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A fifteen year open source effort to remake Dungeon Keeper just hit 1.0

Dungeon Keeper is a stone cold, never-bettered classic of the management genre, no matter how many other games try to mimic its devilish setting and moreish progression. The only issue is that the 1997 original is a little ugly and constrained by modern standards. Enter KeeperFx, a long-running open source ...
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I guess I only want to play old school racing games now

It's the Steam Deck's fault. I picked up Valve's handheld with the aim of using it to play anything and everything, but instead I've used it almost exclusively to play topdown racer Circuit Superstars and Amiga-era throwback racer Horizon Chase Turbo. Enter Super Woden GP 2, which just released yesterday ...
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Netflix Announces Return Of “The Voice Of Geralt” In New Witcher Animation

"Coming late 2024".Netflix this week has lifted the lid on its new animated Witcher film, Sirens of the Deep. Perhaps what's most exciting about this upcoming project airing in "late 2024" is that it will see the return of Doug Cockle.If you weren't already aware, Cockle is the famous English ...
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 11th)

Heading back to Hyrule.Ready for a spot of weekend gaming? Us too. Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing!Before we dive into our screen plans, let's have a look back at what happened this week in the world of news. This week has been all about da ...
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Version 3.0.0) New Character Stats & Balance Changes Revealed

Here's what's been updated.Just days ago, Nintendo launched the sixth and final DLC wave for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch. The patch notes detailed all sorts of general updates and fixes.This included a lot of fine adjustments, and we've got some extra insight, courtesy of the Japanese ...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies Review in Progress

This is our Zombies review for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Check out the single-player review for our thoughts on the campaign or the multiplayer review for our thoughts on PvP.Like a lot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, this year’s Zombies mode has undergone what might be ...
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Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Wins Nintendo GOTY At Golden Joystick Awards 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 takes out "ultimate" GOTY.The Golden Joystick Awards 2023 has just wrapped up and we've now got a full list of every winner. On the Switch front, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has officially won the Nintendo game of the year for 2023.The "ultimate" game ...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Review in Progress

This is our multiplayer review in progress for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. For our thoughts on the campaign, check out the single-player campaign review.Update - November 10, 2023:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 officially launched yesterday, and it isn’t surprising that not a lot has changed about its ...
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will celebrate its first birthday with a new mission and zone

What is a birthday but a celebration that, despite all your struggles, you survived? It has been almost a year since the release of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, meaning it's been now a full year of apologies, paused expansions, and transformative patches. And yet it lives. The co-op shooter now seems ...
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Play and make platformer levels inspired by a cruel freeware classic

I Wanna Be The Guy was a freeware platformer that pastiched classic Nintendo games and required pixel-perfect jumps and a lot of trial and error to overcome its umpteen unpredictable, unfair deaths. Naturally it became an internet sensation all the way back in 2007, bolstered further by the release of ...
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