Fallout franchise sees player count resurgence across all games thanks to sales, promotions, and an excellent TV series

What you need to know Fallout is a video game franchise that first started in 1997 by Interplay and acquired by ZeniMax Media’s Bethesda Softworks in 2007.  Every Fallout game is currently seeing increased player counts on Steam, with multiple titles becoming best-sellers on Steam and GOG.  This resurgence is thanks to a number of […]

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Destiny 2 player count doubles overnight after Into the Light, The Final Shape’s Prismatic subclass reveal

What you need to know After the launch of Destiny 2’s new Into the Light update, the game’s player count on Steam has risen from around ~40-50,000 up to about 80,000, essentially doubling overnight. The update features a brand new PvE horde mode called Onslaught with highly desirable returning fan-favorite weapons, along with a tweaked […]

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Call of Duty sees a new peak player count on Steam following a free trial for Multiplayer and the launch of Season 3

What you need to know Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 received an update adding free and paid content for Season 3 on April 6. The content drop featured a return of the fan-favorite Resurgence map, Rebirth Island, for Warzone and included a free weekend-long trial for Modern Warfare 3. Player stat tracking […]

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Homeworld 3 is getting some changes in response to player feedback

What you need to know A co-op demo for upcoming space strategy title Homeworld 3 was available earlier this year.  Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Software have shared some upcoming changes being made to the game in response to player feedback.  Highlights include HUD scaling options, fully rebind-able keyboard controls, and increased health for every ship […]

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VLC Media Player Potentially Coming to Apple Vision Pro

VideoLAN is working on bringing its popular open source VLC media player to Apple Vision Pro, according to tech newsletter Lowpass. The non-profit organization said it was currently developing a version for Apple’s spatial computing headset. “We already have a version of VLC running on the Vision Pro,” VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf told Lowpass writer […]

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Helldivers 2 servers hit capacity as Steam player count record climbs past Starfield, Destiny 2 [UPDATED]

What you need to know Helldivers 2, Arrowhead Game Studios’ new third-person PvE co-op shooter, has been an explosive success on PS5 and PC.  The game broke a record for PlayStation Studios publishing by reaching 150,000 concurrent Steam players on its opening weekend, and has continued to grow since then. Notably, Helldivers 2 has surpassed […]

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This Elden Ring player chronicled their entire playthrough with a gorgeous 600-page sketchbook, and it might just be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

What you need to know Elden Ring was 2022’s Game of the Year, with millions of fans worldwide stunned by the fantasy ARPG’s colossal and rich setting. Artyz Artifacts, an art YouTuber, has chronicled their entire playthrough of Elden Ring with a 600-page sketchbook. The book is filled with gorgeous painterly art of the game’s […]

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La Freebox Ultra aura finalement droit à un nouveau player dédié et peut-être d’autres surprises

Il semblerait que Free en ait gardé sous le coude après sa conférence de présentation de la Freebox Ultra. En effet, nous apprenons aujourd’hui qu’un nouveau player dédié est en préparation et ne devrait pas tarder à remplacer celui de la Freebox Pop. De quoi imaginer d’autres surprises, comme par exemple de la domotique. Hier, […]

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New AI pinpoints your exact location from one photo with 92% Street View accuracy — beating a pro GeoGuessr player

What you need to know Graduate Students from Stanford University have developed an AI-powered app that can determine your exact location based on its Google Street View. The tool promises 92% accuracy, narrowing down the location to 25 kilometers from the exact location in over 40% of its guesses. While running benchmarks, the app beat […]

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I wish I could buy this Japanese laptop with a DVD player and a VGA port, but not for the reason you’d expect

What you need to know The newly announced NEC VersaPro Type VD <VD-K> is a business laptop that at first glance has an unassuming design. The laptop runs on a 13th Gen Intel Core processor, features expandable RAM starting at 4GB, and has other modern features like Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. The NEC VersaPro […]

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Google Cast controls are now compatible with media player widget

Google Cast is among the best media casting protocols in the world right now, and it comes built into Android, Android TV/Google TV, and several soundbars and speakers. However, its controls weren’t as seamlessly integrated with Android as they should have been. That’s changing now, though. Earlier, Google Cast media controls showed up as a […]

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Destiny 2’s player count falls to a new all-time low, and I’m not surprised

What you need to know Destiny 2, developer Bungie’s long-running space fantasy looter shooter, has fallen to the lowest player count it’s had on Steam since arriving on the platform in 2019. Specifically, in the last 30 days, it’s averaged just 34,829 concurrent players, with the peak number of players during that time being 59,076. […]

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How to Set Up Multiple Player Accounts in the Game Center

While the Game Center is no longer a standalone iOS and iPadOS app, you may still want to play your favorite games with friends and family. When that happens, you might also wish to add multiple accounts in the Game Center on your device. Related Reading: Can I Have Two Game Center Accounts on the […]

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WhatsApp’s video player to get double tap skip gesture

Another feature that many consider pretty basic is coming to WhatsApp in the future and is available to some users of the beta version of the app. The latest WhatsApp beta adds the ability to double-tap the screen when playing videos inside the app to skip forward and backward. Double tapping to skip or go […]

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VLC Media Player 3.0.19 débarque, quoi de neuf ?

VLC Media Player 3.0.19 VideoLAN a récemment lancé une mise à jour de son lecteur multimédia multiplateforme, VLC Media Player, passant ainsi à la version 3.0.19. Cette version est désormais disponible sur le site officiel du projet. Cette maintenance était attendue depuis plusieurs mois. VLC Media Player 3.0.19 marque la première mise à jour significative […]

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Samsung Music Week: Set a sleep timer for your music player

Samsung Music is a simple, straightforward music-playing app with no online streaming capabilities built-in. But simple as it may be, it has a handful of features you may find useful. One such feature is a built-in sleep timer. It lets you play music and program the app to stop the playback after a period of […]

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Spotify CEO on Apple and Google: ‘If You Want to Be the Referee, You Can’t Also Be the Player’

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is urging lawmakers in the United Kingdom to adopt a bill that would regulate competition in digital markets, cutting down on the dominance of Apple, Google, and other large tech companies. The Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Bill (DMCC) that the UK is developing would allow competition authorities to impose conduct […]

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Starfield player makes sandwich dominos, and oh god that must have taken forever

What you need to know Starfield is Bethesda’s latest open world RPG that released earlier this month on Xbox and PC. Since Starfield’s launch, fans have spent a ton of time messing around with the game’s advanced physics systems. One player has used the game’s item grabbing mechanic to build an entire set of dominos […]

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Bizarre Starfield bug lets player take all of New Atlantis into space, and they can’t put it back

What you need to know A Starfield player has encountered a bug that allowed them to fly the entirety of New Atlantis, the first city visited after the game’s tutorial, into space. Despite attempts to “return it” by grav jumping or landing on planets, the city stubbornly followed the player everywhere.  Reloading a save appears […]

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Controversy erupts: Microsoft News portal publishes AI-generated piece branding deceased NBA Player as ‘useless’

What you need to know A seemingly AI-generated obituary for Brandon Hunter, a 42-year-old former NBA player who passed away unexpectedly, has gone viral after it referred to the recently deceased as ‘useless.’ The original article was posted by an unnamed “Editor” on a sports news site called “Race Track,” which has since been deleted. […]

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