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Bobby Kotick is finally departing Activision Blizzard after 32 years at the helm. His reign wasn’t undone by any one incident, but the really big event was the bombshell 2021 California civil rights lawsuit, which led to employee walkouts, calls for Kotick’s resignation, and, finally, Microsoft’s acquisition of the company this year following a lengthy…
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s wild success this year has made enormous waves in all corners of the gaming community. It signals continued success for sprawling RPGs, even more players taking up an interest in Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s becoming the new home for a very particular brand of player—the fandom freaks (affectionate). When Larian first…
As my esteemed colleague Rich Stanton put it, it has now been [0] days since restricted military documents have been leaked in the War Thunder forums. As reported by Task and Purpose, this latest incident relates to the M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a tracked AIFV that first went into service with the US military in…
This is it: the last Steam sale of the year, the big one, the winter extravaganza. The Steam Winter Sale is ideal for grabbing that co-op shooter your Discord group’s had its eye on, or picking up a cutting edge 2023 game to put that new Christmas PC to the test. Since this sale follows…
A BBC report says that the 18-year-old hacker who was found responsible for committing a series of attacks on tech firms that included the theft and leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 footage in 2022 has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a secure hospital. Arion Kurtaj was found responsible for the attacks on…
The big year-ender is here, as the 2023 Steam Winter Sale is now underway. And you know what that means: Deep discounts on thousands of games, free stickers, and the start of voting for the 2023 Steam Awards. We’ll have a proper roundup o’ reduced-price recommendations after we’ve had a chance to see what’s marked…
It’s generally understood that Anthem was a failure for developer BioWare. It was a developmental nightmare. It reviewed poorly. It fell short of its sales target of 6 million copies by the end of March 2019. And EA ultimately decided to pull the plug on the live-service game two years after launch. But the specifics…
The next free game in the Epic Game Store’s Holiday Sale giveaway-a-thon is Melvore Idle, an “idle/incremental game” inspired by Runescape that blends casual click-here gameplay with a surprising level of complexity. Melvor Idle mimics Runescape’s skill system in many ways, and in fact it’s published by Jagex, which picked up the game in 2021….
The Dough Spectrum One has been one of my favourite high-refresh 4K gaming monitors since it first launched onto the market under the original Eve brand. Since then we’ve seen a second version with a glossy coating over the panel, sharpening the contrast and making its colours pop and enhancing its HDR experience. Now we’ve…
After my Baldur’s Gate 3 bonanza in August and September, I was Baldur’s Gate 3 hungover, and needed the videogame equivalent of a Full English Breakfast to fill the Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped hole in my being. I turned to Larian’s previous RPG hit, Divinity: Original Sin 2. I’d known I had to give our 2017…