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11.01.2024 - 21:17 / gamesradar.com
In September 2023, the eccentric, larger-than-life folks cast for Season 10 of reality TV show 90 Day Fiancé were revealed. Among them was now-30-year-old Kentucky resident Clayton, matched with 26-year-old Anali of Peru. While it wasn't immediately obvious, it's since become abundantly clear that Clayton is a hardcore Old School RuneScape player – a 20,000-hour type of hardcore player. The MMO's community pounced on the news back in November, and after a new episode which aired on January 7, Clayton's story has once again become a legendary meme factory.
Clayton, it turns out, is not just any old OSRS player. He's also named Clayton in-game, and is best known as the rank-one Magic user across the entire MMO. This means he was the first to reach 200 million experience in the skill – roughly 187 million XP more than what you need to actually hit the max level of 99. He also commands several other 200 million XP records, including rank nine in Farming and rank 90 in Cooking. Just getting 99 in every skill in OSRS is a massive achievement and time sink. Having multiple skills at 200 million XP takes rare dedication.
To the surprise of no one, TLC has taken this opportunity to play up just about every basement-dwelling, Doritos-munching, sunlight-avoiding gamer stereotype you can think of. "Is Clayton Spending Too Much Time on the Computer?!" asks one panicked video on the show's official YouTube channel. "Anali Gives Clayton Blue Balls!" exclaims another classy clip. I especially like this highlight about Clayton's two guinea pigs, but only because it has footage of guinea pigs in it – a welcome distraction.
The tone isn't far off the out-of-touch thinking that, rather than a diverse art and the biggest form of media on the planet, video games are little loser baby toys for a small group of little loser babies. That said, I'll be damned if Clayton ain't making it easy for TLC.
I know this is reality TV and therefore dramatized or staged to draw laughs and cringe, and I can only assume that Clayton was prepared for the inevitable jeering, but wow. At one point, Clayton relaxes somberly as a red on-screen banner notes he's gone "59 days without sex." In one clip, Clayton explains: "I'm pretty much just a hermit in my room. I'm working from home and gaming all the time. I've spent a lot of time on the computer. Video games have always been part of my life.
"The game that I've been addicted to since I was an early teenager, I have, like, over 20,000 hours on that game if not more," he continues, as barely blurred footage of OSRS plays in the background. "I quit counting a long time ago. For about half my life, I've spent so much time on it ... I think it's just the fact that, given my work schedule
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
Originally released in 2022, Stray‘s tale of friendship and a search for home captivated the collective attention of the gaming world and the internet at large. Initially, that was all thanks to its biggest hook — playing as a cat. A nameless, adorable stray that had many charmed before it’d even launched.
In a recent interview, game director Jerk Gustafsson discussed the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. He explained the meaning behind the game’s title, MachineGame’s inspiration for its story, and what the studio hopes to accomplish with gameplay.
Now see here Ollie Toms, supposed guides editor of this supposed videogames website - if Enshrouded really does have "the best building system in the survival genre" then why does the floor of my hovel look like a petrified sneeze? I was innocently carving myself a nice stone foundation last night when the Devil jogged my elbow and I dug a massive, raggedy trench straight through it. I've spent an hour now trying to fill in the trench and flatten it out, to no avail. There's always a jaggedy bit right in the middle, and I'm getting displaced trypophobia from the awareness that my efforts have seeded the terrain beneath with random cavities.
Fntastic, the folks behind the debilitating 'open world zombie MMO' The Day Before, have released a statement to combat "misinformation" about its development and catastrophic release. They claim certain "bloggers" made huge money by creating "false content" about the game, and that its closure is thanks largely to a hate campaign that inflicted "significant damage". Bizarrely, they also believe they "implemented everything shown in the trailers". Riiight.
Three years after it was first teased by Bethesda Softworks, , developed by Machine Games(makers of the modern series), has had a full reveal at the 2024 Developer_Direct from Xbox, revealing many of the game's major characters. As a game set in the same continuity as the movies, includes a number of returning characters, but also includes some additions that are completely new to the game.
The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that a movie based on the PlayStation 4 and PC game Until Dawn is being prepared. The screenwriter of It, Annabelle and The Nun, Gary Dauberman, is doing a pass on the script while Shazam! director David F. Sandberg will be sitting in the big chair.
From its hand-to-hand combat and its fully simulated whip to its focus on cinematic set pieces and the fact that it’s going to be a primarily first-person experience, there’s plenty about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle that has been revealed by developer MachineGames, though some questions have still yet to be answered. For instance, how is the game going to be structured? Is it going to be a linear experience, as you’d expect from a cinematic action-adventure game such as this one, or will it afford room for open-ended exploration?
The upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will see veteran voice actor Troy Baker play the titular treasure hunter. Bethesda revealed that it is working on an Indiana Jones video game back in 2021, with subsidiary Wolfenstein studio MachineGames on developmental duties. There has been very little official information in the years since the Indiana Jones game’s first 30-second teaser trailer was shown, save that it is being produced exclusively for PC and Xbox consoles following Microsoft’s buyout of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media in 2021.
Back in 2024 Microsoft and Bethesda announced a new Indiana Jones game was coming our way courtesy of producer Todd Howard and Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, but since then, very little else has been revealed. Rumors that the game may be launching this year have been making the rounds, but it’s been radio silence from Microsoft and Bethesda themselves.
The leaks were right. Machine Games' next Nazi-biffer is called Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. It was shown for the first time during this evening's Xbox Developer Direct, where we got to see first-person punching and whipping, some tomb raiding, and plenty of Indy's face in cutscenes.
Behaviour Interactive is the latest notable game developer to lay off workers. The Dead by Daylight studio confirmed to Game Developer that the cuts affected less than three percent of the total workforce. Kotaku first reported on the layoffs, stating that they took place earlier this month and affected around 45 people across several departments. It initially appeared that the layoffs were limited to Behaviour's Montreal headquarters, but the publisher hasn't confirmed whether that's the case.