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‘Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales’: New Blood chief says Blood West sold ‘like 200% more’ the day it was a freebie on EGS

If Steam’s big draw is the seasonal sale with an avalanche of ludicrous discounts, the Epic Games Store’s big draw is the freebie. Games are free to keep on the platform so often that the folks at PC Gamer maintain a living list with the latest offerings, and even though Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has…

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Bungie finally shows off post-Destiny extraction shooter Marathon, which will launch in September with signups open for a playtest this month

After all the cryptic teasers, brutal layoffs, and a thrilling, somewhat messy, not-quite conclusion to the story of Destiny 2, Bungie today finally laid its cards on the table with a livestream gameplay reveal of Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that continues the story of its mind-bending Doom-era series of Mac FPSes. For the full…

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Cyberpunk 2077 update promises ‘up to 33%’ higher frame rates on Arrow Lake and at the very least we gained 8% in the benchmark

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.2 update could be fantastic for anyone with a machine packing an Intel Arrow Lake chip—all five of you—thanks to announced CPU-threading optimisations for the game. The changes would reportedly put CPUs like the Core Ultra 9 285K up to the same performance figures of Ryzen 7 7800X3D, albeit in one game, but…

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As if Disney Dreamlight Valley could get any more magical, the Wishblossom Ranch expansion adding horses has improved the entire experience more than I thought it would

As much as I love Disney Dreamlight Valley, getting around by foot can be tedious. You don’t really think about it when you’ve only got the valley to explore, as each of the biomes feel so close you don’t need to make a massive journey to get where you need to go. However, the sheer…

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