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6 years after its release, Battlefield 1 has re-entered the Steam top 10 best-sellers chart and is boasting huge concurrent player numbers. As spotted by Emopulse, the shooter, which was first released in October 2016, has seen a massive jump in popularity, seeing its largest concurrent player count ever. It’s worth noting that the game was added to Steam in 2020. The player count, which ...read more
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Well-known Battlefield 2042 dataminer Temporyal tweeted a new image today, revealing the next season of the game will be called Escalation. Unfortunately, the source didn't share anything further about the new season and its content. Temporyal has already leaked much stuff about Battlefield 2042, most of which turned out to be true at the end of the day. Prior to leaking the new season's name, ...read more
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A little over a month on from its launch, Blizzard Entertainment’s free-to-play hero shooter Overwatch 2 is edging closer to the release of its second season on December 6. Season 2 will, of course, bring plenty of new content with it, which will include a new playable hero. At the recent Overwatch League Grand Finals, Blizzard revealed who that hero will be. Overwatch 2’s next hero will ...read more
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Just as the latest wave of rumors about the Switch successor started losing steam, one Nintendo subsidiary specializing in Pokemon reignited speculation that the development of the next Nintendo console is already well underway. Namely, long-time Pokemon developer Creatures Inc. name-dropped "next-generation hardware" in a new Japanese job listing published earlier this week. Between the 2019 ...read more
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Indie developer 'Tomorrow Corporation' has announced that their creative puzzle game Little Inferno is now getting a holiday-themed expansion 10 years after its original release on the Wii U. The new DLC is called 'Ho Ho Holiday', and will be arriving on November 18th for PC (Steam, Epic, GOG) in addition to Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android platforms. In Little Inferno, children are instructed ...read more
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Xbox and Bethesda have provided a release date update on Starfield, the new space-faring RPG from the latter's internal studio Bethesda Game Studios, which is the team responsible for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. As you may know, the game is scheduled to release sometime in the first half of 2023. This is the same window given to another Bethesda game, Redfall. It hasn't been confirmed, but ...read more
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God of War Ragnarok is out soon, and Digital Foundry recently had some hands-on time with Kratos' latest adventure. According to Digital Foundry, even in its pre-released state, Ragnarok feels unbelievably polished... there are effectively no stutters, hitches, or any other weirdness." Zero bugs or visual glitches have been encountered, and everything "feels polished to ...read more
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A big array of updates to New World has brought a surge of renewed player interest and positive sentiment for Amazon's MMO. New World launched in September 2021 as one of the most popular games in the history of Steam, with a concurrent player peak of 953k users - the seventh-highest ever recorded on the platform. But over the course of about six months, those player numbers dwindled ...read more
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The social media platform Discord recently published its quarterly safety report which notes that some 55,573,411 accounts and 68,379 servers were “disabled” between January and June, 2022. According to the company, the vast majority of these were taken offline for "spam or spam-related offenses." The number of accounts that were disabled for reasons other than spam definitely pales in ...read more
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Cyan Worlds has announced a remake to classic adventure platformer Riven with an exciting new teaser trailer this week. The studio is rebuilding the game, which was first released back in 1997, from scratch. A release date or launch platforms have not been revealed yet. The Cyan Worlds website features a short FAQ regarding the project; home to all the current facts and public information on ...read more
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