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In 2021 PCG reported on a singular scientific experiment: rats named Carmack and Romero had been taught how to ‘play’ Doom. I use the inverted commas because, cute and cool as it was, the question of whether the rats were really playing Doom in any meaningful way, or just running on a ball for some…
The legal dispute between Tencent and Sony over Tencent’s Horizon-like survival game Light of Motiram appears to be over, as a new court filing (via The Verge) reveals the companies have reached a “confidential settlement.” The terms of the settlement weren’t revealed (that’s the whole “confidential” part) but the action has been dismissed with prejudice,…
The nonstop celebratory rave that kicked off in Arc Raiders this week when players discovered rare blueprints were suddenly dropping everywhere has, unfortunately, been broken up by the loot police. Embark issued a hotfix today that lowered blueprint drop rates from where they were at the beginning of the Cold Snap update, but it’s not…
Electronic Arts’ all-conquering EA Sports FC, the game formerly known as FIFA, can now with certainty be called a successful re-branding exercise. EA Sports FC has become a ubiquitous sight at all levels of matches, with it being near-impossible to watch a Premier League game in particular without having the logo tattooed on your eyes…
Electronic Arts’ all-conquering EA Sports FC, the game formerly known as FIFA, can now with certainty be called a successful re-branding exercise. EA Sports FC has become a ubiquitous sight at all levels of matches, with it being near-impossible to watch a Premier League game in particular without having the logo tattooed on your eyes…
Winter is the worst time of year. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s dark, the roads are terrible, and cooking on the grill is a full-on headache. The only thing that doesn’t suck about winter is the onslaught of big year-ending videogame sales, and the big daddy of them all is now underway: The 2025 Steam…
The Forge certainly isn’t lacking when it comes to RPG-inspired sidequests, as the mining sim is chock full of lengthy NPC chores and requests with valuable rewards distracting from the main path. The Goblin King quests are some of the more annoying tasks, and it’s not enough to just complete one for his highness and…
Burning Springs is the latest expansion in Fallout 76, and this time the map has been expanded sideways (to the Northwest, to be specific). And even though the new map is just a jump, skip, and a hop over the river, it’s an entirely different vibe. “The way Jon Rush (creative director) likes to describe…
Arc Raiders has been in the holiday spirit ever since its Cold Snap update, released earlier this week, saw players swimming in previously hard-to-obtain blueprints. Turns out that this was a minor miscalculation on developer Embark’s part, but only a minor one: the developer has now issued a hotfix that sees the blueprint drop rates…
As rivalries go, you don’t get much bigger than Call of Duty versus Battlefield. Two of the largest, most expensive series around, both of them covering wars both past, present and future—of course there’s going to be some competition. David Goldfarb, who served as lead designer at DICE for Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2,…