The 25-year history of Total War, from an experimental side project made between PS1 sports games to Medieval 3: ‘Now more than ever, we are focusing our technology on the future of Total War’

Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth’s All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in October here in Colorado and I’d get a few extra days off school. And I discovered a little…

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I’ve just discovered that you can master time and space in Arc Raiders, and now I want to intimidate everyone with my physics-breaking aura

Arc Raiders has a lot of odd quirks, like various skills not functioning how you’d think, being able to effectively front-flip to avoid fall damage, or even the ability to ride its terrifying machines. Honestly, I thought I’d seen it all at this point. And then I saw a player frozen in time. Completely paralysed…

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In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia’s brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games

Earlier this year, Nvidia quietly dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications in its drivers for GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. While the move had been long planned and not unexpected, the change did have one disappointing outcome: every game that used 32-bit PhysX libraries for visual effects would be forced to either disable it or…

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To celebrate Total War’s 25th anniversary, 4 of the series’ best games are being added to GOG’s preservation program—and they’re currently available at up to 80% off

A love of the battles of the past has been the foundation of developer Creative Assembly’s success, so it’s nice to see that the studio is taking care of its own history too. As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations for Total War, four classic games in the series have joined the GOG Preservation Program,…

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Let It Die: Inferno promises it used AI ‘that observes copyright laws’ and isn’t ‘modeled after any human performers,’ so please don’t be mad at it

Let It Die: Inferno—the surprise sequel to Suda51’s 2016 roguelike—rather took the wind out of our sails last week, when an AI-content disclosure added to its Steam page sheepishly copped to the fact that “AI-generated content has been used and then edited by our team for certain parts of the in-game voices, music, and graphics.”…

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I did the maths and worked out what level all these Fallout TV show characters got to by the end of season one, and it was going so well until someone gained 186,204XP in 2 minutes

The second season of the Fallout TV Show is almost upon us, but before we can bask in the glorious light of New Vegas’ neon-lit casinos, it’s time to reflect on the first season and understand just how far each of our main characters came. By the end of season one, Lucy had found her…

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I did the maths and worked out what level all these Fallout TV show characters got to by the end of season one, and it was going so well until someone gained 186,204XP in 2 minutes

The second season of the Fallout TV Show is almost upon us, but before we can bask in the glorious light of New Vegas’ neon-lit casinos, it’s time to reflect on the first season and understand just how far each of our main characters came. By the end of season one, Lucy had found her…

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