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Valve’s canceled Portal prequel made playable by modders nearly 20 years later

A Portal prequel has been brought back to life nearly 20 years after Valve canceled it, thanks to fans who pieced together a playable version.

Dexerto Gaming · EN

Warzone Season 1 removes Verdansk and Rebirth Island but they return with updates

Warzone is temporarily removing two of its most iconic maps, Verdansk and Rebirth Island, when Season 1 begins on November 6.

Dexerto Gaming · EN

Staggering number of Americans would abandon their pets to play GTA 6 early

A shocking number of American gamers say they would give up their pets, sex, and some of their favorite habits just to play GTA 6 a week early.

Dexerto Gaming · EN

CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Arrives To Warzone With New Maps, Movement, And Features

Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone arrives on November 6, and this fully integrates the new Call of Duty into battle royale. The season update replaces Black Ops 7's maps with two Modern Warfare-themed maps, overhauls Warzone's movement, introduces new game mechanics, and adds an operator-skin toggle feature. Here is everything you need to know when Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 goes live in Warzone. Additionally, Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 adds a new battle pass, more multiplayer maps and modes, and plenty of new DMZ content. There are four new DLC weapons to unlock for use in MW4 and

GameSpot · EN

Super Smash Bros. Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Fire Emblem

Booting up Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave had me feeling nostalgic. Fire Emblem as it is now would’ve been surreal to six-year-old me, who only knew “Marth and Roy from Smash.” Back then, Fire Emblem was still a niche series in the west and many of us had no idea who they were. Little did I know, these swordsmen would just be two of many Fire Emblem heroes to join the fighting game series, and Fire Emblem games would reach mainstream popularity. I discovered Fire Emblem in the early 2000s when I first started playing Super Smash Bros. Melee on our clunky big-screen TV in the basement. It was my

GameSpot · EN

Hideo Kojima's Next Game Officially Gets New Teaser Image, Fans Already Hunting for Clues

Kojima Productions released a new teaser image of OD for the studio's 10th anniversary exhibition.

Polygon · EN

Mouthwashing, indie horror game, now on consoles featuring Imogen Heap

Mouthwashing, the underground psychological horror adventure, helped a slew of new fans discover the joys of Imogen Heap. Now Imogen and the game are back on all current consoles. No excuses: it’s Halloween weekend, and what other title offers “Descend into Madness” as one of its feature bullet points? I do mean all consoles. Windows […] The post Mouthwashing, indie horror game, now on consoles featuring Imogen Heap appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

sndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds

Cheap handheld gaming consoles now often pack surprising processing power. But many risk ending up as e-waste. A new open-source project is turning them into powerful Linux music workstations, instead, complete with the ability to run plug-ins—and original games, too. Oh, and the project has some familiar faces involved. Here's an exclusive first look. The post sndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

Nintendo's Zelda Ocarina of Time could have been very different

Developers have revealed the challenges of getting the art style and gameplay right.

Creative Bloq · EN

frank-dino: a RP2350B helper chip for a real Zilog Z80

rh1tech (Mikhail Matveev) has released frank-dino v1.00 on GitHub, the first firmware for the dino_z80 board. An RP2350B microcontroller acts as the whole machine around a real Zilog Z84C00 CPU, so the Z80 does the work and the RP2350B handles everything else: memory, video, sound and storage. It covers the ZX Spectrum 16K, 48K, 128K, […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Google Doodle Pac-Man’s siren call

Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, tells the story of the bug he shipped to Google’s homepage in 2010. He wrote the playable Pac-Man doodle for the game’s 30th anniversary, building the whole thing in HTML and CSS, with Flash handling the sound. The playfield spelled out Google’s logo, and a Ms. Pac-Man mode […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Assouline turns classic board games into luxury interior objects with The Game Room Collection

Assouline turns classic board games into luxury interior objects with The Game Room Collection Best known for its luxury coffee table books, Assouline is extending its design-led approach to everyday objects with the launch of The Library Collection: Game...

Yanko Design · EN

Board’s Tabletop Console Uses Toy Spoons and Spaceships Instead of Gamepads

Board’s Tabletop Console Uses Toy Spoons and Spaceships Instead of Gamepads Touchscreens have plenty of games, but tapping on glass doesn’t quite replace moving a piece across a board. The Board, a tabletop console from the...

Yanko Design · EN

Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT

GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gears, swap perspectives, bend reality, or just press a certain key. The post Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

GitHub Blog · EN

Think twice before putting your gaming console inside a cabinet

A cabinet might seem like a convenient spot for your console, but it can't provide enough airflow for the system to run safely.

Engadget · EN

Xbox’s former COO has ‘serious concerns’ about her abrupt departure

Xbox's former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote in my Notepad newsletter last week that it seemed very weird for Chiang to suddenly depart Microsoft after 21 years with a surprisingly short memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. […]

The Verge · EN

Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will still let people use Claude Code to make games, it doesn't want people to […]

The Verge · EN

Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom

The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.

Ars Technica · EN

Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998

"The flow of time is always cruel."

Ars Technica · EN