Rick Lane
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This Quake level pack transforms iconic multiplayer maps into thrilling singleplayer death mazes
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News Destroy Death Knights in dust2 and rupture rottweilers on Rainbow Road.
Obsidian says combat in Avowed will be good, actually, following criticism of battles shown in last month's game overview trailer
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News Kapow-ed.
Cyberpunk's latest patch means the cops now care if you kill drunk NPCs
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News Cyberdrunk.
Former Skull and Bones director says making a separate solo campaign 'would have prevented the team from creating a really deep open world'
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News Rough seas.
Ambitious Fallout 2 fan remake emerges, blinking into the light through Fallout 4's engine
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News A head of the game.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor force pulls the Grammy for best video game soundtrack
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News Respawn's game beat Hogwarts Legacy and God of War: Ragnarök to claim the title.
Doom is eternal: The immeasurable impact of gaming's greatest FPS
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Truly Eternal "As long as the solution to every problem involves the player being aggressive somehow, it feels like Doom."
When Quake 2 came out, we gave it a 96% review; now, it's seen as 'the worst id game'. Let's reinstall it and figure out the truth
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bleeding out The diminishing reputation of Quake 2.
Why Rivington is my favourite area in Baldur's Gate 3
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Party popper And no, it's not just the cheese.
Disastrous survival shooter The Day Before to be extracted from existence, shutting down its servers just one month after launch
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News Walking dead.
South Park: Snow Day gets a release date and a $220 special edition with a talking toilet roll holder
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News Snow laughing matter.
There's just nine days left before Friday the 13th: The Game disappears from sale forever
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News But it's still not quite dead yet.
Gloomwood's Christmas update invites you to step into the Mirror Realm
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News You'd better watch out.
Anthem sold 5 million copies, which sounds good until you compare it to Star Wars: Battlefront
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News The LinkedIn profile of a former EA marketing manager reveals sales figures of some of the company's biggest games.
Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix stops character faces "turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes"
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News Baldur's Gape.
Game receives huge free update following 10th anniversary and instantly quintuples its previous player-count high
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News Geometry Dash's latest additions have seen the game's popularity skyrocket.
At last, Shrek has come to Minecraft, but only for the next few days
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News Visit the famously sociable ogre in his swamp via the Universal Studios Live event.
Microsoft Flight Simulator adds a bunch of European cities, letting you grab Zagreb and try The Hague
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News City, slicker.
Get Larian's brilliant precursor to Baldur's Gate 3 for £9 on GOG
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News Divinity: Original Sin 2: Definitive Edition is 70% off through the holidays.
Bethesda is far from done with Fallout 76, unsurprising given 17 million people have jumped in since the Wastelanders update
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News New addons, locations, and more seasonal events coming in 2024.
The Finals might be a bit less sweaty now it's cracking down on cheaters
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News Technical issues caused Embark "a ton of headaches" when dealing with dodgy players.
EA rebrands Frostbite with a cuddly new hand as it says its studios are now 'free to develop on any engine they choose'
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News Cold logic.
Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade's worth of plans for the studio's future
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News Personal information of employees was also stolen.