A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game’s original creators says ‘it really gives me old vibes’

A Counter-Strike 1.6 remake by some of the most experienced modders in the game’s history has been announced and is coming to Steam. The game is called Counter-Strike: Legacy, will apparently launch in early access this year, and is built using Valve’s 2013 Source software development kit “on top of our own major rewrites to…

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Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won’t do it again

Like the dystopian show Squid Games that inspired it, Beast Games is getting a second season, despite a wave of controversy over the first season of MrBeast’s Prime Video reality competition. This week a casting call appeared on the Beast Games website announcing that contestant submissions are now open for season two, which will be…

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‘I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community’: 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033’s 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game

“You’ve given us 15 years of support, 15 years of passion, and 15 years of love. Thank you.” 4A Games creative director Yevhen “Lin” Fedorets shared that heartfelt message alongside more words of gratitude from the Metro 2033 team in a video celebrating the game’s 15th anniversary this week. Andriy “Prof” Prokhorov, 4A Games co-founder…

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Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review

The Lenovo Legion Go S is a peculiar beast. I don’t think I can remember the last time I’ve enjoyed using a product so much that I’ve found so hard to recommend. But that’s what you get when you muck up your pricing in the wider market segment, and on this front Lenovo does really…

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Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin’s Creed Shadows developers

With Assassin’s Creed Shadows just a few days from release, Ubisoft has reportedly implemented an anti-harassment plan for developers to protect them from potential backlash on social media. Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been the target of persistent outrage from some corners of gaming fandom, primarily due to the presence of Yasuke, a Black samurai, which…

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This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y’know, the few people that actually own a card

A standout feature of RTX 50-series GPUs is their willingness to take some good old-fashioned overclocking. No-one was more surprised than us when we booted up stalwart overclocking tool MSI Afterburner and whacked the sliders up on some of our test cards; by contrast the past few generations of GPUs have had very little headroom…

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