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It's not all poison frogs in the Season of Witchcraft.
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Former Stalker dev reveals new FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris that's been overrun by sentient trees
Nature gets twisted in VG Entertainment's Forest Reigns.
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Terraria creator jokes that the 1.4.5 update may not be the last one after all: 'Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update'
Honestly, I don't know if he's joking here or not.
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Black holes, buildings on poles, and a 'sea urchin planet': PUBG creator's world-sized tech demo may be hiding some bizarre machine learning 'hallucinations'
"There's always going to be a little hallucination" with machine learning, says PlayerUnknown Productions' engine team behind Preface: Undiscovered World.
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Sid Meier's Civilization needs to keep reinventing itself to stay relevant
Civilization 7 is bringing a lot of big and controversial changes—that's good.
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'We will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior': Marvel Rivals will ban console players who use a mouse and keyboard
Using third-party emulation devices to gain an advantage may get you banished to the Negative Zone, says Marvel Rivals studio NetEase Games.
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Hideo Kojima is 'tired' while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he'll be able to keep making games: 'Every day feels like I'm racing against the clock'
Kojima calls this period of development "incredibly tough."
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3ApM5N4gNnuXhoNb3H8KjV.jpg "LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Hideo Kojima attends the UK premiere of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on May 17, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)")
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Elden Ring geographer tests rigorous calculation against weed-fueled horse math to determine the exact size of The Lands Between
It's like they always say: Cannabis and cartographic analysis don't mix.
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now officially finished as its final update goes live
Rocksteady's troubled shooter will continue to operate and the offline mode is finally here, but there will be no further content updates after today.
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Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro review
A particularly user-friendly motherboard that has a long life ahead of it.
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The MySims: Cozy Bundle brings the blocky-headed chibi sims over to PC: 'It's still very, very Sims'
A new "Behind the Sims" presentation revealed the Nintendo Switch bundle is hitting our desktops.
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Marvel Rivals game director says it'll be getting a new hero every month and a half, which hopefully isn't a display of classical hubris
At this rate, we should get a playable Dr. Druid by 2029.
© NetEase
Blade and Soul Neo is a full-on remaster of NCsoft's 2012 wuxia-themed MMO
Pre-registrations for the upcoming Blade and Soul overhaul are open now.
© NCsoft
Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review
A slick motherboard for Arrow Lake systems, even if it does slip behind AMD's alternative.
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The new Sims 4 start screen is by far the best it's had in a decade
It initially looks like a battle royale squad menu, but the reduced clutter is a blessing.
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Larian celebrates 100 million Baldur's Gate 3 mod downloads by bringing 'Withers Big Naturals' to consoles
A really big number deserves a really big celebration, naturally.
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review
A white motherboard with all the extras.
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'I like to be challenged': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson is 'excited' to see more developers trying to break into the life sim space
"I think we can learn from each other."
© Electronic Arts
The Sims 4 is getting 2 base game updates to celebrate the series 25th anniversary
The Sims 4 is getting an improved start screen and a whole lot more.
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'The Sims continues to be this kind of funhouse mirror to the world': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson on 25 years of the series and what's to come in the future
The Sims turns a quarter-century in February.
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League of Legends players are up in arms after an update to get rid of 'unnecessary complexity' makes it a struggle for new players to earn anything
Rewards are getting streamlined, so now everything hinges on the battle pass.
© Riot Games
Logitech G RS Shifter and Handbrake review
Sequential shifter and handbrake in one robust package.
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The high-rise adventure SickWay VR is now available on Steam with a limited-time 10% discount
The VR thrill ride comes with a whole host of features like Multiplayer and Track Editor as well.
© ALIEN studio s.r.o.
Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards
Blackwell GPUs aren't all exactly the same.
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OBSBot Meet 2 review
The cutest 4K webcam around, and at a great price.
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The real Geralt comes back for a new Netflix animated film to slay monsters and give brooding speeches about humanity's failings
Venture deeper into the continent.
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Aloft strives to be the next co-op survival crafting game, but its early access version leaves a lot to be desired
Head in the clouds.
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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is an aggressively old-school MMO that hates hand-holding so much it won't even give you a map—but a certain type of player might just love it
If you like having no guidance, murdering rats and working very hard for stingy rewards, man do I have good news.
© Visionary Realms
This depraved roguelike will turn you into a desperate sociopath… uh, in a fun way
Sultan's Game is a dark and fascinating spiral into sin. With cards!
© Double Cross, 2P Games
It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise
Tennis ball NFTs sold by the Australian Open aren't money spinners, it seems.
© Tennis Australia
'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas
"If you don't have somebody to help you filter through these things and give you an honest assessment, it actually does hurt you."
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This huge monitor is ultrawide, curved, OLED, and pretty much every other monitor tech you need and I'd be tempted at $200 off
This is a lot of screen for the money.
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Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'
"It's not a goal in itself to convert users who already have a good experience."
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Path of Exile 2 devs acknowledge the endgame is 'too severe' but are sticking to their guns because 'the whole death actually mattering thing is actually important'
"It takes time to get there and that matters."
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'He was trying his best'—Palworld had a lone server guy trying to keep the game afloat during its 2 million player launch
"We definitely panicked more than we should have."
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AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'
It's not just a couple of Zen 5 CCDs thrown together with a new GPU die.
© AMD
Blasting AI into the past: modders get Llama AI working on an old Windows 98 PC
Though it's hardly a motor-mouth.
© Square Enix
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