After bagging a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 quest designer for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt snaps up BioShock 4’s former narrative lead to work on Cyberpunk 2

//Body CD Projekt Red is on a big recruitment push at the moment as it scales up development of its next big RPG projects. Just last week, the Polish developer nabbed one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s lead designers to lend their quest-crafting skills to The Witcher 4. Now, it’s hired the former narrative lead…

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Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded ‘Morbid Loner’

Old School RuneScape has been around for, oh, about 12 years now, and in all that time it’s never gotten a new skill. Players have been working with—and making great sport of—the set of skills it inherited from the original RuneScape, which itself last got a new skill (that’d be Hunter) all the way back…

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Arc Raiders players are dominating Stella Montis with 25 million visits, 26,923 Matriarch kills, and 117 self-KOs with a volcanic rock—ok, that last one isn’t great

It’s been just under a week since Arc Raiders players were let loose in the claustrophobic corridors of Stella Montis, and what a week it’s been. To celebrate the successful update, Embark Studios gave us a little look into how the action has played out. “Congrats to every Raider who staked their claim on Stella…

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Hardcore space sim Ostranauts just joined the legendary patch notes canon: ‘Corpses should no longer become hotter than the Sun and explode the ships/stations they are on’

The games in the Kitfox publishing stable have a long history of producing beautifully absurd patch notes and bug reports thanks to the absurd intricacies of their systems and simulations. Dwarf Fortress has been responsible for classics like “Undead dwarf contracted were-chameleon curse” and “Cats dying for no reason – alcohol poisoning?” Shortly before its…

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Samsung’s next-gen 2nm node is in mass production, but will it beat TSMC’s N2 silicon to market and help make chips cheaper?

According to a new report on Korean outlet Dailian, Samsung has announced early results from mass production of its next-gen 2 nm chip node. But the company is only making very modest claims versus its existing 3 nm silicon. Dailian quotes a Samsung report claiming, “the 2nm first-generation gate-all-around (GAA) process has improved performance by…

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