Author: Valhalladidde

Arc Raiders and its cutthroat PvP encounters have generated dozens of viral clips since launch, but some peaceful players prefer PvE to such a degree that they’ve started using the aggression-based matchmaking (ABMM) to find friendly lobbies.The jig is up: developer Embark Studios is matching aggressive PvP players together. It’s a matchmaking tactic that has set the Arc Raiders community ablaze since the company announced its implementation earlier this month. While some of the more aggressive fans aren’t sure how they feel about being linked up with other bloodthirsty Raiders, gentler players are using ABMM to find lobbies where player-vs.-player…

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We’re nearly two weeks removed from the holidays, but Sony is still celebrating the festivities with the PlayStation Store‘s Holiday Sale. The promotion brings great prices to some of the best games the digital storefront has to offer. That includes this cyberpunk adventure game that was originally released in 2020. Cloudpunk is 85% off on the PS Store Developed by Ion Lands and published by Silver Lining Interactive, Cloudpunk is currently 85% off on the PS Store. That brings its price down to $3.74 from its usual $24.99 price tag. PS5 players who want to take advantage of this deal…

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Most AI debates miss the metric that matters: does it make you money? This is your profit map for ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini, anchored on 2025 data. Klarna’s AI, doing 700 agents’ work, proves the stakes. GPT-4.1 excels at complex coding (54.6% on SWE-bench) with its 1M token window. But Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet ($15/M output) counters with “hybrid reasoning,” letting it visibly “think” to solve complex logic. For sheer speed-to-cost, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads, with 1M-token context at just $0.40 per million output tokens. The Money Framework: Pick by Outcome, Not Hype Photo Credit: FreePik Pick the…

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The Pure Nintendo Podcast is back for a brand-new season! This week, Jemma, Kirk, Trev, and Justin dive into our 2026 forecast. What do we think Nintendo might drop this year? In our last episode, we went through our top titles of 2025. This week is all about the future. As we welcome a new year, we do our best to look ahead and make our own predictions on what we think could happen in the world of Nintendo in 2026. It’s an exciting time for fans, with this being the first full year of the Switch 2, and there’s plenty…

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Our politics are shaped in many ways. Loss of employment might shift your feelings on labor politics. Moving to a walkable city might make you a public transit radical. Or, in the case of indie developer Rakuel, you might start dating a girl who helps you realize your game’s AI-generated art is a moral evil that should be destroyed for the good of society.In a Steam news post titled “AI is bad, game will be deleted 30.1,” Rakuel developer Eero Laine says his roguelike rock-paper-scissors game Hardest, which features AI-generated art and music assets, will be delisted from Steam at…

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