Marathon game director says Bungie’s rebalancing ‘god-like’ knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg

Amidst yesterday’s yearly crop of April Fool’s japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead. With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of…

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What will Slay the Spire 2’s final ending be like? ‘I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,’ says Mega Crit

Watch the full interview video above on the PC Gamer YouTube channel, if you prefer. There are many goofy placeholders across Slay the Spire 2, MS Paint-style art pieces that stand in for the finished products that will come later as development progresses through Early Access, which Mega Crit says the game might take between…

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Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…

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Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had ‘no staying power,’ and that can’t be addressed with a quick fix: ‘These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch’

The First Descendant’s launch hype went over like a bag of candy smuggled into a movie theater—exciting at first, but regrettably short-lived. While last July it was celebrating a screaming high of 10 million players in its first week alone, SteamDB shows the game has simmered to around 5,000 concurrent players as I write this….

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Xenonauts 2 review

Need to know What is it? Old school X-COM refined and reimagined. Release date: January 5, 2026 Expect to pay: $40/£45 Developer: Goldhawk Interactive Publisher: Hooded Horse Reviewed on: Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck: Playable Link: Official site I’ll be honest with you right up front: I loved the…

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How to pickpocket in Crimson Desert

Working out how to pickpocket in Crimson Desert might have you a bit stumped. After all, the system in this game is very different to any I’ve seen before—you can’t simply sneak up behind someone and have a rummage about in their rear compartment. Nope, there’s a trick you need to pickpocket beyond simply crouching…

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‘It’s like having the secret to Coca-Cola’: Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the ‘inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists’

The Super Mario Galaxy movie released to some shaky reviews; most critics have slammed the sequel for “having no centre”, being only “a series of large, vaguely connected explosions”, and simply “a way of gouging cash out of families.” But all the awful reviews of the sequel aside, CEO of Illumination Chris Meledandri is still…

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