In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d'être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten.
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I want everything to do with this, madman
I've woken up on a beach. I'm staring up into the nostrils of a bald man whose face looks to be made of wet clay. He's saying vaguely threatening things about a tower and my race and an island and the fact I'm far from home. The dialogue camera of The Lantern of the Laughless Saint clearly picks up on how unnerved this introduction to its adventure has made me.
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The Game of Thrones franchise may have lost some steam with its controversial final season, but the spin-off shows have more than made up for that since. Season 3 of House of the Dragon especially brought the heat this year and delivered some excellent television for eight straight episodes.
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Blizzard principal artist and lead designer Jay Huang used to make his living creating the "props" that make up World of Warcraft's living spaces. Now he designs the systems that allow players to do the same thing with WoW's new player housing feature.
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Published Aug 17, 2026, 6:49 PM EDT
After a five-year wait, fans are getting two new trips to Prythian just months apart
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No one sets out to build a flop. Game development costs too much to justify anything but a genuine effort, sometimes at the cost of creative freedom. Even the industry’s true auteurs must eventually answer for their bold decisions. With so many safeguards in place, most games will at least do reasonably well. And with ongoing developer attention, even an early misfire like Cyberpunk 2077 or No Man’s Sky can eventually find massive success.
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Published Aug 17, 2026, 5:07 PM EDT
Now we just need to know which Ghost Rider he's playing
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Published Aug 17, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
Guilty Gear meets Marvel in new fighting game
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Published Aug 17, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
Faerûn's got a crowdsourced preservation society
Image: Larian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3 has been out for three years. In that time, it has been fully datamined, endlessly modded, and picked apart by millions of detail-loving players. You might be tempted to think that everything to be discovered in the game has come to light. You’d be wrong. This month, a Redditor unearthed a line of dialogue that only plays if you’re a mind flayer before the first act even begins — voiced by an actor who left before the game launched. And that’s just one small finding from the Baldur’s Gate 3 community’s crowdsourced, unofficial preservation society. This year alone, modders have resurrected an entire scrapped fan-fave dream visitor.
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We're less than a month out from Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's release date on Switch 2, and if you read that sentence, you'll realize it's the end of an era for Nintendo and Intelligent Systems' storied strategy game series. It might seem slightly unusual based on Nintendo's release patterns, though it's entirely keeping with how the company viewed Fire Emblem when the series was at its high points.
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