Pragmata’s demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: ‘I can’t believe millions of people are excited for our game’

It’s almost Pragmata time. Soon players will be able to check out Capcom’s newest action game, set on a moonbase controlled by an—you’ve guessed it—evil AI. As human astronaut Hugh, you’ll have an AI buddy of your own, as well, in the form of Diana, an android who looks like a little girl. A whopping…

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More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek’s big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing

More than 15 years after it was first announced to the world, the PvP military shooter Warface: Clutch is going away. Publisher My.Games announced in February that it has “made the difficult decision to begin the sunset process” for the game, which will shut down for PC players on May 27. The end of Warface:…

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Microsoft shows support for Anthropic’s legal case against the US Department of Defense

Claude creator, Anthropic, has already had an eventful 2026—and now it’s challenging the recently renamed US Department ​of War. The Pentagon has threatened to designate the company as a “supply chain risk,” which Anthropic is currently fighting by suing the US government.Additionally on Monday, Anthropic requested a restraining order that would pause the Pentagon’s national…

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French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: ‘6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion’

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among the biggest—if it wasn’t the biggest—torrent tracking websites in France, was “emptied, then destroyed” by a hacker using the alias Gr0lum.All of the following quotes were originally in French, and have been machine-translated. In a manifesto…

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Solasta 2 launch times and release date

Solasta has long been a sleeper hit for CRPG fans, and Solasta 2 is looking to take the series to new heights (with hopefully even more players). The demo that launched early last year gave us all a very promising first impression. Not to overgeneralise, but it’s certainly giving off Baldur’s Gate 3 vibes in…

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Industry legend Shinji Mikami has a new(ish) studio with staff benefits like ‘a chocolate fountain on Valentine’s Day’

Shinji Mikami left Tango Gameworks in 2023, and shortly beforehand had started up a new development studio called Unbound. The company’s website appears to have been live for over a year, but has only recently come to wider attention (first spotted, I believe, by VGC), and has some scant details about what they’re cooking up….

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Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic’s money-printing battle royale, still exists, and after nearly a decade it’s going free to play

Well, here’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Fortnite: Save the World, the game that gave us Epic’s absurdly popular battle royale, has been quietly persisting for the better part of a decade, just chilling in the shadow of its offspring. And now it’s going free to play. I know: was it…

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Resident Evil Requiem mod makes Insanity mode even more brutal with zombie bites that actually infect you

If you’re one of the 9.2% of Steam users who’ve already beaten Resident Evil Requiem on the unlockable Insanity difficulty, you’re probably in need of a fresh challenge to tide you over until Capcom releases that upcoming story DLC, and hopefully mercenaries mode (they zoomed in to Koshi Nakanishi’s face when he said “mini game,”…

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