Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on 'suspicious super credit activity', though it would help if earning premium currency wasn't so boring to begin with

Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on ‘suspicious super credit activity’, though it would help if earning premium currency wasn’t so boring to begin with

I’d never considered the prospect that some people might cheat at playing Helldivers 2. But I suppose it’s inevitable given some people will find ways to cheat at anything. In this case, rogue Helldivers have found ways to game super credits—the premium currency used to buy Warbonds—to earn them at impossible rates, and it’s become…

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Tempest Rising’s elusive third faction will get its own singleplayer campaign as a paid expansion, and you can play the demo right now

When the excellent Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising released last year, it featured three factions battling for supremacy across a war-torn future Earth. But only two of those factions—the GDF and the Tempest Dynasty—were playable with their own singleplayer campaigns. The third faction, the mysterious Veti, were wholly computer controlled. Developer Slipgate Ironworks has…

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Valve has rewired Counter-Strike 2’s bomb to make it more spectacular, but potentially less deadly

have huge ramifications. There aren’t many games where the addition of volumetric smoke grenades would be a headline feature. But in CS2’s hyper tense battles, true 3D smoke cover has game changing consequences. Now, with the advent of Season 5, Valve has made another tiny-yet-huge change. Put simply, it’s changed how the bomb works, giving…

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Warframe Reveals Major New Chapter, Playing Card Mini-Game, Fortnite Collab And Much More

And Brysko, a Sentient Warframe. The free-to-play co-op third-person looter shooter Warframe, which made its debut on the Switch 2 in March, held its 11th TennoCon Celebration this week, sharing multiple announcements. Developer Digital Extremes unveiled the next major narrative chapter ‘Warframe: Tau‘, a new Warframe, Brysko, Warframe’s first card mini-game, new enemy faction &…

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Obsidian game director is sick of hearing bad takes about the state of the studio: ‘The through line from KotOR2 to our current games is pretty clear’

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced “the most significant restructure in Xbox history”, which is what you call it when you lay off thousands of people and cut four game studios loose. Double Fine and Compulsion Games returned to their indie roots; Ninja Theory and Undead Labs were sold off. While it seemed at first like…

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