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I know I’m not the only one who thought that Stranger Things season 5 was a bit of a disappointment. After 10 years of build-up, and a fairly promising Vol. 1, the show’s final chapter wrapped things up with a lackluster final battle, an overlong epilogue, and a frustratingly ambiguous farewell to Eleven – and, ultimately, dropped the (Magic 8) ball.While it can’t tell us whether Eleven did really sacrifice herself in ‘The Rightside Up’, given that it takes place between seasons 2 and 3, new animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 goes some way to making up for…
The long-awaited Garry’s Mod follow-up, S&box, is finally launching on Steam next week, and developer Facepunch Studios is already making some big promises about the game’s future. The devs previously announced that they’d partnered with Valve to allow games made in S&box to be sold royalty-free on Steam, and they’re taking some well-earned potshots at other platforms driven by user-generated content ahead of launch.”We’re not guided by commercial milestones, we’re not going to do an IPO,” Facepunch says in a press release. “We do this because we love it, we want to give the community the same opportunities we’ve had.…
The 2026 NFL Draft goes down in Pittsburgh from April 23-25 this year, with two nights and a third day of action on the cards there’s going to be plenty to catch for this year’s season. The Las Vegas Raiders have the first play of the event, before the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals get evening one fully off the ground. I’m showing you how to watch the NFL Draft 2026 right here, so you keep up with all the picks.The 2026 NFL Draft will start on Thursday April 23, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT / 1am BST.…
Diablo 4’s second expansion, Lord of Hatred, is on the horizon, but not everything included will be immediately useful.Aside from the new classes and questline, the Diablo 4 version of the Horadric Cube, first introduced in Diablo 2, is one of the big selling points of the Lord of Hatred DLC. If all goes well, it could shake up endgame itemization in a way that people have been asking for for years. For the uninitiated and in the simplest of terms (I go over it in more detail here), the Cube lets you use items you’d otherwise salvage to upgrade…
Developer American McGee had to learn he was destined for goth greatness at some point, so why not during Quake 2’s development? Somewhere around 30 years ago, he found out he was interested in telling stories through video games in a way his co-workers at id Software didn’t care for, and it eventually led him to create my favorite, graveyard smash Alice games.In response to a clip from his 2000 game American McGee’s Alice on Twitter, the former Doom developer remembers the moment he discovered others at id Software weren’t eager to use the studio’s proprietary Quake engine for “proper…
Xbox is planning to bundle a new Game Pass tier with Discord Nitro.That’s according to a datamine of an upcoming update that mentions ‘Xbox Game Pass (Starter Edition)’, which will allegedly be given to paying Discord users as part of their subscription.According to the datamined text strings, Game Pass Starter Edition will offer access to “50+ games like Stardew Valley, Fallout 4, and Grounded”, plus 10 hours of cloud gaming every month.It’s not clear if the new Standard Edition tier of Game Pass will include online multiplayer, but there doesn’t seem to be a mention of it in the leaked Discord…
Microsoft still isn’t done with its workforce reductions, though this time it’s apparently offering a friendlier way out for long-serving employees. The company is reportedly set to begin offering buyouts to a selection of employees in the US, essentially offering to pay them to retire early. This would be the first time in the company’s 51-year history that a buyout option has been offered.About 7% of Microsoft’s US workforce would be eligible for the buyout, according to a report from CNBC. The program only applies to employees whose age and years of employment combine to 70 or higher, so it’s…
Last month, a report emerged that claimed that Sony would no longer be putting its first-party games like Ghost of Yotei on PC, with online games like Marathon being the exception. The PlayStation maker is yet to confirm or deny this, and the report even noted that Sony’s strategy is “constantly shifting,” meaning this may end up proving untrue. But former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida says he’s not seen any proof of PlayStation changing their strategy this console generation. Yoshida recently made an appearance at Powerhouse Museum’s ALT. Games Festival as a keynote speaker,…
World of Warcraft is in a precarious situation right now. Its latest patch, 12.0.5, brought with it a slew of major bugs, including one so bad Blizzard has had to temporarily switch off housing in The Americas and Oceania. As the developer-publisher continues to put out the various fires in the MMO, it has somehow deemed that the time is ripe for a pricing adjustment in the UK, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Turkey. The optics are, naturally, atrocious. The good news, at least, is that the changes won’t be coming into effect until June. As shared by Blizzard, from Monday, June…
As part of Xbox’s big shakeup that began with the departure of longtime CEO Phil Spencer and president Sarah Bond in February, new CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty say the gaming brand will reevaluate its approach to exclusive games, AI, and windowed releases.Today, Sharma and Booty published a joint message shared to all employees on Xbox Wire, laying out the company’s plans in broad strokes. It’s all very vague and open to some degree of interpretation, but it does a good job providing the general sense of direction Xbox is headed under its new leadership.The writeup leads with…