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Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous, really quite substantial update for Stalker 2. Delivering a whopping 1,700 fixes to its open world survival shooter, patch 1.2 is so gargantuan that the Steam update doesn’t actually list the entire changelog. Described simply as “a…

Planet Coaster 2 has been quietly expanding its virtual theme parks since the sequel launched last November. Just before Christmas, the game’s first major update enhanced the simulation of its new flume rides, and improved the user interface—one of the main sources of criticism from the community on launch. Now, a second update has splashed…

Board game enthusiast and NYU Game Center teacher Geoff Engelstein was stunned to find, while trawling the archives of celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana University, evidence that in 1956 Vonnegut developed, and spent a year pitching, a board wargame to publishers. Alongside the letters, Engelstein found an original, complete set of rules for GHQ:…

I never cease to be amazed at the modding community’s ability to make PC games bigger, better, and in many cases weirder. But the love shown by modder KingDavidW to Arkane’s pre-Dishonored hack ‘n’ slash Dark Messiah of Might and Magic goes above and beyond. As recently outlined in a lengthy update on ModDB, KingDavidW…

The developer of independent military shooter Operation: Harsh Doorstop has waded into the thorny topic of streamers and YouTubers getting paid for positive coverage of video games, taking specific issue with content creators who accept large payments for producing positive reviews of one game, then disparage other, similar games that they haven’t been paid directly…

Kick off your weekend with a win: today’s Wordle answer is only a quick click away if you need it, or if you’d just like to instantly fill the first row with green letters. We’ve got a hint for the February 15 (1337) Wordle just below to, here to give you some fresh ideas and…