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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a versus mode, as announced four years ago at our very own PC Gaming show, no less. Except it's for real this time. A steam post by Fatshark outlines their mission statements for the mode's closed beta test on Steam.
I don't have the kind of deep pockets to really get into trading card games—but I do like watching the meta fluctuate from afar. Disney's CCG has been of particular interest, because weird strategies keep emerging around obscure characters like Hiram Flaversham. Or in this case, anti-strategies that you have no good reason to use.
I really feel like we're nudging towards the Cyberpunk: 2077-style future where netrunner hackers will basically become wizards, able to explode just about anything with a few lines of rogue code. Okay—the reality may be far more boring, but considering they put DRM in trains a while back I'm crossing my fingers for cyber sorcerers in the next few decades.
The CEO and founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has weighed in on recent prophecies from Ubisoft's director: gamers will likely grin and bear a subscription-model future. Swen Vincke added to the discussion on Twitter in a thread this morning:
I'm getting close to wrapping up myBaldur's Gate 3 honour mode playthrough—all I've got to do is not beef it on the last couple of deadly fights and I'm there. In the interest of survival, I've been skipping a couple of key story beats.
Look, we've all been dunking on the whole 'metaverse' concept for a while now. As Phil Iwaniuk wrote for us back in February of last year, anyone who has played video games knows that the metaverse's promised digital wonderland has existed since the days of the CRT monitor.
Fortnite added Peter Griffin from Family Guy recently, and if you can push past the existential dread that sentence may give you, it's a no-brainer. Once a PvE co-op builder, Fortnite's battle royale game mode has long outgrown its humble roots and become an 'Oops! All Franchises' monolith.
CES is all wrapped up, and while AI fatigue has hit our hardware writers (as the term 'AI' has slipped into the realm of buzzword purgatory) I'm about to make things a hell of a lot worse for everybody. As spotted by TheVerge, there's now an AI-powered sex toy that aims to treat people with premature ejaculation.