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Valorant, a competitive FPS that I’ve often criticized for being too conservative with character abilities, is cooking up something weird for its next agent. Iso, Valorant’s eleventh post-launch agent, is a Chinese mercenary who “reconfigures ambient energy into bulletproof protection.” Pretty useful skills for the aggressive pointman of the team, but pedestrian compared to his…

While Nintendo has a long and infamous history of petty litigiousness, its recent efforts to secure a series of Pokémon-related patents have been particularly obnoxious—obnoxious enough that even the Japan Patent Office seems like its patience for the publisher’s quibbling is wearing thin. Earlier this month, Japanese patent examiners issued a rebuke of Nintendo’s objections…

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium-like game of espionage and human frailty, is set to launch on PC on May 21, on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG. It’s not yet reflected on the Steam page but ZA/UM said Zero Parades will be Steam Deck verified at launch, and a PS5 version…

It’s happening again: Epic Games is facing a fresh lawsuit over Fortnite’s “Touching the Sky” emote, which choreographer Felix Burgos says is being used in the game without his permission. Burgos’ Touching the Sky choreography was first featured in Rauw Alejandro’s Touching the Sky video, posted to YouTube on May 23, 2024. It appeared in…

It’s easy to look down on starter weapons, and you might feel inclined to do so with M15 MOD 0. Let’s face it, basically being an M4, it’s nothing you’ve not used in the past. Nevertheless, the best M15 loadout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is one of its strongest, and you really…