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Ark 2 is still on: The next Ark expansion 'leads into the events of Ark 2,' says Studio Wildcard
Ark: Lost Colony is the first original expansion for Ark: Survival Ascended, and it's out in November.
It was 'super popular to hate Palworld' after launch, says community manager: 'A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure'
Pocketpair has just about given up trying to convince skeptics that it didn't use generative AI, he also said.
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'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit
The lawsuit came as a surprise, and led the developer to "hire security guards" for its Tokyo Game Show presence.
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A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'
"Hopefully Valve allows this to get released without any issues…"
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Help, I can't move forward in this chill crafting RPG because I'm too wrapped up in building bases and making sick tools
Atelier Yumia mixes the crafting and gathering of survival games with the framework of a classic RPG.
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There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500
Valve's famous puzzle games are now available in pinball form, and it's really not cheap.
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The best-looking gaming microphone is currently AU$100 off, so you can speak into a resplendent RGB rainbow for less
The HyperX Quadcast S looks great, but it's also a brilliant mic.
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Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again
MrBeast's Squid Game clone is back for a second season despite controversy and lawsuits.
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Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam
You might want to put a pause on Rise of the Ronin or your save data could get erased.
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Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio
Jason Blundell's new operation is called Dark Outlaw Games.
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'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game
"Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story—and you can be sure these themes will continue."
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Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review
Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.
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Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers
The leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been very ugly, and Ubisoft is bracing for launch day.
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This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y'know, the few people that actually own a card
All of the speed, all at once.
© Future
Silent Hill 2 remake and Indiana Jones are at historically low prices this Steam Spring Sale—so long as you don't buy them directly from Steam
There is, in fact, any deal.
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Cherry Xtrfy K4V2 TKL review
Like a skeleton playing their own ribs xylophone-style, while also falling down the stairs.
© Future
A new and improved desktop experience just landed on Steam Deck and SteamOS is readying 'support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
That'll be the Legion Go S then, presumably.
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Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds
Hunter, the guild authorises you to obliterate that angry bird.
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This Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5
Support a good cause and snag some new TTRPG books at a huge discount with this Humble Bundle deal.
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MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 review
An AIO cooler that hits the price-performance sweet spot.
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Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds
Inzoi: Creative Studio is launching later this week.
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You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years
Undersale.
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Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had
Five new civilisations arrive in mid-April.
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'
Double-dipping.
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Would you like to taste fish soup in VR? Me neither, but this electronic tongue does it anyway
It can also replicate cake, lemonade, and fried egg. Mmmm.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sQ2EEFGTRaYHDoi3Hu35eW.jpg "A "sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface chemically connecting virtual and real environments for remote tasting," or essentially a virtual reality tongue in an artificial mouth")
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The DeathAdder V3 Pro is currently so cheap it's put the usually more affordable HyperSpeed version out of a job
Gimme that curvy hand skater in its most powerful form.
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'REPO is fun': Lethal Company creator recants their criticism of the new co-op horror game after trying to move a grand piano through a mansion
You heard it here first, folks.
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MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC review
The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.
© Future
Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play
The new Discord Social SDK offers free friends lists, text and voice chat, and Discord client integration to game developers.
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A rather pleasing Windows 11 update bug automatically uninstalls Copilot and unpins it from the taskbar, which is jolly nice of it
Ah, the eternal developer debate: Bug, or feature?
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Valorant dev accepts there's too much random crap cluttering up the screen: 'The balance team generally agrees with this take'
"Good luck seeing your screen some rounds."
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New headset reads minds and uses AR, AI and machine learning to help people with locked-in-syndrome communicate with loved ones again
No brain surgery required.
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92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed
60% of the time, it works, every time.
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This palm-sized PC has removably memory, a flip up screen, and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor
Phenomenal processing power. Itty bitty screen space.
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Deconstructeam's next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target
An Olympian task.
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We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
You won't be surprised to learn that the leap of faith is a little too Hollywood, though.
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