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“Release notes for today are up” began the fairly typical message from the Counter-Strike 2 dev team, before things take a turn: “Shamone.” The world’s greatest competitive shooter has in recent days been delighting players with a bug that has been christened the “Smooth Criminal”, after Michael Jackson’s dance moves that accompany the song of…
Good news, my friends: Starfield players have entirely abandoned human morality in their quest to invent the most effective methods of XP grinding possible, turning the game’s rambling planetary plains into a kind of Victorian safari hunt. I’m discomfited, disturbed, and would quite like to unlock the manipulation ability, so might give this a try…
Diablo 4’s leap to Steam—alongside other games like Overwatch 2—is welcome news to gamers wanting to keep their rigs launcher-slim. Adam Fletcher, the game’s Global Community Development Director, has fully confirmed on Twitter that the game will be coming Steam Deck verified next Tuesday. (Image credit: @PezRadar on Twitter/X) Regrettably, it looks like there won’t…
Quick menu (Image credit: LG | Alienware) 1. The list in brief 2. Best overall 3. Best 1440p 4. Best ultrawide 5. Best big-screen 4K 6. Also tested 7. How we tested 8. Find the deals 9. FAQ 10. Jargon buster It’s been a long time coming, but OLED gaming monitors have now hit critical…
As reported by Bloomberg, it’s been revealed that CD Projekt used AI to replicate the voice of the late Miłogost Reczek, who voiced Night City’s most reliable ripper doc, Viktor Vektor, in the base game’s Polish localisation back in 2020. Reczek built an extensive portfolio during his career, dubbing both games and movies in roles…
Puzzling out how to respec in Lords of the Fallen is one of those classic Soulslike challenges, as you run around Mournstead looking for whatever mysterious item will let you reallocate your stat points. You may have noticed when you first talked to Pieta in Skyrest Bridge, that she has a Reset Build option in…
It had to happen at some point but Valve’s much-loved Steam Deck has been falling down its weekly revenue charts for a little while now. For the past two weeks, though, it’s dropped outside of the top ten, suggesting that competition from ASUS, Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Aokzoe has taken a sizeable slice of the handheld…
Tech market analyst Trendforce (via Techpowerup) is predicting a pretty eye-popping 323% growth in OLED monitor sales in 2023, taking the total units sold to over 500,000. For 2024, Trendforce reckons the market will basically double again to over a million units. Impressive stuff, eh? Up to a point, yes. The thing is, the overall…
Trying to decide the best starting class in Lords of the Fallen is a tad troublesome. While the game may feature your favourite Soulslike staples such as “Generic knight” and “Fucked up guy who fights with a bucket”, there are a few classes that have a very similar attribute spread and look to have somewhat…
And just like that, our shared 21-month slog is over. Long live our new, possibly lifelong slog. In a press release today, titled “Microsoft concession a gamechanger that will promote competition,” the UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has announced that it’s approving Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, reversing its April decision to…