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We broke Harom Highwind Atmos Dev-log #4

We broke Harom Highwind Atmos Dev-log #4

Well I’m not sure that we broke him, more like we destroyed him! Watch the devlog for more details on Legends of Atmos

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Ye outdated miners lamp obtainable on CG Trader

Ye outdated miners lamp obtainable on CG Trader

An outdated miners lamp, UV mapped low poly and recreation prepared with emmisive texture for the glass. 2,072 triangles. good for a light-weight supply in a dimly lit stage. Available on CG dealer

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An hour of new footage for Half-Life spin-off Ravenholm has been released

An hour of new footage for Half-Life spin-off Ravenholm has been released

Footage of Arkane’s Half-Life spin-off, Ravenholm, has been posted online by Noclip, the YouTube channel known for producing some really great documentaries on games. In the hour-long footage, you are shown the build Arkane created to show the current progress of the game to Valve. This means what you see is not a finished title, but it still offers a glimpse at what might have been. In the…

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Fortnite Now Available On iOS And Other Devices With Xbox Cloud Gaming Partnership

Fortnite Now Available On iOS And Other Devices With Xbox Cloud Gaming Partnership

Epic Games is partnering with Microsoft to bring Fortnite back to Apple devices by making the battle royale available for free on the Xbox Cloud Gaming service. This way of playing Fortnite makes the game available, starting today, through a supported web browser on iOS and Android phones and tablets as well as PCs. Moving to the cloud circumvents Apple’s App Store, which Fortnite is currently…

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Thanks to Microsoft, you can play Fortnite on an iPhone again for free

Thanks to Microsoft, you can play Fortnite on an iPhone again for free

After years of being without one of the world’s most popular games, gamers of iOS and iPadOS can finally play Fortnite once again thanks to Microsoft and Epic Games bringing Fornite to Xbox Cloud Gaming and allowing everyone to play it without the need for an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.  As part of Microsoft’s “mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to players wherever they…

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Whatever happened to sandbox Bitcraft? It’s rewriting MMORPG progression

Whatever happened to sandbox Bitcraft? It’s rewriting MMORPG progression

MOP readers will recall Bitcraft emerged only last autumn as a procedurally generated sandbox MMORPG from Clockwork Labs with the financial backing of a long list of big games industry names, including CCP Games’ Hilmar Petursson. But while the game hasn’t been making headlines, it has been making progress. Following a pre-alpha phase last November, the studio has been trickling out teasers; the…

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The Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 185: the best dungeons in games special

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 185: the best dungeons in games special

Nate returns, and with him the suspicious smell of eggs and salt water. But also highjinks! We discuss toilet meals, revenge, and content theft of “It’s me, Blorko!” and other instances of stolen Twitter valour. If valour exists on Twitter. This is, of course, all prelude to us talking about some of our favourite dungeons in video games – there are a lot! Shout out to Zelda, which Nate hasn’t…

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District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp Is Working On Off The Grid, A Cyberpunk Battle Royale

District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp Is Working On Off The Grid, A Cyberpunk Battle Royale

Neill Blomkamp is helping Gunzilla Games write the narrative for its next game, Off The Grid.  Blomkamp, perhaps best known for directing movies such as District 9, Chappie, and Elysium, is helping Gunzilla shape the story of Off The Grid, which the studio is calling a cyberpunk battle royale 2.0 multiplayer shooter. Calling it “2.0” makes it sound like the studio is aiming to revolutionize the…

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Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda game because Stone Cold said so

Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda game because Stone Cold said so

WWE superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin has declared that Breath of the Wild is better than Ocarina of Time, thus ending the long-running debate over which Zelda game is best.  Austin crowned Nintendo’s open-air adventure as the best Legend of Zelda game of all time during an episode of The Broken Skull Sessions. In a 30-second quickfire question and answer session with fellow WWE superstar Cody…

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The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you want a mobile spinoff from?

The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you want a mobile spinoff from?

I feel like Warcraft Arclight Rumble was at once exactly what I expected from the promise of a mobile Warcraft title and yet simultaneously disappointing. Like, I didn’t really expect anything different, nor did I ever expect it to have anything other than charming visuals and gameplay I couldn’t be bothered to care about, but it still feels… limited. Like someone spun the wheel and just put…

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More new footage of Arkane Studios' canceled Half-Life game shows off what it would have played like

More new footage of Arkane Studios’ canceled Half-Life game shows off what it would have played like

Valve may be taking its sweet time to make new Half-Life games, but that doesn’t mean that other developers didn’t get involved. Arkane Studios was once working on a canceled Half-Life spin-off. The game, internally known as Ravenholm, was going to place players into the boots of a new character in the titular town. Now, thanks to Noclip, about an hour of gameplay of Ravenholm is available to…

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Need a Micro SD card for your Steam Deck? This 512GB card is £47 today

Need a Micro SD card for your Steam Deck? This 512GB card is £47 today

Hardware man James recently covered the best Micro SD cards for the Steam Deck, so we thought you might want to know that a selection of rather giant memory cards have been discounted over at Amazon UK and US today. For UK folks, you can now double your Steam Deck storage (!) for £47, or triple (!!) your storage for £132. Meanwhile, over in the US, you’ll pay $65 or $136, respectively. Either…

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Nintendo Switch Sports Review - Par For The Course

Nintendo Switch Sports Review – Par For The Course

Wii Sports and its Resort follow-up were watershed moments for motion-control entertainment. Sports simulators usually underscore realism. And yet Nintendo’s family-centric approach to the genre imbued a selection of competitive activities with accessible interactions, lighthearted art direction, and catchy jingles. Switch Sports attempts to replicate that magic for a contemporary audience with…

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A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game: Ravenholm

A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game: Ravenholm

From 2005 to 2008, French studio Arkane—who we now know as the team behind Dishonored and Deathloop—were working on a Half-Life game. We knew this, and have even seen the game before, but today we got a real good look at it. Back in 2020, the documentary series Noclip featured an episode on the history of Arkane, and as part of that showed off some footage of what was known internally at Arkane…

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LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga celebrates Star Wars Day with two DLC packs

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga celebrates Star Wars Day with two DLC packs

Two new DLC packs are now available for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The DLC comes in the form of two character packs, The Mandalorian Season 2 and Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The Mandalorian Season 2 Character Pack includes Ahsoka Tano, Boba Fett, Bo Katan, Fennec Shand and Moff Gideon. Star Wars: The Bad Batch Character Pack comes with Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, and Echo. Developed…

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Xbox app is getting a very Snapchat-like feature

Xbox app is getting a very Snapchat-like feature

Better late than never, Microsoft is adding a Snapchat-like Stories feature to the Xbox app for iOS and Android. Judging from Microsoft’s description of it, “Xbox Stories” work similarly to those on other platforms, but the content does have the distinction of lasting up to 72 hours instead of a day. This is all a part of Xbox’s big May update where it also introduced its new Quality of Service…

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Eyes in the Dark director on taking inspiration from Samurai Jack

Eyes in the Dark director on taking inspiration from Samurai Jack

Under the Stairs’ Vladimir Bogdanic discusses the making of Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom. Back at PAX East, Gearbox Publishing revealed a fresh slate of new games. Among them was a fascinating stroll into a haunted mansion called Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom from developer Under the Stairs. Naturally, its stylized black-and-white visuals…

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