Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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Overwatch 2 director: New ranked system suffers from ‘poor comprehension,’ will change in future seasons
[ad_1] A lot of Overwatch 2 players aren’t happy with the sequel’s new ranked mode, and Blizzard is starting to agree. In a new blog post (opens in new tab) meant to address recent player complaints, Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller said improvements to Competitive mode, including “more clarity” around what ranks mean, are…
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Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is slowly turning back into Warzone 1
[ad_1] Infinity Ward is hitting backspace on some of the most interesting changes it made to Call of Duty: Warzone 2 (opens in new tab). Starting in season 2, key adjustments to the gulag, loot system, and in-game economy will roll back to how they worked in Warzone 1. It’s a little unusual for Warzone…
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Steam’s second most-wishlisted game is a huge mystery—here’s what we know about it
[ad_1] The second-most wishlisted game on Steam is right around the corner, and we still don’t know much about it. With one impressive trailer and a logo that looks like it fell out of a popular PlayStation series, The Day Before has managed to garner as much interest on Steam as Starfield and Hogwarts Legacy.…
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Game that promised no paid DLC ever is getting paid DLC: ‘We need a way to continue to fund the development’
[ad_1] Longtime players of the milsim FPS Squad were blindsided yesterday when developer Offworld Industries announced (opens in new tab) that the game once promised to never sell paid DLC will, in fact, start selling paid DLC in its next update. Offworld is starting small with two packs of paid emotes accompanying one set of…
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The studio behind Total War is making an FPS, and you can sign up to play it this weekend
[ad_1] Creative Assembly, the folks that make all those Total War games and once upon a time also made our 2014 GOTY Alien: Isolation (opens in new tab), is releasing an extraction shooter sometime this year. It’s called Hyenas, and despite some members of the press and early playtesters getting a good look at it…
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Warzone 2 is getting its most-requested feature in Season 2, but we’ll have to wait a bit longer
[ad_1] The release of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 in November was, for the most part, a clean break from the original game. It had largely the same features, a great new map, DMZ mode, and lots of neat quality-of-life updates. The one thing that Warzone 2 did not have, to the dismay of a…
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Buy Hitman 3 for $21 right now and you’ll get the first two games for free
[ad_1] In an attempt to make buying Hitman less confusing, IO Interactive is making big changes to how all three of its modern stealth classics are sold: Starting January 26, there will be only one full version of Hitman. That version is called Hitman: World of Assassination, and it’ll include every base level from Hitman…
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The PC finally got a Smash Bros. worth celebrating in 2022
[ad_1] Personal Picks (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2022 (opens in new tab), each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. There was…
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Discord can suck up an alarming amount of data, and 4 other things I learned by reviewing my PC’s data footprint
[ad_1] I walk through life unburdened by data caps. It’s a privilege many don’t have in the US, and one I’ve taken for granted for as long as I’ve been online. Whether it’s my home PC or the little supercomputer in my pocket, I put exactly zero thought into how many gigabytes I’m absorbing from…
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Is it weird that I still play games at 1080p?
[ad_1] I have resolution anxiety. Not in the New Year’s sense of a promise to myself I could not keep, but in the total number of pixels sense. Lately, I’ve been feeling self conscious about the resolution that I play all PC games at: 1080p. It started a few months ago when the PC Gamer…