Remedy’s bold gambit to save FBC: Firebreak arrives on Monday, in the form of a massive update that aims to ‘improve everything’ about the underwhelming coop shooter

FBC: Firebreak was a bit of a disappointment when it released back in June. There was certainly potential in running around playing janitor within the brutalist interdimensional nexus known as The Oldest House. But Remedy’s cooperative shooter simply didn’t feel ready for action, as I discovered in my FBC: Firebreak review. It was too lean,…

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I played China’s ‘anime GTA’ Ananta and I wasn’t surprised to find Spider-Man swinging and Batman punching, but I wasn’t quite ready for the vampire who vomits rainbows

I may be outing myself as a dullard, but I don’t think I have a mind that could combine a bunny girl doing odd delivery jobs for cash, a cute Japanese kei truck, and a sick vampire who barfs streams of rainbows into a single scene. Perhaps no single mind could, but that was the…

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EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia

As reported by the The Wall Street Journal, gaming giant EA is set to go private⁠—that is, no longer be traded on the stock market⁠—in a $50 billion deal with an investor group. This would be the largest such leveraged buyout ever recorded. According to the WSJ’s anonymous sources, EA could be sold for as…

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Silksong player uses every speedrunning trick in the book to lock poor Hornet in bug jail forever: ‘I don’t know why anyone would want to do this, but I have done it anyway’

Hollow Knight: Silksong is full of clever little secrets that can help you survive the brutal journey through Pharloom, whether it’s a shortcut that skips major sections of the map or a hidden tool. Some secrets, however, would probably be better off if they stayed that way. According to YouTuber Kilroy Was Here, there is…

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