Gaming

Insomniac has released an update for Marvel’s Wolverine that nerfs the “fart gas” that had become such a talking point even before the game’s release. The debate around this was rekindled following the publication of Marvel’s Wolverine reviews earlier this month, with The Washington Post journalist Gene Park calling the scent trail “fart gas” because of the way it appears behind…

When the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti first came out in 2018, I was skeptical of ray tracing and DLSS. The first few games that used the tech, like Battlefield 1 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, had fairly lackluster ray tracing implementations that didn’t look great and were just a way to nuke performance without getting much out of it. It wasn’t until Control came out in the summer of 2019…

Magic: The Gathering is playable in a variety of formats, but one has taken on a life of its own. Commander is inarguably the game’s most popular way to play, and Wizards of the Coast has wisely leaned into it with preconstructed decks that make it easier to play with friends with minimal deckbuilding (although that’s always an option, too). Still, Commander isn’t supported by Wizards of the…

Breakout hit Wardogs is outpacing Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 on Steam in terms of copies sold at launch, new data shows. Bulkhead’s tactical first-person shooter released in early access form on Steam on September 10 and hit a peak of 428,666 concurrent players soon after, becoming one of the most-played games on Valve’s platform. It sold 1 million copies on day one and 1.25 million by day…