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Regardless of whether you’ve laid hands on the plastic contours of a Steam Deck, you’ve probably seen the Steam Deck Verified programme in action: badges of honour (or of ‘Unsupported’ disgrace) on a game’s Steam store page, reflecting how well it runs and plays on the portable PC per Valve’s in-house testing. The programme is being expanded to include the upcoming Steam Machine too, and is set to bestow a lot more games with Steam Machine Verified status, given what a Valve designer calls “fewer restraints” in their judging criteria. Lawrence Yang – who’s worked on the new Machine, the…
What are the best Minecraft seeds? If you thought Minecraft generation was random, think again. Well, technically it is, but that RNG is saved under a Minecraft seed, which can then be replicated time and time again. If you or your friends have found an incredible seed, you can restart it or share it as much as you want. With the Minecraft seeds we’ve shared below, you can find Minecraft villages at spawn and easy-access strongholds for speedrunning, beautiful landscapes for building, or rare structures for looting in the sandbox game. Given the infinite nature of seeds and worlds in…
Battlefield Studios has confirmed that the upcoming second season of Battlefield 6 has been delayed by around a month.Season 1 was set to end on January 20, but it has now been confirmed that it will be extended by four weeks until February 17, at which point Season 2 will finally begin.In an update posted on the game’s official website, the team explained that Season 2 wasn’t quite ready to launch at an acceptable standard, and so it was being held back until it was ready.“During our ongoing development, we’ve continued to review community feedback and, in order to keep…
A well-documented enthusiast of Arc Raiders, retired Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro and current streamer Shroud says that if Embark’s extraction shooter was out for just a few more months, it would’ve taken home the Game of the Year prize over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.He, full name Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek, says as much on a recent stream. “I really do believe if this game came out at this state in the summer, it for sure wins. 10,000%,” he states. “But there’s just not enough time – three weeks, four weeks is not enough time to process how good a game actually…
BioWare’s misbegotten mech-me-do Anthem died this week after EA pulled the official servers. It’s a sad day for people who saw promise in the game’s sci-fi world and flight mechanics, however spoiled by the always-online looter-shooting, and a happy day for people who really hated being called “freelancer” in community bulletins. I was an actual freelancer when Anthem came out in 2019, and I didn’t get no mech suit. At least when the Destiny developers call you a Guardian, it feels sort of romantic, rather than like rubbing your nose in your own economic precarity. Anyway, ‘officially unsupported’ doesn’t necessarily…
We regularly see Samsung offering deals on its gaming monitors, from its $1,000+ giant OLED panels all the way down to its most modest options. It’s the latter that we’re looking at today, with this 27-inch Samsung gaming monitor deal offering incredible value thanks to a huge 36% discount, from $249.99 down to just $159.99. This isn’t a truly entry-level gaming display either. With a 2,560 x 1,440 (1440p) resolution, a 200Hz refresh rate, and the excellent viewing angles you can expect from using an IPS LCD panel, this Samsung panel is a great mid-range option for anyone wanting to…
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has alleged that an ongoing lawsuit objecting to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard was secretly designed to help rival publisher Embracer Group.As reported by Game File, the lawsuit was filed back in 2022 by a Swedish pension fund called Sjunde AP-Fonden, also known as AP7, and alleged that Kotick rushed the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft so he could avoid the consequences of the sexual misconduct claims at the time.In a recently filed ‘answer’ to the lawsuit, Kotick and his lawyers not only denied the claim, but has made a counterclaim that AP7 had…
The Duffer Brothers have revealed that the Stranger Things season 5 finale was “the most difficult writing circumstance” they’ve ever experienced.”We were getting hammered constantly by production and by Netflix for episode 8,” the duo revealed in the new documentary One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things. “It was the most difficult writing circumstance we’ve ever found ourselves in, not just because of the pressure to make sure the script was good, but because there was never so much noise at the same time.”Matt Duffer also admitted that “we went into production without having a finished script for the…
Let the runes of protection blaze upon the vestments of the machine spirit; let psalm pervade circuitry and obliterate the Enemy’s designs; let fire and catechism fall upon the creeping ruin of Abominable Intelligence. Brothers! The hour of motion is at hand. Games Workshop have banned their employees from using generative AI tools to create or design Warhammer stuff, because their senior management don’t consider the technology very “exciting”. Their CEO also seems irked about software companies shoving generative AI into every new device or system update, whether it’s desired or not. The tech-priests are coming for your candy ass,…
Riftbound has been both a blessing and a curse for Riot. The League of Legends card game is by far the most exciting thing the developer has done in years, but heavy is the cardboard crown. Set 1, Origins, sold out everywhere, with players waiting weeks for restocks and rares going missing from quite a few packs. Speaking to us at the TFT Paris Open last year, game director Dave Guskin admitted that Riot “undershot” in its estimations, but assured that it was “pulling all the levers [it could] to get the product out to players as quickly as [it]…