Fallout 76’s Burning Springs update draws its ‘main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas’ as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio

Fallout 76’s next update has finally been announced, and boy, do these just keep getting bigger and better. Blood and Rest will release around early December and introduce Burning Springs as a new area of the map, a bounty system, and [Walton Goggins’ beloved ghoul] from the Fallout TV show. “Burning Springs is in total…

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‘There are rainbows coming out of my heart’: Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul is finally coming to Fallout 76 as part of Burning Springs, and get this, he’ll pay you to off people

As part of the latest Fallout 76 map expansion into the land of Burning Springs, players will gain access to the New Vegas-inspired deserts of Ohio, more hordes of raiders, and a brand new bounty hunting system courtesy of your favourite ghoul, The Ghoul (played by Walton Goggins). Cut to a sudden broadcast of Walton…

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One of last year’s best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas

Look, I know we’re all playing Silksong, but if I could direct your attention to a slightly different Metroidvania for a moment—Nine Sols, Red Candle’s first and only action foray, was one of my favourite videogames from 2024, period. Contributor Abbie Stone waxed lyrical about it back in June of that year, but for some…

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OpenAI’s new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don’t worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the ‘degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed’

Sora 2, the latest model of OpenAI’s text-to-video tech, has now launched alongside a dedicated app. Besides spitting out all of the soulless, AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style animation one could ever want, Sora 2 can now generate live action clips with both sound and a frankly scary level of visual accuracy. Granted, not all of the…

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Management sim sequel Jurassic World Evolution 3 offers more park customisation than ever for hardcore fans—but there’s no dinosaur-driven chaos left to be found

Jurassic Park is about chaos. Man comes to think he can control nature, even play God, and he is undone by his hubris. Dinosaurs run amok and destroy all he has built. Life finds a way. Jurassic World Evolution 3 is not about that. 10 minutes into my roughly hour and a half playing the…

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How to get honeycomb in Minecraft

Honeycomb is the only way you’ll be able to wax your copper crafts and prevent them from oxidising in Minecraft, so knowing where to find honeycomb is pretty important. Especially if you have copper golems sorting out your base, or you’ve decorated floor to ceiling with various copper items. Luckily, it’s not too challenging to…

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