Zach Cregger admits ‘I was naive’ and pre-apologises for his upcoming Resident Evil film, but I don’t think he owes us anything

After months of complaining about Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil film, the internet has finally broken him. In a recent interview with IGN, he admitted how naive he was to think that everyone would be excited, and apologised for not creating the specific vision that those who are unhappy with the film’s direction have. Instead, Cregger…

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20 years later, veteran WoW director says players outsmarted him completely in Ahn’Qiraj: ‘All that work, and there was still an instant tell’

I don’t envy the position of being a game developer—especially not an encounter designer in something as complicated as an MMO. You might have an idea of how a mechanic’s gonna go, but there’s just absolutely no way it survives contact with 40 motivated, mid-2000s era hardcore WoW players. Former game director at Blizzard Wyatt…

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‘Where is Nvidia? Call Nvidia, guys’: Meltgate be damned, modders discover RTX 5090 can use 8-pin connectors after all

Ah yes, melty cables. We’ve been dealing with them ever since the RTX 4090 pushed the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector (now the 12V-2×6 connector) to its limits. Since then, we’ve heard of numerous cases of melting GPU connectors—check out Uniko’s Hardware on X for many examples—and plenty of attempts at dealing with them. Now, some modders…

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Turns out, a lot of Sega’s biggest fans don’t play its videogames: ‘In some cases, their engagement is even higher than that of fans who actually play’

There once was a time in which, if you were a fan of a videogame, you might get asked which of said games in the series you had played. Now, I’m not saying we need to bring this era back—it was an obnoxious period full of gatekeepers—but Sega president and COO Shuji Utsumi’s recent words…

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Marvel Rivals breaks its 17 month streak of adding 2 heroes per season, but its creative director reassures fans it’s not ‘the new normal’

Marvel Rivals‘ massive hero roster and regular character additions are some of its defining features. So it comes as a huge surprise that NetEase has decided to forgo tradition for the sake of focusing on improving its foundations. For the first time in eight seasons—that’s 17 months—Marvel Rivals will just be getting one hero, Gorr…

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How to get the Grappling Hook in Valheim

Valheim 1.0 changed a ton about viking survival, but some things remain the same—like my tendency to repeatedly die to fall damage in the Mistlands. A new item helps traverse all those foggy marble mountains and steep drop-offs, but I didn’t find it until I was ready to leave the biome. I’ll save you from…

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