Battlefield 6 lead producer says ‘large maps exist,’ confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta’s cramped, chaotic firefights

Aside from a few moments of conspicuously instantaneous death, I had a great time with the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend. The guns largely felt lovely, I got a 16-killstreak as a tank gunner, and I watched someone drive a jeep covered in C4 into an enemy anti-air gun. That all hits. My main complaint…

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Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing ‘irreversible harm to the entire franchise’ like Kerbal Space Program 2

Krafton has filed a response to the lawsuit brought against it by the former heads of Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds, accusing them of almost immediately abandoning their responsibilities following Krafton’s acquisition of the studio despite repeated efforts to keep them onboard. The publisher is requesting an outright dismissal of the lawsuit filed against it and…

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Remedy is ‘unsatisfied’ by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says ‘despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on’

Going right back to my first preview of FBC: Firebreak, my question has always been the same: who is this for? Its chaotic, systems-driven co-op action does have impressive qualities and lots of imagination to it, but I never understood where it could possibly fit in the crowded and competitive multiplayer space. Unfortunately since then…

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Phoenix Labs website goes offline as Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic

Fae Farm, the cozy co-op farming sim released in 2023 by Phoenix Labs, is going offline. A message posted to the game’s Steam page says the game will remain playable offline in singleplayer mode, but “will no longer be playable online and will not receive any future updates.” It also appears that developer Phoenix Labs,…

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If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill ‘super bullets’

In terms of numbers, it’d be hard to argue that the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend was anything other than a success. At times, the beta attracted more than half a million concurrent Steam players—enough to beat Call of Duty’s peak player count record since 2022. Our Morgan Park was impressed enough to declare that…

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‘Eager to move on from failure’: Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: ‘We weren’t getting the people’

Mark Darrah has been on a tell-all, recently, speaking with YouTuber MrMattyPlays about the failures and foibles of BioWare in the wake of Dragon Age being likely being dead and gone. Darrah, who was an executive producer, left the studio back in 2020; though has been speaking up on his own YouTube channel recently. He…

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Marvel Rivals’ bloated DPS roster won’t be solved ‘overnight’, creative director says: ‘The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year’

If there’s one thing that Marvel Rivals unequivocally does right, it’s putting together a strong hero roster. There’s a cute shark, a K-pop idol, Norse gods, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers we all know and love, and many more. Despite all these great characters, Marvel Rivals has one big issue with its roster: over half…

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Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being ‘exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents’

There’s something about the WinRAR stacked-book logo that makes me all nostalgic, giving me a proper case of the warm fuzzies deep inside. What turns those fuzzies into ouchies, however, is the idea of a zero-day vulnerability in my beloved file compression and extraction tool. ESET Research first identified the exploit, now classified under the…

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