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As a legendary mercenary once said, love can bloom anywhere—even on a battlefield. It was proven this week at Call of Duty: Next, as CoD-focused content creators flocked to Washington D.C. to try Black Ops 6's multiplayer and, in the case of two specific attendees, join in holy matrimony.
Everything about Concord, on some level, works, or works well in isolation. Roka's heat-seeking missile launcher tracks targets with a satisfying *bleep bleep bleep*. Starchild's double-jump/power slam ability combo feels great when you can hit multiple targets. But Concord's occasional moments of satisfaction are waylaid by a competitive shooter experience that's too often sluggish, boring, and devoid of any interesting tactics beyond balling up as a team and standing on an objective.
Bungie announced in March that its upcoming Marathon reboot had a new game director: Joe Ziegler, the former director of Riot's online shooter Valorant, who joined Bungie in 2022. Ziegler took over from Christopher Barrett, well known among Bungie fans as a designer and director on the Halo and Destiny games who'd been with the studio for nearly 25 years. A reason for Barrett's surprise departure wasn't provided, but a new Bloomberg report says he was fired following an investigation into multiple complaints about inappropriate workplace behavior.
Bandai Namco has announced that the Japanese version of its live service anime MMO Blue Protocol will be ending on January 18, 2025. After discussions with Amazon Games, the release of the title in Europe and the US will also be cancelled.
Is it possible to know how AMD Ryzen 9000-series CPUs actually perform yet? It seems like every day there's a new rumoured or actual change affecting how we should interpret the performance and value of these new processors. Right after learning that a Windows update can improve Zen 3, 4, and 5 gaming performance, we're now hearing that TDP boost modes are here for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X.
8BitDo originally caught my eye a few years ago thanks to its retro aesthetic and great battery life. However, its undeniable quality has kept me coming back to test out new products as they launch. The C64-themed mechanical keyboard looks excellent and the retro mechanical num pads are a cute oddity, whereas the Ultimate Bluetooth controller is a powerhouse with an excellent feel and great connectivity.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re about 40 minutes into a Dota 2 ranked match, the enemy Techies is planning on stalling for as long as he can, and some comedy genius decides to pause the match to drag things out just a little bit longer. Bad manners? Probably, but they’ll be laughing all the way to low-priority matchmaking, I’m sure!
"Geralt is in Balatro now," we wrote yesterday following the announcement of the Friends of Jimbo update, a big cosmetic crossover that brought The Witcher 3, Dave the Diver, Among Us, and Vampire Survivors into the game. But Geralt in Balatro—how does something like that even happen? It turns out that if you make a really cool game that everyone loves, some people are just going to want to work with you—and a lot of folks at CD Projekt are big Balatro fans.