Nintendo Locking A Screen Filter Behind A Console Upgrade Hasn't Gone Down Well With Everyone

Starfield player cobbles together an industrial factory with over 3,000 placemats—and that’s just to get the floor level

Starfield‘s outposts are primarily for mining resources, though if Fallout 4’s settlement building was any indication, this sort of industrial ingenuity was inevitable. Posted to the Starfield subreddit by user Hackoox, this fully-fledged factory floor looks as gorgeous as it does an absolute pain in the butt to build. For all of you hating on…

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How Past Meets Present in Mortal Kombat 11

The “Past Meets Present” premise of Mortal Kombat 11 has given us an amazing chance to honor Mortal Kombat’s origins, to enjoy the game’s current moment, and to reveal the first glimpses of Mortal Kombat’s future. Not every character meets their past or present counterpart in the game’s story mode, but those who do are…

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Resident Evil Requiem performance actor says they sometimes filmed in the dark ‘to make the situation feel as close to what it was without, you know, having a real-life zombie running at you’

Leon Kennedy is a veteran of the zombie apocalypse, and performed by a veteran too. Nick Apostolides returns to the role after voicing Leon in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4, as well as the animated series Infinite Darkness. Grace Ashcroft is the opposite—Resident Evil Requiem is very much her first rodeo, and…

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Left 4 Dead’s first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: ‘Why don’t I just play Counter-Strike instead?’ then ‘made me watch him play it’

Chet Faliszek, the lead on Left 4 Dead—who is now making his own retro sci-fi version called The Anacrusis—says that Gabe Newell had some pretty strong opinions on the game during its troubled development. That’s according to an interview by GameDeveloper, which outlines the horde shooter’s rocky start. Faliszek recalls stumbling into his position as…

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I know I’ll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn’t ask for more money

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. We’ve got most of the big stuff covered with our Gear of the Year awards. Though even I’ll admit we’re missing award categories for cases and coolers. There are many deserving of…

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ID@Xbox Showcase – October 2025: Everything Announced and Revealed

Category: Games October 28, 2025 ID@Xbox Showcase – October 2025: Everything Announced and Revealed Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Today, we joined forces with IGN once again to bring you the latest ID@Xbox Showcase, a news-packed show with world premieres, release date announcements, and new gameplay from just some of the incredible independent developers working on Xbox…

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