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Vince Gilligan on how a 30-year-old X-Files episode links to Breaking Bad

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Acer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again

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Some users are claiming Discord's default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I've tested it myself to see what's going on

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Microsoft's AI PC beginner's guide demonstrates how convoluted its branding has become, but hey, at least 'AI is not here to replace you'

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Pokémon FireRed And LeafGreen Coming To Switch Feb 27, For A Gross Price

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Zelda’s best spinoff turned out to be a blueprint for gaming’s future

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch

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WoW dev was surprised that players 'like being jumped' by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where 'going AFK might get you killed'

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Nioh 3 has sold over 1 million copies in two weeks, breaking Team Ninja's record and carrying the series to 10 million sales

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Kick off the year of the horse with a stableful of discounted horse games in Steam Horse Fest

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A redditor claims to have found a horrifying, AI-generated, multi-limbed figure in a rental house listing photo and it's exactly the sort of Phasmophobia-style jump scare I didn't need this morning

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'Our most uncompromising keyboard ever built': Razer has unveiled a new signature edition version of its Huntsman keyboard, but I can't get over the price

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We're getting even more free lootboxes and a double XP weekend in Overwatch just for playing the game

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The 7 most expensive trading cards ever sold, from Pikachu to Michael Jordan

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Doctor Who prop auction sells off screen-used Dalek and TARDIS

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Godot veteran laments 'AI slop,' Highguard's mystery investor, and a big doc for Big Hops - Patch Notes #41

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Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each 'to make sure the people who spend the most don't end up dissatisfied'

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Life is Strange developer Don't Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

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Here’s Why Some People Think The Viral AI Fight Between Tom Cruise And Brad Pitt Was Kind Of A Scam

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Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban, says 'it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort'

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Skate Charging Players To Return To Tutorial Island Despite Promising No Paywalled Locations

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'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips'

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An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

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XCOM Designer Shows Off Canceled AI-Fueled Life Sim After Abruptly Shutting Down Studio

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Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs

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Arc Raiders' next update adds hurricanes, and players think the teaser is hiding a new Arc enemy too

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Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US: 'We're not just going away on this'

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Dutch defense secretary says 'you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone,' and I'm here to tell the Dutch defense secretary that this is a great opportunity to run Doom on a fighter jet

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Meta’s Virtual Reality App Ditching VR To Make A Roblox Clone

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Here’s The Email About Why PlayStation Shut Down A Studio That Put Out Great Games

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One of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago

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The next Witcher spin-off game is about Dandelion sharing his version of Geralt's adventures with the world: 'you might encounter a stuffed unicorn'

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The Witcher’s Lead Story Designer Says Ending Was A ‘Mistake’ He Had No Control Over

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Aphelion preview: Life Is Strange devs mix Interstellar and Alien Isolation

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Diablo 2 player discovers the key to immortality on the new warlock class is to use a pet demon as a shield

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Slay The Spire 2 Enters Early Access On The Busiest Possible Day

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Pokémon Go adding Super Mega Raids, new Link Charge currency

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Surprise: Slay the Spire 2 is bringing 4-player co-op when it hits early access on March 6

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XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'

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First Monopoly, then Catan, and now Netflix has announced a movie based on the Ticket to Ride board game

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The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now

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Sony’s PS5-Era Studio Acquisition Spree Has Been A Disaster

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Why Magic changed Raphael’s weapon in its TMNT crossover

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Street Fighter II Developer Explains Why He Now Spends $500,000 In His Own Gacha Games

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If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs

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Ubisoft lays off 40 people at its Toronto studio, reassures everyone who remembers the Splinter Cell remake that the Splinter Cell remake is still happening

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Wax Heads is a vibey record shop sim that simply oozes aura

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Bluepoint Games, Sony's famed remaster studio, is being closed as the fallout from PlayStation's disastrous pivot to live service continues

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Sony shutters Bluepoint Games

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Insect locations in Heartopia

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