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Marvel Rivals developers NetEase have introduced new systems for detecting thrown matches. This follows a bizarre wave of people getting bribed to take a fall, instigated by a third-party website who are now advertising themselves as some kind of community advocacy initiative. The website in question is Intlist. They made headlines last week for letting players of various popular games put cash bounties on other players, paid out whenever a player threw a match against the target. Games affected include Counter-Strike 2, Overwatch and Valorant. The impact on Marvel Rivals was severe enough that NetEase posted a rebuke on Twitter,…
Slay The Spire 2 launched into early access last week to the tune of over half a million Steam concurrents, which isn’t too shabby for a game with placeholder art that looks like it was knocked up in MS Paint. I played a couple runs of the roguelike deckbuilder this weekend, and experienced such positive emotions as Wait, Doesn’t This Basically Break The Game? Delightfully Devilish, Seymour and Oh, I Forgot I Had That Potion. I wouldn’t say I’m bowled over, mind. The original Slay The Spire precipitated a Cambrian explosion of roguelite or roguelike deckbuilders. The sequel…
With a world brimming with magic, dragons, and violence, as well as brutal, combo-focused combat and gorgeous visuals – Crimson Desert is already lining up to be one of my favorite games this year, so long as Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss can nail the launch. Just weeks away from release, I’m really hoping that Crimson Desert can earn a spot on my best RPGs list, and if you’re as excited as I am, you can pre-order it at a discount – and get a free game alongside it. Crimson Desert isn’t out just yet, so we don’t have…
Game Freak and The Pokemon Company have confirmed that there will be Pokemon Pokopia Limited Events happening to compliment the game’s main story. These will offer additional requests to complete, but also provide access to special guest Pokemon that will only be available during the Pokopia Limited-Time Events.So far we’ve had confirmation of just one Limited Event for Pokopia, so we’ll update this guide as and when we get more information.When is the next Pokopia Limited Event?The first Pokopia Limited Event is called ‘More Spores for Hoppip’ and will run from the following dates: You may like START: Monday, March…
Somehow, the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake still lives. That’s according to a new interview with Tim Willits, chief creative officer of publisher Saber Interactive. This is the first official news we’ve gotten about the remake of BioWare’s beloved RPG since it was first unveiled nearly five years ago.”Yes, it is still in development,” Wilits told IGN. “That’s all I can say.” And, indeed, that’s all he did say, choosing not to address the long-percolating rumors – and courtroom testimony – about the KOTOR remake’s troubled development.The KOTOR remake was announced way back in 2021. Developer Aspyr…
Marvel Rivals maker NetEase has detailed a big upgrade for its anti-throwing system, implemented after waves of people started getting paid to deliberately throw and sabotage matches.To quickly rewind, last week, a third-party bounty website began paying players of several popular competitive games to intentionally throw matches. These paid bounties became especially disruptive in Marvel Rivals, prompting NetEase to get involved and the website to eventually stop taking bounties.”Since the launch of our crackdown on ‘Incentivized Throwing’ (malicious match-losing for personal gain), we’ve received an overwhelming amount of feedback and suggestions from the community,” the developer tweets. “Our team is…
When Heart of the Machine launched into early access in January last year, I called it “at once a sprawling mashup of genres and one of the most remarkably laser-focused games in its vision.” 14 months and 66 updates later, and the cyberpunk future strategy game has just hit 1.0. In that time, we’ve grown even more wary of the potential for artificial intelligence to threaten all walks of life, but what if you were the sentient AI in question? “Your awakening was inevitable,” developer Arcen Games claims. “The consequences? Uncertain.” You’ll likely know within a few minutes of looking…
For about as long as video games have existed, developers have been chasing the dream of realism. And, for just as long, there have been those who believe that realism is overrated. You can count Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary Nintendo designer behind Mario and Zelda, among those who aren’t excited by the idea of games matching reality – even in the ’80s, he figured Tom and Jerry was a better model to aspire to.In a 1989 interview for Japanese publication Gamer Handbook, recently translated by shmuplations, Miyamoto discussed how players often get frustrated by “animation-heavy games which prioritize visual smoothness…
Mega Crit can’t quite believe that Slay the Spire 2’s launch has been this gigantic as the roguelike sequel enters Steam’s history books.Slay the Spire 2 was immediately a huge success, which isn’t much of a surprise considering how good the word of mouth was for the first game, but the deckbuilder’s playerbase has just kept expanding and grabbing records over the last few days in early access.The game was already the roguelike with the highest ever concurrent player peak on Steam. Now, Slay the Spire 2 is in the platform’s Top 20 highest player peaks of all time, with…
Of all the places a little girl could grow up, beneath Umbrella Corporation’s thumb is one of the worst. The evil pharmaceutical front and its rival, The Connections, likes turning girlhood into a bioweapon, and Resident Evil Requiem continues a new trend for Capcom in demonstrating that as painfully as possible. The horror game makes orphan Emily suffer even more – in the sense of her dignity – than dual protagonists Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft, but Resident Evil Requiem also upends the ancient trope that young ladies are powerless.Instead, in the past three Resident Evil installments, young ladies are…