Betawatch: Stars Reach sets course for early access, EverQuest Legends successfully launches
With Stars Reach having announced that its paid early access is starting in just a couple of weeks on August 18th, I am eventually going to...
Does crime pay? It does in GTA Online’s new summer heist event
Grand Theft Auto Online is going to celebrate its summer, and it is doing so by asking why you don’t perform some extra additional theft...
Genshin Impact releases a new trailer to herald the opening of Snezhnaya on August 12
Long-time Genshin Impact players have likely been eagerly awaiting their opportunity to visit the frosty land of Snezhnaya on Wednesday, August 12th — an area that’s...
Doom Gets Ported To Legendary Commodore 64 After 33-Year Wait
We’ve seen some wild Doom ports over the years, and a recent official release for some modern platforms, but today’s news may take the cake. Career game developer Steve McCrea, who goes by @Kweepa on X, has brought Doom to the Commodore 64, and the system doesn’t need any mods or memory expansion to run it.
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Shocking, Anthropic’s Claude Is Also A Kleptomaniac
It's a bit of a challenge to write about the behaviour of LLM's without anthropomorphizing them; humans habitually assign agency to just about anything they...
Whatever happened to NCsoft’s MMORPGs Blade & Soul and Blade & Soul NEO?
Blink and you probably missed it considering everything else happening in gaming and in our corner of it, but we’ve come to realize that Blade and...
Post-apocalyptic MMO Afterglow globally launches on iOS and Android
Just because the world ends doesn’t mean that you’ll automatically have a lot of extra time on your hands. What with fending off the raiding...
MSI Unlocks Ultra Low Latency Performance For Standard DDR5 RAM
It got a bit buried in all the other announcements, but back at Computex in May, AMD announced EXPO Ultra Low Latency (EXPO ULL), a new classification of memory kits that not only run high transfer rates but also exceptionally low sub-timings. This offers outsized improvements in performance, especially 1% low frame times, in games that are
ARC Raiders improves its matchmaking system to protect carebears from the horrors of PvP slaughter floors
Will Embark ever stop monkeying around with ARC Raiders’ matchmaking system? Maybe not in our lifetime, because both the studio and playerbase of this shooter...
Skyrim Username Mix-Up Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
If you were to pick a Kik handle with a The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim theme, you might opt for “fus ro dah,” the iconic dragon shout from the game. A Canadian man named Brandon Klayme did exactly this, parking “fus_ro_dah” on the service before anyone else could grab the handle, but in the process set himself up for some heinous child sex abuse