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It’s been a rough week for BioWare veterans trying their hands at new things: Two days after former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced the closure of Humanoid Origin, former Mass Effect lead writer and creative director Mac Walters has been forced to “pause operations” at Worlds Untold, just one year after it was founded….
Riot’s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be—otherwise, Riot probably wouldn’t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart. The bounty system has been in place pretty much since Valorant was first launched a few years ago, but the…
You’re skipping through the woods, not a care in the world—except, perhaps, the fire spewing out of the ground, or the weird gravitational anomaly sucking and crushing everything in its vicinity, or maybe the invisible mutants that will strike without warning. Such is life in Stalker 2‘s Zone. But aside from those things? Life is…
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Ree, director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, about his project—which follows the well-documented life of Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen, a World of Warcraft player with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). DMD is one of many muscular dystrophy conditions, and is considered to be one of the most severe,…
Giving up freedoms and privacy for a mirage of promised safety is very 1990s-coded. So, with this in mind, it seems like an apt moment to talk about Ricochet’s continued struggles with the 1991 period piece Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Players have a pretty rocky relationship with Activision’s anticheat software—mostly thanks to its…
Stardew Valley is all well and good, but these smug farmers would have nary a field to furrow if it weren’t for the true origin point of the global economy: blacksmiths. Without some guy with a hammer, agriculture wouldn’t have any of the tools it needs to keep itself going. No scythes, no hoes, no…
Black Friday laptop deals (Image credit: Asus, Future) Jump straight to the deals you want…1. Quick links2. Under $10003. $1000 – $15004. $1500+5. UK deals6. Live You might as well call it Black Friday week because there are plenty of excellent Black Friday gaming laptop deals circulating the web. I’m beavering away updating this page…
Nothing gets you into the spirit of the season like gingerbread, and the recipe for a Gingerbread House in Disney Dreamlight Valley is surprisingly easy. This 5-star dessert requires 5 ingredients, but these can be found around the valley. Be it through foraging, farming, or Remy’s pantry, you’ll get your hands on the ingredients of…
Today I watched a trailer where in the first 10 seconds a ‘90s-style 3D model of a businessman kickflips a dolphin in slowmo over the flashing words “ASSET FLIP”. Such was the pull of this spectacle that I immediately went to Steam and downloaded the free demo of Spreadcheat, a game whose opening gambit to…
Arcane’s second season is all done, which means an end to the series, too—though there’s been a whole heap of winks and nudges that Riot’ll be cooking up more seasons of stunning animation with Fortiche in the future. For now, the current debate is whirring around whether the season happened to be ‘rushed’, or if…