Terraria creator jokes that the 1.4.5 update may not be the last one after all: ‘Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update’

Terraria’s final update, Journey’s End, arrived in May 2020—except its actual final update came out several months later, in October 2020. Ah, but then “unfinished business” resulted in the Labor of Love update in 2022, something developer Re-Logic said “we needed to do before we could feel fully comfortable moving on.” But then instead of…

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‘We will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior’: Marvel Rivals will ban console players who use a mouse and keyboard

The creators of Marvel Rivals don’t want console players swimming in the same Jeff-infested pool as PC players. Or using our equipment to gain an advantage. That’s evident after an announcement made today on Marvel Rivals’ Steam page, where NetEase characterizes the use of keyboard or mouse adapters as a form of cheating. “We believe…

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Hideo Kojima is ‘tired’ while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep making games: ‘Every day feels like I’m racing against the clock’

Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima left the office after dark one night last week, tweeting just one word on the way out: “Tired.” After a long and influential career in the industry stretching back to the mid-1980s, he’s starting to wonder how much time he really has left. Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2, doesn’t…

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Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro review

Having already launched one generation of chipsets on its Socket AM5 platform, AMD faces an uphill struggle in selling 800-series chipset motherboards when older, cheaper options are perfectly capable of running CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. However, it arguably has an easier task than Intel given the low sales figures of its Core…

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Marvel Rivals game director says it’ll be getting a new hero every month and a half, which hopefully isn’t a display of classical hubris

Marvel Rivals landed with a wide roster, boasting 33 heroes when it launched on December 5. Just over a month later, the hero shooter’s received two additions to its lineup, thanks to the arrival of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman with the advent of Season 1. NetEase has set an impressive pace—and according to game…

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