Valve releases the awaited City Never Sleeps update for Deadlock, alongside novel mods, expansions, and peculiar news in AI and gaming laptops.
Today’s PC gaming news is marked by Valve’s substantial update for Deadlock and a melange of interesting developments in gaming mods, expansions, and a peculiar renaming exercise by the United States government involving artificial intelligence.
Major Update for Deadlock
After eight months of anticipation, Valve has launched the ‘City Never Sleeps’ update for Deadlock. PCGamesN reports that this update is a comprehensive revamp that transforms the game world significantly, delivering a more profound visual upgrade to ‘Cursed Apple’. This follows the long wait since the ‘Old Gods, New Blood’ expansion and positions itself as a pivotal moment for the game’s community, suggesting a future resurgence in its popularity. [source]
Mods and Expansions: Old and New Worlds
Two different worlds in gaming are seeing expansion via mods and official expansions. On one hand, Satisfactory by Coffee Stain is preparing for its Core Values expansion, which introduces a new level of complexity to factory building underground. Rock Paper Shotgun explores this challenge, emphasizing new logistical tools over the familiar conveyor belts, shaking up gameplay significantly. The task of crafting the ‘perfectly-sized’ cave presents unique development hurdles. [source]
Meanwhile, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is opening its doors to multiplayer experiences through a new mod that allows players to explore 15th-century Bohemia with friends. The mod, still in beta, offers a fresh multiplayer twist to a game previously known for its rich, single-player narrative. PCGamesN provides an overview of this development. [source]
Peculiar News and Reviews
In an unusual move reported by PCGamer, the United States government has decided to officially rename ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘Super Intelligence’. This change is part of an executive order whose broader implications remain to be seen, though the decision has been met with a mix of bewilderment and humor within the tech and gaming communities. [source]
On the hardware front, PCGamer has concluded its reviews of mid-range gaming laptops, including the Asus TUF Gaming A16. This review is part of a series comparing it with other contemporaries like the Lenovo Legion 5 and the MSI Katana 15 HX. Such evaluations provide valuable insights into performance and usability for gamers looking to upgrade their hardware. [source]
While the day also includes mentions of life sims launched back to back and staple gaming advice on Fortnite’s V-Bucks, these headlines offer more of the same in their respective categories.
