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26 avril
16h43
Metro Exodus is the perfect post apocalyptic game to play if you’re tired of Fallout’s wasteland
What a splendid world we ruined.
16h36
The Divinity: Original Sin board game took six years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series: ’We’re not going to do a piss poor job with a game that’s part of an IP that we care about’
Publishing coordinator Kieron Kelly on Larian’s enduring love for Divinity and tabletop gaming.
16h33
The Divinity: Original Sin board game is like a huge new Larian RPG in a box, and it’s one of the coolest games I’ve ever played
Cards and dice and all things nice.
16h27
Bulletstorm studio’s mysterious Project Dagger is officially dead
People Can Fly continued to work on the game after losing a publishing deal with Take Two in , but has now decided to pull the plug.
16h10
TSMC looks set to hit Intel where it hurts, announcing its A16 node with ’Super Power Rail’ backside power delivery
The battle of the backsides. At least, that’s what I’m calling it in my head.
16h07
Fortnite fans are losing love for the airbending mythic as it continues to dominate the endgame
I thought air nomads were meant to be peaceful.
15h44
Manor Lords surpassed 100,000 concurrent players within hours of release, and now it’s the global top seller on Steam
What goes up, keeps going up.
15h35
Counter-Strike gives the people what they want: ’Fine’
Players can now switch between holding their weapons on the left or right side.
15h19
Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2 review
Gigabyte makes K Hz OLED awesomeness that little bit more affordable.
15h17
Celebrating the 20th birthday of City of Heroes: an MMO resurrected by the people who loved it enough to ’bring the game back for good’
It just makes me feel so humbled that we had that kind of an impact. It still does.
14h15
Arrowhead Games keeps the spirit of democracy alive by making Helldivers 2 players choose which stratagem they’d like to unlock next
And the citizens, too. The citizens are the most important part.
13h39
I tried to make a medieval paradise in Manor Lords but now it’s just full of eggs and corpses
There’s no pleasing some people.
13h29
Helldivers 2 players complete another major order by the skin of their teeth, and some can’t help but feel Joel’s going easy on them
Still, we did scrap an awful lot of bots.
13h20
MultiVersus fans, you were right: The character models are actually bigger in the upcoming re-release
It’s been confirmed by Player First Games.
13h01
Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 and it’s giving me all the nostalgia feels
Fond memories of beige machines.
13h00
Idle farming sim Rusty’s Retirement allows you to pour hours into farmwork whilst still doing other things
Finally, I can understand why these games are considered cozy.
12h50
FF14 players are struggling to complete the Yo-kai Watch event thanks to a tide of Blue Mages armed with bad vibes and missiles
Ill FATE ed.
10h59
Helldivers 2 devs confirm that, no, trimming ’excess leg space in the cockpit’ doesn’t mean the nice Eagle-1 lady is hacking off her legs for liberty
Liberty returns, locked and loaded.
10h49
Fancy a borked Intel CPU for just 3.25? This Japanese Gacha machine is just for you
Makes a change from a bit of plastic tat, doesn’t it
10h33
Intel CEO claims Core Ultra laptop chip is ’hot’ but the company’s near-term outlook still isn’t exactly on fire
Intel’s Meteor Lake laptop chips are selling fast, but Intel’s own forecasts aren’t looking great.
10h23
Elden Ring’s uber boss Malenia says she has ’never known defeat’, but your bank account sure will if you buy this 1:1 scale replica of her blade arm
A worthy prize for besting the Blade of Miquella
09h29
It took 30 years, but a speedrunner’s finished Doom 2’s opening level in an unbelievable 4.97 seconds
Hurt me plenty.
08h00
Our top 10 Manor Lords tips for thriving in the survival city builder
How to make your first town a prosperous one.
03h00
Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, April 26
Get all the help you need with today’s Wordle.
02h15
HP spends big to secure title sponsorship rights for the Ferrari Formula One team
It’ll help pay Lewis Hamilton’s salary
00h08
After 6 years, the FCC has voted to restore net neutrality regulations in a win for the open internet
The specter of Ajit Pai haunts America’s broadband infrastructure no longer.
25 avril
23h45
Hasbro says Magic: The Gathering’s Fallout-themed Commander cards were ’probably our best-performing Commander set ever’
Big things are expected for next year’s Marvel and Final Fantasy crossovers too.
22h05
After 10 years on Steam, Korean MMO ArcheAge is giving up on North America and Europe
Servers will close in June.
21h01
Wake up These spider-looking phenomena just spotted on Mars are clearly Helldivers 2 bugs preparing for a surprise attack
Gamemaster Joel is clearly up to his old tricks, and we will not be fooled.
20h40
Arrowhead says Helldivers 2 players should avoid bullying those fancy lads with the blue preorder armor, who are canonically frozen yogurt salesmen
Democracy never tasted so good.
20h38
Escape From Tarkov players rage as developers lock co-op PvE behind a new 250 edition despite promising access to ’all subsequent DLCs’ in its old 150 edition
It’s getting ugly out there.
20h25
Remember all those Destiny 2 guns you deleted after they got sunset? Bungie admits you shouldn’t have done that: ’We regret we have no recovery mechanism’
In a major change coming as part of The Final Shape, legacy gear will be upgradeable to the new power cap again.
19h31
Manor Lords release date and launch times: here’s when the medieval city building gates open
Here’s when the highly anticipated medieval city strategy game launches.
18h27
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor sails past a million sold as developers salute players’ ’ravenous appetite’ for space dwarf content
Rock and stone and lots of cash.
18h09
Here’s what god rolls you should be farming for Destiny 2: Into the Light’s Brave Arsenal weapon set
These are the perks you should be chasing for The Mountaintop, Hammerhead and all of the other weapons from the new Onslaught horde mode.
17h53
Fallout 4’s ’next gen’ update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, and doesn’t seem to change much at all
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
17h34
Slay the Spire co-creator advises that ’taking risks is actually the least risky thing you can do,’ arguing for the appeal of ’hyper-engaging’ games
In our State of PC Gaming roundtable, Mega Crit’s Casey Yano urged big game studios to give players novelty rather than the expected.
17h00
BlizzCon 2024 isn’t happening
Blizzard says it plans to bring BlizzCon back in future years, but doesn’t line up.
16h44
Marketing’s dead, and I can back this s t up’: Larian’s publishing director says players ’just want to be spoken to, and they don’t want to be bamboozled’
In our State of PC Gaming roundtable, Larian’s Michael Douse argues marketing isn’t the right way to reach today’s gaming audience.
16h35
Helldivers 2 devs send players into a frenzy as they tease 2 new potential stratagems via meme propaganda
Code breakers.
16h29
Meta spent 4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures 440 million in return
Math isn’t my strong point, but those numbers make my teeth hurt.
16h29
My quest to find one of Stardew Valley’s rarest items left me as a social outcast, but that won’t stop my early-morning rummages
A trash man wannabe.
16h10
State of PC gaming roundtable: Larian, Digital Extremes, CCP, Mega Crit on making games in 2024
The developers behind some of PC gaming’s biggest hits discuss the state of our hobby and the biggest trends, risks and opportunities in PC gaming today.
15h57
Dough Spectrum Black 27 review
When a inch K OLED is effectively the same price, why would you
15h46
Manor Lords dev asks press and YouTubers to stop breaking the game: ’please restrain yourself’
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
15h00
Get a superb Star Wars game and multiple Day One releases on PC Game Pass this April
Jedi, dinosaurs, and a spiritual successor to one of the most ambitious JRPGs of all time are hitting Microsoft’s subscription service.
14h39
This Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland game runs in Excel, because spreadsheets will outlive us all
Some would argue using Excel was like living in a post apocalyptic wasteland already. Zing
14h38
Fallout 76 was kicking my butt until I respecced into an indestructible tank
Dominate the Wasteland inside a walking fortress.
14h13
Manor Lords won’t let me get away with my usual survival city builder cheese strats, so I guess I’m actually gonna have to become a competent mayor
From bees to bloomeries to bandits, I’m trying to get rich quick.
13h14
US game devs celebrate as non-compete clauses, previously deemed ’a trash way to keep the talent’, face a ban from the FTC which would free up movement across the AAA industry
There are going to be SO MANY new indie games from AAA devs if this goes through.