Helldivers 2 had a disastrous weekend, but it didn’t stop hordes of players from diving in, with countless more stuck in queues

I was planning an indulgent weekend shackled to my PC eradicating alien bugs and robots in Helldivers 2. Instead I was forced to do boring things like going outside and spending time with my annoying dog. A travesty. Helldivers 2 continues to suffer for its success, which wasn’t entirely unexpected. Ever since its launch, developer…

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Deep Rock Galactic studio head reveals he’s been approached for a TV adaptation, says it’s ‘definitely viable’, though he ‘would want to be involved as well’

There was a time where the idea of a TV or movie adaptation for your favourite game would fill you with dread—but with shows like Castlevania, Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners, Netflix: The Witcher, HBO’s The Last of Us, and Arcane bucking that trend? I think a Deep Rock Galactic show could be pretty damn good. As…

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Helldivers 2 patch makes its absurdly hard defence events easier, but ups the challenge at higher difficulties

Helldivers 2 has endured another chaotic weekend, with developer Arrowhead Game Studios taking the drastic step of capping the game’s player count players to help servers cope with demand following its stratospherically popular launch. In the midst of all that, however, the studio also dropped a more general patch to address several other issues. Patch…

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The server tech that saved WoW 10 years ago is causing problems for Classic’s Season of Discovery, dev reveals: ‘a layer is actually just sharding with a lot of sticky tape’

The second season of WoW classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD) is live—and the layers are acting up again, this time in Stranglethorn Vale (STV). For the uninitiated, this season brings Blood Moons to STV: 30-minute PvP brawls that tick around every three hours. The main issue? The bouncers at the door aren’t great at their…

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Racing wheel experts MOZA have a big 2024 in store

Today, games are at a point where the realism of the on-screen racing experience is almost indistinguishable from the real thing; the gleam of a Lamborghini Countach’s chassis, the ray-traced reflections of car headlights on the rain-sprinkled tarmac, the delicious blur of your surroundings as you press to the head of the pack in a…

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How to find and kill Devastators in Helldivers 2

You’re likely looking to kill Devastators in Helldivers 2 so you can complete your daily Personal Order and get a hefty dose of Medals to spend on your Warbond. The problem is, Helldivers doesn’t really tell you enemy names—unless you get murdered by them that is. Similar to Scout Striders and Chargers in previous Personal…

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FSR 3 removed from Nightingale’s launch plan with ‘a significant number’ of game crashes blamed on the AMD tech ‘whether or not users had the setting turned on’

Nightingale, the latest hit in the sea of co-op survival games, has been running into a number of problems in its recent server stress test. That’s par for the course of any online beta, but the developers noticed something very specific about a significant number of the crashes recorded: No matter whether it was enabled…

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