That new Metal Gear Solid collection won't include Metal Gear Online, but it will have Peace Walker's essential online co-op

It's been a long wait for most of them, but a vast number of Metal Gear games have finally found a home on PC, which is a ...

The Overwatch dating sim and its associated rewards are back for a limited time, but it's still got far fewer romances than its China-exclusive counterpart

Loverwatch—the cheeky browser-based dating sim where you win the hearts of various Overwatch heroes—is back. It first ...

'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D ...

Csaba "ForestWare" Székely's Sword Hero is one of the most exciting upcoming games: An ambitious, open-ended RPG with complex NPC behaviors, physics interactions, and emergent gameplay⁠—the Hungarian ...

'They can never kill emulation': Players vexed as Nintendo continues its siege on Switch emulation, handing DMCAs to various emulators on GitHub

The association of emulation with piracy, fair or not, has often been used as a justification for legal action against emulator developers. Nintendo, always precious with its intellectual property, ...

Final Fantasy 14's Valentine's Day event is a Mario Party-lite encounter that reminded me it's actually quite fun to do some socializing in an MMO

The goofy minigame is a messy trial of "don't stand in the shit," like most FF14 encounters, but the premise feels more Mario ...

The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece

With an abundance of free time in the early 2020s, he figured, "if not now, then when?" Embracing a lifelong love of Gothic and games like it, ForestWare decided to create his own ...

Mewgenics provides the best proof yet that the turn-based tactics genre is the true home of drama and excitement in gaming

Sometimes that's true. But in its best examples, the turn-based tactics genre is the true home of drama and excitement in gaming.

Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal

Now, The Chinese Room has released another update that is notionally related to Valentine's Day. The primary feature of the patch is enemy loot, letting rooftop-dwelling vampires ...

Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'

Tomb Raider has a fan-level scene as storied as Quake or Thief.

THQ's Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered

Over five years since it was announced, the remake of Gothic 1 finally has a release date. The overhaul of Piranha Bytes' lovably janky RPG—which boasts a 'complex life simulation on a scale hardly ...
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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip

Leaving aside AMD's Ryzen AI Max chips (aka Strix Halo), as they're less an APU with a big iGPU and more of a small GPU with some CPU chips bolted to it, the most appropriate competition for the B390 ...