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There are underperforming heroes in Marvel Rivals, and then there’s Black Widow. According to NetEase’s official Hero Hot List updated for Marvel Rivals season 1, the scoped sniper is the least popular pick by a long shot and the worst hero for actually winning games. There’s no positive way for Black Widow mains to spin…
It took almost 20 years, but Team Fortress 2, the team-based FPS that changed a great many lives when it debuted in 2007, now has an SDK that Valve says will enable creators “to build completely new games based on TF2.” The Team Fortress 2 SDK is actually a “massive update” to the Source SDK…
Earth vs Mars is a new RTS in development at Relic, but unlike the studio’s big Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, this one is a “smaller indie-style” game being made under its Relic Labs label, which aims to “explore new sub-genres, experiment, get our creative juices going, and release games more frequently.”…
Avowed‘s character creator lets you lie to yourself. If you so choose, you can hide your protagonist’s chosen one magical mushroom man features, letting you embody that oh so rare fantasy of being a hot elf with weirdly dead eyes in a fantasy RPG, mushroom-free. This is no way to live, and I’m tired of…
Marvel Rivals is a big hit—the first real challenger to the long-time hero shooter big dog Overwatch. Yet amidst that success, with more than 200,000 people playing on Steam alone right now, game director Thaddeus Sasser says he and the rest of the Marvel Rivals development team in the US have been laid off. “This…
There’s a sweet spot between Dark Forces/Marathon Infinity “what the hell am I supposed to do next” level design and handholdy objective tracking that might as well just play the game for you. Avowed doesn’t nail that sweet spot out of the box, but thanks to a robust settings and accessibility menu, it can be…
NetEase has released a new dev update for Marvel Rivals, and it’s good news for the grind. The free-to-play hero shooter currently has three different currencies: Chrono tokens, gold lattice, and blue units. Chrono tokens are a battlepass-exclusive currency earned as you progress and can be used to buy skins and various other cosmetics on…
According to Gun-Dog’s Steam page, this sci-fi adventure is trying to capture the look and feel of the PC-98, a popular Japanese computer that played host to a huge selection of incredible games decades ago. Many of its best and most impressive adventure games featured a lavish combination of exquisitely detailed pixel art framed by…
Here in the bright, white technological heat of 2025, wireless seems to be the way for everything. So, it’s somewhat sobering to be reminded of the prosaic physical reality that underpins modern comms, namely that really long cables carry as much as 98% of internet traffic. Enter Meta’s mooted new internet cable, which is planned…
The ROG Flow Z13 has landed and I have this AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming tablet in the labs for testing. Here’s a sneak peek: this AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 390 model is roughly equivalent in games to an RTX 4060 laptop running up against a power limit. Is that monumental? Probably not, but I still…