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Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players

In a win for console players fed up with Call of Duty’s cheating problem, Activision will finally let players turn off crossplay in regular unranked matches starting in Black Ops 6 Season 3. The long-requested feature comes six years after crossplay became a core feature of Call of Duty in the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot….

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‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: ‘There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens’

“Hollywood, there’s so much bullshit,” Hazelight founder Josef Fares told Eurogamer earlier this year. “I think 90 percent of the meetings are actually bullshit, and ten percent are what actually happens.” The outspoken creator of co-op hit Split Fiction was responding to a question about the film adaptation of his 2021 game, It Takes Two….

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Another disappointing-looking Project Rene leak makes me wish EA would finally step in and say anything at all to Sims fans

It’s happened again: Screenshots and footage from a playtest allegedly for Project Rene have leaked and fans are disappointed. It’s me. I’m fans. The cross-platform, online Sims game is still so totally shrouded in mystery and each new playtest leak just makes me wish that Electronic Arts would say anything to its players. A newly…

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Inzoi’s game director is ‘determined to prove that this is not just another early access game’ and plans even more hotfixes and communication

Inzoi‘s early access launch last week was surrounded by a fair amount of skepticism, and that’s not without reason — it’s hard to compete with a series as massive in scope as The Sims. Now, after a busy launch weekend and multiple hotfixes, the game’s director wants to let hesitant players know that he’s committed…

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A 60 year old videogame just hit its highest player count ever on Steam and I’m pretty sure it’s because people are pirating Schedule 1

At time of writing, SteamDB’s concurrent player ranking is led by the usual suspects: Counter-Strike 2 is commanding its expected lead with more than a million players while Dota 2 and the breakout drug-selling sim Schedule 1 follow behind. A bit farther down the list, however, is an unexpected title that hit its all-time peak…

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