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A screenshot from the game The Falconeer. We see a giant falcon ridden by a small person, flying above a choppy sea in the deep orange of sunset. The sun almost silhouettes the pair as they fly towards it.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Underappreciated launch titles

Ryse, my pretties, Ryse!

Jan. 15, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot showing Minecraft's three pig variants, including the new warm pig and cold pig.

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Minecraft adds new pig variants, ambient falling leaves, wildflowers, and more for public testing

Ahead of 2025's first update.

Jan. 8, 2025 Matt Wales

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Screenshot of DanTDM from his YouTube channel

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Minecraft YouTuber to present new Classic FM video game music series

Baroque-buster.

Jan. 8, 2025 Ed Nightingale

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A screenshot of the legendary browser-based sprinting game QWOP. It's a game where the keyboard keys Q W O and P control individual thighs and calves. It's bastardly hard to coordinate your limbs and moving forward with purpose.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Ragdolls

Figures.

Jan. 8, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Forza Horizon 3 screenshot showing different coloured sports cars racing through a city

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Forza Horizon 3's online functionality has been restored, following shutdown fears

"We're seeing positive responses in terms of traffic."

Jan. 7, 2025 Ed Nightingale

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Minecraft promotional art showing Steve and other characters running along a narrow stretch of blocky green hillside toward the camera. Mountains, cherry blossoms, caves, water, and other landmarks can be glimpsed as the landscape stretches away beneath them.

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Notch has "basically announced" Minecraft 2

Block and roll.

Jan. 4, 2025 Vikki Blake

89 comments

microsoft flight sim 2024 pilot approaching large blue commercial plane

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 deploys new patch, offers advice for players experiencing "stability issues"

UPDATE: Issues "regarding access and streaming" have now been sorted.

Nov. 28, 2024 Vikki Blake

26 comments

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Minecraft adds creepy new biome with Doctor Who-like monsters next week

The Garden Awakens very soon.

Nov. 28, 2024 Tom Phillips

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Ubisoft reportedly developing Animal Crossing-style social sim with Minecraft-like building

Gotham Knights creative director at helm.

Nov. 26, 2024 Matt Wales

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Concept art for Humanoid Origin's untitled sci-fi game showing a solo traveller roaming a desolate alien landscape, jagged mountains in the distance and a vast spherical structure looming to their right.

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Mass Effect director Casey Hudson's "AAA" sci-fi game cancelled, studio closing

Due to "unexpected shortfall of funding".

Nov. 25, 2024 Matt Wales

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A still from the live-action Minecraft movie showing a close-up of Jack Black as Steve.

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Minecraft movie's second trailer brings deep Steve lore, tree punching, bee

Blockbuster.

Nov. 19, 2024 Matt Wales

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Promo image for Merlin and Mojang's Minecraft partnership showing cuboid blossom trees and animals with the silhouettes of people walking among them

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Minecraft attractions set to open in UK and US, as £85m deal with Alton Towers owner signed

Ferrous Wheel.

Nov. 19, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

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South of Midnight's heroine looks concerned.

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We Happy Few developer's South of Midnight BTS documentary debuts next week

Expect "an exclusive first look at brand-new gameplay footage and interviews with the team".

Nov. 10, 2024 Vikki Blake

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A young Marcus Fenix in Gears of War: E-Day.

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Gears is "so back" as original voice talents are confirmed for Gears of War: E-Day

Brothers to the end.

Nov. 8, 2024 Vikki Blake

32 comments

An image of Mass Effect-inspired armour in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch slips in some Mass Effect armour as an N7 Day treat

Plus DLSS fixes and more.

Nov. 7, 2024 Matt Wales

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A helmeted character - presumably Shepard - standing side on to the camera, with a planet as a backdrop, and light coming from the horizon. Half it is paragon blue, the other half renegade red.

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Mass Effect is officially getting a TV adaptation at Amazon

With Fast & Furious 9 writer onboard.

Nov. 7, 2024 Matt Wales

62 comments

A stock image of a colourful fireworks display. Reds and blues and golds and myriad other popping rockets fill the sky. It's very bright.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Fireworks

Bangers.

Nov. 7, 2024 Robert Purchese

17 comments

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Lost 2003 E3 Halo 2 demo coming to Master Chief Collection via Steam Workshop mod

All you Needler is love.

Nov. 5, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

2 comments

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After ditching PSVR support, Minecraft is officially abandoning PC VR next year

Ender an era.

Oct. 23, 2024 Matt Wales

52 comments

A Minecraft character holds a bundle item.

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Four years after PS5's launch, Minecraft finally gets a native version

Unlocks 4K 60fps.

Oct. 23, 2024 Tom Phillips

11 comments

An image showing an engineer working on a robotic arm while wearing a HoloLens headset. He speaks to a colleague on a hovering video feed as if viewed in augmented reality.

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Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality headset officially being discontinued

With no new iterations coming.

Oct. 1, 2024 Matt Wales

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Jack Black as Steve in A Minecraft Movie

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First Minecraft movie clip shows off how crafting works, and how it doesn't

Me, myself, and mine.

Sept. 28, 2024 Vikki Blake

54 comments

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Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent

To aid in "fully realising the potential" of projects now in the works.

Sept. 27, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

58 comments

An illustration showing the tip of a quill releasing a torrent of black ink on a white background below it.

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I became a medieval poet on a fantasy Minecraft server

Going in for the quill.

Sept. 21, 2024 Emma Kent

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A Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 trailer image showing a hot air balloon floating over Paris at sunset, with the Eiffel Tower visible in the distance.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 "ideally" requires 64GB RAM on PC

Another one flights the dust.

Sept. 20, 2024 Vikki Blake

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