Rick Lane
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Dave the Diver studio's zombie survival sim gets its pre-alpha playtest next week
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News Developer Mintrocket also shared 22 minutes of gameplay footage.
17 years after its release, the best Star Wars strategy game gets converted to 64-bit
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News New patch also tweaks multiplayer and fixes "Incorrect unit behaviour".
Sources claim the Knights of the Old Republic remake isn't dead, though what's really going on is anyone's guess
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News I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Co-op horror game Lethal Company costs $10 and is outselling Call of Duty on Steam
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News The early access sci-fi horror game is about exploring moons which may not be haunted, but certainly aren't very safe.
Popular Diablo 4 streamer reckons 'you're not really supposed to finish the last tier' of the upcoming Abbatoir of Zir event
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News Slaughterhouse strife.
After a community uproar over plans to charge players $10 to change their in-game IDs, Riot Games believes it has 'found the right balance with time alone'
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News Nominative disturbinism.
Half-Life's 25th anniversary celebrations have caused a resonance cascade in its Steam player-count, surging to a new all-time high over the weekend
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News Foreseen Consequences.
It looks like modding tools for Cities: Skylines 2 are still several months away
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News Traffic delays.
The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 3: 2014 - 2023
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PCG30TH Geralt of Rivia ushers in the modern era.
The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 2: 2004 - 2013
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PCG30TH Half-Life 2, horse armour, Early Access, and more.
The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 1: 1993-2003
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PCG30TH Games, software, hardware, and events that changed everything.
Hundreds of Norwegian World of Warcraft players are furious after a bizarre new bug causes their game to freeze repeatedly
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News Diablo 4, WoW Classic and Hearthstone are also possibly affected.
If the hundreds of hours of Fallout: New Vegas just aren't enough for you, here's a mod that adds infinite quests
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News Pretty rad.
Nightdive says Dark Forces has been 'difficult to change' because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular
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News "It is very heavily over-designed".
EA might not care about Dungeon Keeper anymore, but this open-source 4K remake spent 15 years in the making to reach version 1.0
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News Also adds improved controls, new units and campaigns.
Halloween's over but you can still scare yourself witless with this VR recreation of Amnesia
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News Visual memory
Starfield community patchers are frustrated by the game's lack of mod support: 'A lot of stuff is really broken compared to the other games'
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News "Any existing modding capabilities appear to be incidental."
EverQuest 2's former creative director has a bleak vision of gaming's future
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News "The return on investment for innovation on game mechanics is terrible."
Overwatch 2's latest hero doesn’t just look like the Moana guy, he directly references him too
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News You’re welcome.
Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made
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White Whale The rumours, rhetoric, and running out of hope.
Total War: Pharoah review: A rich and complex campaign, even if its battles are limited by its ancient historical setting
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DEATH ON THE NILE Creative Assembly’s first historical Total War in ages combines classic real-time battles with the most 4x-y campaign yet.
Creator of The Wolf Among Us' noir fantasy universe declares it's now in the public domain
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News Fables creator Bill Willingham cites disagreements with DC and copyright reform as reasons.
Get the full lowdown on Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin in its latest trailer
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News Covers factions, campaign, multiplayer customisation options, and more.
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