Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means

Electronic Arts has officially now passed into the hands of Saudi Arabia—specifically, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, as well as firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. It is with a grim lack of surprise that I now inform you that this will, reportedly, involve a lot of layoffs. The news comes courtesy of Bloomberg’s…

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EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or ‘playing on maps with large bodies of water’

For some time now, Battlefield 6 players on Nvidia cards were running into a peculiar crash when changing attachments on the SOR-300SC carbine, using custom server search, or “playing on maps with large bodies of water”. If you have run into such a problem, you will be happy to know that it should now be…

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Sovereign Tower looks like a cosy management game, but it’s ruthless, full of murder and impossible choices, and features one of the best time travel systems I’ve ever encountered

Sovereign Tower has genuinely surprised me. At first glance, it’s a cosy-looking management romp with shades of Reigns and Yes, Your Grace. It’s colourful, a little silly and chock-full of charming eccentrics. This is not an inaccurate assessment, but it’s also so much more—and a lot darker than the soft colour palette and whimsical tone…

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WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

World of Warcraft calling curtains on combat-based UI mods (AddOns) has been a bit of a mixed bag—while I’m personally more than fine having a class I don’t need constant auditory pings and klaxons to play, there have been some missing functionalities and hiccups along the way. One element of this is, at least, somewhat…

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A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s brutal blade sound effects: “We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel”

During my exclusive hands-on with Onimusha: Way of the Sword at Capcom’s HQ in Osaka, I sat down with the game’s audio director, Shunichi Suwa, to talk about how the music, environmental and character audio, as well as weapon sound effects were designed. And, for a game that has a huge focus on duelling with…

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Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won’t change the memory crisis overnight

Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT is the fourth-biggest memory maker in the world, and, chances are you’ve only heard of it recently. That’s because, just last week, its shares saw a 466% surge as it made its initial public offering, becoming one of China’s most valuable companies in the process. It seems like CXMT could be…

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