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All weapons and gear in the Helldivers 2 Scope of Authority Warbond
Scope of Authority brings a suite of sniper gear to Helldivers 2
One of the biggest game decompilation sites is closing because AI has ‘broken the community aspect’
"Bad actors" are abusing open source decomps in "increasingly troublesome ways", it says
Razer's first Hall effect keyboard fixes my greatest annoyance with the previous generation
I've had the Razer Huntsman V3 HE on my desk for just over a month now, here's how it stacks up against the competition it's undercutting on price.
Endless pile of Needle In Haystack games begins to emerge, as viral hit imitator's devs claim their code was nicked by a genAI-using clone
In a metaphor far too on the nose to turn into any form of fiction, at least without the writer getting mercilessly cyberbullied, a game about finding a needle in a haystack has now become the genuine needle at the heart of a pile of imitators. A pile so large, in fact, one copycat game stands accused of ripping code from another. Read more
Razer's retro-fueled pixel art Pokemon set is my favorite yet, but UK and US fans can't catch it all
Razer is launching a Pokemon Pixel collection of PC gaming accessories, but it appears to be exclusive to China for now.
We've had two great Star Wars games this year, probably because Lucasfilm Games says it's now "more flexible" about who it takes pitches from
This year has seen two highly-rated and beloved Star Wars games in the XCOM-like Zero Company, and the Burnout-like Galactic Racer. And both were made by independent studios rather than much bigger companies, which have typically taken on Star Wars games in recent years, such as Ubisoft with Star Wars Outlaws and EA with Star Wars Battlefront. Read more
Star Wars Zero Company review
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise something obvious about Star Wars Zero Company. The fate of its eponymous crew - short of cash, betrayed by the shifting sands of circumstance in a tumultuous wider world, scrambling to just about get the job over the line - is really a lot like that of its developers at Bit Reactor. Furloughed for about a month before the game was released, those staff have clearly hustled and scrapped and fought to the last. And so Zero Company the game bears the signs of its development. In places it feels a little patched together, a little under-ready, a game that launched into the world like a roguish pilot might launch a half-repaired starfighter. The windscreen's rattling, warning lights are flashing, one particularly hirsute engineer is deeply unimpressed at the decision to take off, and nobody knows where that ominous groaning noise is coming from. But somehow she's up. And in the end that's all that counts. Read more
Following 'millions' of computations, a coder is convinced they've deciphered the mysterious plaque in Super Mario 64
Serious Computer Business. Super Mario 64 is perhaps the most mysterious release in the history of Nintendo's prized franchise. Since its release back in 1996, the 3D platformer has been subject to a variety of rumours regarding its secrets, narrative themes, and, of course, the missing Super Mario Brother, Luigi. But now, as reported by VGC , a fan believes one of the classic game's mysteries can be put to rest, as Mochi64 is confident that they have accurately deciphered the famously illegible text mounted on the Star statue in Princess Peach's Castle. This text has formed the basis of endless speculation, with the most consistent suggestion being that it offered some sort of code to unlock a playable Luigi. Read the full article on timeextension.com
"A Very Weird Experience" - Digital Foundry Breaks Down The Metaphor: ReFantazio Demo On Switch 2
What's going on? If you're looking forward to the release of Metaphor: ReFantazio on 12th November 2026 , the good news is that you can try it out right now via a new demo on Switch 2. The chaps over at Digital Foundry have gone hands-on with the demo, and have come away feeling somewhat perplexed. Essentially, the game looks pretty good in motion – better, perhaps, than even the PS5 – but it's when the world stands still that you start to get some funny visuals. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
This week in PC games: build a better zombie in Stupid Never Dies, glue together houses in Cutout Village, and settle brave new worlds in Star Trek: Outposts Unknown
Hello all! Welcome to another wonderful week of PC games, and mounting bloodlust. As I type these words, a neighbour has started using a leafblower. I hate leafblowers. They are mutant hairdryers from Hell. They scatter my thoughts like the tiny , tiny quantity of leaves in the neighbour's garden – a quantity of leaves you could very easily sweep up by hand in two minutes, if you had even the slightest bit of gumption. What's that? You think I should release vipers into the neighbour's toolshed? What a capital idea! But sadly I don't have any vipers to hand, and besides, I have to finish writing this list of new PC games. There are exactly as many games in the list as there are leaves in the neighbour's garden. He'll be at it for hours, no doubt. Please read, while I order in some fresh vipers. Read more
Saros’s free New Game Plus update is out now, including a Boss Rush mode
The new update also includes an auto-fire option for players
After making a cameo appearance in Cyberpunk 2077, Hideo Kojima is coming to Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2
Kojima will reprise his role as braindance producer Hideyoshi Oshima
Witcher 3 Switch 2 patch rolls out today with a number of changes, including alterations to resolution and "visual clarity"
CD Projekt Red is currently rolling the promised Switch 2 patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered, addressing a number of issues in the game. Read more
PS5-exclusive Demon's Souls Remake not only runs on PC now, it's running at twice the fps cap on an RTX 5070 with frame gen
It could be smoother but double the frames is nothing to sniff at.
Nintendo "Underestimated" Zelda Switch 2 Console Sales, But Promises Restocks Are On The Way
"Please be patient". If you are anything like us, the reveal of the special edition Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 console last month was quickly followed by the dreaded realisation of "oh no, I need this". Alas, for many, this need has not been fulfilled, with supply shortages making those all-important pre-orders far rarer than we'd like them to be. In a recent interview with YouTube channel Coelho no Japão , Nintendo's Latin America Vice President and General Manager Bill van Zyll admitted that the company had "underestimated" the demand for the console, and reaffirmed that further restocks are on the way (thanks for the heads up, GamesRadar+ ). Read the full article on nintendolife.com
'An MTL Could NOT Bare This Game's Fangs Correctly' - PS1 Mermaid RPG Meremanoid Is Getting a 'Human Made' Fan Translation
An AI-assisted patch was released last week. An individual named pzappzap recently released an AI-assisted English fan translation for Xing's 1999 PlayStation 1 mermaid RPG Meremanoid . But in response, a group of fan translators and hackers are encouraging people online to ignore it, stating that an "all human-made" fan translation is just around the corner. Read the full article on timeextension.com
‘Diddy Kong Racing’ soundtrack getting ‘Revisited’ vinyl release
Featuring 23 remixed tracks from original composer David Wise The post ‘Diddy Kong Racing’ soundtrack getting ‘Revisited’ vinyl release appeared first on NME .
Resident Evil star Austin Abrams had security called on him whilst filming Whalefall because he looked "so f***ed up"
Austin Abrams had security called on him for how "distressed and blown-up" he looked on the set of Whalefall
No publishers wanted Outlast because they'd 'rather invest $50,000 in 10 mobile games' so Red Barrels relied on public investment programs and their own savings instead
"Everything was on the line" during Outlast's development.
Life has once again found a way in Athanasia, an "immersive" dinosaur FPS that feels like comfort food for Dino Crisis and System Shock players alike
Good news, people who figure they are going to die of old age before they get another Dino Crisis ! Good news also, people who can't get enough throwback immersive sims! Even as Capcom forge ahead with their Resident Evil remake ouroboros , plucky Momentum Games and horror publishers Black Lantern Collective are releasing Athanasia - a first-person homage to both Dino Crisis and System Shock , in which you play intrepid researcher Carmen Flores, who has been sent to one of gaming's many ominous abandoned scientific facilities in South America. One of these days, I'm going to turf up to a collapsing laboratory complex in a game and discover nothing but stationery, old rubber gloves, and unfiled expense claims. I imagine a lot of laboratories are abandoned not due to (for example) gene-modded dilophosaurus outbreaks, but because the funders got cold feet long before Project X reached the prototyping stage. But that day is not this day. Today, there are dinosaurs! Argh, my face and/or intestines! Here's a trailer. Read more
RTX 5090 not dead, says Nvidia—but it's mysteriously vanished from the company's official marketplace
Another Schrödinger's graphics card?
The next Call of Duty will introduce a new sub-series to the franchise
Next year's Call of Duty game will not be part of any of the franchise's existing sub-series. In an interview with The Game Business , Activision confirmed it's finally ready to create a new sub-series. Read more
Resident Evil Fan Developing 'Classic Resi' Game Based on Zach Cregger's 2026 Movie
'Medical Courier!' (Said in booming voice). Homebrewer and Resident Evil fan "Nocturne" (aka "Notreallyjulian") has uploaded a series of short clips of a fan game based on Zach Cregger's 2026 movie Resident Evil , which, naturally, is itself based on Capcom's iconic and generation-spanning survival horror franchise. A series of clips uploaded to TikTok showcases a rudimentary recreation of the "Barn Scene", complete with a Cerberus model pulled from the original Resident Evi l (1996) and hero Bryan Hodukavich represented via a retextured model of S.T.A.R.S. superboy Chris Redfield. A later video sees Nocturne implementing some of the classic adventure's "Injured" walk cycles, along with some home-recorded speech samples. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Xbox business manager says devs not using AI shouldn't "be in the business of being a business"
He's just telling us the truth, apparently