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James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Enjoying and bearing the British summertime in equal measure, whilst playing too many deck builders (Here’s looking at you, 2 fights in 2 tight spaces and Moonsigil Atlas). There’s part of me that feels like I’ve somewhat fallen for the sunk cost fallacy of…
Since large-language models like ChatGPT can generate natural language responses that appear human-like in tone, this has led to considerable discussion over whether LLMs might themselves be sentient. At present, there are far more reasons to conclude that AIs are not and will never be conscious. But the idea persists regardless. This is partly because…
Guild Wars 2 is one of the biggest MMOs going, but it’s a sequel to a game that’s just barely an MMO—the original Guild Wars is more of a mission-based ARPG with shared town hubs, characterized by the fact that it feels like an MMO what with its huge roster of character classes and /dance…
Path of Exile 2’s player trading economy crumbled in its last season the moment word got out about a clever technique that would net you so much loot you could become an in-game millionaire in a few days. It was so catastrophic that developer Grinding Gear Games had to interrupt its holiday break to fix…
Path of Exile 2 has taken the throne. Not only is it a worthy sequel, its latest update earns it the right to have “next-generation action RPG” in its official description. I’ve played obscene amounts of these types of games and have never seen one quite so ambitious. Certainly not one that is still in…
Composer and sound designer Robert Caskin Prince III, more commonly known as Bobby Prince, died June 16 at the age of 81. The news came in the form of an obituary which was posted to Legacy. “Those closest to Bobby knew him not only for his extraordinary accomplishments but for his kindness, humor, humility, generosity,…
I have played my fair share of platformers—although, the last one I played was Hollow Knight: Silksong, and thanks to the ass-kicking I received in that game I haven’t been able to look another one in the eyes since. But you know what helps subdue the fear of getting stomped on? Ducks in hats. Dodo…
Man, there was a while there where we could all be real smug about being on PC, right? Sony exclusives—save the obvious—all got eventual releases on our desktops, Xbox stuff was a given even while its console fanbase gnashed their teeth about seeing Starfield on a PS5, and Nintendo… well, Nintendo is Nintendo, but those…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. FLAG STOLEN. FLAG DROPPED. FLAG STOLEN. FLAG DROPPED. So sang the anthem of capture the…
If we did one of our weekly polls on which game platform/store is your favourite, I would be very surprised if anything other than a miniscule minority of readers selected the Epic Games Store. I barely ever use the thing and even I know it’s not the most enjoyable experience. But there’s a chance that…