Deadlock matchmaking is now open 24/7—plus there's a new, snazzier minimap and a low priority queue for sinners
Deadlock, Valve's not-so-secret anymore MOBA, has done away with its playtest time restrictions, as per an update that dropped yesterday.
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Oops: WoW's hotfix to sort out Delve scaling has random mooks dealing upwards of 12,582,896 damage, with some players 'smoked out of nowhere'
As reported on by my fellow PC Gamer writer Tyler Colp yesterday, Delves, which are World of Warcraft's new type of pseudo-dungeon content designed to be completed with one to three players, have been having a scaling problem recently.
BOE and Intel's AI display tech reportedly reduces screen power consumption by up to 65% in Lunar Lake laptops by dropping the refresh rate on parts of the panel
Intel has already said that it's designed the most efficient x86 processor ever in its upcoming Lunar Lake mobile chips—which, in tandem with its performance claims, has made us rather excited about the prospect of battery-sipping mobile devices with some genuine gaming grunt. Now a report says that BOE's new Winning Display 1Hz tech, combined with V2 of Intel's Intelligent Display Technology, can reduce display power consumption by up to 65%.
Kentucky Route Zero and Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has collapsed, with its entire staff quitting en masse
According to the Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg, prolific videogame publisher Annapurna Interactive has functionally collapsed, with its senior leadership team and the entirety of its over 20-person staff resigning. The shocking move leaves the future of Annapurna's active development deals in question.
The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law
The next Helldivers 2 premium Warbond is coming later this month, bringing new stratagems, cosmetics, capes, and what would undoubtedly be cause for international outcry if Super Earth had anything like the Geneva Conventions. «Chemical Agents,» revealed today on the official PlayStation blog, brings a new allotment of Helldiver ordnance focused on spraying poisonous gas, which would be horrifying in just about any other context. But against the Terminids, it's basically just fumigation on a bigger scale, right?
A year after outraging developers, blowing up its reputation, and saying goodbye to its CEO, Unity decides 'Runtime Fees' are a bad idea so it's getting rid of them
A year after announcing a new «Runtime Fee» pricing scheme that outraged large swaths of the game development community and ultimately led to the resignation of then-CEO John Riccitiello, Unity has decided that it was actually a bad idea in hindsight, and so it's cancelling the whole thing.
Cyberpunk 2077 finally has official support for AMD's FSR 3
It's been quite a wait, but support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation—FSR 3, as it's more conveniently known—has finally arrived in Cyberpunk 2077.
Someone just discovered that Balatro's 'Misprint' joker has been sending us secret messages this whole time
Misprint is sort of an average joker in Balatro. The card, which looks like it got badly streaked coming out of the color printer, offers a random multiplier between 0 and 23, which averages out at 11.5. That's not a bad mult in the early game, but I rarely buy Misprint anymore, and when I do, I usually don't hang onto it for very long. There are far better jokers out there.