Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

When Firaxis's XCOM remake came out a constant complaint in the comments was that its random number generator was clearly cheating against players. Someone would miss a 95% chance, or God forbid a ...
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Garry Newman says his game creation platform s&box will 'probably' be priced similarly to Garry's Mod

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Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that

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After two years in early access, Greedfall: The Dying World still feels unfinished

Having spent the last week playing the final version of Greedfall: The Dying World I'm faced with a conundrum. I admire its quiet ambition and some elements of its world, but it's ...

RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years

RuneScape developer Jagex announced earlier today that it is once again increasing the price of RuneScape memberships. Effective today, the price of a monthly membership subscription has increased ...

After beating Slay the Spire 2 with an 8 year old deck, I'm starting to feel like this is more of a remake than a sequel

But during my first run, that nostalgia starts to give way to a feeling more like déjà vu. The three returning characters (of five total) begin play wi ...

Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'

PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens at one point asks Greene about his prediction that the future of computing will be more local than we think, given that much of what we see from big tech ...

Bungie is adding more shell skins to Marathon's battle pass after feedback

So Bungie says OK, have more skins. Three additional shell skins are coming to the season one track in April. At the same time, new Arachne-themed shell skins will come to the Cod ...

As the Marathon player count discourse reaches peak stupidity, Warframe and Overwatch devs speak up in solidarity: 'This is big unemployed, maidenless behavior'

"As someone who knows actual Overwatch player numbers, I tend to just laugh about SteamDB being used as a mic drop".

Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'

"The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills," Epic said by way of minimalist explanation. What's really happening, though, is shrinkflation, an ...

Former EA chief Peter Moore says his game industry style of PR irritated his bosses at Liverpool FC, and that's partly why he's not the CEO of Liverpool FC anymore

"I felt that not being cold and distant, which the football club was with absentee American owners, was the way to go. My American owners did not agree." ...

Anthropic is suing the US government for blacklisting it and it's calling in support from Google and OpenAI

Luiza Jarovsky, the cofounder of the AI, Tech and Privacy academy, who holds a PhD in Law, reckons "Anthropic is likely to win" and that it could lead to a precedent in regard to AI governance in the ...