Veterans from studios like DICE and Crytek formed Scattered Entertainment — but, as its name suggests, many of them worked remotely, all across the globe. After shipping its first game, The Drowning earlier this year, Scattered's senior development director Senta Jakobsen spoke at GDC Europe to share her team's experiences. The original idea she and the team had when they formed in late 2011 was that distributed working would be "really difficult" but working without managers would be "easy-peasy." By and large, the inverse turned out to be true. At the outset, Jakobsen worried about issues such as collaboration, communication, a loss of innovation due to a loss in face-to-face communic…

Disneyland’s Fantasmic show is poised to make a return next year, with one significant change –the iconic Maleficent dragon, which caught fire during a performance in April, will no longer be part of the spectacle. However, the battle between Mickey Mouse and the dragon will reportedly remain a focal point, but not as the giant physical character that has been in recent shows, as reported by Theme Park Insider.

“Our goal is to always deliver the best possible show for our guests,” a Disneyland spokesperson said. “With that in mind, we are planning the return of Fantasmic with new magic in spring 2024. As teams continue work on the show, we have launched nightly entertainment on the Rivers of America this summer and we are working on more exciting enter…

In the market for a new gaming chair and will only accept one that has all the bells and whistles? Then the summer sale from Mavix and its office-focused sister site X-Chair might just be for you. On top of discounts on the chairs, new chair purchases during the sale include their $130 Elemax add-on unit, which adds heating, cooling and a massage function to the chair — for free Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Mavix makes some of the best gaming chairs in 2023, including our pick for the best premium gaming chair: the Mavix M9.

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The recently announced changes to Fortnite Crew have been accompanied by some unpopular changes to XP gains in Chapter 6 Season 1, with progress slowing compared with past seasons–a jarring shift after the just-ended Remix season was overly generous with XP.

As with every new Fortnite season, players spent Chapter 6’s launch day binge-playing the new battle royale map and trying out all the new weapons and items. But a lot of folks noticed something odd after playing all day–they weren’t as far along in the new battle pass as they’d normally expect to be. Whereas dedicated players could usually earn 20 or 30 levels just from playing a lot on day 1, this time around, a lot of folks (including myself) found their gains grinding to a halt before they hit double digits.

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If you like a good male genitalia joke, Shadow Warrior won’t leave you hard up. After all, the main character’s name is Lo Wang; it would be criminal if the game didn’t make a few obvious gags.

Not that the contents of a man’s underpants are the only subject Shadow Warrior touches on for humorous effect. Farts (“Silent but deadly, indeed”), hipsters (“You should move to Portland and start a band”), and plenty of other topics provide humorous fodder, and goofy fortune cookies you find scattered about the game’s spacious levels also get in on the act. “You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.” Thank you, fortune cookie, for the sage advice.

Shadow Warrior’s juvenile humor is in keeping with its forebear. This first-person shooter i…

When Ubisoft Annecy’s extreme sports game Steep launched last year, it sold itself on the promise of big mountain exploration. In light of this, Steep’s newest expansion, Road to the Olympics, feels somewhat incongruous with the rest of the game. Something as regimented, restricted, and well-defined as the Olympics does not fit well with a game that challenges you to break all restrictions and find every nook and cranny hidden in the mountains. However, despite its name, Road to the Olympics includes much more than just the Olympics; it adds a huge swath of beautiful and brutal terrain, as well as new events that are surprisingly entertaining.

Those parts of the DLC are hidden behind the story mode, however, which is not much more than a classic longshot narrative: You a…