Building an optimized factory is so important in Arknights: Endfield that someone made a simulator tool for sharing your best blueprints

With every new anime gacha game release—especially the ones chasing after Genshin Impact’s success—you can expect to see a flood of character tier lists and build guides. But Arknights: Endfield, which just came out this week, isn’t your typical anime gacha game. For a lot of players, it’s actually a surprisingly robust factory builder with…

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Fallout 4 feels like a brand new game now that it’s forcing me to take naps, drink plenty of water, and not save scum

Between the new season of the Fallout show, New Vegas’ 15th birthday, Fallout 4’s 10th anniversary, and our interview series celebrating all of the above (complete with print cover story!), I’ve been in a bit of a Fallout mood. I smashed through Fallout 3 in a week and change over Christmas, I’m getting asymptotically close…

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One of Steam’s most wishlisted games announces it’s launching next week with a song so unhinged you’ve got to hear it for yourself

Medieval combat sim Half Sword made a big, bloody splash at Next Fest last year when its tech playtest became the most popular demo on Steam. The physics-based melee brawler is equal parts gore and clumsiness as players face off—and try to slash each other’s faces off—with wildly-swung swords and axes and spears. Players loved…

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One of Steam’s most wishlisted games announces it’s launching next week with a song so unhinged you’ve got to hear it for yourself

Medieval combat sim Half Sword made a big, bloody splash at Next Fest last year when its tech playtest became the most popular demo on Steam. The physics-based melee brawler is equal parts gore and clumsiness as players face off—and try to slash each other’s faces off—with wildly-swung swords and axes and spears. Players loved…

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Mass Effect boss Michael Gamble is looking for a production director for the next game in the series: ‘They’ll report to me and it’s gonna be awesome’

I’m not entirely confident that Mass Effect 5 will ever see the light of day. Between the Andromeda debacle, the dismantling of BioWare after Dragon Age: The Veilguard missed whatever expectations EA had for it, and the upcoming acquisition of EA by Saudi Arabia, the environment just doesn’t seem entirely conducive to another big sexy…

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Creator of DMCA’d Cyberpunk VR mod takes ball and goes home, removing access to all his VR mods after receiving a second DMCA takedown from 505 Games and a warning from Patreon

Last week, creator of the popular paid-access Cyberpunk 2077 R.E.A.L. VR mod Luke Ross found himself at the center of a growing controversy after receiving a DMCA notice from Cyberpunk developer CD Projekt, which claimed the modder was profiting from its IP. The studio had earlier requested that Ross make the mod free to download,…

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Creator of DMCA’d Cyberpunk VR mod takes ball and goes home, removing access to all his VR mods after receiving a second DMCA takedown from 505 Games and a warning from Patreon

Last week, creator of the popular paid-access Cyberpunk 2077 R.E.A.L. VR mod Luke Ross found himself at the center of a growing controversy after receiving a DMCA notice from Cyberpunk developer CD Projekt, which claimed the modder was profiting from its IP. The studio had earlier requested that Ross make the mod free to download,…

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