The Madden publisher is reportedly threatening to bail if it can’t be the only college basketball game in town
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
VoidBreaker Was Made By One Person And Might Be 2025’s Best FPS
This new shooter out now on PC is like Hades meets Portal meets Titanfall meets Battlefield. Really.
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Kevin Spacey Was ‘A Little Weird’ While Making COD Advanced Warfare, Director Claims
There was a lot of fake laughter happening around Spacey while making the sci-fi FPS
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No Man’s Sky Player Discovers Beautiful Planet Full Of NSFW Aliens Begging To Be Milked
With 18 quintillion planets it was bound to happen sooner or later
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Zombies Return To GTA Online In Bigger, More Tropical Survival Mode
The undead are back once more in Rockstar’s online crime sim, but this time they’re hanging out on an island paradise
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Spatial Ops Update Adds bHaptics, New Enemies & More
Mixed reality shooter Spatial Ops added bHaptics support, new enemies, and more in today’s update.
Live on Quest and Pico following last November’s launch, mixed reality FPS Spatial Ops launched the ‘Pulse Protocol‘ update earlier today. Resolution Games confirmed that alongside bHaptics support for the TactSuit, TactSleeve, and TactVisor, this also adds in-game achievement tracking, campaign rebalancing, an extra large map template, and more on both platforms.
Exclusive to Quest are new features in the Laser Tag-inspired Arena Mode. This adds advanced Hatchet Corp soldiers with ‘Infected’ counterparts for new enemies, a weapon spawner preview, and a permadeath mode where you don’t respawn. If linked with the Spatial Ops Manager companion app, you can also now place ‘Spatial Markers’ in-game. Resolution says these are designed for “precise alignment” of player positions and maps.
Supporting up to eight combatants across your playspace, Spatial Ops lets you fight against other players or bots across these arenas. Other modes include Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination, and a free-for-all mode, and they’re joined by a solo campaign that’s inspired by 80s action and sci-fi movies.
Spatial Ops is available now on the Meta Quest platform and Pico.
This Kamrui Mini PC (16GB RAM, 512GB) Is Going Like Hotcakes, Amazon Slashes It to a Record Low
This is one of the most affordable mini PCs with this level of configuration.
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Diablo Team Unionizes Over AI, Remote Work, And ‘Passion Tax’ Of Working In Games
Over 1,350 developers at Blizzard have formed unions
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Hitman World Of Assassination: The Kotaku Review
Agent 47’s growing collection of exciting stealth challenges offers up an exquisite and rewarding game of cat and mouse
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New Elden Ring: Nightreign Mode Is About To Ratchet The Difficulty Up To 11
FromSoftware’s new Deep of Night difficulty mode has officially been revealed
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The NYT’s Mini Crossword No Longer Free-To-Play And Fans Are Pissed
Letter Boxed and Tiles are also now locked behind a New York Times subscription
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Capcom Has Reportedly Tried And Failed To Remake Dino Crisis A Few Times
Plus: Black Myth: Wukong’s Xbox port is odd, some former Black Panther devs are working on something new for Wizards of the Coast, and some M&M lore
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Google Pixel Tablet Falls to All-Time Low, Likely Clearing Stock Right After Pixel 10 Series Release
The white 128GB model of this Android tablet is just $250 right now, so don’t be picky about the color.
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Seagate Expansion Card SSD for Xbox Is Now Back to Black Friday Price for Labor Day
Save 19% on the officially-licensed Xbox expansion drive from Seagate for a limited time.
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AirPods 4 Crash to Lowest Price as Labor Day Sales Line Up With Apple’s September Event
Over 13,000 Amazon reviewers love Apple’s latest buds, and you can join them for just $90, a 30% price plunge.
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Final Fantasy 14 Boss Explains Why One Of The Game’s Most Popular Mods Was Banned
Naoki Yoshida is begging fans to stop posting lewds and ripping off the item shop
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Mixed Reality’s Best Laser Tag-style Multiplayer Gets Better Spatial Stability, New Enemies & More
Spatial Ops (2024) is a bit like laser tag for Quest, letting you set up barriers and squad up with your friends for everything from room-scale to arena-scale mixed reality shootouts. Now, developer Resolution Games released an update today that brings more stability to co-located gameplay, more enemies, support for bHaptics gear, and more.
Called ‘Pulse Protocol’, the update brings a bevy of updates for the Quest version of the game, supporting Quest 2 and above, and a few things for the ‘Campaign Edition’ available on Pico headsets too.
The game’s multiplayer ‘Arena Mode’ on Quest now features an in-game spatial marker system, which the studio says will let you generate, print, and place spatial markers in your environment, and then use them to create maps.
Resolution Games says the markers ensure “reliable, precise alignment of both maps and player positions during matches,” something that can be tricky when matches get hectic and Quest struggles to keep up with spatial awareness.
Pulse Protocol is also bringing more enemy types, including Hatchet Corp soldiers and their Infected counterparts, each with their own unique weapons and tactics like revolver-wielding Guards and RPG-armed Rocketeers.
And if it weren’t high enough stakes, the update also introduces Permanent Death Mode, so you can setup matches with one-team or both-teams permadeath.
So far, these updates are only available on Quest, however both Quest and Pico headsets are getting a few additional quality of life enhancements. Users with bHaptics kit will be able to link up their TactSuit, TactSleeve and TactVisor to the game for the first time with native support, upping the realism of getting tagged by a stray bullet.
Additionally, Both Quest and Pico versions are getting an in-game achievement tracking system, horizontal grip angle offset for better weapon handling beyond the default grip angle, and a much requested in-game floor level adjustment tool, letting you do quick adjustments without using the system menu. You can check out more on Pulse Protocol here.
In the meantime, you can find Spatial Ops over on the Horizon Store for Quest 2 and above, and the ‘Campaign Edition’ over on the Pico Store for Pico 4 and above.
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This 15″ Portable Gaming Monitor Now Costs Peanuts, Amazon Goes Big for Labor Day
For this price, it’s the kind of screen that changes how you work and play.
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ASRock X870 LiveMixer Motherboard With 25 USB Ports Is A Content Creator’s Dream
‘Tis the season for souped-up Ryzen motherboards, it seems. Hot on the heels of ASUS’ Strix 870E-H WiFi, we have a fresh new offering, the ASRock X870 LiveMixer WiFi. The company claims this mobo is squarely aimed at content creators thanks to its cornucopia of USB ports: 25 total, with 16 of those in the back panel and nine on additional
Google Risks Making Android Users Furious Over App Sideloading Policy Change
Google’s Android operating system has historically offered a more open approach compared to Apple’s iOS, giving users more freedom when it comes to customization and apps. However, the company has laid out some new policy changes coming to its platform next year that will take steps toward locking down Android. These policies mean Android