10 tips to get started in Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen takes after its soulslike inspirations in a lot of ways—including some sneakily-hidden game mechanics that can throw even genre vets through a loop. There are also new dimensions to wrap your head around—two of them, to be specific. Lords of the Fallen has two worlds, the Axiom and the Umbral, which…

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Arma 3 footage is being used as disinformation in the wake of Israel-Hamas war: ‘It’s disheartening for us to see the game we all love being used in this way,’ says developer

With large-scale hostilities breaking out between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East, Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has issued a statement asking its players and content creators to “use their footage responsibly” in order to avoid contributing to a flood of false information being spread on social media. The studio also shared a detailed…

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Dead Island 2 trades zombie fiction for the everyday reality of Silicon Valley by adding a ‘billionaire’s secret techno-death cult’ in its first expansion

Haus, the first story expansion for the zombie beatdown romp Dead Island 2, promises to take players on a journey through a “surreal, psycho-horror dreamscape” as they investigate a previously unknown cult that’s fighting to survive (and spread a somewhat dubious vision for the future of humanity) in an all-new region of undead-infested Los Angeles….

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At long last Intel gives Arc owners some Starfield loving, delivering up to 149% higher frame rates and fixing texture corruption

It’s been over a month since Starfield was launched around the globe but Intel has finally addressed performance issues and a handful of bugs with a new set of drivers for its Arc graphics card range. New GPU driver releases aren’t typically hold-the-front-page news items, but Intel Arc owners have been facing some pretty annoying…

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Diablo 4’s poor Sorcerers spot a glimmer of hope for the Hydra to the tune of a 400% damage bump—turns out it’s likely just to compensate for a bug fix

Diablo 4’s sorcerers have had, uh… a bit of a hard time, the poor guys. While they were super promising in the game’s beta—with a ton of sorcerous excitement when the game opened its gates—things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing since. For starters, the pre-season one patch crushed them disproportionately—alongside other nerfs, it unilaterally ramped…

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Trackmania changes its subs model after belatedly realising it was too generous, dev says it has ‘to be realistic’

Developer Nadeo has announced changes to the Trackmania business model, following the 2020 game’s recent re-release on consoles. This iteration of Trackmania was something of a soft reboot for the series (heavily based on Trackmania Nations) and arrived with a free-to-play business model, under which players could access a bunch of the game’s features for…

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