Arc Raiders’ latest update rightfully nerfs the Venator, buffs the drop rates of Aphelion blueprints, and brings crucial overhauls to your rubber duck showcase

Until now, most Arc Raiders patch notes have been little more than bug fixes and a few crafting balance changes. Welcome tweaks, of course, but no real swings at specific weapons and items. And that’s not completely unwarranted, as I’d say most guns are pretty well-balanced right now. But while everyone’s been singing the praises…

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Treyarch is opening up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s Endgame extraction shooter to everyone after realising that most people probably won’t finish the campaign

Treyarch has taken some big swings with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year, and while not all of them have landed (what the hell is that giant dude doing in the campaign?), one has done a better job than the rest: the extraction shooter-style Endgame mode. After finishing the campaign, players get access…

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Dispatch proves the death of Telltale-style games was a mere mirage, as it rakes in 2 million players: ‘Wouldn’t be here without you’

Before Dispatch came out, I was pretty confident that the era of the Telltale-style game was in the past; we had a bit of a golden age there, sure, what with The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, and the shockingly good Tales From the Borderlands. But after Telltale’s wobble and the shockingly-less-good New Tales From…

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Big AI companies and the people that supply big AI companies are once again investing billions of dollars in one another: this time, Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic

A LOT of money is being thrown around in the AI sphere. The latest of these multi-trillion dollar deals comes to us in the form of a new strategic partnership between Nvidia, Microsoft, and Claude creator Anthropic. Nvidia announced the deal on Tuesday, with its two partners making their own announcements simultaneously. Nvidia’s post explains…

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