Doom: The Dark Ages won’t end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: ‘That would mean that we couldn’t tell any more medieval stories’

Talking to Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for the cover story of PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I had to ask what they thought about “the prequel problem.” Doom 2016 begins with the Slayer locked in a coffin with all his friends long-dead,…

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Rust’s crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw ‘bee grenades’

Video gaming is currently in an arms race (or should that be ‘farms race’) to depict the most delectable virtual food possible. It’s a race variously led by the Yakuza series, Final Fantasy, and most recently, Monster Hunter: Wilds, which features a cheese naan so mouthwatering it caused a sales surge of dairy-filled bread products…

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Switch 2 Filings Show Support For Wi-Fi 6

Better, faster. In the same round of Switch 2 filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in the US, it seems Wi-Fi 6 support has been confirmed. As highlighted by The Verge, Wi-Fi 6 translates to “faster Wi-Fi in your Switch 2” – with the outlet expanding on what to potentially expect on this front…

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 remains one of the most beloved of DICE’s multiplayer shooters, thrilling players with its destructible warzones and cementing the Swedish studio’s reputation for incredible audio design. Despite the game’s reputation, DICE never greenlit a third entry in the spinoff series. But that didn’t stop BC2’s director David Goldfarb from making plans…

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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack ‘won’t be coming out this year’

It’s preposterous to me that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is seven years old, when that’s so clearly the length of time that has passed since Left4Dead 2 launched. Sadly, Steam, the calendar, and indeed the universe all state that I am wrong, so I suppose I’ll just have to go along with Fatshark’s celebration of its…

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