An upcoming survival game is set in a world covered by a huge ocean, with the ruins of former civilization beneath and the remnants of humanity dwelling on mobile boats and the last handful of scattered islands above the waves. Developers Vector3 Studio explicitly call out the 1995 Kevin Costner movie Waterworld as an inspiration for their game, depicting as it does a flooded world that has lost all hope of returning to land.

Vector3 intends to take the game into Early Access in the Summer of 2023. It’ll be a cooperative or single-player crafting and survival game where you often dive beneath the waves to scavenge what you need. You’ll also have to trade with friendly settlers in a barter system and fend off dangerous mutants and pirates.

“Explore sunken cities, build your base, craft items, trade and fight pirates as you struggle to survive on an aquatic post-apocalypse world plagued by hunger and violence,” say the devs.

The trailer and gifs posted by the devs sh…

A preview for D&D’s upcoming sourcebook, Bigby Presents: The Glory of Giants, was posted on the D&D beyond website last week—and the community is none too pleased. Fans spotted signs of AI generated artwork, with a tweet from NeverNotDM gathering over 7,000 likes after highlighting shoddy elements in the book’s art.

There are a lot of problems with artist Ilya Shkipin’s work, here: one frost giant’s legs simply devolved into wispy, confused brushes. Another giant’s foot is twisted at an impossible angle, while their wolf companion sports painted human toenails in the place of fluffy paws.

Tabletop fans weren’t exactly jazzed about the prospect of future books getting flooded with grubby AI work, plagued by uncanny anatomy and Schrodinger’s feet. The comments on the inciting preview speak volumes, quickly devolving into debates over Shkipin’s art.

By Sunday, Wizards of the Coast aired an official statement on D&D Beyond’s Twitter/X page, promising …

Trying to get a firm handle on what is happening with Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake has been difficult. Current rumors suggest that Meteor Lake-S for desktops has been canceled, and replaced by a Raptor Lake refresh later in 2023. But now there’s a new little nugget of information. It might be significant, it might not, but the Linux Kernel now has driver support for Meteor Lake-S. 

Say what? Phoronix (via Videocardz) reports that Meteor Lake-S support has been added to the Intel pinctrl driver with Linux 6.5. It’s not just a random thing either, as other versions of Meteor Lake are already supported.

Meteor Lake-S support in Linux might not mean much at all. It might be little more than a checked box because the work was already done. Or it could mean there will be some variant of a Meteor Lake-S desktop chip, or chips. A low-end or low powered variant derived from a laptop chip is possible. Perhaps something for an embedded system or something that could exist alon…

Helldivers 2’s ongoing galactic war has had its twists and turns, its glorious victories and shameful defeats, but now developer Arrowhead has a new dichotomy for us. A new major order offers the Helldivers a simple, strategic choice: unlock a powerful new strategem, or save a planet-load of very ill children.

This major order follows on from a previous one. In April Helldivers had the choice of liberating Choohe or Penta, with the planets respectively granting the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher. The Helldivers en masse made the patriotic choice of going for the rocket launcher, leaving the mines for another day. That day seemed to have come when another major order offered it as a reward for destroying two billion Automatons… except we didn’t.

Now the chance for the mines has rolled around again, except the alternative this time is very different. The new major order’s text reads:

“An emergency distress call from V…

In what is either a very blatant marketing strategy or a case of Icarus soaring too close to the sun, the Cult of the Lamb developers at Massive Monster put out a tweet earlier this week saying “we will add sex to the game if we hit 300k followers by the end of the year.”

As you can tell, it took less than a week to make the sex update a reality. At the time of writing, the Cult of the Lamb Twitter account has 455,000 followers. Sex quite literally sells. While Massive Monster is already on record as saying that the age rating wouldn’t change in a Steam thread, the atmosphere’s still about as feral as you’d expect. Here’s an excerpt. It’s going very well. 

In a recent interview with Polygon, Massive Monster have clarified as to what games they’re looked to to help them bring sex to the cute cult simulator: “We used games like Pokemon and The Sims when it comes to references, but put our own cult-ish spin on things. The age rating will not change.”

One would as…

Everyone loves a little mystery. Heck, players have been trying to solve a puzzle in Cyberpunk 2077 for almost three years. And now some Starfield sleuths are trying to solve a puzzle in Bethesda’s space RPG.

Well, maybe. A strange cube covered in dots found in Starfield vexed one player enough to ask for help determining what it was, and now others are joining in to help solve the mystery… if there is indeed something to be solved.

The investigation kicked off thanks to a desperate cry from Reddit user SomeBlueDude12 titled WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE ITEM. WHAT IS IT? They posted a few pictures of the object in question, a cube that is simply called “Cube.” It’s a decorative piece you can find pretty routinely in apartments and settlements, on desks and counters, and sometimes for sale in shops. The cube has dots on all its sides in various configurations, suggesting it’s a puzzle of some sort, perhaps like a Rubik’s Cube. Ho…