Valve Gifts Player One Steam Point To Reach 69,000 For Christmas

Insomniac Games’ data breach last month was a devastating one, with over 1.3 million internal files being stolen and shared on the internet by ransomware hackers. The leaks revealed details on multiple games that the studio has planned for the next several years, and at the same time, internal data and metrics for all of PlayStation at large that hadn’t been made publicly available were also shared.

Baldur's Gate 3 has quite a few skill checks that you need to overcome in the form of tough fights. One of these is the mechanical mountain that is Grym, which you'll encounter deep in the bowels of the Grymforge. It hits like a truck, has a bunch of health, and you have to fight it in an arena full of lava. Either that, or you could just drop a really big bear on it.

It sounds like a few actresses will be doing screen tests for the character of in the new DC Universe.

With a rather understated press release, Ayaneo announced a new model PC in its Next series of handheld PCs, the Next Lite. Why understated? Because Ayaneo decided to not make too much of a fuss about its standout feature: It's the first non-Valve handheld product to use SteamOS as the operating system.

PC giant Valve has provided an update as to how it wants to handle games featuring artificial intelligence content.

Customizing a character at the start of the game can be a daunting task, but this initial round is only the first foray into a world of rich choices and extensive freedom to tweak and retool. Some of the later ways to edit characters are obvious, like selecting new spells and feats when leveling up, but others can be a little easier to miss. Most importantly, it isn't only a custom Tav protagonist that can be the recipient of major overhauls, as offers opportunities to overhaul the whole party according to personal preferences.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.

All throughout 2023, we saw plenty of people asking whether the year would go down as one of the best ever periods for new game releases. Indeed, it was an objectively stacked 12 months — and we're not even thinking about non-PlayStation platforms when we write that.

Ready Player One is a story about desperate people seeking escape from a collapsing society within the confines of a predatory digital world run by ultra-rich oligarchs who will do anything, including committing mass murder, in order to protect their positions of wealth and power. And now a company called Futureverse is teaming up with Warner Bros Discovery and author Ernest Cline to bring that particular Torment Nexus to life with the creation of the Readyverse, which aims to «to bring the promise of the open metaverse depicted in Cline’s Ready Player One novel and the blockbuster film adaptation into a tangible reality.»

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Star Citizen has a spaceship bundle which - somehow - costs $48,000.

Cryptocurrency market: Bitcoin price rose 3% to break above $45,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April 2022 as the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency started 2024 with a bang. Bitcoin rose to touch a 21-month high of $45,386 earlier in the day and was last up 2% at $44,980. Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, was 1% higher at $2,376.