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No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

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Crimson Desert Reveals It Will Use Controversial DRM Just A Week Before Launch (Update)

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'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

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This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off

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Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy failed most of its students

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Fans Think Resident Evil’s Leon Would Be A Cornball In Every Universe

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Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'

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Pokemon Pokopia has topped 2.2M sales in four days

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Marvel Rivals Devs On ‘Gooner’ Skins: ‘We Didn’t Do That Kind Of Content On Purpose’

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Mina the Hollower preview: Yacht Club's Zelda homage digs even deeper than Shovel Knight

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Free on Epic Games Store now: A favorite Animal Crossing-like cozy sim

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Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'

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Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

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Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'

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A24’s horror movie Undertone channels a viral internet trend

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Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'

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Valve argues mystery boxes are 'widely used' in the tangible world

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A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'

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One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'

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John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is great B-movie fun

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Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage

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Modder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'

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10 Tips To Know Before You Start Playing Monster Hunter Stories 3

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The IGF 2026 Winners Are An Exceptional Selection Of Indie Games You’re Going To Want To Play

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AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it

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PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'

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Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops

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WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch

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Mewgenics will have 'at least two' DLCs, and the 'small' one is almost a third as big as the base game

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The Sims 4 modding community is disappointed by new 'microtransaction' marketplace

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Overwatch Director Reveals His Next Game And It Looks Like Red Dead Redemption 2 Meets Rust

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Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan Breaks His Silence On Leaving Blizzard: ‘There Was Too Much Focus On Lets Make Lots Of Money Really Fast’

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Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'

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How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's second act? You may need an actual brainworm to score a perfect 20/20 on our latest quiz

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Nintendo Reveals The Secrets To Donkey Kong Bananza‘s Super Satisfying Destruction

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Unions band together to launch new game industry conference 'by workers, for workers'

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