ZA/UM doesn’t want ‘to invite too many comparisons’ to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—’We didn’t feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits’

Seven years on from Disco Elysium’s release and we are once again getting a game with the ZA/UM studio name on it. Zero Parades is a CRPG spy thriller that—when I played its demo a few weeks ago—felt very Disco-Elysium-shaped indeed. Which is weird, because when our Wes Fenlon chatted to principal writer Siim Sinamäe…

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Gear Up for the Adventures to Come with This Free Bundle

Category: PC Gaming The Elder Scrolls Online: Gear Up for the Adventures to Come with This Free Bundle Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published March 12, 2026 Related Stories for “The Elder Scrolls Online: Gear Up for the Adventures to Come with This Free Bundle” Category: Announcements From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox Category: Games Screenbound: Getting…

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New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

We’ve already reported how Apple’s new MacBook Neo is putting the frighteners on PC laptop makers. Now comes news that early benchmarks show the chip beating every single x86 CPU currently available when it comes to single-core performance in Cinebench 2024. Yep, that includes desktop monsters like AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X and Intel’s Core Ultra…

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No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to ‘playtest battles’ of competing directions for the game

Embark has not shied away from discussing its original plans for Arc Raiders, which were drastically different from what ultimately emerged. It was supposed to be a more PvE-focused game before it became the extraction shooter hit it is today. We stopped forcing the game [or games] we wanted, and we looked at the game…

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