Developers blast the celeb-laden TGAs as ‘an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs’

The Game Awards have been and gone, turning the PC Gamer homepage into something like the deranged Instagram feed of someone obsessed with Sam Lake and Swen Vincke, but it’s left plenty to discuss—and criticise—in its wake.  In particular, the show has come under fire for the short time allotted to acceptance speeches and celebrations…

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Uninvited: A Vastly Underrated NES Horror Adventure

Point and click adventure games have a certain undeniable charm about them, granting exceptional immersion despite their occasionally clunky controls and obtuse puzzles. In the sea of retro point and clicks, the “MacVenture” franchise stands out, thanks to its brutal difficulty and macabre tone. Originally developed by ICOM Simulations for the Macintosh and later ported…

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Footage of a canceled, 10+ year-old sci-fi Call of Duty developed by Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater studio Neversoft has leaked online

First spotted by CharlieIntel, two videos supposedly from a cancelled Xbox 360-era Call of Duty game called “Future Warfare” or “NX1” internally have been shared on Twitter. Their provenance has seemingly been confirmed by a former senior Neversoft developer who worked on the project. The first video was shared by an account with the handle…

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Intel Core i9 14900K review

For the fastest chip ever to grace a gaming PC the Intel Core i9 14900K is about as boring a CPU refresh as one could be. We’ve seen it all before. The massive core count, the architecture, the 6GHz clock speed; the 14900K might do some things better than the 13th Gen but it rarely…

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Nintendo shares in Japan hit highest point since 2008

Nintendo’s shares closed at 50,110 per yen today (Thursday, 18th June) which marks the highest point they’ve been since August 2008, according to Refinitiv. Amir Anvarzadeh, a Japan stock market strategist at Asymmetric Advisors, has predicted that the spike occurred due to the recent round of exciting Pokemon news that we got yesterday. Another reason…

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