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เมื่อช่วงสุดสัปดาห์ที่ผ่านมา ภารกิจ Major Order ล่าสุดในเกม Helldivers 2 สั่งการให้ปราบกองกำลังหุ่นยนต์ Automatons ให้ราบคาบบนแนวรบตะวันตก แต่เกมเกิดอาการล่มบ่อยครั้งจนเป็นอุปสรรคใหญ่ต่อปฏิบัติการนี้ สมาชิกทีมพัฒนาจึงแนะนำให้ผู้เล่น “พักเกมสักหน่อย”

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ทุกคนคงทราบแล้วว่าในตอนนี้ Liam Hemsworth จะมาแทนที่ Henry Cavill ใน The Witcher ซีซั่น 4 ของ Netflix อย่า งไรก็ตาม Anya Chalotra ซึ่งรับบทเป็น Yennefer ผู้วิเศษที่ทรงพลังแห่ง Vengerberg ได้ออกมาบอกว่าตั้งแต่มีข่าวออกมาเธอยังไม่เคยได้พบกับ Liam Hemsworth นักแสดงที่จะมาแทนที่ Cavill แบบตัวเป็น ๆ เลยแม้แต่ครั้งเดียว

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มีรายงานใหม่ออกมาแบบแทบจะเว้นสัปดาห์เลยก็ว่าได้ครับสำหรับเครื่องเล่น Nintendo Switch รุ่นถัดไปที่หลายคนคาดว่าจะเป็นการต่อยอดเทคโนโลยีจากรุ่นเดิมพร้อมนำเสนอสเปคที่แรงขึ้นเพื่อรักษาฐานลูกค้าในทำนองเดียวกันกับ PlayStation และ Xbox แต่กระนั้นแล้วก็ไม่มีใครที่สามารถไว้ใจได้เพราะบ่อยครั้งก็มักจ�…

ว่าด้วยจักรวาลเกม Alan Wake นอกเหนือจากจะมีเพียงแค่เรื่องราวชวนระทึกขวัญเท่านั้นแล้ว ในปี 2012 ยังมีการเปิดตัวเกมภาคสปินออฟในชื่อ American Nightmare ด้วย ซึ่งจะเป็นการเล่นในรูปแบบแอ็กชันเน้ต่อสู้กับเหล่าสิ่งเหนือธรรมชาติด้วยอาวุธชนิดต่างๆ เช่นเดียวกับไฟฉายคู่ใจ อย่างไรก็ตามหลังจากมีการประกาศเ…

Desktop Dungeons is a personal favourite, a 2013 roguelike that has all the brutal goodness you expect of the genre with a charming lawyer of puzzle-slash-town-building layered atop. It’s a quickfire experience but a game I’ve lost countless evenings to, and I’ve been looking forward to Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, an overhauled version of the game that has just released.

As part of Rewind’s launch, developer QCF Design took the generous decision to make the original game entirely free for a limited time, which came on top of an even more generous decision: existing owners of the original Desktop Dungeons on Steam would also get Rewind free as a thank you.

Unfortunately, someone pushed the wrong button and the original Desktop Dungeons went free with a 100% discount befo…

It feels like only yesterday that I complained that Helldivers 2 doesn’t have enough guns that rule against Automatons. Clearly Arrowhead heard my pleas, because in a surprise update this morning, two new support weapons arrived in the Super Earth arsenal: the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun, and the true talk of the town, LAS-99 Quasar Cannon.

The Quasar Cannon makes a stunning impression. Its boxy, imposing body rests on the shoulder, similar to its distant cousin the Laser Cannon. But unlike laser beam weapons, the Quasar Cannon charges up one huge blast at a time. Mid-charge, the cannon’s reticle spins as its internal mechanism whirs with anticipation. A concentrated ball of energy gathers at the end of the barrel, then releases with an understated zap followed immediately b…

You’re going to hear a lot about Meteor Lake in these next few days and weeks; these new chips are some of Intel’s most exciting in a good while. I say that even despite their intended use as low power processors in ultra-thin laptops, not even gaming PCs. Some of the new features stuffed into these disaggregated chips could come in handy for the next-generation of gaming processor.

For starters, that very disaggregation that is central to Meteor Lake’s design. The most noticeable change for Meteor Lake versus, say, a Raptor Lake chip (or really any of Intel’s client processors since forever) is how its silicon is split-up into various components. 

The four (sort of five) tiles which make up every Meteor Lake processor:

• Compute tile – Contain…
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New Blood Interactive’s pulp detective immersive sim Fallen Aces is out right now, but the price of the slapstick noir caper might be just as newsworthy: with its intro price and launch discount, Fallen Aces will only set you back $10, and after playing the first two of five levels in its intro episode, I think it’s well worth that price.

PCG news lead Andy Chalk once said Fallen Aces looked like Condemned: Criminal Origins crossed with Dick Tracy comics, and he was right on the money. The ’30s pop art and vibe in the levels is impeccable, but the real knockout is the Max Payne-style comic book cutscenes. It’s really well-acted too⁠—I think this is the most voicework New Blood has put into one of its games to date⁠—and the classico noir characters have alre…

Here’s the thing: Battlefield 2042 is really good now. This game launched in 2021 in the kind of state that made it a punching bag for players and critics alike, but since then DICE has hunkered-down and quietly fixed almost every problem, adding and tweaking judiciously, and as PCG’s Morgan Park wrote a few months ago “I’m having as much fun as the glory days of Battlefield 3 and 4“.

But “the launch was not easy,” producer Nika Bender told us. “Let’s be completely honest.” Associate producer Alexia Christofi added: “We shot for the moon, and we just missed.” The game was forced to delay Season 1 to firefight and, the internet being the internet, the user reviews and general vibes around the game were little short of a disaster. Publisher EA, of course, merely put on…

Indie studio Rusty Lake is responsible for puzzle adventures like Rusty Lake Hotel, The White Door, and the Cube Escape series. Like everyone else on Discord, the studio needs to choose a new username as part of the shift Discord is currently rolling out, eliminating the old system where everyone had a four-digit number called a discriminator attached to the end of their name. Rusty Lake was lucky enough to be offered the chance to reserve a username relatively early in the process, but, wouldn’t you know it, somebody else got there first. 

In a warning to other indie developers posted to Twitter, Rusty Lake wrote, “We just received an email that we, as Verified Owners, could finally submit a new username and wow… ‘rustylake’ is already taken! If we as a server owner with 2…

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A new game in the Double Dragon series of beat ’em ups is coming next year. Arc System Works has announced Double Dragon Revive, which promises to revisit some of the locales and enemies from the earliest entries in the series. Revive, however, has a decidedly modern look to it with 3D models rather than simpler sprites. The name Revive is in line with what the developers say they want it to be: “the same simple and intuitive gameplay, with controls and balance refined for the modern era.”

The teaser trailer released shows off some pretty classic Double Dragon stuff: Punching a guy. Punching a guy who tried to hit you with a bat. Glowing with martial fury and uppercutting a guy while a swirling spiritual dragon flys skyward. 

There’s also punching a guy so hard…

Update 05/18/23: John Carmack has posted a defence of his decision to attend the conference, which can be read in full here.

“It is unfortunate that Rob [Kroese] has made BasedCon so intentionally provocative,” writes Carmack. “I told him as much after the event last year, I felt a little uncomfortable.  There is a demographic that welcomes the in-your-face posturing, but it drives away sympathetic people that would otherwise be happy to talk about craft, stories, and technology.

“Even when someone gives you a clear signal, it is a mistake to extrapolate it to an entire constellation of beliefs and behaviors, and then to assume they are contagious by association.  That shortchanges a lot of people.

“I’m not a culture warrior, and I don&…

The mysterious boat league has been a deep cut bit of lore in Path of Exile’s community for something like ten years now. “Redacted” forum posts, bits of fishing lore on items removed from the game, and hinty posts from the legendary former community manager Bex (we miss you!) have resulted in a playerbase frothing at the mouth for it to finally happen. With PoE’s latest league, the Settlers of Kalguur, we’ve finally got it—and it’s a doozy.

The 3.25 patch for Path of Exile released last week, and it’s already being hailed as one of the best ever. A news post from the Grinding Gear Games team on the Sunday of launch weekend said they had a new record peak of 350,000 players, content creators have been glowing, and anecdotally I’ve never seen my friends so excited for a leagu…

Back in February, someone leaked more than 200 pages of an art book from the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Nintendo wants to know who: A TorrentFreak report says the company has filed a DMCA subpoena with Discord, seeking the identity of a user who shared the images.

The images were only up briefly before Nintendo sent its initial DMCA takedown request, which Discord responded to very promptly—in just eight minutes, according to the report—with a promise to take down the art book content. Several hours later, Nintendo asked that the channel named “Tears of the Kingdom Official Discord Server” also be taken offline because some of its members were still sharing the leaked content.

Naturally, that was not the end of it. On April 7, lawyers for…

Netflix is finally shuttering what was once the central concept of the 25-year-old company: DVDs that you rent online and come in the mail. These days, of course, Netflix is a streaming titan, and as we’ve also seen in gaming over the past 25 years, physical media is disappearing. September 29 will be the last day of service for those who still eagerly await the arrival of red envelopes in their postbox.

“It has been a true pleasure and honor to deliver movie nights to our wonderful members for 25 years,” said Netflix in a tweet. “Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.” (Perhaps a bit much considering we’re talking about putting discs in envelopes.)

If you want to rock like the coolest dad on the block in 1999, you can still experience the novelty of DVDs in th…

Lucasfilm has registered several new domains for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, including one that specifically refers to the title as a game. The registrations were first spotted by X user Kurakasis and include:

http://indianajonesandthegreatcirclegame.com

http://indianajones-and-the-great-circle.com

http://indianajonesandthegreatcircle.com

Kurakasis further notes that Lucasfilm applied for a European trademark for The Great Circle two years ago.

The great circle is a mathematical term that refers to the largest circle that can be drawn on any given sphere, and is a term used in relation to Earth itself. This conveniently lines up with the earliest teaser image for the game, which features among other items a book titled Ancient Circle (it may …

The System Shock remake is almost here, which makes this a fine time to recall that developer Nightdive Studios is also working on an update of System Shock 2. The System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition, as it’s formally known, won’t be a full do-over like the upcoming remake of System Shock, but it does promise to make Irrational’s great immersive sim look and play as well as it possibly can.

System Shock 2 was originally released in 1999, and even back then it wasn’t a great-looking game. It was a brilliantly good one, though—it’s no exaggeration to say that System Shock 2 is the game that made me a forever fan of the immsim genre—and while it unfortunately wasn’t a sales hit, it earned widespread critical acclaim and proved tremendously durable and influential: There is li…

The community of happy creators who love Bethesda’s recent games for the settlement-building is off to the races in Starfield, thrilled to create a vast variety of ships of their own design—and their favorites of others’ designs. Let’s get in there and see some of the best I’ve seen, shall we? We’ll see stuff from Firefly, Star Wars, Mass Effect, Aliens, Prometheus, and the ever-beloved Expanse.

“She’s torn up plenty, but she’ll fly true.” from r/Starfield

My attempt at making Serenity from Firefly from r/Starfield

There are also, of course, plenty of people building perhaps one of the most iconic single spaceships in sci-fi history: The Millenium Falcon. They’re seeing various levels of …