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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga developers say crunch was a ‘soft-spoken blackmail’ Developers at the studio describe working long hours and a multitude of development issues. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The biggest Lego Star Wars game to date, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, took its developer nearly five years to make, a process that included extensive crunch, mismanagement, and high staff turnover, according toa report by Polygon....

Lord of the Rings' Merry and Pippin can’t stop talking about League of Legends They even tried to rope Elijah Wood into joining them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I’m a bit of a sucker for celebrities showing their nerdy tendencies and it’s recently been brought to my attention that Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd—who you may know as The Lord of the Rings' Merry and Pippin—are huge League of Legends players....

Mech brawler Daemon X Machina is free to keep next week The Epic Games Store doles out some giant robot violence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Daemon X Machina hit PC in early 2020, following roughly six months spent as a Nintendo Switch exclusive. It’s a third-person mech combat game developed by Marvellous, and while it’s definitely worth a shot if you’re into anime and mechs, it does get quite repetitive, according toour review....

Metaverse advertising could involve tracking your eyes and more Quick, everyone put on your surprised faces for the tracking system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In moves previously thought impossible, it looks likeFacebook/Metahas come up with ways to make the metaverse even creepier than its promo videos. Protocolexplains that several patents recently granted to the social media megacorp give some potential insight into more ways it plans to profit from the metaverse....

Microsoft wants to ‘keep Call of Duty on PlayStation,’ Phil Spencer says Spencer has finally shed light on Microsoft’s plans for Activision Blizzard platform exclusivity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzardtriggered a certain amount of nervous sweat among PlayStation-owning Call of Duty fans. Would Call of Duty releases in some not-too-distant future become Xbox exclusive?...

New hybrid particle could lead to smaller magnetic semiconductors Best of all, it’s called NiPS3. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We’ve been seeing a lot of innovations in tiny tech recently.Little PCs are all the rage, and advancement in storage among other things is bringing real potential to portable PC gaming. New mobile chips are capable ofray tracing and variable rate shading....

Nvidia compares RTX 3050 to GTX 1050 on product page graph Nvidia’s tests also use RTX and DLSS but AMD’s been doing a few weird comparisons of its own. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. GPUs are a bit of a hot topic at the moment given they’re so hard to come by. With the chip shortage and crypto mining gobbling them all up, demand for good GPUs has never been higher....