By surrendering to an ‘open weapons’ default, Battlefield 6 is giving up the most special thing about Battlefield

Almost a week removed from the Battlefield 6 beta, I wouldn’t blame you for being tired of hearing about weapons being open or closed. On its face, the debate appears moot as Battlefield Studios keeps saying it will support both rulesets in BF6 regardless of their popularity. New players coming over from Call of Duty … Read more

Marvel Rivals dev’s transparent, 18-minute breakdown of how ranked isn’t rigged fails to placate players who hate losing

To prove to the growing number of players who think Marvel Rivals’ ranked mode is rigged or somehow unfair, the official X account dropped a video that reveals a surprising amount of detail about why that’s totes not the case. Lead combat designer Zhiyong spends a packed 18 minutes explaining the math that determines how … Read more

‘I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel’: US president Trump wants a piece of the action, says CEO Lip Bu Tan has already forked over $10 billion because he wants to ‘keep his job’

US president Donald Trump says Intel should give the US government a 10% stake in the company, echoing a recent statement made by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, who said earlier this week that the US government should get an equity stake in Intel in exchange for CHIPS Act funding. Trump had actually called for … Read more

Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age⁠—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight

PC Gamer senior editor Rich Stanton called Metal Gear Solid Delta a “safe, but excellent” remake in his review, but the extent to which Konami faithfully recreated even the most minute aspects of 2004’s Snake Eater has been tickling our lizard brain nostalgia centers. You can still wait until sniper boss The End dies of … Read more

I’ve played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

I’ve returned to Seattle for the first time since February. Not the real Seattle, of course. I’d probably get deported. But the ominous, permanently dark Seattle created by The Chinese Room for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Earlier in the year, I was drinking blood and getting up to mischief as a Tremere vampire, … Read more