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Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has a new studio, Unbound, who are making original games for PC and console Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has founded a new studio, Unbound, after leaving The Evil Within creators Tango Ga…
09.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Battlefield 6 developers face layoffs despite making one of the best-selling games of 2025 EA are making "select changes within our Battlefield organization to better align our teams around what matters most to our community". In other words, layoffs.
09.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation Paradox Arc and My Little Pony devs Magic Spark are making a Crusader Kings Roblox spin-off, featuring "light-hearted mischief and drama".
09.03.2026 17:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union Developers at Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash and Possessor(s) studio Heart Machine are unionising in the wake of significant staff cuts.
09.03.2026 16:44 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds The ROG Xbox Ally's game-tuned Full Screen Experience is finally coming to Lenovo Legion Go handhelds, and is available to try right now.
09.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companio Fallout 4 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo digs deep into Nick Valentine, the game's fan-favourite private eye companion
09.03.2026 12:47 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year After posting an unsure-sounding blog, Valve have clarified that the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame will all release in 2026.
09.03.2026 11:59 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This week in PC games: John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake, and a myth-inspired match-3 game where you combine three dogs into Cerberus After last week's double hitter of Marathon and Slay The Spire, things quieten down a little with John Carpenter's Toxic Commando and Fatal Frame 2's remake
09.03.2026 11:58 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Website that let Marvel Rivals players pay each other to throw matches pivots to "transparency initiative" after NetEase get mad NetEase are clamping down on "incentivized throwing" in Marvel Rivals, after a website started letting players pay to rig matches.
09.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slay The Spire 2 update fixes some spectacular multiplayer bugs, like the relic that gives infinite block The first round of fixes for Slay The Spire 2 focus on sorting out issues with the game's killer asset, multiplayer.
09.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I really wish Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart wasn't called that, but its flirtatious dungeon crawling has still charmed me It's the next game from the devs behind Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, so this tracks.
07.03.2026 23:01 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh no, Wikipedia has been turned into a gacha card game and I can already feel my time slipping away from me The best part is it's completely free.
07.03.2026 21:26 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3
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Menace's first roadmap, while light on details and dates, is here to give you an idea of what's on the way Its devs are going with the flow.
07.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon Plus, a small preview of next week's update.
07.03.2026 18:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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NetEase has reportedly pulled funding from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio and next game Gang of Dragon Apparently this is due to discovering the need for even more funding than expected.
07.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the company's next console, codenamed Project Helix, will also play PC games. https://bit.ly/47cGgla

06.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 2
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After trying Subtractive Runemixer, I can't unsee the links between RPG element systems and colour theory Subtractive Runemixer is a work-in-progress RPG by Starbage, recently released for free on Itch.io. I know about it bec…
06.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The school bus is unleashed in Wreckfest 2's latest update, which also introduces car upgrades and waypoint races Wreckfest 2's sixth early access update has added in a school bus, plus waypoint races and car performance upgrades.
06.03.2026 16:58 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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An artist whose work Bungie used without permission has been included in Marathon's credits as a visual design consultant. https://bit.ly/4bbGzho

06.03.2026 16:30 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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World of Darkness lovers take note: new "Hunter" game accidentally released as a RoboCop: Rogue City update In what looks like a classic case of backend butterfingers, a new "Hunter" game has been uploaded as an update for Teyon's RoboCop shooter.
06.03.2026 15:44 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Massive Skyrim mod Lordbound is now semi-canon, thanks to a new Bethesda-approved expansion from its devs Massive Skyrim mod Lordbound is now technically semi-canon, due to the inclusion of some of its lore in an expansion released through Bethesda's Creations.
06.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You won't have any standing armies in Total War: Medieval 3 at first, so better get chummy with the commoners In Creative Assembly's latest strategy game, you'll have to muster levies from each region until you unlock the ability to field professional soldiers.
06.03.2026 12:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Marathon's credits include the artist whose work Bungie used without permission An artist whose work Bungie used without permission has been included in Marathon's credits as a visual design consultant.
06.03.2026 12:15 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Bungie ask Marathon critics to delay "full reviews" till the release of an endgame zone, and I am wistfully reminded of Vault of Glass Bungie suggest that Marathon reviewers "hold your full review and impressions until you play Cryo Archive, Marathon's pinnacle endgame zone and experience".
06.03.2026 11:55 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Microsoft's next console will play PC games too, and it's currently codenamed Project Helix Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the company's next console, codenamed Project Helix, will also play PC games.
06.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Rally Point: Whiskerwood suggests that, even without the violence, colonialism is a scam Rabbit-person warren builder Whiskerwood is surprisingly skillful at dealing with issues of taxation, diplomacy, and subservience to a foreign power.
06.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: The New West, a project remaking the cancelled Fallout: Van Buren, has locked in a release date for its second demo.

Update: Demo now out

06.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons War Thunder footage of a WW2-era plane attacking a battleship has been passed off as footage of the current US war on Iran.
06.03.2026 10:36 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3
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Pragmata gets a release date change once again, albeit in a good way this time Fool me once, shame on... well, me, actually.
05.03.2026 22:57 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Almost 10 years on from the first one, Ruiner is getting a sequel, and this time with co-op Plus a snazzy new shell system.
05.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1