After 3 years of 'hands-off' management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and ZeniMax report directly to an Xbox bigwig (www.pcgamer.com)
Alan Wake 2 is a stunning example of what the future of PC gaming looks like—but only on Nvidia (www.pcgamer.com)
Fortnite: Sprint (or Mantle, your choice) back to Chapter 1....see you soon 11.3.2023 (twitter.com)
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Exclusive interview: Valve on the future of Counter-Strike 2 (www.pcgamer.com)
New Update to the Persians: Coming Soon to AoE II: DE - Age of Empires (www.ageofempires.com)
Testing Alan Wake 2: Full Path Tracing and Ray Reconstruction Will Punish Your GPU (www.tomshardware.com)
Ubisoft Decommissioning Some Online Services in January (news.ubisoft.com)
Assassin's Creed II - Xbox 360...
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (GBVSR) Open Beta Test (rising-betatest.granbluefantasy.jp)
Discover The Future of Disney Dreamlight Valley (disneydreamlightvalley.com)
‘Barbarian’ Getting Video Game Adaptation from New Regency Pictures and Diversion3 [Exclusive] (bloody-disgusting.com)
[Open Critic] The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Reviews (66%) (opencritic.com)
Spider-Man 2 Director Explains What Happened to the 'Undies' Suit and Other Missing Costumes (www.ign.com)
The Finals - a new free to play multiplayer shooter with a focus on destructive environments - reached an impressive 139,531 concurrent players during open beta, (twitter.com)
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Rule of friendship (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
GOG free game Blacksad: Under the Skin (www.gog.com)
Sony confirms departure of veteran exec Connie Booth, after more than 30 years (www.eurogamer.net)
No, Cities: Skylines 2’s performance issues aren’t because of the citizens’ teeth, developer confirms (www.techradar.com)
IDF reveals Hamas command posts in and beneath Gaza hospital (www.ynetnews.com)
The IDF revealed on Friday, what it described as intelligence showing a Hamas command center located under a the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In a briefing, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told members of the foreign press corps that there are areas in the hospitals that are used by Hamas to direct its military operations.
PlayStation expects stellar Christmas sales, with PS5 now "in full supply" for first time since launch (www.eurogamer.net)
Vague Patch Notes: Default MMORPG genre features change over time, and that’s OK (massivelyop.com)
I am mostly posting this article because MMORPGs are one of my favorite genres, despite my lack of time to play them these days. But overall I have been pretty disappointed with the direction the genre has taken. Moving more towards solo-play, story-heavy, and small-scale theme-park style content.
Bundle up out there (lemmy.zip)
The Big Lie is expanding: Majority of Republicans now insist Trump never tried to overturn election (www.salon.com)
AC "Belltower" - my beloved main [Armored Core 6] (pixelfed.social)
AC6 is a perfect storm game for me - it dropped the day I got covid and I have not been able to stop booting it up for more than a few days since. I have always been a huge fan of in-game fashion and the AC games have some of the best “character” customization in all of gaming, IMO....
Remnant 2: Major quality of life improvements update (www.remnantgame.com)
The Finals - a new free to play multiplayer shooter with a focus on destructive environments - reached an impressive 139,531 concurrent players during open beta (nitter.net)
The Finals - a new free to play multiplayer shooter with a focus on destructive environments - reached an impressive 139,531 concurrent players during open beta, before developers had to implement a temporary login queue to mitigate server issues....