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Monarchs at Play is a 4X strategy city-builder about chaining hexagonal tiles that only takes an hour out of your day
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Monarchs at Play is a 4X strategy city-builder about chaining hexagonal tiles that only takes an hour out of your day

None of us have any bloody time any more, do we? The economy being in the toilet is obviously part of that, but the other part is that we're all adults and now we have to do responsible adult things like our laundry, and buying toilet paper, and buying toilet paper again because it simply never ends. It all makes playing games just that little bit trickier, especially when it comes to lengthy strategy game runs. If you're longing for a quick dose of some 4X strategy, though, Monarchs at Play,

Discord know they replaced forums, so they're making your messages in discoverable servers searchable, which immediately raises one question: what about AI?
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Discord know they replaced forums, so they're making your messages in discoverable servers searchable, which immediately raises one question: what about AI?

You might want to hold off on that horny posting in your favourite discoverable Discord server. The chat service announced today that any servers that are listed as discoverable, meaning anyone can find them simply through Googling, no invite link required, will now also show messages and discussions posted in said servers on Google. Read more

UK-based Rockstar devs will be putting their union recognition to a vote during GTA 6's launch next month
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UK-based Rockstar devs will be putting their union recognition to a vote during GTA 6's launch next month

November is potentially going to be big for Rockstar Games, and not just because of that GTA 6 thing they're doing. As shared in a press release from the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), recognition of the IWGB Union at Rockstar will be voted upon by staffers at the studio, with votes being held from November 12th (a week before GTA 6's launch date) and November 26th. Read more

A leaked trailer for Transformers: Reactivate shows off the only lick of gameplay we'll likely ever see of the cancelled co-op action game
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A leaked trailer for Transformers: Reactivate shows off the only lick of gameplay we'll likely ever see of the cancelled co-op action game

Back in 2022, Gears Tactics studio Splash Damage revealed that they were working on a Transformers game. It was called Transformers: Reactivate, and at the time was set to be a 1-4 player co-op action game, but come 2025 and the game gets canned all while parent company Tencent was going on a funding withdrawal spree in the games industry. Nothing substantial was ever really shown off of the game, but a trailer has now been leaked featuring what was apparently meant to be an internal look at i

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is wrapping things up with one last big update that adds in new game plus and a throwback to the original game
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is wrapping things up with one last big update that adds in new game plus and a throwback to the original game

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is setting sail for quieter pastures. That's because the game's last big update arrived today, with Ubisoft explaining that there are only plans for quality-of-life updates for the game going forward. Still, it's a meaty enough sounding update, and one that could in theory keep you going forever if you'd like to torture yourself by relegating your life to a single video game. Read more

Demanding 300GB to install despite its actual size of 145GB, Phantom Blade Zero makes me question what a gigabyte is worth
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Demanding 300GB to install despite its actual size of 145GB, Phantom Blade Zero makes me question what a gigabyte is worth

We're not in a very cheap era for PC parts. A (possibly manufactured!) GPU shortage making cards that can actually run modern games near-inaccessible to the vast majority of people, combined with RAM and SSDs just generally being horrifically expensive due to demand for their use in data centers, is making contemporary games with high performance requirements very difficult for some people to justify even trying to run, let alone buy. S-Game's recent reveal of wuxia action game Phantom Blade Ze

"This is a serious incident": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs Warhorse hit by cyberattack targeting their systems and data
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"This is a serious incident": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs Warhorse hit by cyberattack targeting their systems and data

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 developers Warhorse, who're also working on a Lord of the Rings RPG, have revealed that they've been targeted by a cyberattack aiming to access their systems and data. The studio are currently working to make sure their locks are all clicked back into place and tolearn exactly how the incident happened. Read more

Street Fighter V temporarily delisted and online functions turned off due to issues caused by last week's PHP security flaw
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Street Fighter V temporarily delisted and online functions turned off due to issues caused by last week's PHP security flaw

Though Street Fighter 6 has been the most popular fighting game in the world for three years running, there are still dedicated soldiers playing Street Fighter V right now. Be that due to its much larger character roster (thanks to many more years of updates, obviously, but I do personally miss G), its unique V-Skill and V-Trigger mechanics, or people just not liking Drive Rush or throw loops in 6, the playerbase is still very much there. Unfortunately, that playerbase is currently facing the c