Rock, Paper, Shotgun just posted: Last Epoch is an ARPG coming for Diablo and Path Of Exile's crown If you can't wait for Path Of Exile 2, and you've long since lost interest in Diablo 4, then you might want to cast your loot-hungry eyes toward Last Epoch, an upcoming time-travel fantasy ARPG that's been enjoying a successful stint in early access since 2019 and, as tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live show revealed, is on track for a full release ...

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Last Epoch is an ARPG coming for Diablo and Path Of Exile's crown

With its deep, customisable skill trees and time-travel-based fantasy setting, Last Epoch is one to watch for ARPG fans.

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Gamespot just posted: Half-Life 2 RTX Lights Up City 17 With Full Ray Tracing Half-Life 2 is getting the RTX treatment, with a new community-made remaster that will add full ray tracing to the classic first-person shooter.As part of a new reveal from Nvidia showing off AI-enhanced real-time ray tracing using DLSS 3.5, Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project was announced. The project uses the same modding tools that spun off from last year's Portal ... https://www.gamespot.com/articles/half-life-2-rtx-lights-up-city-17-with-full-ray-tracing/1100-6517051/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f #gamingNews

Kotaku just posted: Lollipop Chainsaw Re-review: Grindhouse For The Girls Dragami Games announced this month that its Lollipop Chainsaw remake release was getting delayed to 2024. Never having played hack-and-slash Lollipop before, but eagerly awaiting the remake, I decided to cope rationally: I spent $40 on a game made 11 years ago, and hauled my friends’ grimy Xbox 360 to my apartment.

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Lollipop Chainsaw Re-review: Grindhouse For The Girls - Kotaku

Suda51 and James Gunn’s hack-and-slash trash from 2012 is a 2023 treasure

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DSOGaming just posted: Here are 50 minutes of gameplay from Black Myth: Wukong Yesterday, we shared some new screenshots and a leaked gameplay video for Black Myth: Wukong. So, here’s today a video that packs 50 minutes of brand new gameplay footage from this upcoming Unreal Engine 5-powered action RPG. Black Myth: WuKong is a third-person game that is based on Journey to the West, and will focus …

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Here are 50 minutes of new gameplay from Black Myth: Wukong

Here's a video that packs 50 minutes of brand new gameplay footage from the Unreal Engine 5-powered action RPG, Black Myth: Wukong.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun just posted: Aperture Desk Job continues the story of business mega-bastard Cave Johnson absolutely perfectly The characters in what we might term the Aperture Cinematic Universe are a memorable bunch (as I have said before). Though GLaDOS rightfully tops the list another, introduced in 2011's sequel spectacular Portal 2, became an instant favourite. Voiced by J.K. Simmons, doing a turn adjacent to his J. J. Jameson from ...

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Aperture Desk Job continues the story of business mega-bastard Cave Johnson absolutely perfectly

Aperture Desk Job gave us a reunion with an old frenemy from Portal 2, and it couldn't have gone better for us.

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PCGamesN just posted: Total War dev says prices have to go up as Warhammer 3 bombs on Steam Total War and strategy game developer Creative Assembly says that higher costs mean the prices for Warhammer 3 DLC “have to rise.” Ahead of the launch of Shadows of Change, the Total War Warhammer 3 creator says that it still wants to offer “good value,” but that the “business reality” of supporting TWW3 post release means DLC prices need to be increased. ...

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Total War dev says that prices have to go up, as Warhammer 3 gets review bombed on Steam

Total War dev Creative Assembly says DLC prices "have to rise" for Warhammer 3, as the strategy game hits

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun just posted: The latest Starfield controversy is a reminder that gamers really love pacifism When I wrote up yesterday's big dollop of Starfield info I was expecting readers to focus on the stuff about housing, mechs and giant snake cults, in roughly that order. I wasn't expecting a slight stir about the inability to complete the game without killing anyone. "Disappointing", responded Youtuber Mike BurnFire in the QTs. Opined ...

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The latest Starfield controversy is a reminder that gamers really love pacifism

A few Starfield players are up in arms about the absence of a no-kills playthrough option.

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PC Games Insider just posted: Xbox rolls out new community standards strike system Microsoft's games arm is introducing a new system for managing its community. In a post on Xbox Wire , the division's CVP of player services Dave McCarthy said that players who violate the platform's community standards will receive one or multiple strikes depending on how severe the transgression was. How badly they violated the rules will also determine how ...

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Xbox rolls out new community standards strike system

Microsoft's games arm is introducing a new system for managing its community. In a post on Xbox Wire , the division's CVP of player servi...

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Eurogamer just posted: Why are visual novels suddenly so popular? If you've visited Steam in the last decade, you're likely already acquainted with visual novels. Though games like Famicom Detective's Club saw the inception of the visual novel in the 1980s, they've reached a particular zenith on Steam, thanks mostly to a plethora of very horny games. But hidden among the shovelware is a wealth of original and interesting pieces of interactive ...

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Why are visual novels suddenly so popular?

A look at the rise of visual novels.

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IGN just posted: Indiana Jones 5 and Mission: Impossible 7 Will Both Reportedly Lose About $100 Million Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One are reportedly on track to lose $100 million after disappointing box office performance.

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Indiana Jones 5 and Mission: Impossible 7 Will Both Reportedly Lose About $100 Million - IGN

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One are reportedly on track to lose $100 million after disappo...

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IGN just posted: Tron: Ares Hits Delay as Director Calls for Strike Negotiations to Resume Tron: Ares has been met with an indefinite delay as director Joachim Rønning calls for strike negotiations between SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and AMPTP to continue.

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Tron: Ares Hits Delay as Director Calls for Strike Negotiations to Resume - IGN

Tron: Ares has been met with an indefinite delay as director Joachim Rønning calls for strike negotiations between SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and AMPTP to co...

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Polygon just posted: Criterion’s Jackie Chan box set is the hottest Blu-ray bundle of the fall Never have I made a faster purchase

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Criterion’s Jackie Chan box set is the hottest Blu-ray bundle of the fall

Never have I made a faster purchase

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Kotaku just posted: Diablo IV Freezes Trading After Dupe Trick And Gold Exploit Crash The Market The second-hand market for trading gold and items in Diablo IV is currently on hold as Blizzard investigates the rise of new item duplication glitches and gold exploits. The unusual economic intervention comes as the action-RPG’s market gets flooded with gold, and some players reportedly trade gear that’s not even…

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Diablo IV Freezes Trading After Dupe Trick And Gold Exploit Crash The Market - Kotaku

The action-RPG’s black market economy has been overrun with inflation

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun just posted: Gord review: fertile ground covered in stagnant water, also swamps I used to be into deserts, but ever since Kenshi I have become a swamp fangirl. I also consider nomadic cultures to be woefully under-represented in games. You'd think, then, that a game about a nomadic Iron Age people larking about in a horrible swamp would be made for me, but unfortunately, Gord is somehow both a game where you can feed a child to ...

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Gord review: fertile ground covered in stagnant water, also swamps

Gord has a detailed and moody setting that's wasted on a dull and repetitive RTS/management hybrid with the strengths of neither genre.

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Eurogamer just posted: Speedrunner completes Baldur's Gate 3 in only 10 minutes A speedrunner has managed to complete Baldur's Gate 3 in only 10 minutes. The world record time was achieved by speedrunner Mae, who's uploaded their Any% speedrun to YouTube with a time of 10 minutes and three seconds. How is this achieved? With Gale and a whole load of jumping. I guess that explains his name, then. Some spoilers follow. Read more

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Speedrunner completes Baldur's Gate 3 in only 10 minutes

A speedrunner has managed to complete Baldur's Gate 3 in only 10 minutes.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun just posted: Orbo's Odyssey is Psychonauts meets Sonic Adventure, and you can shoot your character like a bullet Comedy platformer Orbo's Odyssey is a game about being locked in your boss's office. Here are some things I might do if I were locked in my boss's office (sorry Katharine): approve expense claims, sift their browser history for blackmail material and oh, who am I kidding, what I'd really do is perch on the desk, ...

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Orbo's Odyssey is Psychonauts meets Sonic Adventure, and you can shoot your character like a bullet

Comedy platformer Orbo's Odyssey is a game about being locked in your boss's office. Here are some things I might do if…

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PC Games Insider just posted: CHARTS: Baldur's Gate 3 spends second week at Steam No.1 spot In the second week since its 1.0 launch, Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest-grossing game on Steam. The RPG title continues to attract a great deal of attention, hitting 875,343 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB , over the weekend. Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again has to settle for No.2 for the second week in a row, ...

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CHARTS: Baldur's Gate 3 spends second week at Steam No.1 spot

In the second week since its 1.0 launch, Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest-grossing game on Steam. The RPG title continues to attract a great de...

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GamingBolt just posted: Rift of the NecroDancer Targeting 2024 Release, Now Published by Klei Brace Yourself Games is taking time to polish the title and add more content, and plans to share a new date after the Holidays.

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Rift of the NecroDancer Targeting 2024 Release, Now Published by Klei

Brace Yourself Games is taking time to polish the title and add more content, and plans to share a new date after the Holidays.

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Eurogamer just posted: Embracer's collapsed $2bn "major strategic partnership" was reportedly with Saudi Arabia funded Savvy Games A new report from Axios has shed fresh light on Embracer Group's mysterious $2bn "major strategic partnership" which collapsed spectacularly back in May, causing its shares to drop by 40 percent and sending the company into cost-cutting mode. At the time, Embracer - the enormous umbrella corporation which owns more ...

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Embracer's collapsed $2bn "major strategic partnership" was reportedly with Saudi Arabia funded Savvy Games

A new report from Axios has shed fresh light on Embracer Group's mysterious $2bn "major strategic partnership" which co…

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DualShockers just posted: Hang On, Where Did All These Developer Apologies Come From? There's been a flood of apologies recently for bad game releases, from Jedi Survivor on PC to Gollum, and it's starting to become an excuse tactic.

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Hang On, Where Did All These Developer Apologies Come From?

"Is it too late now to say sorry?" Yes.

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