Psychedelic assassination FPS Cruelty Squad is getting official merch including ‘Godhead Heavy Industry’ hats and ‘Resist Cocaine’ t-shirts

Cruelty Squad developer Ville Kallio (who publishes under the name Consumer Softproducts) has announced a collaboration with Helsinki-based apparel company Ikono on clothing featuring art from the standout 2021 shooter. Pre-orders are open now, with an estimated delivery in February or March. Cruelty Squad is a surreal, abrasive, and one-of-a-kind shooter, an immersive sim all…

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Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director is suing Sony and Bungie for $200 million over alleged wrongful dismissal

Former Destiny 2 and Marathon game director Christopher Barrett has sued Bungie and Sony over allegations that his former employers “deliberately destroyed” his reputation by falsely claiming that he had engaged in sexual misconduct in the workplace. Barrett says in his suit that the companies engaged in the “brazen scheme” to avoid paying him more…

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Path of Exile 2’s genius theorycrafters have already put together some wild builds, so we’ve plucked out a few of our favorites that you need to try

Path of Exile 2 hit early access last Friday, and although I’m sure it will be weeks or even months before the community hammers out the finely tuned killing machines that will form the top meta, we’ve got some early contenders. I spent most of my weekend tinkering around with a fire Chronomancer and learning…

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Jen-Hsun Huang might be ‘Taylor Swift but for tech’, but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being ‘perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest’?

Yep, it’s true. Zuckerberg might call him “Taylor Swift, but for tech,” but back in 1978 someone was calling now-Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest” in a letter to Sports Illustrated. Lou Bochenski wrote in to the mag (archived here), explaining: “In mentioning promising…

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The voice of Shadowheart, Jennifer English, would love to return to the role after Baldur’s Gate 3—as long as Hasbro doesn’t mess it up and ‘make her into a cartoon’

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a top-to-bottom triumph, but Larian’s moving onto other things. Which, personally-speaking, I’m fine with—but it does present a bit of a tricky moment for Hasbro, which suddenly has a world-famous franchise on its hands. What the heck do you do without Larian, and with your cadre of famous characters? Well, turn…

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Steam’s giving us all more control over update downloads, mainly because the big publishers just can’t stop themselves releasing 100GB+ whoppers

Steam has begun testing new settings for game updates in the Steam Client Beta, which anyone can opt into, meaning they’ll soon be added to Steam for everyone. The improvements essentially give you more granular control over when and what Steam downloads in terms of updates, and it seems to be a response to the…

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