Next and current banners in Genshin Impact

The banners in Genshin Impact are constantly changing, so it’s a good idea to keep track of what the current banners and next banners are, to prepare for a sudden hit to your precious Primogem reserves. Limited-time rotating banners are called ‘Event Wishes’ in Genshin, and they usually run for three weeks. An Event Wish…

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This MMO can run Doom: EVE Frontier is so moddable, players are building entire games within its space survival sandbox, and the devs say it’s just the beginning

I would say I did my time, several tours of duty on the front lines of “blockchain is bullshit, please stop emailing me press releases about NFT MMO Kickstarters.” I remain a skeptic and a luddite, about both crypto and its new tech fabulist little brother, generative AI. I want to establish my hater bona…

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‘The last one wasn’t the last one’: CD Projekt has cyber punked us again, announcing another surprise update for Cyberpunk 2077

What do Re-Logic, Eric Barone, and CD Projekt have in common? They won’t quit screwing around with (read: improving) their old games: Less than a week after announcing that The Witcher 3 is getting “one more patch” to add cross-platform mod support, the studio revealed today that Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a new update, too….

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Elden Ring Nightreign players have figured out how to guarantee you always reach max level by the time you fight your run’s Nightlord, but unfortunately it’s super boring

I’ve got a few dozen Elden Ring Nightreign expeditions on the books, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone when I say they haven’t all been successes. Many of those failures have come agonizingly close to victory, where my team’s Nightlord target survived by only a sliver of health—a sliver it probably wouldn’t have had if we’d…

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Talking Point: Does Your Switch 2 Vent Smell?

Not unpleasant, necessarily. Most of us here at Team NL, like many of you, have been unwrapping shiny new consoles today as Switch 2 arrives, finally. Nothing like the smell of new hardware in the morning, right? Having said that, while we’ve been getting to grips with the new console, some of us have noticed…

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