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First big GTA 6 leak was like having someone "wading through your dirty washing," says Rockstar dev
"It's really weirdly invasive"
Kill Switch
By now, almost everybody has experienced the thrill of blind firing in Gears of War, peek-and-shoot encounters in Uncharted, or taking cover in Spec Ops: The Line. Yet very few realise that the originator of these mechanics went on to inspire an entire genre to reinvent the wheel. While the concept of leaning against a ... Kill Switch was first posted on October 14, 2026 at 11:18 am. ©2017-2025 " Hardcore Gaming 101 ". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at kurt@hardcoregaming101.net
Pokémon Zarza Brings A Battle Arena & 15 Minigames To Your Browser
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Pokémon ROM hacks seem to be taking a back seat in favour of Pokémon browser games at the minute, and it's
Kukirin Life codes (October 2026)
Here are all of the new Roblox Kukirin Life codes that you can redeem for free cash and crates.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it's time for big layoffs at the studio that made it
Ubisoft has also decided to close Trials studio Ubisoft Redlynx entirely.
Over the Hill review: "The single most stressful game I’ve played in years and I think it hates me"
Slow, laborious, and frequently frustrating
'It's Taken 35 Years' - Moonstone Is Getting an AI-Assisted Update for the Amiga 1200
"Our goal isn’t simply to revisit the past". As somebody who never owned an Amiga as a kid, there were a few times when I was insanely jealous of my Commodore-blessed chums, despite the fact that I viewed consoles like the Mega Drive and SNES as superior to the 16-bit home computer. One of those times was when I witnessed Rob Anderson's Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight running on a friend's Amiga 500. While it looked like a four-player hack-and-slash action game, Moonstone featured a turn-based sub-mechanic that made it feel like an RPG, and it also had a surprising amount of blood and gore. As you can imagine, that only helped elevate the game's reputation with impressionable youngsters like myself. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Over the Hill's off-roading simulation winches you in with a more laid-back take than SnowRunner's, but it'll still bite careless drivers
Over the Hill , a rather chillaxed take on brutal Saber Interactive off-roading sims like SnowRunner , is the latest game from vibesy driving enthusiasts Funselektor. The folks behind the likes of Art of Rally and Absolute Drift have assembled untamed wildernesses in the cold Canadian hills and the boiling desert of Algeria, before handing myself and Julian the keys to some 4x4s. Here’s our verdict. Read more
October’s PS Plus Game Catalog titles include Mafia: The Old Country and Tales of Arise
Horizon Forbidden West is also returning, while Dino Crisis 2 joins the Classic Catalog
Metro 2039 pre-orders are live, but that Collector's Edition is moving fast
Metro 2039 pre-orders are already alive and kicking, but retailers are running low on some physical editions.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has new boss rematches with built-in speedrun tracking
You better believe I'm showing King Dodongo what for
Epic's bulletproof plan to outdo Steam: "We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher"
Epic claims it's now 1.8x faster than Steam on launcher startup
Scooter Empire codes (October 2026)
Check out our list of all the new Scooter Empire codes to redeem in the Roblox game for free in-game cash.
Kojima sympathizes with Digger flopping – people also wrote off Death Stranding without playing it
Alejandro González Iñárritu and the games creator share a lot of ideas
Hogwarts Legacy's DLSS 5 update shows devs have been listening to PC gamers about keeping it the hell away from game characters
Nvidia's DLSS 5 is getting smaller in practically every way, including the performance overhead and the AI yassification.
'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications
"We should care as much about all the other aspects of a being as you do about its intelligence."
Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag
Hopefully it's a currency/market quirk.
Epic says it’s ‘vibe coded’ its new Epic Games Launcher with AI, because ‘programming is hard’
The new launcher is "light on features" but at least has a shopping cart, Epic says
"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor
Days after a report emerged about them imposing an "AI-first" production model on the devs of a new Disney shooter, Epic Games have released a new version of their launcher in preview form. It's been "vibe coded" with aim of making it "faster than the other guy". That other guy is Steam, something the yacht gag in the second paragraph of the announcement post makes even more obvious. Read more
If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there'd be no Iron Lung, 'and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million'—so maybe there's wisdom in not churning out sequels
You don't need to milk your cash cows.
Rockstar still won't reveal cost of GTA 6 development, but it's definitely not previously rumored $1.5 billion
I'd wager it's not far off though
Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs project to "explore new technology," which sure sounds like tinkering with old games through AI
As part of Microsoft's ongoing , physics-ignoring push to do more business with thousands fewer staff , games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox Labs: a new umbrella for Xbox's R&D into the kind of game remixing and rejigging most visibly characterised by viralities like Halo for browsers , or Mario in Elden Ring . Both enabled, perhaps tellingly, by the AI-driven decompilation of the original source codes. Read more
ArenaNet solves an ongoing Guild Wars 2 issue by ditching paid Living World add-ons and bundling them with expansions
ArenaNet has announced a major shift in its live service Guild Wars 2 operation today, ditching separate payments for Living World seasonal add-ons and packaging the narrative storylines alongside the MMO's expansions instead. Read more
A new Dressmaker update adds more skirts and materials to 2026's coziest success story
A new Dressmaker update is out now, introducing two more skirt variants along with fresh fabrics and accessories to the cozy crafting game.