‘Came for the combat, stayed to be a factory worker’: Anime gacha game players are discovering they were born to be factory builders in Arknights: Endfield

At first glance, you might think Arknights: Endfield is another anime gacha game in the style of Genshin Impact. And you’d be mostly correct. It certainly starts out that way. But then you’re asked to build a base to mine and process materials, and suddenly you’re knee-deep in a factory building game that has nothing…

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That team-based shooter with phantom horses that debuted at The Game Awards and then promptly disappeared is not actually dead: A showcase featuring ‘gameplay deep dive, year one plans, and much more’ is coming next week

After weeks of determined, frankly kinda weird silence, the Highguard machine has suddenly sputtered to life to promise that all will be revealed on January 26—which, for the record, remains Highguard’s release date. “Tune in on Monday, January 26, at 10am PT for the Highguard Launch Showcase,” Wildlight wrote today on X. “Here, we’ll share…

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I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry’s mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked ‘people are d*ckheads’

Ever since it was announced, s&box has been carefully described by Facepunch studios as a “spiritual successor” to Garry’s mod (Gmod), but not an actual sequel to Gmod. “S&box isn’t Garry’s Mod 2,” says the studio. “It’s built to eclipse what was possible before—not just modernise it.” The link can be a bit confusing. Gmod…

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More than 40 US Democrats call for a ‘thorough investigation’ of EA’s Saudi-led buyout over risks of layoffs, studio closures, and ‘coordinated anti-labor practices’

Three months after US senators Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren expressed “profound concern about the foreign influence and national security risks” that could result from the Saudi-led takeover of Electronic Arts, 46 House Democrats have joined the chorus with a letter calling on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson to “carefully scrutinize” the proposed takeover. The letter’s…

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Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates ‘reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC’

Earlier today, Microsoft’s Windows 365 suite of productivity apps went down, with the Microsoft 365 Status X account blaming it on a service infrastructure in North America “not processing traffic as expected.” The first tweet went live at 7:37 PM GMT, with the confirmation of the service being restored going live at 6:29 AM the…

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