May 3, 2026
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Deus Ex: Invisible War wasn’t what it should have been because the studio moved to an engine that was really built for Thief: ‘A super-boneheaded call, very bad decision… it really tanked development’

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Deus Ex: Invisible War has its defenders, including PC Gamer’s own Joshua Wolens, but even the most stout-hearted of them would never go as far as saying it was a worthy sequel to the original. Where Deus Ex ripped up the rulebook and set an example that the immsim genre has struggled to replicate ever…

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A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out

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When World of Warcraft: Midnight players saw an NPC with an expensive painting for sale, they took it as a challenge. Blizzard developers love to sneak in secrets for people to try to solve and a 9,999,999 gold painting—the maximum amount of gold a single character can even have—was a clear tease for anyone who…

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Ubisoft Finally Teases Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced With Concept Art

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Well it’s about time. Ubisoft has finally acknowledged the terminally leaked remake/remaster of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, appropriately subtitled ‘Resynced‘. In a franchise update, Head of Content Jean Guesdon provided news on projects Hexe and Invictus, the former being a proper narrative driven mainline entry in the series, and the latter a PvP title from…

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Ubisoft finally confirms the Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake is real, and it’s dropping the ‘4’ for some reason

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The long-rumored, many times-leaked Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake is official. Ubisoft dropped the confirmation in an email to press laying out the future of the Assassin’s Creed series, sandwiched between sparse details about a future co-op AC game and the upcoming Netflix show. “Speculation around Assassin’s Creed is not new, but it’s worth…

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The devs on Deus Ex: Invisible War knew its most-hated part was a ‘terrible idea,’ and they give the director ‘sh*t about it all the time’

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For nearly four years, my author bio on this website has informed you that Deus Ex: Invisible War was pretty good, actually. The much-maligned sequel to one of the greatest games of all time had its flaws in spades, I don’t deny that, but it kept enough of a beating imsim heart that my 13-year-old…

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance

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Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 CPU has appeared in the Geekbench results browser for the first time (via Notebookcheck) and posted some pretty impressive numbers. In terms of single-core performance, it’s over 30% faster than the best laptop CPUs from AMD and Intel. Geekbench is but one metric and obviously not a real-world application. But…

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Highguard director shares stats and thoughts on the game’s failure, denies conspiracy theories about where it all went wrong: ‘Nobody will know the true story of the studio or game’

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It’s all over but the crying, as the song famously goes: After 37 days of existence, Wildlight Entertainment pulled the plug on Highguard yesterday, declaring the game unsustainable. Not long after, studio head Chad Grenier shared some insights into how the game actually performed, and it really doesn’t sound quite as catastrophic as the game’s…

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