It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over

The limits of Minecraft’s procedural-generation math become apparent the further away you get from your starting position. First you cross into the jitters, a region where movement gets all, well, jittery. Keep going and eventually you’ll reach the Far Lands, an alien landscape where patterns of blocks stop resolving into pleasant hills and streams, instead…

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Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5

A new Bloomberg report based on interviews with former Microsoft employees has offered more fuel for speculation about the continued viability of Game Pass, including Microsoft’s own alleged estimate for how much sales revenue Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 lost by being on the subscription service. Unlike Steam, which offers its own real-time metrics…

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Call of Duty may have finally blinked on SBMM as the Black Ops 7 beta adds a playlist with ‘drastically reduced’ skill consideration

Three days into the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta, Activision has shared patch notes for a new multiplayer mode with less strict skill-based matchmaking (SBMM). The behind-the-scenes online matchmaking practice, which seeks to pair players with those of a similar skill level, has grown controversial among some competitive FPS fans, and this is…

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