I watched Markiplier play Iron Lung for 45 minutes before watching Markiplier star in the Iron Lung movie for 2+ hours. Which was better?

Another week, another videogame adaptation hits the movie theaters—but this one is a bit different. YouTuber Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) produced, directed, acted in, and even distributed an adaptation of indie horror game Iron Lung, which he first recorded himself playing in 2022. But which is better, watching Markiplier play the game for 45 minutes on…

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I’ve already put 10 hours into this upcoming RPG’s demo because it has the best combat I’ve seen outside a FromSoft game

What is it? (Image credit: ForestWare) Sword Hero is a systems-heavy RPG like an Elder Scrolls or Gothic but with combat better than most action games. It’s set on a tantalizingly weird ring world populated with grimy medieval Witcher NPC types who will have daily schedules⁠—and a procedural vengeance system if you wrong them. I…

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: ‘Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee’

Unsurprisingly, Epic Games CEO and frequent X poster Tim Sweeney has thoughts about the $900 million lawsuit against Valve in the UK, which recently got the go-ahead from a competition tribunal. Also unsurprisingly, given his competing store and past criticism of Steam, Sweeney approves of the action, and based on his related legal tussles with…

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: ‘Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee’

Unsurprisingly, Epic Games CEO and frequent X poster Tim Sweeney has thoughts about the $900 million lawsuit against Valve in the UK, which recently got the go-ahead from a competition tribunal. Also unsurprisingly, given his competing store and past criticism of Steam, Sweeney approves of the action, and based on his related legal tussles with…

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he’s ‘saddened’ by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is ‘unaffected’

This Wednesday Ubisoft announced a major internal restructuring or, as we who speak and write English would put it: massive layoffs, studio closures, and the cancellation of at least six in-development projects (including the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake). The company’s share price has nosedived, a call for a “massive international strike” is…

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There’s a huge Arc Raiders duplication glitch which has players hoarding mountains of rubber ducks worth millions, ‘I extracted with 2.8 million. Still confused’

There’s always something fishy going on in Arc Raiders. Whether it be players clipping through doors or changing to first person perspective. But very few of these glitches actually earn the guilty player any in-game money. Unlike the latest hack, which manages to duplicate the new rare rubber ducks. Images of raiders beside mountains of…

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