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Alistair McFarlane, Chief Operating Officer of Facepunch Studios, has confirmed that Rust will not be released for Linux and will not be compatible with Valve’s Proton. We don’t intend to support Proton or Linux. Those platforms have an outsized number of cheaters, and both our anti-cheat and EAC are hard to maintain for such a...

Ahead of the finale, the cast of Stranger Things offered viewers a brief reminder of how the story began and how it has unfolded. On November 25, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon aired a segment in which the Stranger Things cast summarized the events of all four seasons in rhyme. The clip’s ending drops...

Wandering samurai Baiken from the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive — who lost her left eye and right arm to the Mechanisms — will be immortalized in a new statue from Prime 1 Studio in 2027. Fans of Guilty Gear Strive have reason to celebrate: Prime 1 Studio has opened pre-orders for a 1/4-scale Baiken...

While fans spin theories about whom Sadie Sink might play, the actress has only made the mystery deeper. After finishing her run on Stranger Things, Sadie Sink joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She appears in Spider-Man: A Brand New Day, but her role remains under wraps. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sink spoke for...

The company is focusing on users who want a ready-to-use, plug-and-play system — plug it in and play, much like a console. Valve engineer Pierre-Lou Griffe told Skill Up that the Steam Machine’s mainstream success will depend on its price and accessibility. Given current memory costs, a top-tier model seems unlikely for now, but the...

A fresh casting update suggests the Alabasta arc is headed for adaptation. Following the recent announcement that production has begun on the third season of the live-action series “One Piece: The Big Score,” Netflix revealed additional cast members. Joining the project are emerging actor Avdo Avdo, who will portray Mr. 1, and Daisy Head (Dungeons...

An ESRB rating for Windows PC typically signals that the game is likely to arrive on the platform soon. The rating was posted on the ESRB website and points to preparations for a launch following the PS5 release. The first entry reached PC eight months after its PS4 debut, but no specific window has been...

Nearly every game company now uses artificial intelligence, but the newest tools can introduce more complications than solutions. Ubisoft recently confirmed the deployment of generative AI across its offices and development teams. Microsoft has been developing MUSE — a system intended to enable game creation without coding — and EA is building a chatbot designed...

Dom Dolla Prepares Stadium Spectacle After Record-Breaking Run Dom Dolla at the world premiere of F1® The Movie in Times Square on June 16, 2025. Mike Coppola/Getty Images Whenever Dom Dolla returns to Australia, momentum follows. The producer-DJ recently made a triumphant homecoming for the 2025 ARIA Awards, taking home the trophy for Best Dance/Electronic...

RandomGamingHD published a benchmark of ARC Raiders running on a budget graphics card. The creator used a 4 GB Radeon R9 380X, which cost roughly $41. The minimum requirements specify the more capable Radeon RX 580. The rest of the test rig was unrestricted: the evaluation ran on an Intel i5-12400F with 32 GB of...

Microsoft unexpectedly added a previously unannounced game to Xbox Game Pass. Young Suns launched in Game Preview. This narrative life-sim for 1–4 players has you building and upgrading a starship, undertaking missions, forming relationships, and helping to rebuild the society of Jupiter’s inhabitants. The developers present it as a calm, exploration-focused adventure. The game is...

Nioh 3 launches on February 6, 2026. Developers have revealed new information: the game will be more approachable for newcomers, aimed at enthusiasts of Japanese history, while retaining the series’ trademark difficulty. Producer Fumihiko Yasuda confirmed in an interview that Nioh 3 is set in an open world. The team drew on lessons from the...

EA has announced it will shut down the servers for GRID (2019) on December 19, 2025. After that date, all multiplayer modes and online features will be unavailable. The publisher has added GRID to its list of unsupported titles, although the main round of Codemasters server closures took place in November, when four older games...

Although the company even exceeded its targets, the employees who remain should not become complacent. Over the past 12 months, Ubisoft has dismissed roughly 1,500 staff members — all as part of a cost-reduction program. About 700 of those were laid off after March 31, 2025, according to the company’s latest financial report. The program’s...