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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Statement On Microtransactions Warms The Heart (www.forbes.com)

Baldur’s Gate 3 is looking to be one of the best games of 2023 in a year already full of some of the best games of the generation. And their stance on microtransactions is great.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League's Joker Season Is Unbelievably Bad (www.forbes.com)

Russia announced it had deployed, to Ukraine, its best new artillery-detecting radar. Hours later, the Ukrainians blew it up—with artillery. (www.forbes.com)

Ukraine plinking a Russian GPS-jammer with a GPS-guided bomb. Ukrainian drones blowing up Russian drone-jammers. Ukraine’s cruise missiles striking Russian air-defense sites whose missions include, you guessed it, shooting down cruise missiles....

‘Fortnite’ Has Actually Made The Metaverse After Everyone Else Quit (www.forbes.com)

Miles Morales’ Bad Final ‘Spider-Man 2’ Suit Is An Adidas Ad (www.forbes.com)

While most everyone loves Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, there seems to be universal derision for the final suit that Miles Morales wears in the game. Out of dozens of options, it’s another one of his “I gotta be me” designs that is just…very not good.

The ‘Dota 2’ International 12 Prize Pool Is Historically Low (www.forbes.com)

Ukraine Just Blew Up Russia's Main Missile Base In Occupied Crimea (www.forbes.com)

Cyberpunk 2077’s Johnny Silverhand Blew Up Arasaka Tower On This Exact Date (www.forbes.com)

Cyberpunk 2077 also has roots in its “past,” which is our present. And fans are now celebrating a very important date in Cyberpunk history.

The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ (www.forbes.com)

If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.

Car Journeys Up In 2023 With Bus And Bicycle Journeys Down, Reports U.K. Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)

‘Gray Zone Warfare’ Releases Tomorrow On Steam Early Access (www.forbes.com)

Report: Bungie Is Likely Developing ‘Destiny 3,’ Codename ‘Payback’ (www.forbes.com)

In One Massive Attack, Ukrainian Missiles Hit Four Russian Ships—Including Three Landing Vessels (www.forbes.com)

The Ukrainian missile raid on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s anchorage in Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea, didn’t hit two Russian warships....

Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’ (www.forbes.com)

Counterattacking Without Artillery, The Ukrainians’ M-1 Abrams Tanks Are Exposed—And Taking Losses (www.forbes.com)

What Exactly Is Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy At This Point? (www.forbes.com)

On Starfield And Hogwarts Legacy’s Single TGA Nomination Between Them (www.forbes.com)

Two games keep surfacing more than any other, Starfield, which landed a singular nomination for Best RPG, and Hogwarts Legacy, which got exactly zero nominations acros...

GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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