Arc Raiders is finally dishing out bans for cheaters, but some players think the punishment is too lenient: ‘Anyone with cheats active just gets non-stop arc spawning on them’

The day of reckoning has arrived. Those who have been cheating in Arc Raiders (or at least some of them) have been handed down their sentence: a 30-day ban. Embark promised last week that it would begin dealing with cheaters, and now the “significant changes” to the detection and ban systems have arrived. “Dear cheaters,…

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After a tumultuous 7 years, Hytale has ‘officially secured the next two years of development costs’ a day before launch: ‘Thank you all for the support. Hytale is saved. We are almost home’

To say Hytale has had a tumultuous development cycle would be an understatement. Development began in 2015 with funding from Riot Games, which would go on to acquire the Hypixel team entirely in 2020, only to pull the plug on it five years later. It wasn’t until November 2025 that it was revived by its…

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Larian’s learnt a lot from Baldur’s Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: ‘Randomization did not save us much time’

Larian’s next game, Divinity, is gonna have some big changes to the usual Original Sin formula—and it’s thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, so sayeth a Larian lead in a recent Reddit AMA. Nick Pechenin, head of design at the studio, said that its take on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset informed a lot of how…

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The Zelda Adventure Nintendo Would Rather Forget Is Getting A Fan-Made Remaster

Features numerous ‘Quality of Life’ improvements. One of the significant consequences of the collapse of the Sony and Nintendo hardware partnership in the ’90s was the ill-fated Philips CD-i multimedia system receiving a selection of Nintendo-sanctioned titles, including Zelda: Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Hotel Mario. The CD-i also got 1996’s Zelda’s…

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