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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live

Apple M4 iMac at an All-Time Low Is Now Cheap Enough to Rival No-Name Windows Desktops

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This dystopian free-running sim is set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS

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Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'

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Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge'

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One Piece's creator teases Laugh Tale will appear in 2026

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Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years

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The New Blood-published 'immersive stealth FPS' Blood West is free on Epic—but only for 24 hours

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Blizzard's focus is on existing properties, president Johanna Faries says: 'We have iconic IP and in many ways it still has a lot of room to scale'

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Great moments in PC gaming: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's rooftop chase

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NordProtect Online Identity Service Covers Up to $10K in Scam Losses, Now Going for Peanuts

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Expedition 33's Indie Game Award GOTY rescinded over gen AI use

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My Hero Academia's final season delivers a flawless ending for the most important shonen of the past decade

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M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening is terrible, but the perfect Christmas movie

One of the internet's top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic

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This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist

Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model

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Abiotic Factor's 1.2 update invites you to explore the 'Holiday Cryosphere', a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything's on fire for some reason

Meta Quest 3S Becomes the Cheapest VR Headset as PlayStation VR2 Goes Back to Full Price

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I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game

Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold

Sony Crashes PlayStation Portal Pricing in a Sudden Clearance Push, Making Remote PS5 Gaming Cheaper Overnight

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