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Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames"
2+ hour, 21+ min ago Minus one victory lap for the J'RPG. It's been a hell of an award season for the year's most talked about RPG, but two of its accolades just got knocked off the scorecard. The Indie Game Awards, which awarded Sandfall…...
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live
3+ hour, 2+ min ago Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites…...
This dystopian free-running sim is set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
4+ hour, 2+ min ago Vholume is Straftat meets Mirror's Edge. Now, one half of Straftat's developers, L'onard Lemaitre, has announced a new game called Vholume, a Mirror's Edge style first-person platformer set in a vast, dystopian city. While Straftat is the easier reference here,…...
Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool"
5+ hour, 2+ min ago "It was not a decision I agreed with." Despite this legacy, Arkane Austin's story came to an end just a year after Redfall's launch. Recently, the studio's former director Harvey Smith discussed these events and how they affected the team…...
Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge"
6+ hour, 2+ min ago The mapping project features new weapons to use and enemies to fight. For the last four years, the hottest mapping event in the retro FPS scene has been the Quake Brutalist Jam. Here, mapmakers enthralled by id Software's 1996 shooter have…...
Darktide asked if we want to be scum, and I was the person who said, 'actually, yes"
13+ hour, 56+ min ago Doesn't matter if I know what I'm shooting, as long as I don't stop shooting. Like a lot of Darktide players I was expecting the second DLC class, following the badass arbitrator, to be something exotic drawn from Warhammer 40,000's…...
The New Blood-published 'immersive stealth FPS' Blood West is free on Epic—but only for 24 hours
14+ hour, 22+ min ago Just in case you thought Thief was a little light on eldritch horror. You might just associate New Blood Interactive with games like Ultrakill and Dusk, but the studio's publishing efforts include more than the modern wave of boomer shooters....
Blizzard's focus is on existing properties, president Johanna Faries says: 'We have iconic IP and in many ways it still has a lot of room to scale"
14+ hour, 23+ min ago Bring back Heroes of the Storm then. After almost three years as general manager of Call of Duty, Johanna Faries became president of Blizzard in 2014, replacing the outgoing Mike Ybarra. Under her tenure, Blizzard struck a new deal with NetEase,…...
Great moments in PC gaming: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's rooftop chase
17+ hour, 11+ min ago Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show…...
This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
20+ hour, 2+ min ago Revisiting the Hall of Tortured Souls. Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have…...