The indie game’s indie game is free on Epic-

This week’s free Epic Game Store giveaway is a small slice of gaming history: Cave Story+, an enhanced version of what the publisher calls “arguably the most well-known indie game of all time.” Cave Story comes from solo developer Daisuke Amaya, and the original game was released for free in 2004 after five years of work (and is still available). A Metroidvania about a robot trying to sa…

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Seeing a video of Elden Ring maps loaded into Armored Core 6 makes me think an AC would just dominate the Lands Between-

After showing off how puny Tarnished are in comparison to Armored Core 6’s maps, dataminer Dropoff has now gone in the opposite direction, demonstrating some beastly-huge mechs thrashing about in comparatively tiny Elden Ring environments.

This isn’t my personal holy grail of a mech one-shotting Malenia with the Red Shift, mind. Dropoff brought the Elden Ring map data into AC6 for a helpf…

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Two years after FF14’s botched distribution of an ‘eat pizza’ emote that sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars (yes, really), you can finally buy it for $7-

A couple of years back, Final Fantasy 14 had a major drama involving a pizza emote, GrubHub, and a promotional campaign some unlucky souls spent over $30 dollars on. Yes, this really was a big deal. Let me explain why.

Back in December 2021, FF14 had an official promotion with GrubHub. It was meant to be a simple, cutesy little event that’d give your Warrior of Light an /eatpizza emote. O…

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Tragic- Skyrim’s ultra-sneaky bucket trick doesn’t work in Starfield-

Back in 2011, scores of Skyrim players became master thieves overnight thanks to the discovery of a simple exploit. The bucket trick, discovered just one day after Skyrim launched, made any NPC completely oblivious to thievery simply by blocking their line-of-sight. The trick? Put a bucket on their head. You’d think an exploit that trivializes pickpocketing and stealth would’ve been removed at …

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The flashlight did not lie- Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor-

One day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy’s Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor.

Alan Wake brings a trio of unique perks to the game, all of them specific to the character. Champion of Light grants Wake faster movem…

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Activision wins $14.5 million in lawsuit against Call of Duty cheat maker-

Activision has won a judgment worth more than $14.5 million against cheat maker EngineOwning, which has also been ordered to stop making cheat software and to turn over its website to Activision’s control.

The case began in 2022, when Activision filed a lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of “trafficking in circumvention devices”, “intentional interference with contractual relations”, and “unfa…

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With thousands still playing, this extraction shooter is shutting down after barely a year online-

I’m pretty sure online multiplayer shooters are heading for some sort of demographic crisis, because the death rate must be outpacing the birth rate at this point. The Cycle: Frontier, a PvPvE extraction shooter that released on June 8 last year is shutting up shop for good, even though it still regularly hits player counts of around 2,000 and its lead producer once told NME he had “bet [his] c…

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Where the heck do GPU prices go from here–

New mid-range GPUs from AMD and Nvidia are just around the corner, including the Nvidia RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 cards and AMD’s Radeon RX 7800 and 7700. Well, we say mid-range and therein lies the problem. Where the heck are these graphics cards going to be priced?

All the indications are that the likes of Nvidia’s TX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti along with AMD’s RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX are pret…

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Xbox sparks dev revolt with new AI writing partnership- ‘Lots of people are going to get fired, games will get worse, and C-suite will get millions’-

Xbox has announced a partnership with a company called Inworld AI in order to “empower game creators with the potential of generative AI” and no, you aren’t the only one who thinks that sounds incredibly ominous.

In a post to the Microsoft Developer blog, Xbox’s general manager of gaming AI Haiyan Zhang announced a “multi-year partnership” with Inworld aimed at building “AI game dialogue …

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Wordle today- Hint and answer #922 for Thursday, December 28-

Everything you need to clear today’s Wordle is right here. Make the most of every guess with our general tips and tricks, or give a tough game an instant boost with a clue written just for today’s puzzle. Need something more direct? Then click or scroll your way to the answer to the December 28 (922) game and enjoy your latest victory.

A lightning fast win in just two goes? That’s definit…

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