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Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-about game ever not to exist. You might think that all this anticipation was prompted…

In recent years Konami has remembered it owns a series called Metal Gear, and last month saw the release of the (pretty good) Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. This UE5 remake of MGS3 was as faithful as they come, possibly too faithful if anything, but it at least shows Konami is capable of producing…

The utterly baffling status of Intel’s Arc graphics technology just got a bit clearer. Oh, and a whole lot more confusing, too. In a nutshell, the Xe3 iGPU in the new Panther Lake chip definitely isn’t based on Celestial, Intel’s supposed next-gen graphics architecture. Instead it’s a tweak of Xe2, as seen in the Intel…

Buried under the mountains of confusing and redundant menus, Monster Hunter Wilds is among is far and away one of the most accessible games I’ve played in recent years. Clumsily laying my cards on the table here: I’m diagnosed with Klumpke’s Palsy, which has atrophied my right hand into a limp and imprecise claw-thing that…

The messaging coming out of Microsoft is becoming unmistakable. The next version of Windows is going to be all about chat. Last week, Microsoft posted a video that claimed, “the world of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to use DOS.” Now there’s a…