Fortnite adjusts storm circle timings again, because players want more time hunting Sprites

Days after Fortnite made changes to storm circles in the late-game as part of "an active trial," Epic stepped back in with further adjustments to the mechanic prior to v41.30 dropping into the island today, Thursday, July 30. The test, which gave players less time to move around a map in Fortnite's later stages due [.....

Skyrim Username Mix-Up Sends Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months

An innocent man has served the full 18 months of his prison sentence after police made a typo during their child-luring investigation. While looking for a man going by the alias ‘fus__ro_dah’ on the messaging service Kik (a reference to the Unrelenting Force dragon shout from Skyrim), they requested records for the use...

NTE Codes (Neverness to Everness Redeem Codes)

Like most gacha games, Neverness to Everness also adopts the redemption-code system. It's always a pleasure when you find a code, redeem it, and get freebies, which is probably why the system isn't going anywhere soon. There are various sources for NTE redeem codes. For example, one code was announced in the pre-releas...

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Pokemon GO Streamer's 125-Mile Shiny Hunt Ends Terribly

A Pokemon GO streamer walked for nearly 125 miles over the course of a week all in the hunt for a Shiny starter Pokemon with a Special Background, but he didn't have the results he was hoping for. Dedication and persistence can help Pokemon GO players to achieve a lot, but in some cases, the odds are simply against the...

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Preview: I Declare Another Hit

Wii Sports was an experience that transcended the line between gamer and non-gamer. It went on to become one of the best-selling games of all time and made the Wii ubiquitous in millions of households around the world. Now, with the Switch and Switch 2 notching their own records, Nintendo is looking to capture similar...

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BeamNG.drive, Steam's finest car pancake maker, gets its biggest update yet with overhauled graphics, fresh rally stages and a sporty new coupe

BeamNG.drive's long been one of the easiest games to reccomend to a car lover cruising the streets of Steam. As Graham wrote in 2017, it's a moddable sandbox dedicated to vehicular destruction physics, in which every bump, crumple, and slam results in a glorious bending of metal and smashing of glass. BeamNG's been gro...

How To Unlock The Mythic Achievement In Halo: Campaign Evolved

LASO in Halo: Campaign Evolved is a difficulty mode that will unlock after you've completed the main campaign at least once. It stands for Legendary All Skulls On, but in Campaign Evolved, this doesn't actually mean all skulls. Instead, only 17 will be active, and for the most part, they're the same ones players would...

Games That Are More Fun Without Optimal Builds Or Strategies

Your competitive side can come out when playing video games. Really wanting to finish at the top of the leaderboard, beat a boss, or complete a game is natural. As such, we often come up with optimal methods to achieve our goals as efficiently as possible.

PSA: Don't execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer

Steam discussions can be the best route to a quick fix or otherwise answering your most burning gaming questions. These forums can also be a hive of scum and villainy. Case in point, bad actors have been taking to the Steam forums with fake fixes that end up installing cryptominers on your gaming PC.An innocent Steam u...