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Character-based historical 4X Old World will release a fourth DLC on January 11th, Wonders and Dynasties, bringing a whole, whole lot of new historical characters to the dynastic politics of your ancient empires. Something like 120 new characters, in fact, ranging from Hannibal and Caesar to Khufu and Stateira. That alongside 21 new character traits…
Humble’s come out of the gate swinging with its first Choice Bundle—available through the charity-focused initiative’s $12 subscription service—of the year. Marvel’s Midnight Suns, alongside a collection of seven other games, are available to keep for subscribers at no additional cost. I’m not much of a Marvel guy these days, but Midnight Suns definitely caught…
The enormity of Baldur’s Gate 3’s briefly stirred up anxieties over raised expectations for future games: Are we going to feel let down by every subsequent RPG that can’t match BG3’s scope and complexity? Even if we did start insisting that every RPG must include several dozen hours of voiced dialogue, I doubt we’d go…
There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting below if you need it, designed to give you a helpful nudge in the right direction without completely giving the game away. And if you would like someone to completely give the game away, you’re in luck. Just click or scroll your way down to the January 6…
InfoWars host Alex Jones now has a game on Steam—the same Alex Jones who fundraised for and attended the January 6 protests that led to the storming of the US Capitol building and who owes $1.5 billion to the families of murdered children over defamation. It won’t surprise you to hear that Alex Jones: NWO…
In December, Wizards of the Coast committed to not using AI art in Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, saying it requires its artists, writers, and other creative contributors “to refrain from using AI generative tools” to create its products. Despite that, MtG fans are accusing the company of using AI to create the…
When new guns appear in Call of Duty, it’s an occurrence so regular that you’d be forgiven for not even noticing. When Valorant gets a new gun, it’s the biggest thing to happen in Riot’s competitive FPS since launch. After almost four years, a new sniper rifle is on the block: the Outlaw, a double-barreled…
UK-based Bossa Studios, the developer of games including Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread, and I Am Fish, has confirmed the layoff of 19 people at the end of 2023. According to a GamesIndustry report, the cuts represent roughly one-third of Bossa’s total number of employees. The layoffs took place at the end of 2023, and…
The Guardian Australia published an investigation several months ago into a crypto scheme-slash-scam called HyperVerse, a fund that used major celebrity endorsements to attract millions of dollars from small investors before collapsing. Blockchain Global went bust owing $58 million USD in 2021, but now there’s a rather classic fraudster sting in the tail: The CEO…
The Association for Computing Machinery has reported that Niklaus Wirth, the Swiss computer scientist known as the creator of the programming language Pascal, has died at age 89. Wirth was the designer of numerous programming languages through the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, but it was Pascal, released in 1970, that became his crown jewel. “Following…