Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Acknowledges Closed Network Test Player Feedback

A surprise Steam update for Prototype broke the mods making the 16-year old game playable on modern systems—but could hint at a potential remaster

Prototype was a landmark release in videogame sweatshirts, featuring a permanently hooded, perpetually grumpy man harboring a mutagenic virus and powerful 2009-era angst. Admittedly, I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was left filled to the brim with bioweaponry against my will—until my nasty meat tentacles could fling helicopters around, anyway. All of life’s troubles…

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Starfield promises it still exists as silence drives fans to space-madness, but it mostly just annoys everyone: ‘They are deliberately choosing not to communicate more’

It’s odd to think about now, but there was a time when Baldur’s Gate 3—Baldur’s Gate 3—pushed its release date forward by a whole month in order to avoid clashing with Starfield, the game once feted to be the obvious blockbuster release of 2023. Well, things change. It’s downright uncontroversial to call BG3 one of…

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Share of the Week: No Man’s Sky – Landscapes

Last week we asked you to take in the sights of No Man’s Sky, and share landscapes from your favorite planets using #PS4share and #PSBlog. From pastoral overlooks to rocky wastelands, here are this week’s winners: @no_mans_sky_next looks over a snowy vista. @Ps4_Photomode landed on this hazy, noduled planet. @SpiffSnaps stumbled across a rocky crystal…

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Game of Thrones actor and former World’s Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson⁠—who won the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition and played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones⁠—has completed a 996 lbs “deadlift of data,” hoisting thousands of next-generation, 128 terabyte SSDs at the SD24 computing conference. With each drive likely to command north of $10,000…

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8bitDo – by William Schwartz

In a retro market typically dominated by high concept companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by a group of gaming enthusiasts, although its actual…

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