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BeamNG.drive belongs to that curious class of “enormous niche” games. In certain corners of the internet it’s a phenomenon, while everywhere else it has barely registered. It’s a driving simulator famed for its strikingly lifelike “soft-body” physics. It debuted on Steam eleven years ago and has stayed in early access ever since. As of today,...
A new gameplay video for 1666: Amsterdam shows its core loop. The heroine investigates cases by day, looking for demons behind human faces, and hunts them by night. The footage debuted at the Galaxies Autumn showcase, with new gameplay clips and a look at the atmosphere of this action-adventure game from Patrice Désilets, one of...
BeamNG.drive Version 0.40 adds local split-screen multiplayer, one of the community’s most requested features. The update also brings physical occupants, a new truck, several upscaling options, native Windows on Arm support and a batch of optimizations. The full list of changes is in the patch notes. Split-Screen Local split-screen multiplayer is now in the game....
Star Trek’s near future looks uncertain. The franchise’s two remaining series, Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy, are both ending soon, and nothing else is in the pipeline. Paramount, which holds the Star Trek rights, has also just merged with Warner Bros. That raises questions about how much attention Star Trek will get under the...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has taken first place on Steam by revenue, ahead of PUBG: Battlegrounds and Dota 2, before its official release on October 23. The game took the top spot in Steam’s global ranking by sales revenue a few days before launch. It climbed 65 positions in seven days. At the...
Tintin fans have waited a long time. After Steven Spielberg directed The Adventures of Tintin in 2011, he and producer Peter Jackson confirmed that a sequel was coming. They originally promised it for 2014 or 2015, with Jackson in the director’s chair. That didn’t happen. Jackson has now given another update. At the Sitges Film...
Every Star Wars fan remembers Luke Skywalker strapping into his X-wing to fight the Empire in his first run at the Death Star. Fans felt fear and excitement, then euphoria when he made the all-important shot. That shot set off one of the Rebellion’s first major victories. Luke’s success has usually been credited to his...
Seasoned players who relish a challenge often raise the difficulty the moment they begin a new game. That option wasn’t open to those playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth, where fans had to reach the credits before a tougher mode became available. According to series director Naoki Hamaguchi, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will break...
Games Workshop will open preorders on October 24, 2026 for the Host of Nehekhara Army Reinforcement Set for Warhammer: The Old World, the River of Bones Arcane Journal, a festive Da Red Gobbo miniature for Warhammer 40,000, and several books. The Host of Nehekhara Army Reinforcement Set for Warhammer: The Old World was first announced...
Caretakers, The arch. Perhaps you’ve strolled past it for 20 hours. Perhaps 50. Perhaps far longer. With Update 6, it finally powers up. It has a destination. It opens. PROJECT CROSSING is underway. The first working Transfer Gate links Lazarus Complex to North Bastion, a frozen mountain region where the main story carries on, the...
