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Game of Thrones RTS has a dragon R&D team dedicated to answering burning questions like 'do the dragons explode when they die?'
I don't know, but my dragons will never find out.
Rainbow Six Siege is more popular and better than ever. That's one point for 'make something actually unique and stick with it,' zero points for 'give up and lay everyone off'
Even at its lowest lows, Ubisoft never gave up on Rainbow Six Siege.
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This 'tediously accurate' map of our solar system with the moon scaled to a single pixel would still take 665 monitors laid end-to-end to show all at once
We all know that space is mostly just space, but do we really feel it in our guts?
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Honkai: Star Rail publisher sues player for streaming a new character on Discord before its official release
Cognosphere says the pre-release gameplay wasn't just a Discord stream, it was a copyright violation.
© miHoYo
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio teases possible 'new content' and more language support: 'It's very much on our radar'
Sandfall Interactive apparently isn't finished just yet.
© Kepler
Funcom says its working on 'a bunch of changes' for Dune: Awakening PvP after player calls out the survival MMO's 'biggest issue'
The deep desert endgame needs some work.
© Funcom
Pentiment and Fallout: New Vegas designer Josh Sawyer isn't usually a fan of RPG romances, but thinks Cyberpunk 2077 nailed it: 'If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that'
"They have their own lives, but you keep coming back together to continue that storyline."
© CD Projekt
Prince of Persia social media botch forces Ubisoft to promise once again that it's still working on The Sands of Time
You can thank For Honor for this one.
© Ubisoft
He was devastated when his favorite Facebook game shut down, but at 10 years old, what could he do? 8 years later, he's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage on Steam
The Dungeon Rampage code was rescued from a child's laptop thanks to a group effort spearheaded by Greek teenager Angelos Mako.
© Angelos Mako
Lies of P's new easier difficulty modes reveal the true soul of a soulslike, and surprise: it's not dropping dead every time a monster sneezes
Friction matters, but there's so much to a good soulslike beyond difficulty.
© Neowiz
After all the anger and noise, Borderlands 4 isn't $80 anyway but there's a whopping expensive deluxe edition if you want to spend even more money on it
Borderlands 4 preorders are live now, and everything is fine.
© Gearbox Software
Nexus Mods founder steps back after 24 years and hands over ownership: 'The strain of being responsible for the behemoth I created has taken its toll'
Just one of the best sites out there.
© norskpl / Avalanche Software
'Do it fast, do it dirty': The Witcher 4's narrative director discusses the studio's philosophy and what made The Witcher 3 so great
Now that's a GDoc that I'd like to see.
© CD Projekt
PowerColor Alphyn AM10 Wireless Gaming Mouse review
Punching well above its weight class, but not priced right just yet.
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Couchmaster Cycon3 review
Who'd have thought this stonehenge of setups could be the future of couch PC gaming.
© Future
Windows Recall gets an export feature to let non-Microsoft websites and apps use your Copilot PC's snapshots
But only if you live in the European Economic Area.
© Microsoft
ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi review
Compact, a little limited, but very fairly priced.
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ASRock B860 LiveMixer Wi-Fi review
USB galore.
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ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi review
Everything you could want, bar overclocking support.
© Future
Josh Sawyer says a hypothetical Pillars of Eternity 3 would be 3D, just like Baldur's Gate 3, with 'environmental mechanics, elevation hazards, and dynamic terrain'
"That could be super cool."
© Obsidian Entertainment
Both Stellar Blade and Dune: Awakening shot into Steam's top 100 with new concurrent player peaks yesterday
You know what they say: sand sells.
© Shift Up Corporation
Disney Dreamlight Valley The Storybook Vale Part 2: The Unwritten Realms – Everything you need to know about the second half of the DLC
The second half of Dreamlight Valley's newest DLC is dropping soon.
© Gameloft
'It didn't exist and I wanted to play it': Phasmophobia's lead dev got tired of trawling around Steam for a co-op horror puzzle game so decided to just make it himself
"I got impatient for a game to come out."
© Kinetic Games
ChatGPT got 'absolutely wrecked' at chess by the 48-year-old Atari VCS: 'It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club'
DeepBlue would be ashamed.
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PowerColor Alphyn AH10 review
A wireless gaming headset that brings the bare minimum, but omits one too many important quality of life features.
© Future
Latest beta version of Windows 11 gets the AI agent that Microsoft promised it would add: A search tool that works
Just for Snapdragon X PCs at the moment, though.
© Microsoft
The new Windows 11 Insider release has a weird bug where it plays the Windows Vista start-up music instead of the current one
Cue memes along the lines of 'But why Vista?'
© Microsoft
An RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB engineering sample has been spotted on eBay for $2,000, proving Nvidia plays with all the goodies we never get
Though most appear to get chucked in the bin.
© Future
Stellar Blade review
Not my favourite rendition of 'sexy souped-up soldier saving humankind.'
© Shift Up Corpration
Elden Ring Nightreign has a new exploit which allows you and your friends to duplicate weapons and talismans until you're just as godly as the Nightlords
It's about as fair as Adel slamming the floor every other second.
© Tyler C. / FromSoftware
Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made
Yes, I know I sound like a stuck record here, but it's really not the engine that's at fault.
© Xbox Games Studios
Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow
Bedrock players will be able to enjoy Vibrant Visuals and Chase the Skies in one neat bundle.
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Stellar Blade's director throws down the gauntlet at modders, whose 'firepower is still weak'—all the sexy costumes are cool, he just also wants mods that 'expand the user’s play experience'
Also, a quiet ask to "act within the bounds of common sense".
© Shift Up
Yes, that was the original voice of Garrett in the trailer for Thief VR
"It's just a huge, huge pleasure to be back voicing Garrett again."
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CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 4 will be a 'more console-first development'
But also: "Because we're CDPR, we always like to push PCs to the limit."
© CDPR / Epic
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