Events are back in Arc Raiders as Embark fixes an issue that erased them from existence while also upping Bird City’s frequency, ‘so that all time zones get a chance to play’

I had heard of the elusive Arc Raiders Bird City event. I’d seen pictures of it included in the Headwinds update, heard the tales of raiders dropping heaps of rare rubber ducks in dark alleyways, but I hadn’t actually seen the event live for myself until today. The Bird City map event adds more birds…

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To celebrate 5 years in early access, Valheim gets a new hat, better Steam Deck performance, and—wait for it—frosted sweetbread

It’s been five years since Valheim revitalized the survival craft genre. At the time I remember thinking “why would anyone want to play a new game in this style when there’s already Minecraft, Ark and Rust?”. With the benefit of hindsight I know that two things worked in Valheim’s favour. One was its clever finetuning…

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If you want to get caught up with Larian’s pre-Baldur’s Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23

Larian is currently offering a Divinity franchise sale on Steam, with markdowns of 75-90% off for each game. If you’re grabbing all six Divinity games together, it’ll only cost you $23 for 17 years and hundreds of hours of RPG from the studio that made Baldur’s Gate 3. Just don’t grab the Divinity: Original Sin…

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‘Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?’ Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won’t make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it’s already making ‘literally billions of dollars’

The Fallout TV series is a bonafide hit, and Season 2, if anything, is even more highly regarded by both critics and fans than Season 1. So, wouldn’t it make sense for Bethesda to make lightning strike twice? People love Skyrim even more than Fallout, so shouldn’t Bethesda try to turn The Elder Scrolls into…

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Animators are fuming after Adobe announces it’s killing Adobe Animate, the Flash animation tool that defined the look of early web games

When web developers moved on from the Flash plugin in the 2010s, Adobe kept the software used to make Flash animations alive under the name Adobe Animate. Not for much longer, though: Adobe announced today that Animate will soon be removed from sale, with support and access to the software ending over the next few…

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