Diablo 4 dataminer finds out why its most powerful items are impossibly rare and how little Blizzard’s recent fix did to change that

Lothrik, a dataminer who previously made accurate build planners before Diablo 4 was out, has released a sheet of data that supposedly shows the likelihood you’ll find an Über Unique in the wild. Blizzard hasn’t confirmed whether the data is correct, but the numbers line up with D4 Craft’s datamined info from last year. Diablo…

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The creator of Hello Neighbor is making a Home Alone-inspired PvP heist game and you can sign up to test it on Steam now

RBO looks like just the thing for a group of goofy Discord friends: a “physics-powered” heist game in which one player must protect their house and possessions while a group of unallied intruders attempt to rob it. Publisher tinyBuild officially announced RBO today, although public testing started at least a couple weeks ago judging by…

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Not that big a deal in the end: A few Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5, none of them are Starfield or Indiana Jones

After a couple weeks of rumors, Xbox diehards were bracing for cataclysm today: Was Microsoft really going to announce that it’s going to give up on Xbox console exclusivity—or even consoles themselves—and start releasing its big games, such as Starfield, on PlayStation 5? It turns out: No, not really. Xbox boss Phil Spencer did announce…

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Embracer reveals it laid off around 1,400 people in 6 months last year, but don’t be a bellyacher—this is all about ‘maximising shareholder value’

There may be a wider context of enormous industry layoffs, but the rate and volume of layoffs at Embracer Group over the last year is on an unprecedented scale. Everything seemed on an even keel until the collapse of a mystery $2 billion deal in May last year left its CEO gobsmacked (while the company’s…

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