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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy releases in January, leaving not very long to prepare for all the crunchy cRPG choices and secret wars it'll lob your way

Oh shit, that's not too far away. Terrifyingly, that last sentence is now a thing I can accurately write about games coming out in January 2027. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has just been confirmed as one such game, with the cRPG's heresy investigation set to commence towards the end of the month.

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Swarmbreaker is an uncommonly mesmerising tower defence game in which enemies "cluster, collide and flow like a fluid"

It is said that King Canute once placed his throne on the shore and commanded the sea not to get his feet wet, thus proving to his flattering courtiers that only God Almighty holds sway over the elements. "But sire!" I would have told him, if I'd been one of the aforesaid lickspittles. "Why not...

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Cyberattack on Sega third-party newsletter distributor reportedly sees over two million email addresses leaked, but Sega accounts unaffected

Sega have revealed that over two million email addresses have leaked due to a cyberattack on Japanese email delivery provider Arara, whom the Like A Dragon and Sonic publishers use to distribute newsletters. Sega and Arara are currently busy investigating what happened in the breach, which...

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Microsoft workers accuse company of trying to get customers "addicted" to AI while forcing it on their own staff and making them party to "human rights violations"

A group of "concerned Microsoft workers" have published an open letter criticising their employer's "speed-at-all-costs" approach to generative AI, which they argue is "harming our customers, colleagues, shareholders, vendors, and the planet". They accuse Microsoft leadership of trying to get...

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"The lesson learned is you can have both": Skyrim lead designer reckons there's merit in Baldur's Gate 3-style tough choices and Bethesda's do-anything approach

Whether RPGs are better off prioritising player freedom or endeavouring to have several doors slam shut every time you put another foot forwards in order to encourage multiple runs with different characters is, to put it bluntly, something I reckon will still be a matter of debate in the year...

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This week in PC games: solve the disappearance of 700 people, build a night market for spirits, and play chess on a board that disobeys physics

I don't know what Edwin's been feeding the Maw in my off week, but when I entered its chambers this morning it had left game releases everywhere. Ceiling, walls, floor, they all glisten with games of every size and genre. Even after I hosed away the ones largely made with the assistance of...

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"There is no excuse for what I did," Nvidia CEO says, as affair with an alleged Chinese spy makes the US-China AI race look even more ridiculous

Ostensible graphics card company and definite AI giants Nvidia have commissioned an independent investigation into themselves, amid reports that CEO Jensen Huang had an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Per both the New York Times and Nvidia themselves , Nvidia offered to go...

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Rockstar were "definitely" thinking about giving a Japanese studio the keys to GTA, says former tech director - "I have a name, but I'm not gonna say it"

Since time immemorial, North American and European publishers have racked their brains over ways to make their games sell in Japan, ancient heartland of mythical beings like Mario, Sonic, and Polaroid Pete. In the late noughties, Microsoft launched a big push to give Japanese youth the Xbox...

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Ahead of The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, here's a "lore friendly unofficial expansion to Geralt's life in Toussaint" from a well-established quest modder

While its remastered upgrade might have broken cover in late September, The Witcher 3 's extra expansion isn't set to join it until next year. With 2027 still a month and a bit away, a modder's taken it upon themselves to add a few more adventures to Geralt's time in Toussaint, Blood and Wine's...

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