Gaming

Battlestate Games has released update 1.0.4.5 for Escape from Tarkov, which makes a number of improvements and balance changes. The influential extraction shooter has increased the FPS limit in menus, and made changes to the animation system and audio engine to improve PC resource usage. Meanwhile, the architecture of post-raid systems is reworked to reduce the time required to exit a raid and…

In an out-of-left-field collaboration, Square Enix is teaming up with Filipino fast food chain Jollibee to bring Final Fantasy XIV content to the game and, well, to real life, too! During the latest Live Letter from the Producer detailing the upcoming Patch 7.5, FFXIV director and producer Naoki Yoshida revealed the partnership and what exactly you can get from it. While you can get the six-piece…

Ashes of Creation director Steven Sharif has hit out at alleged “coordinated attacks” against him and his studio, Intrepid Studios, insisting recent claims about the company’s finances were “completely false and already faltering under judicial review,” and calling the drama “one of the craziest stories gaming has ever seen.” Earlier this week, the public fallout of ill-fated MMO…

Bungie has been sprinkling details of its massive patch 1.0.6 update for Marathon in the leadup to its release today, April 14. As an avid player of Bungie’s sci-fi extraction shooter myself, I was keen on the revamp to Recon, which has been my main Shell since the pre-launch server slam. And this update goes beyond hotfixes with massive gameplay changes; only letting you attach one Claymore to…