DayZ creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: ‘I think when I die, I will still be playing that game’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of New Zealand-based studio RocketWerkz, first…

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Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it ‘released a game with flaws’

Liquid Swords has been open about the development difficulties it has encountered with Samson, its newly released open-world crime game that adds a roguelike spin to Grand Theft Auto’s loop of driving and fighting. The studio led by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg “laid off half the team” last year, forcing them to rework Samson…

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Far Cry 2 review (2008)

Far Cry 2 review – PC Gamer issue #193 (UK, November 2008) Need to know What is it? A beautiful, free-roaming, utterly absorbing FPS Release date: October 24, 2008 Expect to pay: $50/£30 Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Reviewed on: An old computer Steam Deck: Playable Link: Official site By Tim Edwards The key to Far…

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Terraforming survival game The Planet Crafter gets a beefy 2.0 update and a 50% discount: ‘We wanted to take some time to improve multiple things’

The Planet Crafter is a survival game that goes way beyond the traditional remit of the genre. You’re not trying to stay alive by building campfires and hunting animals and smashing together a rock and a stick to make a pickaxe appear in your inventory. Rather than bending to suit the world, you bend the…

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Tribal survival game Soulmask leaves early access with a new Egypt-themed DLC that’s free for the next month

A lot has happened in the world of Soulmask in the last week. The survival game where you oversee a tribe of independently minded individuals released out of early access with an update that developer CampFire Studio says represents “a complete reinvention of the game.” This launch coincided with the release of an Ancient Egypt-themed…

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Marvel Rivals creative director says it’s going to become ‘a comprehensive Marvel “moving anime” experience’ and no, I don’t know what that means either

You may have thought Marvel Rivals was just a weirdly horny hero shooter with that one shark people like in it. Guangyun Chen, creative director for Marvel Rivals at NetEase, would like to prove you wrong. As he recently told FRVR, “Our goal is to shift from being ‘just a shooter’ to a comprehensive Marvel…

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