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DayZ creator calls to 'normalize delaying games,' that consumers can show Xbox and Sony 'that delays are okay' and, oh, 'Personally: don't preorder games, folks. Commercially: please preorder games'
News "It's the only way PlayStation/Xbox notice us."
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Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs
News Small victories.
Our best RPG of 2024 is half off in the Lunar New Year sale, as are the adventures of Charlie Tunoku and countless other Sega series
News Ending racism has never been cheaper.
After Microsoft couldn't keep its AI hands to itself, a notoriously complex Linux distro has started its long march away from GitHub
News Gentoo's got places to be, and those places ain't GitHub.
NetEase breaks up with another western studio, but it refuses to die and instead 'remains motivated and deeply committed to the incredible game we’re building'
News But if you happen to have several million dollars lying around, the devs would like to speak to you.
Surprise! Baldur's Gate 3 got a fresh patch. Unsurprise! It's vanishingly small, but at least it repairs some corrupted saves
It's a treat just to see you in my newsfeed again, BG3.
Yakuza Kiwami 3's blunders have made it the worst-reviewed game in the series on Steam: 'Creatively bankrupt doesn't even begin to describe the current state of RGG'
News "Even ignoring the casting of someone who sexually assaulted others on camera, this is an inferior remake."
You can pick up $1000+-worth of Fallout tabletop gubbins for $25 right now, with a portion going to the ACLU
News That's a lot of gubbins.
Chappell Roan is a RuneScape sicko who absolutely loves the 'medieval synth sh*t' of its soundtrack
News She's just like me, for real.
Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 got its final big update, if you want to bolt 61GB of 4K textures onto MGS3 and, thank God, finally switch the cancel and confirm buttons in MGS1
News That MGS3 texture pack sure looks AI-ey, though, don't it?
After just 2 years on sale, 7 '90s-era Jurassic Park games are getting delisted this March
News Insert an appropriate Jurassic Park quote here (I've never seen Jurassic Park).
'5,000,000 Henrys' and they're all quite hungry: KCD2 has sold gangbusters since its launch last year
News Jesus Christ be praised.
This 8-bit Morrowind from someone with 'no experience with game making' will run on your actual Game Boy Color and is genuinely kind of great
News Running Morrowind on my modded GBA SP, just like god intended.
Blizzard says it's open to even more Diablo 2 expansions and reworks unless people get really mad at it about this one: 'We're going to have to see what the players say'
News It's been burnt before, you know.
Fallout's co-creator again recalls nixing 'Terminator-style' robots in the original game, which has me rubbing my chin real hard at Fallout 4's entire plot: 'Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe'
News Talking raccoons also do not belong there, it turns out.
Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where 'The Kiwami line will come to an end,' which might be for the best given how badly it's been handled
News Kiwami 3 has been welcomed to the world by a whole lot of upset fans.
After 21 years, Serious Sam 2 gets Steam achievements (and a new patch)
News Sam now 20% more serious.
Fallout's Aaron Moten 'forbid' himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who's actually rolled a character in the Wasteland
News Ella Purnell Fallout 1 stream when.
I was the Bernie Madoff of speculative baby trading until my prize infant gargled horse tranquiliser and died
News Stupid, selfish babies.
Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
News I taught myself Caravan in New Vegas. I can learn this.
'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
News Hindsight has about a 20% chance of scoring a headshot in VATS.
