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Microsoft is holding an Xbox Games Showcase in June, which will be its first big online event featuring games from its still-relatively-new crown jewel, Activision Blizzard. It’s also teasing a follow-on presentation similar to the Starfield Direct stream in 2023 but focused on an all-new game, and while it’s keeping the title of that game…

Hot on the heels of a major uptick in players driven by the hit Fallout series on Amazon, Fallout 76 has been given a beefy new update that makes a number of bug fixes and quality of life changes that, among other things, will make life easier when making big trades with merchants. There’s also…

We’ve been waiting for word on when Shattered Space, the first Starfield expansion, will arrive, and now we have it—or at least a somewhat narrower release window. During an interview with Kinda Funny Games today, Todd Howard revealed that the big add-on is expected to be out this fall. Howard mentioned the detail in a…

Back in January 2021, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer unveiled Project Hazel, a “surgical N95 respirator” with—of course—RGB lighting. There was just one problem: The Zephyr, as it came to be known, wasn’t actually N95 rated at all, and that little oversight is going to cost the company more than $1.1 million.…

In retrospect, given the series’ title, it’s a little surprising this didn’t happen sooner. Jackbox is making its “first foray into the world of mature gaming” with the Jackbox Naughty Pack, a collection of three “adult-themed experiences” that promise “laughter, wit, and a touch of irreverence.” “Dim the lights and charge up your devices (you…

Manor Lords is out today and it’s going gangbusters, having now surpassed 150,000 concurrent players on Steam. It’s also sitting atop a “very positive” user rating, with 90% of the more than 1,600 user reviews posted so far. That’s a pretty good first day, and at this point I’m left with just one burning question:…

A week after a report revealed a site called Spy.pet that claimed to have scraped billions of public messages posted to Discord and was offering them for sale, Discord has banned multiple accounts connected to the site, which has now gone offline. Discord said when Spy.pet was first reported that it was “investigating the matter,”…

Yet another Stardew Valley patch has arrived, this one “mostly bug fixes and translation changes” according to creator Eric Barone. But that doesn’t mean it’s not important: This one keeps Mr. Raccoon from disappearing during the raccoon cutscene in multiplayer. I think we can all agree that’s vital stuff. I don’t play Stardew Valley, but…

A study about what might happen at the end of the world based on player behaviour in the Korean MMO ArcheAge is about to be put to the test. After a nearly 10-year run on Steam, ArcheAge servers in North America and Europe will be closed in June. “After discussing the performance of ArcheAge with…