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Cars have had real-life DLC for a while, but now Volkswagen’s gone full pay to win, locking a car’s max horsepower behind a subscription

Some of the execs at Volkswagen must like Gacha games⁠—so much so that, as reported by Auto Express, you now have to “subscribe” to get your car’s full horsepower output with one of its new models. VW’s proposition is this: buy a new ID.3—the brand’s “entry level” (I remember when that used to mean <£20,000,…

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Open Fridge EP: 40 X-Arcade Ready to Rumble | Nintendo Hates Canada | Bacon x Cereal

Viewer Poll: What’s a bigger Deal? Gears of War coming to Playstation HellDivers 2 coming XBOX 1. Link Support (Affiliate Links) Support the show by shopping through these links! Become a Member, https://www.youtube.com/@19kfox https://www.youtube.com/@KaoticBPR https://www.youtube.com/@nerdloungemaster84 2. What’s the Deal? – Gaming Deals Roundup This week’s must-see discounts & bundles: All Video Game Deals – Best…

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Hollow Knight: Silksong returns as the #1 wishlisted game on Steam after Inzoi’s release—but is it just keeping the seat warm after 6 years of slowly-gathered hype?

I’ve somehow ended up in the unenviable position, dear reader, of being PC Gamer’s resident ‘the Silksong community’s having a bad time’ writer—which is a beat I didn’t know existed, but hey, I’m here, aren’t I? Whenever I have to crack the lid open on said community, like checking in on an ant farm, I…

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Embark stealthily nerfs Arc Raiders skill everyone was using to farm legendary loot: ‘We’re exploring the possibility of adding a skill reset mechanic’

Everyone’s favorite method of farming rare loot in Arc Raiders isn’t what it used to be after this morning’s patch. The Security Breach skill, one of the final abilities unlocked on the Survival branch of the skill tree, allows raiders exclusive access to special locked containers on all maps. Security Breach quickly became the most…

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Dark Messiah was ‘horny, generic, linear, unbalanced’ and may have been forgotten by Arkane, but it’s inspiring a new generation of developers

Arkane Studios celebrated 24 years of business this month with a social media post that commemorated almost all of its games. In the line-up was subterranean RPG Arx Fatalis and extraordinary FPS experiment Deathloop. So was System Shock tribute Prey, as well as all three Victoriana stealth-action games set in the Dishonored universe.  Even this…

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No one’s making a big-budget immersive sim any time soon, but you can catch up on the best ones ever made for less than the price of a single new game in the Steam Autumn Sale

Despite them being god’s own genre by any objective metric, barely anyone makes immersive sims these days. That is, aside from Raphael Colantonio—the imsim Hiroo Onoda—and the half of Arkane that Microsoft didn’t kill. Even then, the latter is making a game with Blade brand on it rather than something based in the original worlds…

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