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Extraction shooter spinoff EVE Vanguard will let you salvage ships destroyed in EVE Online, then flog the parts back to their owners
EVE Vanguard, the latest attempt by Fenris 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not CCP Games' Creations at crafting a first-person shooter counterpart to EVE Online, continues to gestate within Iceland’s best-funded spinoff vats. Nearly three years after being revealed as a Shoot, Loot 'n' Scoot extraction game, it’s running its first alpha playtest – titled Operation Avalon – from July 7th-20th, with Fenris staff promising attendees of last week’s EVE FanFest event
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Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review
"Young and old, gather round / Everybody hail the new king in town."
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The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware
Installing Linux on a PlayStation 5 gets even easier now, with recent updates expanding the firmware versions that are supported.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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How to get the Feedback Resonator upgrade in Subnautica 2
Mod your tool with alien tech to blast tricksy viral blooms.
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'I understand that fear': Ex-Google CEO loudly booed by stadium full of students after talking about AI
"If you don't care about science, that's okay... because AI is going to touch everything else as well."
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Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too
I don't have this problem on PS5, I'm just saying.
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The Steam Controller no longer needs Steam to get the most from it
Thanks to the addition of SDL support, Linux and Windows users can access the full suite of Steam Controller features in non-Steam games.
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Subnautica 2 mod makes creatures killable, despite its devs' desire to convince players to "use non-violent and more creative solutions"
Subnautica 2 is deliberately designed to nudge you away from seeking violent solutions to your 'oh lordy there's a giant leviathan chasing me' problems, with devs Unknown Worlds having been clear that strong feelings have propelled them down that path. Yet, as they've also acknowledged, not every Sub 2 player will agree: cue a mod that makes creatures killable quickly springing up now the survival game's out in early access. Read more
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Take-Two CEO says "Borderlands wouldn't have been a hit" without $50 million art style change gamble
Borderlands originally looked similar to other big 2000s shooters, until Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick was pitched a dramatic switch-up.
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How to get Conduit Crystal in Subnautica 2
Find this material so you can craft Prototype Tool Modifications.
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How to build a Tadpole in Subnautica 2 and all upgrades
Building a Tadpole in Subnautica 2 is the fastest way to get around the ocean, giving you access to a high-speed vehicle.
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D4vd's League of Legends Arcane song seemingly removed from the official soundtrack on Spotify
It appears that Riot Games has chosen to remove D4vd's Remember Me from the League of Legends Arcane Season 2 soundtrack on Spotify.
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This week in PC games: Tokyo-drifting in Forza Horizon 6, communist grifting in Disco Elysium follow-up Zero Parades, or dystopia tifting in puzzle game Phonopolis
Have no fear, dear reader. Yes, I am once standing in for Edwin to battle The Maw and bring forth its tidings of upcoming PC games. But the beast has not eaten our news editor. Not this time. Instead, Edwin's been called away to Krakow where he will be using his creature-wrestling skills to tussle with a dragon. Read more
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Zero Parades For Dead Spies review - ZA/UM's spy drama stands strong, but doesn't escape Disco Elysium's shadow
While Zero Parades For Dead Spies achieves its goal of being a genuinely intriguing spy thriller, it doesnât quite dethrone Disco Elysium.
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'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much
Less hot snakes, more hot wheels, please Xbox. Sorry, XBOX.
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Pimax Crystal Light review - an ideal VR headset for flight and racing sims
With its sharp 2,880 x 2,880 displays, the Crystal Light is a big upgrade over entry-level VR headsets like the Quest 3, but it's bulky.
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Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is both bootleg Disco Elysium and a spirited interrogation of fake culture in all its guises
For many players, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will never be anything other than a seedy clone of ZA/UM's reputation-making Disco Elysium – a soul-sucking forgery of a doomy leftist masterpiece, whose original lead writers and designers have been ousted by scheming executives. It's appropriate then, that, Zero Parades proves obsessed with clones, forgeries, bootlegs, and the ways in which these entities can be wielded for erasure and displacement. Its opening third is a comical squabble
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Skyrim now runs on Fallout 4's Pip-Boy and computer terminals, as modder delivers the one port Bethesda haven't thought of yet
It had to happen. After getting the original Fallout and Morrowind running as a holotape on Fallout 4's Pip-Boy and terminals, the same modder has now made Skyrim playable within the game about a frozen snack finding their son and being nagged about settlements. I can only assume Fallout 4 becoming playable in Fallout 4 is mere days away. Read more
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You think you've seen it all and then there's a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you can run a Linux Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft to get various external windows inside the game.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Sunshine game streaming tool adds Vulkan encoding plus XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture
Sunshine, the game streaming tool you use with Moonlight, has a major upgrade now available with some big new features and a security fix too.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable"
While announcing the fourth release candidate for Linux kernel 7.1, Linux head Linus Torvalds had some interesting words to say about AI.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.