Palworld players have harnessed the power of selective breeding to create ‘infinite bomb’ Pals that can blow themselves up, repeatedly, forever

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Palworld, as our breeding guide shows, lets you accomplish some wild things by playing matchmaker for your creatures. You can gain early access to late-game Pals, spawn variant subspecies, and—as players have recently discovered—breed a genetic monstrosity that can repeatedly blow itself up in combat without taking any damage in the process. This exciting advancement … Read more

For the first time, Unity demonstrates ‘an Unreal character running through a Unity world’

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Unity has demonstrated a Unity Engine game running inside of an Unreal Engine game, marking a step in the direction of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s vision for an interconnected gaming ecosystem. The demonstration took place this week at the Unite Seoul keynote, where Unity also announced the next version of its game engine. Unity’s … Read more

Hasbro takes $56 million hit over multiple game cancellations, but it’s still talking about how Baldur’s Gate 3 is key to its future success

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Two years after boasting about how hard it was going on videogames, Hasbro has recorded a “$56 million non-cash impairment” in its second-quarter financial report, arising from the cancellation of several games in development that were expected to release “in 2028 and beyond.” First things first: As PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens explained when Sony took … Read more

Marathon’s experimental PvE mode is live, immediately tripling its daily player count

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Today, Bungie launched Marathon’s 1.1.5 update, featuring its awaited Vault Breaker experimental PvE mode which offers a two-week window for players to contend with the typically-endgame Cryo Archive map and its many hazards and puzzles without any twitchy, murderous squads of competing players hanging around. Shortly after the Vault Breaker update went live, SteamDB charts … Read more

Path of Exile 2 players broke the game by summoning 2,000 skeletons and then lured unsuspecting players into the ultimate frame rate shredder

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Most players eventually lose the drive to keep grinding a new league, or season, in Path of Exile 2 and simply log off until the next one. Others gather up all their in-game money and spend it on something ridiculous, like an army of 2,000 skeletons. PoE 2 streamer Empyriangaming decided it was time to … Read more

Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don’t worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter

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Nvidia announced DLSS 5 back in March and it received, let’s say, mixed reactions. A lot of people weren’t happy about how, judging by the demos, it seemed to essentially just slap a ‘yassifying’ AI filter on top of a game scene. Nvidia itself confirmed that all the tech has to work with for each … Read more

Gaming PC cases are still being hit with the discount stick right now, so I’ve rounded up nine of the best deals starting at just $40

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Most PC components are skyrocketing in price this year, but there’s one upgrade you can still make for surprisingly reasonable cash. Gaming PC cases are still very affordable in 2026, especially with decent discounts like the nine examples below. Whether you’re looking for more room for your rig’s internals, shrinking your PC down to Micro-ATX … Read more

I’m very into this Papers, Please-esque puzzle game about identifying traitors to the socialist motherland

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Citizens! We live in times of unprecedented danger! We are beset on all sides by traitors and saboteurs. Reactionaries whisper treason in dimly lit rooms. Their mouths spew poison and lies that eat away at the foundations of the worker-peasant revolution, at the root of the world revolution itself. And, worst of all, no one … Read more