EVE Online developer CCP Games has brought on Icelandic economist Stefán Þórarinsson to serve as its new head of economy.

Þórarinsson will help the studio "refine and legitimize" in-game player economies for its space survival game, EVE Frontier, and ensure the system "operate with the same diligence and analysis applied to real-world economies."

"His appointment advances our goal toward building a truly open financial system within a virtual world," wrote CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson. "By removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems, EVE Frontier will redefine virtual nation-building, offering i…

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Left 4 Dead 2 is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, November 17, 2024. Below, we look at how its cast and their interactions set it apart from its contemporaries and modern imitators alike.

Left 4 Dead 2 has been rightfully receiving its flowers for the past 15 years. The modding community has come up with everything from visual enhancements like improved blood textures to completely user-made campaigns. The last two DLCs for the game, Cold Stream and The Last Stand, were made by community members and officially endorsed by Valve. At the time of writing, there are over 45,000 players in-game on PC, and (if you somehow still don’t own it) you can play it for free during this anniversary weekend. As such, the Steam discussions are filled with doz…

Popular indie FPS Fortune’s Run won’t be seeing any updates for a while–about three years, to be precise, as that’s how long its sole developer, known only as Dizzie, will be spending behind bars.

“I have some stuff going on I need to make public as it’s going to interrupt development,” Dizzie shared in a post on the game’s Steam page. “I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next three years. It’s a long story, but I’ve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasn’t living very well.”

“My case is about five years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this,” he added. “I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and I’m going away next month. It’s a shame, b…

A small update has arrived to both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone. The patch notes reveal buffs for several Modern Warfare 2 weapons. Other small changes include spawn adjustments for Shipment map variants in multiplayer and improvements for challenges in Warzone.

For Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer, the update adjusts the spawns for Shipment maps to make them more consistent across the different variants Come from South African Online Casinos . The developer says this change was based on player feedback and analytics, which revealed the spawn quality was better on the Shipmas version of the map, so now all Shipment maps should have spawns more in line with the Christmas variant.

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