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“There’s a huge amount to be learned” – how the pioneering years of gaming are being preserved for a new generation in a corner of south London

Archive of Retro Computing is free and open now. Paul Neve, the man behind ARC, is the course leader for undergraduate computer science at London’s Kingston University. And when I videochat with him ahead of this year’s showcase, he’s against a corkboard backdrop festooned with nostalgic magazine ads. “The heart of a system that grows […]

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How many fun little references has Arc System Works snuck into Deadpool’s move list in Marvel Tokon? Too many to count, it seems

This character is of course Deadpool, who possesses a move list packed full of references and easter eggs to other fighting games both new and old. Some of these references are true deep cuts for obsessed genre fanatics too. We’re talking about Street Fighter The Movie: The Game deep. En los trailer de Tokon estaban

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Surprise! The original Quake gets a free expansion on all platforms to celebrate its 30th birthday

Quake: Dawn of the Machine, as it’s called, comes with a full 19-map campaign, a new soundtrack, and a new deathmatch map. The expansion is a collaboration between id Software and recent Wolfenstein developer – and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle developer – MachineGames. Dawn of the Machine follows Quake hero Ranger as he

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EA CEO Andrew Wilson’s 2026 pay may have been much larger than previously thought

What was previously reported by EA in its recent quarterly report was a combination of salary, bonus payments, and earned stock. This figure in Wilson’s case came in at around $39m in total, which is certainly nothing to sneeze at. However, it looks as though the real figure could be much higher. As pointed out

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Doom creator id Software used Taiwanese pirates to help distribute the game, John Romero reveals

The tale belongs to the 80s and early 90s, when games used a Shareware business model. The first part of a game was released for free and you could order the rest of it from a company for a fee. It was the model id Software used for Wolfenstein, and then for Doom. Because there

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls suffers from widespread PC issues at launch

The game currently has a mixed user score on Steam, with the vast majority of negative reviews focusing on technical problems. While some are experiencing few issues, others are running into problems despite having decent hardware above the minimum recommended specifications released by the developers. User Lameme14 wrote the following on the game’s Steam page:

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Sony appears to be putting labels on PS5 console boxes to warn people it’s ending disc production

“Important notice: from January 2028, newly released games on PlayStation will be available for purchase on PS Store and at retailers in digital format only,” reads the notice. “Discs for games released before January 2028 can continue to be played on this console.” Eurogamer has not had a chance to verify this warning at the

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As GTA 6 publisher Take-Two revises its 2027 net bookings up to $8.2bn, Strauss Zelnick confirms its sales are “well over 90% digital”

"It's already a digital business." This comes as no surprise, really. In fact, it’s almost word-for-word what we heard from Capcom earlier this week; namely, that digital sales outweigh physical by orders of magnitude, and that PlayStation’s move to an ‘all-digital’ future will not have a great impact on the business it runs. Sega has

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We’ll all be streaming our games in about “three years”, says Take-Two boss, raising some post-release questions about GTA 6

"I’m happy to put a timeline on it." “With the advent of streaming – which we really do believe is around the corner in terms of having something that’s low latency, and really works well for consumers – machines that weren’t game machines before will become game machines,” Zeldnick said during Take-Two’s quarterly earnings call

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