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Earlier this week players of Nexon’s new looter-shooter The First Descendant made a wonderful discovery: The game has its own Destiny-style loot cave. Soon christened “the Valby Run”, this area features mobs that respawn infinitely and at a high rate, which can be farmed endlessly for oodles of the game’s currencies and gear. And the big surprise was that the developers didn’t seem all…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…