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"In a sense, we're kind of victims of ourselves" says Crimson Desert's chief marketer, who reckons it plunged over the announcement Kliff too early
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"In a sense, we're kind of victims of ourselves" says Crimson Desert's chief marketer, who reckons it plunged over the announcement Kliff too early

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a really shonky Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? Is it a dork ass enormity of an open world action-RPG? Is it a sort of janky Assassin's Creedlike where you explode stuff a lot? Is it something with slippery combat that'll break your heart? Is it a game where you've got to press 15 million buttons just to pick up a thing? All of these are the sorts of questions folks have asked as they've grappled to understand exactly what Crimson is ahead of its release this mon

Rock Paper Shotgun 05.03.2026 13:24 Uhr
In Total War: Medieval 3, you can change the laws of your kingdom to ensure your feckless heir doesn't inherit the throne
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In Total War: Medieval 3, you can change the laws of your kingdom to ensure your feckless heir doesn't inherit the throne

While Creative Assembly will readily tell you that Total War: Medieval 3 is still years away from release, with the project currently only in pre-production, the team are being quite open with their plan for the long, long, long-awaited strategy game. A recent message from the game's creative director, for instance, goes into how you can mess around with inheritance planning for the whole kingdom of France. As someone who is currently going through the process of creating a will and signing lif

Rock Paper Shotgun 05.03.2026 12:22 Uhr
Nothing Phone 4a: Die neue Mittelklasse ist da und macht einiges besser als der VorgÀnger
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Nothing Phone 4a: Die neue Mittelklasse ist da und macht einiges besser als der VorgÀnger

Nothing hat seine Smartphone-Mittelklasse aufgefrischt. Das Phone 4a bringt gegenüber seinem Vorgänger einige willkommene Verbesserungen mit. Das neue Modell kommt mit besserem Display, besserer Kamera, einer längeren Akkulaufzeit sowie einem aktuelleren Chipsatz. Auch beim Design hat sich etwas getan: Der Hersteller verabschiedet sich nun auch im unteren Preissegment von seiner ikonischen Glyph mit mehreren LED-Streifen. Stattdessen gibt es nun eine »Glyph Bar«, ein

GameStar Hardware 05.03.2026 12:15 Uhr
Oblivion Remastered multiplayer mod announced by company aiming to give a bunch of single player games their GTA 5 moment
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Oblivion Remastered multiplayer mod announced by company aiming to give a bunch of single player games their GTA 5 moment

From Skyrim Together to the more recently released Witcher Online, modders bringing multiplayer to big single player games isn’t new. Folks spend hundreds of hours mucking about in Tamriel or on The Continent alone, so the idea of being able to do so with a gang of mates has obvious appeal, as much as it can be fiddly to pull off. A newly announced mod will add multiplayer to Bethesda’s Oblivion Remastered later this year. But this one’s not from your typical group of hobbyist

Rock Paper Shotgun 05.03.2026 12:00 Uhr
Highguard's beefy final update is live, with a "skeleton crew" having voluntarily "crunched" to get it out ahead of shutdown
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Highguard's beefy final update is live, with a "skeleton crew" having voluntarily "crunched" to get it out ahead of shutdown

Ahead of Highguard's impeding shutdown on March 12th, developers Wildlight have released the big final update they mentioned when delivering the news of the shooter's forthcoming demise. Pulled together in short order by the "skeleton crew" left behind following recent layoffs at developers Wildlight, the update delivers skill trees, a new gun, and a new warden. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 05.03.2026 11:58 Uhr
Nvidia hotfix targets broken GeForce driver that followed previous broken GeForce driver
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Nvidia hotfix targets broken GeForce driver that followed previous broken GeForce driver

GeForce graphics cards drivers are having their most torrid time since, um, last year. As reported last week, Nvidia’s Game Ready 595.59 update – the launch driver for Resident Evil Requiem – spun up reported cooling fan issues, and its replacement, version 595.71, has been accidentally kneecapping clock speeds and voltage caps on the newest RTX 50 models. Cue yet another new driver, 595.76, which released yesterday as a hasty hotfix. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 05.03.2026 11:28 Uhr