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New World’s success has Amazon CEO convinced games could be the company’s largest entertainment sector It took a few tries, mind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Amazon’s colonial-flavoured MMO New World seems to have done well for the tech giant—well enough that CEO Andy Jassy now believes games could well outpace Amazon’s efforts in music, movies and television....

Old School Runescape’s first new mode in years is a hardcore co-op odyssey Group Ironman adds a social element to the hardcore challenge mode When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Introduced in 2014, Ironman mode let Old School Runescape players test their luck with an entirely self-sufficient challenge. Now, the throwback MMO will let you share that load with a full party, letting you and your friends taking on the world together without any help from outsiders....

Rockstar finally puts Agent to rest It’s gone to double-oh heaven. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We all knew it wasn’t happening but Rockstar has put the final nail in the coffin of Agent: the game has been listed on Rockstar’s official site since announcement but has now, like a troublesome contact,simply disappeared. An open-world spy game first spoken of in 2007 before being announced in 2009 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, Agent was an ongoing and fairly high-profile project—Sony execs continued to face questions about it for years—but the news dried up in the early 2010s....

Security experts aghast at the scale of Twitch hack: ‘This is as bad as it could possibly be’ How bad is it? According to IT security pros, really bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Just when we thought thatFacebook’s lengthy downtimewould be the biggest cybersecurity news of the week, hackers went and absolutelybulldozed Twitch, swiping the site’s source code and revealing everything fromhow much the top streamers make(a lot) to the existence of a Steam-like game client Twitch has in development,codenamed Vapor....

Teardown’s free ‘Part 2’ update goes full Garry’s Mod Between rocket boosters and wire-propelled catapults, you’d best mind your head. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Admittedly, that headline’s a little misleading. With aSteam Workshopfull of new maps to tear apart and new tools to break them with, Teardown’s voxel sandbox is already the next Garry’s Mod. But over the last week, developer Dennis Gustaffson has been tweeting a few more toys that are set to bring more delightful physics chaos to Teardown....

The Battlefield 2042 beta reminded me why I love Battlefield Battlefield’s beta is rough around the edges, but it’s already very fun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I was running around a missile hangar when an overly eager teammate kool-aid-manned through the wall next to me to escape a helicopter, sending me into a millisecond-long spiral of terror, relief, and laughter....

This Fortnite skin combines Cuddle Team Leader and Tomato Head into an unholy abomination Get this affront to God in the item shop now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Fortnitemares 2021has already added a handful of spooky new skins to buy, but the Curdle Scream Leader might be the one that takes the cake. Combining the original pink Cuddle Team Leader skin and the Tomatohead skin, it’s a Frankensteinian abomination to science and religion....