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The game industry annus horribilis continued today with an announcement from Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments, which said that it is implementing a hiring freeze, cutting costs, and laying off an unknown number of employees. “During 2023, Frontier refined its strategy to refocus on its core strengths following a period of disappointing financial performance and…
This is the year of Cyberpunk 2077’s about-face. Between the game’s wide-ranging 2.0 update and its slick Phantom Liberty expansion pack, most onlookers now agree that the game is—if not the awe-inspiring masterwork it was hyped up to be prior to release—pretty good. But over at CD Projekt, the game’s disastrous launch still looms large…
Look, the statement “I liked a game the more I played it” shouldn’t shock anyone—heck, I liked Lords of the Fallen the first time I played it, too. I do, however, think the amount of fun I’m having now on my second go around makes me wonder why the irritation of my first trip was…
Alan Wake 2 is almost here, and if you’d like a quick catch-up on what happened in the first game to ensure you’re up to speed, Epic Games has you covered. Alan Wake: Flashback is a “reimagining” of the events of Alan Wake—a sort of playable crash course recap created using the Unreal Editor for…
Using a Diablo 4 world boss loot table is the quickest and easiest way to work out what Unique items each of the newly introduced big bads drop. There are four new bosses being added alongside the Season of Blood and each of them has a loot table for possible Unique items they can drop….
The golden age of cheap memory and SSDs has been good to us all, but like all good things, it was never destined to last. At least not according to Techspot, which has reported that, due to forthcoming production cuts, the industry is likely to see an upswing in consumer prices towards the end of…
As spotted by GamesRadar, the Steamworks Development channel posted a video earlier this month explaining the ins and outs of how games snowball into surprise hits like Dave the Diver—which we gave a smashing 91 back in July. The talk’s given by Erik Peterson of Steam’s business team, and it’s an enlightening little journey through…
The roleplay community in Final Fantasy 14 is, simply put, an ocean. It’s absolutely massive, comprising several servers, hundreds of night clubs, bars, fight pits, free companies, and homegrown drama. It’s big enough that last year, someone thought buying four billboards in California and Texas to advertise their virtual nightclub was a good idea (it…
It is common knowledge that arms manufacturers and the videogames industry have partnerships and sponsorship deals, with series like Call of Duty sometimes even including gunmakers like Colt in their credits. But we almost never get a glimpse at what these deals involve, both in terms of the finances and the thinking behind marketing real…
For the fastest chip ever to grace a gaming PC the Intel Core i9 14900K is about as boring a CPU refresh as one could be. We’ve seen it all before. The massive core count, the architecture, the 6GHz clock speed; the 14900K might do some things better than the 13th Gen but it rarely…