Following Monolith’s shock closure, GOG is offering 90% off its 2005 shooter FEAR and accelerating the game’s preservation to recognise its doomed developer’s ‘contribution to gaming’

Yesterday, Warner Bros announced it was closing Monolith Productions in a “strategic change of direction”. A studio with a 30-year legacy, Monolith’s games include Blood, No One Lives Forever, Tron 2.0, Condemned: Criminal Origins, and more recently its excellent Middle-earth tie-ins Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, which introduced the remarkable Nemesis System. Amid…

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Maingear CEO says the company has had ‘zero GPUs with missing ROPs’, so maybe Nvidia’s talk of a rare ‘early production build’ problem isn’t just handwaving

The Nvidia RTX 50-series has been hobbled by all kinds of problems, least of which being low stocks and resultant high prices. So when there was talk of missing ROPs in some of the new GPUs, it seemed like little more than nasty icing on an under-baked cake. However, if what founder and CEO of…

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You can get an official Avowed fungus kit that lets you grow a piece of the Dreamscourge in your own home: ‘If you don’t do anything, eventually the mushrooms will find their way out… They’ll just burst out of the box’

I suspect not many videogames have officially licensed fungus, but it certainly makes sense for Avowed, an RPG where you spend 50 hours in the shoes of a hero who has mushrooms growing out of their face. Thanks to a company called North Spore, you can now own your own little piece of the Dreamscourge,…

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This ‘overwhelmingly positive’ Steam Next Fest autobattler demo feels like someone bolted a Path of Exile-style map onto Halls of Torment, and I fear for my future productivity

The autobattler’s been getting chimeric since Vampire Survivors released and plunged global productivity down the toilet. VS was a chaotic slot machine: you didn’t so much craft a build as you did keep pulling the lever and hope you could assemble something vaguely effective from what it spits out, which kept me occupied for weeks….

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GPU manufacturer Yeston’s done the unthinkable by dunking its new ‘Atlantis’ RX 9070 XT graphics card in the ocean

You know the deal, it’s Yeston, so prepare for something… special, and possibly a little outrageous. The company that brought us the genuinely very inspired ‘Cute Pet’ graphics card design (see the third image in the gallery further down) has certainly gone for ‘outrageous’ this time with its advertisement for an upcoming RX 9070 XT…

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Shape of Dreams’ demo shows off an ingenious roguelike that wields Risk of Rain-tier finesse with action MOBA chaos, and I think I might be in love

I’m a little staggered that I hadn’t heard of Shape of Dreams before—while it has updated and promoted its demo for Next Fest, it’s actually had a “prologue” available for a while, which has essentially been a sort of open alpha test for its devs. Click on that link, and you’ll find that while its…

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Inzoi’s wild karma system can turn cities into literal ghost towns that you have to cleanse, game director says: ‘If too many ghosts appear in the city, new Zois cannot be born’

Beautifully realistic life sim Inzoi is nearly here and we’re learning more every week about features as its game director Hyungjun Kim shares plans with fans. In a recent interview from the newest issue of the PC Gamer magazine, Kim goes even deeper into one of its less realistic elements, the karma system, where things…

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