Author: Jody Macgregor
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Blizzard backs down on unpopular Hearthstone change, so now weekly quests will ‘only’ waste twice as much of your time, rather than triple
As our Tim Clark wrote when he complained about live service games wasting players’ time just to boost phoney player engagement numbers, “almost everyone reading this will be familiar with games that use predatory design in order to keep players logged in, whether that be to juice those all-important Daily Average User numbers so beloved…
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Warhammer 40,000 has slightly more women in it now and the neckbeards aren’t happy
Since Warhammer 40,000’s 10th edition was released last year, each of the wargame’s factions has been getting the traditional rules refresh in the form of a new Codex book. The latest deals with the Adeptus Custodes, genetically engineered bodyguards of the Emperor so gigantic they make space marines look weedy. (They also happen to be…
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Someone has a ‘brainrot theory’ about what’s going on with the Brotherhood in the Fallout TV show and I kind of want it to be true
The Fallout games have showcased several different chapters of the Brotherhood of Steel, and each one has been different in its own way. While described as being “a little fanatical” even in the isometric Fallout days, the Amazon show’s chapter seemed particularly heavy on the olde worlde religious overtones. According to a self-described “brainrot theory”…
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There’s a Pac-Man battle royale coming to Steam
Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle originally released back in 2020 as a Stadia exclusive, and seemed to have died with Google’s gaming platform. But you can’t keep a good Pac-Man down. He’s been chewing his way out of Stadia’s corpse ever since. Renamed Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs, the battle royale-inspired multiplayer version of the…
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Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition update adds cross-platform multiplayer, another cut character, and more
Ye olde 1990s knockabout shooter Rise of the Triad was remastered and rereleased as Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition last year. As our Shaun Prescott said at the time, it hasn’t aged well but you should still play it. It’s a goofball historical artifact with some fun power-ups and more hidden doors than Castle…
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The Fallout London mod has been delayed by Fallout 4’s planned next-gen update
Fallout: London is an ambitious project, a Fallout 4 overhaul set it what probably isn’t be a “green and pleasant land” in the post-apocalyptic times. I mean, it might still be green but only because it’s glowing. It’s a big project, one that will feature Baldur’s Gate 3 voice actor Neil Newbon, but it’s had…
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I tried to figure out the builds and perks of the Fallout TV show’s protagonists
When I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I spent half the movie trying to figure out everyone’s subclass and abilities. (Clearly, the DM house-ruled how many times a druid can use wildshape per day.) I can’t help it, there’s a part of my brain that thinks about everything in game terms. I couldn’t…
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Steam is about to have a big sale on shooters of the first-person variety
Third-person shooters? You can keep ’em. Unless they have an option to also be played in the first-person, in which case I guess they might be included in the Steam FPS Fest, a sale on games of the Doom clone variety that will be kicking off on April 15. Some of the games due to…
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There’s a Dragon’s Dogma 2 mod to make pawns shut the hell up and thank goodness for that
“Look, Arisen, a ladder! We should climb it, Arisen! I think, Arisen, there may be something to discover atop yon ladder, after we climb it, mayhaps?” At first, I liked my main pawn. At least, after I changed her vocation from the entirely useless archer to the far more valuable mage. But then she and…
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Last Epoch cracks down on item duplicates and gold exploit: ‘We don’t think it’s a very controversial statement to say that abusing an exploit, ruining the game for all players is not acceptable, and that doing so should result in a ban’
The curse of the online action RPG strikes again: real-money trading and gold exploits. Lost Ark was plagued by it and now Last Epoch is too. Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour has posted a statement on the subject, saying, “We take exploits within Last Epoch very seriously and ensure that any time an exploit comes…