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DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: ‘Dude went from ‘what’s a horsey?’ to ‘I can see 15 moves ahead’ in 2 minutes’

Popular gaming streamer Benjamin Lupo, better known to his fans as DrLupo, has been kicked out of the PogChamps 6 online chess tournament for a “fair play violation”—in other words, he got caught cheating. Hosted by Chess.com, PogChamps—not to be confused with the PogChamp Twitch emote—is a series of amateur chess tournaments featuring well known…

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Dredge publisher says profits will likely be down this year due to certain games ‘not meeting internal expectations’

Team17, publisher of the excellent horror fishing sim Dredge, has warned its profits are likely to be down this financial year, as some of its games struggle to meet expectations and certain projects go over budget. In a trading update published on Friday (via IGN), Team17 said it “remains well positioned with strong traction across…

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I’m sorry to break the bad news, but you need to gather a truly massive amount of items and hundreds more in donations before you can reset your skill tree in Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has heaps of random junk for you to collect, as well as more practical items like guns, shields, and keys, but they’ve all got their uses one way or another. The biggest sink for all these bits and bobs is undoubtedly the Expedition Project, which overshadows even donating all the resources for workbench…

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PlayStation Plus: Free Games for May

May is right around the corner, so let’s take a look at the games coming out during this lovely spring month! First up, we have Beyond: Two Souls. Dive into the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes, born with a connection to a mysterious entity with incredible powers. This singularly unique psychological action thriller developed by…

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Diablo 4 continues to walk back changes from its fiendishly unpopular 1.1 patch, boosting XP gain on World Tiers 3 and 4

In the lead-up to Diablo 4’s first season back in July, the game received a patch that was universally unpopular. That feels like an understatement—the community revolt was fierce enough to cause an honest-to-Lilith emergency broadcast where the devs stated: “we don’t plan on doing a patch like this ever again”.  Far from repeating the…

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Not content with making three WW1 first-person shooters already, the creators of Verdun and Isonzo are now making a Gallipoli FPS

BlackMill Games has been making World War 1 shooters for over a decade now, first with Verdun, and then with Tannenberg and Isonzo. Now it’s making Gallipoli, which will shift focus to the Middle Eastern theatre, to dramatize the battles between the Triple Entente and the Ottoman Empire. While it’s not as well-known as other…

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