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One ambitious Fallout 4 mod has been irradiating the gaming landscape lately, and that's Fallout: London. After years of waiting, the mod that brings the Fallout wasteland across the pond to jolly old England launched last month, and it's truly impressive—even though it's still got a few issues to sort out.
The reception to the Borderlands movie has me almost nostalgic, reminiscing about the days when videogame tie-ins were reliably terrible rather than half-decent. The short version is that people hate it: the longer version is that they really, really hate it. Words such as «lifeless», «obnoxious» and «baffling» hover around it, and the only good news is that a single positive review has lifted the film's Rotten Tomatoes score from 0% to 3%.
Every so often the algorithm gets it right, and on this occasion YouTube served up one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Several months ago Australian comedian Tom Walker embarked on a Grand Theft Auto 4 playthrough using a mod called Warp Eleven (Super Fast Cars), which changes the behaviour of every vehicle in the game (barring Roman's car) so that they «travel at 'warp speed', in other words they will drive (and crash) at ridiculous speeds, with or without a driver.»
The closure of Arkane Austin earlier this year came as a very unhappy surprise, felt keenly by fans of the immersive sim genre. But in a new interview with PC Gamer, Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio, who left the company in 2017, said that while the shutdown is sad, it also represents an opportunity for a renewal of the genre.
Anthem was kind of baffling right from the start. Why would BioWare, a studio built almost exclusively on popular singleplayer RPGs—Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, let us not forget Jade Empire—suddenly dive into a multiplayer-focused looter shooter? It was weird, and the outcome, if not inevitable, was at least not entirely surprising: We called it «deeply flawed and frequently frustrating» in our 55% review, and just two years after it launched in 2019, BioWare pulled the plug, officially halting future development.
In the last six years, Shenzen-based Minisforum has become a prolific producer of mini PCs. A glance at the company's webstore reveals a steady succession of tidy and well-specced boxes aimed at home and business users, sporting the best of AMD and Intel's mobile APU armoury.
The promised microcode fix for Intel 13th and 14th Gen CPU stability issues has just started rolling out in the form of BIOS updates for some motherboards. It's great news for those with an Intel chip that has not already been affected, and many of those with an already affected Intel chip should be covered by Intel's recently announced extended warranty.
Rocksteady has made some excellent games in its time, so I honestly feel a bit bad about the lead-balloon performance of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. I probably don't feel as bad about it as Warner Bros does, though: The entertainment megacorp just released its earnings statement for Q2 2024, and the news for its games revenue isn't great.