If you ever feel like you’d have won a fight in Arc Raiders if you actually heard the player sneaking up on you, then you need to turn this setting on right away

Generally speaking, it’s the players you can’t see that pose the most danger to you in Arc Raiders. Chances are, players who stroll on up to you and make their presence known just want to be your friend, or they’ll openly betray you later on but you’ll often see that coming, to be honest. Either…

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Ahead of Black Friday, Fanatical has dropped more comic and book bundles than I know what to do with, covering Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo, and more

This week, Fanatical celebrates a whole year of its ‘Fantasyverse’ initiative—basically a fancy name for their videogame bundles now being joined by comic, TTRPG, and book bundles. But, as the hobbits do in the Shire, it’s the kind of birthday where there’s presents for everyone, in the form of (you guessed it) a metric ton…

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“A Cornerstone Of Gaming History” – Microsoft, Xbox, & Activision Team Up To Make Original Zork Trilogy Open-Source

You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Infocom’s original Zork trilogy is now open-source under an MIT license, thanks to the combined efforts of Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Xbox, and Activision (h/t: The Verge). The three classic text adventures — which Microsoft OSPO director Stacey Haffner and the Microsoft vice president…

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Team Cherry says that ‘if there were ever other’ Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they’d all be self-contained and ‘exist alongside one another’

We’re now thoroughly in the afterglow of Silksong—after years of build-up, skongsanity, conspiracy theories, and ill-advised daily news programs, Team Cherry’s long-anticipated “sequel” to Hollow Knight landed and was… well, just a very good game. And more to the point, one that stood on its own eight legs. Part sequel, part self-contained romp through a…

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It’s a shame HoYoverse’s new game is sporting offensively cheap-looking character models because everything else has me sold on its paranormal cop mystery

HoYoverse, listen, I know you got money. You’re one of the biggest gacha developers in the world, for Christ’s sake. I know you’ve only just announced Varsapura, but can you do me a favour? Swap out those god-awful, cheap plasticky looking character models because you have me absolutely sold on everything else this game has…

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