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Porting Doom to inappropriate platforms is one of the internet’s favourite hobbies. Devices compatible with id Software’s definitive FPS now include Lego bricks, pregnancy tests, and player-pianos. One ingenious PhD student even displayed Doom on gut bacteria cells, making the shooter a literal cultural phenomenon. Now, an enterprising high schooler has further extended Doom’s platform…
When was the first time you noticed physics in a video game? For me, it wasn’t bifurcating a headcrab-zombie with a saw blade in Half-Life 2, or seeing a Cleaner goon collapse into a stack of shelves in Max Payne 2. It was watching a bunch of zombie limbs roll down a hillside in Myth…
The biggest fight in Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 lasts an entire episode. It’s almost exhausting to watch, so stuffed with over-the-top animation that you could put it on repeat for hours and still catch new details each time. That action blowout is the most exciting part of an uneven season, but the moment I keep…
Get your puzzle-solving weekend off to the best possible start with our Wordle help. Use today’s clue to fill your early rows, or read through our selection of tips if you need some inspiration. Or, feel free to scroll your way to the January 18 (1309) answer if nothing seems to be going your way….
The headquarters of League of Legends and Valorant developer Riot Games is a large office complex in Santa Monica, not far from the Palisades neighborhood that has been flattened by one of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires that started last week. Those offices have been closed since the start of the fires—which still haven’t been…
Path of Exile 2 can be punishing. Compared to PoE 1, player characters are more fragile. Monsters hit harder, and they’ve got movement collision—if you get cornered, you can get surrounded so thoroughly that no amount of dodge rolling will help you. With this Titan build devised by YouTuber Panzerfaust, however, there’s a simple solution…
Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere (another name for HoYoverse) has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and will block children under the age of 16 from making in-game purchases without parental consent in settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and “deceived children…
Vampire Survivors had a big 2024 and what sounds like an even bigger 2025 is on the way, which includes free updates to the action roguelike that “will be a bit chunkier than usual.” Patience is requested from fans, however, because “a lot of time is needed to QA and release patches now, since we’re…
(Image credit: Ubisoft) Ubisoft posted some new Assassin’s Creed Shadows artwork the other day. It’s a collage of faces which somewhat oddly minimizes the two playable characters (you can see the full image at the bottom of this article). There’s a big guy at the top who’s much more prominent than the leads in the…
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC will require “some serious hardware to accommodate Cloud and his silly-large sword,” we said when the system requirements were announced in December 2024, including a whopping 155GB of storage space. But the good news is the game isn’t so demanding that it won’t run on a Steam Deck—in fact,…