March 11, 2026
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The process of creating cosplay from scratch is incredibly intimidating to me, but Emily White found a new love for it post-lockdown: ‘It can take anywhere from a month to a year to bring a costume to life.’

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I’ve always admired people who make their own costumes. Even when it’s for something as simple as a Halloween party, if someone’s gone an extra step to create something from scratch specifically for their costume, it just shows that little bit of extra creativity and dedication. That’s something I tend to lack. A lot of…

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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live

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I’d somehow completely forgotten that Owlcat Games is making another Warhammer 40,000 RPG, assuming that the developer was all-in on Mass Effect style action-roleplayer The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. But not only does the studio have another string to its bow in Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, its follow-up to 2023’s Rogue Trader is already heavily into…

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This dystopian free-running sim is set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year’s best FPS

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Anything involving the creators of Straftat is going to be on my radar. The lo-fi 1v1 shooter was crowned the best FPS of 2024, brilliantly condensing ’90s style deathmatch into hyper-quick rounds across dozens of creatively designed maps. But Straftat is also one of the best shooters of 2025, too, thanks to the immense amount…

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Dishonored co-creator says it was ‘a shock’ when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall’s release: ‘We were working on something really cool’

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Arkane Austin is far from the only studio that Microsoft—in its push to post 30% profit margins year upon year—has closed down. But for me personally, it was the most upsetting. While its vampire looter-shooter Redfall was not the studio’s finest work, its previous projects include 2012’s brilliant immersive-sim Dishonored, and 2017’s System Shock successor…

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Quake’s third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: ‘this is going to be an insane challenge’

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For the last four years, the hottest mapping event in the retro FPS scene has been the Quake Brutalist Jam. Here, mapmakers enthralled by id Software’s 1996 shooter have gathered to honour architecture’s moodiest style, constructing levels designed to evoke its austere, concrete minimalism. The first Brutalist Jam occurred in 2022, spawning 35 maps that…

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