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'Just make a very good game': Sloclap dismisses the idea that online games need to be free-to-play
The studio's new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.
Rematch blew away my expectations: trailers don't do Sloclap's 5v5 football game justice
It's the closest I've come to feeling like I'm actually playing a game of football in a videogame.
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GOG's 'Classics Promo' sale rolls into the weekend with deep discounts on more than 1,000 good old games
If you're looking for something to play this weekend, GOG might be able to help.
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'Let's just fail quickly this time': Semiwork took a 'big risk' on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn't sell very well
Semiwork was in a tough spot after Voidigo failed to catch on, so it took a bit of a different approach to its next game.
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Dark and Darker finally gets a PvE-exclusive 'Adventure Mode'
Early access season 6 has some big changes.
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Blue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion
Before you set foot in the ever-changing mansion, here's some spoiler-free advice to make things easier.
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The Talos Principle: Reawakened goes back to the beginning for a touching coda to its musings on what it means to be human
The remastered edition of Croteam's hit puzzle game is out now, and it's really good.
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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: 'These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon'
"When he didn’t get his way, he stormed off."
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Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup jingle and the Minecraft OST are now preserved in the USA's Library of Congress
Alongside some bloke called Miles Davis.
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The sci-fi puzzle game made by ex-Blizzard devs just got its first trailer, demonstrating intricate puzzles and cool landscapes
These puzzles aren't just your typical obstacles.
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Apple reportedly shipped 600 tons of iPhones in rapid time to 'beat the tariff', only for tariffs to see a 90-day pause
This should hold off price rises for a little while.
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PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.
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This absurdly generous Newegg bundle gives you an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, AND Monster Hunter Wilds all for just $230
I've hunted down a bargain for you.
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William Roberts, the voice of Vesemir in The Witcher games, has died
Roberts appeared in dozens of videogames over a long and prolific career, but the grizzled witcher Vesemir is the one that stands out.
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Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch next week
Tuesday, April 15, we're all returning to Faerûn.
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My favorite thing about Blue Prince's intricate puzzles is that they're optional—you don't have to solve most of them to finish the game
A puzzle in a game is often presented as a brick wall: no passing this point until you solve it. Blue Prince doesn't work that way.
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How to get into the antechamber in Blue Prince
It's not a race.
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As tariff chaos looms, Nvidia's RTX 5070 GPU is actually available below MSRP in the UK
It's a topsy-turvy time for tech pricing.
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Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'
"Like, 'we're gonna have 20% more ray tracing'. Okay?"
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Security researcher claims 35 Chrome extensions with 4,000,000+ installs 'include some kind of spyware or infostealer'
Well, this can't be good.
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How to get the basement key in Blue Prince
The final stretch.
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How to solve the parlor puzzle in Blue Prince
Figure out the lies to earn some gems.
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FF14's composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was 'something beyond your imagination of hell'
Ifrit, Lord of Burnout.
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More RTX 50-series supply on the way? Rumours suggest Nvidia may have started to use SK Hynix GDDR7 in potential boost to production
How this interacts with shifting tariffs, I have no idea.
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Report estimates AI energy demands will quadruple in the next few years, with some large planned centres estimated to use the equivalent power of 5,000,000 households
It's fairly hopeful about AI's impact on the environment, though.
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Marvel Rivals Season 2 is fire, mostly thanks to Emma Frost's ability to choke slam other heroes out of their ultimate abilities
Emma Frost is the Vanguard we all deserve.
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Reddit has reached a Silksong level of madness over the rumoured Oblivion remake in a fraction of the time
I've heard others say the same.
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There's hope for the PC market yet: Sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year
Is this the peak before the dip?
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'It's way too funny': A Minecraft Movie director loves the chaotic chicken jockey trend hitting cinemas
"Jack says it with such passion."
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The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
One is significant to my childhood, at the very least.
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How to complete the Cerebro Database event in Marvel Rivals
Gear up for another stacked season with the Hellfire Gala.
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Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 11
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Schedule 1 player follows NPCs around for a week to reveal their surprisingly thoughtful, dynamic lives
"Dude pulling doubles every day. No wonder he's employee of the month and needs so many drugs."
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Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after it's banned in the UK, Canada, and Australia: 'We don't intend to fight the whole world'
The developer defended the adult game's content, but withdrew it from Steam following political pressure and public censure.
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Lost Ember studio reveals its next game, and dang, it's got some really good snow
Ikuma promises a haunting journey through the uncharted Arctic for one or two players.
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Gamble or die in a 'never-ending debt simulator' that plays like Balatro spliced with a demonic slot machine
CloverPit combines a slot machine with Balatro-like upgrades and progress, and there's a demo you can try now.
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