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Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic’s money-printing battle royale, still exists, and after nearly a decade it’s going free to play

Well, here’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Fortnite: Save the World, the game that gave us Epic’s absurdly popular battle royale, has been quietly persisting for the better part of a decade, just chilling in the shadow of its offspring. And now it’s going free to play. I know: was it…

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Mini Review: Minishoot’ Adventures – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – Zelda Meets Twin-Stick Shooter Make A Lovely Pairing

Ganon fire. I’ve seen lots of games try to emulate top-down Zelda over the years; some to great success and others, well… not so much. Minishoot’ Adventures – NIntendo Switch 2 Edition falls into the first camp, and although it’s not as grand in scale as your average Hyrulian quest these days, it nevertheless nails…

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Resident Evil Requiem mod makes Insanity mode even more brutal with zombie bites that actually infect you

If you’re one of the 9.2% of Steam users who’ve already beaten Resident Evil Requiem on the unlockable Insanity difficulty, you’re probably in need of a fresh challenge to tide you over until Capcom releases that upcoming story DLC, and hopefully mercenaries mode (they zoomed in to Koshi Nakanishi’s face when he said “mini game,”…

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Garry Newman says companies have tried to buy Facepunch but the only reason to sell it would be for money ‘and I feel like I’ve got enough money’

Garry Newman, creator of Garry’s Mod and CEO of Facepunch Studios, sat down at GDC with PC Gamer’s Chris Livingston to discuss… well, loads of things, from the history of Gmod to Rust to the imminent release of the studio’s new game creation platform, s&box (which will apparently carry a similar price tag to Gmod).Despite…

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The one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we’ve come a long from the old Razer Boomslang, baby

Nostalgia’s a weird, often powerful force. Though not necessarily one for good. Nostalgia can easily filter the past through rose-tinted refactored memories, creating an undeserved sense of positivity around something purely by virtue of the distance of time. And Razer is desperately looking to harness that for the 20th Anniversary Edition of its formative Boomslang…

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Interview: “I’m The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry” – Skyrim’s Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall’s “Miserable” Crunch

“Pretty much everything done on Daggerfall was a negative lesson in what not to do”. There are very few developers around who can claim to have as much insight into Bethesda’s history as Bruce Nesmith. Arriving from the Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR in the mid-90s, Nesmith has had two separate tenures at the RPG…

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