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N64 Recompiled Is Planning Its Best Year Yet In 2025

Unofficial PC ports to get mods & performance boosts. By this point, you’re probably well aware of N64 Recompiled which, in basic terms, allows N64 games to be played on PC by natively running the game’s code on your target platform. Most recently, we’ve seen Majora’s Mask get a “PC port” thanks to the project….

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Eidos Montreal lays off more employees: ‘We don’t have the capacity to entirely reallocate them to our other ongoing projects’

Less than a week after Crystal Dynamics laid off 17 employees “to better align our current business needs,” Eidos Montreal has announced that it’s letting go of “up to 75” employees, saying it doesn’t currently have sufficient work to justify keeping them around. “Today, we informed our studio staff that we are going to let…

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Dwarf Fortress dwarves are ‘more human than human,’ creator says: ‘They’re allowed to embody bigger emotions. They’re allowed to make bigger mistakes. They’re allowed to do anything’

At GDC 2025, I spoke with Tarn Adams, co-creator and lead programmer of Dwarf Fortress, about the past, present, and future of his 23-year procgen masterwork. We talked about how the looming threat of aquifer flooding encapsulates his approach to Dwarf Fortress difficulty and how he’s generally bummed about AI. Towards the end of our…

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