I’ve been trapped on a yacht playing dice with billionaires for two hours now, and I’m already sick of chopping off my own fingers

There are some game premises that are simply irresistible. “Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht” is the kind of pitch I cannot turn down. So it is that I find myself sweatily rolling dice against a leering vampire as I go all-in with…

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Danny Trejo becomes Bethesda reply guy, pops up amid the studio’s Fallout anniversary fest to demand a New Vegas remaster

The course of history has a habit of plucking individuals from its stream and making them, by complex processes, tribunes of a class—figureheads onto which the demands of an era are projected and through whom they find voice. Martin Luther, Maximilien Robespierre, Karl Marx: these are less individuals than they are avatars of their epochs….

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Xbox boss Phil Spencer says ‘nurturing and protecting creative teams that want to go take risks’ is the priority, admits ‘we don’t always succeed at that’

Speaking alongside Double Fine founder Tim Schafer at the Paley International Council Summit on Thursday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer emphasized the value of creative risk-taking to a small crowd of film, TV, and online media bigwigs. “The creativity of the teams is, in my mind, the most important thing and the thing that we…

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Valve’s latest Counter-Strike 2 update flashbangs entire skins market, headshots speculators, and clutch defuses inflationary market prices

CS2’s latest update has certainly put the cat among the pigeons, and feathers are flying. The innocuous-sounding patch “extended functionality of the ‘Trade Up Contract’ to allow exchanging five items of Covert quality as follows: five StatTrak Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak Knife from a collection of one of the items provided,…

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Fatshark celebrates 10 years of ‘Tide, reveals Darktide is getting another new class and Vermintide 2 a new map

It’s been a full decade since Fatshark released Vermintide, beginning a journey through the Warhammer worlds that would continue in Vermintide 2 and Darktide. As the stats-laden video above reveals, in that time 8.2 million characters have been killed by the humble skavenslave. It’s always the one you least expect. Both Darktide and Vermintide 2…

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