Vampire Survivors' free-roaming online mode is available to play in beta now, and there's an official boardgame coming too

Vampire Survivors’ free-roaming online mode is available to play in beta now, and there’s an official boardgame coming too

Vampire Survivors‘ long-anticipated online mode is finally here, sort of. Developer Poncle announced at the end of this week that online multiplayer has been implemented in the game’s beta branch. Vampire Survivors has of course had multiplayer functionality for several years. But playing with pals was previously limited to local co-op. Getting Vampire Survivors to…

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Nintendo: “The Smash Ultimate Online Open May 2020 regions 5 & 6 Opening Rounds have been rescheduled for June 13th”

Nintendo has announced on their Nintendo Versus account that “he previously postponed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Online Open May 2020 regions 5 & 6 Opening Rounds have been rescheduled for 6/13, now taking place before the regions 3 & 4 Opening Rounds”. Starting at 10am on June 14th, both regional finals will be livestreamed. The…

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League Of Legends Developer Riot Games Axes 530 Jobs Globally

“Around 11% of Rioters”. Riot Games, the American-based developer and publisher behind insanely popular game series like League of Legends, has today announced it will be eliminating 530 jobs globally across the company. This equates to “around 11% of Rioters” and the biggest impacts have hit teams “outside of core development”. In a lengthy message…

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Marathon’s mid-season patch is a big one: 11 new weapon variants, Recon buffs, and a ‘Mercy Kit’ for reviving strangers

Marathon’s mid-season patch is here, and it’s ended up bigger than anticipated. Those Recon buffs Bungie’s been talking up for ages have arrived, allowing Marathon’s resident snitch to differentiate between bots and players when scanning the map. The tracker drone is also better at tracking now, so it should be more than just occasionally helpful….

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Apple’s 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should’ve stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick ‘almost too crazy to be true’ miraculously made it work

Sometimes you have to bust out the ol’ cork board and red string for a conspiracy theory involving leaked emails, supervillain islands, and heads of state desperate to deny they had anything to do with All That. But other times the conspiracy rabbit hole beckons in other forms. Like, say: 📌An emulated Macintosh Classic 2…

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The Winter 2016 Budget Gamer

Budget doesn’t have to mean cheap When we looked to start building this quarter’s Budget Gamer system, we wanted to build something that was nice to look at, while maintaining the performance we saw in the fall. We think we pulled off a quaint little build that is easy on the eyes, and light on…

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