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Vue lecture
Should you play Rematch with a mouse or a controller? It's a harder decision than you might think
A controller might seem like the obvious choice, but there is one reason to try the mouse and keyboard controls, too.
Elden Ring Nightreign player completes their 'solo gremlin challenge', clearing every boss in a row as its squishiest character
This place reeks of success.
© Tyler C. / FromSoftware
Rematch surpasses 1 million players in its first day of full release
Despite some bug issues and a lack of crossplay, Sloclap's 5v5 soccer game seems to be doing very well for itself.
© Sloclap
David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn't about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, 'that's lovely'
The movie sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh question reality in a surreal VR game.
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Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'
Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.
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Monster Hunter Wilds has been hit by over 2,000 negative Steam reviews in the last week as players lose hope that Capcom will fix its egregious performance issues
The game has dropped to an "overwhelmingly negative" rating in the last week.
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FBC: Firebreak patch aims to improve the game's early hours, which 'do not provide a good experience,' Remedy admits
The 1.2 patch released today makes a range of balance changes, makes Lost Assets harder to miss, and cuts back on the Clearance grind.
© Remedy Entertainment
Oblivion is a very funny game but the Skyblivion remake may not be, and you can blame the quality of Skyrim's 'streamlined' engine for that
Much of the jank that gave Oblivion such great comedic potential was smoothed out in Skyrim, and Skyblivion lead dev Rebelzize says intentionally recreating it in the remake just isn't feasible.
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A Duke Nukem TV series may be coming from the producer of the Devil May Cry and Castlevania animated shows on Netflix
Adi Shankar says he's acquired the rights to Duke Nukem from Gearbox.
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007 First Light: All the key details on IO Interactive's upcoming stealth action game
Agent 47 walked so 007 could run.
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Grounded 2: All the key details on the shrunken survival-crafter
From release date to ant riding and new crafting, here’s everything we know about Grounded 2.
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Balatro creator gets 'a taste of my own medicine' as he struggles in vain to score the game's hardest achievement
"Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions."
© Playstack
Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day'
Trump has previously said "I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok."
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I've already found the best fishing game in Steam's Fishing Fest, Scale the Depths, which lets you feed fish to Nessie in Loch Ness and hunt for the mythic Beithir
The otter is friendly, the Keplie is not.
© Glass Gecko Games
Lenovo might have just leaked the more powerful Legion Go 2's release date for September
The release date for the proper sequel to the Legion Go has come from its own social channels, though it might've said something it shouldn't.
© Future
SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB external SSD review
Bringing blistering USB4 speeds into the mainstream.
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The Lenovo Legion Go is now $20 cheaper than when I last wrote about it, which was a day after the Nintendo Switch 2 launched
It's definitely not the Switch 2—but that's no bad thing at all.
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Design your perfect battle car block by block, then watch a legion of alien robots blow it up because you suck at 3 point turns, in this explosive Vampire Survivors-like
You can try out TerraTech Legion now with a free demo.
© Payload Studios, Mythwright
No, 16 billion passwords didn't just get exposed in a mega-hack, but you should get with the program and stop reusing passwords anyways
This supposed breach might not be what it seems but don't let that deter you from getting yourself a password manager and turning on 2FA.
© Proton
AMD just mentioned an as yet unreleased Ryzen X3D chip that could become the budget gaming CPU of champions
Come on, AMD, let's see this chip on shelves around the world.
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Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing 'instance gacha'
Occult Crescent makes it mighty difficult to get 48 players in one room.
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Despite bankrolling Square Enix, 'cost' is somehow the reason Final Fantasy 14's newest raid (which has only been cleared 400 times in 23 days) wasn't given an easier version
CS3's got its priorities all backwards.
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GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.
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'We just kept geeking out': Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard
"There's a lot of passion and love in that company."
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Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
"We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."
© Skyblivion mod team
FF14 'stalker plugin' PlayerScope shut down after creator says they were sent a cease & desist—though that's not quite the end of it
As long as the vulnerability exists, there's a problem.
© Tyler C. / Square Enix
These 7 games need a remaster, and they need it now
Neglected classics that deserve a second chance.
© Future
A battle over air quality between Musk's xAI and the citizens of Memphis now looks to be heading towards the courts
Fighting giants.
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Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 20
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8 minutes of footage from an unfinished open world D&D game has leaked
Hidden Path's Project Dante wasn't aiming to be the next Baldur's Gate, but had potential.
© Wizards of the Coast
Stellaris updates are going to start coming more slowly, because new patches are causing new problems and QA testers can't keep up
Stellaris 4.0 still needs work, but the current pace of fixes is apparently causing trouble.
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Rematch launched without crossplay because of 'unforeseen technical complexities' and Sloclap is sorry, but it's a hit on Steam anyway
Sloclap apologized for not admitting the game wouldn't have crossplay at launch until just before it went live.
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World of Warcraft dataminers dug up its biggest boss ever: A new 3,806-foot-tall horror who could crush its capital cities in one step
Big boy.
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Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is adding a card game as the mecha sequel targets an increasingly specific type of guy
It'll also have a mouse cursor on PC this time.
© XSEED, Marvelous
As war looms in the Middle East, clips of Arma 3 and War Thunder are being used as propaganda, and even the Israeli military's having to clarify 'the footage is fake'
Not the first time these games have been mis-used in such a manner.
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After a disastrous patch day, Hunt: Showdown 1896's 2.4 update is live for real now
Crytek says everything should be working smoothly again.
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Dune: Awakening AMA promises changes coming to PvP: 'We want the experience to be reliable, responsive, and clearly understood'
Funcom is still nailing down the details, but developers in the AMA did commit to one thing: There's no plan to defang ornithopters in the deep desert.
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OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT
His Royal Altness is apparently entirely dependent on chatbots.
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Believe it or not Death Stranding is getting another movie, screenwriter puffs on the Kojima pipe and says he can't wait to 'birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe'
From animation studio Line Mileage.
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