Resident Evil Requiem briefcase code

Puzzling out the briefcase code in Resident Evil Requiem can take a little bit of legwork. Similar to the scavenger hunt you also start in the S.T.A.R.S Office, there are some clues littered about that room that tell you where to find the code for the briefcase. It’s only three-letters, but it’s not really the…

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3 months after laying off a bunch of people, Splash Damage has become ‘Splash Damage Group’ and acquired another studio

In the latest example of ‘I don’t understand business,’ Splash Damage, which just three months ago made major layoffs so it could “remain agile and adaptable in what has been a very challenging market,” has acquired Gamepires, the maker of the open world survival game Scum. The acquisition, backed by Emona Capital and part of…

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You might think hidden object games aren’t cool, but that’s only because you haven’t tried the Find My Frogs: Branches demo yet

Find My Frogs was one of my favorite games of 2025, a late-year discovery that absolutely charmed me with what I firmly believe is the most chill, hypnotically relaxing gaming experience I’ve ever had. The sequel, Find My Frogs: Branches, is basically more of the same—a “cozy hidden object game” with hundreds of frogs living…

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The New York Attorney General’s Office has flipped at least one Counter-Strike knife skin on the Steam Marketplace for purposes of state

Yesterday, New York state attorney general Letitia James announced that the state of New York had opened a lawsuit against Valve, accusing the Steam developer of violating gambling laws by “letting children and adults illegally gamble” via “addictive and harmful” loot box mechanics. Contained within New York’s 52-page court filing detailing its investigation into Valve’s…

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Just Cause dev co-founder says the studio got too big and ‘numbers focused,’ so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler

It’s a story we’ve seen a lot this decade: An experienced videogame developer becomes fatigued by ballooning team sizes and meetings about monetization strategy, and then strikes out on their own to start a smaller studio with funding from private investors and companies like NetEase. In this case, it’s Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Just Cause…

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Marathon briefly censors ‘Arc Raiders’ in chat, just like Activision and EA did, and it was probably another accident because it was quickly and quietly fixed

Marathon looks pretty groovy, but it’s got one big problem and it goes by the name of Arc Raiders. Embark’s narrative-driven sci-fi extraction shooter is really good, and really popular, and it stole Marathon’s thunder in a big way—to the point that it influenced some of the design changes Bungie made to the game in…

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