Modern Warfare 3’s gameplay reveal was dull, but it also teased something legitimately exciting-
Every year when the clock strikes Call of Duty, you can count on Activision to do the same two things: tell us this year CoD is the biggest, most innovative one yet, and then undermine all of that by dropping an underwhelming gameplay video.
For a series that’s constantly fighting the perception that it doesn’t change enough to justify buying another $70 game (a battle that’s especially uphill this year), it’s remarkable just how unremarkable Modern Warfare 3 looked during Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live stream.
You could watch the reveal above, or I could save you nine minutes by describing it in the form of a Modern Warfare bingo card:
- A dark, stormy stealth infiltration
- A squad rappelling up a wall
- Nightvision on
- AI teammate ex…
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Leaked Intel Arrow Lake CPU benchmarks show generational performance regression but that might not be the whole story-
What with the ongoing 13th and 14th Gen CPU debacle, wouldn’t it be nice if Intel had a hot new generation of desktop processors to fix everything. In theory, that would be Arrow Lake, due out later this year.
The problem is, some new leaked benchmarks spotted by X account Benchleaks (via Tom’s Hardware) don’t exactly paint a stellar picture of Arrow Lake’s performance prowess.
The chip in question is the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF. It’s expected to slot into the range in the same spot as the existing Core i7-14700KF. So, it’s a second rung model with the integrated GPU disabled.
But what of those benchmark results? Well, we’re talking Geekbench 6, which comes with the usual caveats. Whatever, the leaked numbers for the 265KF are 3,219 single-thread points and 1…
Read moreModiphius has announced the year’s most obscure tabletop RPG adaptation-
When it comes to TTRPGs based on licensed properties, there are some weird examples out there. Just recently there was a crowdfunded set of books based on the original Planet of the Apes movies, I was surprised in February by the announcement of a Tomb Raider RPG, and going back to the hobby’s early days you can find such oddities as games based on Dallas and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Still, the latest announcement from publisher Modiphius is definitely the most obscure I’ve seen this year. Space: 1999 is based on the TV show of the same name, a UK sci-fi series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame) that ran for two seasons in the ’70s, and will use the 2d20 system (which you might know from the Fallout TTRPG) to enable adventures on Moonbase A…
Read moreStellar Blade studio is now ‘considering’ a PC release, and a sequel too-
Stellar Blade was originally introduced in 2019 as Project Eve, after which it fell off our radar until 2021, when we said it looked like a cross between Nier and Bayonetta. A year later it got a new name—Stellar Blade—and became a PlayStation 5 exclusive, and that was pretty much that for us.
But it may not remain that way forever: Developer Shift Up said in its latest financial report, shared on Twitter by Okami13_ (via RPS) that it is now looking into a possible PC release.
The English-language wording of the Google-translated report is a bit wonky in spots, but it specifically notes the importance of the PC market: “The expansion of PC-based gaming platforms such as Steam and the Epic Games Store has made AAA titles more accessible to PC users, pushing them b…
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