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New Video Game Pragmata Shocks ‘Modern Audiences’!

Marc Thomas — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:01:45 +0000

Don’t you just love the internet, where armchair lawyers, virtue signalers, social justice warriors, vicarious offenders, and those taking offence by proxy take to their keyboards and mobile phones, piling onto the offended wagon en masse over a heart-warming game that has won over millions of gamers worldwide? Described by developers Capcom as a unique sci-fi action-adventure game that…

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Epic Games Of Fortnite Fame Lays Off 1000 Employees

Marc Thomas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:14:12 +0000

Despite annual revenue in the region of $ 6 billion from Epic Games Store, Fortnite, and Unreal Engine, the company has just laid off a further 1,000 employees. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic, cited a downturn in Fortnite engagement since the beginning of 2025, with that particular blockbuster being a cash cow for the company. Earlier this month, the company increased the prices of in-game currency…

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Xbox Gaming Appoints CoreAI Chief As CEO – More AI Slop?

Marc Thomas — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:03:09 +0000

With the departure/retirement of the long-serving Phil Spencer from Xbox, it was long assumed that Sarah Bond, president of Xbox gaming, would take over, but she has also left the company. Read the Microsoft announcement here. Both individuals together have decades of gaming experience, but to everyone’s surprise, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, has appointed Asha Sharma as the new chief.

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Will Half-Life 3 Launch With The Steam Machine In 2026?

Marc Thomas — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:02:09 +0000

Considered one of the most important video games of modern times, Half-Life 2 was launched way back in 2004, and I still remember having the DVD shipped to me in Spain. But it was also the first time I had experienced digital game downloading because the DVD contained only part of the game, thus requiring us to set up an account with Valve’s gaming platform, Steam. Half-Life 2 still looks great…

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Next Tomb Raider Game To Be Announced At The 2025 Game Awards?

Marc Thomas — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:01:18 +0000

With all the turmoil surrounding the Tomb Raider franchise over the last few years, we had almost given up hope of a new adventure for Lara Croft. Layoffs at Crystal Dynamics and Amazon, Embracer, the owner of Crystal Dynamics, closing studios left, right, and centre, and the appalling TR spin-offs on Netflix and mobile phones. But now there’s a ray of sunshine, or so it seems…

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Two New Tomb Raider Games Revealed At The Game Awards

Marc Thomas — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:01:46 +0000

I’m so glad I stayed up to watch The Game Awards last night, which for me kicked off at 9.30 pm my local time, because two hours later, as I was about to hit the sack, a familiar silhouette appeared on the huge screen. Lara Croft had finally returned, toting her iconic dual pistols, and in the action trailer, it was revealed as Tomb Raider: Catalyst to be released in 2027. But wait…

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The Crew Video Game Is Finally Playable Again!

Marc Thomas — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:01:30 +0000

Back in May 2024, in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! I wrote that The Crew would no longer be playable because Ubisoft was shutting down its servers for the game on 31 March 2024. This was quite a scandalous move by Ubisoft because the company didn’t even see fit to offer an offline mode for single-player. This provoked an angry reaction from the community and even a class action lawsuit.

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This Is Why “Gaming” Adds So Much To The Price Of Hardware

Marc Thomas — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:23:40 +0000

Gaming is an expensive hobby, not only for the price of games but also rising costs of hardware. We are all aware of Microsoft’s questionable stance on Windows 11 requirements, and the same is happening in AAA games. For example, DOOM: The Dark Ages and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle require an SSD and a hardware-capable ray tracing GPU. I can understand the SSD requirement because everything…

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Xbox Rumours Persist Amid Huge Game Pass Price Hikes

Marc Thomas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:54:30 +0000

Over the weekend, a Reddit user started a rumour that Microsoft had cancelled the next Xbox console, and the gaming community went into a tailspin. Microsoft then replied that things were not ‘up in the air’ and that the company is actively investing in its first-party consoles, etc. It takes a lot for a trillion-dollar company to make a statement refuting rumours, so read into that what you will.

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Great New Features Added To Steam

Marc Thomas — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:01:21 +0000

While all the other gaming platforms lag way behind in features, Steam continues to shine, constantly updating and improving itself. I’ve been using the FPS counter for years, along with hitting a function key to take a screenshot. I often wondered if more overlay features would be added, and it’s only recently that I discovered Performance Monitor and Game Recording, two great new features that I…

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Radeon RX 9070 XT vs RX 5700 XT Benchmarks

Marc Thomas — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:01:53 +0000

When I bought the Gigabyte Aorus Elite RX 9070 XT 16GB to replace my RX 5700 XT, I knew it would be powerful, but I didn’t expect it to be this good! As I mentioned in GPU Upgrade – Size Matters! I thoroughly researched the high-end GPU market, and I was hankering to go the Nvidia route. However, for price reasons, 12v HPWR burnouts, and Nvidia’s scrooginess over VRAM (GPU memory)…

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GPU Upgrade – Size Matters!

Marc Thomas — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:04:09 +0000

Four and a half years ago, I upgraded my graphics card from an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB to a Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which you can read about in this article: I Just Upgraded To The ROG Strix RX-5700 XT GPU. Four years is a long time in tech, and when it was launched in 2019, the RX 5700 XT was competing against the Nvidia RTX 2070Ti. I had been hankering for an RTX card for ray tracing…

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Is Tomb Raider Dead And Buried?

Marc Thomas — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:11:02 +0000

In September 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released – that’s nearly seven years ago – and in 2022, it was announced that a new Tomb Raider game would be developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Amazon Games using the Unreal 5 engine. Since then, we’ve heard virtually nothing, except the release of some artwork of what Lara Croft may look like. Opinions are mixed as to Lara’s…

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Will GTA VI Be The Game We Hope For?

Marc Thomas — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:02:04 +0000

In May 2025, Rockstar Games confirmed that the much-anticipated GTA VI will be released on May 26, 2026. But there was no mention of which platforms it would be released on. One has to assume that consoles will be first, followed by PCs a year later, or possibly two, which is what happened with GTA V, which was released for consoles in 2013 and PCs in 2015. According to rumours it will be…

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