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Alaloth is a strange beast: it’s a sprawling isometric RPG both immediately familiar and unlike anything I’ve played before. It’s as indebted to Diablo as it is to the ye olde Infinity Engine games, but it’s also unmistakably inspired by Dark Souls. It’s a weird hybrid that took me a long time to come to…
XDefiant, Ubisoft’s free-to-play CoD-like, will close by June next year, the game’s official X account has confirmed. According to the announcement the “sunsetting” process will begin today, though the promised Season 3 content will still be rolled out ahead of the game’s June 3, 2025 D-Day. As of today, new players will not be able…
Epic Games says a recent change to Fortnite Save the World that drastically cut back on the XP players could earn was in fact a bug, and the issue is being fixed. The trouble came to light yesterday when players discovered that Epic had apparently made a change to the XP cap on Save the…
In Utter Darkness is a mission in StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty that you’re destined to lose. The protoss are making a last stand against zerg forces: The goal isn’t victory, but to protect the construction of an archive that might aid some future species in their own war against the zerg. Hold the line,…
A decent metric to judge when a game has truly hit the mainstream is when Steam’s active sex game scene sees fit to make a parody. Congrats Helldivers 2, meet SEXDIVERS 🔞, an “intense survival shooter” releasing sometime in 2025. Yes, the emoji is in the title—I didn’t know you could do that on Steam…
We don’t know much about the next Mass Effect game yet, except that it’s happening and Liara T’Soni will be in it. That’s left fans of the series eager for whatever scraps of information they can get their hands on, and BioWare’s Michael Gamble, who’s heading up work on Mass Effect 4, might have just…
That was quick. Just a few days after patch 1.0.2 addressed a bunch of mission bugs, patch 1.0.3 arrived for Stalker 2 this morning to… well, to address a bunch more mission bugs. Look, Stalker 2 is a buggy game, so this is gonna take a while. And it’s gonna take a lot of bandwidth:…
Intel has just unleashed its second-gen gaming GPUs, codenamed Battlemage and kicking off with the Arc B580 and B570 graphics cards. We’re a little disappointed that they’re only aiming at Nvidia’s low-end RTX 4060 for now. But when it comes to features and tech, if anything Battlemage looks to have the edge on AMD. And…
Back in the Monster Hunter Wilds open beta, something felt off. No, I don’t mean the inconsistent framerates or the outbreak of polygonal origami monsters. I mean the baffling decrease in hitstop—an animation technique that intentionally pauses combat animations at the frame where an attack makes contact to add an additional sense of impact. Luckily,…
OLED gaming monitors in the very near future could well be substantially better than those in current use, if the claims of a display manufacturer are to be believed. Applied Materials’ new manufacturing process, called MAX OLED, is purported to result in up to three times more brightness and a lifespan five times better than…