The Bounty Hunters of the Haxion Brood make for some of the most formidable and dangerous boss encounters in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Armed with all sorts of dangerous gear, and almost always facing you in teams of two, these late-game enemies will test you to your limits on the higher difficulty levels. Our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Bounty Hunters guide will walk you through where you can find these randomly spawning boss encounters, and how to beat each of the three types of Haxion Brood enemies you will come across during your ventures.

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Algorithms aren’t the answer to everything, but they can help you catch Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cheaters. A teenager going by “2Eggs” has apparently identified 14,000 of the buggers, knocking together an AI that can analyse reports of potential cheaters in a fraction of the time it would take a human. He’s called it HestiaNet, after the Greek goddess “of hearth and fire”. I’m happy enough for the over-performing bedroom AI to have a grandiose name, even though that number might have more to do with Valve’s own software than Eggs’es.

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Steelseries’ Arctis gaming headsets are some of my favourite headsets of all time thanks to their great audio quality and super comfortable headbands, and last year’s Black Friday had loads of great deals available across the range. This year is no different (as our just-updated Black Friday headset deals hub can attest), but if you’re looking to get one of the cheaper Arctis headsets on sale this Black Friday, then here’s a way to get the Arctis 3 for a lot less than its current lowest deal price of 50.

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It might only be the second day of Black Friday week, but the Black Friday headset deals are already starting to roll in. Whether you’re looking for one of today’s [cms-block]s or just a cheap pair of headphones to chat to your mates online with, we’ve got you covered.

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Din’s Legacy wasn’t what I was expecting. It hit its full release in August, and I pushed to write about it, only to wind up with such mixed feelings about it that I sat on writing about it until now.

It’s an action RPG easily compared to Diablo, with a focus on endless, randomly generated worlds and dynamic events. These almost all mean “kill some monsters”, and its supposedly active AI factions and events never seemed to do anything in my games. That’s a difficult pill to swallow for others who, like me, had assumed it would be as lively as Soldak’s excellent starship extravaganza Drox Operative.

But the mutation stuff? That I like.

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So here I am, ctrl-f ing my way through the 1,200-deep list of games we ve covered in this column, beginning to feel like this is the real> dungeon crawl, when I find the treasure at the bottom of the crypt: nobody s written about Diablo. Bloody Diablo>. As I realise it s free for me to write about, the memories spring back like a set of enchanted rags, whooshing and flapping their way out of a prised-open casket.

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Oh, Google Stadia. I’d feel bad for the thing, if it wasn’t an absolutely naff concept from a data-hungry megacorp. In the latest in a long line of launch blunders, some users are now reporting that playing games on the dang thing is burning up their Chromecast Ultras, running the plug-in devices hot enough to shut down during play. Finding and keeping a stable connection doesn’t matter so much if the thing you’re streaming on can’t keep it cool under pressure.

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Several Final Fantasy XIV players have reported receiving temporary bans for ‘datamining’ – digging around in the game’s data files to find traces of upcoming content and share the surprise. The MMORPG’s rules do forbid this but it’s still a surprise to see it enforced. Players do this in all sorts of live games these days, ever hungry for sneak peeks ahead of the marketing schedule. It’s a weird way to treat fans.

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You’ll ocassionally find someone on the internet sounding off about how the strategy genre is dead. If you see such a person in the future, send them this list of the best strategy games ever made.

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Let’s get this out of the way: CD Projekt Red really haven’t confirmed much regarding Cyberpunk 2077‘s multiplayer. They know it’s happening (eventually) but what that looks like, or when it’ll happen? Not even Keanu knows. Last week it was reported that CDPR may know one thing for certain – CP2077 multiplayer would be monetised, and include “well thought-out” microtransactions. However, it looks like the language barrier has done a real doozy, and reports of monetised multiplayer may have been greatly exaggerated.

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