Ark: Survival Ascended devs made a ‘Super Steamboat Willie’ platformer in the survival game to demonstrate new mod tools

If I’d been asked this morning to guess what’s been going on in Ark: Survival Ascended, the survival game with dinosaurs, and my options were “they added some new dinosaurs” or “they made a Mickey Mouse sidescroller in it,” I definitely would’ve been wrong. This week, Studio Wildcard updated the Ark Development Kit mod tools…

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Sega admits Creative Assembly’s live service push happened because it was drunk on ‘the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period,’ says the studio will focus on RTS games from now on

The devs at Creative Assembly have had a rough time of it recently. Back in September, the studio was blindsided by the sudden cancellation of its upcoming live-service shooter Hyenas, barely two weeks after it had concluded an open beta and one month after an appearance at Gamescom. The result was layoffs, uncertainty, and now…

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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 11/3/2015

This is it. On Friday, November 6th, Call of Duty: Black Ops III launches on PS4 and PS3. Clear your schedules this weekend. Call of Duty: Black Ops III continues the series’ long-running tradition of high-speed, explosive gameplay across a wide variety of modes. Witness a war-torn future in the single-player campaign on PS4, build…

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Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…

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