To the dismay of sweaty ‘movement kids,’ Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a ‘traditional Battlefield experience’

Duck, dive, and dodge: Following feedback from the Battlefield 6 beta that its movement was too squirrely and unpredictable, Battlefield Studios is planning significant changes for the full release. The announcement came in an “Open Beta Debrief” blog published on Battlefield’s official social channels, which, in addition to movement, touched on hot topics like map…

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Eric Barone says he doesn’t get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that’s the way he likes it: ‘I wouldn’t want to make money from a collaboration’

We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are teaming up for a collaboration of some sort that’s set to land on September 1—a crossover that PC Gamer’s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as “surprising,” because “Stardew Valley doesn’t do this sort of thing very often.” A little while later, Stardew Valley creator…

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Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game’s DLC clans, but it’s not very convincing: ‘We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land’

It didn’t go over super-well when Paradox revealed yesterday that two of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2‘s six playable clans will be available via some rather pricey DLC. Especially after the game’s infamously rough development, you might think that Paradox and developer The Chinese Room would want to engender goodwill among existing and potential…

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Elgato 4K S review

The times have changed since begging my mum to buy me an AverMedia capture card because it was the only one that would work without a dedicated PC. PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PCs (assuming you have Windows) all have built-in DVRs, and they’re all rather good. This has meant that, for a casual creator or…

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‘One of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist’ has been taken down by the DoJ with help from Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare and others

The US Department of Justice has charged 22-year-old Oregon man Ethan Foltz in relation to his alleged involvement in the development and administration of RapperBot, a notorious DDoS-for-hire botnet. Foltz has been charged with one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions, which, if convicted, would lead to a prison sentence of up to 10…

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Why did Team Cherry’s devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? ‘All we could really say is, we’re still working on it’, so they stopped doing that

Well, it’s official—in under one month, Silksanity will be over, with Silksong releasing September 4. It’s been one hell of a ride, marked with long periods of silence from Team Cherry. And when the studio did speak up, it was often like, via a Discord message or something. Showcase after showcase rolled by without so…

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Splitgate fans, rejoice: Peer-to-peer multiplayer is coming next week, so you can keep on playing after the servers shut down

Finally, some good news for Splitgate fans: Developer 1047 Games says the original Splitgate will be moving to peer-to-peer multiplayer on August 29, meaning the game will continue to be playable online even though the servers are being taken down. “Starting August 29, the original Splitgate will be moving to peer-to-peer as we focus our…

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