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‘Hopefully as many people as possible get to play it before Nintendo flips out’: Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks

August 6th, 2026 was the 40th anniversary of Metroid, one of the few videogames in history to be so influential…

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id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft’s are weakening the games industry, because developers ‘don’t have the incentive to care anymore’

At the end of last month, id Software lead services programmer Chris Hayes offered a blunt appraisal of Xbox’s management…

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1666: Amsterdam has the makings of something brilliant but I came away from its preview with a bad feeling as it’s early access release creeps too close for comfort

I can think of little else cooler than flying above the streets of 17th Century Amsterdam, in the dead of…

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Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves are the new craze sweeping PC gaming

Games about cleaning are all the rage. The recent success of House Flipper, Power Wash Simulator and Unpacking demonstrates there’s…

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Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store

If you use the Xbox store to buy either Xbox or PC games—and yes, the latter is possible—you may be…

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The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield’s Neon thinks Bethesda’s galaxy was just too big: ‘I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts’

In a new episode of The Examined Game podcast (spotted by GamesRadar), longtime Bethesda environment artist and The Axis Unseen…

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Hit markers are an FPS crutch

Image credit: Activision Image credit: Id Software Image credit: Crytek You’ve been shot, and I have the hit marker to…

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Lae’zel actor Devora Wilde didn’t know she was in Space Marine 2 until players told her

Devora Wilde Revisits Her Greatest Video Game Performances – YouTube Watch On Devora Wilde has been in loads of videogames.…

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Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector has a roadmap of upcoming additions, including a new narrative DLC

Slitherine’s turn-based 40K strategy game Battlesector launched with a campaign where you could play as the none-more-goth Blood Angels against…

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id co-founder John Carmack revisits Doom at QuakeCon: ‘Still a great game after all these years!’

At this year’s QuakeCon in Gaylord, Texas, a number of id Software’s OGs and founders are in attendance for a…

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