Desmond Miles? Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Assassin’s Creed‘s original protagonist stood at the centre of the series’ story from the 2007 original to Assassin’s Creed 3. I remember him being pretty roundly mocked at the time, and wasn’t much of a fan myself. This was partly because players…
Despite its tame rating, sex has always wormed its way into The Sims series—I fear it’s a canon event to Google “how to make Sims naked” as a teenager. But it arguably didn’t blow up into more mainstream simming until Turbodriver’s WhickedWhims came along in 2016, offering a package of nudity, animated sex, birth control,…
And they’re right around the corner. With the Dead Cells team on development duties, we knew it was only a matter of time before The Rogue Prince of Persia landed even more content, and what do you know, there are two major updates right around the corner. Evil Empire recently shared a blog post on…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s 1.2.4 patch introduces a couple of bug fixes, like rebalanced shop prices for herbs and a new bald hairstyle for Henry. But let’s be serious, no one’s getting out of bed for those features (well, maybe the new hairstyle), when the real kicker is the new hardcore mode that’s tacked onto…
Get the popcorn in, because I swear it’s true. A cross-chain lending platform called Abracadabra Money has confirmed that an exploit allowed one user to drain at least $6.49 million in Ethereum-based stablecoins from its protocol (first spotted by Web3isgoinggreat). Fair warning that this story involves a bunch of crypto jargon which I’ll try to…
We’re in a golden age of ARPGs if you haven’t been paying attention, but that doesn’t make them any easier to balance. Since its launch, Diablo 4 has been criticized for its awfully gentle take on the Burning Hells; and though smacking loot pinatas until they stop moving doesn’t have to be all that hard…
It’s been a big moment for AI disclosures. Games with such labels have been flooding Steam as of late, and whenever the parade of summer trade shows rolls around, the inevitable question quickly arises: how many of these games were made with the controversial tech? The answer doesn’t always go down easy as we saw…
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said in a recent interview with IGN that PC has become a “much more” important part of the gaming ecosphere than it was in the past—one that generates a significant portion of sales for multiplatform games. And if you think that means he’s ready to commit to a PC version…
You can’t have read these pages recently without spotting some mention of DLSS, Nvidia’s upscaling tech that at first created new pixels for higher resolutions in games and can now create whole new frames to improve frame rate too. Upscaling has been brought up in almost every review of the best graphics cards—Nvidia or not—but…
The early squid catches the woomy. Last week, Nintendo released the ver. 11.0.1 update for Splatoon 3, addressing multiple bugs that cropped up with the beefy patch prior. This was business as usual, of course, but it turns out that the update accidentally included some adjustments that Nintendo was hoping to release further down the…