Games

“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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Stalker 2 is finally letting us explore the Chornobyl Power Plant

The new video gives us an early look at previously unexplored areas of the Zone that stalkers will be able to access once the expansion launches: Iron Forest and the Chornobyl Power Plant itself. You can check out the extended peek in the video below: GSC has previously confirmed Cost of Hope expansion contains “dozens

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Newly discovered Demon’s Souls prototype footage reveals a scrapped first-person mode

Notable FromSoft dataminer Lance McDonald discovered early gameplay footage, images, and presentation slides from a 2007 showcase where Sony Computer Entertainment’s developers presented in-progress projects internally. The presentation, built by the game’s producer Japan Studio PD#3 in PowerPoint, already used the game’s eventual title, Demon’s Souls – albeit then called a “working title” – and

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Extraction shooter BR1 Infinite is paying players for every in-game kill, drawing concerns about gambling and cheating

As spotted by Polygon, BR1 Infinite is offering players $10 (£7.41) an hour and $1 (75p) for every kill. The catch, however, is that spawning into a match costs $1 of your IRL hard-earned cash, so a bad run can damage your bank balance as well as your pride. BR1 Infinite bills itself as the

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