 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for ‘grown-up’ RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism
Martin Klíma is an iconoclast. As the co-founder of Warhorse Studios, he’s responsible for one of the crunchiest, most peculiar, and best RPGs of the last decade—Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, a game few other studios would make. As a former student rabblerouser in the old eastern bloc, he’s the only person I’ve ever spoken to…
Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 548: September Selects
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! We’re back this week to talk through September’s big releases and other recent titles we’re still playing. Stuff We Talked About Next week’s release highlights: Minecraft Dungeons II | PS5 Toem 2 | PS5 Way of the Hunter 2 | PS5 …
I made the hot dog vendors in GTA 5 work because Rockstar never did
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. I have filled a…
‘Everything is hard. But it turns out that’s not society’s problem, that’s my problem,’ says Jensen Huang about AI development
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has appeared on The Ezra Klein Show to discuss AI development, amid a wider discussion around its responsible usage and safety. Klein spoke to the Nvidia chief about multiple topics, including the AI industry’s potential effects on the job market. “I tend to be a bit of a skeptic on mass…
A pro CS2 player told me he ditched his Superstrike gaming mouse for the older Superlight 2 because it was ‘inconsistent’
I found yxngstxr’s candidness fantastic, here, considering we were at a Logitech G Play event when he said these words to me—an event surrounding the launch of the X3 Superstrike, no less. I trusted what he was saying: he liked the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and tried it for a while, but found it…
