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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots review

What is it A re-release of Solid Snake’s legendary final mission.Release date August 27, 2026Expect to pay $50/£40Publisher KonamiDeveloper Kojima Productions, KonamiReviewed on RTX 5090, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz, 64GB RAM & Steam DeckMultiplayer NoneSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site It’s no longer about avoidance, visibility, or tension. It’s an endless series of “stealth action” […]

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Hardware spending in the US was so low in July that it nearly matched the 2020 Pandemic days when everything was out of stock

Over the course of the month, all console platforms sold fewer units than they did in July last year. Hardware spending dropped by 29 percent as a result. That decline is even more shocking than it appears. According to the report, overall spending on hardware in July dropped to a low that’s close to July

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GTA 6 leaker claims to have “full access” to the game, as Rockstar struggles to contain even more gameplay videos

The leaker apparently responsible, CyberLeek, had their account suspended on X yesterday, from which they’d leaked the previous GTA 6 videos. But today a new account has appeared, with the same name, picking up where that one left off. Three GTA 6 videos leaked yesterday, and a fourth appeared moments ago, showing a biplane flying

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Silent Hill: Townfall’s latest gameplay trailer reminds me why the series shouldn’t have guns

Good news everyone: we’ve got even more Silent Hill: Townfall to help fill the void until its release. But instead of a short story or teaser trailer, we have 18 minutes of poor old Simon Ordell wandering around the abandoned (and increasingly hostile) town of St. Amelia. It’s the first extended cut of playthrough we’ve

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Microsoft says August Windows updates may cause gaming issues

Microsoft is investigating a potential issue with the August 2026 updates that may prevent some games from launching or cause them to crash on affected Windows 11 systems. The confirmation follows user reports that a limited number of games, including ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals, become unresponsive on devices running Windows

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Stop waiting to play Stalker 2: The 2.0 update makes it the game it’s wanted to be for 2 years

Here follows a transcript of every conversation I have had with another human being about Stalker 2 since I scored it 83% in our Stalker 2 review, back in 2024: SOME GUY: I’m kind of curious about Stalker 2, but I’m wary. I’ve heard that game is really buggy.JOSH: It’s gotten a lot better since

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Overwatch’s newest Emerald rank is like a live grenade wedged between plat and diamond

Overwatch season 4 introduced a rank reset and you know what that means, it’s every cat, hog, and retired sniper for themselves as players desperately try to claw back to where they finished last season. As if that isn’t stressful enough, we’ve also got a new rank on our hands. Slotted between ranks Platinum and

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Stop Killing Games distances itself from GTA 6 leak manifesto: ‘Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us’

A manifesto shared yesterday by the people responsible for the big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak contains a lot of language that will be familiar to anyone following the Stop Killing Games campaign, most notably a demand that any game with singleplayer content have an “offline fallback state” ensuring that games remain playable when their

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After cranking up the difficulty, I am once again asking: How many of these games with pixel art styles can you identify?

Alright class, I’ve graded your last test, and there’s no need to even grade on a curve. My first pixel art quiz was too easy, so I plan to step it up. Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies

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