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Marvel Rivals has been going through something of a rough patch, what with the frustrating lack of good balance patches and now a whole website dedicated to basically making the game worse for everyone involved. Named ‘incentivised throwing’, this phenomenon saw a website and Discord being used to place bounties on people’s heads. Players would…

These days, it’s hard to talk about Destiny without inevitably touching on its hated content vault. Whole chunks of the game, including the base story, some expansions, and seasonal content, were wiped from Destiny 2 and thrown into the abyss, lovingly called the Destiny Content Vault. The Final Shape’s story wrapped up a decade-long story…

There’s a cheeky allure to the whole hackintosh thing. The idea of turning a Mac (a famously unupgradable and walled-off device) into something Frankenstein-esque is a nerdy joy, and this person who fitted their ‘06 MacBook with Framework embodies that cheekiness. As they say, it’s “a reimagined classic, that’s only a little bit janky”. You…

If you’ve ever looked at a PlayStation 5 and thought ‘That would be a really good budget gaming PC, if only you could put your own operating system on it’, then I have good news for you. Because that’s precisely what one software engineer has managed to do, though the simplicity of the outcome belies…

One thing that sets Marathon apart from other extraction shooters is its Runner Shells—AKA heroes—each with unique abilities and passives. While loot and a well-aimed shot are still often the deciding factor in a fight, being able to amp up your speed as Vandal, throw a spider drone with Recon, or turn invisible as the…

Steve Downes, the voice actor for Halo’s Master Chief, has publicly called on the White House to remove his voice from a recently uploaded video on X, titled “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.” The video, uploaded to The White House X account on March 6, is a 42-second propaganda piece aimed at ginning up enthusiasm for…

Counter-Strike 2 players in Germany will soon find themselves in possession of an “X-ray scanner” that will enable them to see what’s inside containers before opening them. It sounds good, superficially—no more throwing money away on randomized garbo-tier skins—but, of course, there’s a catch. That catch, as detailed in this FAQ, is that once you’ve…