FF14 is getting a baby Seikret minion as part of its Monster Hunter Wilds collab, and I will fistfight Arkveld alone for it

As Civilization 7 languishes with a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam, developers say they’re ‘looking into feedback’ about its wildly unpopular UI

Civilization 7 doesn’t fully launch until next Tuesday, February 11, but it’s playable now for people who sprung for the Founders Edition, and so far the response isn’t what Firaxis or 2K Games had to be hoping for. There’s a range of complaints, as there always is, but most widespread is criticism of the UI,…

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The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least

I’m no RTS expert, but I’m nonetheless ride or die for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. I’ve poured what must be hundreds of hours into campaign and skirmish modes across the game’s four versions, gleefully gunning down gue’la for the greater good and deep striking dreadnoughts where they are least welcome. Granted, there’s no record…

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Bandai Namco leads the way in game and entertainment patents in Japan, taking the crown from Sony Interactive Entertainment

A Japanese analytics agency, Patent Result, has published this year’s rankings of domestic game and entertainment companies by the ‘strength’ of patents they hold, via Automaton. Patent Result values a company’s quality over quantity and the strength of the ideas being brought to the table, so the ranking is based on both “the quantity and…

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Good news for Intel Core Ultra 200S gamers: some major gaming PC builders say the new Boost profile won’t void your warranty

Yesterday Intel announced a free performance boost for its 200S processors in the form of a Boost Overclocking Profile that you can enable in the BIOS. But while boxed processors permit enabling this without breaking warranty, Intel pointed out that warranties for PC purchases through system builders and OEMs are “provided exclusively” by those companies,…

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