A massive cache of internal builds from Valve has reportedly leaked online, including beta builds of several classic Valve titles and possible weapons from Half-Life 2‘s cancelled third episode. The leak, which began circulating on Saturday and comes from an unknown source, includes 12 terabytes of data currently being sifted through by data miners. The…

Activision has employed many different tactics in its unending battle against cheating in Call of Duty, from suing cheat makers for millions of dollars to employing complex technical solutions to ban cheaters as quickly as possible. In its latest gambit, Activision served cease-and-desist papers to one especially infamous Call of Duty cheat maker, filmed the…

In his review of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Dan Stapleton referred to “the tingly nerd-joy of hearing original Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen’s authoritative dialogue”. Every time the character appeared on screen, as he did many times in videogames like Transformers: Devastation and Fall of Cybertron or the middling movies, it was thrilling to…

Star Wars Zero Company is enough like XCOM that everyone’s been calling it ZCOM, but there are some ways it isn’t quite XCOM enough for me. For starters, the radial menu you use to select each character’s actions, a controller-friendly system that flings all your abilities out in a circle around the active character like…

A native PC port of Nintendo’s 1999 platformer Donkey Kong 64 is finally here, and the team that pulled it off is proud to say that they used zero generative AI tools in the process. DK64 Rekongpiled, a recompilation or translation of the game’s code for modern hardware (as opposed to emulation), dropped today. All…

Hand Elden Ring players a handful of new armor sets and weapons and they’ll spend the next week or more experimenting and crunching the numbers to find out how they stack up against everything else in the legendary action RPG. That is all that’s been happening in the last few days since FromSoftware dropped the…