CDPR wants to make The Witcher 3 Remastered feel like any other game released today: ‘It’s so easy to get used to these new improvements that it’s hard to go back’

As if September wasn’t busy enough, The Witcher 3 is calling us again. CDPR’s remaster will be launching as a free update on September 29. The studio’s goal with this new version is to make it feel like a 2026 game, rather than a 2015 game that’s been dusted off. And while this is the…

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Blizzard finally told players where the big sword in WoW went after 8 years, and I’m just bummed out a reveal this cool was in an interview somewhere

It’s been a meme for eight years—where’s the sword, Blizzard? At the end of World of Warcraft: Legion, the big bad Sargeras tried to punch a big, corruptive sword into the heart of Azeroth. For years—eight years and nine months, to be exact—it’s been a big, hanging question mark over the game’s lore. Especially given…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump he agrees the AI doomsayers are perpetrating a hoax: ‘you saw through all of that’

There’s been a lot of talk about AI ‘slowdown’ over the last few days, since Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said the industry needs to slow down to allow for better safety measures to be implemented, with these comments themselves riding in the wake of recent cybersecurity threats. Seemingly every big tech bro and even world…

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Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there’s still room for big-budget immersive sims: ‘When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored’

Should immersive sims rein in their budgets? Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen thinks so. We chatted to him last month, where he said a lot of immersive sims are in “an arms race to be bigger and better”, but that the size of the audience and the competition from other big-budget games makes that a…

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Admitting the OGL fiasco was a ‘rug pull’, D&D head says ‘bluntly, we’re recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps’

Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023, portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to rug-pull any third-party creator it didn’t like (among other such horrors). This began the long and arduous process of…

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The Steam Deck 2 has ‘not really’ been impacted by the memory supply crisis, with Valve still focused on a ‘very delineated performance improvement’ for its next handheld

With the release of the new Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and now the Steam Frame VR headset, this year has been chock-full of Valve hardware releases. So, what could possibly be next—the Steam Deck 2? To some extent, sure; Valve has been “hard at work” on its next handheld gaming PC pretty much since…

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Arc Raiders Expeditions may not come back: ‘Maybe we’ll scrap the whole system’

Embark Studios announced a “pause” on Expeditions in Arc Raiders until early 2027 so it can rework the system to address longstanding issues and complaints that can’t be handled with “incremental fixes.” In a recent interview with PCGamesN, though, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said the studio might go even further by ditching Expeditions…

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After nearly a year of silence following its last-minute delay, Kingmakers resurfaces with an extended gameplay video and new playtest

It’s been just about a year since Kingmakers, the game about bringing a gun to a knife fight, was delayed just ahead of its planned launch, and we’ve heard nothing about it since. Today developer Redemption Road finally broke that extended silence with a new “deep dive” trailer detailing everything players will be doing in…

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Wardogs players are actively avoiding one team in particular: ‘They are literally the dumbest people on the planet’

Last night, a buddy and I were stuck on the team selection screen in Wardogs. Manticore (Green) and Valkyra (Red) were 100% full, but Lonestar (Blue) had plenty of vacancies. Yet, there we sat—locked in a stalemate with a dozen other players desperate to not join blue. “Anything but blue,” we chanted, spamming left-click over…

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