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Less than 2 weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited, Jagex is scrapping the whole thing

In the wake of a furious backlash from players, Jagex admits it "missed the mark."

Valheim vs Enshrouded vs RuneScape: Dragonwilds: Let's settle this

Three top-tier survival crafting games have entered their 1.0 era.

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Street Fighter review roundup: sorry, folks, but it sounds like a mess

The general consensus seems to be that Street Fighter isn't a disaster, but it definitely misses a lot more than it hits.

World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content'

Blizzard says items won't work like the modern version of the MMO.

Control Resonant sells 1 million copies in 3 weeks to become Remedy's fastest-selling game ever

It's not a huge number, but it's big news for Remedy.

GTA 5 finally measures up to the actual best GTA game now I've added a jetpack

Zoom.

Come on Razer what are you doing? This Pokemon-themed mouse is most definitely not the one

Now listen, I'm no designer, but...

The AI bubble may not have burst yet, but $1 trillion worth of air appears to have escaped

Not so much 'going out with a bang' as 'anticlimactic party balloon deflation'.

The Shogun 2 remaster is so bad, Sega is removing it from sale and bringing back the original

Sega admits Shogun 2 - Complete Edition "has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards," so it's going back to the drawing board.

79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating

I doubt it will do a 180, though. Hey-hey!

It's taken its sweet time, but Intel's response to AMD's X3D chips is starting to look tasty

A 65 W Ultra 9 Nova Lake chip with BLLC is reportedly on the way.

I jammed Nvidia's new DLSS 5 October update model into the RTX Spark and it's 25% faster at 1440p

The performance hit you get from enabling DLSS Neural Rendering is now significantly lower, but NBA 2K27 is still not going to convince anyone.

Where to find the Takashiro region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

Track this chest to a field of long grass.

Finally: Our favorite roguelike for sickos will let me play as a sapient tree

Diaspora, Caves of Qud's first expansion, enters early access in December.

Razer Wolverine V4 Pro wireless gaming controller review

Claws, sharpened.

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The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer is here

This one's got a very different vibe than what we've seen previously.

Nvidia's RTX Spark makes for an impressive Arm-based gaming laptop but not one I'd recommend you buy just for PC gaming

The performance is there, the experience is great, but the price is utterly punitive when you compare against dedicated gaming laptops.

Epic said its game launcher was faster than Steam on the same day Steam got a speed boost—so I've put both to the test

There's only seconds in it, mind.

After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch

Very dialectical.

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Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 review

How much are an OLED screen, TMR sticks, and a fresh aesthetic worth to you?

Xbox Ally X 20 vs Xbox Ally X: A wickedly bright OLED screen and frosty temps make for a begrudgingly attractive upgrade for the Asus handheld

All that glitters might actually be gold.

A co-op survival game where trolls aren't just there to be killed? 'We don't talk about them as enemies, but rather as neighbors'

What kind of neighbor will you be in Trollheim: Gnomes?

'There is no secret sauce' to a successful live service game according to Overwatch's associate game director, but knowing your audience is a good start

"We occupy this really unique spot in the middle."

OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028

'Cheap' being a relative term, of course.

Big Walk devs explain why it isn't on Xbox and likely never will be, 'not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets'

"We've made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world."

Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

Setting the world on fire.

Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen

Gluttons for punishment.

How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem

And more modest but still significant boosts in other games.

3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

New Champions will continue to roll out for now.

State lawsuits accuse OpenAI of ignoring its own safety warnings for profit: 'All these harms were foreseeable and avoidable'

Several US states have sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT is harming the public.

Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan ignores everything about the hero shooter after his 'almost clinical' departure 5 years ago: 'I don't search for my name in Overwatch. I don't search for Overwatch. I sort of just disconnect.'

The former Blizzard developer has moved on.

I want to love the new Castlevania, but it just feels a little off

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has the right pieces for a grand revival, but it hasn't quite nailed the assembly.

'My idea of a Netflix for games doesn’t work': Garry's Mod successor is getting 'sweeping changes'

"I’m sorry—we are going to do better."

Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it

Klepacki shared his thoughts on the state of the real-time strategy genre in the latest issue of Edge.

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GTA 6 leaker threatens Take-Two with a 'dead man's switch'

Cyberleek promises not to reveal the ending of GTA 6, as long as Take-Two leaves them alone.

Ace Combat Zero gets its own standalone app on Steam, freeing it from the 136GB install of Ace Combat 8

The biggest complaint about the pre-order bonus game is getting resolved with a happy ending.

I've given GTA 5's cars Bond-style ejector seats

Going up.

Looking back on 10 years of Overwatch, the promises kept, and where Team 4 goes from here

"In order for people to play the game in the present, they need to have confidence in its future."

The Walking Dead's Chandler Riggs made a Resident Evil 7 short film even though 'it's impossible to please everybody'

We're swamped with Resident Evil films right now, lucky us.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it's time for big layoffs at the studio that made it

Ubisoft has also decided to close Trials studio Ubisoft Redlynx entirely.

Hogwarts Legacy's DLSS 5 update shows devs have been listening to PC gamers about keeping it the hell away from game characters

Nvidia's DLSS 5 is getting smaller in practically every way, including the performance overhead and the AI yassification.

'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications

"We should care as much about all the other aspects of a being as you do about its intelligence."

Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag

Hopefully it's a currency/market quirk.

If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there'd be no Iron Lung, 'and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million'—so maybe there's wisdom in not churning out sequels

You don't need to milk your cash cows.

WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading

Time isn't money, friend.

Doom can 'run' on a DNS database now, and one of the technology's pioneers says 'I can't decide whether this is deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious'

Apparently the database is acting a bit like a "librarian" and not doing the actual compute.

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Fortnite is coming to Linux once Epic improves Easy Anti-Cheat

A major shooter is pushing past the Linux anticheat barrier.

Epic says its new 'vibe coded' Epic Games Store launcher is faster than Steam

The updated version is in beta for the time being, and represents a total rebuild of the EGS client.

Arc Raiders' PvE test is finally here and it's the perfect reason to jump back in

This is exactly what Arc Raiders needs right now.

GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was 'horrifying' and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle

"We [could have] hit that schedule, but it won’t be the game we want to make."