‘Scottish dark fantasy Dynasty Warriors’ sounds like a game pitch from a fever dream, but this roguelike demo proves it’s got juice

The 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart, a fictionalized retelling of the battles of Scottish knight William Wallace during the First War of Scottish Independence, was full of blatant historical inaccuracies: Its dates were wrong, its dress was anachronistic, and—worst of all—it didn’t even cover the period in Wallace’s life when a demonic meteor fell into…

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Rockstar pays tribute to D’Angelo, ‘a true titan of soul’ whose music ‘will forever be an enduring part of the legacy of Red Dead Redemption 2’

Rockstar Games has shared a touching tribute to legendary R&B artist D’Angelo, who died of pancreatic cancer on October 14, calling him “a true titan of soul” in a message posted to Instagram. D’Angelo—real name Michael Eugene Archer—released three albums over a career that spanned 30 years, beginning with the Grammy-nominated Brown Sugar in 1995….

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The Outlast Trials is adding a PvP mode in its next update, which I’m sure will do wonders for my inability to trust friends in any horror game

As if you needed any more reason to feel constantly on edge in The Outlast Trials, its upcoming update will turn even your closest friends against you in the game’s first PvP mode. That’s right, Mother Gooseberry and the various other horrors waiting to take you down in each of the game’s trials are no…

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The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there’s still no mention of Celestial

Just as we’re deep in thought pondering the true character of the Xe3 iGPU in Intel’s new Panther Lake laptop chip and what the heck the “Xe3P” thing is that popped up in the marketing slides, here comes a left-field announcement. Intel will launch a new GPU later next year that’s purpose built for AI…

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Battlefield 6 fiddles with the pace of Conquest mode but somehow avoids giving the people what they want: ‘Remove the timer’

Battlefield 6 is here and it’s really rather good. PCG’s Morgan Park called it “a salve for an FPS scene that takes itself too seriously” in his review-in-progress, with the wider context of where shooters are in 2025 making its back-to-basics approach incredibly refreshing. Hell, it even runs like a dream. That’s not to say…

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Assassin’s Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft just 7 months after heading up one of the best-selling games in the history of the series

Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté has left Ubisoft after more than 20 years at the company, a stretch that saw him climb from a software engineer on PSP games to vice president and executive producer of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Côté’s departure, initially reported by IGN, comes just two weeks after…

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Team Group has built the world’s first external SSD with built-in Apple-based location tracking and it’s padlock-shaped

I’ve got a routine for locating my devices when I leave the house. Phone, keys, battery pack, etc. Still, despite my best attempts at organisation, I still misplace the odd item—which is why I’m interested in the newly-announced Team Group T-Create Expert P34F, complete with built-in location tracking. The world’s first external drive to feature…

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