A surprise Steam update for Prototype broke the mods making the 16-year old game playable on modern systems—but could hint at a potential remaster

Prototype was a landmark release in videogame sweatshirts, featuring a permanently hooded, perpetually grumpy man harboring a mutagenic virus and powerful 2009-era angst. Admittedly, I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was left filled to the brim with bioweaponry against my will—until my nasty meat tentacles could fling helicopters around, anyway. All of life’s troubles…

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2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm

Not quite two months after Avalanche halted work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband, seemingly fallout from the massive wave of layoffs and cancellations imposed by Microsoft earlier in the year, Avalanche has announced the upcoming closure of its studio in Liverpool, and layoffs at its remaining operations. “In light of current challenges to our…

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The Star Trek: Voyager survival game will let you murder Tuvix all over again—so I don’t really care that it looks a little rough

Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, the upcoming survival strategy game, just peeled back the curtain a wee bit more, giving us a new trailer that shows off the sci-fi romp’s main pillars, like exploration, combat and ‘what if?’ scenarios. The trailer appeared last week, but I was busy making friends with penguins in…

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Cities: Skylines 2 latest region pack heads to the Netherlands, ‘the land of windmills, clogs, and stroopwafel,’ and includes new hospitals, fire stations, and hyperrealistic cemeteries

Cities: Skylines 2 just got a free content update in the form of the Netherlands Region Pack. This will provide Netherland-loving players the opportunity to build up a Dutch-inspired city with a bunch of new service buildings and an eerily realistic cemetery. “The interest and size of the Dutch Cities community is not a secret;…

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The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response

Dear reader, I have a confession to make: I never really got into Minecraft. Sure, I dabbled—but then I’d turn around to see the literal cathedrals folks were building with their blocks and I simply decided to go play something else. We’re not all destined to be architects, and I’m more than okay with that….

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This Energizer-branded laptop has a massive 192 Wh battery with up to 7 days standby time, but you won’t technically be able to take it on your next flight

If you know the name ‘Energizer’, there’s a good chance an image of a pink bunny just shot into your brain the second you read the headline. Well, the famous battery brand is now being emblazoned on a productivity laptop, and unsurprisingly, the battery is absolutely massive. As reported by The Verge, three laptops are…

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Battlefield 6 season 1 roadmap finally tells us how big its Call of Duty-like seasons will be: two maps, five guns, modes, and attachments

It’s the nature of big-budget shooters these days that, as soon as they’re out, folks start immediately asking what’s next. Seasons are still how we experience multiplayer games at the moment, and Battlefield 6 is finally sharing its roadmap details as launch approaches. Battlefield 6 season 1 is coming October 28, just two weeks and…

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After months of complaining that Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, Omega Planetes is here to tip every hunter upside down and shake out all their lunch money

I was not expecting Monster Hunter Wilds’ most challenging fight to date to come from a Final Fantasy 14 collaboration of all places, but as someone who is an absolute sicko for both games it’s perhaps the most fun I’ve had repeatedly carting over and over again. At first I thought it was the fact…

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