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Udo Kier—the impossibly prolific German actor that you and I will readily recognise as Yuri from Red Alert 2, Command and Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, and Hideo Kojima’s upcoming OD—has died aged 81. His partner, Delbert McBride, confirmed the news to Variety. Kier appeared in over 200 films in the course of a long and remarkable…
Since the earliest days of humanity’s experiments with legal systems, we’ve been trying to find a way to make murder less appealing and trickier to pull off. Criminalising weapons, prison time, law enforcement—it turns out all we really needed was an extremely busy toilet. In a talk on proc-gen narratives at AdventureX, Shadows of Doubt…
So far we’ve been thoroughly spoiled in Two Point Museum, treated with an abundance of free updates—from staff memorials to the ever-expanding Digiverse expedition map—and its first major paid DLC Fantasy Finds. Having recently completed Fantasy Finds, I was impressed at the sheer breadth of content and the incorporation of light RPG mechanics that let…
Earlier in the year, I got a look at what I called the ideal GPU physique in the form of the Asus ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090. This card was announced as a celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary of selling graphics cards, and it’s now officially launched at a price of, er, $4,000. To…
The Communication Hideout quest in Arc Raiders has a few tricky steps, one of which involves locating a missing battery cell around the Red Tower, while another involves tracking down a terminal concealed around the outside of the building. On the plus side, though, this quest doesn’t require you to extract anything, so you can…
Confirmed best PC game Baldur’s Gate 3 brought CRPG stylings back into the spotlight, and more than that, proved the enduring appeal of an exceptionally reactive, player-driven story with emergent narratives and shenanigans aplenty. But while the game’s success was “an inspiration” according to CD Projekt’s joint CEO Michał Nowakowski, it’s not necessarily the direction…
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Plants vs. Zombies (Image credit: PopCap) Developer: PopcapYear: 2009 Plants vs. Zombies is a cute game unless you really take a close look at what’s happening. My melon-pult flings a watermelon across the screen where it collides with a zombie,…
The Steam Machine might remind you of a console—it’s a cute little box instead of a monolith of noisy fans, it’s well-suited to play on a TV, and you don’t have to build the damn thing yourself. It’s like the Steam Deck in that way, but it might cost quite a bit more than Valve’s…
Neon Inferno looks like a lot of new games that gleefully throw back to the golden age of the run and gun side scroller—delights like Blazing Chrome and Huntdown. Cyberpunk city, dirty cops, laser sword-wielding Yakuza, and just enough slugs to send ’em all to hell; it’s all pretty by the numbers on the surface,…
The GTA 6 community is famous for its obsessive detective work—from trailer frame counts to map-sizing spreadsheets—but few fan theories show quite this level of craft. Over on GTAForums, user JohnCGaming has written something that can only be described as a scholarly breakdown of co-protagonist Jason’s military background, and it’s quickly become required reading for…