Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games

We’re in another grim period for poorly optimised PC games, with the last couple of years bringing us a string of power-hungry virtual slideshows such as 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and, more recently, Borderlands 4. Corpos like Randy Pitchford think we should stop moaning and fork out for a better PC, as playing the…

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One little bug has broken Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunning wide open with the ability to fly through the game as an unkillable god

Hollow Knight: Silksong continues to get picked apart as players try to find every little secret Team Cherry hid inside of it over the course of its long development. That also includes the things it probably didn’t intend to be in there, like glitches. Recently, a user on the Silksong speedrunning Discord found a glitch…

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Remedy issues ‘profit warning’ after FBC: Firebreak’s big overhaul fails to turn things around: ‘Despite improved player and sales metrics after the update, sales have not reached Remedy’s internal targets’

Just shy of two weeks after launching its ‘bold gambit’ to save the multiplayer shooter FBC: Firebreak, Remedy says the game is still underperforming, to the point that the studio has issued a “profit warning” for 2025 and says it’s going to eat a big loss on the whole thing. The Control spinoff shooter FBC:…

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MachineGames hints at a new game in the works, and everyone has their fingers crossed for the return of Wolfenstein

It’s the 15th anniversary of MachineGames, the Swedish developer that most recently gave us the hit action adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The studio announced a free New Game+ update for its big Indy game yesterday to celebrate its birthday, but today it hinted at something more interesting for the future. “Thank you…

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