Counter-Strike containers are one of the few systems in modern gaming where the odds are published rather than guessed at. Valve prints the drop rates, and anyone can read them before deciding whether to bother. That has not stopped the numbers being widely misunderstood. Most players know a knife is rare without knowing how rare,…
Counter-Strike began in 1999 as a free Half-Life mod made by Minh Le and Jess Cliffe. Valve’s November 2000 retail release is now 25 years old. Its path into organized competition began with a recognizable rhythm: two teams, an objective, and rounds with a definite ending. Shooting remained essential, but a match also demanded cooperation…
You finally got the machines downstairs. Two friends, a dolly, a lot of swearing on the stairs. Then you plug everything in, start a game, and the first time the knocker fires, it sounds like somebody dropped a cinder block. Multiball? Forget it. Within a minute, the room turns into one long rattle of flippers,…
There’s a generation of millennial gamers who are haunted by an entity known as ‘old Blizzard,’ an allegedly more competent, creative, and virtuous version of the present-day Microsoft subsidiary based in Irvine, California. For the nostalgia-afflicted, BlizzCon 2026 felt like a nod to those good ol’ days of Blizzard—at least in terms of ambition and…
The developers of World of Warcraft: Forever would very much like it if you would create multiple characters, please. There are a number of reasons for that, including that having lower level characters means you’ll be well set up to welcome new friends to the game, as well as to experience the new leveling zones…
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Summary Puzzle-platformer using color for progression. The developers used color and music to celebrate the culture of Chile. Out now on XBOX Series X|S. Colorbound is a puzzle-platformer in which you play as Anku, a boy who lives in the mountains of Chile with his grandmother. His grandfather, Eloy, has passed away, and Anku and…
You’ll have to craft a key to The Emperor with three special Arc Coupler items and a blueprintEmbark Studios You can get these during the Redirection event by using beacons to call down Harvester PayloadsEmbark Studios Key deets ⚡ Find the Emperor Modulator in the final loot room of the new Emperor dungeon. ⚡ This…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. I have never seen…
“The game arrives in surprisingly good shape”. Capcom returned to Switch 2 with yet another banger last week in the shape of Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen. We’ve been having a wonderful time with the game so far, but how will it hold up under the technical analysis of the experts at Digital Foundry? It’s…