Games
- www.pcgamer.com 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'
Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."
- www.pcgamer.com Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'
Newell wants Valve to "capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously."
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Sega Sues Memento Mori Devs - The Worsening Patent Lawsuit Trend In Japan
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- www.gamesradar.com After Starfield: Shattered Space's mixed reviews, Todd Howard wondered if Bethesda should "have waited to put buggies out"
Fans wanted "more features" from the expansion
- www.pcgamer.com 12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon
Update 7.6 is coming in early December, with the Galactic Threads" storyline to come later.
- www.warner.senate.gov Warner Presses Valve to Crack Down on Hateful Accounts and Rhetoric Proliferating on Steam
U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner
- www.gamesradar.com 20 years on, Snake Eater is still the perfect Metal Gear Solid game
Opinion | Kuwabara, Kuwabara
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- www.pcgamer.com Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'
Unfortunately, nice doesn't shift product.
- www.vg247.com Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines at 20: A masterpiece of RPG storytelling which might just have a blighted bloodline of its own
Seriously vamily, we probably shouldn't have made all those jokes about cursed legacies.
- www.neowin.net Weekend PC Game Deals: Telltale collections, free classics, and a cooking fest
This weekend's PC game deals include bundles for Telltale games and tactical entries from Kalypso, a free Castlevania collection, a Cooking Fest full of discounts, and much more.
- www.gamedeveloper.com Why Animal Well's home-brewed engine was key to its success
How an off-hours project, a rising YouTuber, and a unique Discord-driven release strategy came together for a game-of-the-year candidate.
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Xbox CEO Says There Will 'Definitely' Be Future Consoles
www.rollingstone.com Xbox CEO Phil Spencer Says There Will 'Definitely' Be Future ConsolesThe executive tells Rolling Stone that cloud streaming is the priority, but so are handhelds and home consoles
- www.pcgamer.com Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay
Finally, a win for game preservation.
- www.pcgamer.com A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game
There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.
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Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update
www.half-life.com Half-Life 2 Anniversary UpdateExperience Half-Life 2 all over again, with a brand-new commentary mode, improved graphics and gameplay options, Steam Workshop support, and more. We're also bringing back the art book, and have a new documentary featuring the original development team.
- www.gamedeveloper.com Embracer attributes continuous 2024-2025 declines to a lack of substantial new releases
Earnings for the Swedish conglomerate's 2024-2025 year continue to fall without a release equal to Remnant II or Dead Island 2.
- www.polygon.com Vermintide 2 just got a massive update — and a massive discount
The co-op, horde-based, hack-and-slash title is on sale for less than $2
- www.gamesradar.com CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name, claiming that "hundreds of fixes" had "stayed out of players' hands for years"
Grove Street Games was removed from the GTA Trilogy collection's splash screen in the latest update
- www.polygon.com Game Awards confirms Elden Ring DLC (and any DLC) is GOTY eligible
The rule clarification is on TGAs’ website
- www.eurogamer.net Sony reportedly discounting PlayStation 5 Slim by "at least" €75 in Europe ahead of Christmas
Following Sony's seemingly premature announcement earlier this week it'll be knocking $70 off the PS5 Slim Digital Edit…
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Following StarCraft reports, Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter game’
www.videogameschronicle.com Following StarCraft reports, Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter game’ | VGCBlizzard’s new shooter is reportedly being fronted by ex-Far Cry boss Dan Hay…