Helldivers 2 players return to site of their greatest defeat, as a new Major Order demands the liberation of Malevelon Creek

In late February, Helldivers 2 players suffered their greatest defeat so far in the game’s simulated Galactic War, as the community’s favourite planet Malevelon Creek fell to synthetic armies of the Automaton faction. Now, players are flocking back to the celestial heart of the game, as a new Major Order demands democracy be returned to…

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Final Fantasy 14’s newest class has inspired this buff Bob Ross to spread good vibes and turn the party into happy little clouds

Running the Crystal Tower alliance raids in duty roulette is normally a mundane affair. Most players are mindlessly powering through this major inconvenience to their daily schedule, hitting Peloton as if their very lives depend on it. That all changed when he came. Glancing at the chat after things got a little hairy, I couldn’t…

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Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…

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‘Please publish this to the main game’: Arma Reforger players go wild for April Fools’ gag that purports to turn the military simulator into a battle between toy soldiers

April Fools’ day’s carousel of nonsense hasn’t been slowed by its head-on collision with Easter this year, with multiple spoof announcements from the games industry leaking through Monday’s chocolatey outer shell. One particularly elaborate gag has captured the imagination of the Arma Reforger community, with developer Bohemia Interactive surprise “announcing” a new game mode where…

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‘We don’t see a place for microtransactions in singleplayer games’, says CD Projekt Red following Dragon’s Dogma 2’s DLC fiasco

CD Projekt Red won’t be putting microtransactions in singleplayer games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time soon, according to comments recently made by the company’s Chief Financial Officer. During an interview with Stockwatch.pl(translated via Google) Piotr Nielubowicz was asked whether future games will have microtransactions added into them. To this, Nielubowicz replied…

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We keep arguing about great games like Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 because it’s always possible to love a good thing to death

The dust has settled on the first proper balance patch of Helldivers 2. That’s due to a combination of factors: mechs are in the game now, heavily-armoured units spawn less, and dedicated anti-tank weapons like the Recoilless Rifle are somewhat-filling the void the old Railgun left.  Still, it was fraught for a while, causing an…

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