Diablo 4’s new seasonal event drops so much legendary loot it feels like an exploit, but Blizzard says it’s intentional

Diablo 4’s new season dumps so many rare items on you that I’m pretty sure it would’ve been deemed a game-breaking exploit around the game’s release. Season 2’s Blood Harvests are a revamp of Diablo 4’s Helltides, which are essentially limited time events that take over a portion of the map. Like Helltides, Blood Harvests…

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Dino shooter Second Extension pulled from sale before even making it out of early access: ‘It regrettably did not achieve the success we hoped it would’

After three years in early access, Second Extinction is over. Developer Systemic Reaction has announced that it is ending “active development” game, and has removed it from sale. “After thoughtful consideration and exploration of our best course of action, we have made the difficult decision to end active development of Second Extinction,” the studio wrote…

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10 quietly popular games on PC

PC gaming is so ubiquitous and inherently decentralized that there are entire games and communities that go unnoticed all the time. It’s a global hobby, and that means some games won’t get the same level of attention as others. But that doesn’t make them any less significant. Over on Steam, there are games that routinely…

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Vampire Survivors skips Halloween and goes straight to a goodie-filled 1.7.0 Christmas update, because ‘if big name stores can do it, why can’t we?’

Vampire Survivors has dropped a new patch—and you’d think, considering Halloween is fast approaching, that they might, oh, I don’t know, lean into their already-present spooky themes a little? You’d think. Instead, they’ve gone and swept the rug out from under just about everybody and released Patch 1.7.0, named “Whiteout“, which is coincidentally what’s happening…

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Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X review

Intel’s 14th Generation processors are now on shelves. They are very much an iterative improvement over their 13th Gen predecessors and the same can be said of a new wave of Z790 motherboards. As they have the same Z790 chipset, they too can be considered refreshes, but its been over a year since Z790 launched,…

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