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Sharpen your axe, fill your canteen, and make sure you pack some emergency rations: 2024 is shaping up to be an excellent year for survival games. Not only are there a lot of them coming in the near future, they all look substantially different from one another. Do you want to explore a fantasy realm…
After the less than perfect launch of Intel’s first generation Arc Alchemist graphics cards, work on the second generation Xe2 Battlemage architecture appears to be coming along nicely. That’s according to comments made during an interview at CES 2024 by Tom Petersen, a current Intel Fellow. The interview was conducted by PC World. Petersen revealed…
Thought we were done with this whole 3D TV trend? Think again. Samsung has some new 3D tech on show over at CES 2024: a gaming monitor that delivers glasses-free 3D gaming using eye-tracking technology. From a distance you might think this is any old monitor but get up-close and you’ll notice it starts to…
It’s tough enough recapping your last game of Dungeons & Dragons—reminding the players where they are and what they’re doing in this castle anyway—when it’s only been a week since your last game. Actual-play series Dimension 20 is returning to its Fantasy High campaign for the first time since 2020. Fantasy High is set in…
I’ve seen many gaming laptops at CES 2024: budget-friendly Gigabytes, Cyberpower ones with liquid cooling loops, Meteor Lake-powered MSIs, and Razer Blade laptops that’ll blow your socks off. Yet my pick of the bunch has to be the redesigned Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2024. Over the past few years the Zephyrus’ specs have changed but…
Team Fortress: Source 2, an ambitious fan project aiming to rebuild the venerable Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine, has reached the end of the road. Amper Software, the team behind the project, said on Twitter today that it’s been forced to pull the plug after receiving a DMCA takedown notice from Valve….
Cosmetic microtransactions: Most of us profess to hate them, yet people are clearly still buying them. A decade ago, this kind of monetization was the territory of predatory mobile games, while mainstream gaming was still arguing about whether or not paid DLC should come preloaded on a disc. Now, Valorant has comfortably released its latest…
Two years after Twitter introduced hexagonal NFT avatars, they’re gone: As reported by TechCrunch and confirmed by numerous users, the social media platform has quietly dropped the feature, and reverted all existing NFT avatars to standard ones. NFT avatars on Twitter (now officially known as X, but we’re not calling it that) debuted in January…
If I ever needed more evidence that Build Mode and Live Mode players of The Sims are built different, this is it. Sims player Kewlcy has exemplified a Live Mode sicko by building not just one underground kidnapping bunker but an entire hidden city “for capturing and storing men.” It all seems to have started…
Despite having very little information about it yet, Diablo 4’s next season is now confirmed to go live in less than two weeks. The current season, the Season of Blood, will close at an unannounced time (likely around 10 am PT) on January 23 and season 3 will begin within the same day. Blizzard recently…