One determined modder managed to cram Elden Ring’s hardest boss into Sekiro, and she hardly seems to stand a chance

It always kind of felt like Elden Ring’s super hard megaboss Malenia was a transplant from Sekiro, FromSoftware’s fast-paced, parry-focused ninja action game. Her aggressive swordplay could just about do laps around my sluggish Tarnished⁠—she almost seems to demand a Wolf’s precision. Enter the Land of Reeds mod from Last孤影众 (Gūyǐng zhòng), a Chinese gamer…

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The return of Fortnite’s original map brings a record-setting 6M concurrent players to the battle royale island

Fortnite has set a new all-time concurrent player record, with tracker fortnite.gg reporting 6.1 million concurrent players as the game’s all-time peak yesterday, November 4 2023. That new total of 6,172,463 people online at once might be chalked up to the Fortnite Chapter 4 release, Fortnite OG, which brings back the original island and weapons,…

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Here’s a game where you’re an underpaid astronaut salvaging space trash and building an orbital factory from it

A third-person, open world survival craft-em-up about underpaid space workers will release this week in Space Trash Scavenger. It’s an interesting looking one, with the conceit that it’s a world where every little planetoid and asteroid has its own little sphere of gravity, including your own self-directed and constructed mobile scavenging platform. The same kind…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you use sausages as weapons, so of course one audacious player built a dual wielding ‘Salami-mancer’ ready to take on the game’s hardest difficulty

There’s a ton of cool weapons in Baldur’s Gate 3: the super slick pirate rapier Duelist’s Prerogative, the Magic Missile-launching hand crossbow Ne’er Misser, the… hunk of salami? Yes, while it’s probably best reserved as fuel for your long rests, the salami item in Baldur’s Gate 3 is also a 1d4 damage bludgeoning weapon, and…

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The Talos Principle 2 brings in GLaDOS to roast itself for copying Portal: “You came up with that? Oh. No, wait. I did.”

The latest game in the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Principle 2, is getting pretty positive reception. Developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital, the game inevitably cribs some design logic and concepts from Portal and Portal 2, seeing as they’re in the same genre. Normally you’d just acknowledge the giants on whose shoulders…

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Perhaps you’ve noticed that there are a lot of computer games. And there are even more things happening in those games: patches, changes to the meta, weird bugs, fan outcry, insane backflip no-scope headshots, and Easter eggs, to name a few. How did the most recent Destiny 2 expansion shake things up? Who’s OP in…

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