ConnexionForbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
"There's no reason for it to be this violent. It's f#%$ing solitaire."
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Here's a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth mod to make catching chocobos trivial
And one to silence Chadley for good measure.
Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
It's very good and we highly recommend it.
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Marvel Rivals leak suggests a PvE mode involving a boss fight against a giant squid is on the way
That you, Monstro?
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Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
"That moment ... proved to us that we're on to something special with the galactic war".
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nXL2erGjnTBUV2TutL6Sgj.png "Still image from "found footage" of Helldivers 2 game master Joel.")
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The Roottrees are Dead review
Solving a genealogical mystery, one ancestor at a time.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 turns boring fast travel into a thing of beauty
It's hard to argue against fast travel when Kingdom Come does it this well.
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Update: The PlayStation Network appears to be coming back online after nearly a day's outage, but there's still no word from Sony on what happened
Feels good to be a PC gamer right about now.
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We're in a golden age of spy TV shows, but I have to play a 14-year-old MMO to get my videogame espionage kicks
Hurry up and finish your Bond game, IO.
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Heart of the Machine is Crusader Kings for speculative sci-fi nerds, flipping the script on the cult AI War series
Skynet, Ultron or Shodan—Heart of the Machine lets you roleplay your dream machine overlord.
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Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
Coming "when it's ready".
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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 8
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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Monster Hunter Wilds beta: How to defeat Arkveld
Wilds' new flagship white wyvern is also the beta's toughest battle.
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Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'
I wouldn't put that sort of thing in writing but I'm built different.
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PUBG's top-down tactical shooter spinoff Project Arc now has an official title, and a demo is coming to the Steam Next Fest later this month
Say hello to PUBG: Blindspot.
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Monster Hunter Wilds beta multiplayer guide: How to hunt with your buddies
Every hunter's greatest test is finding their friends.
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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick takes a moment to remind us once again that 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence
Zelnick believes AI is just a digital tool, "and we've used digital tools forever."
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PC Gamer's simulated Super Bowl 2025 predicts Eagles victory, player getting hit so hard he flies out of the stadium and into the parking lot
The Kansas City Chiefs meet the Philadelphia Eagles in our extremely accurate computer simulated Super Bowl 2025.
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Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
If you've ever wondered why YouTube goes so hard on ads when they make the experience so miserable, well, there's your answer.
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Forget hunting: You should play the Monster Hunter Wilds beta this weekend to spend as much time as you want in the character creator
Who needs monsters when you can make faces this nice?
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Balatro 1.1 will include new jokers plus a revamp of a really confusing existing one
It also sounds like this might not be the end for Balatro.
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MultiVersus is somehow using its dying breath to go full looney tunes and put out what may be one of its best patches, and now fans want it to be saved
Cooking on its deathbed.
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Rocksteady is looking to make a new singleplayer Batman game, but Warner's Wonder Woman game is struggling
It's been a bad year for Warner Bros. Games, and the immediate future is not looking especially rosy.
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I'm genuinely stunned by the overclocking performance of the RTX 5080, and curious as to why Nvidia left so much headroom
Maybe I won the silicon lottery, but the GB203 sure looks like there was a lot of performance left on the table.
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Newly unveiled Nintendo Switch 2 patent confirms mouse functionality and gives more details on exactly how it will work, and I don't know if I like it
Though I am interested in trying it.
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Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball
Welcome to the Space Dive. Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Dive.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KdgvvYMUT7orwxdgvPq9Gm.png "The Super Earth Spokesperson from Helldivers 2 looks nervously over his shoulder, while stood in front of a very democratic-looking "black hole" in Helldivers 2.")
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Marvel Rivals devs conducted 'exhaustive research' to come up with the game's roster of heroes and abilities so it could live up to 'exceptionally high player expectations'
"They're essential for creating an immersive Marvel universe experience."
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Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns
This milestone comes a month after it threw two new maps and bridge-building into the mix.
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Monster Hunter wilds beta: How to defeat Doshaguma
Send these pack monsters packing.
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Netgear says certain router owners should 'download the latest firmware as soon as possible' to patch a critical vulnerability
"Remote code execution" is a very bad sequence of words in this context.
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AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
It's all about availability. Well, that and price. Oh, and performance. Maybe some better upscaling, too. You get the idea...
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Sports Interactive announces the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, but fans are weirdly pleased: 'Better to be honest and admit a mistake'
"It became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the standard required."
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Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
"Active development of Paladins is being halted. No more major updates are expected".
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We just gave this 4K gaming projector a very positive review and for $599 on pre-order it's a genuine bargain
For full MSRP it's fine, but for a smidge under $600? It's absolutely worth snapping up.
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Vanished for a year, early access dev returns to announce a crisis taught them 'videogames ain't it' and end development on 'singleplayer EVE' they've been making since 2017
Astrox Imperium ended gradually, then all at once.
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