Riot has announced a slew of changes coming to League of Legends: Wild Rift in the upcoming patch 2.4. This is a big update that adds new content and refines existing systems, and it should smooth out some of the game’s current pain points. New champion Akshan will arrive in Wild Rift in Patch 2.4, […]
Minions are in Minecraft now, thank goodness
Nothing can stop the slow, unrelenting crawl of the Minions empire. The babbling buffoons have gotten three Despicable Me movies, a cartoon series, and a Minion-centric spinoff movie, and they’ll star in an upcoming sequel to the offshoot called Minions: The Rise of Gru. Their reach knows no bounds, and now, they’re available in Minecraft. […]
Oath Is One Of The Strangest (And Best) Board Games Of The Year
When we speak of games, genres and playstyles become an easy shorthand to relay information; if you enjoy this game, you’ll probably like this other game that is like it. That can be a powerful way to communicate recommendations, but it can also be a dangerous crutch when encountering something new. That’s the case with […]
DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 2 for protein structure predictions
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. DeepMind this week open-sourced AlphaFold 2, its AI system that predicts the shape of proteins, to accompany the publication of a paper in the journal Nature. With the codebase now available, DeepMind says it hopes to broaden access for researchers and organizations in […]
Fortnite update: Epic Games promising big change in next Fortnite update
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Brushwork VR Offers Free Browser-based WebXR Painting
A new app called Brushwork VR offers a way for users to simulate painting on a canvas in VR with any headset that supports immersive WebXR browser experiences. The experience can be launched from your headset at BrushworkVR.com and should work on any WebXR-support headset browser, including Quest 2 and many PC VR headsets. It’s […]
Rainbow Six Extraction Delayed To 2022
In October 2020, Rainbow Six Extraction (originally called Rainbow Six Quarantine) was pushed back due to COVID-19. Now the upcoming co-op experience is getting a new release window alongside the new name by being hit one with more pushback. Ubisoft has confirmed that Rainbow Six Extraction is delayed until 2022. The Ubisoft Extraction team took […]
D&D’s latest sourcebook revives a long-lost dragon species
As the name “Dungeons & Dragons” suggests, dragons are one of the most important components of the game, featuring heavily in the lore and providing challenging fights for players. The game’s next planned sourcebook, Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, will include new insights into the role the iconic creatures play in the game’s world, and it […]
Over 60s play 400+ hours of video games a year – GTA and COD amongst favourites
A survey has found that over 60s spend almost as much time playing video games as teenagers, with many saying it’s become their main hobby. Things are a lot better now than they used to be, but it doesn’t take much for mainstream media to fall back on the old cliché about video games only […]
Tetris Effect: Connected Multiplayer Update & Steam Launch Pushed to August
A month ago Enhance Games announced that Tetris Effect: Connected would be bringing its multiplayer gameplay to all currently supported devices, as well as a Steam edition this month. Having conducted beta tests over the past few weeks, it seems that the July launch was a bit ambitious with the release for all editions pushed […]