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Microsoft’s original Halo game is now available on PC
Tom Warren//34 views/1 comments
Microsoft is bringing the original Halo campaign to Windows PCs today. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has been remastered with 4K support for PC, and it arriv...
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The gaming chair has been replaced by the gaming bed
Megan Farokhmanesh//48 views/1 comments
Japanese retailer Bauhutte sells a great deal of furniture aimed at “gamers,” but few can top its one-stop shop for sleep and gaming. Like Voltron, but made for...
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Epic delays Fortnite tournaments until it fixes performance issues
Jay Peters//29 views
Epic Games announced today that it won’t be hosting any Fortnite tournaments with cash prizes until it addresses performance issues affecting both players and t...
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Riot’s new shooter Valorant looks like Overwatch meets CS:GO
Andrew Webster//34 views/4 comments
For its first competitive shooter, League of Legends developer Riot is pulling from some of the biggest games in the genre. Today, the developer officially unve...
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Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference will now be online only due to coronavirus concerns
Jay Peters//33 views/1 comments
Nvidia has announced it has shifted its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to be online-only due to concerns from the coronavirus outbreak. People who had register...
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s reimagined battle system is an absolute blast
Nick Statt//38 views
When the game was first announced in 2015, many diehard fans appropriately expected a remake would mean a visual overhaul of more or the less the same turn-base...
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Valve shows off how you’ll fight and move in Half-Life: Alyx
Adi Robertson//39 views/2 comments
Valve’s much-anticipated virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx debuts on March 23rd, and it just offered a little more detail on what we’ll be playing. It releas...
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Why Nvidia’s GeForce Now has become so controversial with game developers
Nick Statt//43 views
Nvidia’s GeForce Now took yet another hit this weekend with a new publisher pulling its software from the cloud gaming service. That’s because GeForce Now, unli...
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A Final Fantasy VII Remake demo is out now for PS4
Sam Byford//36 views/1 comments
If you have a PS4, you can now play Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is a sentence that a lot of people have been waiting forever to hear. Square Enix just relea...
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Mario Kart Tour is getting multiplayer on March 8th
Jay Peters//46 views/1 comments
Nintendo announced on Monday that Mario Kart Tour, the mobile iteration of the Mario Kart series, will finally be getting multiplayer this weekend, nearly six m...
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Core: a new platform that wants to be the YouTube of game development
Andrew Webster//36 views/2 comments
One thing they really wanted to do was respond to community feedback quickly, so they designed a tool that made it possible to rapidly test out ideas and then i...
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Death Stranding is coming to PC on June 2nd with Half-Life cosmetics
Jay Peters//29 views
Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima’s latest game, was released on PlayStation 4 last year, and is now coming to PC on June 2nd, published by 505 Games. The PC versio...
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Final Fantasy VII Remake gives Midgar a luxurious makeover
Megan Farokhmanesh//34 views
In the original Final Fantasy VII, Midgar can often feel more like an idea than a place. It’s billed as a metropolis torn by ecopolitics and economic disparity,...
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Lionkiller turns the legend of Mulan into an interactive story during the Opium Wars
Michael Moore//45 views/1 comments
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest vi...
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Run an America full of talking animals in Democratic Socialism Simulator
Adi Robertson//37 views
There are simulation games that try to be neutral. SimCity never lays out its philosophy of urban planning. Democracy lets you rewrite its rules to role-play an...