Warhorse’s new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: ‘The usual answer is OK let’s get rid of the friction—We don’t work like that’

Prokop Jirsa didn’t plan for any of this. “There was no 10-year plan to become the lead designer or director,” says the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead designer and one of two recently-anointed creative directors at the game’s maker, Warhorse Studios. “Never. I just really like making games and playing games… When I joined the…

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Everything you need to know about Stranger Than Heaven, the half-century-spanning Yakuza series prequel

The next big crime drama game from RGG Studio is called Stranger Than Heaven. It’s a single-protagonist historical epic spanning the first half of the 1900s, following main characters Makoto and Yu as they rise in power as showmen and gangsters through mid-century Japan. That explains the codename from prior to its reveal: Project Century…

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Microsoft reiterates that it’s totally fine with Edge storing passwords in cleartext, despite security researchers’ concerns

Earlier this week, we reported that a researcher found Microsoft Edge saves passwords in cleartext in the memory of your machine. This means you can seemingly bypass even the likes of 2FA if you have access to someone’s rig. At the time, Microsoft said this was ‘by design’, and it has affirmed the same statement…

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SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni wasn’t necessarily the headset I expected the Danish brand to release as its next choice. From the outset, it’s a funny product that seems to straddle the line between gaming headset and lifestyle-oriented audiophile headphones in a similar fashion to the £600/$600 Arctis Nova Elite released earlier this year….

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