Anytime you’re talking about the hottest game on Steam, there’s an evergreen unspoken caveat: ‘after Counter-Strike, of course.’ CS2 is unquestionably Steam’s killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. But don’t count out the game it once absorbed … Read more
A new Fallout 4 mod, Double Feature, is the fourth collaboration by modders Kinggath and co. with Elder Scrolls icon Wes Johnson—the man behind characters like Molag Bal, Sheogorath, and a whole lot more—as well as Fallout actors Jan Johns and Leer Leary. It’s part of Kinggath’s annual modding for charity project, which led to … Read more
Epic Games has reached a proposed settlement with a former contractor who it accused in March of being notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN. The agreement will see the defendant permanently barred from “possessing, accessing, using, or disclosing any of Epic’s confidential or trade secret information,” or helping anyone else do the same. Epic filed the action … Read more
If you take a gander inside your gaming PC and randomly point at any component in there, you’re almost certainly going to land on something that’s noticeably more expensive than it was just 12 months ago. And if that so happens to be an Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus chip, then that’s included too, as … Read more
Google has lost another protracted antitrust fight in the EU. Back in 2018, the European Commission fined the company billions of euros over agreements that forced phone manufacturers to pre-load only Google products like Search, Chrome, and the Play app store on their Android devices, to the exclusion of rival products from competitors. Google has … Read more
Oh, how things have changed. Just over a decade ago, Sony performed a slam dunk straight on Microsoft’s head for its video on how to share PS4 games, and now it seems like PS6 games will be digital only. Well, Microsoft-owned code repo site GitHub has taken that opportunity to take a swing back, and … Read more
Paradox Interactive, that studio that publishes all those grand strategy games with oodles of DLC, announced via a forum thread and a post on X earlier this week that inactive Paradox accounts will be “cleaned up” come March of next year. In other words, those accounts will be deleted if they don’t show some sign … Read more
We’re in the endgame now for Grand Theft Auto 6, and with just 139 days to go players are beginning to scrimp and save for its anticipated release—if they haven’t pre-ordered the standard or controversial ultimate edition already. We’ve seen some resourceful players utilise Bing and Microsoft Rewards to get an impressive discount, but that’s … Read more
The Sims 4 is a noisy game, especially once you’ve piled on a few expansion packs. You’re constantly fielding stray notifications and unsolicited calls from acquaintances asking you for advice, and before you know it you’ve soiled your pants and bowling night is ruined. Thankfully, the headlining note in a recent Sims 4 patch is … Read more
On July 1, Fenris Creations (formerly CCP) completed the full open source release of its in-house Carbon Engine, the tech behind long-running MMO EVE Online and early access space survival game EVE Frontier. The Carbon Engine’s repositories are available now on GitHub. It’s an impressive, surprising move in a time when proprietary game engines are … Read more