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I’ll admit I didn’t really think about my opener today, choosing to plough straight on in there with the first word that popped into my head—and luckily for me, this turned out to be a great start. The answer came quickly, although I did worry when I turned over four greens, thinking I was about to be stuck playing hunt-the-consonant before I found today’s Wordle answer.
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In a blog post published Friday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it is fully putting the kibosh on the proposed Open Gaming License (OGL) 1.2 that threw the tabletop RPG community into disarray at the beginning of this month.
Instead, Wizards will leave the previously enshrined OGL 1.0 in place, while also putting the latest D&D Systems Reference Document (SRD 5.1) under a Creative Commons License (thanks to GamesRadar for the spot).
The OGL controversy timeline in brief
- The original OGL was put in place with the third edition of D&D in 2000, and allowed other companies and creators to base their work off D&D and the d20 system without payment to or oversight from Wizards.
- A draft of a revised OGL 1.1 leaked early in January, which propos…
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I’m calling it: 2024 is the year of the mech. We’ve got Helldivers mechs, farming mechs, and we just got a fresh look at Mecha Break at Gamescom Opening Night Live, showing off the mech-combat action that we first laid eyes on at last year’s Game Awards.
The trailer contained, well, a lot of geared-up mechs squaring off and hitting each other, but also showcased classes like snipers, attackers, and defenders.
I’m very curious about this one. After PCG’s Ted Litchfield chatted to studio boss Kris Kwok about the game’s 60-person battle royale/extraction shooter hybrid mode earlier this year, I’ve been eager to get my hands on it. Mashing up mech customisation with a big chaotic battle royale thing sounds like precisely the kind of nonsense I can get into.
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As reported by Fast Company, last Wednesday the FDA gave medical device clearance to a product called Traumagel that’s designed to prevent bleeding and is basically a real-life version of Halo’s Biofoam. Only instead of coming in a camo-green cylindrical canister, it comes in a stimpak-looking plastic dispenser, “a 30-ml syringe of an algae- and fungi-based hemostatic gel that’s the color and texture of hummus.”
Traumagel is designed for the kind of severe bleeding that follows a bullet wound, which would otherwise be treated with a product like QuickClot, a gauze that’s soaked in a chemical clotting agent, or good old-fashioned superglue, like in that one episode of Poker Face.
“If you have a roll of gauze, you have to pack that into a bullet wound inch by inch, and you hav…
Got some wares for you, choom. Well, I don’t. I’m just some media working a PC gaming screamsheet, but the deckheads over at Humble Bundle do. They’ve compiled the Cyberpunk RED and Classics Bundle, a 23-item library of books and materials for the Cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game.
That’d be the very same one that Cyberpunk 2077 is based on, but with less Keanu (unless you can get him round for a game). Although Humble calls it a pay-what-you-want bundle, it works the same way as any of the company’s other collections. That means you’ll need to spend over $18 (£14.13) for the whole lot, $10 (£7.85) for half of it, or a mere $1 (£0.78) if you only want to pick up the Rough Guide to the UK and Tales of Forlorn Hope, which sounds like two names for the same …
Yu Suzuki, the legendary ex-Sega game designer who has yet to be apprehended for his role in creating the Shenmue series, has gotten a new gig. VGC reports that Suzuki has partnered up with Oasyx, “an NFT project developed on the Oasys gaming blockchain,” to produce a series of covetable JPEGs based around the Virtua Fighter series, which he created.
The partnership means that “fans can acquire limited-edition ‘VF MAYU’ NFTs” of “special Virtua Fighter characters,” which will be, uh, “incubated and revealed” next month. That faintly gross-sounding process will produce 1,000 Virtua Fighter NFTs—featuring “11 characters from the first three Virtua Fighter games”—for someone, somewhere to spend too much money on. They’ll also “serve as a base for future Metaverse avatars,…
Pls help. We in the PC Gamer hardware den can’t agree on which of the gaming PC deals we spotted today is best. At Newegg, it’s $1,200 (save $500) for the Acer Predator Orion 3000, $1,650 (save $250) for the Skytech Eclipse Lite, or $930 (save $170) for the ABS Cyclone Aqua.
Just considering the deal prices, the Predator Orion 3000 has a bigger discount, of course—we’re talking a 29% off vs 13% off for the more expensive rigs. And the Orion is certainly a great deal in its own right. For just $1,200 you’re getting a veritable high-end setup featuring an RTX 4070, an Intel Core i7 13700F, and DDR5 RAM. Acer’s even throwing in a mouse and keyboard.
A natural choice, right? But, hear me out, $450 extra might well be worth it for the Eclipse Lite, primarily because it’s …