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Hunt: Showdown is undergoing a major change next week as it transitions into Hunt: Showdown 1896, featuring an upgraded engine, overhauled UI, big changes to the meta, and an all-new map—the first in three years. That's the good news. The bad news is that a big update means some big downtime, and Hunt: Showdown will be unavailable for two solid days beginning tomorrow.
As a part of its celebration of Baldur's Gate 3's one-year anniversary, Larian unveiled some more juicy data about its players' decisions across their various playthroughs on X, «The Everything App.» Seeing the wild ways other people choose to experience this game is always a hoot, but the best part is learning about things I didn't even know were in the game. Spoilers ahead for Baldur's Gate 3's endings, and content warning for suicide.
The Borderlands film is out, and in case you somehow missed the news, it really sucks. Despite the concerns of Joshua Wolens, it also looks well on its way to becoming a bonafide box office bomb, earning just $8.8 million over its opening weekend in the US ($16.5 million globally), which is not great for a film that cost around $150 million to make.
If you had to guess which actor presented the biggest challenge for makeup and prosthetics in Amazon's Fallout show, you'd probably pick The Ghoul: the rotting (yet charming) 200-year-old mutated Walton Goggins who's missing his nose and covered with scar tissue. It's a good guess: Goggins' prosthetics took months to develop and hours to apply each day of shooting, but according to Michael Harvey, makeup department head for Fallout, that wasn't the only challenge.
Baldur's Gate 3's flavourful character animations are among the many things the game does brilliantly. They imbue each character with their own distinctive personality: From the poise and elegance of Shadowheart's resting stance, to the cute soft-step-shuffle of Karlach while she's keeping heself juiced up for battle, and onto to the brutal lunges, sweeps and kicks of Lae'zel and others, there's a vivid, real feel to how these characters move.
Look, we've all missed a few big opportunities in our lives. Hindsight is 20-20, etc. That being said, Intel do seem to have made more than few boo-boos in the «long term vision» stakes over the past decade or so, and financially one of the biggest might have been spurning OpenAI.
Skytech Legacy | Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4080 Super | 64 GB DDR5-5600 | 2 TB SSD | $2,899.99 $2,229.99 at Newegg (save $670 with free Newegg+ membership using code NEPDV655)This Skytech build is probably the best bang for your buck if you're looking for a high-end gaming PC that doubles as a content creation rig. Yes, you could opt for a cheaper rig that would serve just as well for gaming, but you'd be missing out on quite a lot for content creation and productivity: namely, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB storage space. These two things should be a big benefit for content creation.
Fallout London, while «held together with duct tape» by the dev's own admission is an impressive machine nonetheless. Our news writer Joshua Wolens has been having a blast with the behemoth Fallout 4 mod when it's not been booting him to desktop, and I'm chuffed as chips (I felt a British saying was on-theme) to see it stick the landing as well as a mod can be expected to.