This metroidvania based on an old Atari 2600 classic had the audacity to release on the same day as Silksong, but it’s a nice break from Hornet’s hell

Every week at least a couple of metroidvanias release on Steam, and most remain obscure. Adventure of Samsara, which released on September 4, was more fated to obscurity than most, despite being published by an ascendant Atari. Because September 4 was also the day Silksong released. Few were going to make time for a handsome…

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Weapons director says his Resident Evil movie will leave everything ‘intact’ from the games: ‘I’m not gonna steal Leon and put him in an original story’

Zach Cregger is on a roll. The writer and director of 2022’s Barbarian and this year’s Weapons now has two solid horror hits under his belt, and is in pre-production on his next one: a Resident Evil movie planned for 2026. That’s good news for Resident Evil fans who might otherwise be a bit wary…

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Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a ‘mods aren’t real games’ stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit

Last year, Nintendo initiated a patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair, and in the months since the Pokemon publisher has seemingly decided to double down on moustache-twirling IP law villainy at every opportunity. The latest development in the Pocketpair proceedings might be Nintendo’s worst look yet, because the company has reportedly decided that modders’ ideas…

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US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect’s Steam account, but I’m not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

As reported by Bloomberg, the FBI and Secret Service are looking into the Steam activity of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah native accused of assassinating high-profile right wing organizer Charlie Kirk at a September 10 rally. The account is 11 years old, with nearly 5,000 hours of gameplay logged in that time. This includes 399…

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A hardcore Souls player already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign’s max-difficulty Depth 5, but he doesn’t recommend it

Soulsborne challenge runner Ongbal, whose exploits include no hitting Malenia, Promised Consort Radahn, and every single boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, has uploaded a video showing a solo completion of Elden Ring Nightreign’s maximum-difficulty Depth Five. But he doesn’t really recommend it. Depth Five was introduced as part of Nightreign’s recent Deep of Night…

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In yet another victory lap for Hazelight Studios, Split Fiction just became the first videogame to get a design award from Swedish royalty

Hazelight Studios proved it could go the distance when It Takes Two sold an eye-watering 20 million copies and took home The Game Awards’ Game of the Year, and follow-up Split Fiction is keeping the momentum strong. Not only did it sell a million copies in two days, it’s also rapidly amassed glowing reviews and…

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Tiny Lands Deluxe Edition from Beginning to End

Category: ID@Xbox September 18, 2025 Tiny Lands Deluxe Edition from Beginning to End Manuel Marco, PR manager, Hidden Trap A long, long time ago, in a faraway land, a group of indie developers from El Salvador landed in Spain with great excitement in their luggage. After making connections and overcoming hardships, they finally managed to…

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If you use inverted camera controls, you might rotate shapes in your mind more slowly—but more accurately!—according to a recent neuroscience study

While history counts a lengthy and horrific tally of the arbitrary divisions we draw amongst ourselves, there have been and will ever be only two kinds of people: those who invert their camera controls and those who don’t. And now, thanks to a recent study from MIT researchers, we might have a better idea why…

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‘We’re going to build revolutionary products’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: ‘Nothing of its kind has ever been built before’

Speaking at a press conference earlier this evening, Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, and Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan took questions from the media about the newly-announced collaboration between the two. While both CEOs refused to be drawn too far in on questions regarding which process the chips created would be built on (or whether Nvidia would…

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