2026 – Page 27 – Prefer systems

Posted on August 23, 2026

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Ray Chase, the voice of Cyclops in X-Men ’97, has ‘1,000 freaking hours’ in Slay the Spire and is running a ‘smell build’ in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: ‘ I wear perfumes and walk into battle with my fancy boy outfit’

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

Posted on August 23, 2026

Games

EverQuest Legends dev says ‘I’m sure we would’ add new classes, races ‘in the longer-term vision of the game’

EverQuest Legends, the EverQuest spinoff that remixes an old-school version of the early MMORPG into a multiclassing, froglok-murdering ARPG minmaxer's paradise, has a lot on...

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

Posted on August 23, 2026

Games

It’s been 25 years and I’m still not over one of the greatest songs to grace JRPGs

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

Posted on August 23, 2026

Games

Big Walk is a new co-op puzzle game classic

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

Posted on August 23, 2026

Games

Gunstoppable gives me the same head-empty unbridled joy as Ultrakill—it doesn’t hurt that Gabriel’s voice actor is in it too

I like thinking as much as the next guy. It can be really fun to play a videogame that challenges your mental prowess, as it...

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

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Ray Chase, the voice of Cyclops in X-Men ’97, has ‘1,000 freaking hours’ in Slay the Spire and is running a ‘smell build’ in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: ‘ I wear perfumes and walk into battle with my fancy boy outfit’

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Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

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Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

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Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers

Gunstoppable gives me the same head-empty unbridled joy as Ultrakill—it doesn’t hurt that Gabriel’s voice actor is in it too

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Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’

Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system

Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’

‘It’s just not our money to keep’: Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers