ConnexionThe brilliant Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascades into 1.0 this July
Deep Field Games wraps up early access development next month.
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Owlcat is 'redoing everything from scratch' in Dark Heresy, its next Warhammer 40,000 CRPG, which is the best thing I've heard about it so far
Including "design things, mechanical things, abilities, options, role-playing systems".
Gloomwood's latest research update adds the most scientific thing of all: headshots
For science!
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Space Marine's underwhelming remaster is getting an extended refund window, and a discount for owners of the original
Though only a temporary one.
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Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."
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I played Lovecraftian doctor simulator Do No Harm, and let me tell you, my brother in Cthulhu, I did some serious harm
Doctor Eadful is in the house.
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Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster
The Retouched update is "about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love."
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Hellblade 2 is getting an enhanced edition that brings back the fake permadeath system from the first game, but there's every chance it's real this time
Also improves photo mode and adds even more graphics.
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MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'
The YouTuber was buried in criticism after announcing the AI tool, which he said "literally feels like cheating."
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This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it
In TypInc. you hammer out paragraphs as quickly and correctly as possible while using perks and multipliers to score big.
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How to use the Sound Recorder in Phasmophobia
A Deogen's heavy breathing is on the record.
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New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.
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Dave the Diver In the Jungle DLC is delayed, but the free Godzilla Content Pack is back and Ichiban Kasuga has extended his vacation until the end of 2026
It's Dave the Diver's second anniversary, and there's a lot going on.
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I asked the man in charge of a major live service game if ugly crossover skins are a problem, and I didn't care for his answer
"Our goal is to provide as much variety as possible within limits."
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Diablo 4's old and forgotten dungeons will be renovated into loot-packed marathons that culminate with a duel against a familiar boss in its next season
Nightmare Dungeons might be worth your time again.
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Fortnite cheater wins $6,850 in competitive tournaments, gets caught, now owes Epic $175,000
At least he avoided the humiliation of a public apology.
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Demonic sci-fi RPG Illusion City is one of those timeless pixel art games that still looks incredible in GIFs 34 years later
The devil's in the details.
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Randy Pitchford makes people mad again by warning that Borderlands 4 will take even longer to get deep discounts than Borderlands 3 did
Sometimes not tweeting is the best option, but what fun is that?
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Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory over Sony as the 'review bomb' cape finally appears in the game: 'We won the biggest and longest running Major Order in the game to date'
"In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy."
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Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times
Whatever works, I guess.
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DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'
The 267x267 km map is called Badlands, set in the Nasdara province of ArmA's fictional country of Takistan.
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Razer Joro & Basilisk Mobile review
How much would you sacrifice for portability?
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Call me Victor Kermit Kiam, cos I liked this mobo so much I built my new gaming PC around it
If you're going to make a mini Intel build then ASRock's Phantom B860I is just the board to do it with.
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Glorious Model O Eternal review
Cheap AND cheerful.
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'We were super confident in third-person': Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it's not to everyone's liking, 'A decade of muscle memory exists'
Third Person in Stadium is an experience for sure.
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Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'
And the Fedora community seems to be completely split 50-50 on the idea.
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LaCie Rugged Pro 5 SSD review
The fastest, bluest external SSD on the block.
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I'm not just blowing hot air—$112 for this Lian Li Lancool 216 case is a cracking deal
Easy breezy.
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Inzoi's biggest problems right now are overwhelmingly the fact it's 'lacking simulation content' and its painfully awkward social interactions, player survey reveals
Please, no more talking about the K-Pop industry.
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Monster Hunter Wilds second Title Update arrives next week with 2 returning monsters, but I'm more interested in whether its promised performance fixes can help rebuild its reputation
Capcom has left Wilds with an uphill battle to fight.
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'We are aware': Square Enix president knows golden goose Final Fantasy 14 is losing its lustre
Takashi Kiryu reckons stretching Yoshi-P thin is doing the MMO good, actually.
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No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game
It's okay, Sloclap. We understand.
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EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022
Andrew Wilson was compensated to the tune of 260 times what the median EA employee took home in FY2025.
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Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and brushes from just 52 kB of data
Procedural generation has a long history of doing so much with so little.
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Despite limping on Steam charts with a 24-hour peak of less than 200, FBC: Firebreak hits 1 million players milestone—and, let's face it, it's probably Game Pass
A good first impression is everything.
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Seagate Ultra Compact review
Tiny, tiny terabytes to take your gaming overspill.
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I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.
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