Articles by Ed Thorn
Blizzard celebrate “incredible decrease” in toxic chat
In a new virtual ‘fireside chat’, Blizzard head honcho J. Allen Brack has given an update on the success of their anti-toxicity systems. They’ve been using machine learning to help combat abusive chat and bad behaviour in Overwatch and Heroes Of The Storm for a while, and recently brought the system to World Of Warcraft’s […]
Raji: An Ancient Epic is out today
If you’ve been watching your mates play Raji: An Ancient Epic on Switch and feeling a bit jealous, fear not, because it’s out on PC today. Inspired by Indian mythology, it’s an action-adventure game where you set out as Raji on a quest to save your brother Golu from some horrible demon hordes attacking Earth.
This might be a snowy peek at Warzone’s new map in Black Ops Cold War
Looks like a data miner has potentially discovered footage of Warzone‘s new map within Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s files. Someone posted four short clips over on Reddit which show multiplayer maps coming to Cold War, but their file names each begin with “wz_” which suggests they’ll be reused as locations in the […]
Call Of Duty: Warzone’s infinite Stims exploit fixed
Alongside numerous hackers, players in Call Of Duty: Warzone have had to contend with a new exploit which granted infinite healing. How fun! Players who used the Stim item could repeatedly juice up, letting them live in the deadly gas and wait while everyone else blasted each other to death. Good news, though, Infinity Ward […]
You should play Demon Turf’s demo before it disappears
Steam’s Game Festival: Autumn Edition is now in full swing, and it’s offering us lucky lot the chance to play hundreds of free game demos until next Tuesday, October 13th. I’ve had a good rummage through the store and plucked out Demon Turf, a stylish 3D platformer with 2D characters where you play as Beebz, […]
This Quake mod lets you fight Sif from Dark Souls
Quake ‘s a gritty fast-paced shooter where you dance around enemies and splatter them with beefy guns. Modder “Redfield” clearly thought, “But what if I inject some Bloodborne into it?”, and so Raven Keep was born. It’s a mod which throws players into a gothic castle where “Old Ones” (sound familiar?) have left some spooky […]