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Ice, snow, and terrible internet – what it’s like to play PC games in Antarctica

April 15, 2020 This article was originally published in 2018. With temperatures reaching lows of -60°C and blizzards raging across its hundreds of miles of tundra, Antarctica is one of the least habitable places on Earth. Yet, despite its inhospitality, the coldest continent is home to as many as 4,500 residents every summer. And at least one of them is a PC player. Late in 2017, Steam’s global… → Read More

Assassin’s Creed all-time sales top 140 million

The series has sold more than 40 million copies in just three years → Read More

Or Homeworld 3 beat its $1 crowdfunding goal by “one-hundred-million-percent”

Gearbox CEO claims that "records were broken" during the campaign. Which is technically true, I suppose → Read More

Dota 2’s latest update is trying to kill smurfs

Valve wants to make life more difficult for smurfs - by boosting their MMR rewards → Read More

Fans rejoice as Fortnite’s mechs start blowing up

It looks like Fortnite's long-despised Brutes are finally heading for the Vault → Read More

The Ghost Recon Breakpoint beta has been delayed

Ubisoft says it needs a little longer to finalise preparations for the upcoming test → Read More

Hearthstone’s Combo Priest deck could be getting a massive nerf

The ever-reliable (and ever-irritating) Priest combo could be cut from the game in the next set rotation → Read More

Techland’s planning four years of Dying Light 2 DLC

Lead game designer Tymon Smektala says that post-launch plans for Dying Light 2 will echo the original → Read More

League of Legends patch 9.20 – High Noon skins and Shaco mini-rework

Things are heading West in League of Legends patch 9.20, with a suite of rootin', tootin' new skins → Read More

A new Fortnite map could be on the horizon

Dataminers have uncovered clues that could point to the battle royale's first new location → Read More

Valve and Nintendo helped bring Divinity: Original Sin 2 to Switch

Some big names helped Larian and Blitworks bring the massive CRPG to the Switch → Read More

Fallout: New Vegas dev is hiring for a new RPG

Obsidian still needs to actually launch The Outer Worlds, but that's not stopping it from prepping for its next game → Read More

Diablo 3 is now one of Blizzard’s ‘classic’ games

Diablo 3 is only seven years old, but apparently that's old enough for Blizzard to lump it in with games from the last millenium → Read More

Call of Duty Mobile release date set for October

COD: Mobile is coming soon, but the traditional studios won't be putting together the new version → Read More

League of Legends dev is recruiting for its “multigame future”

Riot reached out to fighting game developer Mike Zaimont, and used the opportunity to hint at its grand plans → Read More

Dauntless leaves early access this month, and no, that hasn’t already happened

The MonHun-like's upcoming 1.0 launch takes it out of early access, which was apparently not the same as its open beta → Read More

Civilization 6’s battle royale is an April Fools’ that got out of hand

Firaxis revealed that the first versions of the game were added in by a mischevious developer → Read More

Come see WoW’s Stormwind City rebuilt in Unreal Engine 4

YouTuber Daniel L's painstaking recreation of the Alliance Stronghold is a glimpse into the potential future of Azeroth → Read More

Everspace devs say Steam is “the best platform, by far” for indies

Everspace developer Rockfish said that it considered Epic exclusivity for the spacefaring roguelite’s upcoming sequel, but was discouraged from pursuing it by the community. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Rockfish CEO Michael Schade said that the game’s strongly encouraged the decision to stay with Steam. “Our hardcore fans are on Steam. They have already said ‘please don’t do it. We… → Read More

Borderlands 3 review scores – our round-up of the critics

We're heading back to Pandora very soon, so it's time for our Borderlands 3 review round-up → Read More