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With its latest patch for Marathon, Bungie has decided that the haunting, derelict expanse of Tau Ceti IV is stressful enough without any adrenaline-crazed acrobats launching themselves across your screen like frenzied, gun-toting cybergibbons. Marathon is now, officially, a No Movement Freak Zone. In its patch notes for Marathon update 1.0.5.2, Bungie says it’s fixed…

This lapsed Arc Raiders player was not ready for the Flashpoint update. I hopped into a Blue Gate match with the new Close Scrutiny condition aiming to have a firsthand encounter with the Vaporizer, the fresh ARC drone unleashed topside. Mistake! The first thing I witnessed upon emerging from spawn was the crimson glow of…

I’ve always been a fan of the idea of Cyberpunk 2077’s ripperdocs and their many counterparts across fictional cyberpunk dystopias. It’s a lovely bit of backwards-working worldbuilding: you want every thug and gangster on the street to have a metal limb and robot eyes because it looks rad, but how do you explain where they’re…

It’s almost time for another Dawntrail-era update, so that means the Final Fantasy 14 Moogle Treasure Trove event is back with a little something to do until patch 7.5 drops on April 28. This time, we’re on the “Hunt for Aphorism” and have new ways to obtain old rewards through alternative (often easier) methods. I’ll…

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium-like game of espionage and human frailty, is set to launch on PC on May 21, on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG. It’s not yet reflected on the Steam page but ZA/UM said Zero Parades will be Steam Deck verified at launch, and a PS5 version…

If you’d asked me yesterday how I felt about Pierre in Stardew Valley, I think I would have said “fine.” I don’t particularly like him but I don’t have any specific gripes against him, either. My biggest issue is probably that he opens his store at 9 am and I’m up at 6 am every…