Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks ‘match the player’s original experience much more closely’

In Counter-Strike 2, milliseconds matter. The tiniest time-slice can be the difference between virtual life and virtual death, so anything you can do to get bullets into braincases faster is likely to provide you an edge. Hence why CS2 lets players review their performance via demo playbacks. Yet because of the way the Internet works,…

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This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?

Speaking as a recovering WoW teen, Blizzcon used to have a sort of mystical promise: It was a sort-of yearly showcase for the fantastical otherworlds where I’d spend hundreds of hours watching the intense interpersonal dramas of people chasing their next pair of oversized pauldrons. This week, tickets will go on sale for Blizzcon’s 2026…

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Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn’t happy with the sequel’s revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: ‘If you give stuff for free, what you’ve done is told people not to pay for it’

Revenge of the Savage Planet was generally well-received when it released back in May this year, accruing a Very Positive Steam rating and a respectable score of 81% in our Revenge of the Savage Planet Review. But according to its creative director Alex Hutchinson, the comedic cooperative adventure hasn’t made all that much money, despite…

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Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: ‘I thought—this is not good—and I ran off’

Rockstar’s co-founder and writer, Dan Houser, has led a… uh, colourful life—moving to New York in 1998, he’d go on to help create what is now one of the biggest game development studios and companies in the entire industry. But it turns out that the impetus for Houser to get his butt to the big…

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That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)

As if to prove the circularity of art imitating life imitating art imitating life, the guy who got famous for his portrayal in the 2015 movie The Big Short, Michael Burry, has just placed a $1 billion bet against Nvidia and AI specialist Palantir. That is, quite literally, a big short on Nvidia. Thanks to…

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