War is hell. Also, war is irresistible. That’s if Battlefield 6’s launch concurrents, which smashed past GTA 5, Among Us, Starfield, and other heavy-hitters to become the 20th most-played game in SteamDB’s records about, uh, 25 minutes after launching. As I write this, the game sits at a current and all-time peak of 521,000 concurrent…
Intel recently spilled the beans on its upcoming Panther Lake CPU architecture, which seems to be an iterative improvement over previous designs, plus the promise of being built on a new process node, 18A. But in case you’ve wondered about some of the broader design choices that went into the last couple of generations plus…
With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it’s easy to forget just how fragile these systems can be. Don’t misunderstand, I enjoy the convenience of my important files being accessible from almost anywhere—but I back up the really important stuff at least twice on physical media nowhere near the…
Josh Sawyer has been making games professionally for 26 years. What started as a hobby, making and playing tabletop RPGs, has grown into a storied career. Sawyer had his first position in 1999 working at Black Isle Studios, and now serves as studio design director at Obsidian, where he led development on games like Fallout:…
Classic RPGs make up some of the most formative examples of late ’90s to early 2000s PC gaming in my memory, but I also remember when they weirdly disappeared. If you loved games like the original Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, or Planescape, and also wondered why we stopped seeing these kinds of titles for a…
I thought I’d heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was wrong. AI code review platform Graphite has published a blog detailing its use of “dogfooding” to help develop its onboarding process, a particularly ugly term that apparently equates to “being forced to eat your own dogfood”….
I don’t know why, but there’s nothing more tactical and cool than an MP5, and in Battlefield 6, that’s the PW5A3. Not to be confused with the much faster firing PW7A2, based on the MP7, the best BF6 PW5A3 loadout is just a tad slower and more methodical. The PW5A3 is certainly a strong early…
Remember when earning coins in a game meant collecting shiny gold rings as Sonic or jumping on Goombas in Super Mario Bros.? Back then, “in-game currency” was simple. It was a fun little reward for playing well. Today, gaming economies have become full-blown ecosystems. They are complete with real money, virtual markets, and, in some…
“Featuring innovative graphics”. David Crane is one of the game industry’s first superstar coders, having co-founded Activision in 1979 after Atari refused to give proper credit to its developers. Crane’s most famous creation is Pitfall!, but he’s been active in the industry ever since – and his most recent venture, Audacity Games (co-founded with Garry…
Battlefield 6 has eight assault rifles at launch, but the starter M433 struggles to make a great first impression. Assault rifles are usually known for their consistency at all ranges, and the M433 just isn’t meant for that, but the Rank 14 B36A4 certainly is. With the best B36A4 loadout, you finally have a real…