Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: ‘Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for’

Stop Killing Games’ quest to get publishers to, get this, stop killing games trundles on. In fact, things are going quite well: the campaign’s EU initiative recently hit the 1.4 million signatures milestone, which should be enough—fingers crossed—to get it over the hurdle and off to the European Commission, which will have six months to…

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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital

It’s not even out yet, but zombie base management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is already a certified hit. Its demo, released in May, attracted hundreds of thousands of players (myself included), received great reviews and lots of attention on social media—and has now infected over a million Steam wishlists. It’s not surprising, then,…

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‘People hate it. It’s very annoying. It’s like a boss in Dark Souls’: Quarantine Zone’s biggest source of negative feedback is that damn supply cart

Along with a million wishlists, the demo for zombie apocalypse management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check got a lot of feedback. The demo was massively popular when it launched in May, and linked to a survey for players to fill out when they finished playing. Boy, did players fill out that survey. “We got…

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‘You can’t raw dog it’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘If you’re not using AI, you’re going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI’

Amid the hubbub of the Washington DC AI summit earlier this week, in which President Trump unveiled a raft of AI policies and made some dubious statements about the future of power generation, it might have been easy to miss a livestreamed interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as part of the All-In Podcast. In…

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Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update. It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought in Steam Workshop support, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was great—except for one progress-blocking bug it introduced to the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, July 25

Solve your daily Wordle game without breaking a sweat with our incredible range of help. Our tips can give your puzzle solving a general polish, while today’s hint’s happy to provide something more targeted if you need an extra lift. And if those green letters are just refusing to turn up on time, the July…

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‘I can’t believe I beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue!’: Twitch streamer turns interminable queue times into her advantage, completing Minecraft over 9 total hours of waiting for matches to pop

The only way to defeat long queue times is spend them doing something productive with your life, like beating Minecraft. Twitch streamer Aspen spent the last week in lengthy Overwatch queues—a common annoyance for high-ranked players—digging her way to the end of Minecraft. In one particularly long queue that lasted over two and a half…

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My heart’s already been stolen by this stop-motion adventure made out of wood and ‘mostly in a garden shed’

Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth. But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-motion animation. Not real models keyframed to sprites either, such…

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