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Dredge publisher says profits will likely be down this year due to certain games 'not meeting internal expectations'
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news Team17 says it remains "well positioned" but plans to reevaluate its portfolio, which also included Gord and Blasphemous 2 this year.
David Braben says Frontier Developments has had a 'turbulent and difficult year' as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin flops
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News Company expects to lose £9 million this year.
After Starfield, I thought I was done with large-scale space travel, but Star Citizen's spectacular latest trailer has pulled me right back in
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News You had me at "Volumetric clouds at a gas giant scale".
You can buy this forgotten '90s shooter from its original website, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of PC gaming's golden age
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News Bad Toys 3D is available on Tibo Software's website for $9.95.
'A**holes' swat GTA 5 actor's house during Thanksgiving livestream
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news And it isn't the first time it's happened.
Starfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn't know was in the game at all
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News Seeing stars.
Valve 'accidentally' leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along
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News Zomb has been planted.
25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
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News "We wanted to fix this for the 25th Anniversary update but other stuff took priority".
Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win'
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News "We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."
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.
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