Disco Elysium studio laying off nearly 25% of its staff⁠—including the final remaining writer from the original game’s credits

According to a pair of reports from GLHF, Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM has canceled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium codenamed X7 and is laying off 24 workers, including Argo Tuulik, the last remaining employee at ZA/UM credited as a writer on the original Disco Elysium. ZA/UM subsequently confirmed the layoffs and project cancellation in…

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You’ll get extra Helldivers 2 XP this weekend to make up for a bug

Fellow cape-wearers, I’m broadcasting to you from the bridge of the SES Fist of Individual Merit with good news: Due to “accounting errors,” you’re getting 50% extra XP and Requisition awards in Helldivers 2 this weekend.  “Responsible parties are undergoing reeducation,” says the effect’s in-game description. The accounting errors in question are really just a…

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6 PC gaming superstitions busted

The average PC gamer may not be superstitious about walking underneath ladders or being cursed by black cats, but we have plenty of questionable rituals and myths that have built up across decades of message boards and Reddit threads. Established beliefs about mouse DPI, framerates, and thermal paste are confidently passed down across the decades—even…

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An old BioWare RPG just got a big new community patch

Six years after its debut, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, the Beamdog-buffed update of BioWare’s famed 2002 D&D RPG, has got a big new patch featuring improvements to the UI, better HDR-bloom post-processing effects, more than 100 bugfixes, and “significant performance improvements across the board.” The patch was first announced in early December 2023 but only…

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