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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: ‘This essentially saved my life’

Typical, isn’t it? You wait ages for a surprise launch of additional Quake adventures, and then two come along at once. The original game just received an official new episode as part of the shooter’s 30th anniversary celebrations taking place at this year’s QuakeCon. But now Raven Software’s Quake 4 has got in on the…

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Eurocom Shows Off Sky DLX7 Notebook

There can be only one Eurocom has been a routine purveyor of high-end—nay, extreme—notebooks for several years, and last year they announced their new Sky X9 offering. Hot on the heels of that beast comes the new Eurocom Sky DLX7, which is sort of the slightly less monstrous version of an incredibly high-end notebook. The…

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Videogame lawyer says it’s become ‘just boilerplate’ this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: ‘It’s not worth the legal liability’

There’s a problem with new technologies, in that cutting-edge technology develops quickly—in the span of years. Meanwhile, us human beings with our wet flesh bodies and our complicated bureaucracies and legal systems are glacially slow. You can see this playing out with generative AI. For a few years now, we’ve heard a lot of overexcitement…

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30 years after it ‘ruined id Software,’ Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity

Just a smidge over 30 years after its original release date, Quake just got a big update. MachineGames has added a new chapter to id Software’s landmark 1996 successor to the Doom games, dubbed Dawn of the Machine. The 19 new levels, which join two previous MachineGames expansions, see Quake’s protagonist trapped in “a dimension…

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Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it’s secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: ‘They’ve been done for months! They just sit on the game! They’re just relaxing!’

It’s not like the Half-Life 3 rumour mill ever went away, but over the past few years the tinfoil hats have been a-twitching more than ever. If it’s not one thing, it’s another: the anniversary of Half-Life 2, the latest mention of “HLX” (speculated to be an internal codename) in the Steam backend or, my…

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