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Mortal Shell 2 dramatically improved in almost every way by first major update

One of Mortal Shell 2’s most criticised aspects was its frugal economy. That manifested in the rate at which the game doled out various currencies, and how that limited players’ ability to experiment with Shells – the game’s premade classes, and weaponry. The patch added new Tarstones which are similar to rings in Soulslikes, awarding […]

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Paradox’s Afterworld feels like the first grand strategy game I can properly wrap my head around

Like Paradox’s other in-house grand strategy games, Afterworld brings its own unique twist. So while Crusader Kings is very much the studio’s take on role-playing, Afterworld draws inspiration from survival and settlement building games, letting players loose in a post-apocalyptic version of North America blighted by hazardous terrain and dangerous old-world ruins. Here, they’re the

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CD Projekt Red never considered charging for The Witcher 3 remaster, and says expansion Songs of the Past came from a couple of “happy accidents”

"Let's try and give Geralt one more ride." The Remastered edition of The Witcher 3, revealed at Gamescom last week, significantly overhauls the now 11-year-old role-playing game, not only visually, but also from a gameplay point of view, addressing its much-maligned combat but also enemy behaviour, horse riding, skill trees, and more. Yet despite all

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PlayStation argues “reasonable consumers” already know they don’t actually own their digital games

This comes in the middle of a class action lawsuit filed against Sony by four customers, who stated back in July that the PlayStation Store’s disclosures don’t do enough to comply with a certain 2025 California law around digital ownership. Companies are required to let customers know loud and clear that they’re not owed access

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Double Fine will finally make Brutal Legend 2, but only if its new Kickstarter campaign reaches an almost impossible $100m

Double Fine slid out from under Xbox’s ownership earlier this summer, after the console maker kickstarted another round of layoffs affecting 3,200 jobs over the course of the next year. Four Xbox first-party studios also changed ownership, with Double Fine managing to regain both its independence and its entire gameography (Psychonauts, Kiln, and Brutal Legend

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Rockstar Games unveils its official GTA Online RP server, mere months before GTA 6

More than three years ago, Rockstar bought out the modding team and the tech powering FiveM, a GTA Online RP platform the studio had once tried to bury. Today, the studio revealed the fruits of that partnership: Rockstar’s official roleplaying server, nopixel 5. “Rockstar is finally throwing its weight behind nopixel, a group that has

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I’ve spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I’ve finally settled on my fave

Most gamers enjoy a speedy or balanced feel to their mouse pad, but there are a few of us out there who have a penchant for stopping power. If you’re into tactical shooters that require very steady aim plus occasional flicks with a precise stop on your enemy’s head, slower control pads are for you.

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Nvidia snuck me into a room to show off DLSS 5 in person, and it’s somehow beautiful, ugly, impressive, and troubling all at the same time

I think it’s fair to say that DLSS 5 is the most controversial Nvidia creation… well, ever. After the huge amounts of backlash it received in reaction to its unveiling earlier this year, Nvidia’s AI image enhancing tech has been mostly kept under lock and key. However, myself and a select group of journalists were

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DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement

I walked into Nvidia’s DLSS 5 demo last week with some preconceptions, I’ll be honest. I hadn’t enjoyed the images it had produced to date, and I was sceptical about the benefits it could bring to our beloved games. Not to mention the troubling notion of AI-generated (or at least, altered) images entering into our

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Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations DLC was “brutal” with up to 17-hour days

"You spend so much of your energy and sacrifice a bunch of things, and then they lay you off." One of the developers who had spent weeks crunching to ship Revelations on time were laid off just as the expansion was released. Producer Andrew Willis said they spent the two months leading up to launch

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