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Halo Infinite has been on a roll lately, with its latest season having the makings of an honest-to-god comeback. The game is now well stocked with fun maps and game modes, while its battle passes have evolved from terrible to tolerable. The player count has jumped significantly, and a flood of nostalgia-bait maps from Halo…
N7 Day was a bit of a letdown this year, as a multi-stage tease for the next Mass Effect game ended up delivering basically nothing except another reminder that yes, it is happening. But bigger things were happening elsewhere, as former employees of BioWare and contract workers on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf took advantage of the…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures The lasting appeal of survival games is simple to understand. Fighting to stay alive is hard-coded into our DNA, so it’s…
The Microsoft era of Blizzard has just begun, and it’s not clear yet how the studio will change under the reign of Xbox head Phil Spencer. Maybe it’ll mean more StarCraft, maybe not, but from the sounds of it we shouldn’t expect a radically different approach from Blizzard: It’s gonna keep running on the ol’…
The game industry has suffered yet another round of layoffs, as Ubisoft confirms that it has cut 124 employees worldwide as part of an ongoing restructuring effort. The bulk of that number, 98 in total, were let go from Ubisoft’s business administrative services and IT in Canada, as well as the Hybride VFX studio in…
Videogames can sometimes feel like the Ship of Theseus paradox: if you slowly replace every single part of a ship over time, is it even the same ship anymore? The question perplexed philosopher Thomas Hobbes who talked for a very long time before concluding, and I’m heavily paraphrasing here: “Sorta!” DayZ has been in development…
N 7 Day, the annual celebration of all things Mass Effect, is one again upon us, and BioWare is once again teasing the next Mass Effect with codes, encryption, and video clips—but whether or not we’ll get any insight into what’s actually coming in the next game remains to be seen. The whole thing started…
Jacob Ridley, Steam Deck enjoyer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been playing: Alan Wake 2. Good lord this game is pretty. A proper glimpse at the future of videogame visuals, though you need some beefy Nvidia hardware to get it looking its best. Not only that, it’s an absolute blast to play. This week…
Motherboard BIOS updates are rarely newsworthy but the latest ones from Asus and ASRock, for some of their AM5 X670 models, contain an Agesa update that provides more evidence AMD is definitely going to release a Ryzen 7000G desktop APU, using its laptop Phoenix architecture. Just don’t ask when. As reported by Hardwareluxx, the fresh…
Lucid dreams are defined as the experience of knowing you are dreaming while you are asleep, and can range from the sublime to the genuinely terrifying. According to the CEO of new startup Prophetic, its latest project aims to “detect when dreamers are in REM to induce and stabilize lucid dreams” via a wearable device…