Another legendary year down. This year we celebrate the 6th anniversary of Apex Legends. How are we celebrating you ask? We’re back with an anniversary event like no other. This year, we have a free community-made reward tracker, a first of its kind Mythic R-301, Mythic Mayhem Royale, and more.

Some of your favorite community artists and creators have joined forces to bring you a fresh and brand new community-made reward tracker to help commemorate our anniversary. Complete daily challenges and earn points to unlock free items like Legend skins, Art Trackers, Crafting Metals, an Anniversary Event pack, stickers and more.

You're a prisoner in a cell. You have to escape. But is that really the goal?

Unreliable Narrator: Centum challenges traditional gaming conventions by weaving an intricate narrative where reality is as fluid as the mind of its narrator.

Mind-bending Gameplay: Navigate a series of daunting scenarios, each shrouded in uncertainty and enigma. Every click and decision is remembered, forcing you to grapple with the unreliable nature of the narrator's hints and guidance.

As a nameless traveler stranded in a once-thriving frontier town, players will quickly discover that something is deeply wrong. The hired hands have vanished, the horses are missing, and the townspeople are nowhere to be found. Some say the town’s secrets are buried with the dead, but strange symbols, cryptic notes, and a lone merchant who managed to survive the massacre suggest that the truth might be even more terrifying than the fate of those who disappeared. And as the howls echo from the dark corners of the valley, one thing becomes chillingly clear—something else is out there, watching, waiting.

• Save 70% on Maki: Paw of Fury on Steam (Windows). "Maki: Paw of Fury is a beautifully animated fighting game in the style of retro arcade gems. Use your martial arts skills to stun and defeat your opponents and kick the main villain’s ass!"

• EA Previously Had The "Worst CEO" In Gaming, Ex-Activision Boss Says - GameSpot. Shots fired.

• Save 75% on Dead Space on Steam.
• Save 30% on Content Warning on Steam.
• Save 90% on Sizeable on Steam.
• Save 20% on Din's Champion on Steam.
• Save 50% on Peaks of Yore on Steam.

• Krafton delivers record annual revenue, now wants to secure 'big franchise IP' - Game Developer.

• Ex-Activision Blizzard Boss Thought Warcraft Was One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made - GameSpot. Also says it distracted Blizzard from actual games.

• Kingdom Come- Deliverance 2 Mod allows you to save everywhere - DSOGaming.

• Dark Trip - Early Access Trailer (VR Game).
• Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft - PC Gamer.

• How to get the Barrow-Dyad Exotic in Destiny 2 - Polygon.

• Rise of Industry 2 - Developer Walkthrough.
• American Truck Simulator - Introducing Illinois.

• PlayStation Presents Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Special Panel at SXSW 2025 set for March 9 - Gematsu.
• Meet the crew documenting the bars, pizza parlors, and back rooms that make up the American fighting game scene - VG247. IRL? RLY?

• Kickstarter 2025 roadmap includes Pledge Over Time feature - Polygon.

• The Steam Deck 2 doesn't need to happen because Valve will win either way (though I hope it does) - PC Gamer.
• Invincible- Guarding the Globe Gets Major Update - Ubisoft.

• Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight - Ars Technica.

• Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors - Tom's Hardware.
• PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results - Tom's Hardware. The AI era is truly here. Thanks Slashdot.
• Rust for Linux project, despite doubt, has some support • The Register.
• Windows 11 (KB5051987, KB5051989) February 2025 Patch Tuesday out - Neowin.

• I Dated Multiple AI Partners at Once. It Got Real Weird - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).
• NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With AI - NVIDIA Blog.
• BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own - The Verge.
• Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords - Ars Technica.
• Law firm restricts AI after 'significant' staff use - BBC.

• Hackers offer 20 million OpenAI credentials for sale, but it says there's no evidence of a breach - TechRadar.
• How Chrome's enhanced protection tries to keep you safe from online dangers - ZDNET.
• Triplestrength hits with ransomware, cloud crypto mining • The Register.

• 19 State AGs File Suit Against DOGE Treasury Access; Judge Blocks New Policy - Reuters.
• EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions - Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use - The Verge.
• Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Announces Investigation of Activision and Call of Duty VPPA Violation.

1. The first half of the season will still conclude on February 21, 2025, at 8:00 AM (UTC+0). Players at Gold rank will receive the costume reward, as well as Crests of Honors for those in Grandmaster and above, and the Crest of Honor for the top 500 (One Above All).

2. When the second half of the season begins, there will be no rank reset. Players will retain their ranks and scores from the end of the first half. To earn new rewards, players simply need to complete 10 matches in Competitive mode and meet the relevant conditions by the end of the season. Rewards will include a new Gold rank costume and a variety of Crests of Honor, featuring distinct designs for Grandmaster, Celestial, Eternity, and One Above All.

Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone is a post-apo action RPG game, mixing free exploration of huge and extremely realistic open world, challenging combat, unique crafting, team and base management with non-linear storytelling. You’re a planewalker who travels through parallel worlds in search of the precious, high-energy material called Chernobylite. Cut off from the world, trapped in the Zone, attacked by hordes of nightmare creatures, you must fight for survival and unite the handful of remaining survivors.

In short, uneven current distribution leads to dangerously high temperatures which can potentially burn or melt the cable and damage connected components. In isolation, this incident could've been swept under the rug as a one-off, however, Roman's near one-to-one recreation of the problem suggests there's something else at play here.

Prepare for a new era of online multiplayer PvP battles as War Robots: Frontiers will redefine tactical mech warfare when it launches on PC and consoles on March 4, 2025! Developed with a commitment to immersing players in the raw power and tactical depth of mechanized combat like never before, War Robots: Frontiers puts players in the cockpit of their own massive war machines to experience the thrill of piloting a War Robot first-hand.

You and your friends embark on a weekend camping trip in the Hoia Baciu forest. A detour along a ravine leads you across a shaky bridge, but disaster strikes as your car plunges into the depths below. Miraculously, everyone survives, but your vehicle is destroyed. With no signal and night quickly falling, you’re stranded in the heart of the ominous forest. Your only hope is to traverse the cursed woods and reach the nearby town of Cluj.

• Ruffy and the Riverside Demo on Steam (Windows, Linux). "In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!"
• The Zebra-Man! on Steam (Windows). "Revenge wears stripes! The Zebra-Man! is a hyper-charged pixel art top-down action game with brutal fist fights and blood spilling in your wake. Get out of impossible situations while unraveling time paradoxes and blasting the enemies you encounter along the way."

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows director- players ‘aren’t missing out’ if they mainly play as one character - VGC.

• Koei Tecmo appoints new CEO as co-founders Yoichi and Keiko Erikawa step back - Game Developer.
• Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails - Game Developer.

• Monster Hunter Wilds is friendly and still hardcore, Capcom promises - Polygon.
• Stellar Blade Devs Expect PC Version to Outsell PS5 Release - MP1st.
• PUBG has never been more lucrative, publisher says - Eurogamer.net.

• Walton Goggins On 'Fallout' Season 2: 'Blows It Out Of The Water' - Deadline.
• The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep throws Geralt into full anime action - Polygon.

• HELLDIVERS 2 - PATCH 01.002.103.
• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - Patch Notes - Update 34.1.
• The Thing: Remastered - Patch 1.1 is available now.

• Civilization 7 Patch 1.0.1 Addresses Some of the Negative Feedback From Advanced Access - IGN.
• Civilizaton 7 PC crossplay disabled to "expedite" patch release - Eurogamer.net.

• The History of Fallout - GVMERS.
• The horror of releasing a video game beta - Viva La Dirt League. Thanks Ant.

• Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision Blizzard; and Bing Gordon, Advisor at Kleiner Perkins (video). Thanks Reddit.

• Game Monument will let players fund titles by giving them credit inside games - VentureBeat.

• Build Something You Believe In- Sid Meier's Civilization® VII Now Available Worldwide - Business Wire. PC editions arrived last night.
• State of Play returns tomorrow, February 12 – PlayStation.Blog.
• PlayStation Store: January 2025’s top downloads – PlayStation.Blog.

• Civilization 7 is mostly fine on the Steam Deck, which is great news - The Verge.
• The S25 Ultra’s S Pen Gets Thrown Off By Magnetic Accessories, Just Like The S24 Ultra - Same Issue, New Model - Wccftech.
• NVIDIA's RTX 50-Series Laptops Will Launch For Pre-Orders Starting February 25; Retail Launch Expected By March - Wccftech.
• The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge could be impressively light, and might launch as soon as April - TechRadar.

• YouTube is now even bigger on TVs than phones - The Verge.
• Ye website goes offline after Shopify stops handling orders for swastika T-shirts - CBS News.

• Trump announces 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports - BBC.
• RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit - Tom's Hardware.
• Intel releases new GPU driver with Avowed support, Hellblade II FPS improvements, and more - Neowin.
• Breakthrough as Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer - The Independent. Thanks Matthew.

• UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration - BBC.
• OpenAI and Broadcom to finalize custom AI processor in the coming months say industry sources - Tom's Hardware.
• AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds - BBC. So obvious AI could probably figure it out.

• Meta wants to teach kids how to spot predators online - The Verge.
• Apple warns 'extremely sophisticated attack' targets iThings • The Register.
• iOS 18.3.1 patches an 'extremely sophisticated attack' - and more - ZDNET.

• TikTok says data of four dead British teens may have been removed - BBC.

• Monitor/Projector: ViewSonic VX1654 portable monitor review- One trick pony - Tom's Hardware. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Mouse: DAREU A980 Pro Max Review - TechPowerUp.

Most-Watched Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.

Story

• Super Bowl parade is set for Friday - NBC Sports.

Science

• The Forgotten Volcano That Cooled the Planet and Turned the Sun Green - SciTechDaily.
• Yale Scientists Just Cracked the DNA Code That Built the Human Brain - SciTechDaily.
• Researchers announce major discovery about Earth’s inner core - KTLA. Earth's been doing crunches.

Media

• Impressive jumbo cargo drone lifts off, aces hover test in new video - New Atlas.
• Dump truck running over an SUV. To "show the dangers of mining trucks." Mission accomplished. Thanks VideoSift.
• The United States of Pizza, mapsplained - Phil Edwards. Thanks Digg.

Follow-up

• In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before its close approach to Earth - Live Science.
• Armie Hammer Admits 'I Was a Dick' and Addresses the Cannibal Texts - Variety. Seems to still be handling his own PR.

The Funnies

• xkcd: Incoming Asteroid.
• Savage Chickens.