Factorio Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology (factorio.com)
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
Star Ocean The Second Story R New Gameplay Trailer Showcases New Mechanics, Updated Combat; Demo Available Now (wccftech.com)
A new Star Ocean The Second Story R gameplay trailer was shared online today, providing a new look at the remake of the second entry in the series developed by tri-Ace....
Among Us - New Map "The Fungle" Teaser (www.youtube.com)
Princess Peach: Showtime! | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 (www.youtube.com)
Super Mario RPG | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 (www.youtube.com)
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is reportedly coming to PC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns (www.404media.co)
Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.
Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows (www.eurogamer.net)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
Xbox Series S and X UK sales jumped 76% on Starfield launch (www.gamesindustry.biz)
The launch of Starfield and a new version of the Xbox Series S significantly boosted sales of Microsoft consoles....
New PlayStation 5 update allows for second controller assist (www.eurogamer.net)
A new PS5 update will allow players to assign a second controller as an assist. (+ more)...
Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…
Introducing the new Godot Development Fund (godotengine.org)
Game Ready Driver Optimized for Lies of P & MK1 Is Out Now, Adds ReBar to Starfield; DLSS 3 Comes to Icarus (wccftech.com)
Today, NVIDIA released a new Game Ready driver (version 537.34) for its GeForce graphics cards to deliver pre-release optimization for NetherRealm's hotly anticipated fighting game Mortal Kombat 1 and NEOWIZ's Soulslike game Lies of P....
Nour: Play With Your Food | New Gameplay Today (www.gameinformer.com)
In this episode of New Gameplay Today, Blake Hester and I show you a glimpse of a different kind of cooking game, Nour: Play With Your Food. Rather than tasking players with cooking a proper dish, developer Terrifying Jellyfish presents a playspace of ingredients, tools like blowtorches and meat tenderizers, and a suite of odd...
New Fortnite Update Includes Shoto Todoroki And More My Hero Academia (www.gameinformer.com)
Fortnite Battle Royale’s v26.10 update is now live in-game and it brings with it some returning My Hero Academia items, three new heroes, and a new Shoto Todoroki-inspired item. Alongside Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido are in the Item Shop available for purchase.
Pokémon collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum opens later this month (www.eurogamer.net)
The Pokémon Company has announced a new collaboration running at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 28th September....
Microsoft reveals Astral Purple Xbox wireless controller (www.eurogamer.net)
The next colour to be celebrated with an Xbox wireless controller is purple, as Microsoft has announced its new release called Astral Purple....
[Spoilers] Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item (www.pcgamer.com)
YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs, however, realized that there's nothing stopping you from putting a Netherstone into a container like a crate or a sack (crucial to the Shadowboxing speedrun tech) and then getting rid of that container. I was able to replicate the trick in my own game, but curiously I only got the game over on losing my...
Dead by Daylight flashlights axed until devs resolve survivor exploit (www.pcgamesn.com)
The most recent Kill Switch master list change details a variety of features and perks disabled in Dead by Daylight in order to resolve a popular survivor exploit. This means that if you’ve experienced it or have even used the technique at some point to become invincible yourself, you won’t be encountering it anymore. Killer...
Alan Wake 2: Exclusive Hands-On Preview - IGN First - IGN (www.ign.com)
For this month’s IGN First, I visited Remedy’s studio in Finland to play Alan Wake 2. Across more than an hour of play I experienced the entirety of Local Girl, the third chapter of Saga’s story. Within it, I saw plenty of things that will make long-term Alan Wake devotees happy. Manuscripts still litter the world, as do...
Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges (www.pcgamer.com)
Firstly, Atari is to acquire AtariAge, which you could call a retro forum though that would vastly undersell what it is: over time this has grown into the best repository for everything Atari (as well as some other companies), both hardware and software, as well as being a major publisher for homebrew software....