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Editor’s Note: A lawsuit has been filed against Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which alleges the company has engaged in abuse, discrimination, and retaliation against its female employees. Activision Blizzard has denied the allegations. The full details of the Activision Blizzard lawsuit (content warning: rape, suicide, abuse, harassment) are being updated as new information becomes available. Several issues found in Call of Duty: Vanguard‘s alpha will reportedly be fixed for the game’s upcoming multi-platform beta. The recently announced FPS, developed by Sledgehammer Games, will allow…

As do several modern gaming devices, the PlayStation 5 boasts ray tracing support, but many players may not know the benefits of this technical-sounding buzzword. Sony has used the inclusion of ray tracing as a selling point for its newest console, along with its new DualSense controller’s capabilities and the PS5’s quick SSD load times. The PS5’s ray tracing is a method of delivering better in-game lighting effects, and it is very different from how games previously processed light. Leading up to the introduction of ray tracing, lighting effects were typically created using a process called rasterization. Rasterization…

While fans await the remake of the original Dead Space game, some lament how the commercial failure of Dead Space 3 seems responsible for cutting the science-fiction/horror series short. Game franchises tend to continue for as long as they are successful, as seen with series like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and King of Fighters, which are in the double digits on their iterative sequels, or the sprawling Assassin’s Creed series of games. Sadly, some franchises haven’t been so lucky. Dead Space 3 made several missteps, both with its shift away from…