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HomeNews I am so glad my scepticism was proven wrong Update: It might now be live? Surprise! t0st wrotea lengthy blog postdetailing their reverse-engineering investigations, and how they found loading stalled for ages while the CPU parsed a JSON data file. They thought the method use for this was wildly inefficient, so they wrote their own patch which hooked into the game with a faster method. That made GTAO load 70% faster for them, a number so wild I was a little sceptical....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow Six Siege’s new season Crimson Heist has begunIntroducing map reworks, a new operator, and more Introducing map reworks, a new operator, and more Crimson Heist, the first new season ofRainbow Six Siege’s sixth year, has landed. It brings with it lots of goodies too, including the fashionable new operator Flores and a rework to the Border map. It actually seems like a pretty good time to drop back into the tactical FPS if, like me, you haven’t played it in a while....

HomeNews Riot Games says its investigation of CEO finds “no evidence” of alleged harassmentHmmmmmmm Hmmmmmmm Riot Games todaypublished a statementfrom the special committee, which claims that they “act independently of management” and review investigation results “with impartiality.” These statements would be difficult to believe from any company, and paying a third-party law firm doesn’t change that. We also have no way of knowing what the Seyfarth Shaw investigation involved. O’Donnell’s suit alleges that she complained about Laurent’s behaviour to Riot Games' HR department, and that her termination related to those complaints....

HomeNewsSatisfactory Satisfactory’s huge update 4 is available now, adds hoverpacks, drones and lots moreStuff-packed game gets more stuff Stuff-packed game gets more stuff Factory building gameSatisfactory’s major new update is available to play now. It adds a ton of major new features, including hoverpacks, drones, lighting, and a particle accelerator, alongside dozens more small tweaks and quality-of-life updates.The game’s community managers run through the major changes in this video:Update 4: Patch Notes Treasure Hunt!...

HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: Loop Hero is one of this year’s best games so farBorn to rerun Born to rerun I knewLoop Herowas going to click with a decent number of people, I just didn’t expect that I’d be one of those people talking about builds with high vampirism and what cards combo best. While we dedicate a fair bit of time to the game of the moment in this week’s episode, we also go through some of the bigger news stories of the last fortnight....

HomeNewsFarming Simulator 19 This trailer rocks unexpectedly hard for Farming Simulator DLCIs this a misunderstanding about “shredding”? Is this a misunderstanding about “shredding”? Picture a forest. Centuries of trees tower above you, swaying in the breeze and casting dappled sunlight upon you. You’ve walked several miles alongside a lazy river, waiting to for a pool deep enough to swim. Suddenly, you hear the revving of an engine and splintering of wood....

HomeNewsWW2 Rebuilder WW2 Rebuilder is a surprising sim, even for PlayWayKinda like House Flipper, but with post-WW2 Europe? Kinda like House Flipper, but with post-WW2 Europe? PlayWay, the publisher behind innumerable weird simulators, today announced one of their most curious yet.WW2 Rebuilderis a game about cleaning up and rebuilding European city streets in the aftermath of World War 2’s devestation, and w h a t. In the manner of Train Station Renovation orHouse Flipper, the game will have us clearing rubble, scrubbing walls, salvaging supplies, rebuilding everything from plumbing to railways, repainting, and redecorating....

HomeNewsX4: Foundations X4: Foundations heads to Earth with today’s Cradle Of Humanity expansionAlongside a major free update to the base game Alongside a major free update to the base game The X series kept the dream of space games alive for several barren years for the genre, with a set of pretty, convoluted and buggy space trading sims. Now we live in an age ofElite Dangerous,No Man’s SkyandStar Citizen, but X carries on....

HomeNews Devotion devs are selling it themselves after stores feared controversyAfter two years mired in controversy, the horror game is available again After two years mired in controversy, the horror game is available again Taiwanese horror gameDevotionis finally available to buy again, two years after it was pulled from sale within days of launch in 2019. It had caused controversy and serious consequences with a small joke at the expense of Chinese president Xi Jinping....

HomeFeaturesFall Guys Have You Played… Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout?Competitive ragdolls Competitive ragdolls “That is genius,” I said to myself as I caught my first glimpse of the colourful chaos ofFall Guys: Ultimate Knockouton YouTube, and my Takeshi’s Castle-filled childhood came zooming back to me like at the end ofRatatouille. How is it that, before this point, no one had thought to take the all-too-familiar battle royale formula, and make it about ragdoll characters propelling themselves through obstacle courses and messing each other up along the way, rather than the typical smorgasbord of guns, looting, and ignoble deaths?...

HomeNewsFIFA 21 Investigation into alleged FIFA Ultimate Team black market finds an EA account was involvedIt’s not clear if an employee or a hacker was using the account It’s not clear if an employee or a hacker was using the account Last week, a number of FIFA players alleged to have proof that someone claimed to be working for EAwas selling ultra-rare cards for Ultimate Team, the team-building mode that’s heavy on loot boxes....

HomeNewsSevered Steel Stylish FPS Severed Steel shows off sliding, stunting, and sharpshootingBullet time mayhem incoming Bullet time mayhem incoming I don’t know what you call a 360 degree no-scope where it’s actually two 180 degree turns on different axes. Dang impressive? Let’s go with that. Stylish stunting and sliding FPSSevered Steellooks like it’ll let you do one of those in slow-mo glory as you trick your way through a tower of baddies....

HomeNewsSurviving Mars Surviving Mars overhauls tourism, kicking off renewed supportTime to drive tourists round on a rock-seeing safari Time to drive tourists round on a rock-seeing safari After 17 months without a notable patch or new content,Surviving Marstoday got back to work with a free update expanding the colony-building sim’s tourism systems. As they announcedover the weekend, publishers Paradox Interactive have handed Haemimont’s game over to another studio to resume development....