Windrose developers ask players if they ‘happen to know someone at a major ISP’ who can help diagnose online co-op issues

Windrose is an entirely PvE focused co-op survival game, so it makes perfect sense that players are eager to party up and run their own Windrose dedicated servers. Overall launch has been pretty smooth for the early access game—on day two on Steam it reached a peak of nearly 100,000 concurrent players, and reviews remain…

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Yes, Take-Two’s share price rose after the stolen Rockstar data was released, but don’t read too much into it

Rockstar Games was hacked earlier this month, and given an ultimatum: Pay up a significant amount of cash—$200,000, apparently—or all the stolen data gets released into the wild. $200 large is couch change for Rockstar, but there’s also the principle of the thing to consider. Rockstar refused, and the hackers made it rain with their…

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While I go stir-crazy waiting for another FromSoft game, I’m counting on these 4 indie Armored Core-likes to satisfy my mecha cravings when they hit Steam

I have a weakness for mecha games—a vulnerability so dire that I was recently driven to risk my professional credibility by defending the merits of Gundam Battle Operation 2. As you might imagine, the release of Armored Core 6 made 2023 a very good year for me, but it’s meant I’ve spent the following years…

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How to make gunpowder in Windrose

I looked down the barrel of my pistol, pulled the trigger, and click—silence. I knew I had plenty of Stone Bullets for my Windrose enemies, but for some reason, my gun wouldn’t fire a thing. And that’s when I remembered I needed one other key ingredient, gunpowder. It was embarrassing for me, but a good…

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Krafton still ‘supporting the early access launch of Subnautica 2’ despite its name being removed from the Steam page

Krafton is no longer listed as the publisher of Subnautica 2 on its Steam page, with subsidiary Unknown Worlds now appearing as both developer and publisher. The companies have a complicated relationship, to put it mildly. PUBG publisher Krafton acquired Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds in 2021, and then last year fired the studio’s leadership ahead…

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