'April 1st will forever be a day of victory and remembrance': Super Earth congratulates Helldivers 2 community after taking back Malevelon Creek, but the timing sure is suspicious

‘April 1st will forever be a day of victory and remembrance’: Super Earth congratulates Helldivers 2 community after taking back Malevelon Creek, but the timing sure is suspicious

Victory is ours… already? Just hours after Super Earth initiated a major order to finally, once and for all, liberate community-favorite planet Malevalon Creek, Helldivers 2 players have delivered. Our greatest defeat can now be celebrated as one of our greatest achievements. The news became official with an in-game dispatch, as well as a rare…

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Xbox ‘console exclusives’ are strictly about console releases, Xbox exec affirms: Games will ‘still show up on all the normal places where we sell the PC version’

There was a spot of confusion when Xbox CEO Asha Sharma declared during the recent Xbox Games Showcase that Gears of War: E-Day is an “Xbox console exclusive.” What, we wondered, does that mean for us when it’s said by Xbox’s new management? In a new interview with GameInformer, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty…

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Lenovo’s Magic Bay means you can add a monster-sized removable webcam, a handy dandy perfume pump, or dedicated emoji screen to your new ThinkBook laptop

Virtually all laptops come with a webcam these days, nestled either in the bottom or top of the screen’s bezel. They’re generally not very good as the available space constrains how big the camera can be. Well, Lenovo’s latest ThinkBook 13X and 16P laptops sport a new 4K webcam that’s (a) absolutely massive and (b)…

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THQ’s Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered

Over five years since it was announced, the remake of Gothic 1 finally has a release date. The overhaul of Piranha Bytes’ lovably janky RPG—which boasts a ‘complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before’—will land on players’ virtual doorsteps on June 5 this year. Publisher THQ revealed the release date in a…

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Atari’s reboot of Mad Max-style racer Fatal Run is coming later this year, and its new trailer shows a hefty dose of Burnout in its irradiated DNA

I missed Atari’s announcement that it’s bringing back Fatal Run, a post-apocalyptic racer released when Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was still a relatively new film. Not that I was eagerly anticipating it—Fatal Run was only released in Europe during the death throes of the Atari 2600, so it isn’t exactly a world-renowned phenomenon. According to…

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