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- January 4, 2026
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AU Deals: I Played These, I Loved These, And They Are Ridiculously Discounted Right Now
I have spent more hours than I care to admit bouncing between wishlists, review builds, and half finished save files, so when a sale lineup actually stops me mid scroll,…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns’ worth of FPS goodness in ‘a megalithic community project more than a year in the making’
At some point, fan retoolings of classic games are just whole new games in their own right. In 1996, Quake released with 32 levels and 6 deathmatch maps. Today, Quake…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games ‘or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces’ because ‘we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team’
After heading up development on Fallout 1, project lead Tim Cain split from Interplay to found a new studio, Troika, alongside fellow Fallout devs Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky. In…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Yes, aggression-matchmaking is now a thing in Arc Raiders
If you’ve found you’ve been coming up against tougher players in Arc Raiders just recently, that could well be because you’ve been deemed an “aggressive” player. For the last week…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
- 24 views
The Ultimate TMNT Knockoff deserves another show
At the beginning of the 1990s, there was no franchise bigger than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They had a hit animated series, a blockbuster film and a toyline that…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Avatar: Fire and Ash Becomes Third Film in the Franchise to Surpass $1 Billion Globally — but Will It Match Avatar 1 or 2 at the Box Office?
Avatar: Fire and Ash has become the third film in the franchise to surpass $1 billion at the global box office, but questions remain on whether it will end up…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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‘Yeah, that didn’t suck. That was good’: Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist’s journal in Honest Hearts is ‘one of my favorite bits of content that I’ve written in a game’
One of the most beloved NPCs in Fallout’s history is a pile of bones in the sand. The story of the Survivalist, Randall Clark, is not the biggest nor the…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Resident Evil 4 Remake cut an entire opening chapter that starred Ashley
Capcom cut an entire chapter in which you played as Ashley in the opening of Resident Evil 4 Remake. Modder and content creator Michael “Thekempy” Kemp has reportedly restored the…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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2026’s next great Steam roguelike is Sol Cesto
After playing well over 200 new releases this year, I am officially closing the book on 2025. My year-end list is published, as is Polygon’s, and I am at peace…
- Gaming
- January 4, 2026
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Dispatch’s Best Surprise Is In Its Name
Quick-time events, despite everyone’s best efforts to spice them up, remain pretty meh. When you first begin Dispatch, the new episodic superhero adventure game from AdHoc Studio, you’re asked if…
