Modeler CraftyRic showed off three large dioramas from the Fallout universe. The lineup includes Megaton from Fallout 3, the flooded Atlantic City downtown from Fallout 76, and the Brotherhood of Steel airship Prydwen from Fallout 4. CraftyRic built all of the models over the past few years for the tabletop...
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CD Projekt RED marked the 19th anniversary of the first game in the series and reminded fans of the direct support it received from the developers of Mass Effect. BioWare is gone, but the legacy of its RPGs lives on in the work of countless developers. For the makers of...
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Mods usually promise to make a favorite game better, prettier, and more convenient. Sometimes they just make it thinner. So thin that all that remains of the main hero is a head, a white mane, and a pair of swords marching across Velen where the legs should be. That is...
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Of the four cyberarm options in Cyberpunk 2077, the Projectile Launch System sounds the most "cyberpunk" on paper, yet in practice it remains the least noticed. Mantis Blades have long been the calling card of the game, Gorilla Arms crush skulls and open stuck doors, and Monowire became a favorite...
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China AI bubble has already burst, Reuters reports. The mainland STAR50 index, which includes leading AI and semiconductor companies, has fallen 40% in less than four months. Market capitalization has dropped by roughly $480 billion in that time. Beijing fund manager Dong Baozhen described the situation like this. The stock...
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The release of GTA 6 is still ahead, but YouTube is already packed with videos along the lines of "10 things to do on day one." Nearly all of them give the same advice: comb the entire Leonida map right away in search of secrets and the best gear. Some...
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Japanese 3D artist Hirokazu Yokohara showed off a detailed interior scene built entirely by AI. OpenAI GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic Claude Opus assembled the scene in Blender, and then Opus moved it into Unreal Engine 5 on its own. The artist never touched a single Blender tool himself, only giving...
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The second season of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime has sent another wave of newcomers into Cyberpunk 2077. Night City veterans welcomed them in their own way and piled on advice that sounds like gibberish and only makes sense dozens of hours into the game. CD Projekt RED has seen this...
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Former League of Legends world champion Lauri "Cyanide" Happonen has died at the age of 31. The Finnish player passed away on July 31, but his death only became public on October 26. Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat broke the news. Finland's Digital and Population Data Services Agency confirmed Happonen's death. The...
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Modder nicklovin99 has released enRage, a mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 that brings the Nemesis system idea to the Rockstar Games western. The mod is available for download on Nexus Mods. The mechanic first appeared in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor from Monolith Productions in 2014, then evolved in Middle-earth:...
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GSC Game World released update 2.1 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The patch expands the A-Life system, improves long-range firefights, and adds a new way to get around the Zone quickly. Developers also made many fixes and balance changes. The headline addition is manual control over the render distance...
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Sony has released PlayStation 5 firmware update 14.20. According to prolific hacker Ark Sama, the patch closes a major vulnerability that would have allowed pirated games to run natively on the console. News like this usually frustrates modders, but this time the reaction is the opposite. Users on the r/PS5_Jailbreak...
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A Mass Effect 5 trailer was reportedly ready to go before EA canceled the game and shut BioWare down. The claim surfaced on Reddit, in the subreddit for Austin, Texas, where BioWare had a studio. The poster said they saw a finished Mass Effect 5 trailer a few months ago,...
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Lionsgate released the first trailer for the sci-fi movie Above the Below. Idris Elba stars, best known for the series Hijack and Luther. The story follows three astronauts who make an emergency landing in the ocean after a space accident. There is no contact with mission control, and oxygen is...
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X user Eden0032 complained about the delivery of the Xbox 25th anniversary controller. According to the buyer, the device from British retailer Argos arrived soaking wet and damaged. My day's ruined... The controller showed up in a small grey bag with no protection whatsoever, the buyer said. He added that...
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Electronic Arts is shutting down BioWare and ending development of the next Mass Effect. Bloomberg broke the story, and EA soon confirmed 400 layoffs, the studio closure, and the cancellation of the game in the works. The changes are outlined in an internal email sent to staff by EA studios...
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CD Projekt RED published the full Update 2.5 patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077, timed to the release of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime series. The patch arrives October 22 on PC and Mac (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store), PS5, and Xbox Series. Nintendo Switch 2 owners and players on the...
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French World of Warcraft fan Yuna (YUNA) showed off a room in her in-game home with a view of Stormwind. Outside the window, a canal with a stone bridge, street lamps, lion statues, and a lit-up cathedral sit against a starry sky. She built all of it by hand using...
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The PlayStation Game Size account on Twitter revealed the full download size of GTA 6. It comes in at 210 GB, and several journalists have already confirmed the figure after receiving their press copies. Preloading starts on November 12 on all platforms. By base file size, GTA 6 ranks among...
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Games with multiple endings sooner or later run into an awkward question: what actually happened? As long as the universe lives inside a single title, "however you played it" works for everyone. Once an anime or a sequel shows up, though, five endings that someone sobbed over at three in...
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Cyberpunk has spent decades warning about a future where people stuff weapons under their skin and lose their minds to chrome overload. Reality will probably be far more mundane. Give someone extendable combat limbs, and the first thing they will do is reach for a cup at the far end...
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Anyone who caught the Street Fighter movie this weekend may have gotten a blast from the past. The opening sequence is done in a classic hand-drawn anime style and covers the events of the first World Warrior Tournament. Titmouse, the studio behind Star Trek: Lower Decks and DC's upcoming Mister...
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The Razzie Awards are meant to be a bit of fun, but for Jesse Eisenberg, winning one turned into a real career problem. The actor said that taking home a Razzie in 2017 noticeably affected his standing in the industry. I couldn't get into movie studio parts anymore because I...
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The surprise success of the Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 re-releases has been tough to watch for Gavin Goslin, a level designer on the original games. In his view, the people who built the shooters should get a cut of the new sales. In July, Activision...
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Some games forgive bugs, while in others glitches eventually become part of the mythology. But when a title breaks within the first half minute, before the hero even reaches the chopping block, that's a whole other level of hospitality. That's exactly how one newcomer on PC was introduced to Skyrim....
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A digital library creates a pleasant illusion of ownership. You buy a game, activate it, and it sits on a virtual shelf for as long as the account lives. The illusion holds right up until Steam says the license was "recently" revoked, while the activation date reads 2013. That is...
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Portals like the ones in Valve Portal have arrived in Skyrim, except here they come from a spell instead of a portal gun. A new mod for Special Edition adds a pair of magical gateways that let you see straight through to the other side. Stepping through happens with no...
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Graphics don't age on their own – the next game ages them. Until someone raises the bar, yesterday's masterpiece looks like the peak of photorealism. With Grand Theft Auto the effect gets absurd, since the only thing that can ruin the look of a GTA is the next GTA. A...
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Final screen tests for the next 007 kicked off this week, and bookmakers are already taking bets on the lead actor, the Bond girl, and the theme song artist. Jack Lowden is leading the pack, while Margaret Qualley is the most frequent pick for the main female role. According to...
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ProjectAlive opened the Ebbtide Steam page and released an official trailer. The game is a zombie survival RTS. No exact release date has been announced yet. Players lead Task Force 1 "Ark" (TF-1), humanity's last carrier strike group. The war begins in Los Angeles, from the Hollywood Hills to the...
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Logistics in games rarely worries anyone until players get too creative with it. A tidy route scheme between bases slowly turns into a conspiracy theorist wall covered in red string. And along every strand marches a postman armed to the teeth. One Fallout 4 player shared exactly that kind of...
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Rad New World from Frontline Games Series looks like a postcard from 1997. It has an isometric view, a lone wanderer, a scorched wasteland, and a world map with random encounters. The developer openly calls the game a love letter to Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics, but part of...
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Procedural world generation in Minecraft means players occasionally stumble onto truly wild locations. Player ZennithMc recently shared a seed that generates a huge ring of cherry grove. Three islands sit inside the ring, and the seed works in both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. Here is what you need to...
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Valve composer and sound designer Mike Morasky said the codename HLX out loud at GameSoundCon. Valve has never officially acknowledged that the game exists, and the slip came in passing, in the middle of a talk about the studio audio tech. The reaction from Morasky's colleague made the moment even...
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EA is shutting down BioWare, as news broke this week. The legendary studio created many landmark RPGs, including the Mass Effect series, which had a new installment deep in development. Since the announcement, fans have been looking for ways to save the game, and one idea involves Palworld developer Pocketpair....
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Layoffs and restructuring have become a grim routine for the games industry. This week alone, EA closed BioWare, and Xbox announced 3,200 job cuts across its entire division. Rockstar looks far safer by comparison as it prepares to release the massive GTA 6. At least one ex-dev agrees. Jérémy Hartvick...
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Avi Lewis, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, has called on the federal government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselves. The call follows the closure of the Edmonton team behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Lewis blamed Electronic Arts and the private equity model itself...
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A gloomy temple with a giant skull greets everyone who launches Baldur's Gate 3, yet not every player is convinced it exists in the game itself. It does. It's the Temple of Bhaal, one of the key locations in Act 3. The question popped up on Reddit more than three...
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Alex Garland's adaptation of the FromSoftware and George R.R. Martin game is now the most expensive movie in A24 history. According to the Wall Street Journal, the budget sits at "nearly $200 million," and the gap between it and the studio's other films is huge. Over its 14 years, A24...
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners creator Bartosz Sztybor has explained what needs to happen for a third season to get made. He didn't rule out more stories in the universe, but he wouldn't make any predictions either. There’s a lot of stories to tell in Night City and beyond, so you never know....
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