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When I heard about this year’s Minecraft mob vote, I thought to myself, “Gosh, that sounds like fun! Some discussion, some debate, a little bit of good-natured trash talk, and at the end of the day, a new creature for players to enjoy.” Dear readers, I was wrong. A big chunk of the Minecraft community…
It feels oddly fitting that a stealth game would sneak out almost completely unseen in the midst of this year’s deluge of big game releases. This one is especially unassuming at first glance, with cute but slightly stiff sprites and a functional but bland UI, but it would be a mistake to overlook Spirited Thief….
In August, Iron Gate unveiled the Trial of Tyr, a competition to see who could complete the fastest solo speedrun through Valheim’s punishing new hard mode. Two months later, the task is complete, with the winner, a Chinese player named Zhengyuan, blowing through the whole thing in under eight hours. Zhengyuan, known in the community…
Counter-Strike 2 seems to have got off to a solid start, but a few weeks after launch Valve has announced some big decisions. These will only affect a small number of players, but even so this is a real line in the sand that reflects the developer’s ambition to develop this game for a decade…
Valve has achieved something remarkable with Counter-Strike 2, and has done it almost under-the-radar. The developer has managed to transition one of the largest and most change-averse competitive playerbases around from CS:GO to CS2 without any significant pushback, large-scale complaining, or splitting that playerbase. OK sure, it did rather brutally disappear CS:GO when the time…
Unless the FTC’s Lina Khan runs in at the last minute to physically tackle Bobby Kotick before he can sign anything, it’s looking very likely that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard will close in the very near future. I mean very near, you understand, as in possibly this Friday, pending word from the UK market…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A grand historical strategy game in the classic Total War style, set in Ancient Egypt. Release date October 11, 2023 Expect to pay £50 / $60 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher SEGA Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site Total War: Pharaoh isn’t the best Total War…
Ubisoft’s free-to-play competitive FPS XDefiant, surely a contender for the silliest game name in history (sorry Warface), has announced another delay following a recent public playtest. The game was due to launch with a “Preseason” this month but, following what the developers describe as “inconsistencies in the game experience”, has been delayed to an unspecified…
RuneScape has announced that it’s ditching its new battle pass system barely a month after it debuted, calling it “not reflective of a direction we’re taking RuneScape in” following widespread player uproar. The battle pass—called a Hero Pass in RuneScape terminology—arrived on September 4, promising players a gamut of buffs, cosmetics, and special missions. It…
If you thought Intel’s Arc Alchemist lineup was be all sewn up by now, one year on from the release of the Arc A770 and Arc A750, surprise! Intel has a brand new budget graphics card: the Arc A580. The Arc A580 sits in the middle of Intel’s existing GPU stack; above the A380 that…