That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: ‘They have asked me to take the project down,’ creator says

Just a week after releasing an impressive “first slice” playable build, work on Portal 64, a fan-made effort to bring Valve’s beloved Portal to the 1996 Nintendo console, has been halted. Developer James Lambert said he was asked by Valve to take the project down, because it “depends on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries.” Lambert has been…

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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review

Need to Know What is it? A time-bending metroidvania that marks a new era of Prince of Persia. Release date January 18, 2024 Expect to pay £45 / $50 Developer Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Publisher Ubisoft Reviewed on Nvidia GeForce RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM Steam Deck N/A Link Official site Prince of Perisa:…

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Old School Runescape player grinds the worst version of a minigame for 149 long hours and abandons 88 levels of XP, just to get a cute raccoon without committing a single traceable crime

Old School Runescape players are on another level, man. The game’s flooded with zero-sum games where the house always wins: yet compared to the person who gathered 1 million of the same crappy fish, this is small pennies. Despite this, I’m still somehow surprised whenever somebody goes so far out of the way just to…

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The 5 most ridiculously broken builds in D&D history

In the era of D&D 3rd edition and its 3.5 update, character building was a wild west. The game’s complex rules and deep customisation made it ripe for min-maxing—and an unbelievable barrage of first- and third-party expansion content meant there were always new races, classes, spells, and feats to mess around with, usually all hopelessly…

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s permadeath honour mode has made Act 1 my own personal Groundhog Day, and I am either having a breakdown or becoming a god

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a breathtaking RPG narrative told in three acts—it’s also been the bane of my life for the past couple of weeks. I’m starting to feel like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day: an indestructible god powered by foresight stuck in a time loop. Except Connors had no choice—I’m doing this to myself…

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