Author: Harvey Randall
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‘They are afraid of me’: Mastermind speedrunner bends the rules of a meme contest and bakes 12 actual cookies in under 4 minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category
There’s a rule you’ll have likely observed if you’ve been on the internet long enough—namely, if someone starts to do something as a joke, it’s only a matter of time before it’s taken very seriously. Well, it’s happened again—there is now a shockingly competitive, potentially fire-hazardous any% speedrun to bake 12 cookies. In real life.…
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Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated ‘NEO-NPCs’ will make games ‘more alive and richer’, whatever that means
Ubisoft wants investors to know that it’s still all-in on the AI-generated NPCs thing, according to a recent Q&A session (which you can access on the Ubisoft website). Fielding queries after a financial report, CEO Yves Guillemot insisted that there’s still a bright future for uncanny NPCs delivering awkward and stilted performances with precious little…
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Helldivers 2 community rallies behind wholesome hero after a remorseful villain kicks them, giving rise to Super Earth’s new battlecry: ‘im frend’
Helldivers 2 players have added a new deity to their ever-evolving lore—joining the pantheon alongside the almighty Joel, his loki-like doppelganger, and the betrayer deity GantzTheDemon. This latest addition is more innocent and wholesome by half: the big-hearted dremskiy, who wants you to know one thing: “im frend”. It all begins in a set of…
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This ‘souls-like platonic dating simulator’ is (not so) secretly an Undertale-adjacent RPG with zero restraint, and I need a lie down after trying it
Sometimes, when I sit down to spend some time with a new game for a quick and simple ‘hey, this thing exists’ news story, I do so with the understanding that I’ll be playing a game—or a demo, as is the case here—and evaluating its strengths, its weaknesses, and its promises. Taking a critical and…
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Helldivers 2 dev says patrol spawn rates are busted and that Arrowhead’s walking its changes back, but ‘we want to give it proper testing’ to ‘see that it works this time’
Helldivers 2’s patrol rates have been a little wonky for a while. After a patch angled at making patrol spawns equitable for solo players (in other words, harder), it was revealed that said update actually just made solo diver’s lives just as much of a living hell as a squad of four. Which didn’t seem…
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Hades 2 will be getting the first of many patches later this month, as Supergiant starts brewing quality-of-life changes to resource gathering and movement in its cauldron
Hades 2 released into early access earlier this month—and it’s been doing gangbusters, unsurprisingly. Supergiant has a sterling reputation behind it, with so much industry heft to every step it takes that other indie devs have already leapt out of the way of the game’s early access, considered a quasi-‘shadow drop’. I’ve apparently already sunk…
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The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role’s first D&D campaign-turned animated series, quietly reveals a third season is coming later this year
It really has been wild to watch Critical Role rise to its current fame. Not to get all hipster about it, but I hopped on back when Campaign 1 was barely out of its Geek & Sundry origins—and now it’s a whole franchise. It’s even making its own home-baked TTRPG—no, scratch, that, two of them. …
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‘Thank you so much for the second chance chooms’: Cyberpunk 2077’s developers enjoy a well-earned bask as the game finally hits Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
Ah, Cyberpunk 2077—it’s incredible to think that a game that launched so disastrously it prompted a class-action lawsuit is, years later, being praised as one of the best RPGs you can play right now. At least if its currently ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ recent reviews on Steam are anything to go by. PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon did…
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Solo players, it’s not just you: 1-player missions in Helldivers 2 currently have 4-player patrol spawn times
Helldivers 2, despite being a co-op shooter, does have a respectable contingent of lone wolves. That’s for a variety of reasons—including (but not limited to) just liking the unique experience of it more. As of patch 1.000.300, however, solo missions have become a whole lot harder, just likely not in the way its devs intended…
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You can buy Prey, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3 at just under $2 a pop right now—that’s 3 games for less than I’ll be spending on lunch today
In case you’ve never played Prey, Fallout 3, or its ‘cooler Daniel’ Fallout: New Vegas—I’ve got great news. You can get all three of them for less than I, PC Gamer writer Harvey Randall, will be spending on lunch shortly after I write this. I don’t have a lot in my fridge at the moment,…