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Big Game Franchises Are Going Backwards

Sony’s recent PlayStation State of Play featured a short teaser for a remake of the original God of War trilogy, with TC Carson returning as the voice of Kratos. The announcement was notable not for a new entry but for a return to earlier games. That move fits a

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Bethesda devs recall 'glorious' post-Skyrim, pre-Fallout 4 period

Bethesda Game Studios developers have reminisced about the company's glory days following the widely successful launch of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Senior designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo said that by the time Fallout 4 "rolled around, our team was so tight" because of everything they

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Goggles Give Ski Jumpers Real-Time Takeoff Feedback

Researchers at ETH Zurich are testing wearable goggles that deliver instant corrective cues to ski jumpers as they race down the ramp and take off. Sensors on the athletes’ ski boots measure body position and pressure continuously, relaying that data to small red or green lights in the periphery of

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New Metal Gear Solid collection omits Metal Gear Online

During last week's PlayStation State of Play, a new Metal Gear Solid collection was announced that includes Metal Gear Solid 4 and the PS3 HD version of Peace Walker. It’s welcome news for anyone who has been waiting for PC ports of those games. It doesn'

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Launching a new studio with former Forza Horizon and Codemasters devs

Gavin Raeburn became fixated on how arcade pixels worked as a boy in England's north east and has since built an extensive credits list, producing Codemasters titles such as TOCA and Colin McRae and serving as studio head and game director on the Forza Horizon series through Horizon

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'They can never kill emulation': players vexed as Nintendo targets Switch emulators

Nintendo Switch emulation has had a rough go of it. The first big Switch emulator, Yuzu, was targeted by a lawsuit in 2024 that its creators settled out of for $2.4 million, and senior editor Wes Fenlon called that outcome "an enormous blow to console emulation." Ryujinx

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Capcom adds Enigma Protector DRM to Steam ports of Dino Crisis 1 and 2

Capcom announced on February 12 that the first two Dino Crisis games—1999’s Dino Crisis and its 2000 sequel—are now available on Steam. The titles originally released for the PlayStation 1 more than 25 years ago and are being offered on Steam with a launch discount of 50%

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Sword Hero dev says players crave more interactive games

Csaba "ForestWare" Székely's Sword Hero is an ambitious, open-ended RPG built around complex NPC behaviors, physics interactions, and emergent gameplay. Székely affectionately describes it as a "eurojank" game, a term for ambitious but often flawed European attempts to replicate or advance '90s PC

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PlayStation Boss Joked It Felt Like Marrying Off His Daughter Over Horizon MMO

NCSoft revealed Horizon Steel Frontiers late last year as an MMO spin-off that will have players grouping on PC and mobile to hunt the franchise’s prehistoric machines. In a recent interview, chief business officer Lee Seong-gu shared structural and timing details and relayed a remark from Hermen Hulst, former

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Verizon offers free iPhone 17 Pro with $200 gift card

Verizon is offering the iPhone 17 Pro for free when you sign up for or switch to the Unlimited Ultimate mobile plan, and will also provide a $200 Verizon digital gift card. The deal covers the 256GB model only. New and current Verizon customers must opt into the Unlimited Ultimate

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Discord to decide which servers to age-gate using AI, automation and review

Discord will decide which servers to age-gate with a combination of automated detection, AI validation and human review. In March, it will roll out facial scanning and ID checks globally for users who don't want to be locked into a "teen-appropriate experience". Some of the content

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Players keep banning Overwatch's jetpack cat Fika in ranked

Jetpack Cat has emerged as a standout in Overwatch's relaunch. The support hero is exactly what she sounds like: a cat with a jetpack that can tether both friends and foes and fly them around the battlefield, giving players unexpected high ground or a quick tumble down the

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The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data

The GameDiscoverCo newsletter studies how people find the games they play. Its latest look at Steam is an in-depth study of keywords in capsule descriptions — the short paragraph under a game's icon that summarizes the experience. GameDiscoverCo compiled a spreadsheet of the top 1,000 keywords, filtering out

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Waymo and DoorDash pay drivers to close open robotaxi doors

Waymo and DoorDash confirmed they are working together to send people out to close robotaxi doors left open by riders. The arrangement came to light after a Reddit post showed the DoorDash app offering $6.25 to drive a few blocks and close a Waymo door; once the task was

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Overwatch patch tweaks new heroes but Jetpack Cat remains a pain

Adding five new heroes in one drop was always going to be a balancing challenge, and Blizzard pushed a patch with nerfs and buffs for all five just days after they launched. The update focuses on a few pain points in Domina, Anran, Emre, Jetpack Cat, and Mizuki, with Vendetta

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Unreal Tournament 2004 now free with community patch after 20 years

Epic Games has allowed the Internet Archive to host its older shooters, making Unreal Gold and the original Unreal Tournament available for download. Now Unreal Tournament 2004 has been released for free, with Epic's approval. "Please note that this is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament

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LG discounts gram Pro 17 by $900 to $2,000; deal ends Feb. 15

LG has cut the price of its gram Pro 17 to $2,000, a $900 reduction for a limited time. To receive the discount, enter the code "PC900" at checkout; the offer ends on February 15. The laptop pairs a 17-inch WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600) IPS

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The Last Caretaker update adds jet ski and boat customisation

Channel 37, the Finnish developer cofounded by the creators of the Trials series, has continued to support its oddball seafaring survival sim since it entered Steam early access last year. In the game you play as a robot tasked with saving the human race by artificially growing people and launching

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The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Finally Runs At 60FPS On Switch 2

Konami has released the final major update for The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1, adding improved HD resolutions and a performance boost that allows some of the more demanding games to run at 60fps on Switch 2. The biggest changes come to Metal Gear Solid 1 and Snake

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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

Meta plans to add facial recognition, internally called "Name Tag," to its Ray-Ban–made smart glasses as soon as this year. The feature would let wearers identify people and access information through Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant. EssilorLuxottica, which makes the glasses with Meta, said it sold more

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)

About a dozen new games appear on Steam each day, and it's easy for potentially exciting titles to get lost in the deluge. Below are five recent releases that stood out from the crowd. Roadside Research is a four-player co-op about running a gas station while secretly gathering

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Battlefield 6 Season 2 release time in your time zone

Battlefield 6 Season 2 begins Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 7 a.m. EST. That is 4 a.m. PST, 9 a.m. BRT, 12 p.m. GMT, 1 p.m. CET, 9 p.m. JST and 11 p.m. AEDT. It is the second major update and will introduce features

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Hideki Sato, father of Sega consoles, dies at 77

Hideki Sato, the engineer behind several of Sega’s most important consoles, has died at 77. Sato began working with Sega in the 1970s, with early credits on the arcade games MonacoGP, Turbo and Star Jacker. He led the engineering teams behind every Sega home console from 1983 to 2001,

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Solid Snake joins Rainbow Six Siege in March with David Hayter

Solid Snake will be an operator in Rainbow Six Siege when the new season drops on March 3. A teaser ran in January, and a full reveal trailer arrived alongside the game's Year 11 roadmap. The trailer also shows Snake and stealth rival Sam Fisher finally squashing the

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AdGuard lifetime Family Plan now $15.97 — blocks ads and trackers

For a limited time, the AdGuard Family Plan is available as a lifetime license for $15.97 (regularly $169.99). The deal runs until Feb. 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Browse, stream and scroll without constant interruptions — no pop-ups, no autoplay videos, no tracking scripts following you around.