Neglecting the mod scene is just ‘silly’, says dev whose team went from making mods to officially working on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein: ‘It’s so short-sighted not to support it’

Modding is often held up as one of the best things about PC gaming. Mods keep games like Skyrim and Minecraft perpetually vital, and plenty of developers, from Bethesda to Paradox, hire modders from their respective communities to become full-time game designers. Yet modders sometimes live in fear of having all their hard work taken…

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Overwatch 2’s April Fools game mode has made Reinhardt one of the most terrifying heroes, who can now kidnap any other player

Every year, Overwatch 2 gets a wacky game mode for April Fools, giving each character new abilities that have usually been asked for by the community. It’s a lot of fun to take part in every year, but this time there’s something particularly special: Reinhardt’s infinite Charge. Reinhardt’s Charge ability has had its cooldown reduced…

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Best HDR loadout in Black Ops 6

Alongside two new assault rifles, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 also adds a new sniper, the powerful HDR. As with all snipers, the HDR is incredibly slow and clunky right out of the box. It’ll take the best BO6 HDR loadout to make this sniper competitive. A sniper that can’t quickscope is…

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Monstrous 40ft Alligator, Two-Toed Tom Spotted Near New Orleans (with a Gaming Lounge in His Mouth)

Category: Announcements April 3, 2025 Monstrous 40ft Alligator, Two-Toed Tom Spotted Near New Orleans (with a Gaming Lounge in His Mouth) Aaron Greenberg, Vice President, Games Marketing Summary Two-Toed Tom, a legendary beast of Southern folklore, comes to life in South of Midnight, the new action-adventure from Compulsion Games To celebrate the launch, Xbox has…

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Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn’t let his kids play games or have phones—’I just want them to use their creativity in a different way’

Very large man Jason Momoa has been out and about promoting the so-close-you-can-taste-it Minecraft Movie recently, touting his role as Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison in the picture with his winning smile, easy charisma, and borderline-Amish child-rearing philosophy. The star says he doesn’t let his kids play videogames, despite his starring role in the upcoming…

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‘We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed’: The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we’ve come in just 50 years

Tomorrow, April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or ‘Micro-Soft’, back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating ’50 years of Microsoft’ which includes a downloadable PDF of the original source code that kickstarted the entire company. Upon reading the blog post, the main thing…

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