First it was Counter-Strike, now it’s GTA RP: Fortnite unveils LEGO Fortnite Brick Life, a ‘social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world’

Just two days after revealing Ballistic, an upcoming 5v5 round-based tactical FPS “experience” that sure as hell looks a lot like Counter-Strike, Fortnite is continuing its brazen campaign to become every other videogame all at once. Today, Epic announced Lego Fortnite Brick Life, a “social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world.” Set in “an…

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In a launch weekend already packed with Path of Exile 2 and Marvel Rivals players, Infinity Nikki has also claimed 10 million downloads

Open world dress up game Infinity Nikki has had a busy launch weekend. Aspiring stylists were jumping into Miraland while Infold Games was incessantly slinging Infinity Nikki codes for in-game currency to all those new players. Now, Infold has announced that Infinity Nikki has been downloaded over 10 million times worldwide so far. I’ve been…

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Path of Exile 2 gets its first hits with the nerf bat to bring mace slams, magnetic arrows, and stinky clouds in line: ‘It is better to do this early’

Path of Exile 2 is in that early phase of a new ARPG where things are a little bit like the mathematical equivalent of the wild west. All those millions of early access players are running wild, smashing together every possible combination of combat and passive skills in an environment where the laws that undergird…

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Dauntless’s launch on Steam has gone horribly, horribly wrong with overwhelmingly negative reviews: ‘This update is easily, out of every game I’ve ever played, the worst one I’ve seen’

Dauntless has launched on Steam, and smashed straight into a gigantic brick wall that says “Overwhelmingly negative.” The co-op hunting game, which has been available to play since August 2017 but is new to Steam, has over a few days accumulated nearly 1,000 negative reviews and they’re all about the major overhaul Dauntless received for…

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‘I got slapped by CD Projekt’: Doug Cockle says he doesn’t actually know if Geralt is in The Witcher 4 or not, but the studio wants him to shut up about it

It turns out that Geralt of Rivia, everyone’s favorite monster-hunter-for-fire, may not be in The Witcher 4 after all. Then again, he may be—the truth is, nobody outside of a presumably select few at CD Projekt really knows, and that includes voice actor Doug Cockle, who says he got “slapped” by the studio after revealing…

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Valve is adding an ‘extra competitive’ option to Deadlock that’ll make matches harder, but only because everyone in this mode refuses to speak

Valve added a competitive mode to Deadlock back in October. This drastically improved matchmaking by sorting everyone into 11 ranks, which were more in keeping with players’ skill level, but now there’s another way to raise your blood pressure. As the December 6 patch notes reveal, Valve has introduced an “extra competitive option” for players…

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