ConnexionAssassin's Creed Shadows fixes Valhalla's biggest mistakes
But it doesn't go far enough.
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Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators of XCOM's Long War mod, just got a massive update that adds exofighters, improved diplomacy, and 'advanced weapons' for its alien menace
New patch brings "improvements across Earth and space".
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After a whopping 13 years in development, the Battle for Middle-earth's Extended Edition mod finally gives the beloved RTS the full Peter Jackson treatment
"Middle-earth Extended Edition returns".
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Abiotic Factor's next update will bring a whole new upgrade system and fix attacks on your base: 'We've heard a lot of feedback about base assaults and how they just kinda stink'
Cold Fusion is coming soon.
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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 5
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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We haven't even gotten over the sting of $70 games and now Nintendo's asking people to pay $80 for Mario Kart
Could the $80 standard come to PC next?
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After being laid off from his triple-A 'dream job', this developer made a game about a disgruntled ex-employee seeking revenge on the corporate world
In Vindefiant, your character "unleashes his powers and sparks a path of rage and destruction to get revenge on his former employer."
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Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio gave up on the System Shock remake because the cyberspace sequences were 'too hard,' and I can't tell you how disappointed I am right now
I kid, of course. Mostly, anyway.
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Phasmophobia events for 2025: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts
A handy calendar for visits from the Jackalope, Blood Moon cult, and Krampus.
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I loved the Nintendo Switch, but the Switch 2 looks like every other console now: A worse PC with a few exclusive games
The Switch was a bolt from the blue. The Switch 2 is ho-hum.
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Microsoft employee escorted out of 50th anniversary event after protesting sales to Israel: 'You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands'
Ibtihal Aboussad interrupted AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's address to criticize the company's work with the Israeli military in Gaza.
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Months before Schedule 1 was a Steam top seller, its solo dev was worried he was 'kneecapping' himself by not putting 'drug' in the title
"I think it's a pretty poor name."
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Unity CEO rails against the 'idiocy' of the metaverse: 'I experienced all those new platforms and just thought they were garbage'
"I was completely confused by them."
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I'm losing my mind over Inzoi's massive river sharks
Players are catching the biggest "fish" in the smallest places.
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Tekken 8's newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there's a 'disconnect between what the community wants' and what the developer is doing
It's not looking good for Tekken 8 Season 2.
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The 'Stardew Valley-like' genre desperately needs a real name and I have the perfect answer
We can't keep calling them Stardew-like, farmlife without a farm, and "basically Animal Crossing" forever.
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The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god
Willingly do I pledge myself to the Gigacrake.
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The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year
A 300-card set will lay the groundwork for what Riot hopes will be a hit.
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13 years after it was first teased, the official Mewgenics trailer is here with live-action sexual dysfunction, brutal violence, a divine grudge, and more than 100 truly awful cats
It's not often I point to a videogame trailer and say "you gotta see this," but you gotta see this.
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Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
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Repose's demo is short, but this 2D horror game is already feeling like something out of Severance
I have a job to do, I'm just not sure what it is.
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Nintendo has delayed Switch 2 pre-orders in the US 'to assess the potential impact of tariffs' and it feels like a straight warning of the hardware price rises to come
One of the horsemen of the hardware pricing apocalypse?
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Dice 'n' Goblins is a charming little dungeon-crawling RPG with some deceptively clever systems under the hood
The 'g' in RPG stands for goblin.
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Keychron's M5 wireless ergonomic mouse has an 8K polling rate for 'ultimate control in gaming scenarios' making it a gaming mouse with a, err, twist
Ergonomic comfort and gaming chops are sometimes unhappy bedfellows, but this mouse has an interesting specs sheet.
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A Minecraft Movie's director says he'd love to make Another Minecraft Movie: 'It'd be amazing'
"The world's infinite."
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Disney Dreamlight Valley Eggstravaganza event 2025: everything you need to know
Spring has sprung in Dreamlight Valley.
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You won't have to leave the Amazon app even when buying from other retailers thanks to the company's new 'Buy for Me' agentic AI bot
It will track delivery progress too.
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Miyazaki says calm down, FromSoft will keep making 'singleplayer-focused games' in future even though its current obsession is multiplayer stuff
Well, thank heavens.
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The RTX 5060 Ti is rumoured to cost the same as the RTX 4060 Ti, which may leave it wide open for an AMD RX 9070-based assault
GPU pricing matters, especially when we're talking about the lower end of the stack.
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Krafton's first stab at a life sim game is going swimmingly as Inzoi managed to shift over 1 million copies in its first week
That's a lot of people managing a lot of Zois.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows' huge but shallow open world is proof that we've lost the Nemesis System just when we need it most
The games keep getting bigger and more impressive, but the content is stagnating.
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Ubisoft frantically patches nudity back into Far Cry 4 after accidentally patching it out
We've all been there.
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In a world of bizarre fighting game crossovers, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has taken it up a notch with a niche Swedish DJ
Well, there is *one* country where he's quite popular.
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The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...
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How to complete the Spring Taste Test quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
It's not exactly a conventional egg hunt, but I'll take it.
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Welcome back, Razer: After a PC Gamer gaming laptop showdown, I reckon the Blade 16 is the mobile machine to beat this generation
A clash of the gaming laptop titans.
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Turns out that Alienware's new upgradeable desktop is only fully upgradeable with an optional $35 conversion kit
And it won't work on old rigs.
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