Rejoice, Counter-Strike’s grenades now sound crisp and clear as a chorus of angels—plus subtick shooting is either better or the fanbase is experiencing a shared delusion

If there’s one thing, one single thing, that’s stopped me from going pro in Counter-Strike 2 all these years, it’s the audio on those grenades—fuzzy and low-fi, like it was recorded by the Elephant Six Collective. Atrocious mids, swampy highs, lows with the callous insouciance of a neglectful husband*. I refuse to subject my ears…

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Don’t get stuck grinding in Borderlands 4’s version of the Hinterlands—in fact, you’re screwing yourself out of EXP if you try to do every sidequest before beating the main campaign

Borderlands 4 is great, but it doesn’t quite make the best first impression. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with its first zone, The Fadefields, but it’s definitely the most droll place to quest in Kairos. You could be Mad Max-ing it with Zane and Moxxi in the Burn, after all. The problem with the Fadefields is…

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The Valve rumor mill goes into overdrive as VR influencers travel to Seattle for what seems likely to be the imminent reveal of the Steam Frame

Valve sure seems to be on the verge of announcing a new piece of gaming hardware, but don’t get your hopes up for a Steam Deck 2. Based on the company’s recent trademark of the term “Steam Frame” and a number of influencer types making cryptic social media posts about traveling to Seattle this week,…

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Escape from Tarkov owners will have to buy it again if they want to play through Steam, and the Steam version will require a Battlestate account anyway

Escape from Tarkov is finally crossing the Rubicon into a 1.0 release on November 15, and it just unveiled something that might be a little surreal if you’ve followed the game’s eight years in early access: its very own Steam page, where it’ll soon have achievements, the Steam overlay, friends list integration and all that…

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