Author: [email protected] (Andy Chalk)
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BlizzCon 2024 isn’t happening | PC Gamer
One year after bringing it back as a live event for the first time since 2019, Blizzard has announced that the annual weekend convention known as BlizzCon will not return for 2024. The studio says it made the decision internally, not at the direction of new owner Microsoft. “After careful consideration over the last year,…
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‘We aren’t going anywhere,’ TikTok CEO says as company vows to fight US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says the company will challenge a recently-signed US law requiring the platform be sold off by Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a block in the US, and warned that the true goal of legislators is not to force a change of ownership but simply to ban access to the…
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Garry’s Mod is removing 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related items from its Steam Workshop following takedown request: ‘It’s Nintendo. Need more be said?’
Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo, the famed physics sandbox Garry’s Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop. “Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down,” Facepunch Studios said in a Steam update. “This is not a mistake, the takedowns came…
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No Rest for the Wicked chief defends early access, says more games should do it: ‘Imagine [if] Dark Souls 1 had been in early access’
No Rest for the Wicked, the action RPG from Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios, launched into early access on Steam last week, and it’s really quite good. Not everyone is entirely taken with it, though: An awful lot of negative reviews flowed in immediately after release, complaining about a raft of issues…
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Fallout showrunners talk about the show’s take on New Vegas: ‘The idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us’
I will begin by stating the obvious: There are going to be spoilers about the Fallout television show on Amazon. Much like being in the neighborhood when a nuclear blast goes off, you can either avert your eyes or suffer the consequences. The Fallout series on Amazon is a hit, but not everyone is entirely…
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Josh Sawyer understands why some fans are annoyed by the treatment of New Vegas in Amazon’s Fallout series, but he’s not one of them: ‘Whatever happens with it, I don’t care’
Quite a few committed Fallout fans weren’t happy with the way the Amazon television series appeared to negate—or at least mess with—the presence of Fallout: New Vegas in the canon. But Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer isn’t one of them. In an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Sawyer said he understands why there was…
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Gloomhaven studio releases a demo for a new game and lays off more than half its employees on the same day
In a strange and unfortunate turn, indie developer Flaming Fowl Studios, known for past games including Fable Fortune and Gloomhaven, has released a demo for a new game on Steam while simultaneously laying off more than half its employees. “Today we are releasing a demo of Ironmarked, a new game we have been working on…
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Todd Howard reveals his favorite moment from the Fallout television show, and in hindsight it’s really no surprise at all
Todd Howard recently shared his favorite moment from Amazon’s hit Fallout television series, and if you’ve been keeping up with his work over the years it’ll come as absolutely no surprise: It’s the transition from the safety of the Vault to the dangers of the wide open world. “I still love the moment that Lucy…
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Fortnite is adding a toggle to disable ‘confrontational emotes’ including Laugh it Up and Take the L
Epic Games is adding a new feature to Fortnite that will give players the option to disable “confrontational” emotes in the game, so they won’t have to deal with excess taunting from other players. The new “See Confrontational Emotes” option will give players the ability to select whether or not they want to see “certain…
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El Paso, Elsewhere, a Max Payne-inspired shooter about keeping your vampire ex-lover from destroying the world, is being made into a movie
The Max Payne movie really sucked. It sucked so bad that I can’t remember a thing about it even though I’m pretty sure I watched it, a bit of selective amnesia that I assume is my brain protecting me from the trauma of seeing my beloved Max done so dirty. But that’s not keeping the…