Author: Rich Stanton
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Troy Baker says it’s not him in GTA 6, and recalls when Todd Howard said ‘I don’t want Troy Baker in our game because he’s in every game’
Omnipresent videogame voice actor Troy Baker, known for major roles in everything from The Last of Us to Metal Gear Solid and Far Cry, has revealed he is not behind one of GTA 6’s main characters (widely referred to as Jason, but yet to be officially named). Following the release of GTA 6’s first trailer…
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Reports of World of Warcraft’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, as Blizzard’s GM proudly wheels out a graph showing it’s doing really well—but no hard numbers
World of Warcraft will celebrate its 20th anniversary on November 23 this year, two decades in which it has established itself as the world’s biggest and most pre-eminent MMO. WoW’s refinement, scale, and endlessly absorbing mix of adventure and brilliant group mechanics has over its lifetime attracted well over 100 million sign-ups, a number that…
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Mass Effect 5 exec producer re-emphasises to fans that all the game’s senior leads are trilogy veterans, and here’s who they are
Believe it or not, it’s been almost four years since Bioware released the first teaser and various pieces of art for the next entry in the Mass Effect series. The game will be the fifth mainline entry and is yet to be named, though the mood music is unmistakeable: following on from the botched fresh…
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South Park: Snow Day review
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A wave-based co-op action game where the South Park kids savage each other.Expect to pay $30/£25Developer QuestionPublisher THQ NordicReviewed on GeForce GTX 1070, 16GB RAM, i7-7700HQMultiplayer? 4 player online co-opLink Official website South Park: Snow Day is a curious game, one that in light of the series’ more ambitious…
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Helldivers 2 CEO says they’ll ‘never’ turn off friendly fire: ‘We would have to turn off bullet damage against enemies as well’
Helldivers 2’s breakout success continues, with the game sitting pretty near the top of Steam’s top-selling and most-played games lists and boasting over 250,000 “very positive” reviews. Partly that’s because it’s a total blast, and the overarching galactic war is being played out beautifully, but not a little is down to the game’s willingness to…
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After a leaker puts XDefiant delay down to chasing COD, the game’s producer can’t resist responding with a ‘major eye roll’
Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter XDefiant was at one stage scheduled to be released in summer 2023. The date was pushed back to October, before a public test saw yet another delay to an unspecified future launch date. The game did remain in Ubisoft’s Q3 2024 earnings report, however, indicating the publisher expected it to release before…
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Ark’s animated series surprise drops with a ludicrously stacked Hollywood cast ready to get chomped by dinos
The first six episodes of Ark: The Animated Series, based on popular dino survival game Ark: Survival Evolved, have released on Paramount+, with seven more episodes to arrive at an unspecified date. The series is perhaps most notable for a stellar line-up of acting talent, including Michelle Yeoh, Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler, David Tennant, Jeffrey…
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The new Windows update made me think I’d installed malware, but it was just Microsoft’s latest attempt to try and fool me into using Bing
Not for the first time, Microsoft has struck upon a winning formula for irritating the hell out of Windows users: pop-up ads in your browser! The latest Windows update was released several days ago, though I only got around to it today, and after installation inserts pop-up adverts into Google Chrome. I couldn’t believe what…
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Stardew Valley’s dripfeed of 1.6 patch notes reaches artistic levels of absurdity: ‘You can now drink mayonnaise’
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update will arrive tomorrow, March 19, and may represent the last set of major additions to the game from creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone. Barone says to expect “a lot more… than people think” and in the runup to the patch’s release has become drunk with power, posting a single patch note every…
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Palworld dev says ‘a game without a multiplayer mode just doesn’t feel right in the era we live today’
2024 has so far seen two breakout hits and, while they’re very different prospects, both share some elements in common. Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2 is the current flavour of the moment, while just before that we saw the huge success of PocketPair’s Palworld. It might not seem the two have much crossover, but both are built…