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Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into

I recently had a chance to play a healthy chunk of the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a—you guessed it—racing game where you can hop behind the seat of a handful of different vehicles: Landspeeders, a skim speeder, and speeder-bikes. There’s also, naturally, podracing. Each of these vehicles handles differently—landspeeders are the most consistent (they’re […]

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After a slow start, Alan Wake 2 is finally doing the numbers for Remedy and has hit another major milestone

The developer-publisher shared the news in its half-year financial report covering January to June, where it announced the investigative horror shooter reached the 3 million sales milestone during the second quarter of the year. The last time Remedy offered an Alan Wake 2 sales update was in February last year, when the company announced it

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GTA 6 might not cost $100, but most of the people pre-ordering it are buying it at that price, Take-Two reveals

Zelnick told CNBC that pre-orders overall are “much better than expected”, and that the split skews more towards the Ultimate edition. He believes that might simply be because players who pre-order are more likely to be the type who values what’s included in the more expensive edition. “That might be a reflection of the fact

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“They don’t understand art” – id Software lead slams Xbox, says it’s “impossible” to make games like 2016’s Doom now

Chris Hayes, lead services provider at id Software, was speaking to Andre Peschke on the Well Played podcast. The roughly 90-minute conversation was focused entirely on the studio’s recent layoffs, covering the events leading up to the job cuts, as well as the push for unionisation at id Software. “It is hard to make a

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Sean Murray still loves playing the 2016 version of No Man’s Sky: ‘It’s a little bit weirder, but it’s got its charm’

No Man’s Sky has changed an awful lot in the 10 years since its launch. Hello Games’ space sandbox has received a few dozen major free updates that have added features like base-building, spaceship construction, multiplayer missions, companions, mechs, and even its own version of the Death Star. Speaking to PC Gamer for No Man’s

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Light No Fire will ‘absolutely’ be like No Man’s Sky, with new features coming post-release: Sean Murray says he’d like to still be working on it ’10 years after launch’

It’s hard to believe, travelers, but No Man’s Sky has turned 10 years old. As part of the sprawling space sandbox’s double-digit anniversary, Sean Murray took some time to talk to PC Gamer about No Man’s Sky’s decade of development, as well as the future of earth-sized multiplayer fantasy game Light No Fire. It was

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The Division Resurgence, the free-to-play mobile off-shoot, is now on Steam and players are confused and a little miffed

The free-to-play loot shooter has been available on iOS and Android since March, and later made its way to PC in April – though only on Ubisoft’s Connect launcher in early access. Resurgence then arrived on Steam last week, though despite Ubisoft announcing the Steam release in June you may not have noticed given how

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Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter

Incredible news, folks: Marvel Rivals has completely repackaged its assets. No, not those assets. Last Friday, the internet’s most erogenous shooter announced that it was slimming down. As part of an “Optimized texture resource compression strategy across all platforms,” Marvel Rivals now comes in about 40 GB lighter on PC than it did before. This

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“I’m sure you’re going to watch it because everyone is” – GTA 6 premiering on Netflix represents Rockstar “trying new things”, says Take-Two boss

The GTA 6 ‘extended look’ trailer will also be released later on as a ‘normal’ trailer on YouTube and the like, but for several hours, it will be exclusive to Netflix. The question is: why? “I think Rockstar felt that a Netflix release would be a great way to show off the extended trailer,” Take-Two

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Blizzard is Microsoft’s “top performing” studio, thanks largely to Diablo 4 and Overwatch

According to leaked internal emails reported by Windows Central, Blizzard President Johanna Faries applauded the recent “top performing” results of the studio. And this extraordinary performance over the past year is seemingly thanks to two games: Overwatch and Diablo 4. “In FY26 Blizzard ended the year as the top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division,” Faries

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