Nested Lands is a ‘brutal’ survival city-builder about guiding villagers through a plague-infested world, and you can play its open alpha right now

No city builder is complete without a healthy dose of misery. That’s been true since SimCity, where constructing your virtual metropolis came with the understanding it could be wiped out by an earthquake or tornado at any second. It’s become a heavier theme within the genre of late, however, thanks in no small part to…

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$1.5 billion crypto heist could be the biggest yet, more than doubling the previous record, but don’t worry: The affected firm says it can take the hit

As reported by the BBC, Dubai-based crypto firm Bybit is down $1.5 billion in Ethereum after hackers compromised its digital wallet. If the hackers successfully make off with the dough, that would make this the largest single crypto heist ever, more than doubling the previous record holder’s ill-gotten gains. Bybit has not fully disclosed how…

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Avowed could have been Obsidian’s Redfall, with a Destiny plus Skyrim co-op multiplayer vision scrapped early in a grueling 6-year development

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Avowed director Carrie Patel shed some more light on what seems to have been a challenging development cycle for the venerable RPG studio. Not only was Avowed initially supposed to be a seamless open world, it was going to have a co-op or even live service multiplayer component, and…

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