Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China’s most valuable listed companies right below Tencent

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On Monday, Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT made its initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR stock market. This debut was the biggest in Asia this year, raising $8.6 billion and seeing shares in the company surge by 466%. In terms of valuation, that places CXMT right at the top of China’s stock market. CXMT’s market capitalisation … Read more

Zach Cregger admits ‘I’m not going to be able to improve on Leon’ which is why he’s using original characters for the upcoming Resident Evil movie

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I am actually really excited for Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil film, I think this may be the best chance there is for getting an actually good adaptation, mostly thanks to the fact that Cregger seems like a super fan who actually understands what makes the games so charming. In other words: he knows ball. … Read more

If you miss the straightforward action RPGs of the past, try the generous demo for Darkstone Restoration

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Before action RPGs relied on seasonal ladders and DLC treadmills there was Darkstone, a 1999 hack and slash where you clicked on things until they died and liked it. It had some interesting ideas, like the companion mode that lets you switch between two player-characters, the other controlled by the CPU while you took the … Read more

The new ‘backward compatible’ Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games

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First reported by Tom’s Hardware, it’s come to light that, not only are the four “Backward Compatibility on PC” original Xbox games released last week running on a double layer of Xbox console emulation, but savvy independent developers have already used those emulators to run other Xbox games on PC. Developer Nathan on X, “The … Read more

Capcom wants to release a Resident Evil every year and sees remakes as the way to make it happen

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As part of an interview in the latest issue of GameInformer (spotted via GamesRadar), Capcom producer Masachika Kawata outlined the resurgent Japanese publisher’s approach to Resident Evil: Quality and quantity, with remakes bolstering the process and helping fund the development of more adventurous projects. According to Kawata, Capcom would like Resident Evil to be a … Read more

Ubisoft says the Black Flag remake has exceeded ‘annual expectations’ in just two weeks, shortly after it laid off a number of the people who made it

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game with a title that feels like it ought to have a colon or an em dash somewhere in there, is finally here and it’s selling like whatever the nautical equivalent of hotcakes is. Hardtack, I guess. Not only did it sell 2 million copies in a single day, … Read more

J.K. Simmons hasn’t played Baldur’s Gate 3 or any of his games, but he loves Portal 2: ‘I could have done the feature film, or the play, or whatever’

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In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, prolific actor J.K. Simmons dove into his relationship with the games he’s acted in. While not much of a gamer himself, the script for Portal 2 (where Simmons voiced Aperture founder Cave Johnson) seems to have left its mark on the actor. “Tom Britney from … Read more