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I really love The Outer Worlds 2⁠—so much so that even after reviewing it, I’ve already started my second character. One thing that stood out to me, though, is that you can’t side with the Arcadia system’s resident collectivist surveillance state, the Protectorate⁠—you can’t even earn or lose reputation points with them like the other…

There’s something I find deeply funny about the use of copyright and trademark symbols in games. I get why these symbols are important in legal contexts, but, like, was it actually vital to display ® or ™ next to every character’s name in the Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 fighting game on the PlayStation® 2?…

Steam has increased the width of its product pages from 940 pixels to 1,200 pixels. It’s a change that would go unremarked on for most other online stores, but this is Steam, the place we’ve been buying PC games since the 2000s, and Valve, a company from which we’ve come to expect things like 750-word…

Four years after its release, Halo Infinite is, well, not going to be so infinite after all. Developer Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) has announced that it’s done updating the game with new stuff as it focuses on other projects, like Halo: Campaign Evolved. The final update will arrive on November 18 and will leave…

Mass Effect chief Michael Gamble didn’t have much to say about the next game in the series in today’s N7 Day update, but he did throw some new light on the Mass Effect TV series being developed by Amazon. “I haven’t talked about it much, but you might have heard a little something about a…

Arc Raiders, the hot new extraction shooter from the team behind The Finals, is off to a roaring start—but like any game, players are finding all sorts of ways to break it. A recent and hilarious example is a bug allowing players to use deployable items such as the barricade to squeeze through locked doors….

Between the post-Veilguard massacre and EA’s looming acquisition by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the storied studio known as BioWare is having a pretty rough time. It’s still kicking, though, and still working on a new Mass Effect game—and executive producer Michael Gamble would really like it if you’d all stop yelling at him about…

Grow a Garden is huge. As Ted pointed out earlier this year, it’s a little hard to comprehend that a free to play idle gardening game for Roblox made in a couple days by a teenager is more popular than any game you’ve ever played in your entire life. But it’s true. By reported concurrent…