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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: L.A. Noire is, in my opinion, the greatest videogame ever made. Sure, it’s janky by modern standards, and its open world is perhaps a little less open than a lot of people expect from a Rockstar-backed game. But, for me, its story, soundtrack, and then-ground-breaking visual performances bring it to vibrant life. All these years later, nothing quite has the same aura as Team Bondi’s rusty detective game (pun entirely intended). Ahead of interviewing Adrian Chmielarz, the mastermind behind Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and Gears of War: Judgement, and now founder of Witchfire…

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Okay, let’s face it, Marvel Phase 5 was a bit of a mixed bag. A couple of entries were genuinely good (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and Deadpool and Wolverine killed it at the box office, but most offerings were middling – and some, here’s looking at you Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, were downright disasters.It’s no real surprise, then, that as we wait for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and the hotly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday, fans are revisiting the MCU’s earlier chapters. On Reddit recently, someone pointed out that they rewatched Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which led to loads…

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In what has become CPU tradition, AMD have announced a new fastest-ever gaming processor to replace their last fastest-ever gaming processor. The newcomer, detailed at CES 2026, is the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which actually shares the same architecture, socket, core and thread counts, and power usage rating as the erstwhile big dog, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It’s mainly a quicker maximum boost clock, up from 5.2GHz to 5.6GHz, that grants it a performance edge.

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There’s nothing worse than a stuttering frame rate. Whether you can’t afford a modern graphics card because AI tech bros are hoarding them in data centers, that big new release isn’t quite optimized, or you’re just trying to play Crysis in the year of our lord 2026, poor performance is infuriating. However, it’s something you may have to suffer through while playing FPS Quest, a meta game which uses your frame rate as your health bar. If you want to survive, you’ll have to break the game itself and stutter to victory. Most of the best FPS games are those…

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For as much as is in Baldur’s Gate 3 – and it’s a massive game – there’s plenty that hit the cutting room floor or simply feel by the wayside. Wyll, the beloved warlock, was a victim of the latter, as devs at Larian had much loftier goals for his storylines before life prevented them from coming to fruition.Kevin VanOrd, a senior writer at Larian, reveals he wanted more for Wyll during a Reddit AMA, saying: “”I wish Wyll had gotten more content and a more fulfilling arc too.” He explains: “A lot of decisions came later in development than…

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Warning: Spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 lie ahead. Cyberpunk 2077’s narrative really kicks into gear when, after a job gone wrong, metal-infused merc protagonist V realises they’re now living in the shadow of a Keanu Reeves-shaped clock. Despite this, you’re free to while away hours doing a million things other than confronting your urgent mortality problem. It’s something even CD Projekt themselves have joked about.

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Asus has long produced some of the best-built laptops in the business, with its first-gen Zenbook still being among my favorite ever laptops. Now the company’s back with yet another absolute stunner, the Asus ExpertBook Ultra, and even though it’s aimed at high-flying business types, it’s sure to be a tempting option for anyone seeking a serious yet slick portable PC. So, it might not be one of the best gaming laptops, but with this new Asus machine packing the latest Intel Core Ultra X9 Panther Lake CPUs, it’s still surprisingly capable. What’s more, a 3K tandem OLED display able…

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Even after he created both Kirby and Super Smash Bros., industry legend Masahiro Sakurai doesn’t think of himself as a hit maker, or think of his games as hits. Instead, he says he looks at other people’s games and feels that he has to “keep pushing” himself.In an interview with 47 News that’s been translated by GamesRadar+, Sakurai discusses what he would have done had Kirby failed to become the international mega hit it is today, and he doesn’t think his life would be any different.”It wasn’t really like that,” Sakurai says. “It didn’t matter if the game sold well…

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Every once in a while, a game rocks up that so quickly finds itself in my Steam wishlist I don’t even remember clicking the button. Today, that game is Rakshasa, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Baldur’s Gate inspired first-person RPG set in modern India where you must face off against demi-gods and “centuries-old flesh-eating monsters” inspired by Indian folklore. Yeah! Hell yeah! Yeah, yeah sign me up! The reveal trailer for this thing absolutely drips with muck and grime, almost in that nasty cyberpunky kind of way, yet still grounded in a city setting we’re all familiar with.…

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