The Sims 4’s rampant pregnancy bug was apparently caused by ‘performance optimizations’ and has now been fixed

The baby boom is over. EA has neutered a bizarre bug recently introduced to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, irrespective of whether they were male or had previously engaged in ‘woo-hoo’. The bug initially appeared last week, slipping undetected into the game in a base game patch that coincided with … Read more

Ubisoft confirms it is working on a new Ghost Recon game, and it sure looks like it’ll be a live service affair

Ubisoft has confirmed that a new Ghost Recon game is in the works—the first entry in the series since 2019’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. During Ubisoft’s annual general shareholders’ meeting (via Game File) CEO Yves Guillemot was asked about the publisher’s history making live service games. Guillemot responded by pointing to the success of Rainbow Six: … Read more

DayZ creator’s monster-hunting survival game gets major new DLC offering brutal endgame challenges with lavish loot: ‘Survival games should be challenging, after all’

Icarus Great Hunts | Launch Trailer – YouTube Watch On Back in June at the PC Gaming Show, Rocketwerkz revealed what’s next for its co-op survival game Icarus: A major DLC called Great Hunts Campaigns that effectively turns Icarus into a first-person monster hunting game. Rocketwerkz said at the time that Great Hunts would launch … Read more

With Steam launch concurrents at an all-time low for Destiny 2’s latest expansion, I think Bungie is finally paying the price for years of mistakes—the biggest being the time it removed paid content

This week, a new expansion launched for Destiny 2. The Edge of Fate marks the start of a brand new saga—and ushers in a major overhaul to some key systems, seemingly aimed at making the game more accessible for newcomers and more sticky for its remaining playerbase. In theory, then, this should be a big … Read more

The most anticipated Everdark Sovereigns are coming to Elden Ring Nightreign in just two weeks, and I hope it’ll hurt

We’ve finally got word when the next Everdark Sovereigns are coming to Elden Ring Nightreign, and it’s sooner than I thought it would be, clocking in at just two weeks away. Soon, players will be able to contest with Everdark versions of Tricephalos, Augur, Fissure in the Fog, and Equilibrious Beast. “The veil thins, and … Read more

I’ve just crowned these Beyerdynamic headphones as the best audiophile closed-back cans, although it’s a shame about the lack of microphone

When I was a young warthog, trying and failing to touch type with my wee hoofs at the family computer, I had a choice of two audio output devices—some relatively decent speakers or a headset that wouldn’t look out of place in a call centre. As a teen growing up during the advent of both … Read more