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Silent Hill: Townfall promises to “massively subvert” your expectations, and it’s left me painfully excited

Plus, producer Motoi Okamoto on mixing the series' "core identity" with "more experimental" gameplay. The problem is Silent Hill 2 Remake is now one of my favourite games of all time, Silent Hill f – wonky combat since addressed – scratched a part of me I didn’t know was itchy, and Silent Hill: Downfall’s developer, […]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players want you to please stop voting for Nuketown, Hijacked and Raid every match

One of the most popular posts on the Call of Duty subreddit this week is one calling out players who continue voting for Nuketown, Hijacked, and Raid when playing Black Ops 2. “I’ve just hit first prestige, and there’s one thing that’s seriously killing the experience,” said user Backlash029. “If the map vote isn’t Nuketown,

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Ubisoft is letting owners of its Xbox games play select titles for free on PC as part of a new partnership with Microsoft

Here’s how it works: if you own a digital copy of the following Ubisoft games on Xbox, they will now show up under your Ubisoft Connect account to download and play on PC: Ubisoft Connect is the company’s PC launcher, though it also acts as a social layer that allows players to connect across platforms.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was reportedly being turned into a 2.5D brawler by CD Projekt Red and Shantae studio WayForward, but its fate is uncertain

According to MP1st, CD Projekt and Shantae developer WayForward were, at one point, collaborating on a “smaller side game” based on Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off Edgerunners. Details of the unannounced R&D project – codenamed Gemini and believed to be “very early” in development – were found in the portfolio of a former WayForward developer, whose

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Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70%

If you’ve been keeping up to date with news of the raging memory supply crisis, then I don’t need to tell you how the AI industry’s seemingly bottomless hunger for both system storage and RAM has significantly raised prices. Well, it turns out it can get worse than runaway costs, as manufacturers are even more

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The Steam Frame subreddit is currently losing its collective mind praying for a release date

Over on the Steam Frame subreddit, the top post at the time of writing is one declaring “this sub has lost its mind”. It follows this up by acknowledging that, with Valve not releasing Steam Frame preorders on July 27th as the subreddit previously thought, “Now most of the new posts are just brainrot, and

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Chinese company reportedly building its own DUV chipmaking machines, and that’s a really big deal

A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, reports The Information. That’s a big step towards China’s semiconductor biz standing on its own two feet. It takes a complicated lithographic machine to produce a modern chip, and there are two main types: EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography).

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You won’t have to worry about limited bandwidth or data now that Valve has fixed local network game transfers on Steam

One saving grace of a flat mate is setting up ‘family sharing’ on each other’s Steam libraries at the earliest opportunity. Another saving grace is leveraging local network game transfers to then have a go at whichever game has become your roommate’s flavour of the month, and judging them accordingly. Recently though, Steam’s local network

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