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Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'

It's been a good opening month for Capcom's fastest-selling game.

Apple's attempts to develop a non-invasive glucose monitoring feature for Apple Watch remains "many years away" from debuting, despite over 15 years of work to make the capability a reality in a consumer device, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The idea of a non-invasive glucose monitor originated in Apple's Steve Jobs era, with the aim to include an Apple Watch sensor that can inform users if they are pre-diabetic so that they can take proactive steps and potentially reverse the condition....

Is it finally time? Speculation surrounding a potential remake of Final Fantasy IX has seemingly been growing for years at this point, rising exponentially when an NVIDIA leak made mention of the unannounced project in 2021. Now, we may well be on the brink of a reveal as Square Enix teases "a variety of projects" in accordance with the original game's 25th anniversary on its official website (thanks Push Square).

When you think of the most frightening videogames, it’s surely Resident Evil, Alien Isolation, and maybe the dreaded Ravenholm section from Half-Life 2 that first spring to mind. But SnowRunner, Saber Interactive’s superbly detailed driving and industry sim from 2021, has them all beat. On the surface, it’s a quiet, even pastoral game where you deliver pipes, bricks, and other building supplies from one side of a beautifully designed map to the other. In actuality, it’s pure, unremitting terror ...

If you are simply breezing your way through Assassin's Creed Shadows, and thinking to yourself 'oh I would love this so much more if it was a bit more challenging', well then I have some good news for you.

Coffee Stain remain dissatisfied with Satisfactory, their first-person factory sim, despite Matt Cox giving it the Cox's Orange Pippin Award in our Satisfactory 1.0 review. They're just about to release update 1.1 into public testing. This adds Photo Mode, programmable personnel elevators, and a bunch of twisty furnishings. One thing it doesn't add is rain, which used to exist in Satisfactory but was removed because it wasn't working properly. Apparently, Coffee Stain need to do an Unreal Engine...

Now that the code for Command & Conquer Generals (along with other classic RTS games from EA) is open source, the community is working on getting it working natively on Linux without the need of Wine / Proton.

According to Sony's outgoing SVP of Global Partner Development and Relations, PlayStation is like a well choreographed dance.

It's all about transparency, according to Microsoft.

Making Collectibles Count.

"you can’t make games for overseas". Nier Automata is widely regarded as one of the finest action games in recent years thanks to its remarkably compelling gameplay and deceptively deep storytelling. In a new interview with AV Watch (thanks, Automaton), PlayStation vet Shuhei Yoshida went so far as to credit Automata as the "game that changed everything". He said that it effectively reversed the Japanese game industry's fortunes after years of struggle during the late 2000s and early 2010s when ...

Lightspeed Studios / NVIDIA have recently updated Quake II RTX, their ray-traced reimagining of id software’s old school classic.

Due to get an experimental build for you to test it early tomorrow, controller support is coming to Satisfactory along with a whole bunch of other big upgrades.

If you’ve been waiting for even a crumb from Square Enix concerning the long-rumored Final Fantasy 9 remake, I’ve got good news. The RPG maker has launched a new website celebrating the beloved game’s upcoming 25th anniversary, with plenty of merchandise and collaboration plans to look forward to. There could be even more coming, though, as the developer says it has “various projects” in the works, and this may very well include an FF9 remake.

"Alien Ant Farm or we boycott," reads the top comment on Activision's recent reveal of the next wave of tracks for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 - a response to the revelation that the upcoming remasters have both been hit and struck by some soundtrack changes, which hasn't gone down completely smoothly with fans. You could almost say they feel making alterations to such classics is criminal. OK, I'll stop. For now. It turns out these changes come straight from the large Hawk himself. “It was my ch...

Valve's Steam Deck rating system is generally quite correct, but there are clearly some times when it isn't. Thankfully, Valve do go back over various games to re-test them and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been hit with a downgraded rating.

Cassette Beasts from Bytten Studio has a fresh update announced for release on April 7th, bringing in a number of extras to the already fantastic and unique monster catcher.

Thank you, Mechs. Well, that was somewhat short-lived. After briefly witnessing a new Nintendo release on the podium, the Big N's latest has seen quite the fall in its second week. Yes, last week's silver medal wasn't enough to keep Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition in the race this time, with the latest RPG dropping all the way down to 13th. Assassin's Creed Shadows continues to kill off the rest of the competition from the top spot, and Fireshine's British apocalyptic survivor, Atomfa...

Over the weekend, the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 team announced the second wave of music set for the upcoming remakes, but some noticed a few omissions from the original games. However, there is a good reason for this, with none other than Tony Hawk himself taking responsibility.

Mohawk Games continue releasing some pretty big updates to their Civilization like game Old World, with the latest aiming to fix up lots of issues and improve performance.

Rumours of a Final Fantasy IX remake have been remaking themselves part of the discourse for several years now, sparked by the announcement of an animated series and a Nvidia leak back in 2021, and stoked by manifestations of several other Squeenix games from the leaked Geforce list. Now, Square Enix have added a dedicated 25th anniversary page flogging figures, spectacles, and other charming tat to their website. The JRPG's 25th cake day isn't until July 7th, but this new page lines up with cla...

OK you gutless punks, you've had this coming for a long time and now, you're gonna get it. Time to pay the piper, you miserable freaks. Oh, excuse me! I should explain. We've been doing some research into boosting site engagement, and it turns out the quickest way to engage people is to abuse and threaten them. We've also been reading up on seduction techniques - frankly, I wanted to try these out first, but the genAI poltergeist in my phone camera keeps misidentifying my nudes as Edvard Munch's...

Launching Fall 2025. NIS America has announced The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon for Nintendo Switch, currently scheduled to launch in Fall 2025. Originally launched in Japan in September 2024 for the PS4 and PS5, Trails Beyond the Horizon is the next chapter in the Calvard Arc. A limited physical edition has also been confirmed that comes with an art book, original mini soundtrack, steelbook, and "Grim Timekeeper" acrylic clock, all found within what will no doubt be a rather fetc...

In its first month of release, Capcom's latest Monster Hunter game has passed an impressive milestone.

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Send some bad monsters to Valhalla.

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Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

Back in my day there were cheat codes for this sort of thing.

The first update following Satisfactory's 1.0 release is massive and here soon.

There's literally a character named Soap. This was not hard.

Out next week. Square Enix has announced it will be releasing a two-in-one physical Switch collection for Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II. According to Square Enix Asia's Facebook page, this bundle will be made available on 2nd April 2025.

The Morrowind gag is, blessedly, still in the game in a different form.