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Jan
11

Valve blocks ambitious Counter-Strike mod eight years in the making from Steam

The team behind an incredibly ambitious Counter-Strike: Global Offensive mod claims that Valve has blocked the project from coming to Steam. The team submitted the mod for release late last year, only to be met with silence, with the project […]

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Jan
11

Dragon-slaying Path of Exile 2 rival Dragonkin locks in early access launch

I still can’t quite believe just how well Path of Exile 2 has done. Hundreds of thousands of players log on each day to grind the action RPG, despite it being in early access. Well, if 2024 was Path of […]

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Jan
10

Delta Force Season 2 is going new map crazy and adding a 3v3v3 mode

For any emerging live service game, the key to cementing yourself as a mainstay (or, if I’m being brutally honest, simply surviving the first couple of months) is to have enough content and variety to keep players sticking around. Free-to-play […]

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Jan
10

This problematic FF14 mod poses huge stalking and privacy risks

Square Enix has something of a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the Final Fantasy 14 community in regards to mods. The use of third-party plugins is outlawed and against the MMO’s terms of service, but modders still continue to […]

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Jan
10

Civilization 7’s huge new diplomacy system is way, way better than in Civ 6

I felt it the most keenly when I played Civilization Revolution, this ongoing problem with Firaxis’s 4X icon – and other games like it – whereby interactions with other nations are too limited. In the Civilization games of old, including […]

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Jan
10

AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme release date, price, and specs

The AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme is here, with AMD taking the wraps off its latest mobile gaming handheld CPU to reveal a more powerful and power efficient chip than its hugely successful predecessor, the AMD Z1 Extreme. With the latter […]