You can still get into this weekend’s Battlefield 6 beta but you’ll have to watch 30 minutes of those awful Twitch people

If you failed to swipe a key for this week’s Battlefield 6 beta, because you neither signed up via the Battlefield Labs programme before 31st July nor watched Your Favourite Creators play the game during the recent multiplayer reveal, then Don’t Sweat It, Soldier, because Drill Sergeant EA Have Your Back in the shape of a last-gasp code giveaway.

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League of Legends: Wild Rift exec producer says AI slop-looking anniversary video “did not hit the mark”

League of Legends: Wild Rift executive producer David Xu has said Riot “can and will do better,” after sharing an anniversary video to the game’s account on Chinese social media site Weibo that very much looks to be AI slop.

However, Xu hasn’t confirmed that the video did use AI in this sort-of-apology, instead claiming this was a “creator-made” video that’d found its way onto the League of Legends‘ spin-off’s official channels.

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Please make the USA the villain in the next Call of Duty or Battlefield game

I’m not the first journalist to accuse Battlefield 6 of failing to read the room. The new Battlefield’s single player story explores a near-future in which NATO has collapsed, a dastardly private military corporation has filled the power vacuum, and the USA’s somehow-outgunned military must fight to reunite old allies under the Stars and Stripes. The campaign includes an invasion of New York, with street battles waged against the balaclava-huffing scoundrels of “Pax Armata” in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge. Many valiant helicopters lay down their lives in the process, and the soul of Bob Dylan is flown from every flagpole.

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After being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content rules, horror game Vile: Exhumed launches for free

Horror game Vile: Exhumed, which sees you delving into a 90s computer to uncover a man’s obsession with an adult film actress, has launched as a free download after being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content, according to developer Cara Cadaver of Final Girl Games.

Initially released via Itch.io (where that version remains live), the game was set to to debut on Steam on July 22, but had its page on Valve’s platform pulled down. Cadaver and publisher DreadXP say “sexual content with depictions of real people” was the reasoning given for this by Valve, despit the game featuring “no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography”.

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Battlefield 6’s open beta makes enabling secure boot on your PC mandatory, because cheaters

If you’re planning to hop into Battlefield 6‘s open beta later this week, you might have to do some digging around in your PC’s settings in order to get in. EA have elected to make enabling secure boot on your hardware mandatory, as part of an effort to limit cheating.

It’s not that surprising a move, given the publishers opted to make it a hard requirement for Battlefield 2042 earlier this year. EA’s not alone either, with the likes of Riot having already done the same with fellow online shooter Valorant. You see, the real war isn’t about nations, resources, or petty rulers’ personal grievances – it’s to ensure you don’t get sniped by a Terminator with permanent x-ray vision or auto-aim.

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Helldivers 2 patch puts a stop to the warp pack’s cheekiest party trick, because “you are done, it is time to go home”

Helldivers 2‘s warp pack sounded like great fun as soon as it was announced as part of last month’s Control Group warbond, and it’s warped its way into many players’ hearts. This is thanks in part to some cool tricks and glitches you can use it to pull off, with the game’s latest patch having seen Arrowhead opt to outlaw the cheekiest of these.

You see, for the uninitiated, each mission in the shooter kicks off with you descending onto a planet and therefore ends with you being extracted via shuttle back up to your ship. It’s the circle of Helldiver life and it moves us all. Well aside from folks who’d taken to using a well-timed warp to escape their ride home as it took off.

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Unleash blunt force castration on execs when Stick It to the Stickman finally launches in early access this month

A stickfellow in a top hat’s just burst through a twentieth story window, taking a fatal tumble down the corporate ladder, and all because I lobbed a parcel at him. This kind of thing happens all the time in Stick It to the Stickman, the roguelite beat ’em up that Anger Foot devs Free Lives are set to release in early access form later this month.

It’s glorious enough to forgive any frustration you might have been left with when publishers Devolver Digital announced late last year that the corporate slapfest had been delayed into 2025.

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