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A former Rockstar Games developer has explained why planes in GTA San Andreas would regularly crash around CJ despite the player not doing anything to them.

In an effort to strengthen its case in a heated lawsuit over the safety of its Autopilot system, Tesla is looking to Apple for help. The case, which stems from a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X in 2018, resulted in a legal battle over the circumstances of the accident.

Plane crashes that are commonly encountered throughout Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas stem from some problematic code that is both buggy and imperfect, partially due to the technical limitations of the game's original target hardware. This information, shared by a former Rockstar developer, finally offers a solution to a mystery that has been puzzling GTA: San Andreas players for nearly two decades.

success keeps continuing, and with every Major Order issued by High Command, the game keeps improving. That's not to say it's perfect, however — as one unfortunate mechanic may actually result in the game crashing completely. Though is packed with hours of fun content, the game itself can sometimes be buggy, which is not that surprising considering it was just released in February. One unfortunate bug, however, may ruin a squad's fun completely.

Arrowhead Game Studios warnsHelldivers 2 players to stop throwing snowballs during matches as using the items can cause the game to crash. The co-op shooter continues to be a massively popular title, thanks in large part to the ever evolving galactic war. Through major orders from the game master known as Joel, players are dynamically altering the Helldivers 2 battlefield, pushing back enemy factions or sometimes losing planets as well.

Here’s an odd one: the developer of Helldivers 2 has warned players against having snowball fights because they’re causing the game to crash.

Microsoft has reportedly reached an agreement with former Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob for the studio’s next game.

The newly independent game studio Toys for Bob, which announced last month that it was splitting from Microsoft-owned Activision, has entered an agreement with Xbox for a new game, according to a report from Windows Central. Toys for Bob developed 2018’s Spyro Reignited Trilogy and was behind Crash Bandicoot 4, along with the Nintendo Switch port for the N. Sane Trilogy.

Toys For Bob, the studio behind the modern resurrections of the Spyro and Crash Bandicoot franchises, has reached an agreement with Xbox to fund its next game. Toys For Bob's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Spyro Reignited Trilogy were a nostalgic return to form for the platformer genre, and the studio is now planning its next moves.

Toys For Bob has reportedly signed a deal with its former corporate owners at Microsoft, only a few weeks after finding independence.

Skylanders, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob has reportedly reached an agreement with Microsoft for its next game.

Toys for Bob has reportedly entered a deal with Xbox to develop a new game that's similar to its previous work.

If you’re playing Helldivers 2 and finding the game crashes more than usual, you’re not alone. Developer Arrowhead has said a lot of players are currently being affected by a crash issue, which is linked to the release of a recent patch, and it’s on the case.

MLB The Show 24 is quietly one of Sony’s most successful series, but with developer San Diego Studio forced to iterate on unforgiving annual cycles, it can be difficult for it to make meaningful improvements year-over-year. This short 60-second trailer provides a crash course on what’s new in the latest game, then, which is out today in early access.

The updates for Baldur’s Gate 3 are coming thick and fast. The latest, Hotfix 21, is live now across PC, Mac, and PlayStation, but Xbox players must wait.

Toys for Bob, the developer behind titles like Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, has announced that it's becoming an independent studio. Previously, the Californian outfit had operated under Activision, but it was hit with layoffs after Microsoft's acquisition of the publisher. Toys for Bob also had its office shuttered as part of the 'consolidation' process.

Multiplayer spin-off Crash Team Rumble is an inoffensive and novel game for fans of Activision’s platforming hero, but it seems it doesn't have the player base to keep things moving. Developer Toys for Bob has announced that post-launch support for the game is drawing to a close, with the final update coming next week.

Crash Team Rumble will be turning off its microtransactions once a new content update launches on March 4, but this update will also mark the end of support for the online multiplayer game. The game will also undergo some major changes, since Crash Team Rumble developer Toys for Bob is no longer working on the game.

Activision has announced Crash Team Rumble is ending support next week.

As the video games industry violently contracts to ensure shareholder satisfaction at the cost of making thousands upon thousands of people unemployed, Skylanders studio Toys For Bob have announced they're splitting from Activision Blizzard and Microsoft to go independent. Good for them, but maybe too late for some. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that it seemed Activision Blizzard were closing Toys For Bob's California headquarters and laying off 86 people. Still, the new independent Toys For Bob say they're working on something new and "exploring a possible partnership" with Microsoft.

Crash Team Rumble will have no further content updates after 4th March, less than nine months after its launch.

Online multiplayer team game Crash Team Rumbleis having its official support come to an end, less than nine months after its June 2023 launch.

With Toys for Bob separating from Activision and going private, its support for Crash Team Rumble is ending. The multiplayer arena title will receive its final content update on March 4th, per a recent in-game message spotted by Redditors.

Toys for Bob — the Activision Blizzard studio behind the likes of Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot 4, and the Spyro remasters — has announced it's parting ways with Activision to become an independent company once more. It also says it's «exploring a possible partnership» with Microsoft as development on its new game gets underway.

Crash Team Rumble support is winding down, as next week’s content update will be its last.

Amid mass layoffs, studio closures, and general industry uncertainty, today began with a handful of studios and companies reclaiming control of their own destinies. We learned this morning that Saber Interactive and Gearbox are reportedly breaking free of Embracer Group. And now, it looks like Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob has sprung free of Activision and Microsoft.

Toys for Bob, the developer behind 2020's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and 2018's Spyro Reignited Trilogy, has announced that it's leaving Activision and Microsoft and becoming an independent studio. However, Toys for Bob briefly detailed its plans for the future, which might involve a partnership with Activision Blizzard's parent company.

Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob has announced plans to go independent.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy developer Toys for Bob has revealed that it's going independent, just months after being acquired alongside Activision by Microsoft.

Activision studio Toys for Bob — best known for its work on franchises like Crash Bandicoot, Skylanders, and Spyro — is separating from Microsoft and going independent. It isn’t completely leaving Xbox and Activision behind, though, as the studio is looking to form a partnership with those companies.

Crash Bandicoot was an icon of the '90s.

Last night I tried to host a Helldivers 2 co-op mission and the "ready up" button froze up. I spammed it in a panic while the randos in my voice channel fumed at the delay. Then I popped us out of the drop pods, attempted to quit the game in embarrassment, and the PC promptly crashed. Another blow for managed democracy!

Super Mario 64 defined 3D platformers to such a degree that its influences are still being felt now, 28 years later. The original Crash Bandicoot debuted more or less simultaneously with Nintendo's classic, but ended up taking a much different path with the concept.

The first Streets Of Rogue was an RPS favourite when it launched back in 2019 (we literally couldn't stop playing it), and we've known for a while now that its sequel, Streets Of Rogue 2, is due to arrive later this year. Ahead of the game's launch, developer Matt Dabrowski has started releasing a series of dev diary videos detailing his design process and how it's all coming together. The latest is about how he creates the game's proc-gen open worlds and biomes, and it's a fascinating watch if you've ever wondered how its particular blend of randomised chaos works behind the scenes.

Over the past few weeks, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon fans have been nervously awaiting news regarding developer Toys for Bob. A new report earlier this month claimed that the studio had closed its offices, leading many to believe Toys for Bob was about to be shut down completely after being hit hard by Microsoft's recent layoffs that saw 1,900 people lose their jobs.

Arrowhead has released another patch for Helldivers 2 and it's good news for those incredibly popular players among us — the game will no longer crash if you have too many friends.

Layoffs have been reported at Toys for Bob, the developer behind Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and the Spyro: Reignited Trilogy. They form part of the ongoing consolidation efforts necessitated by parent company Activision's acquisition by Microsoft, resulting in 1900 roles being made redundant. Some 86 workers have been let go, and the studio's office shuttered. Contrary to some earlier confusion, that's the physical address; Toys for Bob will remain active, and most remaining employees will now work remotely.

Elden Ring fans have been ravenous for DLC practically ever since they first played the game, but that hunger really spiked in the last few weeks as scores of fans stalked the game's Steam page looking for any signs of movement. Recent backend updates have yielded genuinely compelling evidence of development progress, so the community's hype was white-hot as the quarterly finance reports, including those from FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa, rolled in this month. 

Activision Blizzard's Crash Bandicoot and Spyro studio Toys for Bob lose 86 employees as a result of layoffs.

Reports suggest that Toys for Bob has been hit hard by the Microsoft layoffs, with some sources saying that the developer has lost up to 40 percent of its staff. This comes just after Microsoft acquired Toys for Bob's parent company, Activision Blizzard, in a deal that cost almost $70 billion.

All within a day, the hotly anticipated Valheim-like open world survival action-RPG Enshrouded launched into Early Access, became the subject of a flood of negative user reviews largely due to performance issues, and promptly hotfixed a major problem causing server crashes. At the time of writing, its Steam reviews continue to climb after another crash fix.

The Finals developer Embark Studios has released update 1.5.5, which makes a number of significant balance changes.

Blizzard has warned players that a quest new to Season 3, Drums of the Vault, is causing Local Co-Op crashes and states a fix is in the works. While it seems this bug is only affecting players on console, it's still worth being cautious when completing the quest regardless of the platform you play on.

As Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 continues to progress, Epic Games are ensuring the season remains fresh by making updates to the loot pool. So far, players have been introduced to the hard-hitting Enforcer assault rifle, using the new FlowBerry Fizz healing item, and getting reacquainted with the Lock On pistol. Now, the Crash Pad Jr is the latest item to return from the vault, providing an extra mobility option. If you want to know where to find the Crash Pad Jr and how it works, read on.

We begin our adventure in Baldur's Gate 3 aboard a Nautiloid ship, hurtling at full speed through the void as dragons lay siege alongside horned demons, slaughtering mind flayers while those in the pods bang on the glass, desperate to escape.

God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla is an unfortunate amalgamation of Norse words. However, the incoming free DLC (out today, 12th December) looks like a delicious second helping for fans of Sony Santa Monica's most recent release. We learned that Valhalla would serve as an epilogue to Kratos's story, and now we have a trailer showing it in randomly generated action.

A fascinating yet disappointing Starfieldbug has been discovered, which causes playthroughs to become more unstable the longer they go on.

Starfield has a bug where, the longer someone plays without activating its 'New Game Plus' mode, the more frequently the RPG crashes.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. The longer you play this Bethesda RPG, the more unstable it becomes. Am I talking about Oblivion's reference bug, or Skyrim's PS3 lag bug? (That's our brand director Tim Clark there holding Bethesda's feet to the fire on the latter.) Nope, I'm talking about Starfield, where players who have racked up hundreds of hours—not that uncommon in a Bethesda RPG—are experiencing more crashes the longer they play.

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We know that Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Dungeons and Dragons experience set in Faerün, but we’ve never known where exactly the story takes place. One dedicated player has discovered the exact location of the Baldur’s Gate 3 story, including the Nautiloid ship crash site, on the DND Faerün map.

Do Kwon, former crypto darling and now fugitive, was arrested in Montenegro this March while attempting to flee to Dubai. The High Court in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital, has now given approval for Do Kwon's extradition, though whether he'll be off to South Korea or the US, both of which have open arrest warrants for him, remains to be decided.

Modern Warfare III’s launch had “historically low crash rates” for a Call of Duty game, Sledgehammer developers say. They also hinted at changes that might be coming to Modern Warfare III in the future, and dropped some information on the upcoming Season 1 during an hour-long interview with content creator Repullze.

Sypro the Dragon is coming to Crash Team Rumble, as the game continues to struggle to gain traction.

Since its launch earlier this year, Crash Team Rumble hasn’t exactly lit up the scene or pulled in a massive player base, but the MOBA has continued to expand with updates and content additions, another one of which will be coming pretty soon.

Cruise is recalling 950 driverless cars from the roads across the United States following a crash involving one of its robotaxis and will likely issue more recalls, General Motors' self-driving unit said.

Singles' Day, also known as "11.11" or "Double 11," is a unique and popular shopping festival in China and several other countries that takes place on November 11th each year. What began as an informal celebration for single people has evolved into one of the world's largest online shopping events, surpassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday in terms of sales.

When tackling the Open Combat Missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, it’s all about tracking the many items and weapons scattered throughout the map. These are hidden all over the area, and you need to discover each one during the Crash Site mission.

In some great news for Google Pixel users in India and some other countries, the company has rolled out its crash detection feature. Google had rolled out the Car Crash Detection feature to Pixel smartphones way back in 2019. After the recent expansion of the feature, Pixel users will be able to see it in the Safety app on Pixel 3 and later versions. The feature was not recognized much until Apple launched it in the iPhone 14 series. However, Google's Car Crash Detection feature was limited to only a few regions. Now, Google has expanded the feature availability to more regions. Know what is the Google Pixel Crash Detection feature about and the list of newly added countries.

Foxhole is a sandbox-style war MMO and, while it officially released last year, it's been available in early access since 2017. Its schtick is one persistent and gigantic war game where thousands of players simultaneously battle for one of two factions, both seeking domination over a gigantic map, but with the twist that, as in a real conflict, the logistics, resource and supply side of the armies is just as important, if not more so, than the soldiers firing guns and piloting vehicles. 

The world's auto industry is accelerating in two directions at once. Unless those contradictions are resolved, carmakers risk running themselves off the road.

In this fast-moving world where many of us drive our cars on a daily basis, all it takes is one unfortunate moment for an accident to happen. The consequences can be potentially lethal and sometimes due to no fault of our own. Once a car crashes, often time life and death situations are often determined on the basis of how fast medical assistance reaches them. We witnessed the same recently when Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant met with a near-fatal car accident. In his case, a good samaritan quickly called an ambulance and Pant was able to make a full recovery. But what if there is nobody to do the same for you? This is where your iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 series can become crucial. In particular, the iPhone crash detection feature.

Are you playing Mortal Kombat 1 on Steam? Have you noticed that your free drive space has been disappearing without obvious cause and at a potentially alarming pace? If so, there's good news, or at least an explanation that will help you deal with it: It turns out that Mortal Kombat 1's crash logs are really big.

According to Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, a market crash caused by artificial intelligence is “nearly unavoidable.” Like many other regulators, he has called for new regulations on AI to prevent such dire scenarios. Such fears are considerably exaggerated. It is true that AI might cause a market crash — just as many events, some of them quite arbitrary or unexpected, have led to market downturns. On net, though, AI probably lowers the chances of a market crash.

Mortal Kombat 1 crashes create a report file on your hard drive, which in some cases can occupy an enormous amount of space. Multiple reports from MK1 PC players (on both Steam and other platforms), as well as PCGamesN’s own investigation, confirm that every time Mortal Kombat 1 crashes on your PC, a new report folder is created. The more crashes your game experiences, the more folders are made, with some players reporting up to 70 GB of hard drive space being consumed by numerous crash files. A community manager for WB Games, which publishes NetherRealms’ Mortal Kombat 1, says the issue has been reported and that the MK1 team is “looking at it ASAP.”

Bethesda’s Starfield is a delightful game, for sure, though it’s not without its faults. Its randomized nature, specifically, has been criticized for how repetitive it can get, with points of interest such as the Spaceship Debris crash site popping up all over the place with virtually no variance in loot or detail. Now, with players spending more and more time in the game, they’re figuring out that there are ways to deliberately trigger the appearance of certain points of interest, potentially underlining this problem.

This morning, developer Hexworks released a new Lords of the Fallen patch (version 1.1.191) on PC. This new update attempts to fix several crash issues. To do so, it temporarily disables NVIDIA DLSS 3 (Frame Generation) until the developers, with the help of NVIDIA, can improve its stability. This should alleviate some crash issues reported by owners of GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs.

Grotty fantasy Soulslike Lords of the Fallen - which I have been cautiously looking forward to, despite Ed's efforts to temper my expectations - is getting its chainmail-wearing arse kicked by Steam players. It seems to be selling well, squatting at third on the platform's global top seller charts by revenue, but the user review consensus tells a different story. There are 1,320 reviews at the time of writing, and they are Mostly Negative, which is quite the showing for a game's first day on sale.

Publisher GalaxyTrail and developer Friend & Fairy have announced arcade puzzle game sequel Petal Crash 2. Platforms and a release date were not announced. A crowdfunding campaign is planned to launch in early 2024.

CD Projekt have released the full patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077's 2.01 update, which as you might recall, stops people tumbling through certain elevator floors when the frame-rate drops. Out now on PC, the update spans many other technical fixes and improvements, some of them specific to the recently released Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC.

If a new patch adds in a bug, no matter how small, the Pokemon community will find it. This one is a tad bigger than a mere annoyance though, as Pokemon Scarlet & Violet version 2.0.1 (which arrived for the Teal Mask DLC) apparently added in a hardware crash.

A newly discovered bug in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet can crash the game during the final battle.

Toys for Bob’s multiplayer-focused Crash Team Rumble didn’t have the biggest impact when it launched a few months ago. Nevertheless, if you’ve never tried and wondered what it offers, a free trial is available now on all platforms until October 2nd. Check out the trailer below to see the content in action.

A prototype for an unreleased Xbox game called Crash vs Spyro Racing has been discovered on a hard drive from an old development kit.

YouTuber Modern Vintage Gamer has uncovered an unreleased Crash vs. Spyro Racing game for the original Xbox. Developed by Argonaut in 2003/2004, this crossover never saw the light of day as the studio, unfortunately, closed down. However, 20 years later, we now have a glimpse at gameplay, an intro cinematic featuring the two platforming mascots, and the title screen.

Season 2 of Crash Team Rumble's ongoing service offering is now live, and players invested in the raucous multiplayer offering have a decent piece of additional content to bite into. There are five new mini-games to try out, two new maps to tear apart, a cooperative Party Mode, and Spyro 2's infamous antagonist, Ripto, joins the fray.

Activision announced it’s adding popular Spyro the Dragon villain Ripto to Crash Team Rumble’s Season 2 line-up. New maps and modes will coincide with the character’s entry into the game. There’s no word of Spyro making the roster as of yet. However, the purple dragon’s 25th anniversary looms later this month.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Modders have already found a way around Starfield's biggest controversy, but it's far from a perfect solution.