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Wyrdsong, the RPG from ex-Bethesda talent, isn't dead—but it's no longer an open world: 'We're down to a skeleton crew'
By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 16:00The next game from the project lead of Fallout 76 has been scaled back amid rough industry seas.
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Metro 2033 Makes Killing Easy And Atrocity Quiet
By Grace Benfell - Gamespot | Mar 16, 2025 - 15:00Metro 2033 is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, March 16, 2025. Below, we examine how its subtle morality system helped to illustrate its broader points about humanity and violence.In video g...
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Finding Avowed's Best Armor, Mastering Monster Hunter Wilds' Best Weapon, And More Of The Week's Tips
By Kotaku Staff - Kotaku | Mar 16, 2025 - 14:00This week, our Avowed tips will help you survive the Living Lands as we’ll guide you to the best armor, no matter what class you’re playing. We’ll also help you make the most of Monster Hunter Wilds’...
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10 cozy games that hide a secret twist
By Cass Marshall - Polygon | Mar 16, 2025 - 13:00It’s nice to be cozy. I’m a huge fan of being wrapped up in a big blanket, sipping hot chocolate, and leisurely walks under colorful autumn trees. Cozy games are also great, and they’re an increasingl...
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Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 16
By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 05:00Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.
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2011 was an amazing comeback year for PC gaming
By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 04:53Actually, do call it a comeback.
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My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 02:18Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff.
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Dune: Awakening's new trailer details how its map changes every week, which sounds awful for cartographers
By Oisin Kuhnke - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 23:56I get that in-world the whole appeal of Dune's Arrakis is all of that spice it harbours, but to be honest the giant sandworms are a bit of a dealbreaker for me. Even still, I have to admit that Du...
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Half-Life 2 RTX and all of its foggy, ray-traced lighting is getting a demo next week
By Oisin Kuhnke - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 22:39Remember when Nvidia announced that Half-Life 2 RTX mod way back in, crikey, 2023? Yeah, I didn't realise how long it had been either. To be perfectly honest I thought it had already come out, but...
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Avowed's latest update comes with community requested features, lots of tweaks, and a promise of a roadmap
By Oisin Kuhnke - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 19:56A new week, a new Avowed update, and a pretty hefty one has arrived at that. Before we get on to some of the more notable changes, over on Obsidian's forum pages where you can read the full patch n...
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The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 19:30Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023.
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Tenet of the Spark is basically an entire game's worth of Titanfall 2's time travel level, so I'm already in
By Oisin Kuhnke - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 18:58People love to go on and on about how good Titanfall 2's campaign mode is, and they'd be right to do so, but really we all know there's one specific level we have in mind when it comes to the sidel...
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Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle
By Oisin Kuhnke - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 17:56Earlier this week, you might have seen the abomination that was an AI-powered version of Horizon series protagonist Aloy. It came as part of a leak that showed Sony experimenting with the ability t...
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I played the notoriously ratings-board-ravaged Manhunt 2 and was quite glad for the censorship actually
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 17:00I’d rather pull off the perfect stealth game takedown without pulling off a man’s goolies in the process.
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Grand Theft Auto 5's PC RT enhancements hint at GTA 6 features
By Alex Battaglia - Eurogamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 16:42Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC has finally received the RT upgrades to achieve feature parity with the current generation console versions, almost three years since they arrived on Xbox and PlayStation con...
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The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 16:00A discount so deep you could use it as a trench.
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The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 15:00Fields of Mistria is also 20% off until Thursday.
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Wanderstop, a delicious game about making tea, is on sale this weekend
By Alice Jovanée - Polygon | Mar 15, 2025 - 15:00Wanderstop managed to make me feel emotionally attacked while making tea, and I love it. If you’re looking for a cozy game to indulge in this weekend, whether indoors or in the pseudo-spring weather o...
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A documentary analyzes Street Fighter 2’s cultural impact, 30-plus years later
By Matt Leone - Polygon | Mar 15, 2025 - 14:00When you’ve devoted years of your life to covering Street Fighter 2 history, it’s nice knowing you’re not alone. So when I heard about the documentary Here Comes a New Challenger a few years ago, I wa...
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Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 14:00A mere $2 and it's yours.
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An Amazing Steam Sale, A Major Pokémon Go Development, And More Of The Week's Top News
By Kotaku Staff - Kotaku | Mar 15, 2025 - 14:00This week saw Pokémon Go become the property of the Saudi government as Scopely, the mobile game maker owned by Savvy Games Group which itself was founded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, acq...
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Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 13:00Shifting sands.
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Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem
By Kyle Orland - Ars Technica | Mar 15, 2025 - 11:00Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
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What are we all playing this weekend?
By Ollie Toms - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 15, 2025 - 09:00Lo! What's that on the horizon? It's another gigantic whale of an RPG soon to release. Good grief, there's been a lot of those recently. Must be mating season. Here's what we're clicking on this week...
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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 15
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 05:00Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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How To Unlock Caldarus Romance Option In Fields Of Mistria
By Josh Broadwell - Gamespot | Mar 15, 2025 - 01:15Fields of Mistria's Caldarus romance is here at last, though getting the dragon guardian's affection takes rather a lot of work. His human form is tied to a new quest that requires several rare and va...
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'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch
By PC Gamer | Mar 15, 2025 - 00:00Netflix's horror anthology returns April 10.
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Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 23:53This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel.
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The Room studio's 80s-set paranormal VR mystery Ghost Town gets launch date
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 23:48Fireproof Games - the studio behind eerie puzzle box adventure The Room and its equally stellar sequels - has announced a launch date for its paranormal VR mystery Ghost Town. It's coming to Meta Q...
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Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 23:40Nothing is finalized yet, but it sounds like Ubisoft is moving toward some kind of new deal that could involve Tencent.
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Star Wars: KOTOR's troubled remake still coming, suggests studio's latest comments
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 22:55It's been almost a year since Saber Interactive last shared an update on its long-in-the-works and reportedly troubled Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake. But despite the ensuing radio s...
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'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 22:21Many such cases.
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Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 22:19Wilds is the most accessible Monster Hunter to date, in more ways than one.
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The Best Monster Hunter Wilds Character Creation Codes
By Cheri Faulkner - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 22:09We've all been there. You jump into a new game and, before you know it, you've spent 90 minutes customizing your character. That was me with Monster Hunter Wilds, but recently players have been sharin...
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Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games Keeping Us Grounded
By Ethan Gach, Carolyn Petit, and Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 22:05Next week is a big one. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on the heels of new reporting that Ubisoft is looking to spin off the franchise into a standalone company backed by Chinese conglomerate NetEa...
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Pokemon TCG Pocket Devs Promises To Remove Trade Tokens
By Blair Marnell - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 21:31Although Pokemon TCG Pocket has been extremely successful since its debut last year, not everything in the game is popular with players. Case in point, the trade tokens introduced in late January were...
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God of War: 20th Anniversary Retrospective Book Box Set Preorders Go Live March 17
By Brendan Hesse - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 21:31To celebrate the God of War series' 20th anniversary on March 22, Sony has announced a slew of new merch for the series, including art prints, vinyl collections, collectibles, and more. One of the co...
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PlayStation PC Games Are Over 50% Off At Fanatical, Cheaper Than Steam Spring Sale
By Steven Petite - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 21:21PlayStation's steadily growing library of PC ports don't receive meaningful discounts all that often, but many games in the publisher's catalog are included in Steam's annual Spring Sale. A bunch of t...
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God of War celebrating 20th anniversary with a free Ragnarök update and some classic Kratos skins
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 21:09God of War's Kratos has had a busy life: he's birthed a teenager, slain the gods, and grown the kind of luscious beard that would make a lumberjack fume - all that and he's only 20 years old! And t...
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Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 21:00Star Wars: Hunters debuted on the Nintendo Switch in June 2024 and a Steam release was announced in November, but now the whole thing is off.
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Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 20:49Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.
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Here’s what Troy Baker did to sound uncannily like Indiana Jones
By Samit Sarkar - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 20:47I wonder if the developers of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — several years ago, when they were first outlining the game’s core pillars — felt like they knew what they were getting into when they...
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Star Wars Hunters Will Be Shut Down Just Over A Year After Launch
By Blair Marnell - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 20:22Last year, Zynga debuted Star Wars Hunters, a free-to-play 4v4 shooter that introduced new characters and placed them in deathmatches in familiar locations from across the Star Wars universe. However,...
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Which of Nintendo’s internal teams might already be working on Switch 2 games?
By Michael McWhertor - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 20:19This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly. Ninten...
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Fragpunk review
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 20:06Fragpunk offers an innovative, unrestrictive, thrilling approach to competitive shooters.
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New Avowed Update Will Make Your Character More Powerful
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:50A new update is now live for Avowed, Obsidian’s recently released and very good open-world RPG. The patch is live on Xbox and PC and it fixes a lot of tiny bugs and other issues. But the biggest news...
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Save on dozens of our favoite TTRPGs at DriveThruRPG
By Alice Jovanée - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:27Your GM puts up with your party’s antics week after week, so why not show them a little love by checking out DriveThruRPG’s GM Day sale? This sale includes plenty of core rulebooks if you’re looking t...
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Rise of the Ronin review
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:18A year after its console launch, Team Ninja’s latest stumbles onto PC.
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2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:16Number goes up. Or does it?
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Game Pass Ultimate Subscribers Can Stream Assassin's Creed Shadows If They Buy The Game
By George Yang - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:15Although Assassin's Creed Shadows won't be available through Xbox Game Pass, at least at launch, there will be a perk for subscribers. Game Pass Ultimate members who purchase Shadows will have have th...
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