When asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot’s co-founder replies: ‘Oh yeah,’ but don’t get too excited, the ETA is ‘before we go to Mars’

Riot is making an MMO—that’s not exactly news, given it’s been technically making one since 2020. But its continued survival has been brought into question because, well, it’s been making one since 2020. Plus, in March of last year, the company hit the reset button on it, which isn’t typically a sign things are going…

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Woedica’s Inheritance treasure map solution in Avowed

The Woedica’s Inheritance treasure map in Avowed is harder than it first looks. While it’s easy to figure out that it’s hidden outside Paradis’ walls, that’s not exactly narrowing things down much. Not only that, but you’ll also need to open a hidden door before you can claim your goodies. Given the previous owner of…

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Avowed’s huge 66GB update includes major improvements for the game’s whole progression system, along with key bug fixes and buffs for companions

As I was playing through Avowed ahead of release, probably my least favourite element in an otherwise very charming RPG was the tier system. Basically every weapon or piece of armour has a tier, and so do enemies—and this is what determines relative power, rather than levels, almost like a simplified form of Destiny’s gear…

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Intel engineer begs management and Trump to not ‘sell out’ to TSMC just as the company is set to regain its ‘technical lead’ in chip manufacturing

“A horrible, demoralizing mistake.” So said Joseph Bonetti, Principal Engineering Program Manager at Intel Corporation, on Linkedin earlier this week in response to rumours that TSMC might be in talks to take control of Intel’s chip-manufacturing fabs. Perhaps inevitably, Bonetti has since deleted his LinkedIn post though it is currently preserved for posterity on archive.today…

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RoadCraft isn’t just another demanding offroad sim for petrol heads – it sated my desire to micromanage production lines too

I didn’t think natural disaster remediation would be this relaxing. When I first booted up RoadCraft, a game about performing clean-up jobs with heavy vehicles, I was plunged into a reflective mood by the plangent, melancholy guitar licks that better evoke crackling campfires and copious whiskey than they do mud and exhaust fumes. The mood…

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