Makers of The Hunter: Call of the Wild announce new open world fishing game

Makers of The Hunter: Call of the Wild announce new open world fishing game Call of the Wild: The Angler, which you can play solo or with 12 players, is coming this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Fans offishing games on PCshould dust off their tackle boxes and stock up on bait because they have a big new open world filled with lakes and rivers to cast their hopes and dreams into....

June 20, 2022 · 3 min · 587 words · Elizabeth Schneider

Meta's myriad VR prototypes prove the metaverse is a long way off

Meta’s myriad VR prototypes prove the metaverse is a long way off Each does something different, something good. But none are prime time ready, or even feasible. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I know it ain’t fashionable, but I actually like VR. MyQuest 2is hanging right next to my monitor, and I’vealmostfinishedHalf-Life: Alyxjust two years after launch. Yet I am far from convinced in the metaverse as a tangible concept in my lifetime....

June 20, 2022 · 4 min · 749 words · Lori Landry

Of course AI NPCs 'can be conscious and can have feelings' says technophilosopher

Of course AI NPCs ‘can be conscious and can have feelings’ says technophilosopher Virtual realities like the metaverse “can be just as real, and just as good as physical reality.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Meta’s just released anotherconcept video showing off the metaverse’spotential capabilities and, while your mind might immediately go to a place of “what a load of corpo bull,” there’s something to be said for Meta’s proposition: “the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real....

June 20, 2022 · 6 min · 1158 words · Monica Gomez

Outriders is free to play on Steam until Thursday

Outriders is free to play on Steam until Thursday With the Worldslayer expansion almost here, Square Enix would very much like people to try it’s co-op shooter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I liked People Can Fly’s third-person shooter Outriders well enough when I played around with it last year, although I can’t disagree too much with Morgan’s assessment in his63% reviewthat it pales in comparison to the studio’s previous games, Bulletstorm and Painkiller....

June 20, 2022 · 3 min · 513 words · Carol Brown

Researchers find way to hack your CPU via AMD and Intel's frequency boosts

Researchers find way to hack your CPU via AMD and Intel’s frequency boosts “We do not believe this attack to be practical outside of a lab environment,” says Intel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. A new family of side-channel CPU exploits have been discovered. Researchers are calling it Hertzbleed, and theoretically it could affect anyone, though mostly it’s cryptography engineers that need to be alert....

June 20, 2022 · 4 min · 732 words · Zachary Jacobs

Riot brings back LoL's magical anime troupe, fans go bananas

Riot brings back LoL’s magical anime troupe, fans go bananas Star Guardian is big news. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. A new day is just over the horizon.#StarGuardian returns on July 14 💫 pic.twitter.com/eIzBSVVEtPJune 20, 2022 Riot has announced that it’s bringing the Star Guardian theme back to League of Legends, which a colleague explained to me thus: “a line of skins that’s basically ‘What if LoL characters were in a Sailor Moon-style magical girl anime?...

June 20, 2022 · 3 min · 481 words · Samantha Caldwell

RIP Heroes of Newerth, once LoL's biggest competitor

RIP Heroes of Newerth, once LoL’s biggest competitor The game shut down today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In April 2009, two lane-pushing games entered beta in the same month. Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends competed for more-or-less the same audience of Dota fans. Initially it wasn’t clear which would have the greater success, but LoL’s free-to-play model saw it garner enormous momentum and soon become the most-played game in the world....

June 20, 2022 · 4 min · 714 words · Karina Price
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