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Helldivers 2 Trolls Crowdstrike Over Worldwide Outage
Live-service games face an extraordinarily tough time battling to maintain their player-base, competing against a dozen similar games, and trying to constantly satisfy impossibly disparate audience—but one benefit that’s all too rarely utilized is the ability to be incredibly topical and reactive. Helldivers 2 is flexing that muscle in the best way, with an in-game…
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Are Physical Games Dead? It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
In 2007, console gaming got its first day-and-date digital release. The sci-fi war shooter Warhawk for the PlayStation 3 was sold as a Blu-ray disc in stores but was also available to buy digitally on PSN. The game is mostly forgotten now, but it was the first domino to fall in digital’s slow but relentless…
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A Single New Crate Has Created Turmoil In Counter-Strike 2
How much chaos can one box cause? When that box is added to a decades-old Counter-Strike map with no warning, it turns out quite a lot of chaos. For those out of the loop, in 2023 Valve updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and changed so much stuff that it also rebranded the game as Counter-Strike 2.…
