Streets of Rogue 2 promises to mash up Deus Ex and Dwarf Fortress in a chaotic immersive sim 10,000 times bigger than the first game

I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019’s best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I’ve been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking…

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EA rebrands Frostbite with a cuddly new hand as it says its studios are now ‘free to develop on any engine they choose’

Publisher Electronic Arts has rebranded its Frostbite engine, with the aim of better reflecting the tech as a “platform for collaborative innovation”. In an announcement on the publisher’s website, EA introduced a new brand direction for the engine, saying the it “signals not just a visual shift for Frostbite, but a philosophical one, with a…

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Sony applies to patent dynamic difficulty settings that respond to your performance, one year after EA did the same thing with controller settings

Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization‘s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults….

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Against the Storm review

Need to know What is it? A roguelike city builder about making the best of a doomed world. Expect to pay £25/$30 Release date Dec 8, 2023 Developer Eremite Games Publisher Hooded Horse Reviewed on Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Verified Link Official site The basic idea baked into…

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Universities are recommending students rollback the latest Windows 11 update after finding it breaks Wi-Fi connectivity for some student and enterprise users

Since the release of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update KB5033375 for December’s Patch Tuesday, there’s been a deluge of reports from unhappy users with Wi-Fi connectivity issues, according to Bleeping Computer. A quick search of Reddit reveals a large number of users who’ve installed the latest update complaining about dropped connections or an inability to…

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Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade’s worth of plans for the studio’s future

Last week, a massive amount of data was stolen from Spider-Man developer Insomniac games. Now the hackers who stole that data have leaked it online, detailing internal plans of the studio that stretch across the next decade. On December 12, Cyber Daily reported that Insomniac had suffered a data breach committed by ransomware group Rhysida,…

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