Europa Universalis 5’s unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator’s mixed reception: ‘I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking’

It was pretty obvious, right from the first dev diary published on February 24, 2024 that Paradox Tinto was working on Europa Universalis 5. The studio had been set up to maintain 2013’s Europa Universalis 4, and was headed by EU director Johan Andersson. Everything it showed us from Project Caesar screamed Europa Universalis 5….

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Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

For better or worse, society must soon reckon with Gex once more. As we reported with no small amount of trepidation in 2023, Limited Run Games is releasing Gex Trilogy, a remaster collection of all three adventures of the anthropoid lizard that Crystal Dynamics first inflicted on the human consciousness in 1995. And yesterday, Limited…

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Share of the Week: Days Gone Remastered – Deacon

Share of the Week: Days Gone Remastered – Deacon

Last week, we asked you to share portraits of Deacon St. John from Days Gone Remastered using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Evo_Pixel shares Deacon standing holding a shotgun MdeavorVP shares a side profile of Deacon with a red light flare blackcatvp Deacon seated on his motorcycle robsbakk shares Deacon wielding a shotgun…

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Mafia: The Old Country system requirements have been revealed, and Unreal Engine 5 continues to be the thorn in your budget build’s side

Unreal Engine 5, with its fancy Lumen illumination and reflections feature, is a bit of a stunner in the right environment, but its continued prevalence might suggest cheaper rigs are due for an upgrade, if Mafia: The Old Country system requirements are anything to go off. Just yesterday, Mafia: The Old Country’s release date was…

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A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs

A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel’s elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling in numbers. Now it turns out Intel is also still working at completely fixing all the problems those chips have had since launch. The results are a new microcode update…

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