Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you’re getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now

You know what gamers love? Information. Not me. Personally, I think whatever goes on in the black confines of my PC tower is none of my business—fans spin up, fans spin down, sometimes something beeps. It’s a strange and arcane world I have no truck with, but I’m an outlier. Most folks out there want…

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You aren’t just imagining things: Elden Ring Nightreign player confirms it’s 6x harder to revive someone at 3 bars when compared to 1, because FromSoftware’s UI is basically lying to you

If you’ve played Elden Ring Nightreign, you’ve likely had this experience. Your friends are both down and at three bars. It’s to the wire. A Nightlord is bearing down upon you. You rush to bring them back up, start to swing, and mutter to yourself: “Why is this so hard?” then you’re flattened into paste…

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No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: ‘Keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time’

I played Final Fantasy Tactics in an emulator on my phone. It was not ideal. (Perfect for Advance Wars, though.) Later this year, me and you and everyone else will be able to play it in a proper remastered version when Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles comes out on PC and consoles. But it…

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Splitgate 2 review

Need to Know What is it? Multiplayer FPS with portalsExpect to pay: Free to play (cosmetic bundles, battle pass)Developer: 1047 gamesPublisher: 1047 gamesSteam Deck: PlayableReviewed on: Radeon RX 6600, Ryzen 7 5700G, 32GB DDR4 RAMLink: Steam Splitgate 2’s plan to “make FPS great again,” as 1047 Games co-founder Ian Proulx’s really cool hat put it,…

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Ball hogs and ‘wannabe Messis’ are already the heels of the Rematch community: ‘Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick’

Rematch just isn’t a game where you can 1v5. Goalkeepers are blessed with unlimited stamina, ball hogs are easily stolen from, and it’s pretty easy to react to a lone player’s desperate shot at the goal. That hasn’t stopped some players from instantly dropping ten smackers on the Ronaldinho skin and treating the ball like…

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Ubisoft slows free currency gain in Rainbow Six Siege X to a pathetic crawl, then immediately drops its most expensive skin in 10 years

As the honeymoon fades on Rainbow Six Siege’s big “Siege X” update that dropped a payload of welcome quality-of-life improvements on the aging FPS last week, players have identified new ways Ubisoft is stinking up the joint. Ubi is facing backlash to some ugly changes to XP and Renown gain in Siege X. The amount…

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Just 1 year after raising $340,000 on Kickstarter to make a ‘vibrant’ new JPRG, Studio Camelia abruptly closes

After raising nearly $340,000 on Kickstarter in a crowdfunding campaign that ended in June 2024, Studio Camelia, the developer of “a vibrant tribute to the golden age of JPRGs” called Alzara Radiant Echoes, has announced that it’s shutting down. In a Kickstarter update (via Game Developer), Studio Camelia said that despite the success of the…

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