Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s Fourth Playable Clan is Ventrue

The Finals developer Embark Studios has shut down a frequent request from its community to introduce region locking to combat cheating in the hot new FPS. 

Developer Embark Studios has taken to the official Discord server for competitive multiplayer shooter THE FINALS to respond to player complaints about there being many new cheaters populating the game over the weekend. As caught by Mp1st, the studio has stated that it couldn’t ban cheaters effectively because of technical issues, but the problem was being actively worked on.

Keywords Studios has acquired The Multiplayer Group from cloud technology firm Improbable for £76.5 million.

In Diablo 4's hardest dungeon, you have 10 minutes and one life to kill the hardest enemies in the game. A little over a week after its launch, a Chinese player named Xingluoah was able to conquer the final and most brutal tier of the Abattoir of Zir using a newly discovered exploit, a perfected build, and the wrong pair of pants.

Shifting from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 was a big move for Paradox and The Chinese Room when developing Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. The team broke down a ton of the details in a new dev diary published to the Bloodlines 2 website.

In the final blog post before the end of the year, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room talked about the challenges and the benefits of migrating from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

Google losing the antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games concerning the Play Store will have far-reaching implications for the mobile app economy.

Temu, the Chinese e-commerce company whose app is now attracting longer engagement times than Amazon, is Apple’s most downloaded free app in the U.S. for 2023. The Cupertino-based tech giant today released an App Store feature that showcases the top iPhone apps of the year, free and paid, as measured by app installs — its proxy for overall popularity. This year, apps from Chinese-based companies have taken over spots previously held by U.S. tech giants like Meta and Google, as CapCut and TikTok, which hail from Beijing-based ByteDance, came in at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.

is an upcoming VR adventure game inspired by the world's most successful pirate, a 19th century Chinese woman named Cheng Shih. The title comes from woman-led developer Singer Studios, which was founded by award-winning filmmaker Eloise Singer. Protagonist Shih is voiced by actress Lucy Liu, who also serves as a producer on the project.

Hurry up and get your holiday viewing out of the way this year because the presents are arriving early. On Dec. 22, Mubi, the highly curated, cinema-forward streaming service, is unleashing a collection of films celebrating the high-impact fight films of Shaw Brothers Studio. Founded in 1958, the Chinese studio became synonymous with martial arts movies, with classics ranging from straight wushu fight dramas to more fantastical wuxia odysseys.

It was initially reported that Apple will launch new iPad Pro models this year. However, the company released the new M3 MacBook Pro models instead. Apple plans to upgrade its entire iPad lineup next year, starting with the iPad Pro models in the first half of 2024. Mark Gurman said Apple will launch the OLED iPad Pro models in March. A new report now claims the company could announce the entry-level iPad in the second half of 2024.

Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room have unveiled Ventrue as the fourth and final playable launch clan for Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. No gameplay has been revealed for the Ventrue at this time, though Paradox assures fans they’ll get to see the clan in action early next year as part of an extended gameplay reveal.