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Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog MKII review - still the premium HOTAS to beat

Is Aniimo a gacha game?

The creature catcher says Anii-no to typical gacha banner pulls.

The Witcher 3 producer says it's scary to work with another studio on the game's expansion: 'I also think twice about leaving my baby with someone'

But, "there are people over there who are not me who take the best care ever of them."

"A dried husk of a product": former Doom producer berates Microsoft for making Halo a "mid-tier" game and mourns the "financialisation" of AAA

Former Doom: The Dark Ages producer Andrew Willis has shared tuppence on the state of the blockbuster videogame trade, arguing that the biggest companies and most popular series are going through the final stage of a familiar "cycle" whereby the moneyfolk finally displace the creatives, and start messing games up in the name of short-term returns. He reckons that the likes of Halo are well on their way to becoming "a dried husk of a product that everyone just now associates with like, slop".

"We're trying to make it easier": Valve confirm the Steam Frame is just the start of plans to get Steam games working on compatibility-challenged ARM PCs

The Steam Frame, unfortunately RAM shortage-ravaged as it is, is unique among virtual reality headsets for its ability to run Steam games – VR or 'flat' alike – entirely on its own, internal compute hardware. It is, in effect, a SteamOS PC for your face. Yet as I waxed about in our review, this feature’s impact could extend far beyond the Frame itself, as it’s based on new compatibility tech that Valve now hope to bring to a broader range of PCs and laptops. Potentially,

"They often don’t make it in the door": Wardogs studio Bulkhead check for "anti-crunch messaging" on prospective hires' social media, CEO says

Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer has revealed that the studio behind recent FPS hit Wardogs check the social media accounts of prospective hires for public criticism of crunch practices, and deliberately prefer to avoid bringing such folks on board. In the exec's view, devs working extra or long hours to get a game or update out of the door - otherwise known as crunch - "is going to happen at some point", even if the studio "always try and avoid it". Read more

From Zara Larsson to Spongebob Squarepants, here's how Roblox gets such cool collaborations

Jake Sullivan from Vector3 talks to me about the process of locking down collabs between big names like Sonic the Hedgehog and Roblox games.

'We can't stuff AI back in a box' says former US president Barack Obama, confirming he's 'not a doomer' while still calling for more government AI regulation

'But we can collectively determine how it's developed and how it’s used.'

Relic thought Company of Heroes 3's ambitious dynamic campaign would eventually come together, but it didn't: 'We bit off more than we could chew'

Conceptually, it was great, but it was also quite broken.

Looks like SK hynix wants to make memory chips on US soil and it could work with Intel to do it

Or so the rumour mill says.

Full body tracking could come to Steam Frame courtesy of this supercharged Base Station-like device that doesn't require headset support

Soulart says it's working to support Steam Frame with its standalone motion tracker.

Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons won't have waypoints, so that players can figure things out without 'blindly trusting' a UI

"You lose that feeling of curiosity because you're like, well, why even bother?"

Diablo 4 Season 15 just sneakily brought back Diablo 2 Runeword crafting

Diablo 4 Season 15 has begun, and Blizzard snuck Diablo 2 style Runeword crafting into the new update for the ARPG, unlocking new unique items.

Where have all the RTX 5090s gone? Stock of the high-end GPU is disappearing from US online retailers

Not much of a mystery.

Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember has a demo out, as Koei Tecmo carve an early 2027 release date into some hulking demons from Chinese mythology

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty sequel Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember will release in March next year, devs Koei Tecmo have revealed as they've whipped out an alpha demo that you can give a go right away. Expect plenty of samurai sword slashing and rolling around the mythological or historical Chinese big man, plus some open battlefields to roam. Read more

Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition adds 50 minor factions in return for breaking your mods, but fear not, players who stick to the old version will get legacy DLC for free

If you recently glanced at Total War: Shogun 2 and thought "gosh, lovely hip-and-gable roofs on that miniature of the temples in Kyoto, but this could really do with oh, let's say 50 additional groups of quarrelsome swordsmen", then congratulations, Creative Assembly are adding "50+" minor factions in Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition, an all-in-one remaster hamper due to launch on 13th October via Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and GOG. This fancified and expanderised, 64-bit edit

SUPERHOT VR gets various upgrades ready for the Steam Frame

SUPERHOT VR has been upgraded with a number of improvements to make the first-person shooter better on Valve's Steam Frame kit.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition announced to release in October

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition arrives October 13th bringing the classic back with some fresh modern touches.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Get plenty of action in the Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle

Need some first-person shooter action? The Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle is live now with a good price for multiple games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GE-Proton 11-7 brings more Wine Wayland upgrades, launcher fixes, game fixes and more

GE-Proton 11-7 has arrived and there's quite a lot of gaming improvements here for SteamOS / Linux fans.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

OptiScaler Client 1.0.7 brings major improvements for FSR 4 and improved recommended game configs

OptiScaler Client continues maturing as one of the easiest ways to upgrade all the different upscalers across various different games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

DXVK 3.1.1 brings fixes for Adobe software, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, Skyrim SE

DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to run lots of games nicely on Linux with Wine / Proton.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

s&box from Facepunch gets a price cut and more improvements

Facepunch are trying desperately to pull in more players for their game creation platform s&box, with a permanent price cut now live.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I've been waiting all year for the 2nd Chapter to last year's best JRPG remake—it did not disappoint

Enjoy some JRPG comfort food with Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter.