Rainbow Six Siege X's Renown currency is getting a boost following complaints about slower gains since the Siege X transition. Longtime players noticed the smaller Renown rewards soon after Siege X launched earlier this month, with payouts for lost matches taking a particularly huge hit.The squeeze on Renown, a non-premium currency used to unlock new operators and many skins for free, coincided with Siege going free-to-play and the introduction of...

Riot Games believes that "building the future of esports means investing in a sustainable ecosystem, not just for today, but for the long run," Riot's president of publishing and esports John Needham said today, and that's why the studio has decided to open the door to "betting sponsorship opportunities" for Tier 1 League of Legends and Valorant teams in the US and EMEA."We know sports betting isn’t for everyone, and...

Don't Nod has reportedly laid off an undisclosed number of developers from its Montreal office. The layoffs have not been formally announced but were revealed in posts made by multiple impacted employees on LinkedIn."Today, I was part of the layoff wave at Don't Nod Montréal," principal cinematic artist Mary Pouliot wrote. "Although I was anticipating this dread fatality that is now a habit in the industry, it came to me...

Whenever I disappear back into the wood from whence I came, I'm always greeted by the glower of a Ring doorbell on the porch of my childhood home. Sure, it's pretty neat the app notifies us with snapshots of curious deer on the family's doorstep, but I can't quite banish the question of how easy these devices are to hack and who else might be watching. Anyway, now Amazon wants...

Strategy fans, fantasy fans, and frankly, art fans: I've got a game you should keep an eye on. Erulean Angel: Fantasy Commander is an upcoming grand strategy autobattler, and as you can get a glimpse of in the announcement trailer above, it's packed with turn-based combat, overflowing with handmade illustrations, and inspired by classics of the strategy genre."Explore the land of Erulea as you command multiple armies to face off...

The SteamOS version of the Lenovo Legion Go S with an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor is, I'm happy to say, exactly what I've been waiting for from a handheld gaming PC. Well, almost exactly. It's about as ideal as I could hope for at this point in time without succumbing to wishful and perfectionist thinking.Lenovo gave me a teaser a couple of months ago with the Windows version of...

We're just a couple of weeks away from Marvel Rivals' Season 3, with new characters like Blade or Phoenix potentially set to join the roster. But before a new season begins there's the regularly scheduled patch notes which tee up everything for the next couple of months.Most Marvel Rivals patches are small, purpose-built updates deployed when and where they are needed. This patch is much of the same, but it...

Capturing gaming content has never been easier or more affordable than it is today. You can walk into an electronics store, pick up basically any capture card off the shelf, and walk away with a functioning solution. Better yet, do some research and get a great solution for an affordable price. AverMedia is one of the bigger players in the capture card space who are always angling towards more bang...

You'd think a genre with the word "immersive" in its name would obviously be a good match for virtual reality, but there haven't been that many VR immersive sims. There was Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice and the Espire series, but mostly we've seen immersive sim-adjacent stuff like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners—games that take inspiration from immsim classics to spice up a regular shooter. (0452 games, basically.)Sure, you...

In the EU, a class action lawsuit has been leveled against Sony for what the claimants say are artificially high prices on the PlayStation store. The lawsuit claims Sony's monopoly and control over pricing on its proprietary store has cost Dutch PlayStation gamers 435 million euros since 2013.According TechSpot the case began when the Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation launched the 'Fair PlayStation' campaign back in February this year. In...