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Doom’s new Chain Spear weapon seems to be dividing The Dark Ages’ audience – “I’m like an hour in and I can’t wait to get the shield back”
Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations, the recently revealed expansion for id Software’s shooter, has launched to a broadly warm reception but has sparked debate over one addition: the new Chain Spear weapon. The DLC currently holds a “Very Positive” rating on Steam, with some players praising it as feeling like a full sequel and…
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A current Valve designer recreated Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm in the Source 2 engine, and says he was “blown away at how powerful these tools are”
A designer currently working at Valve has rebuilt Ravenholm, the memorably grim zombie-infested town from Half-Life 2, inside the newer Source 2 engine, and shared his enthusiasm about the experience. He said he was “blown away at how powerful these tools are,” offering fans a glimpse of how one of the series’ most iconic locations…
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Palworld Reaches A Huge Player Milestone Ahead Of 1.0 Launch
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Palworld will remain $30 as it gears up for its 1.0 release
Pocketpair has confirmed that Palworld, its “Pokémon with guns” survival game, will keep its price at $29.99 when it leaves early access and launches as Version 1.0 on 10 July. This matters because, like many early access titles, the game had long carried the possibility of a price rise at full release, with its Steam…
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Marvel Officially Brings Back ‘Moon Knight’ Character After 4 Years
The second season of Marvel’s acclaimed animated series X-Men ’97 has continued a run of hidden connections to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the latest episode has revived a character last seen in the 2022 Disney Plus series Moon Knight. In the episode “The Rise of Apocalypse Part 2”, one of the statues resurrected…
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Valve’s magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
Valve has updated Proton, its compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux, by rebasing it onto a newer codebase and adding fresh fixes. The update matters because Proton underpins Linux gaming and the Steam Deck, so improvements widen the range of Windows titles that Linux users can play smoothly. Among the notable…
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Workers at MindsEye studio protesting controversial fan event this weekend after multiple rounds of layoffs
Staff at Build a Rocket Boy (BARB), the Edinburgh studio behind the poorly received game MindsEye, are due to picket outside the studio’s offices on Saturday 11th July. They are protesting against an “all-expenses-paid” fan event the developer is hosting the same weekend, at which community members will be flown in to play an updated…
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Academy Museum Unveils The Horror Show Exhibition Featuring ‘Carrie’ 50th Anniversary Screening, John Carpenter Retrospective
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has announced a major new exhibition, The Horror Show, devoted to the art and craft of horror cinema. Running for 10 months from 26 September 2026 to 25 July 2027 in the museum’s Katzenberg Gallery, it will be accompanied by film retrospectives, including a 50th anniversary…
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Gaming laptops are too expensive right now, but this one’s a good value
The Verge’s latest deals roundup argues that current gaming laptop prices are poor value, largely because of an unprecedented surge in the cost of RAM and, to a lesser degree, storage, which has pushed up prices for low-to-midrange machines. Against this backdrop, the article highlights MSI’s Katana 15 HX (2025) as a rare worthwhile buy,…
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Spinoff ‘Soulm8te’ Headed Straight to Home Video After ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Bombed
Universal has removed the M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te from its theatrical release schedule, and Blumhouse Atomic Monster will instead send the AI sci-fi thriller straight to home video. Directed and co-written by Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother), the film will launch exclusively on digital platforms from 1 August through a deal with Universal Pictures…