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Mirroring complaints in previous lawsuits Activision Blizzard are facing a new lawsuit this week from an employee who alleges that the company has a “frat boy” culture, including excessive drinking and sexual advances made by supervisors. The employee, named as “Jane Doe” in the lawsuit, also alleges that she had to accept a lower paid job within the company to escape the sexism, and that she was passed over for better roles after she complained....

Beta this spring Honestly, givenRocket League’s prodigious success, it’s a surprise more games haven’t attempted to follow in its car tracks. Announced this week, Turbo Golf Racing looks to change that. It’s a multiplayer game about driving a car into a ball, but as the name suggests it’s drawing inspiration from those ruined good walks rather than from football. Here’s the announcement trailer, released earlier this week: That does look a lot like Rocket League, even down to its cars and futuristic world design....

Total War: Warhammer and City Of Brass are coming next week Listen, I know you like free stuff. Who doesn’t like free stuff? Here’s a better question: who doesn’t like pinball? The answer is narcs. Don’t let them know, but you can grab a free copy ofDemon’s Tiltfrom the Epic Games Store right now, up until next Thursday. If you too would like to try this rather bonkers take on being a pinball wizard, you have until March 31stto add Demon’s Tiltto your Epic library....

Delegation zone Do you ever find yourself explaining how best to approach a game, but still failing to take that approach yourself, and getting frustrated with it? After spending far, far too long trying to obsessively control every detail ofDistant Worlds 2, I’ve accepted that I need to take my own advice and work with its macromanagement systems instead. They are, after all, the reason its ludicrous scale is workable at all beyond the opening hours, and a major reason its predecessor was so interesting and forward-thinking to begin with....

Learn how to defeat Commander Niall in Elden Ring Looking for a Commander Niall boss fight walkthrough?Commander Niall is the boss of Castle Sol in the Mountaintops of the Giants. While this boss fight is well out of the way and completely optional, he also guards a piece of theHaligtreeMedallion. If you want to get into a new area and find some ofElden Ring’s best bosses, such asMohg, Lord of Blood, andMalenia, Blade of Miquella, then you’ll need to defeat Commander Niall....

Use our top tips to defeat Godfrey and Hoarah Loux Looking for an Elden Ring Godfrey boss fight walkthrough?Godfrey, first Elden Lord, is the penultimate boss ofElden Ring. However, this boss is actually split into two different foes. When Godfrey reaches half health, he will becomeHoarah Loux, Warrior. You’ll need to defeat both bosses consecutively to move onto Elden Ring’s final boss. In this guide, we’ll share our top tips for defeating Godfrey and Hoarah Loux in Elden Ring, so that you can enter the Erdtree and get closer to one ofElden Ring’s many endings....

How to beat Malenia, Blade of Miquella Want to know how to beat Malenia, Blade of Miqeulla in Elden Ring?Malenia is considered by many to be one of themost difficult bossesin FromSoftware’s history, bringing a variety of mechanics that take advantage of your expectations forElden Ring’sbosses. However, you in turn can take advantage of the tools Elden Ring gives you to make Malenia look like any other boss. Even in a pure melee duel, there are tricks you can use to negate her deadliest attacks....

A hardware horror story I’ve spent the past three days trying to getGhostwire: Tokyorunning on theSteam Deck, and have been thwarted every time by an impassable black screen that appears immediately after the opening cutscene: a failure of thenextcutscene to roll correctly. Despite a possible fix being available, this has yet to work for me either, and now that the game has fully released it seems I’m not alone in my suffering....

Get to know Mondstadt’s Knight in Training Want to know how to get all of Noelle’s Hangout Event endings in Genshin Impact?If you’ve gotten anywhere past the tutorial of Genshin, chances are you’re acquainted with Noelle, who most players add to their teams early on in the game. However, there’s a lot more to learn about Mondstadt’s quiet knight, and you can do that by spending a day alongside her as she trains to become a Knight of Favonius....

They made Sherlock Holmes hot (again) Konami announced yesterday at the Future Games Show thatCrimesightwill be coming out April 14th. It looks like a combination of Cluedo, Sherlock Holmes, and what I think are evil artificial intelligence anime spirits. Crimesight only allows up to four players, but you’ll be exploring a snowed-in cottage as you try to either work out who the murderer is, or help them win. You can take a look at the trailer below....

Fifteen Raven Software workers signed a letter on Wednesday asking for support This past Wednesday, fifteen Raven Software workers signed a letter asking the current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to encourage Activision Blizzard to voluntarily recognise their union, Game Workers Alliance. Microsoft’s corporate vice president and general counsel Lisa Tanzi responded to the letter with a statement toThe Washington Post: “Microsoft respects Activision Blizzard employees’ right to choose whether to be represented by a labor organization and we will honor those decisions....

It’s by the Bridge Constructor team I felt my inner-child squeal out whenLego Bricktaleswas announced during last night’s Future Games Show. They took my favourite part of Lego, building stuff, and turned the whole thing into a physics-based puzzle game, where you build creations to solve problems. The premise is your grandfather, who just happens to own an amusement park, needs your help getting all the health and safety requirements above board....

Identify five films in ten guesses In doing so, it becomes a more broadly accessible movie guessing game thanFramed, and I’m enjoying it a lot. If your answer to my rhetorical question up top was “Yes, actually,” then your name might be Griffin Newman. (Hi, Griffin). The Box Office Game is inspired by a segment played at the end of each episode ofBlank Check with Griffin & David, a great podcast about the filmographies of directors who are granted a blank check early in their career to make whatever crazy passion projects they want....