Mick Gordon is asking ‘how heavy can we get it?’ in his first full game soundtrack since Doom Eternal: ‘I’m really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project’

Australian composer Mick Gordon is one of the most widely-recognized composers in the videogame industry, with his signature propulsive, distorted, future-metal sound helping define id Software’s wildly successful Wolfenstein and Doom reboots. In the five years since a public falling out with longtime collaborator Bethesda, Gordon has contributed to metal projects, a large portion of…

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Microsoft Flight Simulator isn’t just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots

The most recent incarnation of Microsoft’s long-running flight simulator series is a genuine marvel, whether you fancy yourself an ace pilot or just want to crash spectacularly into the Eiffel Tower. Speaking more to the former instinct, Microsoft is teaming up with Boeing to put that high-fidelity simulation to work in a virtual training program…

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The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is one of the coolest games on Steam, and only in part because it’s a robust retro game compilation that introduced me to Yars’ Revenge, the only Atari game I’ve ever loved. It’s also a sort of digital coffee table book replete with interviews, historical blurbs, and quaint reimaginings of…

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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC’s best spaceship strategy games, ‘will no longer be available for purchase on any platform’ as of next week

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, Black Lab Games’ well-regarded interstellar tactics game, will be delisted from Steam and all other platforms as of November 15. Publisher Slitherine announced Deadlock’s removal from purchase on its website, stating the game and all its expansions are to be “phased out” from sale and “will no longer be available for purchase…

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No Man’s Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect’s Normandy to their spaceship collection

It’s been a big year for No Man’s Sky, although you could argue that every year since 2016 has been a big year for Hello Games’ spectacularly redeemed space exploration sim. 2025 brought another helping of reworks to its universe simulation in Worlds: Part 2, as well as space palaeontology in its Relics update, stellar…

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Terminator 2D: No Fate has been pushed back a second time, as its publisher scrambles to assemble physical copies after tariff-induced shipping woes: ‘We are sincerely sorry for the repeated delays’

Terminator 2D: No Fate has been delayed a second time, with the release date now pushed back into December. Bitmap Bureau’s action throwback was originally slated to launch on October 31, but was bumped back to November 26 due to global financial instability. This remains the cause of the additional delay, though significant progress has…

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Rust doubles down on its ‘controversial’ meta changes by wiping everyone’s crafting blueprints to ‘bring back that sense of discovery’, and it might become a regular thing

Last month, Facepunch Studios began overhauling player progression in its nihilistic survival sim Rust to coax players out of their bases and encourage more PvP combat, introducing a “controversial” blueprint fragment system that requires players to locate and piece together blueprints to upgrade their workbenches above level one. Despite the apparently mixed reception of blueprint…

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