Todd Howard says Starfield was ‘made to be played for a long time,’ but a month after launch I’m already drifting away

“It’s intentionally made to be played for a long time,” said Todd Howard in an interview about Starfield with the AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast back in September.  “It’s one of things we’ve learned from our previous games,” Howard said. “From Skyrim, from Fallout, that people want to play them for a very long time….

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Minecraft mob vote 2023: when and where to vote

Tradition holds once again and the yearly Minecraft mob vote returns so that we can have an all out social media brawl over which creature gets added to Minecraft next. Mojang has now officially revealed all three of our mob choices for this year: the crab, penguin, and armadillo, and the voting time frame. We’ll…

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Armored Core 6 players hit with intense emotional whiplash as new patch buffs nearly ever weapon but nerfs beloved shotgun and grenade cannon

They had it coming. From the moment players started blasting their way through Armored Core 6 dual-wielding the Zimmerman shotguns with two Songbirds grenade cannons on their shoulders, it seemed like only a matter of time until FromSoftware took a long, hard look at each weapon and turned down the heat on them both. Heck,…

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Valve level designer returns to Twitter after lengthy absence to reveal he used a pot to add handles to an electrical box in Counter-Strike

Magnar Jenssen is a level designer with serious pedigree, starting his career at Grin before stints at Starbreeze, Avalanche, and then from 2013 onwards working for Valve. This was an auspicious year for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, with the Winter Offensive update in December 2013 adding two new maps to the game, Cobblestone and Overpass….

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Valve bans then unbans Counter-Strike skin trader with a $1.5 million inventory and the highest Steam level in the world

Update: 02/10/2023: Subsequent to publication, the ban on St4ck’s account has been lifted.  Valve has banned a prominent and somewhat controversial Counter-Strike skin trader, St4ck, whose account boasts one of the most high-value inventories you’ll ever see: by some estimates it is the third most-valuable CS skin haul out there. Pricing stuff in CS is…

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