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Clearing up months of speculation, Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios released a detailed breakdown of how the game’s matchmaking works alongside an update packing two major changes to that system.These matchmaking changes are “live now,” and Embark will “keep tuning” as players respond to them.Firstly, Embark says in a new post, “defending yourself is no longer treated the same as starting a fight.” Until now, though Embark was able to track who shoots first, it appears the flow of an engagement was weighted in such a way that “your playstyle,” as the system evaluates you, “didn’t capture whether you started…
Looking for what to remember before The Mandalorian and Grogu? Then this is the Way. The first season of The Mandalorian dropped way back in 2019, so your memory of Din Djarin and Din Grogu’s adventures might be a little fuzzy.Below, we’ve rounded up everything you need to remember before The Mandalorian and Grogu in a Mandalorian recap, so you can get up to speed at a glance. There are six crucial Star Wars plot points that are essential to remember, and we’ve got them all detailed here.So, for all you need to know, head on down to our recap.…
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke says The Boys: Mexico will take place in the aftermath of The Boys series finale.Warning: Spoilers for The Boys season 5 episode 8 below!”It’s still a super-fun world, and I think the point we were trying to make at the end is nothing is just perfect and happily ever after,” Kripke told Rolling Stone. “Now you have all these loose Supes running around that Vought isn’t taking responsibility for anymore. And there’s problems to solve. There’s always gonna be problems to solve. If you pull your loved ones tight and take care of each other,…
If you’re among the likely hundreds of thousands of players who’ve wondered how to find Silver in Subnautica 2, take comfort in the fact that developer Unknown Worlds is aware that this hotly demanded resource can be tricky to track down, and is working on a clarity fix of some kind.Unknown Worlds member Anthony, speaking in the game’s official Discord, recently assured players that, “The first patch should have some better callouts for Silver, but honestly we’ve been looking at a holistic resource [sic] of the resource flow.” (I’m assuming Anthony meant a more holistic overhaul or restructuring of the…
The Boys has ended its seven-year run on Prime Video, but it made sure to go out with a bang. And by that I mean, the series finale aired in various 4DX theaters around the United States in effort to turn arguably the grossest (by way of violence, anyway) episode of the entire series into a weird meta theme park ride experience.Did it work? Hell yes. The polarizing fifth season of The Boys was not my favorite, and creator Eric Kripke even spent most of the season’s run responding to some pretty intensely negative fan feedback. But did getting to…
Embracer founder and executive chair Lars Wingefors, the main architect behind the company’s infamous $2b disaster from 2023 that resulted in thousands of lost jobs, canceled games, and shuttered studios, says the restructuring has been about giving a select number of developers and IP the chance to “prove themselves.”It’s irresponsible and unfair to pin the industry’s ongoing layoff crisis on any one company, but Wingefors is right to point out in a recent open letter to shareholders that “we have become closely associated with industry layoffs.” According to a report published by marketing firm Udonis, Embracer laid off 7,800 employees,…
Warhorse has revealed that a new Kingdom Come “adventure” is in the works alongside the studio’s rumored open-world Lord of the Rings RPG, but whenever I hear a game developer use words like adventure, experience, I naturally question whether that adventure or experience is really a video game at all. Well, thanks to Embracer Group CEO Phil Rogers, we now know it is indeed a game, but beyond that, the project is pretty much entirely shrouded in mystery.In a video presentation accompanying Embracer’s full year report for fiscal year 2025/2026, Rogers briefly spoke on the new Kingdom Come project, calling…
$70 has become the video game industry’s new standard premium price, which both I and my credit card bill find distressing. But video game sales expert Tom Kaczmarczyk, founder and CEO of business intelligence company IndieBI, makes an interesting case – in both me and my credit card’s opinion – as to why most developers should avoid it.Kaczmarczyk discusses video game prices at a Digital Dragons Conference panel attended by GamesRadar+. One of his slides on the topic poses the question seemingly at the top of developers’ minds, now that we’re at a point in history where fans talk about…
Ubisoft is “very happy” with early reception to Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, the upcoming remake of the series’ beloved pirate-themed installment, and expects it to sit comfortably alongside full-fat entries in the franchise.CFO Frederick Duguet discussed Resynced during the Q&A portion of the company’s May 20 earnings call. Asked about internal expectations for the game, and whether it could approach a “full-scale” Assassin’s Creed entry like last year’s Shadows or if it would more closely resemble something like Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Duguet expressed confidence in current numbers.”We are very happy with the pre-orders momentum that ranks among the best…
Chalk up that cue and find the white ball; it’s time for new 8 Ball X codes. And while you won’t need to pull off quite so many trick shots if you claim them, the rewards will soon run dry if you don’t learn your angles. 8 Ball X isn’t some Roblox riff on Ball X Pit: it’s a pop-culture infused billiards simulator, bringing Brazilian Miku, Chainsaw Man’s Reze, and some kind of wing-faced god into a cool sports bar to shoot some pool. What’s not to like? Here are the latest 8 Ball X codes: 1500LIKES! – ten Skill…