5 months after launch, cooperative shooter FBC Firebreak finally has integrated voice chat, but its Vampire Survivors-style wave mode is delayed until next year

While a lack of voice chat wasn’t the biggest problem with FBC: Firebreak when it released in June, it was certainly one of the issues that led it to fall flat with myself and players in general. Given Firebreak is a cooperative shooter where teamwork is crucial to survival, being able to communicate with friends…

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This mech themed XCOM-like just got a gargantuan update that overhauls its campaign, redesigns its overworld, and adds personalities to pilots with ‘over 100’ unique traits

In the deep, dark mists of 2023, Crypt of the Necrodancer developer Brace Yourself Games released a mech-themed, simultaneous turn-based tactics game called Phantom Brigade. It sounded like an instant winner, and it certainly had potential. “There’s so many little aspects that Phantom Brigade gets right,” Dominic Tarason wrote in his Phantom Brigade review, praising…

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Doom: The Dark Ages’ latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets

Doom: The Dark Ages received a whole new mode back in August—the wave-based “Ripatorium” that allows players to build their own demonic encounters. But it seems id Software has had a rethink about the Ripatorium, as The Dark Ages’ latest update substantially overhauls how it works. While update 2.3 is mainly Ripatorium focussed, it’s worth…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 review

Need to know What is it? Near-future aim down sights shooting.Release date: November 14, 2025Expect to pay: $70 Developer: TreyarchPublisher: ActivisionReviewed on: Ryzen 7 7700, RX 7800 XT, 64gb DDR5Steam Deck: UnverifiedLink: Official website It only takes a single mission in Black Ops 7’s atrocious co-op campaign to figure out what the scheme with this…

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Interview with Roblox CEO kicks off with an unbelievable answer about its predator problem being ‘not just a problem, but an opportunity,’ and somehow just gets crazier from there

Roblox CEO David Baszucki is taking heat for a recent podcast interview with the New York Times, in which he discussed the platform’s new AI-powered age gating technology, dismissed accusations that Roblox has a predator problem, and got into a bit of a high-strung back-and-forth with the interviewer over the company’s approach to moderation. The…

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The Game Awards nominated another Hololive vtuber and her boss just wants voters to give her a chance: ‘I would hope that they watch her stream at least once’

If you count the peanut with the human eyes and mouth, The Game Awards 2025 has two vtuber nominees for its Content Creator of the Year award. Arc Raiders players may know of TheBurntPeanut, but they may not recognize the pink-haired anime girl pictured next to Kai Cenat and MoistCr1tikal. Her name is Sakura Miko…

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Microsoft’s head of AI doesn’t understand why people don’t like AI, and I don’t understand why he doesn’t understand because it’s pretty obvious

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it’s “mindblowing” that people aren’t more impressed with generative AI tools. “Jeez there so many cynics!” wrote Suleyman on X this week. “It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that…

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‘We cloned Gmail, except you’re logged in as Epstein and can see his emails’ is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year

I still regularly think about the 2018 text adventure game You Are Jeff Bezos, which confronts you with how colossal an amount of money Bezos’s $156 billion net worth really was, and how much good it could do if it wasn’t hoarded by an individual. (Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion). It’s a…

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