Rick Lane
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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.
Rocksteady urges fans to 'avoid spoilers' as Suicide Squad leaks become a tsunami
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News "It is very disappointing to see details being shared ahead of the game's release."
Alan Wake 2 director says Remedy's confidence in the game was boosted by Everything Everywhere All At Once
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News Sam Lake says Oscar-winning sci-fi film "gave us confidence".
Baldur's Gate 3's charming devil Raphael now has seven different endings
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News "We added a whole bunch more."
Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge character was originally going to be a Paladin by default, which makes me even happier I played it that way
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News "But then we started thinking about it and said, actually that's bringing in a lot of narrative problems."
In a year beset by layoffs, Games Workshop just gave its staff a £2,500 end-of-year bonus
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News Merry Christmas.
Gangs of Sherwood review: Frivolous and fleeting
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Staid Marian Robin and the gang's co-op outing is all too frivolous and fleeting.
Last Train Home's tactical combat missions pit your ragtag Czech soldiers against the might of the Red Army
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Military training
Use stealth, strategy, and a massive railway gun to get the better of the Bolsheviks.
Guide a steam locomotive through the Russian Civil War in brutal survival strategy Last Train Home
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Choo Choo Czech
Organise work rotas, dispatch scavenging runs, and evade revolutionary Bolsheviks to keep your soldiers alive.
Dredge publisher says profits will likely be down this year due to certain games 'not meeting internal expectations'
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news Team17 says it remains "well positioned" but plans to reevaluate its portfolio, which also included Gord and Blasphemous 2 this year.
David Braben says Frontier Developments has had a 'turbulent and difficult year' as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin flops
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News Company expects to lose £9 million this year.
After Starfield, I thought I was done with large-scale space travel, but Star Citizen's spectacular latest trailer has pulled me right back in
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News You had me at "Volumetric clouds at a gas giant scale".
You can buy this forgotten '90s shooter from its original website, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of PC gaming's golden age
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News Bad Toys 3D is available on Tibo Software's website for $9.95.
'A**holes' swat GTA 5 actor's house during Thanksgiving livestream
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news And it isn't the first time it's happened.
Starfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn't know was in the game at all
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News Seeing stars.
Valve 'accidentally' leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along
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News Zomb has been planted.
25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
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News "We wanted to fix this for the 25th Anniversary update but other stuff took priority".
Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win'
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News "We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."
Dave the Diver studio's zombie survival sim gets its pre-alpha playtest next week
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News Developer Mintrocket also shared 22 minutes of gameplay footage.
17 years after its release, the best Star Wars strategy game gets converted to 64-bit
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News New patch also tweaks multiplayer and fixes "Incorrect unit behaviour".
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