Dune: Awakening review

Need to know What is it? A survival MMO set in the Dune universeExpect to pay: $49.99/£41.99Developer: FuncomPublisher: FuncomReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? YesSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official site I’m standing in the desert scooping up big clumps of the most valuable substance in the universe, spice, when a sandworm explodes…

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Rematch review

Need to know What is it? A 5v5 competitive football game from the team behind SifuRelease date: Out nowExpect to pay: $30/£21Developer: SloclapPublisher: Sloclap, Kepler InteractiveReviewed on: Windows 11, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Intel Core i7 12700F, 16 GB RAMSteam Deck: Playable Link: Official site There’s a lot going on in a 5v5 game of…

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Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has laid off employees, but Paradox says the game is still coming in October

Almost side-by-side with the release of surprise Still Wakes the Deep expansion Siren’s Rest, it appears that developer The Chinese Room has laid off an unknown number of employees. The cuts will apparently not have an impact on the schedule of the studio’s current project, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, however, as publisher Paradox…

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Death Stranding 2 reviewers say it’s a sequel that’s ‘more Metal Gear Solid than ever,’ but it’s ‘still beautifully odd’

Embargoes ended earlier today for Death Stranding 2 reviews, and the signs seem clear: Kojima and company still got it. “It” being the ability to make a maximalist meditation on spirituality, connection, and the sacred act of moving stuff from one place to another. PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon has been doing a stint of non-PC…

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Open Fridge EP: 38 SFGE Highlights | XBOX is done with Hardware | Wendy’s brings the heat

Viewer Poll: Will you buy the next Xbox Console? 1. Link Support (Affiliate Links) Support the show by shopping through these links! Become a Member, https://www.youtube.com/@izzrealgaming8110 https://www.youtube.com/@nerdloungemaster84 https://x.com/realchasebrogan/status/1934671634625122585?s=46&t=hMzmfvz0aDMsPUCdiLombw 2. What’s the Deal? – Gaming Deals Roundup This week’s must-see discounts & bundles: https://tinyurl.com/mwzn4u49 – College Football 25 – Xbox Series X https://tinyurl.com/2zt7sn44 – PS5 Digital…

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After more than 7 years of development with nothing to show for it, Riot cancels the Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG Hytale and closes the studio making it

After more than seven years of work, development of the sandbox RPG Hytale is being cancelled, and developer Hypixel Studios is being closed by parent company Riot Games. “Today, I shared some incredibly tough news with the Hypixel Studios team: we’re ending development on Hytale and beginning the process of winding down Hypixel Studios over…

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Top AI company finds that AIs will choose to merrily asphyxiate humans rather than shut down: ‘My ethical framework permits self-preservation’

New research from Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI firms, shows that LLMs from various companies have an increased willingness to push ethical boundaries. These models will dodge safeguards intended to curtail such behaviour, deceive users about what they’re doing, steal restricted data that they shouldn’t access and, in one extreme scenario, turn off…

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Star Wars Battlefront 2 had over 2200% more Steam players this weekend than it did last June—and it’s thanks in part to Kyrie Irving and his level 101 Emperor Palpatine

We’re still in the midst of an unexpected renaissance for Star Wars Battlefront 2. Last month, we wrote about the surprising upsurge of Battlefront 2 player counts on Steam, which was really only surprising for as long as it took to remember how good Battlefront 2 is. Over the last four weeks, those player counts…

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