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What Are Your Recurring Costs?
I know it’s a rude question, but it’s been on my mind… I’m wondering roughly what I should be expecting to outlay when I finish my set-up? So I’m assuming it includes things like domain names, hosting for backups, email providers, VPN, etc. What’s a good budget to set?
The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets (www.forbes.com)
The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
Games only need fast travel when they make travel "boring", says Dragon's Dogma 2 director (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In an interview with IGN, Dragon's Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno defends his game's lack of unrestricted fast travel …
How do you manage/keep your keyboard items?
Hello! I’m new in the mechanical keyboard universe. I’ve bought some switches for my (very first) mechanical keyboard, and I have some keycap pullers. I also plan to buy a pencil to easily clean my keyboard....
See Your 2023 Steam Stats Like Most-Played Game, Top Genres, And More (www.gamespot.com)
Valve has launched the Steam Year-in-Review website.
Naughty Dog Cancels The Last of Us Online Multiplayer Game (www.gamingarcade.co.uk)
A recent announcement from game developer Naughty Dog has confirmed the cancellation of the highly anticipated multiplayer game based on The Last of Us. The cancellation comes after earlier reports of delays in the development of the project for the PlayStation 5.
Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year (www.vg247.com)
Bethesda has confirmed that it plans to add a number of new features to Starfield in 2024.
Will more studios end up releasing games on Fortnite? (kbin.run)
As we've had the latest Chapter 5 stuff we received 3 new games that are here to stay including Lego Fortnite (Allow you to purchase Lego versions of characters), Rocket Racing (Using Rocket League Vehicles) & Fortnite Festival (created by the original devs of Rock Band)....
Hello Games has announced its next game, called Light No Fire (www.dsogaming.com)
Hello Games, the creators of No Man's Sky, has just announced its next game which will be called Light No Fire.
Arizona Sunshine 2 is now available on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Adds Metro Tourism, Better Motorcycles, And More Next Week (www.gamespot.com)
You can finally ride a choo-choo with your chooms next week after Cyberpunk 2077's 2.1 update goes live.
Payday 3 free Legacy Heists update out now, includes a new skill line, and more (www.vg247.com)
A free update is available today for Payday 3, and it reimagines two classic heists: Cook Off and Turbid Station.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Passes 4.3 Million Sales - IGN (www.ign.com)
Cyberpunk 2077's Idris Elba-starring expansion Phantom Liberty has sold 4.3 million copies since it launched, developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed.
Lethal Company smashes player record, retains top spot on Steam (www.destructoid.com)
Still the number one game.
Amazon lays off 180 employees from its games division (www.destructoid.com)
Another day, another round of lay offs.
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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Exclusive interview: Valve on the future of Counter-Strike 2 (www.pcgamer.com)
What has been and what's to come for one of the greatest PC games ever made.
Epic Launches Program to Pay Devs to Bring Old Games to Epic Games Store - IGN (www.ign.com)
It's an incentive for devs to put their back catalogues to EGS, after they just laid off 800 employees because they spend too much money. Is it just me, or does everyone besides Epic know what the problem is with EGS?
The Steam Deck only now dropping off Valve's Top 10 chart after a year and a half shows the staying power of the wee handheld gaming PC (www.pcgamer.com)
There's still lots of love for the portable gaming PC, though.
EA Games will Shut these Online Servers Down in 2023 — Gaming Arcade (www.gamingarcade.co.uk)
Online gaming has become an integral part of our lives, offering us the opportunity to connect with friends and players from around the world. However, as technology evolves and new games are developed, older titles must inevitably make way for the future. Electronic Arts (EA), one of the gaming ind
The RoboCop: Rogue City demo is AMAZING. (kbin.social)
A demo recently dropped on Steam for Robocop: Rogue City. I only just heard about this early in the week, and promptly forgot about it, expecting more trashy, low-quality licensed cruft....
Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live-action TV show (www.polygon.com)
The world of Night City is about to get a whole lot bigger
Humble Choice for October is here (www.humblebundle.com)
The same modder who fixed Starfield's inventory has now sorted out the rest of the UI (www.pcgamer.com)
Not all heroes wear capes.
Starfield's digipick mini-game is now available as a fan-made browser game (www.eurogamer.net)
Obsessed with – or need more practice at – Starfield's lockpicking mini-game? Then I have good news – you can now Digipick to your heart's content courtesy of a new Digipick simulator browser game....
Newegg Introduces Graphics Card Trade-In Program (www.techpowerup.com)
Newegg Commerce, Inc., a global e-commerce leader for technology products, today announced the launch of Newegg's GPU Trade-In Program, allowing customers to trade in an eligible GPU device and receive a trade-in value credit toward the purchase of a new qualifying graphics card also known as a graphics processing unit (GPU)....
Todd Howard says that Starfield's ship AI sucks on purpose so players can actually hit stuff: 'You have to make the AI really stupid' (www.pcgamer.com)
Todd Howard agrees that it was a bit of a pain to get right, as he said in a recent interview with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. "[Space combat] was way harder than we thought … We see a lot of space games where you're gonna have like, derelict ships or other things to fly around, just to get a sense of motion,...
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
A GTA 5-Style "Living World" Is A Goal For Dragon's Dogma 2 (www.gamespot.com)
Director Hideaki Itsuno mentions Rockstar's title as one source of inspiration for the action-RPG sequel.
Marvel's Avengers receives hulking discount ahead of delisting (www.eurogamer.net)
It's now available on Steam with a 90 percent discount for just £2.99. Similarly, on PSN and Xbox it's £4.49....
Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs (twistedvoxel.com)
Unity Technologies has stated that PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo will pay the company's new runtime fee on behalf of game developers.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Launches on PC within a Month, Says Leaker (wccftech.com)
Renowned leaker billbil-kun found information suggesting that a PC release of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is very, very close....
Developer Explains Why Starfield NPCs Look Like They’re Dead Inside - IGN (www.ign.com)
Playing Starfield and wondering why the NPCs look like they’re dead inside? One developer reckons they’ve worked out why.
Starfield has the best release in the history of Bethesda, surpassing Skyrim (gamerkick.com)
Starfield, the space role -playing gamefrom Bethesda Game Studios, has concluded its second day after theo fficial launch date with more than six million
Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox? (www.theverge.com)
The Steam Deck has kick-started a wave of handhelds from some of the big names in PC gaming. Asus has its Windows-powered ROG Ally, Lenovo just announced its own Legion Go handheld PC, and Logitech released a cloud-focused handheld. AMD has been quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors, and that got me...
Nintendo Is "Evolving" Into An Entertainment Company, According To Doug Bowser (www.nintendolife.com)
"With gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model"
Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 Revive Age-Old RPG Debate About Encumbrance - IGN (www.ign.com)
Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it's here to stay.
Starfield's planets are an illusion: you can't land on them (www.vg247.com)
If you were wondering if you could fly to a planet's surface in Starfield, the answer is technically yes, it'll just ta…
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Starfield topped 230,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it’s not officially out yet (www.vg247.com)
Starfield is very hot on Steam right now, and it's not technically been released yet.
CD Projekt Details Cyberpunk 2077's Revamped Police System Coming Alongside Phantom Liberty - IGN (www.ign.com)
CD Projekt Red has shared what changes are coming to Cyberpunk 2077's police system alongside the Phantom Liberty update.