How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

Surviving the harsh wastes of Arrakis is much less intimidating with friends, but Dune: Awakening multiplayer isn’t the easiest thing to set up thanks to some awkward menus. With a much more linear opening than most survival sandboxes, there are also a few kinks to iron out if you’re looking to play with others. Below,…

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Path of Exile’s overwhelming complexity isn’t the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: ‘I think that PoE 1’s being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem’

Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…

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Part two of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s big free expansion comes this month, featuring a new mission, injectable magic potions, and… a foldable shovel?

One year on from its rocky launch, co-op shooter Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has been on a bit of an apology tour, making major overhauls of core systems to get the game into a more lovable state. So far it’s been a really successful makeover, and it’s culminated in a big free expansion, The Traitor Curse,…

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Embark stealthily nerfs Arc Raiders skill everyone was using to farm legendary loot: ‘We’re exploring the possibility of adding a skill reset mechanic’

Everyone’s favorite method of farming rare loot in Arc Raiders isn’t what it used to be after this morning’s patch. The Security Breach skill, one of the final abilities unlocked on the Survival branch of the skill tree, allows raiders exclusive access to special locked containers on all maps. Security Breach quickly became the most…

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OpenAI calls out Apple’s ‘careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit’ in latest blog post

After two former Apple employees started working for OpenAI, the Cupertino-based company alleged that trade secrets went with them and straight to the creator of ChatGPT. After it asked for a preliminary injunction to stop those employees and OpenAI from accessing confidential information, OpenAI publicly announced its defence, and followed that up with a blog…

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Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts ‘senior management positions’ because after all the other layoffs, ‘the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size’

Less than six months after laying off an estimated 70 people, Smite 2 developer Hi-Rez Studios has made another round of cuts. But this time, rather than rank-and-file employees, the layoffs are focused on “senior management positions” near the top of the company’s food chain. The layoffs were first reported week by former Hi-Rez designer…

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Helldivers 2 creative director argues games should ‘earn the right to monetize’, says its only pay-to-win item is a revolver that’ll get you gold in a ‘cool gun competition’

Helldivers 2 has been suffering from success—a whirlwind launch that’s now PlayStation’s biggest PC success led to a swarm of server issues bugs, and not the kind you can shoot dead with a beam rifle. Regardless, ambushed developer Arrowhead seems to be taking things in stride and, as PC Gamer’s own Fraser Brown notes: it’s…

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