Players have discovered a Call of Duty: Warzone 2 glitch that allows you to level a gun from baseline to maximum level in a single match: and just as quickly, developer Raven Software swung into action and squished it. It’s all thanks to the exponential XP reward that can come from repeating one of the in-game contracts, Safecracker, which is a straightforward mission that nearly doubles the XP award each time one is completed.

Amusingly enough, this is a recurring Call of Duty bug: you could almost call it a launch bug. I recall one in particular that involved spamming Supply Run missions, but essentially every time it’s been the same thing, a particular mission that exponentially increased the XP reward the more you played it.

Gaming is a great way to pass the time on long journeys, especially now Valve’s Steam Deck lets you take your entire PC gaming library along for the ride. But one thing you can’t take with you is the immersion and privacy afforded by a home desktop. Bringing a 27-inch monitor onto the train with you would definitely have people looking over your shoulder, while draping your coat over your head isn’t exactly a comfortable solution to curious commuters watching you play God of War.

Enter Nreal Air, Nreal’s new pair of augmented reality glasses, designed to provide a cinematic viewing experience wherever you are on a wide range of devices. Lightweight, comfortable, and stylish, they’re a great way to turn a portable gaming experience into something more comprehensive. Here are five reasons why Nreal’s Air glasses are the ultimate Steam Deck companion.

1. A desktop experience in your pocket

While Twitter users joke about the social media platform being on the brink of death and deletion thanks to Elon Musk’s mismanagement, game developers have used this opportunity to stage a final confession, an absolution of all their design sins. It began with a senior character artist working on Overwatch (opens in new tab) admitting he hid “abstracted versions of Loss in older projects”, and continued from there.

Other developers confessed to similar Loss-related crimes against videogames. For anyone who has remained blessedly ignorant of the Loss meme until now, it began when middling videogame-themed webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del took an unexpected turn for the dramatic with a strip depicting miscarriage. The attempt to add emotional heft to a gamers-on-a-couch gag strip was so mockable that chronically online people torment each other with minimalist-yet-recognizable interpretations of its four panels (opens in new tab) to this day.

Mass Effect is 15 years old as of November 20, and unofficial Twitter account Mass Effect News (opens in new tab) has celebrated by collecting together some of its prototype art, video, and documents. While none of this is new (the scan of the 2003 pitch document (opens in new tab) has been floating around on the internet for over a decade), it’s still interesting to look back at how much of it changed.

For starters, when Casey Hudson submitted that pitch on September 15, 2003, it was for a game to be called not Mass Effect, but “SFX”. Other suggested titles came later, several of which made it as far as having logos designed (opens in new tab), like The Epsilon Effect, Biowar, Element Zero, Element, The Oculon, The Optigon, Unearthed, Nebula: Guardians of the Citadel, Star Citadel, and plain old The Citadel.