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The videogame universe feels split down the middle at the moment. Every day brings a new round of X discourse about literally anything, and it feels like we consistently seem to be straying farther and farther from God. The one thing that truly unites us, however, is our hatred for cheaters – no matter your background, no one likes those guys. League of Legends’ Director of Product, Drew Levin, has become a walking, talking, Poppy-esque ban hammer, cracking down on myriad rulebreakers over the past few months and establishing himself as somewhat of an icon. Next on his list is a…
You will suspect this already, I’m sure, but all those 90 percent scores that your favorite Bullfrog games were awarded back in the day, well, their authors may not have been quite as scientific in their endeavors as you were once led to believe.That’s not to suggest anything untoward was behind any of them – certainly not the vast majority anyway – only that the four-week cycle of print publishing that once ringfenced gamer discourse meant that reviews were handled very differently to how they are today, certainly when it came to titles that adorned the covers of magazines in…
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says he doesn’t see any proof Sony is abandoning PC releases, but says day-one PC launches aren’t a great idea, anyway.Speaking in an interview at Powerhouse Museum’s ALT. Games Festival (via Respawn First) Yoshida says, “When I was working on the game development side, first-party at PlayStation, from a strategy standpoint, we are [sic] not allowed to bring our AAA games to other platforms like PC.”The first major first-party PC release was Horizon: Zero Dawn in 2020 – which was released almost a year after Yoshida stepped down as president of SIE Worldwide Studios. He…
If you’ve ever longed to see Rockstar’s controversial early 2000s snuff game Manhunt get a fully-blown crossover with its slightly more jovially murdery sibling Grand Theft Auto, a San Andreas total conversion mod that’s recently released its first playable demo might be up your alley. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put some distance between me and that probably very bloodstained alley.
Since the release of CS2 back in 2023, Valve has been remastering classic Counter-Strike maps for the new game, giving them fresh coats of paint and adjusting how they play. Now, we’re getting our first look at the new version of Cache, with Valve giving us a sneak peek at T-side spawn. Cache is one of Counter-Strike’s most iconic maps, but it was removed from the active map pool in 2019. Since then, fans of the legendary FPS game have been clamoring for its return, but Valve has stayed silent on the matter until now. It’s been almost a year…
Vintage specialist Retro Games Ltd has released a special white edition of its revamped ZX Spectrum.The modernised device, simply named The Spectrum, was released in November 2024 and included 48 built-in games.Now a white edition has been released, designed to pay tribute to one of UK computing’s most oft-repeated stories.The story goes that a special version of the ZX Spectrum with a white case instead of its usual black case was given to its inventor Clive Sinclair, to mark 1 million units sold.While the white Spectrum was a one-off that was never commercially released – and while some even question…
Martin Scorsese is heading to a galaxy far, far away in new Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. He’s playing an Ardennian who owns a food truck – and according to director Jon Favreau, he brought a lot of improv to the role.”He did a lot of improv, he was just a lot of fun,” Favreau told Fandango. “It’s interesting because when the director is on their set, they’re running the show, but I find when directors are on other people’s sets, they just want to play and have fun, and he just had a great time. It was…
If you’ve spent days trapped in a loo after Samson cheekly locked you in one during a mission, then I bring good news. Liquid Swords’ latest patch for their buggy crime sim’s freed you from your bondage, while also adding some new tuned cars for you to race around while you celebrate no longer being stuck in the shitter.
Xbox is reportedly considering a new model for its Game Pass subscription, allowing you to dictate how much you pay for the service by selecting specific features and content packages, and removing ones you’re not interested in. That would mean that, if you subscribed to Game Pass Ultimate but didn’t want to pay for Fortnite Crew or access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, you could simply remove them from your package and reduce the monthly cost. The report also suggests that Xbox could tie in other subscriptions and perks that you would be able to select instead, such as signing up…
Crimson Desert has received a new update which adds difficulty levels among other new features.Version 1.04 is rolling out now on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, with a Mac release coming “at a later time”.The main new addition is Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty options, for players who want to make their journey less or more challenging.Easy mode reduces the amount of damage taken by the player, increases the timing windows for parries and dodges, and makes enemies slower, weaker and less aggressive.Hard mode, meanwhile, does the opposite of this, as well as reducing the length of time rolling makes players…