Dice accidentally announced a change to XP Boosters in Battlefield 6, and immediately backtracked despite widespread approval of the tweak.
So what if it only stores 64 bits? Each one is a little marvel of 1950s science and engineering.
How about tackling File Explorer next?
I had been feeling guilty about not completing my first bout of sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta – six months on from my 1.0 write-up, I'm still trying to colonise my first asteroid - and now here come developers Pavonis Interactive to smother us in nuclear fire. And swanky new spaceship designs. Read more
Three current Rockstar employees in the UK have accused the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio of effectively baking crunch into their contracts, overseeing a widening gender pay gap, and weaponising bonuses to make workers more compliant, in a new report. It comes as Rockstar gear up for the much-trumpeted console release of GTA 6 this November. Read more
I get the sense the ESA still doesn't like them, much.
The face when no gif.
What about the guy who's obsessed with Metapod?
Thanks to a new Chain Spear weapon, a wealth of new movement abilities have opened up for the Slayer in this "10 to 12 hour" expansion.
Fenris Creations announced today that Carbon, their cross-platform game engine framework behind EVE Online (and EVE Frontier) is now completely open source.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
'Victory is defeat'.
"Why would a game developer bother to put forward their best work under these conditions?"
Helldivers 2's latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet another massive wall of pine-scented gas in space. Kicking off with the Frontlines of Freedom update, out now, it's a bid to keep those evil "fascist" Terminid insects away from Super Earth, building on the foundations of the abortive original "Termicide" campaign back in March 2024. It's also a pisstake of US president Donald Trump's dreams of constructing a massiv
New advertising from Xbox says that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 won't be on Game Pass at launch, but will land on the service eventually.
BlizzCon's new Blizzard Classic Cup even brings back Heroes of the Storm esports, and reignites some of StarCraft's most iconic rivalries.
But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs Archetype Entertainment have decided to set the majority of protagonist Jun Aslan's face in stone to make him a more defined person, leaving only the likes of hair and tattoos fo
You should be able to do whatever you want with hardware you purchase - and the ps5-linux project for the PlayStation 5 continues expanding Linux support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of "demoralizing", "low-effort slop" that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they'll still let people deploy the chatbot technology for smaller, "menial" jobs such as finding and replacing code, they're taking a stricter stance on "vibe coding" – aka, asking a bot to generate whole swathes of code &n
Funcom and Inflexion Games just announced a free four-part story expansion is coming for Conan Exiles Enhanced, starting July 21st.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
If you need free gems, potions, or trait rerolls, these new Anime Card Farm codes should help you on your journey to collect every card.
The developers of the free, open source and cross-platform Godot Engine are adjusting their policies to get stricter on AI code contributions.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Despite yesterday bringing more news of Xbox backing out of funding deals and considering putting studios on the chopping block, the company insist such moves aren't a sign that the mass cuts they've reportedly got in the works are a sign of them scaling back how much cash they're pumping into making games. At the same time, a new report claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft have planned are projected to affect less than 2.5% of the corp's overall workforce, not that that'll soften the blow b
