As spotted by Gamesradar, a particularly stubborn mathemagician has rolled up their sleeves to properly prove whether it’s even worth it to run high-tier nightmare dungeons in Diablo 4.

Posted last week on the game’s subreddit, fpsthirty put in a staggering amount of work to confirm their suspicions after tiring of the level 100 grind, wanting to “combine farming with an activity that is interesting and useful to the community … I decided to complete five dungeons of each tier, so that by the end of the experiment I would definitely [reach level 100] (I regretted the idea already on [tier 30], but I brought the plan to its end).”

This staggering one-gamer survey saw them complete over 400 nightmare dungeons in 18 days, cataloguing a staggering 8,104 Ancestral rarity i…

Rockstar’s transformation from DMA Design—the Scottish developer behind the Lemming series as well as Grand Theft Auto—into an international publishing behemoth is a tale that’s been told several times before. For starters, there’s David Kushner’s book Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, and BBC docudrama The Game Changers starring Daniel Radcliffe. There’s even our own feature on how Rockstar made millions selling Scotland’s natural export: dark comedy.

One story that hadn’t been told in full is how the company’s immediately recognizable logo with the R and star against a yellow background came to be. Until now, as Time Extension has tracked down former Rockstar designer Karen Scott (then Karen Mui), who explained how she and artist Jeremy Blake created the …

Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has been doing something pretty neat lately: talking about Overwatch 2. The de facto voice of Blizzard on matters of Overwatch recently made it a goal to communicate with players more often about the current state of the game, and the man is on a roll. So far with his “Director’s Take” series, Keller has written about ranked woes, the future of Arcade mode, and the failed experiment that is map pools.

It’s refreshing to see so much transparency from Overwatch’s top brass on topics that matter most to daily  players, and today’s blog concerning win rates and hero popularity is easily his most illuminating yet.

Right out of the gate, Keller shares some interesting observations about Overwatch 2’s ranked meta in the first weeks of sea…

Twitch streamers are pushing back against the platform’s new “branded content guidelines” that will put tight limits on how advertisements can be run on their channels—and at least one prominent channel is threatening to leave Twitch entirely if the planned changes aren’t dropped.

The new guidelines page starts off with a detailed breakdown of what does and doesn’t qualify as branded content, and when and how promotions and sponsorships need to be disclosed. There’s also a bit about a branded content disclosure too, that “enables you to easily notify your community that your stream includes branded content.”

Things take a turn in the second part of the page, though, where Twitch lays out “permitted and prohibited brand sponsorship formats,” and cuts right to what it’s …

Helldivers 2 has really given me a taste for relentless wars and hordes of killer machines, and it looks like Fun Dog Studios’ The Forever Winter is going to help me keep scratching that itch—albeit in a very different way. 

Instead of being a badass supersoldier, this survival horror looter shooter puts you in a squad of bedraggled survivors just trying to make it to the next day while an apocalyptic war consumes the planet. Fun times! “You’re a small fish in a big apocalypse,” the Steam page warns us. 

For 40 years, two superpowers have been duking it out in a world where ecological collapse and relentless technological advancement have messed everything up. Now, skyscraper-sized war machines batter each other while hordes of cyborgs prowl the ruined battle…

This Cyber Monday you should take a bold step into the future and RGB your toilet. And no, I’m not joking. I’ve had a glowing toilet since 2020 and it’s rad. It makes my bathroom look futuristic—each time I pee into my glowing toilet bowl it’s like whizzing into a cyberpunk cityscape. Instead of the boring old year of 2023 I feel like I’m in Blade Runner 2049 or Cyberpunk 2077—and I’ve really gotta go to the bathroom.

Again, I’m not kidding. The RGB toilet light is a genuinely great upgrade for your bathroom. In the middle of the night if I have to go, I don’t need to turn on a light. The motion sensor detects me and the light begins glowing automatically when I enter the bathroom, which is a lot better than flipping on a harsh light when you’ve just been slee…

Popular Twitch streamer Kylie Cox, otherwise known as Sketch (who made a name for himself playing Madden NFL 24) has confessed to being at the heart of a recent “controversy”. I put controversy in quotes there, because the issue at hand isn’t really an issue at all—unless you’re in the public eye, in which case, certain people might make it one.

On July 7, Cox—who has over 1.2 million followers on Twitch (and more on Instagram and TikTok) had several images and webcam videos from a former OnlyFans account—which is implied by Sketch to have been his own—spread across social media against his will, in which Cox had sex with men.

FaZe Banks, CEO of esports company FaZe Clan and a supporter of Cox, shared several texts with him, showing his uncon…

Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order just made it official: a sequel to 2015 urban city builder Cities: Skylines is headed our way.

And although we don’t have a ton of details about Cities: Skylines 2 yet, apart from a brief statement from the publisher and the cinematic announcement trailer you can see above, we won’t have to wait all that much longer to play it. A specific release date hasn’t been announced, but Cities: Skylines 2 is coming out in 2023. Hey, I know that year. That’s this year!

“Cities: Skylines 2 offers the most realistic city simulation ever created, in which players can build any kind of city they can imagine and follow its growth from a humble village to a bustling metropolis,” says Paradox Interactive. “From individual households to the city…

Quite a few years after we first got a look at its early development and it won a bunch of indie show awards, surreal RPG Knuckle Sandwich will release next month: November 23, 2023. The game got a lot of attention back in the era when Undertale was still fresh because it offered something similar, and yet, very distinctly different.

“Guide a young man through his first day in Bright City – a bustling island paradise with a horrible secret. Find a new job, make new friends, and attempt to solve a mystery revolving around a ludicrous gang and a fanatical cult,” reads the official description.

The trick is that in addition to an offbeat sense of humor, Knuckle Sandwich’s turn-based battles are all played out in minigames reminiscent of the WarioWare series. Specific to e…