5 Most Accurate Sci-fi Book Adaptations of All-Time | News World

Some of the best sci-fi movies of all time came from beloved novels. And, more often than not, the movies make some sweeping changes to the source material to function…

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Crimson Desert’s Kliff was originally so Scottish he was named after a MacBeth character, and his actor pushed Pearl Abyss to make him less “stoic” | Gaming

I know exactly who Kliff, the protagonist of Crimson Desert, is. During my romp through the vast expanse of Pywel, he was a distant tower enthusiast with a side interest…

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Wolf Pack – Howling Spirits Review | Gaming

The Runt of the Xbox Litter Talk about a bad omen. The first thing we saw in Wolf Pack – Howling Spirits, the very first thing that it showed us,…

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Marathon’s developers say they are “in it for the long haul” amidst fears the game has underperformed in this live service hell | Gaming

Marathon developers have stated that the development team are “in it for the long haul” as part of a fresh PC performance guide. This guide, released to players looking to…

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Arc Raiders’ Flashpoint update finally streamlines crafting—oh, and you can also supercharge Scrappy using food because that just makes sense | Gaming

What’s new: (Image credit: Embark) New Vaporizer enemy, and Shredders on other maps ‘Close Scrutiny’ map condition New Dolabra and Canto weapons High-Gain Antenna player project Scrappy ‘feeding boost’ While…

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This year’s Xbox Games Showcase is set for June 7 | Gaming

Microsoft has confirmed exactly when this year’s Xbox Games Showcase will take place. It will air at the usual time, 1PM ET on the Sunday (June 7) of Summer Game…

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Krafton shutters free-to-play PUBG spin-off after two months, in line with policy of using Early Access to “quickly validate a game’s potential” | Gaming

Krafton is shutting down PUBG Blindspot, a free-to-play PC spinoff of its hit PUBG Battlegrounds, after only two months in Early Access. The news comes despite the PUBG franchise powering…

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Epic’s mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will “solve” the problem | Gaming

Epic Games’ mass layoffs led a programmer with terminal brain cancer to lose his life insurance, leaving him and his family struggling to find new coverage. Following news of the…

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This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus | Gaming

Hello, new week of PC games! Hey, I thought you’d be taller. Ah, I see what’s happened: the Maw has eaten Friday again, and swallowed next Monday for good measure….

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Best Sega Games From Each Console Generation | News World

Like Nintendo, Sega began long before the age of video games, but the company quickly evolved to become one of the biggest players in video game hardware and software development….

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Microsoft claims new gaming CEO killed This is an Xbox campaign ‘because it didn’t feel like Xbox’ | Gaming

Microsoft’s new gaming CEO personally pulled Xbox’s ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign as one of her first acts in charge, the company has claimed. Asha Sharma was confirmed as…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 30, 2026) | Gaming

On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with….

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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’s PC release takes sequel’s total sales past 2 million | Gaming

Death Stranding 2‘s PC release has pushed the sequel’s cumulative sales past 2 million. That’s according to new estimates from Alinea Analytics, which claims Hideo Kojima‘s second Death Stranding game…

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My go-to PC game controller is getting Spring sale price cuts – and so is its cheaper wired version | Gaming

I’ve been through much with my Razer Wolverine V3 Pro. Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Groal the Great. The bit in Dispatch where you have to choose a favourite doughnut and…

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Five Things We Want To See From Xbox’s New Leadership Team In 2026 | Gaming

What a year this is turning out to be already for Team Xbox! We thought it was going to busy with the 25th anniversary celebrations and the releases of Fable,…

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Imagine GTA with AI-generated characters “just going along with whatever insane thing you say,” muses Valve writer, absent-mindedly spotlighting what terrifies me about genAI | Gaming

Like many people at companies preoccupied with discovering the next “goose that lays the golden egg”, Half-Life 2 and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw has been “poking around” with generative AI….

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“Heavyweights ruined the industry… now we live on the indies” Nordic Game embraces smaller devs and games with soul | Gaming

When asked to describe the content at Nordic Game this year, further details of which were announced today, program director Jacob Riis sums it up as being the “time of…

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IDW’s New Crime Imprint is a Group “That’s as Twisted as They are Unique” | News World

As revealed a while back, IDW Publishing has had such great success with its IDW Dark line of comic books, which has been highlighted by its prequel series of the…

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Xbox, Now’s The Perfect Time To Put This Brilliant Last-Gen COD On Game Pass | Gaming

However, it’s not just this boost in player count that makes now the perfect time for Modern Warfare to come to XGP, even with cross-play benefitting all platforms here. Both…

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“At this rate, why make game art at all?”: Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss | Gaming

Players and developers should boycott Nvidia’s AI-stuffed DLSS 5 tech, with hopes that it’ll force the compny to “think about going back to giving us what we want”. That’s the…

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Batman: Arkham Origins has a graphics mod that looks like a remaster | Gaming

Batman: Arkham Origins Finally Got A Remaster After 12 Years – YouTube Watch On Batman: Arkham Origins certainly scratched the itch for players who wanted more Arkham—though the combat wasn’t…

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Best New Xbox And Game Pass Games For April 2026 | Gaming

Best New Games April 2026 After a stacked March, you’d be forgiven for thinking things might slow down. Spoiler: They don’t. In fact, it just gets busier and busier with…

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Forza Horizon 6 system requirements confirm it’s no RAM guzzler – and it’ll run on Steam Deck too | Gaming

Perhaps sensing competition in the field of Japan-flavoured arcade racing games, Forza Horizon 6 devs Playground Games have revealed the open-world vroomer’s system requirements. Agreeably, they’re a sensible balance of…

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Surprise! 9-year-old Hollow Knight’s brutal final boss fight may be just that little bit easier after this patch | Gaming

Surprise! Team Cherry has just rolled out a patch not for Hollow Knight: Silksong, but its nine-year-old predecessor, Hollow Knight, and it addresses a “slightly longer than intended” mechanic in…

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Xbox Game Pass Game Getting $40 of Extra Content for Free | Gaming

Xbox Game Pass staple Stellaris will be giving away approximately $40 worth of content in May 2026 as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. The newly announced giveaway is set…

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Island city-builder Nova Roma is out now, and I’d have drowned all my Romans already if it weren’t for those pesky gods | Gaming

I have two dreams as mayor of an island town in Nova Roma, the new early access city-building game from Lion Shield and Hooded Horse. One is to erect…

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Must Include The Most Divisive Part Of Rebirth | News World

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is in a really delightful place right now. We know very little about it, which makes speculation all the more enjoyable and any tidbits…

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Remember 2004’s ‘Ghostmaster’ On The OG Xbox? It’s Just Received A Remake For Series X|S | Gaming

All the way back in 2004, a little-known game called “Ghost Master: The Gravenville Chronicles” made its debut on Xbox following its PC release a year earlier, and that game…

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The latest Crimson Desert patch adds five new mounts and makes it so you only get in trouble for stealing if you get caught | Gaming

Crimson Desert has been fielding all sorts of opinions, though PCG features producer Mollie Taylor scored it a very respectable 80% in her review and it’s certainly proven popular. If…

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Titanfall and Black Ops 3 enjoyers might like a new “movement shooter” the Splitgate devs are hoping to start playtesting soon | Gaming

Having re-launched Splitgate 2 as Spligate: Arena Reloaded late last year, 1047 Games have now kicked off early work on a new shooter. Details are scarce aside from the fact…

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