Monster Hunter producer says ‘There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan,’ and that the series’ handheld wilderness years prepared them for Wilds’ day 1 PC launch and crossplay

Speaking with GamesRadar, Monster Hunter Wilds producer Ryozo Tsujimoto talked about Capcom’s evolving stance toward PC gamers, and some of what it took to make Monster Hunter Wilds a simultaneous launch on all platforms with crossplay. “There are more players than ever on PC, including in Japan,” Tsujimoto said in response to a question about…

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We can’t have Bloodborne on PC but we can have Mudborne, a thematically similar game about breeding frogs

Awoken from a long hibernation, you find the pond abandoned and ruined. Through genetic manipulation of local frogs and plants you must restore your world, solving puzzles across frog generations in order to meet odd little goals—a bit of mad science experimentation along the way is encouraged. It’s not Bloodborne, it’s Mudborne, which is set…

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‘Massive’ Stalker 2 patch adds A-life updates and 1,700 other fixes to GSC’s survival shooter, so many you’ll need to go a little quest to read them all

Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous, really quite substantial update for Stalker 2. Delivering a whopping 1,700 fixes to its open world survival shooter, patch 1.2 is so gargantuan that the Steam update doesn’t actually list the entire changelog. Described simply as “a…

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Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run

Board game enthusiast and NYU Game Center teacher Geoff Engelstein was stunned to find, while trawling the archives of celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana University, evidence that in 1956 Vonnegut developed, and spent a year pitching, a board wargame to publishers. Alongside the letters, Engelstein found an original, complete set of rules for GHQ:…

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Planet Coaster 2’s latest update adds synchronised rides, customisable video billboards, and stops guests suffering from perpetual panic

Planet Coaster 2 has been quietly expanding its virtual theme parks since the sequel launched last November. Just before Christmas, the game’s first major update enhanced the simulation of its new flume rides, and improved the user interface—one of the main sources of criticism from the community on launch. Now, a second update has splashed…

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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gets co-op mode and extra content thanks to the mod community’s collaboration with Ubisoft: ‘To see it all come together has been very emotional for us’

I never cease to be amazed at the modding community’s ability to make PC games bigger, better, and in many cases weirder. But the love shown by modder KingDavidW to Arkane’s pre-Dishonored hack ‘n’ slash Dark Messiah of Might and Magic goes above and beyond. As recently outlined in a lengthy update on ModDB, KingDavidW…

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Indie FPS developer targets content creators who take undisclosed payments from rival developers and then dunk on his game: ‘You and I will have legal problems’

The developer of independent military shooter Operation: Harsh Doorstop has waded into the thorny topic of streamers and YouTubers getting paid for positive coverage of video games, taking specific issue with content creators who accept large payments for producing positive reviews of one game, then disparage other, similar games that they haven’t been paid directly…

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