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The Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to offer "meaningful solutions" for preserving digital-only games
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The Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to offer "meaningful solutions" for preserving digital-only games

While it's not really all that relevant to us PC lot, you've still probably heard word from Sony "How To Lend Games To Your Friends" PlayStation about them no longer printing new games to discs come 2028. It's awful for a whole host of reasons, and of course the concern of preservation comes at the top of the list. This move from Sony in turn prompted a response from the Video Game History Foundation's Frank Cifaldi, who had some bigger fish to fry than just what Sony are doing in calling on t

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.07.2026 16:11 Uhr
The best Minecraft mods
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The best Minecraft mods

The ultimate list of must-have Minecraft mods to download right now, including performance tweaks and resource packs you can't play without.

PCGamesN 02.07.2026 15:10 Uhr
"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach
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"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach

Raph Koster's career spans the evolution of the modern MMO. Creative lead on MUDs, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and EverQuest 2, the systems and mechanics his teams developed live on in every active MMO today and many games besides. "People made fun of me for having dancing in Galaxies," Koster tells me. "Fortnite ought to give me royalties." But the promise of his new game, Stars Reach is a scale bigger than everything he's made before. A sci-fi MMO set in a procedurally generated univer

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.07.2026 14:00 Uhr
Flask is a grim brew of homunculus autobattling and hand-drawn alchemy, and it’s got a new demo on Steam
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Flask is a grim brew of homunculus autobattling and hand-drawn alchemy, and it’s got a new demo on Steam

Everyone, look how open-minded I am: I’m spotlighting a demo for a game I’m not personally interested in. Nobel Peace Prizes, FIFA Peace Prizes, Pepsi sponsorships, surely all mine now that I’ve pointed out Flask – a darkly comedic deckbuilding autobattler, with scratchy hand-drawn art by Danish pencil warlock John Kenn Mortensen – has a playable preview on Steam. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.07.2026 13:00 Uhr