Esports tournaments do it better in person

I’m currently at Logitech G Play in Warsaw where a Counter-Strike 2 tournament is being held. As someone who properly got into Counter-Strike when CS:GO launched way back when, I can see things have changed quite a bit. Back then, we struggled with janky spectator cams; now, we have on-stage lighting that starts when the…

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Where can Australians buy R18+ PC games without a credit card? Pretty much everywhere but Steam

Valve implemented age verification for Australian Steam users earlier this month, which was inevitable: Australian law demands it. Unfortunately, Valve has opted for the most brute force, user-negligent approach possible. To buy R18+ games on Steam in Australia—to even access their store pages—you need to provide a credit card. The problem being that most Australians…

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Diablo 5 will ‘take a somewhat different approach’ to Diablo 4’s monster level scaling so your character feels noticeably stronger as you progress

Despite its surprise announcement at BlizzCon earlier this month, Diablo 5 is a whole three years away. Blizzard’s brief teaser trailer had zero gameplay in it, which means the action RPG sequel is still mostly a mystery. But director Joe Shely helped paint a picture of what the real thing might look like during a…

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