Rick Lane
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Prison Architect 2's release delayed due to 'new technical challenges', has its sentence extended until September
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News Parole denied.
Team Fortress 2 joins us in the modern age as Valve updates the 17 year old shooter to 64-bit
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News Should result in performance improvements for "most users".
Dragon's Dogma 2's getting an update which nerfs dragonsplague, stops Pawns incessantly yapping, and makes them 'less likely to fall off cliffs'
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News Changes will arrive later this month.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't just bigger, it's more diverse, with Warhorse adding a 'wide range of ethnicities and different characters'
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News The studio is also working with a "group of experts from different ethnicities or religious beliefs".
Instead of making Baldur's Gate 4, Larian is working on 2 new projects based on its own IPs, and CEO Swen Vincke reckons it'll result in the studio's 'best work ever'
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News "I get excited like a kid watching the key imagery."
Descent 3 programmer releases the classic space shooter's source code, including a surprise patch developed 15 years ago but never released
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News Infinite degrees of freedom.
One of Steam's best-reviewed games gets a surprise open world sequel, and it's a plunder-em-up built around rickety pirate robots
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News SteamWorld Heist 2 will ricochet onto Steam on August 8.
Broken Roads review: A cerebral narrative adventure trapped in an unsatisfying RPG
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Loose morals Descartes before the horse.
New multiplayer survival game features crafting, base building, automatic weapons and flying. The twist? Everyone plays as a bunch of ducks
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News Quackshot.
Helldivers 2 players return to site of their greatest defeat, as a new Major Order demands the liberation of Malevelon Creek
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News And it might be done within the next few hours.
'Please publish this to the main game': Arma Reforger players go wild for April Fools' gag that purports to turn the military simulator into a battle between toy soldiers
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News Tiny Wars gets a big response.
'We don't see a place for microtransactions in singleplayer games', says CD Projekt Red following Dragon's Dogma 2's DLC fiasco
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News Though the Cyberpunk 2077 developer doesn't rule out using them for multiplayer projects.
As restructuring ends with the sale of Gearbox, Embracer's CEO has a new plan: 'simply making better products and games'
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News It's a bold strategy.
Dragon's Dogma 2's first proper patch adds a much-needed new game option and makes it easier to get a house
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News Starter home.
Cyberpunk's quest director says CD Projekt Red has experimented with generative AI, but there's still a 'gigantic, really long way to go' before AI NPCs are as good as scripted characters
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News "The gap in quality, specifically, is huge. It's like a canyon," says Pawel Sasko.
A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would'
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News Still no confirmation of a release date, however.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor sells half a million copies in its first week of early access as developer Funday Games reveals plans for the future
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News Big yields.
Bohemia Interactive reveals plans for DayZ in 2024, building toward 'a colossal milestone and an exhilarating moment you won't want to miss'
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News Brand of the dead.
Temtem: Swarm is a mashup of Pokémon and Vampire Survivors in which you blast cute critters by the hundred, if you're looking for a post-Palworld slaughterfest
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News Murdering adorable video game animals is all the rage these days.
A decade since it was announced, the elusive Little Devil Inside resurfaces with a new 6-minute gameplay video and an apology from its developers
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News "In all efforts to making a great game, many great people have come and gone".
Assassin's Creed Mirage adds a permadeath mode that deletes your save file if you die or commit crimes
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News No illusions.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader gets a 'gargantuan' patch that makes over 1,800 changes to the game, in an overhaul so drastic it gives you a free shot at respeccing your party
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News Patch notes are 17,000 words long.
Get every Rocksteady Arkham game for the price of a takeout as Steam celebrates Bruce Wayne's birthday
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News Deals on Batmobiles.
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