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Late last year, CD Projekt Red announced it would step back from development of its free-to-play collectible card game Gwent, with new cards continuing to be added in 2023, but the card pool be considered complete after that, and further balance changes left up to the players.

Update 11.10 is the final CD Projekt update, and as Molegion in the overview video explains, “This is the last handmade developer-prepared content update for Gwent, so after this we won’t be preparing changes to cards any more. Instead we will be using a system, you can see it in the main menu, it’s called balance council.”

The balance council allows players of at least Prestige 1, who have either won 25 ranked games in the current season or reached Rank 0, to vote on changes once per month. Each playe…

We’ve all at some point encountered a bug that gives us what feels like infinite gas, typically after spending time around small children or eating a dodgy kebab. One Helldivers 2 player had a much more extreme effluvial experience while battling the Terminid scourge, suffering a case of infinite gas so bad that it ultimately killed them.

The player, going by the wonderful Reddit name UnexpectedRoundHouse, posted a video to the Helldivers subreddit displaying the unfortunate incident. RoundHouse was several minutes into a ‘Launch ICBM’ mission when they called in an ‘Orbital Gas Strike’ stratagem on a bug breach.

Normally this stratagem would drop a single shell of toxic green gas onto the painted target, suffocating the enemies of Managed Democracy in a deadly pea-soup mias…

The latest Helldivers 2 major order has had some issues—but fair play to Arrowhead, the climax of said order is very dang cool, and far better than the lack of rewards offered for the Menkent Line.

In case you’ve not been keeping up with your Super Earth-mandated news broadcasts, last week divers were deployed to Meridia, the site of a super colony of Terminids. They were instructed to inject dark fluid, an experimental substance that spaghettified some scientists and was “liberated from the Illuminate following the First Galactic War”, into the planet’s crust.

The Illuminate are a missing faction from Helldivers 1 that has yet to teleport their Protoss-adjacent butts into the sequel. But it’s fine. We treated the dark fluid with three separate democracy baths and homo…

Just a few weeks after the release of its debut game Immortals of Aveum, a fantasy FPS that replaces guns with magical spells (that feel mostly like guns), Ascendant Studios has laid off nearly half its staff.

“Today, we are heartbroken as we part ways with friends and colleagues at Ascendant Studios—about 45% of our team,” Ascendant CEO Bret Robbins said on Twitter. “This was a painfully difficult, but necessary decision that was not made lightly; nevertheless, we have to make this adjustment now that Immortals of Aveum has shipped.

“I am so proud of what our independent development team has accomplished with Immortals of Aveum. Together we’ve created a new AAA studio, a new IP, on new technology, during an era of our industry when that is exceedingly rare. We’ve pour…

According to documents accidentally leaked by Microsoft during its trial with the FTC (spotted by The Verge), we got to peek at Xbox’s plans for the future, including a refreshed, disc-less version of the Xbox Series X and, more notable from the PC gaming perspective, a fancy new controller. 

Codenamed Sebile, the new two-toned Xbox controller offers Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, “Direct-to-Cloud” pairing, and a rechargeable, swappable battery. Moreover, it will feature new modular thumbsticks. However, it’s unclear if that means just the joysticks or if you can pop out the entire joystick module like with the $200 PlayStation DualSense Edge wireless controller. 

Inside the Sebile is an accelerometer, which is presumably the hardware that controls its new  “lift…

Journalism is a tireless line of work. At all times, you’ve got to be vigilant for where news might break next. I’ve got my nose to the ground, foraging for what might be buried in a corporate press release, uttered in an interview, or bubbling up on social media, knowing that sometimes—sometimes—I’ll find the next big scoop in time to claim first dibs.

Other times, times like today, what I find is all the world’s biggest game companies tweeting the same dumbass horse.

At first, I’d been scrolling past this awful horse’s awful face without taking much notice. Eventually, with dawning horror, I realized I’d spent the last hour beneath that wretched steed’s inscrutable gaze as it gawped out at me from countless image edits and crude photoshops.

I’ll …