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Star Wars Zero Company understands that Star Wars games should feel less like the movies and more like the toys

Crucially, I also love the way that every new XCOM game messes with that beautiful two-action-points-per-turn formula. I loved Enemy Within’s mechs and Meld crates that made the game into American Football. And I really loved the breaching mechanics and interleaved unit turns of Chimera Squad. When it comes to XCOM I am happy to […]

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Linus Torvalds details his ‘debug session from hell’ pushing an AI to fix an error it repeatedly said was ‘impossible and unsolvable’. He then made it write the report

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has famously been fairly hot and cold on generative AI in coding work, seeing a good purpose for it whilst also acknowledging a lack of quality control has led to a flood of unhelpful reports. Well, it seems like AI won’t be fully replacing him just yet, as he’s recently undergone

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CD Projekt Red explains where The Witcher 3’s expansion region Letten actually is, and it’s close to the setting of The Witcher 4

"It's in the north if you want the TLDR version." Indeed, I’m not sure it’s marked at all on any maps yet because it’s a location CDPR has padded out to set this original Witcher story in. But we do finally have official guidance on how to find it. That guidance comes from Peter Gelencser,

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State of Decay 3 lives on after studio’s separation from Xbox, with a closed beta promised for this year

The zombie infested threequel has been available to a limited number of people via a series of closed alpha playtests that began this April, but the doors to the apocalypse are swinging ever so slightly open with closed beta playtests set to begin before the year ends, the studio revealed in a new Xbox Wire

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Hugely anticipated anime RPG Ananta gets a January release date, as pre-registrations hit a whopping 17m sign-ups

Publisher NetEase and China-based developer Naked Rain announced that Ananta is launching worldwide on 15th January, 2027 for PC, PlayStation 5 and mobile devices, years after it first debuted under the working title of Project Mugen. A snazzy new trailer also debuted at last night’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show, showing off some giant skylines

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Apex Legends is getting ‘fatal error’ crashes with RX 9070 XT GPUs, but there is a workaround

Apex Legends seems to be having trouble working with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT right now. As relayed by the Apex Legends account ApexCommunityJP on X (machine translated), “We have confirmed an issue causing crashes for players using the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, and we are currently investigating the cause.” I can

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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses

Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment. Legato, a new hearing tech company, aims to close that gap. The startup is emerging from stealth on Wednesday with $12 million in funding and a first look at its AI

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Crimson Desert Enhanced is a free upgrade that’s out now and revamps the story, adds new skills and comes with all previously-released updates

Crimson Desert Enhanced is a multi-fold upgrade. This version includes everything up to this week’s 2.00 patch; that is all previous updates and post-launch additions. It also adds new stuff across the entire game, in the form of story cutscenes, more narrative moments, new skills and more. Developer Pearl Abyss is seemingly so confident in

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Having played it, Tides of Annihilation looks to be a flashy, combo-heavy game of Simon Says

Tides is, most apparently, a strange and enamouring game to look at. It’s the Homer Simpson makeup shotgun of aesthetics. I found myself wandering around a ruined museum, assailed by giant knights and Egyptian beasts. My mentor is a Chinese saint of martial prowess. My character is a British lady called Gwendolyn with a gaggle

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Path of Exile 2 finally has its 1.0 release date and it’s coming this year

Path of Exile 2 leaves early access 11th December, which is also when the game will be available as a free-to-play game, dropping the nominal charge for the Founder’s Pack requirement it currently has – the only way into the early access version. The 1.0 release introduces a new class in the Duelist, a melee-focused

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