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The latest Marathon update looks like it will mean an easier time. UESC enemies have been made weaker, the frequency with which they chuck EMP grenades has been reduced, and free loadouts now come with even more ammo. Yet, after spending an hour over lunch being killed repeatedly in Maintenance on Dire Marsh, I can confirm that Marathon has not become a cakewalk.
Today, Fortnite is one of the biggest and best battle royale games, an open-world Lego adventure, a spiritual successor to Guitar Hero, and a massive canvas for players to create whatever the heck they want. But before all of that, it was a co-op PvE survival shooter. Save the World, as the mode came to be known, was the launchpad for everything Fortnite became, but it’s been mostly forgotten, living life as a niche, premium experience. However, nine years later, Epic Games clearly sees some renewed potential in Save the World – either that, or it just feels super guilty…
It’s impossible to divorce Marathon from the context surrounding its development.In July 2024, merely a month after Bungie culminated years of narrative in Destiny 2 with The Final Shape, 220 staff were laid off. As the studio continued development on the longstanding shooter, the attention on Marathon — an extraction shooter set in the same universe as the studio’s namesake series from the late 90s — has been mired in complications.This precedent, one that spans layoffs, management changes, and a significant delay, is reflected in the version of Marathon that launched last week. It’s a shooter with a graceful visual…
When it comes to game development, small changes can make a big difference, like the parrying sound in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Timing was a bit of a problem earlier on in Sandfall Entertainment’s multi-award winning epic RPG, but the sound design team were able to help remedy the situation, as Olivier Penchenier, the technical and sound designer, explained during a talk at GDC 2026 attended by GamesRadar+.”We realized that parrying was not easy for the player,” he says. “So Guillaume [Broche, director] asked me if something could help the player to get good timing on the attack. I didn’t…
Intel have announced a handful of new gaming CPUs, the Core Ultra 200S Plus series, to release next month. After 2024’s original Core Ultra 200S family went for efficiency gains at the cost of frame-punching game power, these 200S Plus chips are once again tuned more for straight performance, which sounds good to me. I like lower electricity bills and heat generation as much as the next hardware editor, and was fairly optimistic about that initial batch of Core Ultras at first, but they ended up so slow and dull it essentially put me off writing about CPUs for a…
Is Slay the Spire 2 coming to Game Pass? If you’re keen to jump into Mega Crit’s follow-up to the ever-popular roguelike deckbuilding game, here’s whether you can grab it on Game Pass. Slay the Spire 2 is currently in early access, but there’s still a ton of content available, from unlocking all five characters with ten Ascension levels per character to mastering each class, including the Regent. If you can’t wait until the full release of the game, here’s whether you can get Slay the Spire 2 on Microsoft’s subscription service. Is Slay the Spire 2 on Game Pass?…
The creator of critically acclaimed RPG Chained Echoes says he’s suing the company that was supposed to release the physical edition of the game.The 16-bit inspired RPG’s Kickstarter campaign was launched in February 2019 and easily surpassed its funding goal, with more than 4,500 backers pledging €130,409 to fund the game’s release.The digital edition of the game was released in December 2022, with a physical edition set to be released later by First Press Games.In an update posted in June 2024, the game’s creator Matthias Linda told backers that the physical version of the game was approved by Sony and…
Intel has had it rough in the desktop CPU market for a few years now, but it’s just officially announcing a refresh of its most recent Core Ultra processors, and I think things might be starting to look up. A Core Ultra series refresh has been rumored for a little while now, but Intel is officially launching two new CPUs for gaming later this month, and they’ll use the same LGA1851 motherboard socket as the original range.Specifically, Intel has announced the new Intel Core Ultra 5 250K/KF Plus starting at $199 and the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K/KF Plus starting…
A team of modders are creating a Community Edition of Arkane’s footloose fantasy RPG Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, with Valve’s support and publisher Ubisoft’s approval. The modders in question are the same outfit who received a “completely blank check” from Ubi to develop a modding SDK, back in 2023. Now, they’re devising a new version using the latest Source Engine SDK. Kickbait, indeed.
Intel has officially unveiled its two latest processors aimed at wrestling back a little bit of gaming PC market share from AMD’s dominant Ryzen 7000 and 9000 chips. The new Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus lineup of the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus are its “fastest gaming processors ever,” but still aren’t going to topple the almighty Ryzen 7 9850X3D. However, with prices starting at just $199, Intel thinks they’ll offer “more performance per dollar” than rival options. The new 200S Plus range is Intel’s third attempt at turning its Core Ultra 200 range…