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In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr’s Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag

Composer Austin Wintory returned to the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to conduct his third annual concert of game music, this one paying homage to some of his favorite pieces of music from across the medium’s history while also nodding to 2025’s biggest hits. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, unsurprisingly, had several songs…

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Former Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse ‘had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,’ but adds, ‘it wasn’t the primary cause’

With one day left before Highguard is gone for good, the former developer who cut loose on critics of the game’s reveal trailer has walked things back a bit in a new post, saying his initial reaction “was a mistake” arising from stress, anger, and lack of sleep. Josh Sobel, formerly the lead technical artist…

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Pragmata’s demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: ‘I can’t believe millions of people are excited for our game’

It’s almost Pragmata time. Soon players will be able to check out Capcom’s newest action game, set on a moonbase controlled by an—you’ve guessed it—evil AI. As human astronaut Hugh, you’ll have an AI buddy of your own, as well, in the form of Diana, an android who looks like a little girl. A whopping…

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More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek’s big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing

More than 15 years after it was first announced to the world, the PvP military shooter Warface: Clutch is going away. Publisher My.Games announced in February that it has “made the difficult decision to begin the sunset process” for the game, which will shut down for PC players on May 27. The end of Warface:…

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for March: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, EA Sports Madden NFL 26, Persona 5 Royal, Blasphemous 2 and more

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for March: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, EA Sports Madden NFL 26, Persona 5 Royal, Blasphemous 2 and more

This month, purge Tyranid swarms in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, run the show on the gridiron in EA Sports Madden NFL 26, slip back into stylish heists with Persona 5 Royal, or brave a nightmarish pilgrimage in Blasphemous 2. All these titles and more are available in March’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*. And…

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Microsoft shows support for Anthropic’s legal case against the US Department of Defense

Claude creator, Anthropic, has already had an eventful 2026—and now it’s challenging the recently renamed US Department ​of War. The Pentagon has threatened to designate the company as a “supply chain risk,” which Anthropic is currently fighting by suing the US government.Additionally on Monday, Anthropic requested a restraining order that would pause the Pentagon’s national…

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French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: ‘6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion’

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among the biggest—if it wasn’t the biggest—torrent tracking websites in France, was “emptied, then destroyed” by a hacker using the alias Gr0lum.All of the following quotes were originally in French, and have been machine-translated. In a manifesto…

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