Author: Valhalladidde

PC

Amazon kicked off its first major sale of the year om March 16, in the form of the Amazon Big Smile sale. I’ve been scouring through the deals and, for the most part, it’s the same products with mostly the same discounts we saw during Amazon’s 2025 October sale.In other words, like most Amazon sales, its relevance to PC gaming is mostly to do with peripherals: gamepads, headsets, mice and keyboards.That’s OK—Amazon isn’t a PC gaming specialist store (you can get 15% off this Amazon Basics dustpan and broom set right now, for example)—but it can be frustrating to scroll…

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Marathon game director Joe Ziegler has announced an “experimental feature” that’s currently in development for Bungie’s latest shooter. That feature? A duos mode that will see players able to squad up with just one other player, rather than the game’s standard trios format.Ziegler recently posted on X, explaining that he’d like players to test this new feature.”Alright everyone, we’re going a bit rogue here,” Ziegler wrote. “We have a bit of an experimental feature that’s in development we want to test and we’d love for you to help. As of Wednesday morning 3/18 at 10 AM PT, we’ll be enabling…

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Feeling lucky? Hi everyone, I’m Tommy Westerman, Senior Character Designer on Borderlands 4. Today, I’m thrilled to share insights into the making of C4sh the Rogue, the new playable Vault Hunter coming to Borderlands 4 as part of Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned* on March 26! I’ve been a character designer at Gearbox since Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, where together with the team I designed Claptrap as the playable Fragtrap class, as well as Jack the Doppelganger (aka Timothy) and Aurelia the Baroness. In Borderlands 3, the team and I designed Amara the Siren and…

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It ain’t easy, but I’m doing my part.Starship Troopers was a seminal film from my youth; all of my friends and I had seen it in theaters and then countless times on VHS. I’ll always have a fondness for the property, and so the announcement of an indie first-person shooter set in that universe was one that definitely caught my eye. It turns out that my time with Ultimate Bug War coincides with my online gaming group getting into Helldivers 2, so I’ve enjoyed my fair share of bug busting the last couple weeks. An interesting wrapping and decent gameplay…

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