Guild Wars 2’s sixth expansion is taking players to an island paradise this October, with beachside player housing and a major addition to buildcrafting

A few weeks ago, ArenaNet started teasing the next Guild Wars 2 expansion with a daily drop of mysterious icons. For the community the implication was immediately obvious: New elite specializations are being added for each character class. This should be a pretty major shakeup to buildcrafting. Each of the game’s nine classes currently has…

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Escape from Tarkov begins to quietly U-turn after last week’s hardcore wipe left players penniless and bored to tears with the grind

Last week Escape From Tarkov released a sweeping patch and what it calls a “Hardcore Wipe”—resetting progress for all players, upending how the game’s economy works, altering the progression system, and even changing the game’s structure and disabling existing maps. Naturally, players reacted in a calm and rational manner. Only kidding: most were mad as…

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Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it’s housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?

We’ve reported on the rapid, almost-certainly-ecologically-unsound expansion of AI data centers before, but Meta appears to have taken things to the next level. And that level is camping. According to a SemiAnalysis report, Meta is expanding its AI hardware capabilities so rapidly, it’s putting some of its AI data center hardware in tents. Erecting brick…

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Neverwinter Nights 2 is one of the best RPGs you’ve never played, and if you like Baldur’s Gate 3 or Disco Elysium, you owe it to yourself to check out its new Enhanced Edition

I never want to be an RPG gatekeeper⁠—I want as many people as possible to find out what makes these games so great. But their inherent crustiness can make my old-head RPG favorites hard to recommend to people who haven’t already bought in. I’ve got a lot of friends I recommend Disco Elysium to, but…

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