The Chaos Engine On C64? Sure, Why Not

The Bitmap Brothers classic steps back a generation. A C64 fan is working on bringing The Bitmap Brothers’ legendary Amiga shooter The Chaos Engine to the 8-bit home computer. Marv (@MoreC64) has a tall task relocating the 16-bit classic to somewhat humbler hardware, but his work-in-progress footage is showing promise, as you can see below:…

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Players blast Metal Gear Solid Master Collection for missing options, vanished Steam pages, and muddy textures: ‘absolutely poor and not worth its asking price’

The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is here, bringing Metal Gear Solid 3 (the best one) to PC for the first time in a package that also contains MGS 1 and 2 plus the original MSX Metal Gear games. It’s a day I’ve been hotly anticipating for literal years: The Metal Gear games are some…

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Blizzard’s latest stunt asks Diablo 4 players to donate 666 quarts of blood, then goes full demon by offering a PC ‘infused’ with real human blood

I think this tops the Megan Fox thing. Last week, Blizzard dropped an announcement asking fans to “donate to the blood harvest”, allowing them to earn some in-game swag for Diablo 4.  Here’s the run-down. Until November 20, US players over 18 can submit proof of blood donation to any blood donation clinic, “such as…

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American McGee says the Alice series is dead, finished, kaput, and people need to stop ‘continually asking me questions to which I do not have answers’

American McGee’s Alice is a series that saw two games released roughly a decade apart: the eponymous original came out in 2000 on PC, and Alice: Madness Returns followed in 2011. The games were published by Electronic Arts and, over the last few years, McGee has been trying to drum up interest from both EA…

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Starfield player’s anti-grav salad spinner soothed my soul, right up until I saw its lettuce-obsessed creator’s other dark designs

Ahh, Bethesda physics, you never let me down. Starfield‘s no exception—and its physics engine is genuinely impressive, able to handle thousands of potatoes stuffed into a room (with some understandable framerate tanks and whining from your rig). PC Gamer’s Lauren Morton even had some fun herself, shoving all sorts into that same locker.  We’ve seen…

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How to get coal in Return to Moria

You need to find coal pretty quickly if you want to make any headway in Return to Moria. As with most survival crafting games, you’ll use this resource to fuel your forge and furnace, which in turn allows you to craft tools and weapons. Coal is also required to build a fire if you want…

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