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The Witcher Fans Are Officially Reviving A Major Forgotten Title

The last month has been golden for fans reviving old video games. Super Mario Galaxy and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 were both 100 percent decompiled for the first time last week, and Halo: Combat Evolved made its way to PC in the form of a fully working browser version.

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After 12 years, Ultra Street Fighter IV gets not one, but two connection-stabilising rollback netcode mods aaaand they're both made using Claude

Street Fighter IV, the game that basically revived the fighting game genre back in 2009 and gave birth (not literally) to a new subset of players lovingly referred to as ‘09ers’, saw its final iteration in 2014’s Ultra Street Fighter IV. While it wasn’t the most perfectly balanced game, it&rsquo...

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Steam Users Have Limited Time to Claim 2023 Strategy Game for Free

A strategy game called Eco Inc. Save the Earth plans to become a paid title on Steam soon, giving fans a short window to add it to their libraries while it remains free. Some free Steam games start as F2P and later switch to a paid model, but they usually let players who claimed them for free keep playing. The same is...

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Supermassive Games suffers layoffs as more than 70 developers seem to have left the company this week

Supermassive Games - the developer behind games such as Directive 8020 and the original Until Dawn - seems to have lost over 70 staff today as part of widespread layoffs at the company. Read more

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Rockstar Games Releases New Official Statement on GTA 6's Lucia

Grand Theft Auto has never been shy about giving its protagonists big personalities, with GTA 6 now joining the fray, and the series has also always used those characters to say something about the worlds they live in. Niko Bellic arrived in Liberty City looking for a fresh start, while Arthur Morgan spent Red Dead Red...

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Tarae: The Unbound seems to get what makes a good ARPG, but crunchy combat aside, can it rise to the likes of Diablo and Path of Exile?

Who doesn't love a good top-down ARPG; a solid dungeon-crawler with visceral action and real punchy combat that sticks in your teeth like toffee? Aside from Diablo and Path of Exile, there aren't as many out there as I'd like. But Tarae: The Unbound, from South Korean studio Boundary and publisher Krafton, might help c...

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer Multiplayer Party Size Will Be Increased Soon

Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches today, and despite registering the best review scores for a Star Wars game since Knights of the Old Republic, fans are concerned about its multiplayer limitations. Good news on that front - Secret Mode and Fuse Games have already addressed those worries and detailed what’s coming in a...

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"This is Call of Duty's definitive extraction shooter experience" - Infinity Ward details the new DMZ mode in Modern Warfare 4

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 studio Infinity Ward is betting big on DMZ - the game's extraction shooter mode - becoming another major pillar of the series. In a wide-ranging blog post and developer diary, we learn more about the studio's goals, and how the upcoming DMZ builds on 2022's Modern Warfare 2 DMZ beta. Read...

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Switch 2 Hits Post-Price Hike Low Price, But Only In One Region

The past couple of years have been brutal for console price hikes. As RAM is being swallowed up by AI companies, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo have all been forced to raise the prices of their hardware.

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AI-Heavy MMO Aion 2 Officially Becomes One Of 2026’s Most-Played Games

Aion 2, a game that openly uses generative AI to create in-game assets, has swiftly become one of 2026's most-played games.

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Despite the tragic death of its lead writer, one of the scariest games I have ever played will finally come out later this month

I cover a lot of demos for PC Gamer, and some of them really stick with me. Divine Frequency has been a real lost Lenore among those memorable games: It was a rare shooter that managed to scare the living daylights out of me, while also being an amazingly satisfying action experience. I've been up on the widow's walk e...

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10 Worst Zords in the Power Rangers Franchise, Ranked

Since its debut in 1993, the Power Rangers television franchise has introduced viewers to an impressive lineup of Rangers, as well as the teams' colossal robots known as Zords. Between each Ranger's Zords and their collective combinations, the Power Rangers weapons have played a key role in defeating whatever evil forc...

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