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2024 Emmy Nominations: Breaking Down the Top Nominees

The biggest night in television will surely be a night to remember.

Abbott Elementary’s Sheryl Lee Ralph and Veep’s Tony Hale announced the nominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards live from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood July 17. And though there were a few nominees that made the list as expected, there were also a few surprises this year. 

Due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the 75th Emmys was postponed to 2024, which is why the event is taking place twice.

Nonetheless, the night will be filled with excitement, with Hiroyuki Sanada and Jonathan Bailey among the first-time nominees. The former earned a nod for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Shogun—one of the FX drama’s 25—with the Fellow Travelers star picking up a mention for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series Or Movie.

As expected, some of the most acclaimed shows took their rightful place in the nominations, with Abbott Elementary earning nine awards …

Albino Lullaby is intensely bizarre. It’s a horror game, except it’s not really horrific, just creepy, silly, and… well, weird. Honestly, I don’t remember much about it in the way of detail because it’s been almost 10 years since it came out—but man, I remember it being weird.

It was intended to be the first of an episodic series—the full title on Steam is Albino Lullaby: Episode 1—but nothing was ever seen of the promised follow-ons. Until now: Alice’s Lullaby, set to launch on October 8, sets players off on a quest to rescue Alice from the Grandchildren (those scowling-weiners-with-teeth things) in an appropriately warped world where you’ll travel back and forth through time, attempting to “unravel the metaphysical mystery of the Grandchild Cult and find out why they call you the monster.”

It’s hard to say too much about Albino Lullaby, not for fear of spoilers but simply because so much of the experience is a descent into what the hell is going on here? The game world is visually striking and the audio deeply unsettling; a big plus for folks who don’t like jump scares is that, as far as I recall, Albino Lullaby doesn’t have …

Snippets from well-known leakers are suggesting that 2024 is going to be an exciting year for CPU enthusiasts, as AMD’s forthcoming Zen 5 and Zen 5c architectures look like they’ll be pushing core counts to new records. The next series of EPYC server chips could even have as many as 192 cores, 384 threads in a single package.

That’s according to the usual cohort of reliable leakers, InstLatX64, Kepler_L2, and Harukaze5719 (via Guru3D), who posted their claims on a Twitter thread. If some of the terms are a bit confusing, then let me explain—AMD’s CPUs have multiple cores, all sharing a common slice of L3 cache, in a group called a CCX (Core CompleX). The chiplet that houses the CCX is called a CCD (Core Complex Die) and contains one or two CCXs, depending on the generation of architecture.

The first design to be set out like this, Zen 2, has two four-core CCXs per CCD. Desktop Ryzen models, such as the Ryzen 9 3950X, have two CCDs underneath the heat spreader, for a total of 16 cores, 32 threads. AMD’s Zen 2 EPYC chips have up to four CCDs, for a maximum of 32 cores, 64 threads.

That changed slightly for Zen 3 and for those chips, the CCX comprises eight …

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Anyone with a more-than-casual interest in League of Legends almost surely knows about Porofessor and League of Graphs. The sites are indispensable tools for the passionate player, stats aggregators that show who’s winning what, when, where, and with which League champion. What those League-heads might not know was that the two sites, and their associated Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics versions, were made by one person as the company Wargraphs. That person has now sold the company for a pretty nice paycheck.

The deal was for €50 million, about US $54.6 million at today’s rate. It’s probably a steal for Wargraphs’ Porofessor and League of Graphs, which have some 10 million downloads and 1.25 million daily average users, while the websites have about 4.5 billion page views since their launch. It had a healthy income of about €12.3 million in the fiscal period ending November 30th, 2022.

Wargraphs, the single-employee company run by Jean-Nicolas Mastin out of Paris, now belongs to MOBA Network, a company based in Sweden that “acquires, develops and operates gaming communities for the global gaming market.”

“Together with the founder, who will…

Dead Cells launched in early access in 2017, and developer Motion Twin’s brilliant mashup of roguelite and Metroidvania quickly found an audience. It was an excellent game when it launched, but its subsequent support through the early access period and beyond has been exceptional, and mostly free to boot. Most recently we were treated to the wonderful Castlevania DLC and there’s no sign of slowing down with its current developer Evil Empire.

That studio has now announced that Dead Cells has sold over 10 million copies, which is a remarkable milestone for an indie title like this to hit. That’s not all on PC of course, with the the game being ported to consoles and mobile, but it says everything about the quality of Dead Cells and its multitude of free and paid updates. I still load this up every so often and every time have a blast, and there’s now so much stuff in there it’s a delight to see what wacky combinations of buffs and weapons each run turns up.

“Following the success of Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, Evil Empire has been exploring the path forward for the title as a whole,” reads the studio’s press release. “With years of successful updat…

Innocent, dew-eyed babe that I am, I had no idea that the heavily tatted criminal who makes a brief appearance in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer looked like a real guy. But he does, and now I will live with that knowledge until my last days. He resembles Florida Joker—real name Lawrence Sullivan—a resident of, uh, Florida with face tattoos and hair inspired by Jared Leto’s portrayal of the Joker, who originally went viral for a 2017 mugshot.

Turns out the real Florida Joker might be less than thrilled about seemingly becoming a figure of fun in one of Rockstar’s trailers, because he’s taken to TikTok (via IGN) to tell the studio that he wants a word.

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♬ original sound – Lawrence Sullivan

“You might have seen that character on GTA 6, [they] just dropped the trailer today,” says Sullivan in the video, “You know, they got that character with the face tattoos, you know who they got that inspired by. By me! Just l…

S-Rank hunts in Final Fantasy 14 are funny little things. Each S-Rank monster comes with specific spawn conditions, some of which are awfully niche. Want to spawn Armstrong, a monster from Endwalker? Whack on some gear you pick up from a level 46 quest in A Realm Reborn, die in a specific spot and hope he turns up. Spawning Salt and Light requires you to discard items from your inventory 50 times, a painfully tedious process. 

With other bizarre spawn conditions including using Blue Mage’s self-destruct spell to KO yourself, crafting a high-quality steak, or flying over spawn points with a specific minion summoned, deciphering how to prompt these foes to appear can be a bit of a task. Thanks to groups of dedicated hunters, these riddles usually get figured out pretty quickly… that is, except for one pesky elite enemy from Dawntrail, the game’s latest expansion, which left players utterly stumped for days.

Kirlirger the Abhorrent was one of the newest S-Rank hunts to be added in the game’s 7.05 patch, which was released on July 30. Yet three days later, on August 2, he was still nowhere to be found. Hunters’ increasingly desperate attempts to spawn him wer…

As anticipated, Nvidia has just announced during its CES 2023 stream that mobile versions of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050, RTX 4060, and RTX 4070 will be making their way into gaming laptops this year. Even the RTX 4080 and beastly RTX 4090 are already moving into the mobile gaming space, too, as “a new class of enthusiast laptops.”

CES 2023 is a next-gen laptop bonanza right now, so expect countless posts about powerful gaming laptops over this week. Impressively, Nvidia has managed to jam its latest, and bulkiest, Ada GPU innovations into some very small and highly portable machines. In fact, gaming laptops are going to be hitting us from every direction this week, touting mobile machines with Max-Q GPUs, and in some impressive form factors considering the size of their desktop counterparts.

Along with the announcement comes four new Max-Q innovations. Working to make all this mobile gaming possible will be DLSS 3, low voltage GDDR6 memory, on-chip memory optimisations, and even something called Tri-speed memory (for dynamic GPU memory power switching).

I’m looking forward to potentially being able to game on a 14-inch laptop this year, as Nvidia notes th…

November is a time for looking back at the past, whether that’s through Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving, or in a more recent tradition, randomly patching up old-ass games. Last week, Valve were patching decades-old bugs in Half-Life as part of the game’s 25’th anniversary celebrations. Now Star Wars: Empire at War is getting 64-bit support, 17 years on since its release.

Issued as a “maintenance patch update”, the headline change in the patch notes reads “Both games have been converted from 32-bit to 64-bit applications”. This has been done to “solve many out-of-memory bugs and crashes that players were experiencing.”

Alongside this conversion, the patch also addresses “multiplayer out of sync issues,” and makes a few balance changes, including fixing “incorrect unit behaviour”, because there’s nothing worse than your Rebel Alliance rebelling in the wrong way.

While this might seem out of the blue, Empire at War’s new patch is considerably less surprising than Half-Life’s recent bugfixes. The game has received small annual patches on Steam for the last few years, as a joint project between the game’s developers Petroglyph and Star Wars’ owners Disney. Last year’s p…

Sonic, please forgive me for all the times I’ve poo-pooed your games. Because holy hell, you sure do make for a cool-ass Lego set.

Yep, the blue blur has teamed up with Lego to create four new sets that are due to release this August. It’s not the first time the two have collaborated—the toy brick brand released a Green Hill Zone set back in 2021. We’re actually getting another Green Hill Zone set with this new batch of releases, but if you ask me this new rendition is significantly cooler. The “Loop Challenge” set comes with—as the name suggests—a loop, as well as other pieces to create a course. A hamster-wheeled Sonic can be strapped to a spring catapult and launched across the kit and straight into a meched-up Dr. Eggman. 

It’s easily my favourite—and I imagine it’ll be the favourite of many others—but cool contraptions come at a price. It’s the most expensive of the four coming in at $99.99 / £94.99. It does come with a fair few character figures, though: Sonic can be freed from his hamster ball chamber, Dr. Eggman can be pulled from his mech, and Amy is included, too. It comes with a few creatures too, like a flicky, poc…

After a lot of wrangling with regulators, Microsoft recently spent $69 billion-with-a-b to acquire Activision Blizzard, after which it almost immediately cut 1,900 jobs across its gaming business. Not great news for anyone, unless perhaps you own MSFT stock. In an interview with Polygon about the driving forces behind layoffs at Microsoft and across the industry, Xbox boss Phil Spencer pointed the finger at—well, really, just capitalism in general.

The problem, according to Spencer, is a “lack of growth” across the videogame industry as a whole. “When you have an industry that is projected to be smaller next year in terms of players and dollars, and you get a lot of publicly traded companies that are in the industry that have to show their investors growth—because why else does somebody own a share of someone’s stock if it’s not going to grow?—the side of the business that then gets scrutinized is the cost side,” Spencer said. “Because if you’re not going to grow the revenue side, then the cost side becomes challenged.”

If you can’t grow by making more money, in other words, then you can “grow”—in terms of profits, share pric…

Daedalic’s catastrophic Lord of the Rings: Gollum saga may finally be grinding to a conclusion. The patch notes for a beefy “major update” that dropped last week conclude with a note that, to my reading, pretty strongly suggests that the studio is putting a bow on it and calling it done.

Gollum was on unsure footing almost from the start, as gamers questioned (rightly, I would say) why anyone would want to assume the role of Tolkien’s tragic, clammy villain in the first place. A planned 2021 release gave way to 2022 and then 2023, pointing to some serious problems in development, and while I held out hope that the game would surprise us all as a sleeper hit (or even just with basic competence), it was not to be. It bombed badly: We scored it a relatively high 64% in our review, saying that for all its flaws, Gollum “is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure,” but it currently holds a 39 aggregate review score at Metacritic, and a “mostly negative” user rating on Steam.

It was bad enough that Daedalic quickly apologized for the mess, saying it “deeply regret[s] that the game did not meet the expectations we set for ourselves or for our dedicated community.” It…

In 2022 Embracer acquired the rights to most media relating to The Lord of the Rings, a complex deal that nevertheless gives it control over pretty much everything to do with the series outside of the original books (which among other things remain controlled by the Tolkien estate). This operation is managed by a subsidiary set up for the purpose, Middle-earth Enterprises, and so far their main output has been a bit of a hangover from before it acquired the rights: a Gollum game so dodgy that it more-or-less killed Daedelic as a developer.

Lee Guinchard is the CEO of Embracer Freemode (the parent company of Middle-earth Enterprises) and is basically now in charge of the franchise. Videogames, movies, board games, and merch based on the series will all involve this company from hereon out, and Guinchard is the man with the final say.

And it goes without saying that he’s got the Tolkien-praising down to an art. In a new interview with VentureBeat Guinchard says a lot of words, but you’ll struggle to find much purchase therein. “The fans who experience this see it as the greatest world ever made outside of our own,” is one such meaningless paean. “W…

The first day of spring, according to Google, is March 20. I find that hard to believe because it’s only four days away, and when I look out my window I see snow. Lots and lots of snow. “Spring,” my ass. But it must be true, because Valve says so: The 2023 Steam Spring Sale is now underway.

Are you surprised? You should not be. Unlike the years of long ago, when the start of a Steam sale was a paroxysm of surprise and excitement, Valve is fully transparent about Steam sale dates these days: We’ve got a full list of all the upcoming Steam sale dates in 2023, from the big seasonal blowouts to the smaller, themed events like the SHMUP Fest coming in September.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. The 2023 Steam Spring Sale features deep discounts across every genre you care to name, several of which can be seen in trailer above:

• Against the Storm
• No Man’s Sky
• RimWorld
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Astlibra Revision
• Bendy and the Dark Revival
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Dying Light 2: Stay Human<…
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