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Resident Evil Re:Verse is reversing right off Steam, as Capcom claims it has served its ‘original, celebratory purpose’ despite mostly negative reviews

Resident Evil Re:Verse, Capcom’s deathmatch spinoff of its iconic horror series, will reverse its last roundhouse later this year, as the publisher has announced it’s ceasing all service for the game in June. Re:Verse originally launched in October 2022, coinciding with the release of Resident Evil Village’s Winters expansion. It enabled six players to battle…

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I spent too long playing the Cyberpunk 2077 mod that turns V’s hands into feet, and now I genuinely think it’s what’s great about PC gaming

V Feethand is a Cyberpunk 2077 mod that exchanges V’s hands for feet. Here’s a picture. (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) Still with me? Great. Per its author, who lists themselves as “me” in the Created By box and “resetygk” in the Uploaded By box, it uses a foot model taken from the less gnomically…

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Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings

Bloodborne on PC may remain the dominion of dreamers and madmen, but in lieu of FromSoftware’s gothic action-RPG finally discovering our eldritch realm, we always have Nightmare Kart. The tongue-in-cheek kart racer (which was originally titled Bloodborne Kart before Sony performed a legal visceral attack on its nomenclature) arrived on PC last year, wowing players…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, February 8

Kickstart your weekend Wordle with our clue for the February 8 (1330), designed to give you a helping hand without immediately giving the game away. You can also use it further into the puzzle if you like, to nudge any yellow letters into place and sweep away those greys. Not clicking? Not enough rows left…

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Monster Hunter Wilds beta: How to defeat Arkveld

There’s clearly one opponent in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta that towers over the rest, and that’s Arkveld, a massive white wyvern. Arkveld wasn’t fightable in the first beta—Wilds’ “flagship” monster is a new addition for the second open beta, and I think Capcom included it to put cocky and complacent hunters in their place….

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Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn’t stop emailing each other about it: ‘Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right’

First reported by Ars Technica, the copyright case against Facebook parent company Meta over its use of authors’ work to train large language models has unearthed some embarrassing dirty laundry in discovery. Dozens of emails, allegedly between Meta employees, discuss torrenting massive amounts of pirated material⁠—and seeding those torrents to boot⁠—in order to train the…

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PC Gamer’s simulated Super Bowl 2025 live coverage: featuring Football Simulator’s extreme physics

Welcome to the annual (except that one year I forgot) PC Gamer computer simulation of the Super Bowl! Today I’m live-blogging the early access physics-driven Football Simulator (using CPU-controlled teams) to perfectly predict the outcome of this Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. I am also going to mess with…

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