C’mon, Remedy, you can’t use the words ‘Rise and Shine’ in your TGA trailer—don’t you know you’re hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?

Hope springs eternal, and there’s no better evidence of that than the members of subreddit r/Halflife, who have been waiting all year for the announcement of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life X, or whatever the next Half-Life game will be called. Granted, they’ve worked themself into a frenzy despite a lack of what might be called…

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C’mon, Remedy, you can’t use the words ‘Rise and Shine’ in your TGA trailer—don’t you know you’re hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?

Hope springs eternal, and there’s no better evidence of that than the members of subreddit r/Halflife, who have been waiting all year for the announcement of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life X, or whatever the next Half-Life game will be called. Granted, they’ve worked themself into a frenzy despite a lack of what might be called…

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While some aren’t happy about the new Screamer going all-in on anime vibes, its director says the ‘essence’ of the original is still present: ‘This is still Screamer’

Something I didn’t know until after diving into upcoming lightning-fast arcade racer Screamer was that the series has actually been around since 1995. A game developed as the PC’s answer to Namco’s Ridge Racer before its sequel delved more into rally racing. The new Screamer—set to launch next year—has a very different vibe to its…

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Screamer’s multi-lingual anime inspiration comes from a love of fighting games: ‘We really like them, even the weird ones’

I am an absolute fighting game sicko, and something I love is when I see the genre’s influence reaching far-flung corners of the industry. Kind of in the way two guys with meticulously groomed moustaches will give a knowing nod when they walk past each other in the street. Upon watching arcade racer Screamer’s latest…

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