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Pokemon, Umamusume and other major games taken offline over critical PHP vulnerability
Pokemon titles and other major Japanese games have been taken offline for emergency maintenance due to critical PHP vulnerabilities.
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This week in PC games: build a better zombie in Stupid Never Dies, glue together houses in Cutout Village, and settle brave new worlds in Star Trek: Outposts Unknown
Hello all! Welcome to another wonderful week of PC games, and mounting bloodlust. As I type these words, a neighbour has started using a leafblower. I hate leafblowers. They are mutant hairdryers from Hell. They scatter my thoughts like the tiny, tiny quantity of leaves in the neighbour's garden – a quantity of leaves you could very easily sweep up by hand in two minutes, if you had even the slightest bit of gumption. What's that? You think I should release vipers into the neighbour's toolshed? What a capital idea! But sadly I don't have any vipers to hand, and besides, I have to finish writin
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Games with loot boxes and other "paid random items" re-rated PEGI 16 as new rules come into force, hopefully cutting down on kids gambling somewhat
I'm strongly of the opinion that loot boxes, gacha mechanics and whatever other form of gambling remains present in games is a scourge that ought to be wiped out. Absolutely no game is better for having gacha mechanics in it, only worse. The normalisation of gambling through alternative, softer names, cool cosmetics, and in many cases, cute anime girls is honestly abhorrent. European ratings board PEGI doesn't seem keen on it either, as they've begun enacting recent rule changes bring the default age rating of games that contain these mechanics up to a minimum of PEGI 16. Read more
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We've had two great Star Wars games this year, probably because Lucasfilm Games says it's now "more flexible" about who it takes pitches from
This year has seen two highly-rated and beloved Star Wars games in the XCOM-like Zero Company, and the Burnout-like Galactic Racer. And both were made by independent studios rather than much bigger companies, which have typically taken on Star Wars games in recent years, such as Ubisoft with Star Wars Outlaws and EA with Star Wars Battlefront. Read more
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Now it's over, WoW: Forever's beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame
How do you zig when all you know is zag?
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Open-world spy game from Grand Theft Auto dev never happened because Rockstar couldn't get it right
"It never quite worked," Dan Houser says
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Grab ten Steam games including Blue Prince, Peak, and Vampire Crawlers for just $25
A new charity bundle gives you ten Steam games for a low price, with no filler and the ability to support a good cause along the way.
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New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims
"It's not a good marketing term. And I don't think it helps."
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Baldur's Gate 3 has sold over 23m copies, but only 1% of players have crossed 500 hour in playtime
And most of them are on PC, of course
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Shigeru Miyamoto says AI "provides an opportunity to reflect on what's really important" in game dev
"There will always be a role left for us to play"
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 8.7 million copies and made $366 million, analyst says
The majority of them are on PC
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This incredible horror board game feels like the Traitors meets Cthulhu, and it's a masterclass in paranoia
Unfathomable is one of my favorite horror board games because of how well it blends tense co-op action with deception and bluffing, making it a great choice for Halloween.
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My favorite PS2 Resident Evil game is now free to play in a web browser, but AI could be lurking
Resident Evil Outbreak and its File #2 sequel are now playable for free in your web browser, but the PS2 multiplayer romp might be the result of AI vibe coding.
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Nearly 10 million people have played Elden Ring for over 100 hours, analyst says
FromSoftware sickos are out in force on this one
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EA has reportedly put DICE and Respawn to work on a new Star Wars: Battlefront game
It will unlock growth, which I'm pretty excited about.
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I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it
I saw it hit the corner, I swear I did.
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival review–Rough around the edges
Hellraiser: Revival may not be great action horror but it does win the prize for most unique fetch quest.
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Someone leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer and now I feel even worse, because it looks really good
The video was posted several hours after a purported EA employee said a trailer for the new game was ready to go.