Over the past few months, Embark has been pulling some levers behind the scenes to improve Arc Raiders‘ matchmaking. Despite the devs previously saying matchmaking wasn’t “binary,” it didn’t feel like that in practice. My solo lobbies were peaceful walks in the park, while trio lobbies were much more violent. From these experiments, “one change…
Here’s my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don’t love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it’s just that SS2’s creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever. So I gotta be honest, of all the whizzbang announcements spilling out of the…
As I wipe the dust from my coffin I arise to tell you all that I was there when they first started mining the cryptocurrencies from the bowls of the digital frontier. I was there early enough to look at my old rig and wonder if it was worth setting up to see if it…
Two years ago today, you, the fans of God of War, embraced change by joining Kratos and his son Atreus on their epic journey. Since then, all of us at Santa Monica Studio have continued to be astounded by your passion, creativity and support. Below we have included a small sampling of some of our…
Imagine an even more rubbish modern Nvidia GPU than the RTX 3050. Tricky, isn’t it? Well, according to rumours Nvidia dares to dream. Allegedly, there’s a new 3050 in the works with a smaller memory bus, lower clockspeeds and less VRAM than the existing RTX 3050. That’s right, a new RTX 3050, not a new…
Due to the memory supply crisis, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that now is a particularly stressful time to experience hardware failure. With a bit of luck, a sensible multi-year warranty should save your bacon when an SSD stops playing ball—but it looks like the RAMpocalypse may be about to claim another…
It’s like seeing an old friend: the clanking in the vents over your head, the way the ribbed tail passes over objects with a thunk-ka-thunk-ka-thunk-ka-thunk, the head-within-a-head, the screaming. You are here, you are back, you have been impaled through the abdomen and killed. I have played perhaps 20 minutes of Alien: Isolation 2 at…
Arc System Works and Executive Director Daisuke Ishiwatari are known for fighting games, and their upcoming game, Damon and Baby, is a huge shift. It’s an action-adventure game that’s defined by an overhead viewpoint, twin-stick shooter mechanics, a lighthearted, cartoonish art style, and a wry, satirical wit — a departure from series like Guilty Gear…
Yet it was granted without concern. Nintendo, in its ongoing battle against Pocketpair and Palworld, has been filing various patents left, right, and centre in the US, the latest of which is almost certainly cause for concern. As detailed by Games Fray, Patent No. 12,403,39 has been granted which essentially covers the summoning of a…
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A Partridge in a Pear Tree. On the second day of Christmas we got divorced. Which worked out quite nicely because that freed up my spare time for the third day of Christmas, on which date PlayStation gave to me: a driving game…