Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has revealed that a single line of faulty code tied to an assault rifle was responsible for a slew of audio and graphical bugs that have plagued players during the 16th season of the battle royale game. Players started reporting the bugs soon after the launch of Season 16 after noticing missing rifle sounds, phantom particle effects, and disappearing grenades that would fail to explode, yet deal the correct amount of damage to nearby enemies. The bugs hadn’t appeared in playtesting, but after a preliminary investigation the most likely cause of the missing effects was…
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Elden Ring is FromSoftware’s most ambitious game yet, featuring a massive open-world that you can explore freely, along with a crap ton of bosses to fight. Truly, there are over 100 boss encounters in this game, and you likely won’t even see them all in your first or second playthroughs. In this article, we’ll be ranking every major boss in Elden Ring from easiest to hardest. However, for the sake of my own sanity, this list will largely focus upon major story and side bosses, and will only cover a few of the repeated bosses that eventually become regular foes…
The three main Call of Duty games available right now—Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2.0, and Mobile—are gearing up for a new season of content, which will include all the usual additions: blueprints, skins, weapons, and the like. Tucked in this May 10 content drop, however, is a rather unique operator skin for the Phoenix… Read more…
I’m really captivated by Don’t Nod’s new mystery visual novel Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, but I can’t help feeling like it keeps getting in its own way. I’ve put about three hours into the game, and while it brings the Life Is Strange studio’s signature emotional, human dialogue, diversity, and a compelling story… Read more…
Hollywood writers have been on strike ever since media executives and the Writer’s Guild of America failed to come to an agreement at the bargaining table. Now, multiple video game writers are currently having public discussions about how their craft is undervalued by those looking in from the outside. One of them is… Read more…
This June’s animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will clock in at a substantial two hours and 16 minutes, its listing on AMC Theatres indicates. That is 136 minutes. That’s approximately how long it takes to escape a bad conversation. It’s 10 minutes longer than Disney’s 1940 epic Fantasia, and a little… Read more…
The tumultuous digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern horror story for professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine-learning technologies go from being harmless-seeming fun to capitalist tools of extraction that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation.… Read more…
With Apex Legends Season 17: Arsenal set to launch in just under a week, developer Respawn Entertainment has released a new legend-centric gameplay trailer called “Meet Ballistic.” The latest pre-season trailer gives players a better look at how Ballistic’s abilities will perform in-game, and even adds a bit more legend lore: According to the trailer, Pathfinder used to be Ballistic’s housekeeper–one of many ill-fated career paths the friendly MRVN attempted to pursue before joining the Apex Games. The trailer also confirms that all of the new legend’s abilities are indeed the same ones various data miners have been sharing online…
Star Wars Day means a lot of things to a lot of people, and for PC gamers, it means adding to a backlog of games that will never be completed. For this year’s celebration, Fanatical is holding a Star Wars sale with big discounts on dozens of games from multiple generations. Ranging from ye olde classic MS-DOS era to PS2 ports, CD-ROM hits to more modern entries in the franchise, there’s bound to be a Star Wars game on Fanatical that either hits you right in the nostalgia bones or reminds you that you haven’t played that game yet. For…
Bandai Namco and Supermassive Games announced that The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is now available on Nintendo Switch. The most interesting aspect of this Switch port is that its Nintendo eShop page specifically states that the game runs at 24fps. Most games usually run at 30fps or 60fps, so having Man of Medan on Switch running at 24fps is unusual. This port also retains the same features found on other platforms, such as the Curator’s Cut game mode, two-player online and five-player couch co-op multiplayer modes, and accessibility options such as subtitle and difficulty settings. One new feature…