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What we've been playing - Open-world dress up, plant puzzles, and festive levels
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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Reappraising Shadow the Hedgehog, one of 2005's biggest misfires
The Ultimate Life Form endures.
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Digital Foundry | PS5 Pro deep dive reaction: GPU and RT improvements, PSSR and Sony's new AMD Amethyst partnership
Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware.
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Digital Foundry | The big PlayStation 5 Pro tech interview with Mark Cerny and Mike Fitzgerald
"Well, it's not all going to be rainbows and path tracing."
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The Witcher 4 dev CD Projekt Red talks Ciri fan reaction, playable Geralt coyness, and if the game will honour your previous choices
"We're not suddenly making up stuff just because we want to."
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Beneath A Steel Sky at 30: how Terry Gilliam's Brazil and a week in Wales sowed the seeds of this classic adventure game
"We wanted it to be different."
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What we've been playing - advent calendars, tricksy trials, and ages of dragons
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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Digital Foundry | Beelink SER9 review: AMD's Strix Point is its most powerful PC APU to date - but how does it game?
The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 versus the 7840U and the Steam Deck.
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Retrospective | Reflecting on Planescape Torment's legacy, 25 years later
The pains of existence.
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Review-in-progress | Path of Exile 2 early access review-in-progress - coming for Diablo 4's lunch in style
GGG.
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Sponsored | Free-to-play strategy RPG Girls Frontline 2: Exilium Launches on PC and mobile
Direct a team of characters in tactical turn-based combat.
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Film Interview | Grand Theft Hamlet is a luminous documentary about staging Shakespeare inside GTA Online that brings fresh nuance to the game and bard alike
Bearing all the fardels.
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Digital Foundry | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle tech review: an incredible achievement
The best Indy game ever made.
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How the PlayStation helped Square Enix achieve its cinematic ambitions for Final Fantasy 7 and beyond
Head in the Cloud.
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TV First Look | Four episodes of Amazon's Secret Level anthology hints at a rich, visual pick'n'mix, but is that enough?
Skip cutscene Y/N?
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Writing WipEout, one of gaming's most enduring, vivid worlds
"There was always that sense of: not a lot of people read this, you could kind of go to town with it."
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Digital Foundry | GTA Definitive Edition: Does Patch 6's classic lighting mode finally fix the look of the games?
Plus: what other bugs and oddities still remain after three years?
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The big Dragon Age: The Veilguard post-release interview: "It was never going to match the Dragon Age 4 in people's minds"
The reaction, the making of, and what comes next.
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How Blockbuster and a mail order catalogue helped PlayStation defeat the Sega Saturn
One weekend changed the games industry forever, even if it was just in my bedroom.
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Digital Foundry | Intel announces Arc B580 and B570 "Battlemage" graphics cards with XeSS 2 frame generation
Welcome back player three.
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The future of Monument Valley is Netflix, whether we like it or not
"We could talk a little bit about the game industry and where it is nowadays..."