As Viktor mains rage over their fave being hit with the Arcane twink ray, Riot quietly tinkers with controversial skin reworks on the League of Legends test server

As Viktor mains rage over their fave being hit with the Arcane twink ray, Riot quietly tinkers with controversial skin reworks on the League of Legends test server

Viktor is, uh, looking a little different, recently. As displayed in Riot Games’ recent Season 1 update, the developer is keen to start working lore changes made in Arcane, a TV series that’s been way better than it’s had any right to be, into League of Legends itself. It’s an understandable move in terms of…

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If you’d like to see Meta’s AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick

Italy’s antitrust authority, AKA the body the looks into monopoly abuses by companies, has reportedly launched an investigation into Meta. According to Reuters, the Italian authority is considering, “allegations the company abused its dominant position by installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.” The key detail, it seems, is that Meta foisted its…

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Insomniac Interview: The Tech Behind Marvel’s Spider-Man

In Marvel’s Spider-Man, launching exclusively on PS4 tomorrow, fans will experience an action-packed narrative that lives up to the legacy of the character’s rich history while traversing an expansive open-world Marvel’s New York using a suite of tightly tuned gameplay mechanics. And, of course, a stunning graphical presentation crafted by the maestros at Insomniac Games….

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The holiday deal you didn’t know you needed

The run-up to the holidays can be a bit overwhelming. There’s shopping to do, family to see, and countless parties for mingling. So as we head into the merriest (read: busiest) season of them all, we’re making shopping easy and sharing the holiday deal that every gamer will want to know about. X <!– –> <!–…

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FromSoftware’s parent company let it slip that we’ll get Elden Ring Nightreign DLC by March at the latest

As reported by GamesRadar, FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa celebrated the continued sales success of Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree, and multiplayer spinoff Nightreign in a second quarter earnings report released on November 6. Buried in the slides is something a little more exciting for Elden Ring fans, though: An indication of when we can…

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Assassin’s Creed: Shadows PC performance analysis: Ray tracing, upscaling, and frame generation are all optional, but only two of them are worth using, though not the ones you might think

After years of fans asking—nay, demanding—that Ubisoft chose old Japan for the historical setting of a major game in the 17-year-old series, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows is finally here. I should have been saying that back in November, but the game has been postponed twice (first to January, then to March), with adjustments made on how…

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China reportedly approves imports of Nvidia’s H200 GPU, but the US government may cap exports to individual Chinese companies

We reported recently that the US government may cap exports of Nvidia’s H200 chip to China. But for that cap to be meaningful, China would need to approve imports of H200 in the first place. According to multiple sources, that has now happened. Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Chinese authorities have…

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Deadlock players are modding the weirdest characters into the game, including Linguini and Remy, Hatsune Miku, and LeBron James: ‘Skin walker Linguini cannot be unseen’

I consider myself to have a pretty high bar for tolerating the unnerving and weird. But watching a long-armed Linguini slap players around in Deadlock triggers a fight or flight response in me that my ancestors probably felt when they saw a prehistoric cave bear for the first time. The Linguini and Remy over Mo…

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