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'Tarkov Meets Fallout' MMO Faces Bankruptcy As Updates Stop and Reviews Plummet
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (806+ words) In December 2025, an all-new MMO FPS game titled "PIONER" dropped into early access, exclusively on PC. In preview materials, many compared it to games like Escape from Tarkov, boasting some hardcore mechanics, a similar visual palette, and an undoubtedly Russian…...
Marathon's Cyber Acme Prime Time III Contract Temporarily Disabled for Being Too Rewarding
9+ hour, 3+ min ago (354+ words) Bungie has pulled another lever in its ongoing battle to fix Marathon's runaway reward economy. The studio has temporarily disabled the Cyber Acme Prime Time III standard contract after discovering that it was handing out way more rewards than it…...
Half-Life 2: Episode Three is coming soon, but not the one you expect - fans made a sequel instead of Valve
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (398+ words) Valve has yet to announce "Half-Life 3," which has been rumored for years. However, some are trying to create a sequel on their own and offer various variations on the theme of Episode Three. Earlier this year, Jim_Partridge announced "Half-Life 2: All Good…...
Shion's Fun Gameplay Highlights Sierra's Bland Kit in Overwatch Season 3
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (816+ words) First, let's go over why Shion is an excellent addition to the game. She's a Japanese Omnic with deep ties to the Hashimoto clan and is an enemy of the Shimadas (Genji and Hanzo) and Kiriko. In fact, she was…...
Destiny 2" Players Discover Hugely Overpowered Armor Set Before Closure
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (324+ words) Destiny 2 has a new, overpowered armor set it has just introduced, but it is too late for Bungie to patch it before Destiny stops getting updates. "Destiny 2" Players Discover Hugely Overpowered Armor Set Before Closure We are in the final…...
"The Story Was Before Sandy's Time" - This Doom II Level Designer Just Can't Stop Getting id Software's History Wrong
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (520+ words) I am once again asking you to read 'Doom Guy - Life in First Person' The DOOM, DOOM II, & Quake level designer Sandy Petersen can't stop getting details about id Software's history wrong. For example, as I mentioned, last week, Romero,…...
Save State: 7 Days to Die 3. 0 Makes the Sandbox Wilder
8+ hour, 45+ min ago (205+ words) Welcome back to Save State, where we have peanut butter, jelly, and a baseball bat. I may have also accidentally shot a wall out of my base during the blood moon horde attack because shotguns deal insane damage to walls....
Valorant System Requirements (2026) " Can You Run It?
9+ hour, 31+ min ago (674+ words) Valorant's system requirements cover three tiers: Minimum (30 FPS), Recommended (60 FPS), and High-End (144+ FPS), confirmed directly from Riot Games' official specs page. The good news is that Riot built this tactical shooter to run on genuinely old hardware, so most players…...
Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (306+ words) C: \Ars Games takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie. Once or twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one, where we'll feature one of the games from the list'perhaps…...
Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand is a standalone wave defence launching July 29
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (217+ words) Gaming On Linux Relic Entertainment just revealed Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, a standalone experience to get strategy fans right into the action. They said the point of it is to capture the strategy and intensity of Company of Heroes…...