Epic Games

Epic Games Launcher V2 preview, which Epic built with AI assistance, starts in about 5.47 seconds against Steam's 5.23 after Valve's quick patch, though Epic still restores from the tray faster (0.36s vs 0.42s).

The stopwatch did not survive HN. A commenter who timed both launchers got 10-15 seconds for a cold Steam boot, and others replied that the faster client had already been sitting in Steam's beta channel.

Lore uses Merkle trees and immutable revision chains like Git, but it hydrates files on demand from a central server instead of cloning everything — the architecture games need when an artist has to lock a 3D model nobody can sanely merge.

Skepticism arrived fast. The docs read as LLM-written, the site pegs a CPU core trying to render, and one recurring objection: tying your entire version history to Epic, a for-profit company with a track record people don't fully trust.

Fall Guys — соревновательный батл-рояль в формате мини-игр: 60 игроков, полосы препятствий, один победитель. Бесплатен с 2022 года после покупки Mediatonic компанией Epic.

Игра вернулась в чарты без конкретного события — летняя волна. Но самые популярные отзывы недели — предупреждения от игроков, которые помнят платную версию.