Equipment

Everyone in Diablo 4 season 3 will get their very own robot companion that you can equip with all sorts of powerful skills and then modify with “tuning stones”. You can read through a list of these new seasonal items in Blizzard’s blog post, but two of them are left blank and said to be talked about “in hushed whispers” by Sanctuary’s scholars.

In an interview with PC Gamer last week, Blizzard said these two companion tuning stones will mirror the power and rarity of Diablo 4’s Uber Uniques and will give you “bragging rights” if you find them.

The Evernight tuning stone will echo the power of the most popular Uber Unique in the game, the Harlequin Crest, and will grant you four ranks to all your skills for a brief period of time, drastically increasing your damage as your Se…

Microsoft president Brad Smith is not a happy bunny. Yesterday the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, in a move that took almost everyone by surprise, blocked Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It’s a decision that could scupper the entire deal, though no-one’s yet sure of the ramifications. And so Smith is on the warpath about what a boneheaded, plain wrong, backwards-ass move the CMA has made.

“We’re of course very disappointed about the CMA’s decision but more than that, unfortunately, I think it’s bad for Britain,” Smith told BBC World News. “The strong message the CMA has sent is not just to surprise everyone who fully expected this acquisition to be approved, but to send a message that I think will discourage innovation and inv…

Friday the 13th: The Game has been a lot like a horror movie monster: No matter what’s been done to it over the years, it just will not die. But today publisher Gun Media announced that the end is finally in sight: The company’s license will expire on December 31, at which time it will no longer be offered for sale, and at some point after that it will stop working completely.

“The game will, however, continue to function through at least December 31, 2024, if you already own it,” Gun Media said. “At this time, we’ve made the decision to reduce the price to $4.00 for the base game and $0.99 for each piece of DLC content. We will continue to offer the title and content at that price point right up until it is removed from digital/physical storefronts on December 31st, 2023.”

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There are some rumblings going on in Starfield communities right now, as a few players have spotted some activity going on with the man behind the space curtain—specifically, there are more change logs now than ever before in the game’s history. 

“Something big is going on behind the scenes,” user JarusinTheStars says in a post to the game’s subreddit. “It’s pointless trying to decipher the changelogs on SteamDB, but one thing is certain from experience: When there are a lot of changes, something big is coming. For example, there were around 50-60 changes between the February and March updates. And around 100 between the March and May updates. We’ve almost surpassed that figure in less than a month.” They go on to theorise that this probably has something to do with the…

Remember when PCs were just lovely big beige boxes that sat in the corner of the room, and you’d use them for gaming or the occasional internet session? The people of the future will look back on us like cavemen with charcoal, because in the future they’re all gonna be walking around with mini-PCs in their brain matter.

That’s one possible future, anyway, and the would-be pioneer (in the West, at least) is Neuralink. Elon Musk’s brainchip firm has now received approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to begin conducting tests on humans: The first time this will ever happen (that we know of, anyway). The cyberpunk future is now.

“We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study,” said Neurali…