Where to find rusted gears in Arc Raiders

Rusted gears are already hard enough to find in Arc Raiders without everybody and their nan looking for them to upgrade their Gunsmith bench. They’re an oddly rare item in the post-apocalypse, even more so considering how many abandoned factories, machines, and vehicles there are topside. Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. The…

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Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system

I long thought of Mozilla Firefox as a good, mainstream, privacy-focused alternative to Google Chrome. I used it for quite some time, until the Google ecosystem became too all-encompassing to ignore. But over recent years, it seemed the yellow-tailed browser was becoming less privacy-focused after all, leaving it just like the other mainstream options. So…

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‘We want skate to be great’: Full Circle is handing out condolence rewards to players affected by game-breaking bugs, but still hasn’t actually fixed them

It’s been nearly two months since skate dropped in Early Access, and it hasn’t exactly been the seamless skating experience a lot of us expected. Between bugs turning your character into a lump of voxels and making any tricks impossible, to progression issues that stunt your growth as San Vansterdam’s greatest skater, it’s safe to…

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CD Projekt Red just bagged one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s lead designers for The Witcher 4 and suddenly I’m far more interested in Ciri’s upcoming adventure

I am approximately eight months late to the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 party but I am having an absolute whale of a time so far. It’s both obtuse and devilishly moreish in a way that caused me to sink 20 hours into the thing in just two days, and I haven’t felt this much comfort…

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CD Projekt’s co-CEO says The Witcher 2’s momentous midgame choice was an ‘experiment’ and now regards it as a ‘waste of resources’

While it has long been overshadowed by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s gargantuan success, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings remains a great RPG in its own right. In fact, in some ways it was more daring and ambitious than its bigger, beardier brother. Most notably, none of the decisions you make in the Witcher…

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Hideo Kojima outdoes himself once again with an IRL Death Stranding exoskeleton that claims to make your steps 50% more powerful and costs thousands of dollars

Finding hills a bit tougher in middle age? No longer bounding up those mountains like you used to? Well folks, Hideo Kojima has done it again! The latest collaboration from Kojima Productions is, unsurprisingly, a world first: a freaking exoskeleton modelled after Sam Porter Bridges’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach outfit. Exoskeleton maker Dnsys…

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CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was ‘pretty standard’ and they didn’t believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world

It’s hard to imagine anyone not having faith in The Witcher 3, an RPG that has dominated the genre for the last decade. But that was the situation CD Projekt found itself in when it was trying to sell the idea to prospective partners during development. Despite finding success with the original Witcher and its…

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CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone’s life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations

One of my fondest memories of playing The Witcher 3 was when I came home slightly inebriated with a friend and I thought it would be fun to try playing the game with each of us managing one half of the controls. Within five minutes, I died by stumbling off a bridge that was barely…

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