Month: October 2024

Baldur’s Gate 3 walked away from the DICE Awards with another handful of trophies: Outstanding Achievement in Story, RPG of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Game of the Year—adding to an already massive list of well-deserved accolades.

Its developers, however, devoted much of their speech time to the state of the games industry—which, if you’ve been paying any sort of attention, has been dire for devs. 2023 was a horrible year for games industry layoffs—and if patterns continue, 2024 could be even worse, with over 16,000 developers losing their jobs since January of last year. 

“We’re very lucky,” says Michael Douse, the director of publishing for the studio. “We’ve had a lot of stage time…

We’ve had a pretty good run of Nintendo platform exclusives making their way over to PC recently. We got Triangle Strategy late last year, the Etrian Odyssey games are due out in June, and now the formerly Switch-exclusive remake of beloved RPG Live A Live will hit Steam on April 27.

The original Live A Live came out for the Super Famicom in 1994, and let you play as a bunch of different protagonists with their own stories. It’s pretty Octopath-esque, which only makes sense given that Octopath was something of a spiritual successor to Live A Live. It was also pretty dang weird, with environments themed after everything from the Middle Ages to prehistory to the far-flung future. 

Combat was turn-based, and pitted you against era-appropriate enemies like cavemen, cowboys,…

ผู้เล่นเกม God of War ทุกคนคงทราบอยู่แล้วว่าภายในเกมซีรีส์นี้จะมีบอสให้เราได้เผชิญหน้าจำนวนมาก และแน่นอนว่าภายในภาคใหม่อย่าง God of War Ragnarok ก็มีบอสรอให้เราไปวัดฝีมือด้วย อย่างไรก็ตาม ดูเหมือนว่าผู้เล่นคนหนึ่งจะเข้าไปรังแกบอสเสียมากกว่า เพราะว่าเขาสามารถล้ม Gna ผู้ที่ได้รับการอวยยศให้เป็น �…

นับตั้งแต่ช่วงต้นปีเป็นต้นมา หลายคนคงมีโอกาสได้พบว่ามีเกมอินดี้จากผู้พัฒนาอิสระออกมาให้เล่นกันต่อเนื่อง และหลายคนก็ได้รับการตอบรับที่ยอดเยี่ยมเลยไม่ว่าจะเป็น Balatro หรือ Another Crab’s Treasure เอง แต่ที่โดดเด่นมากที่สุดจะเป็นอะไรไปไม่ได้เลยครับนอกจาก Palworld จากค่าย Pocketpair ที่มีการปร�…

Have you managed to get hold of one of Diablo 4’s six ultra-rare “Uber Unique” items in the last day or so? Better cling onto it, then. Blizzard has responded to a recent bug that dramatically increased the drop rate for Diablo’s rarest and most sought-after items by temporarily clamping down hard: Until the studio can put out a patch later today, no Uber Unique items will drop in Diablo 4 at all.

Problems kicked off yesterday after Blizzard put out Diablo 4’s 1.0.4 patch. For whatever reason, that patch had the unintended side effect of making the game’s Helltide Events (and associated Helltide Chests) spit out the game’s would-be most coveted items at an absurdly high rate. Players were picking up shakos—a pet name for the mega-rare Harlequin Crest—like they were bei…

Desktop CPUs can get pretty hot already, whether we’re talking AMD or Intel, which probably goes some way towards explaining the seemingly increasing prevalence of AIO cooling compared to air cooling. I’ve come to accept that CPUs are getting hotter, and so be it. So color me unphased by the recent rumour that next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might have max temps akin to Meteor Lake ones.

According to X user and hardware leaker Jaykihn (via Tom’s Hardware), the TJMax for Arrow Lake (and Panther Lake) is going to be 105 °C. TJMax means Temperature Junction Max, and refers to the maximum temperature the CPU can reach before it starts thermal throttling for safety.

Current-gen Intel desktop CPUs, like the Intel Core i9 14900K, have a TJMax of 100 °C and can get pretty hot.…

The era of truly licentious videogame marketing stunts has been waning ever since that time Sony used a dead goat to promote God of War 2, but here’s at least a mildly risqué performance from Blizzard: The Diablo 4 developer has covered the interior of a French cathedral with depictions of the game’s battle with Lilith, Queen of the Succubi.

The cathedral in question is the Chapelle des Jésuites (Jesuits’ Chapel) in Cambrai, a Baroque-style 17th-century church in northern France. The building has been deconsecrated, according to Blizzard, meaning it’s not officially a sacred site. It is a historical monument, though, so if you’re wondering whether Blizzard actually painted “the five character classes from Diablo 4 as they clash with the powers of evil” onto the chape…

Though there are some pretty interesting uses of AI out in the world, one of the absolute worst (outside of making terribly glossy pictures of Shrimp Jesus) is using AI bots to farm followers on X (or Twitter if you’re normal).

Thanks to the incredibly smart decision to make verification a paid service, and an instant algorithm boost, viral tweets are often inundated with copy-and-paste tweets stolen from other non-verified accounts to take that attention away. When you factor in that ‘creators’ on “the everything app” are financially incentivised to hog that spotlight due to a shared advertising pool, the bot problem just gets worse. But one social media app leans into this hard by only giving you bots to interact with, and I’ve decided to test it out.

SocialAI is an app …