Month: December 2024

Massive Stalker 2 patch starts chipping away at the notoriously glitchy game’s worst problems, including over 80 cutscene problems and nearly 2,000 more bugs

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Massive Stalker 2 patch starts chipping away at the notoriously glitchy game’s worst problems, including over 80 cutscene problems and nearly 2,000 more bugs

December 19, 2024

Stalker 2 released this November with a swarm of game-breaking bugs attached to it, so developer GSC...

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Batman V. Superman star Jesse Eisenberg thinks that playing Lex Luthor in the poorly received film “hurt [his] career in a real way”

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Batman V. Superman star Jesse Eisenberg thinks that playing Lex Luthor in the poorly received film “hurt [his] career in a real way”

December 19, 2024

Jesse Eisenberg says that playing Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice hurt his career...

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Harland & Wolff saved by deal with Spanish firm

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Harland & Wolff saved by deal with Spanish firm

December 19, 2024

Spain’s state-owned shipbuilder confirms it is buying Harland & Wolff, best known for the Titanic.

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Lord Mandelson expected to be named as UK ambassador to US

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Lord Mandelson expected to be named as UK ambassador to US

December 19, 2024

The former minister and life peer will replace Dame Karen Pierce in early 2025.

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Preview Grant Morrison and Matt Fraction’s one-page horror stories from Ice Cream Man #43

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Preview Grant Morrison and Matt Fraction’s one-page horror stories from Ice Cream Man #43

December 19, 2024

W. Maxwell Prince’s brilliant horror series Ice Cream Man is one of our comics of 2024, landing...

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As Path of Exile 2 sees new players fall to scammers’ old tricks, RPG veterans step in to raise awareness: “Be careful, exile!”

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As Path of Exile 2 sees new players fall to scammers’ old tricks, RPG veterans step in to raise awareness: “Be careful, exile!”

December 19, 2024

In a heartening display of camaraderie, returning Path of Exile players are cautioning sequel newcomers that they...

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Final Fantasy 7’s original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG’s infamous love triangle: “What a lucky guy”

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Final Fantasy 7’s original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG’s infamous love triangle: “What a lucky guy”

December 19, 2024

Final Fantasy 7’s scandalous love triangle burned even hotter in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth‘s 2024 reappraisal of...

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One of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made stood out among Baldur’s Gate and Fallout as it was the “first” to make companions “feel like fully functional parts of the story”

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One of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made stood out among Baldur’s Gate and Fallout as it was the “first” to make companions “feel like fully functional parts of the story”

December 19, 2024

Despite launching so soon after other monumental RPG releases like the first two Fallout games and the...

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The Secretlab Christmas sale has arrived, and some of the deals are just as good as Black Friday

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The Secretlab Christmas sale has arrived, and some of the deals are just as good as Black Friday

December 19, 2024

I don’t have an Advent calendar this year, but luckily, I have another way of measuring how...

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Hideo Kojima originally had “no plans” for a character like Metal Gear Solid’s Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa’s art had him saying “hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!”

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Hideo Kojima originally had “no plans” for a character like Metal Gear Solid’s Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa’s art had him saying “hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!”

December 19, 2024

Metal Gear Solid’s Cyborg Ninja is one of the 1998 game’s most memorable characters, backflipping all over...

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