Heart of the Machine review

The ultimate goal of Heart of the Machine is to make yourself smarter, upgrading your intelligence level to eventually far ...

Should Marathon change its divisively fast Server Slam time-to-kill?

Marathon 's four-day Server Slam concluded yesterday, and Bungie's been scouring over all the feedback it's received (and ...

Leon Kennedy's voice actor doesn't believe AI can replace human performances, and paying 'for an actor's voice session is not that big of a deal' for games as big as Arc …

Going into Requiem, I knew Apostolides would hit it out of the park as Leon Kennedy, especially after his performance in the ...

Scientists warn against crappy age verification: 'if implemented without careful consideration… the new regulation might cause more harm than good'

Scientists and researchers from respected institutions lay out the case against age verification as we're beginning to know it.

Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures

Valve's Steam Hardware Survey isn't exactly an infallible source of real-world PC specification knowledge. Valve itself recently admitted as much. So, what to make of the latest survey for February ...

How to get Advanced Electrical Components in Arc Raiders

Searching for Advanced Electrical Components in Arc Raiders? You can only get this rare electrical item in certain places, so here's how to get them.

How to make Spicy Spaghetti in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Wheat is the easiest ingredient to find, since you can buy seeds from Goofy's Stall in the Peaceful Meadow biome for three Star Coins, and it only takes one minute to grow. Tomato on the other hand is ...

Players were responsible for over 55% of kills during Marathon's Server Slam, I guess to protect their precious 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers and 145,822 bottles of alien milk

As for the decidedly less important statistics Bungie shared from the Server Slam, it's clear that things got pretty hairy on Tau Ceti. Out of 16,554,683 deaths, 9,152,844 of them were caused by other ...

Marathon UI designer declares himself the 'fontslop merchant' and promises Bungie will never 'remove the SAUCE from the UI'

He wasn't the only one who felt their eyes were assaulted by Marathon's unorthodox graphic design. UI feedback was one of Bungie's major takeaways from the weekend server slam. "Keep it coming," the ...

The Marathon server slam consumed my weekend: 21 hours later, I've gone from 'meh' to believer

It was around this time last year when Embark and Bungie both ran playtests for their new extraction shooters at the same time. Marathon's alpha was the culmination of two years of feverish ...

Fruit Ninja studio Halfbrick hit with layoffs: 'we are navigating a challenging period for the games industry'

An Australian studio responsible for a raft of hugely successful games, including Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, has announced layoffs. Brisbane-based Halfbrick Studios confirmed as much on LinkedIn ...

Fallout: New Vegas remaster hopium goes off like Mount Vesuvius as Iron Galaxy teases 'what's coming next' with a very famous loading screen

Fallout fans eagerly anticipating a New Vegas remaster got a big ol' snort of the good stuff over the weekend in the form of a social media post from Iron Galaxy Studios, which shared—in a very subtle ...